European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes sunday february 5,1989 special forces sergeant Dies of head wound Washington up a 28-year-old Spe Cial forces Soldier from Houston who was shot in the head apparently by a Hunter while on patrol in Panama died Friday the army an sgt. John c. Bright underwent brain sur Gery at Gorgas army Hospital in Panama after being shot wednesday night. He suffered a Post operative heart attack the army said. The army said Bright s patrol was on a Field exercise in a military area commonly used by poachers when members of the patrol reported seeing a person with a Shotgun swinging a Flash Light and walking Down a Trail. The intruder apparently startled fired in Bright s direction from 15 Yards away hitting him in the front Scalp left Temple Chest and thigh. He then fled. An army spokesman emphasized that the assailant was believed to be a Hunter not a terrorist or ambushed. Gorbachev to visit China for Summit with Deng Beijing a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev will travel to China in mid May to meet Deng Xiaoping in the first Summit Between the world s two largest communist Powers since 1959, it was announced saturday. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze told a news conference that he and Deng agreed that soviet and chinese leaders will proceed from the presumption of Complete normalization of relations Between the two countries formally ending three decades of enmity. Shevardnadze said the two nations also agreed to try to reduce offensive forces and Case military tensions along their 5,000-mile Border. Soviet sources said the tentative Date of the Summit is May 15. Cabinet nominee agrees to suspend ties with school Washington a Cabinet nominee Louis Sullivan said saturday that he has agreed to take an unpaid leave of absence from the medical school he Heads while he serves As Secre tary of health and human services. Sullivan president of the school of Medicine at Atlanta s Morehouse College had asked per Mission to maintain his ties to the institution possibly with a paid leave. He withdrew the re quest however after the White House walked at the intend to preclude even the remotest possibility of any appearance that my actions As Secretary might be influenced due to any outside income Sullivan said in a statement. B. Jay Cooper a White House spokesman said Sullivan s request to Morehouse for unpaid leave meant that the school s executive commit tee would suspend any salary payments while he served As Secretary of the arrangement is designed to avoid any conflict of interest that could arise because Morehouse gets Federal funds for its programs. In fiscal 1988, the school received $5.8 million in question has been one of the issues that has held up Sullivan s confirmation hearings in the Senate. 10,000 Berlin marchers protest right Wing party Berlin a nearly 10,000 marched through West Berlin on saturday to protest the policies of a Radical right Wing political party that won 11 legislative seats in state elections one week said the demonstration proceeded without marchers carried banners and chanted slogans in the afternoon procession along Ber Lin s famed Kurfurst Tendam declaring nazis out of West republicans a right Wing extremist party won 7.5 percent of the Berlin vote 11 seats in the local parliament and the right to Send two representatives to the Federal bundestag next year in balloting on Jan. 29. General recommends end to persian Gulf combat pay from Page 1 the recommendation and its a final position should be presented to Crowe within the next month but there does t appear to be any reason to maintain the payments the source said. The Central come is the organization responsible for american military operations in the Middle East and Indian Ocean Region. As such it is the Parent command for the joint task Force Middle East the unit responsible for guaranteeing the safety of Mer chant ships flying the . Flag in the persian Gulf. Former president Reagan agreed in the Spring of 1987 to extend american military Protection to 11 kuwaiti tankers after they switched to . Registry. Kuwait a Friend of the United states and a key ally of Iraq had found that its ships had become special tar gets for iranian forces. In August 1987, a month after the first .-escorted kuwaiti Tanker ran into an underwater mine the Pentagon announced that it would Start making the pay ments to the Crews of warships operating in the persian Gulf the Strait of Hormuz and a Small portion of the Gulf of Oman As Well As to personnel stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain. Iran and Iraq agreed to a truce last August in their 8 year old War and the cease fire has held. As a result the United states has slowly reduced the number of warships operating in the Region and has stopped con ducting closely supervised Convoy runs. Instead the ships now in the Region maintain what the Navy Calls a monitoring regime of keeping . Flagged tankers within radar or radio Range. The United states now has 14 ships inside the Gulf including six Small mine sweepers. The Pentagon sources said that even if Schwarz Kopf s recommendation is approved some minor exceptions might be made to continue the payments to the sailors on the mine sweepers. They Are still engaged each Day in the Hunt for floating mines the officials noted. The authority to make imminent danger payments was provided to the Pentagon in 1983 under an amendment to a Law that had previously established procedures for providing hostile fire or combat pay. The new Law specified that danger pay could be provided to service members deployed in areas where there was a risk of terrorism or other physical threats even though american forces were not