European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The St is ant stripes Uno Pelcl i fun Lic Floc pah the . It famed Good my mind vol. 47, no. 318 saturday March 4, 1689 Mcm a d 8693 a Strawberry walks out of mets Camp Page 21 Tower debate in Senate ignites bitter Exchange so a John Tower by the Washington Post Washington a tense sharply divided Senate opened forma debate thursday on the embattled nomination of defense Secretary designate John Tower. The debate opened with various democrats claiming he has a record of Alco hol abuse that males him unfit for inc very top of the nuclear Chain of com Mand and various republicans con tending he has been unfairly trapped in a cobweb of fact fiction and As the arguments on the Senate floor began the White House conc coded Percsi Dent Bush has failed to persuade any democrats to support Tower and three More democrats a. Sar bancs of Man land. Terry Sanford of North Carolina and californian Alan Cranston as5istant.�it.rnajorily Leader came out publicly against his Confirma Tion. The administration needs to hold ail is top senators and pick up five of the 55 democrats to prevent the first rejection of a president s Cabinet Choice in 30 years and a major embarrassment to Bush Little More than a month after his inauguration. About an hour after the Dubau began. The Senate plunged into lurid details of accusations against Tower including refuted talks of an encounter with a voluptuous russian Ballerina dancing naked on a piano. Soon the Senate wasted in knots Over a senator s references to words used in an Fri report on the. See Tower on Back Page Germany urges East West talks on cutting nukes Geneva Switzerland a West Germany car ried its dispute with the United states Over Short rang nuclear arms to an International forum thursday urging that East West negotiations on reducing them begin immediately. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich guns Char told the 40-nation conference on disarmament we consider negotiations on Short Range nuclear systems As agree Din the Western Alliance at Reykjavik in 1937, to be a top priority.". They should begin without delay he said and there arc no reasonable grounds for not initiating such negotiations.". The United Stales wants to modernize the nato stockpile of Short Range nuclear arms and has opposed Early negotiations which several of her european allies join the West germans in supporting. -. To guns Char cited the soviet Union s Greal Superior i by in Short Range systems which have a minimum Range of 300 Miles and said the Kremlin should offer to make unilateral cuts. We Are open As far As the framework and the participants arc concerned he told a no ifs conference later. Our goal is simply to open Short-Range.missiles arc certainly not the Central Means of european us is apolitical concept that embodies All is cols of inc East West relationship so the West cafe respond positively 10 changes occurring in Eastern Europe he said Secretary of slate James a biker said after touring. Nato month the to couple modernization with debt nations and he expected he disagreement to by resolved before the Alli Ance Summit in May. Ticket snubs 9.54 declining attendance at cafes Europe movie Heaters. 4.86 4.38.s15mm1gitjoelo sagging buc rentals a amed for losses at fifes Heaters ,. A " by Charlie Bowden Munich Bureau. Attendance at Exchange service movie houses in Europe dipped 10 percent fast year As Home vide rentals continued to Cul into lines at big screen the aters -. That news the latest word on a decline that has seen attendance drop by More than half since 1981,. Has cafes Europe. Officials wondering., whether Filihi distributors will continue to View the sex. Change theater Chain As a worthwhile Market for newly released movies. The. Scr vice s first run movie program three Yean age to beef up attendance and respond to customer complaints accounted for just n fifth of the 4.38 million people military Heaters in Europe during the fiscal year. See cafes on Back Page 2 million workers strike in Greece Over wages Athens Greece a about 2. Million workers demanding higher wages. Went on strike thursday shutting Down Public transportation and paralysing scores of other services. ,. Airports. Seaports Banks. Hospitals and private schools closed during the 24-hourwalkout.v,.,. Skeleton Crews were working at the state owned Public Telephone Power corporations although most employee groups said the strike would last one Day Bank employees announced they were extending their walkout through Friday. Of thursday snore than 10,000 demonstrators marched through Central Athens shouting no to austerity".-., we want substantial raises the general confederation of greek workers which represents most of the country s 3,7 million workers said the strike was successful especially in the state owned corporations and in Indus tries.". 11 called the strike feb protest the socialist government s tight income poli cies Ana to demand that wages be inked to inflation which ran at a 14 percent rate in 1988, the highest in the 12-Mcm Ber european economic Community. The confederation said Industry and government offered a 2.5 percent wage increase this year the wage in crease in 1988 was 1.4 percent. ,. The average monthly take Home pay for greek workers is about 70,000 Drach Mas or $4 50,-it reported. The socialist govern men has been. Plagued by strikes since he year began. A feb. 2z walkout by More than 6,000 municipal sanitation workers continued. Thun Day. The strike has left tons of Gar. Base rotting on City streets. The workers. Also Are demanding wage increases to keep up with inflation
