European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday february 16,1989 news briefs writer reportedly guarded because of death threats London a police reportedly guarded Salman Rushdie wednesday because of death threats from fundamentalist moslem angered by his novel the satanic  iranian Radi cals vowed to kill the author and protesters stoned the British embassy in Tehran. The demonstrators in the iranian capital broke windows at the embassy a Diplomat there said. He said no embassy employees were injured. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency Ina report monitored wednesday in Cyprus said the revolutionary guards expressed their readiness to carry out the Imam s Khomeini s  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran s revolutionary Leader said tuesday that Rushdie s novel is so offensive to islam that he had or dered the 41-year-old author and the novel s publishers put to death. About 2,000 people took part in wednesday protest outside the British embassy in Tehran expressing support for Khomeini s decree and anger Over the Book. Gesell says Justice trying to chop up North Case Washington a the judge in theoliver North Case says that if the Justice depart ment is intent on preventing the trial it should do so now instead of trying to chop up the Case with constant censorship demands. . District judge Gerhard Gesell on tues Day rejected a Justice department bid to inter Vene in the Case whenever they feel it necessary to Block disclosure of classified information. In Stead Gesell said the Independent counsel prosecuting the Case would have that authority. North s lawyers revealed More of their planned defense on tuesday saying that the Reagan administration offered Cia Covert sup port to Central american nations if they would help the contras during a period in which con Gress had banned . Aid. Canadian Soldier arrested after woman held hostage Buhl West Germany a Canadian forces Soldier allegedly held a 19-year-old waitress hos Tage at knife Point in a restaurant for 2 a hours Early wednesday morning before police arrested him a forces spokesman said. West German and Canadian police had no filed charges by late wednesday afternoon against the 29-year-old suspect who is assigned to the 3rd Royal Canadian regt Canadian forces base Baden Solingen. The spokesman capt. Yves g6n6reux, said the incident occurred at the Gasthaus Balbero in Buhl Between 1 30 . And 4 . No one was  police confirmed that a hostage taking Inci Dent occurred but declined to give other details. Baker Calls on soviet Union to help rebuild Afghanistan Madrid Spain a . Secretary of stat James Baker on wednesday called the 10-year-old Afghanistan War tragic and said the soviet Union should help in the reconstruction of the South asian country. The past 10 years of soviet. Aggression Are a tragic chapter in that nation s history and i think it appropriate for us to ask the soviet Union to assist in the reconstruction of that country Baker said at Madrid s Barajas Airport just before his departure for Lisbon Portugal. The soviet Union said it met the wednesday dead line for withdrawing the last of More than 100,000 soldiers it sent into the country since 1979 to support the afghan communist regime. In Lisbon Baker was scheduled to meet briefly with his portuguese counterpart Joao de Deus Pinheiro and then with prime minister Anibal Cavaco Silva before heading to Brussels Belgium on wednesday evening. Baker spent nearly three hours in Madrid talking with prime minister Felipe Gonzalez and foreign minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez As part of his whirlwind tour of North Atlantic treaty organization capitals. Baker declined to comment about an agreement reached tuesday among leaders of five Cen trial american nations on peace in the Region. The agreement included a pledge by Nicaragua to open up the country s political process. The administration of former president Reagan staunchly opposed Nicaragua s leftist sandinista government and supported the Contra rebels seeking to overthrow it. But president Bush has indicated he in tended to review that policy. Fernandez Ordonez said he briefed Baker on the visit he and the foreign ministers of France and Greece made to Jordan Egypt and Syria last week. They Dis cussed an initiative by the european economic Community to seek a  peace conference on the Middle East that would include the Palestine liberation organization. Israel has rejected the idea of an International peace conference. Fernandez Ordonez also said he would be visiting Washington on March 13 for his first meeting with members of the Bush administration. Nicaragua from Page 1 the agreement. There was no immediate comment from the state department. We believe we have adopted a decision in the in Terest of the five Central american countries. We also believe that the United states. Will respect the Accord that we have signed this Day Azcona told a news  remained unresolved was the Issue of verification of Progress toward democracy under the Centra american peace plan. Ortega promised to move up National elections which had been scheduled for november 1990, and toehold local elections at the same time. His term is to end in january 1991 but members of the ruling sandinista party have indicated that could change. Ortega said opposition parties would have equal a Cess to radio and television