directly involved in combat. Icbms from Page 1 unacceptable retaliatory damage on the assailant. The Best Way to assure that . Land based missiles would survive an attack by improved soviet rockets is to make american icbms Mobile the report said reflecting the ideas of scowcroft who was co chairman of the panel until Bush recently named him National Security adviser. At present All 1,000 land based . Icbms Are in heavily reinforced Concrete launch silos. In addition to Brown and scowcroft the panel included what one Capitol Hill staff member called other members of the National Security Priesthood sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee sen. John w. Warner r-va., ranking minority member on the committee sen. Wil Liam s. Cohen a Maine also on the committee rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee Robert c. Mcfarlane former National Security adviser r. James Woolsey former undersecretary of the Navy and Amos a. Jordan of the Center for strategic and International studies. Brown who is chairman of the Johns Hopkins foreign policy Institute said the panellists concluded that there was no foreseeable alternative to deterrence and that . Security would be enhanced if the report s recommendations for Force improvements were carried out under the Likely terms of a Start agreement. Start negotiations were hampered by divisions within the Reagan administration and Congress Over the shape of the nation s future nuclear forces. For example one of the main Points of dispute with the soviets is Mobile missiles. The soviets have deployed Mobile systems the United states has not. Until now . Negotiators have insisted that the new Start treaty ban Mobile missiles a demand with few realistic prospects. Yet if Start incorporated a soviet advantage in Mobile systems it would decrease the likelihood that the Senate would ratify the treaty. Agreement among the influential lawmakers on the panel along with scowcroft s support should make it easier for the National Security Council to Complete its detailed review of . Security needs based on the expectation that Congress will support a coherent modernization program. The United states has suspended negotiations on strategic arms control and is holding off on High level political discussions with the soviets while the reassessment is under Way. The report said the United states should begin by developing a Mobile strategic missile continue build ing Trident submarines at the Pace of two boats one year and one boat the next be prudent in developing the b-2 stealth bomber testing it thoroughly before it is deployed consider a Mutual ban on sea launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads and keep the missile defense program at its current funding level. Coup from Page 1 under arrest Rodriguez had been sworn in As the new president with the armed forces proclaiming loyalty to him and the population was quiet. Not even the staunchly pro Stroessner Wing of the ruling Colorado party rallied to the former dictator s Side. In addition to Stroessner about 30 of his followers were arrested. There was no word on their Fate saturday. Unconfirmed reports said Friday that Stroessner was going to Chile. Gen. Mario Mardones Santiago s police commander said he believed Stroessner was to leave Par Aguay on saturday but we do not know where to. Not necessarily Rodriguez was at first enthusiastically endorsed by opposition leaders who hoped he would offer them a political opening that Stroessner and the militant Wing of his party did not. But academics foreign observers and even some paraguayan leaders already Are hinting there s a Darker Side to Rodriguez. He has an exceedingly unsavoury reputation John Hoyt Williams a professor of latin american history at Indiana state University in Terre haute ind., told the new York times. I mean really bad and that s an under statement Rodriguez reportedly has provided Protection air Fields and an air taxi service to people smuggling drugs the Cox newspaper group citing a classified . State department report said Friday that Rodriguez is consid ered by Law enforcement authorities in Paraguay to be the country s no. 1 drug , the son of a Farmer definitely lives better than his army salary would seem to allow. His House in a Plush neighbourhood is a mansion with a Fountain in the Well manicured front House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater when asked about . Reports of Rodriguez s alleged drug ties told reporters we won t characterize our relationship to him at this however Paraguay s new Leader has vowed to press for democracy and respect the human rights of everyone to make democracy a thousand citizens cheered Rodriguez sporting five rows of medals on his Chest As he took the oath of office in the 19th-Century National Palace. But Rodriguez commander of the powerful 1st army corps said nothing about elections or the length of his presidency. The coup was provoked when Stroessner who has been reported to be in poor health since prostate surgery five months ago tried to Force Rodriguez into retirement. The dictator s recent shake of the army also caused wide spread resentment among his officers. Stroessner who also took Power by coup in 1954, Tor tured and killed opponents during his Early years As ruler human rights groups said. Other foes were jailed indefinitely convicted of political crimes or forced into exile. The . Government labelled his government dictatorship in 1986. Under his Rule Paraguay became a Haven for fugitive nazis drug traffickers and former dictators. Among the most notorious refugees were Josef Mengele the doctor at the Auschwitz death Camp in world War ii and ousted president Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua
