European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday March 26.1989 Bush wants fresh thinking on Mideast Washington a president Bush on saturday called for fresh think ing to combile the daunting challenges that remain in the Middle East a decade after the Accord Between Israel and Egypt. Bush said in a statement that the treaty thai ended More than 30 years of War Between the two countries was the product of vision statesmanship Cour age and persistence on the pan of All the participants. News briefs Bush was spending the weekend with his family at Camp David the Maryland presidential Retreat where Israel s men Achem begin and egyptian president Anwar Sadat worked out the historic agreement with then president Jimmy Carter the treaty was signed March 26, 1979. ,. Recognizing the historic achieve ment of 10 years ago however turns our minds toward the still More daunting challenges ahead the president said. We need to Complete the work they began. We must commit ourselves As Anwar Sadat and Minachem begin did to fresh  Bush said there is growing under standing that a settlement can be reached which both satisfies Israel s Security needs and addresses the legitimate Politi Cal rights of the  Bush and his wife Barbara were spending the easter Holiday with three of their five children and six grandchildren. Joining them at Camp David were coun try Singer acc Greenwood who was a fixture in the Bush Campaign entourage last year and Greenwood s family. The Bushes were to attend easter serv ices at Camp David with base personnel and then Dine on an easter dinner of Turkey Sweet potatoes and Blueberry Pic on monday the Bushes play Host to the annual easter egg Hunt on the White House grounds. Air Force raids thwart rebels afghan chief says Kabul Afghanistan a president Naji Bullah s government said saturday that the air Force thwarted new offensives by afghan mos Lem guerrillas in the last "18 hours in the Jalapa bad and Kandahar regions. Foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Nubi Amani said More than 170 guerrillas were killed in air strikes East and Soult of Jala Labad from thursday night to saturday afternoon. The guerrillas launched a major offensive against Jala Labad on March 6, less than three weeks after the soviet Union withdrew the last red army troops to end a nine year intervention backing the afghan government. The City is considered strategic because of its proximity to Kabul which lies 125 Miles to the West. Yugoslav police break up demonstration by 4,000 Cristna Yugoslavia a police used tear Gas and truncheons on saturday to disperse thousands of Stone throwing ethnic albanians protecting constitutional changes that limit their autonomy in the Southern Kosovo province re ports said in the third straight Day of demonstrations up to 4,000 protesters dashed with police armed with machine guns and rifles on the outskirts of Uroseva 15 Miles South of Pristina the slate Tan Jug news Agency reported. Earlier saturday about 300 ethnic albanians hurled rocks at riot police and troops gathered around army trucks in downtown Uros vac. There were no immediate reports of arrests or injuries in either protest. Ethnic albanians arc protesting the provincial parliament s approval thursday of Constitution Al amendments giving leaders from the neigh Boring Republic of Serbia More Power in Kosovo. Leaders of Egypt Jordan Plo Confer on strategy ismail1ya, Egypt a preparing for april and May talks in Washington Between regional leaders and president Bush the Leaden of Egypt. Jordan and the Plo met saturday to coordinate a Middle East peace strategy saturday is meeting in this Suez canal City brought together Jordan s King Hussein pales line liberation organization Leader Vasser Arafat and president Hoshi Mubarak of Egypt for their second Summit in five months. They last met at Aqaba Jordan on oct. 22. The. Three Are key players in the Arab drive to initiate peace talks with Israel primarily with . Help. A egyptian officials said the meeting came amid encouraging developments that May augur Well for the peace process. One develop Neil was wednesday s meeting in Tunisia Between .-and Plo representatives officials said. No breakthrough was announced Here but the parties began to discuss substantive ".issues,Tor the firs time since the. Dialogue began last december. The officials also cited remarks by Bush in Washington times interview Friday in which he praised the dialogue with the Plo and said he would try to convince israeli prime minister Yizhak Shamir next month Hal something Good might come from this. Shamir has refused to speak to the Plo say ing ii is a terrorist group. Ism warning on , airlines May have snowball effect London a other companies will look care fully at . Computer giant ism s advice to employees to stay off . Air incs because of warnings of a possible hijacking the head of Britain s largest Busi Ness organization said saturday. When ism decides there is something to be concerned about other companies will look at it very care fully As they should because ism has an enviable management record said John Banham director Gen eral of the confederation of British Industry which represents about 