which the government now controls and representation on the National election commission. He also said the entire election process would be open to International observers. Nicaragua promised to free about 1,600 imprisoned contras and members of the National guard of dicta Tor Anastasio Somoza who was overthrown in 1979 bythe revolution the sandinista Rode to Power. The five Way agreement on disbanding the contras adopted at the urging of both Nicaragua and Honduras Calls for the rebels and their families to be offered voluntary repatriation or relocation to third coun  the Contra leaders consigned to the sidelines Dur ing the negotiations Over their Fate and Safe Haven were stung by the agreement. I would say that whatever Accord is reached base Don Ortega s promises is equivalent to trying to Leash a dog with sausage links Calero said after the Summit. Berlin escape incident Sparks dispute Berlin a the Crew of an East German patrol boat pulled a would be Escapee by the hair out of the spree River after he had already reached the West Berlin Side Allied officials angrily charged on wednesday. According to British military spokesman Anderson Purdon the 20-year-old was one of three East Ger mans who swam across the spree on tuesday after crashing a truck through Border barriers. The two others both 21, fled safely but their com Panion was seized by the Crew of the East German patrol boat and taken away West Berlin police said. Purdon said the third Man was just starting to climb onto the West Berlin Side of the River Bank when the patrol boat Crew pulled him by the hair into the patrol boat and took him  he did reach the Western Side. He was climbing up onto the Bank and that is British sector territory Purdon said. Allied officials have protested the incident to their soviet counterparts in the Eastern sector of the divided City Purdon said. Soviets from Page 1 ministry said Gromov s group was thelast to leave ending what Many soviets have come to View As their Vietnam War. In Moscow the communist party daily pravda said then president Leoni Brezhnev s decision to Send troops to Afghanistan in december 1979 May have been an error. It suggested future commitments of soviet forces abroad should be sanctioned by parliament. It called the withdrawal the first step toward peace in Afghanistan. With Gromov and his troops gone guerrilla leaders have predicted that major cities held by the soviet backed government will fall in a matter of weeks if not Days. Soviet Media have reported looting by troops of the 30,000-member afghan army and mass desertions As the . Supplied guerrillas gain ground. Soviet officials estimate 30,000 guerrillas Are massed around the cold hungry capital of Kabul which has been blockaded for months. Foreign ministry spokesman Vadim Perfeliev said another 15,000 guerrillas were around the Eastern City of Jalapa bad. Radio Kabul monitored by the British broadcasting corp., reported More insurgents surrounding Herat and Kandahar. Guerrillas claimed there was heavy fighting around a former soviet air base North of Kabul. Along the Muddy narrow streets of Kabul s Bazaar merchants huddling under thick quilts seemed More inter ested in bartering for their goods than discussing the soviet withdrawal. The russians Are gone said one trying to sell soviet fur hats. Now there will be  there was no Amu Cement on National radio or television about the final departure. Only those with Access Toboc radio heard the news. The decision to intervene in Afghani Stan was made by the late president Brezhnev and a few close associates High ranking officials have said. Pravda said the Security threat perceived by them May not have merited sending i troops. It is possible to doubt the Brezhnev leadership s evaluation of the level of military threat the paper said. The official Tass news Agency similarly stated All these years Afghanistan has probably been the greatest pain an worry for our people. Scientists politicians soldiers and All other people willbe thinking and debating for a Long time whether the decision of the government of the country taken at that time was  pravda said it is possible to say that such vitally important decisions As the use of troops cannot be decided secretly by a Small Circle of people without the Sanction of the parliament of the  the soviet parliament has been a rub Ber stamp body for decades but recent reforms under president Mikhail s. Gorbachev have strengthened its role. A spokesman for the Pakistan base Jamiat i islami guerrilla group said its fighters captured 155 afghan govern ment soldiers and 10 officers in an attack saturday on the huge Bagram air base,24 Miles North of the capital. He said that 10 guerrillas were killed or wounded and that fighting continue wednesday. He gave no details however and there was no Independent confirmation. Kabul state radio said guerrillas fired five rockets into the capital tuesday killing four children and an old Man lined up in the Snow for bread. It said two rockets landed at the air port. The final soviet troops in Kabul left aboard military transport planes lat tuesday. Soviet soldiers intervened in Afghani Stan a year after a marxist coup touched off civil War with moslem guerrillas. At Tolfe height of its involvement the red air my had an estimated 115,000 Soldier sin the country. Under a  Accord signed i Geneva in april the withdrawal began May 15