European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday february 19,1989 news briefs Giessen Soldier Dies of injuries suffered in fall Wiesbaden West Germany is a 3rd corps support come Soldier was found dead Early Friday outside the Barracks of the primary leadership development course in Butzbach West Germany a command spokes Man said saturday. Initial indications Are that the Soldier spec. Thomas Dearaujo a heavy wheeled vehicle me chanic assigned to the 588th Maint co 19th Maint in in Giessen died from head injuries suffered in a fall maj. Bobby Little said. Attempts by German emergency medical personnel to resuscitate the Soldier were unsuccessful and Dearaujo was pronounced dead by  med ical authorities at 7 50 a.m., Little said. Dearaujo assigned in Germany since february of last year was a resident of Union City Calif. He is survived by his parents Salome and Maria Dearaujo also of Union City. A memorial service is scheduled for Friday at 2 . At the North Chapel in Giessen. Dearaujo s age was not immediately available. An investigation is under Way Little said. Winnie Mandela oks removal of bodyguards Johannesburg South Africa a win Nie Mandela agreed saturday to remove from her Home the bodyguards who have been accused of abducting and beating a Black teen age activist who was later found dead a minister said. The Rev. Frank Chikane who announced the agreement after meeting with Mandela for five hours said she asked him to find another place for the youths to stay. Chikane general Secretary of the South Afri can Council of churches said Mandela told him she was following the instructions of her Hus band Nelson Mandela the imprisoned Leader of the african National Congress. Arab stabs jewish student to death in Jerusalem Jerusalem a an Arab stabbed a jewish Seminary student to death saturday near Jerusalem s walled old City in what police called an apparent terror attack. Shlomi Cohen 21, was stabbed in the heart with a pocket knife saturday afternoon As he and a Friend walked outside the old City Wall near Zion Gate on mount Zion police spokesman Uzi Sandoris said. Cohen was the second jew killed in Jerusalem since the palestinian uprising against israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip erupted in december 1987. Last june a jewish Seminary student was shot to death by an Arab prostitute. Police said the killing was politically motivated. At least 382 palestinians and 16 israelis have been killed in the uprising. Apology from Page 1 spread and another person was killed and 75 injured in demons rations i India. After Khomeini also ordered the deals of publishers of the novel Book Compa Nies in France Wesl Germany Greece and Turkey decided nol to publish it. Others in Finland Norway and ital were a swayed. Major . Booksellers such As b. Dal Lon and Barnes & Nobel removed the novel from their shelves and Canada hailed imports. The Book has been banned in Iran India Pakistan Bangladesh Egypt and South Africa. The governments of West Germany Spain Britain and the United Stales condemned the iranian Campaign. The United Stales called in  moslem say the satanic verses blaspheme their religion by portraying the Prophet Mohammed s wives As pros Tilles and suggesting Hal he whole the Koran the holy Book of islam rather than receiving in from god. Missile agreement Likely Baker says As tour ends Washington up Secretary of state James a. Baker arrived Home Friday night after concluding a tour of nato nations and saying he expects the Issue of modernizing Short Range nuclear missiles in Europe to be successfully resolved in the next three months. Baker discussed a Host of issues with european officials including  and Trade the soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the situations in the Middle East and Central America. During a Stopover earlier Friday in Ireland Baker told reporters that the Issue of modernizing Short Range nuclear missiles based in Europe has not divided the nato Alliance nearly As much As portrayed in the press which reported reservations in West Germany because of its Strong anti nuclear lobby and fears that it could find itself at the Center of an East West conflict if War broke out. Baker said he believes the Issue will be settled in the next three months before a nato Summit tentatively scheduled for the last two weeks of May. Japanese balloonist rescued in High seas Tokyo a fishermen rescued Fumio Niwa from rough Waters saturday night maritime officials said Al most 12 hours after the adventurer abandoned his attempt to become the first person to Cross the Pacific alone in balloon. The 38-year-old balloonist was in Good condition after suffering a severe bout of seasickness his spokesman Toshiaki Oguri said. Niwa was picked up in the same area where he came Down saturday morning 400 Miles off the coast of Marcus Island 1,550 Miles Southeast of Tokyo Oguri and Mari time defense Force