European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D plan would give gis vital papers Page 2 d phony astronaut Falls from Grace Page 5 d Rock group Europe gains respect Page 13 d new questions raised in Tower probe Page 28 the stars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 47, no. 298 sunday february 12, 1989 Good morning 25t daily and sunday d 8693 a Bush pledges action on acid rain Accord president Bush and Canadian prime minister Bria Mulroney present a joint statement after conferring. By the Cox news service Ottawa president Bush on his first foreign trip since he took office signalled Friday that he is willing to negotiate an Accord with Canada to fight acid rain. Emerging from a meeting with Canada s prime min ister ban Mulroney Bush said the time for pure study of acid rain is Over. The president said he will move As fast As possible first to seek legislation to toughen air standards and then to set up talks with the canadians. Bush declined to set a Date for negotiations but he said he Hopes the talks will Start before the year s end. The Promise fell Short of Canadian Hopes for an exact timetable for reducing hazardous emissions but Bush s actions went beyond that of his predecessor. Reagan administration policy held that the acid rain Issue needed More study before remedies were proposed. Bush s position represented quite substantial Prog Ress Mulroney said. The president s position puts a great impetus for action domestically in the United states he said adding that he expects that talks will Lead to an acid rain Accord to Benefit both the United states and  Mulroney added that it was t so Long ago that Canada was sort of going it alone in Many ways in this  a Canadian government official said Bush assured Mulroney he will introduce an acid rain package to Congress but will open talks with Canada before the legislation is enacted. During his six hour stay in Canada Bush spent four hours with the prime minister for what was termed As primarily an Agenda setting  the first foreign visit by the new president was viewed As representing the importance the administration places on close ties with Canada. First lady Barbara Bush visited a Canadian pre school then joined her husband and Mulroney and his wife Mila for afternoon Tea. The trip gave Bush an Opportunity to begin smooth ing Over the acid rain problem that has been a source of Strain Between the countries. A talking Heads worker Ken Brokaw seems to have lost his he Dover installing a Light fixture in the lobby of the Lincoln building in downtown Spokane wash., Button t worry. He s actually just making use of a Hole in the ceiling to talk with co worker Ray Corey. Abortion performed on woman in coma Manhasset . A Doc tors on saturday completed an Abor Tion on a comatose woman whose husband had battled anti abortion activists to the . Supreme court to become her guardian. It s been a major Battle. I am tired and wounded. I want to go on with my life Martin Klein said after the abortion was performed on his wife Nancy 32. No other family should Ever have to go through what we have gone  mrs. Klein who was 18 weeks pregnant has been at North Shore University Hospital since a dec. 13 car Accident left her comatose. Hospi Tal spokeswoman Carol Hauptman announced at 9 40 . That the Abor Tion had been completed. Klein of upper Brookville sought. Guardianship of his brain damaged wife on Jan. 26 so he could authorize the abortion that doctors said might save her life. A state judge granted his request. But the activists blocked the abortion at each court level until . Supreme court Justice Thurgood Marshall on Fri Day turned Down their request for a stay of the lower court ruling declaring Klein his wife s guardian. John Short a Farmingdale anti abortion activist who had helped Block Klein s guardianship also had asked conservative supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia to intervene because they Are criminally assault ing her and killing her  on thursday appellate division judges said that new York state court decisions had established that Strang ers will not be appointed Legal Guardi ans unless no one in the family can serve in that role. Justices Ore urged to Deloy North s trial Washington a the Justice department asked the supreme court on saturday to delay former White House aide Oliver North s Iran Contra trial for fear he would divulge too Many National Security secrets. Proceeding with the trial on those terms will make it impossible for the at Torney general to fulfil his responsibility to safeguard classified information the department said in requesting a stay. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh who is prosecuting North urged the supreme court to reject the Justice depart ment s request saying the department has no Legal authority to seek a delay. Walsh said the attorney general Dick Thornburgh comes before this court in an attempt to assume a role that the ethics in government act and his own Independent counsel regulation deny him that of prosecutor in this  Walsh called the Justice department request an Lith hour application and said the department has sought to inter Fere in this trial at the final  a jury was chosen thursday in North s trial on 12 felony charges Stem Ming from the diversion to the Nicara Guan Contra rebels of profits from the . Sale of arms to Iran. . District judge Gerhard a. Gesell has asked the jurors to report to the courtroom Mon Day. It is not Clear when the supreme court is Likely to act on the Justice department request. The Justice department appealed to the supreme court after a three member panel of Federal appeals judges refused on Friday for the second straight Day to delay the Start of North s trial. Department officials say that if the delay is denied Thornburgh is prepared to act under the classified information see North on Back Page