European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news Brief the stars and stripes sunday april 30,19b9 Black s. African Union files suit to halt Mobil Sale Johannesburg South Africa a the Black chemical workers Union has filed in urgent suit in the Industrial court to Slop the Sale of Mobil corp. Assets in South Africa until the company negotiates a disinvestment procedure the Union said saturday. Earlier Story pc a most of Mobil s 2,000 employees arc Black and about 1,200 arc represented by the Chemi Cal workers Industrial Union. Spokesman Taffy Adler said the urgent application was filed Fri Day afternoon but the two judges appointed by he government s department of manpower had postponed the hearing until May 9. The Union accused Mobil executives of lying when they said inc company had no intention of Dis investing from South Africa but promised to discuss withdrawal procedures with the Union if it became an Issue the chief executive of Mobil s South african operation Robert Angel said Friday that there would be no immediate change in employment policies or benefits when the company is turned Over to general mining Union corp., a South african conglomerate judge halts press Contact Over North disclosure Issue Cheney from Page t analysis As further evidence of his consolidating Power by removing hard line elements in the soviet bureaucracy. No senior . Official has Ever predicted publicly that Gorbachev would be forced from office by conservative opponents. A Cheney aide explained that the defense Secretary s comments were personal opinions and not govern ment policy. The state department referred All questions  Pentagon where a spokesman said Che Ney s responses were Guesswork no a considered statement of  it s not inconsistent Wilh what Cheney has been saying said chief Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard. He was asked his personal opinion this is not a completely unfounded notion. It s a guess based on 70 years of experience Wilh soviet leadership and the Al most intractable economic problems and the intransigent bureaucracy or. Gorbachev has to Deal with.". Cheney used the prediction to justify his position that. . Troop Levels in Europe should not be pm in response a promised reductions in soviet military forces. I Tii Ink that would be a big mistake i think it would undo Basic commitments to nato and until we know that Gorbachev is for real and that the changes he wants to bring about arc irreversible in d be a i Crnkic mistake for us to withdraw from Europe Cheney said. The Secretary said however that he believes that inc Western european nations should pay a greater share of the costs of defending Europe. We be got to work to try to get the europeans to do More he said on a related matter Cheney said that a widening German american Rifi Over whether to negotiate the removal of Short Range nuclear weapons from West Germany might not be resolved by the time of the nato Summit on May 29-30. We be been through Ellis kind of thing before Che Ney said. Clearly the political situation in Germany today is a delicate one from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl s standpoint. Will it be resolved before the nato Summit i Don t know. It May be on  hand it May not get resolved for a while Washington a the judge in the Oliver North trial Cut of Contact Wilh inc press corps saturday because 10 news organizations have gone to court seeking Public disclosure of a piece of evidence in inc Case. Meanwhile jurors ended their deliberations for the weekend shortly after noon saturday following a roughly three hour session . District judge Gerhard a. Gesell Lias been keeping in touch with the news Media through a press corps emissary. Hereafter no information will emanate from my Chambers Gesell said in a letter to Carl Stern of Abc news the Media Liaison to the judge. Go sell said he press should Call a court Telephone number that is periodically updated about inc pro acc Dongs. Stern said the judge was taking the Slep because inc press is now an adversary in a court proceeding before Gesell. The associated press and nine other news organizations want Public disclosure of a stipulation summarizing intelligence intercepts of a Cia assisted shipment of Hawk missiles to Iran in november 1985. More than 20 news organizations that were not parties to the court proceeding wrote a letter to Gesell saying thai each of us. Requests Permis Sion to maintain Contact with the court or its Chambers regarding developments in the North matter in their closing arguments North s lawyers re nato from Page 1 furred to the stipulation but the court refused to release the document publicly. It shows that top . Officials knew at the time of the 1985 shipment that Hawk missiles were aboard the Craft. North is charged Wilh creating a false chronology in which no one knew until january 1986 that Hawks were aboard. Part of his defense is to show that the Laic Cia director William Casey and Ihen National Security adviser John Poindexter knew from the intercepts what was aboard yet agreed 10 the Story that no one knew about