250,000 businesses. International business machines corp. Said Friday that it had notified employees to avoid travelling on . Air carriers from Europe and the Middle East until the end of april because of a . Federal aviation administration warning of a possible hijacking in Europe. Banham said companies that have Many staff Mem Bers travelling around the world would have to make their own decisions on whether to take similar action. It s Worth remembering that ism must have More. People in the air at any one time than almost any other company so they have a particularly acute problem he said. Ism employs 163,904 people outside he unite states. .,.,. Michael mates chairman of the House of commons be itch committee on defense and a member of prime minister Margaret Thatcher s governing conservative party said the ism decision could have a worldwide snowball  mates said he could not blame ism management because the warning had been made Public and the company might have been open to Legal action in the United states if it had not moved to protect its staff. But of course the consequences of a firm of this size taking action like this could have a snowball effect All around the world he said in a British broadcasting corp. Radio interview j news of the Hijack warning was reported last week in Britain s daily express newspaper. The Faa then con firmed thursday that it had issued a Security bulletin to airports and carriers on March 16 Aboul the possibility Ota hijacking of a . Airliner in Western  mates said publicizing warnings to airlines opens the door to every nut Case in the world to Telephone an airline for any one of a million reasons. At Britain s airports travellers faced delays of up to four hours because of stringent Security checks and air traffic restrictions but Many flights were taking off less than an hour behind schedule. People appear to be turning up  half hour Early and i can t Sec As Many portable cassette record ers which should Speed things up said Haiwick air port duty manager John  have said the bomb that blew up pan am flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland dec. 21 was concealed in a  recorder. All 259 people aboard the Boeing 147 were killed along with 11 peo ple on the ground. Coble failure hits phone service Washington a a fiber optic Cable used by at to for trans Atlantic phone Calls failed Early sat urday but service was restored via an Intelsat satellite the company reported at to spokesman Herb Linnen said the Branch of the Tat-8 Cable to Britain failed. The Cable splits Inlo two branches As it approaches. Europe with one going to Britain and the other to France the French link failed tuesday and the traffic it normally carries had been rerouted onto the British leg. The fiber optic Cable can handle up to 40,000 phone Colls simultaneously Linnen said. He said at to knew the general location of the failure but did not immediately know the reason. You have to Send a Cable ship out and they have to Row where the fault is and they just pull it up on a he said. Moscow from Pago 1 and if Only by mathematics will dominate the Assem Bly after sunday s balloting. Moreover the new chamber will meet just once a year to pick a working legislature. Thus the party should be Able to stack the legislature with its own members if it so chooses. Nevertheless the Campaign has brought Competition and Public debate of a kind almost impossible to imag Ine in the Era before Gorbachev and Pyrc Stroika his program of Reform. Jct food  am for a pc cd decision on the food problem development of food and processing Indus tries he said in the newspaper economic Gazette. Yeltsin 58, was ousted As head of the Moscow communist party by Gorbachev in november 1987, Yeltsin and his backers have accused the party of trying to Dis credit him through critical articles in the official Media. Supporters at the rally said they believed 5 million a i a c i a. Of Moscow s 6,5 million eligible voters would cast their a of a  ballots for Yeltsin. About 190 million of 280 million soviets Are eligible to Tarsi according to the Central election commission. Soviets older than is Are eligible to cast ballots except those certified As insane. Voting is not mandatory and ballots arc secret the official news Agency Tass said. The 7so non election seats in the new Assembly were filled by the communist party and other officially sanctioned groups varying from unions to an association of stamp collectors party members also make up More than 80 percent of the candidates for the 1,300 scats contested in the elec Tion. But a Quarter of sunday s races have Only one Candi Date. The party has dominated the selection of candidates frdmpage.1 for Exxon for 20 years at least 10 As a ship s Mas Ter. The coast guard and the Alaska department of environmental conservation approved use of chemicals to disperse the Oil but the sea was so Calm saturday hat there was concern that a Lack of mixing action would Render the chemicals ineffective a i Liz Kiwi said. But on the other hand the Calm is Good for skimmers which act sort of like a vacuum cleaner to Lake the Oil off the top of the water he said 1 several skimmers were in operation he said