officials said. After his helium filled balloon landed in the water at 11 16 a.m., Niwa immediately separated his Gondola from the balloon s lines and bobbed around in the Pacific Ocean awaiting Rescue. Oguri said he communicated with Niwa by radio from the ship no. 1  59-ton fishing boat was guided to the site by one of two p-3c patrol planes deployed by the defense Force. The other one flew Over Niwa s 6-foot-wide Gondola to Monitor his position. The balloonist who took off wednesday from his Hometown of Yokohama near Tokyo had originally planned to reach san Diego Yokohama s sister City in about four Days by hitching a ride on Jet Stream winds that generally blow from West to East at an Altitude of ? to 10 Miles. But after Niwa s departure the winds blew North toward Alaska forcing the balloonist to stay at a Low Alti tude. Later he tried and failed to reach the Jet Stream said Hiroaki Tanaka another project spokesman. Niwa an experienced balloonist quit his Job with a computer firm three months ago to prepare for the Jour Ney. In 1981, four balloonist successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean for the first time. No one has Ever travelled the distance alone. Fort Dix from Page 1 the House armed services committee has scheduled hearings for feb. 22 and March 1 to air grievances and learn the reasons for the installation cutbacks. The hearings will Coyer All the cutbacks but committee aides say fort Dix which accounts for some $362 million annually in salaries and supplies is Likely to be the major item on the Agenda. One opponent rep. James a. Courier r-n.j., was cautious about the Impact the hearings could have on plans to put the base on sem Active status a phase out of All training but said they might throw a wrench into administration plans to win the cutbacks without paying a political Price. One piece of ammunition courier and other new Jer sey representatives will have Al the hearings is a recent  Audil recommending Hal training Al fort Dix be expanded Nolc Ulback. It does t seem Loo logical said Slaff sol. Phil Hale a Public information officer during a Lour of the 31,000 acre base where 6,000 recruits Irain annually and another 1,800 receive advanced individual training. The facilities Are excellent he said and they want to phase in  the Pentagon has nol revealed ils plans for the scaled Down base except to say in would nol be mothballed entirely. Afghans from Page 1 to the sovereignty and territorial in eerily of  a Sale of emergency has been imposed in Afghanistan once before in 1978, after the communists seized Power in a military coup. In was lifted in 1979, the same year Soviel troops intervened in the civil War. The soviets announced All their troops had been Wilh drawn feb. 15, the deadline Sel by a  Accord signed last year. The guerrillas were nol a party to the Accord and have vowed to overthrow Najibullah s govern ment. The afghan cons Lillion allows the government to declare an emergency when in deems Hal the country s Independence sovereignly territorial in eerily and inner Nal Security Are impossible to maintain due to War danger of War disturbances of War or similar conditions. Snow Salman Rushdie from Page 1 in Virginia by Early saturday. Three to 5 inches of steel covered the Northern coastal Plain of North Carolina. Icy roads caused several accidents Fri Day in the mountains and Foothills of North Carolina and steel and Snow made driving especially treacherous along inner Sale 40. A school bus carry ing 40 High school and Middle school slide nos Slid off an icy Rural Road near Raleigh but there were no injuries. You would not believe it said Bobby Norville a dispatcher in North East North Carolina. Wrecks Are com ing in from every which direction and my Rescue Crews Lell me Hal roads Are really Slick Oul  ice accumulations downed Power lines and Trees in Mecklenburg county. In Washington state areas East of the Cascade mountains got most of the Snow Friday Wilh More than 8 inches reported in Spokane and More than a foot in Leavenworth and parts of Okanogan county. The Winter weather described As the worst this season in parts of Washington contrib used to Al least three traffic deals thursday and Friday in washing Ion and a 35-car pileup on inner Sale 90 near North Bend forced the temporary closure of westbound lanes of the main link Between Eastern and Western Wash Ringlon. 7 nations vow to Cut pollution in Baltic sea Helsinki Finland a the seven countries bordering the Baltic sea Friday confirmed their commit Lenl to reduce by half the dangerous maritime emissions by 1995. Government officials from Denmark Finland Easl and Wesl Germany Poland the Soviel Union and Sweden also agreed to Monitor releases from All nuclear plans in the Region and to update a report on the radioactivity of the Baltic. The decisions were adopted by the Helsinki commission also known As the Baltic Marine environment commission