European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse D Rhode Island guardsmen replace Hospital protesters Page 3 d Sirhan says he was like jew killing Adolf Hitler Page 5 d Ira blows up portion of British army Barracks Page 8 d for officers wives the duties Are changing Page 13 the authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 47, no. 307 tuesday february 21, 1989 25 daily and sunday d 8693 a Thatcher visits Frankfurt Britain s prime minister Margaret Thatcher greets the crowd As she arrives at City Hall in Frankfurt West Germany on monday. The longtime British Leader is meeting with Chancellor Helmut Kohl and other West German officials during her two Day visit to the City. See Story on Page 9. North trial jury to be sworn in Washington a a jury will be sworn in tuesday in the trial of Oliver North with the prosecution preparing a lineup of witnesses to testify that he tried to cover up the Iran Contra affair. Lawyers for the fired presidential aide plan to rebut the prosecution s Case by showing North had White House authorization. North the key figure in the affair was indicted 11 months ago with former National Security adviser John Poindexter and businessmen Richard Secord and Albert Hakim. The other three will be tried separately. Two Central charges against North accusing him of conspiracy and theft in diverting iranian arms Sale profits to the nicaraguan guerrillas were thrown out last month on National Security grounds. The jury of nine women and three men was selected feb. 9. But the trial was delayed when the Justice department protested that North might divulge Classi fied material in the courtroom. After receiving Assur ances from Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh the department on wednesday dropped efforts to delay the trial. The jurors have one thing in common they had almost no exposure to North s nationally televised congressional testimony in 1987 in which he admitted under limited immunity from prosecution Many de tails touching on the crimes with which he is charged. North a decorated former Marine lieutenant Colo Nel faces 12 criminal charges. Five include alleged lying to Congress in 1985 and 1986 by denying he was assisting the contras. Four other counts allege that he lied to Congress and the see jury on Back Page dec nations will recall Iran envoys Brussels Belgium a the 12 european Community nations agreed monday to recall their ambassadors from Iran to protest Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s order that author Salman Rushdie be killed for writing a novel considered blasphemous by Many moslem. Britain later announced it would withdraw All its employees and close its embassy in Tehran the iranian Capi Tal. The decision by the dec foreign ministers came a Day after the iranian Leader said Rushdie could not be forgiven even if he repents for having written the satanic West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher said dec nations also will hold off sending any High level delegations to Iran and will limit the free Dom of movement of iranian diplomats in Europe to within 40 Miles of where they Are stationed. He called the dec action a sign of Solidarity wit Britain. But it is also a signal to assure the preservation of civilization and human values the preservation of Freedom of speech and expression Genscher told re porters. British foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe said later that it is no longer sensible to maintain a Diplo Matic presence in he said Britain s charge d affaires and four other British embassy employee would leave Iran in the near future. Britain restored diplomatic ties with Iran in novem Ber following a 17-month break. Moslem object to passages in Rushdie s novel such As a scene where prostitutes adopt the names of the wives of the Prophet Mohammed. Rushdie born in India to a moslem family is British citizen and lives in London. Rushdie 41, has not been seen in Public since feb. 14, when Khomeini ordered that he and the publishers of the satanic verses be put to death. A Bounty of $5.2 million was put on Rushdie s head. The novelist has apologized for the controversy. Publishers in France West Germany Greece and Turkey have decided not to publish the Book and leading Bookstore chains in the United states have pulled it from their shelves. Japan s top two foreign Book dealers announced monday they will Stop Selling the Book for safety Rea sons until the juror Dies Down. On tuesday Yugoslavia s leading daily Borba sus Pended publication of excerpts from Rushdie s Book one Day after iranian president a Khamenei began Athree Day visit. S. Korean dissatisfaction with . Spreading Mykelle Tunney Seoul South Korea a anti american protesters Are challenging South Korea s policies toward the United states and sparking More . Criticism Here than at any time in four dec Ades. From student radicals Yelling Yan Kee go Home to Farmers denouncing . Agriculture imports South koreans Are venting their frustration and anger at one of their oldest allies. When president Bush visits Seoul on monday he will find what one newspaper warns is a society quite different from the one he saw As vice president in april 1982. Criticism of the United states is no longer relegated to private conversation. American flags Are torched and effigies of Uncle Sam or Bush Are burned. Some 12,000 angry Farmers battled thousands of riot police with clubs and firebombs outside the National Assem Bly this month and denounced the United states for trying to Force open South Korea s agricultural Market. Radical students have staged attacks on . Facilities to demand an end to american influence. They vowed to hold nationwide anti government anti-. Demonstrations to coincide with the president s visit. Businessmen labourers and students who have never thrown a firebomb Are heard to complain that South Korea is victimized by unfair Trade pressures an Yankee arrogance. When asked their nationality by a South korean . Citizens rarely acknowledge that they Are american. The . Embassy and the . Military have cautioned citizens against wearing cloth ing that labels them As being american. The United states is no longer a sacred cow said a Western Diplomat. America is no longer the Patron Saint of South although Public protests appear out Wardly to have scant Impact on relations and radicals have Little Public support government leaders warn that growing anti american sentiment could endanger South Korea s interests in the United states. The government has appealed to Radi Cal students not to damage Traditionalkorea-. More than half of South Korea s 40 million people have been born since the korean War ended 35 years ago and Long time observers link the intensity of anti american feeling to the age of the participant. The younger the person the More Likely he or she is to feel the United states has taken its relationship with South Korea for granted. The korean Peninsula has been divided into the capitalist South and the communist North since the end of world War ii in 1945. The United states helped see Korea on Back Page
