European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday january 30,1989 briefs by election called Victory for coalition under Bhutto Islamabad Pakistan a pakistani by elections confirmed the strength of prime min ister Binazir Bhutto s people s party but the conservative opposition succeeded in electing one of its leaders to parliament official result showed on sunday. Bhutto s left leaning Pakistan people s part won four National seats in parliament and the opposition islamic democratic Alliance Cap tured seven. But the results were seen As a Victory for the prime minister s forces because the Alliance s new parliamentary seats Are All from its stronghold the state of Punjab where it was expected to win. At stake saturday were 13 seats in the 237-Seatnational Assembly or lower House of parliament and seven seats in the provincial Legislatures. Among the opposition s winners was Alliance Leader Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi who suffered a humiliating defeat in his Home District in South Ern sind province in the previous election. This time he ran and won in Punjab. He i expected to Lead the opposition forces on the National Assembly floor. But the opposition will remain outnumbered two to one by Bhutto s party and its allies. Copyright Protection dispute stalls talks on pact Washington a talks Between the United states and China on renewing a science and technology agreement have hit a Snag Over chinese opposition to copyright Protection for compute software and Patent Protection for pharmaceuticals according to american officials. The decade old bilateral Accord is set to expire atthe end of this month but a state department official involved with the talks said Friday it i Likely the pact will be extended in Hopes of reaching agreement through additional negotiations. The chinese said there is no provision in their Law for copyright Protection of computer software. Chinese Patent Law on pharmaceuticals protect the specific process for manufacturing a drug but not the drug itself. Missile from Page 1 nuclear forces treaty signed in december 1987. Dur ing the ceremonies Brande the 303rd commander is scheduled to turn the unit s Flag Over to 3rd air Force commander maj. Gen. Marcus a. Anderson. Monday s ceremony is expected to attract about 250people, less than 25 percent of the 1,100 men and women who worked at the base during its Peak. The number of workers gradually will be pared to Zero. The last . Officer is scheduled to leave March 15. It s exhilarating yet sad Brande said. Sex Hilarah. Ing in that we did our Job Well. Sad in that we built up such a Beautiful base and have to leave All master sgt. Mark Rossiter who is superintendent for inf deactivation at the base explained the transition this Way it was like going full bore with your right foot an dragging your left. What kept us going was knowing that we were on the forefront of nato put about $100 million into converting the former world War ii bomber base into its present state. Brande is certain the base and the new facilities will be put to use but in t sure when How or by whom. Capt. Tom Hains commander of the base s 2142ndcomm so said the unit s inactivation is bittersweet. Leaving is like saying goodbye to a Community but we can never come Back he said. With nobody to pass it on to it s kind of badgers refuel Over yellow sea the us. Combined forces come in Korea released this photograph saturday of two soviet Tu-16 intermediate Range bombers conducting an air refuelling operation Over the yellow sea on Jan. 21. The photograph was taken by a Csc Pilot who was flying an intercept and escort mis Sion against the two soviet badgers. W. Germany plans to stiffen Export penalties paper says Bonn West Germany a the government under fire from . Officials for its handling of the libyan scandal plans to increase penalties drastically for illegal exports of materials that could be used to make chemical and atomic weapons a newspaper re ported sunday. The newspaper Welt am sonntag released what i called details of the plans saying these Are contained in a secret paper the government will present to parliament. According to the newspaper the government wants to double the maximum Fine for such Export violation from 500,000 Marks $273,000 to 1 million Marks $546,000 and increase the maximum jail sentence from three years to five. But a key part of the proposal would be changing current Law to allow seizure of any profits made from illegal Export sales the newspaper said. Some . Congressional members allege that West German officials have looked the other Way As Ger Man companies made possibly illegal exports to Libya and other countries. A number of German companies Are being investigated for links to a suspected chemical weapons Plant in Libya for allegedly helping Iraq with its own Chemi Cal weapons program and on suspicion that sensitive nuclear materials were delivered to Pakistan. West German leaders have reacted strongly to the american allegations denying that they were too slow to begin investigating suspected violators of Export Laws. However authorities have launched investigations against a number of German companies suspected of links to chemical weapons production. In other developments a serious dispute has apparently erupted Between West Germany and Pakistan Over possible illegal ship ment of nuclear related equipment. Der Spiegel Magazine in its monday editions said West German intelligence officials knew for a Long time about German shipments to Iraq of Chemi cals that could be used to make biological weapons. The pakistani dispute stems from last week when Hanau prosecutor Reinhard Hueber told a parliamentary investigative committee that the German firms Neue techno logic a Mph and phys Kalischer tech Nische berating were under investigation for possible illegal shipments of nuclear related equipment to Paki Stan. Hueber alleged that the pakistani embassy in Bonnas involved in the deals but the embassy strongly denied the accusation Friday. Der Spiegel said the West German secret service were aware that the firms Plato Kuehn and Sigma Cherie had exported 100 milligrams of highly toxic Myko toxins h2 and t2 to Iraq in 1987. But according to the Magazine intelligence officials did not inform the West German Chancellor s office of what it knew until the worldwide uproar Over Ger Man shipments to soviet space probe orbiting Mars Moscow a a space probe from the soviet Union went into orbit around Mars on sunday after a six month 111 million mile trip from Earth the offi Cial Tass news Agency reported. Phobos is braking rockets fired at 3 55 . Mos cow time and soviet ground controllers began Analuz ing telemetry data from the Craft to specify the exact orbit the news Agency said. Phobos ii was launched july 12 in an ambitious program to unlock mysteries of the red planet and its largest Moon phobos. The unmanned probe is to make a temperature map of the Martian surface study How its. Temperature changes daily and seasonally and identify permafrost areas Tass said. Data also Are to be collected on the planet s Mineral makeup atmosphere and ionosphere. The probe is to approach within 50 Yards of phobos in Early april to Analyse the Moon s soil with the help of a laser and then drop two Small Landing Craft onto the surface. The probes carry packages of instruments and experiments prepared by a group of 12 countries As Wellas the european space Agency. Tower from Page 1 for destruction during a War. A leading German opponent of Lance modernization t9ld the Munich Confer ence that some in his country feel that the Shorter the weapons the deader the Egon Bahr a defense expert and Mem Ber of West Germany s opposition social democratic party said the Lance Issue snot so much Over modernization but the introduction of a new weapon system. An introducing a new system at a time when the soviets seem ready to negotiate is contradictory to nato s interests he said. Bahr called for comprehensive negotiations encompassing both nuclear and conventional forces and said nuclear Battlefield weapons should be reduced to the Zero on the other Side of the Issue Nat Secretary general Manfred Worner added his voice to those in favor of modernization sunday with a reference to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev who has kept the nato Aliance off bal Ance in recent months with Well time proposals for cuts in conventional and nuclear forces. I think it would be a disastrous mis take to neglect our defense at a time of historical change Worner said in his address to the forum. We cannot entrust our Security to one person alone orto his intentions. Both can change Over Worner said the latest soviet announcements of unilateral troop cuts represent considerable Progress but he said credit for the initiatives also should go to the West which has Long called for asymmetrical reductions by the soviets. Unilateral reductions As Welcome a they Are certainly do not make redundant bilateral agreements that Are verifiable Werner added. Our response to the soviet Union is to get to the negotiating table As rapidly As