them. On april 22, Gesell rejected the news organizations motion to release the stipulation saying it is a classified  the news organizations Ihen appealed. On Friday the appeals court sent the matter Back to Gesell calling for a hearing on the National Security issues involved and saying it cannot make a decision without such a record. On saturday the judge set a conference for Mon Day to establish a schedule for compiling information on the National Security issues. North is accused of lying to Congress to cover up his Rote in secretly assisting the nicaraguan Contra rebels and lying to inc , Al Lorincy general about aspects of the diversion of  the contras from arms sales to Iran. He also faces charges that he accepted a 113,800 Home Security system and converted $4,300 in traveler s checks from a con tra Leader to his own use. .-kuwaiti dispute settled 6 Gulf tankers to be re flagged Manama Liah rain a the United states and Kuwait agreed to remove the american Flag from sin Kuwait owned Oil tankers that sailed under . Protection during the Iraq Iran War in the persian Gulf officials said Friday. The decision announced in Washington ended two months of deadlock Between . And kuwaiti officials Over what had been assumed to be a routine mat Ter when announced in february. According to official sources in the Gulf and in Washington the kuwaitis objected to a . Legal pro. Vision stipulating that even after the vessels reverted to kuwaiti registry the United Stales would retain the right to requisition them for use in a National emergency. The sources who spoke on condition of Anany mily said kuwaiti officials rejected such a condition As in fringing on kuwaiti sovereignty. They said the two sides finally agreed thai inc tank ers would be returned to Kuwait s finance ministry rather than to the Kuwait of Tanker co., which Actu ally operates  the Tanker company is wholly government owned the sources said . Officials deemed inc distinction sufficient for a waiver or Kuwait s obligation to make the ships available to America. Fax from Page 1 Capitol Hill fora 30-Day review period. Congress could try to halt the agreement by passing a joint Resolution of disapproval but a two thirds majority of both houses would be required to override a Likely Bush veto of such a Resolution. Rep. Richard a Gephardt d-mo., chairman of the House fax task Force declared thai he would Lead an Effort to ensure thai this Giveaway of american technology never sees the Light of  he said,"0nce again inc administration has Al Lowed political and foreign policy factors to dominate b decision having a fundamental Impact on our eco nomic future Gephardt last  for president on. A Trade protectionism platform. Gephardt s St Louis District is the Home of general dynamics which is scheduled to work with Japan Mitsubishi heavy industries in co developing and co producing the  Missouri Democrat and other critics or the Deal contend that Japan should buy american made of Luis off the shelf and help Case the country s js5 billion Trade deficit Wilh Japan. The fax announcement came the same Day As a study released by the office of the Trade representative. The study cited Japan As one of the worst abusers Oft ado barriers. A foreign ministry statement said both sides expressed their belief that the Alliance will jointly resolve the still open question of a formulation of a comprehensive disarmament conc cup Bui there were no indications a Resolution would Happy soon. -1 Dregger in an interview with a radio network the Hassis incr Rund Funk said he supported Kohl s Call for the talks but he added thai the dispute should not be allowed to destabilize the Alliance. Echoing the . View dragger said elimination of the weapons is not an option As Long As he Warsaw act has superiority in conventional forces and similar tactical weapons in Europe love from Page 1 lonely hearts clubs Dowell said. And he can l find the dating Agency which is not listed in inc Norwich phone directory or Johnathan Beals the supposed Boss of the Loving partners. Dowell has had a couple of Calls from inquiring women and among the 30 10.40 idlers is one from. Billie Jane Dawn and Rosine. They headlined their letter sos save our sanity and described them selves As four very bored hairdressers from Han Worth who would like someone to drop them a Tine air Force Public affairs offices in England often get phone Calls and letters from people who want to meet american airmen Dowel said but this latest Balch which landed on his desk in one week was More than he usually gets in three or four months. Dowel said he would like to pass the letters to airmen bul because he has to make sum each one is answered the Large amount makes it impractical. Where would i put them who would i give them to a woman from Hampshire who said she was saddened to learn thai so Many of your men stationed Over Here were so lonely will get a letter from Dowell As will inc others bul Only to refer her to the stars and stripes pen pal column i be thought about putting a pen pal column in the base newspaper but we Don l have enough room Doicu said