European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D jobless rate in . Jumps sharply in april Page 3 n California lawmakers Back ban on semiautomatic  6 d iranian urges palestinians to kill americans Page 8 d Blackhawk beat flames tie series 1-1 Page 21 the Sims and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 48. No. 19 saturday May 6, 1989 , a d 8693 a soviet bloc urges talks on nukes Vienna. Austria a Warsaw pact nations Fri Day pressured quarrelling nato allies to open talks on reducing tactical nuclear weapons in Europe and said such negotiations Are tied to efforts to trim conventional forces. Soviet and East German diplomats used Friday s resumption of East West talks on conventional weapons to jump into the dispute Between nato nations Over reducing Short Range nuclear weapons. West Germany and some european nato Mem Bers want superpower talks on reducing Short Range nuclear weapons but the United states and Britain oppose them because of the soviet advantage in conventional weapons. The United states and Brit Ain also want to modern a the Short Range mis Siles. East German ambassador Klaus Dieter Ernst in Sis cd at Friday s resumption of conventional arms talks that parallel talks on reducing Short Range nuclear weapons Are vital to West germans. The absence of parallel negotiations on nuclear weapons would of course have negative effects on the conventional arms talks in Vienna Austria he added. North vows of fight9 conviction Washington a blasting prosecutors and vowing to fight hard for As Long As it takes Oliver Nonh says his conviction on three felonies in the Iran Contra affair will eventually be overturned. The first person to go on trial in the scandal that rocked the last two years of the Reagan administration North lost his $23, Marine pen Sion As soon As the jury delivered its verdict thursday. Sex president Reagan who Success fully resisted a defense subpoena to testify at the trial declined to comment after the Man he once called a National hero was found guilty on three of 12criminal charges against him. North to be sentenced june 23 . District judge Gerhard a. Be sell faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and $750.000 in fines. As a first Lime 9ftender with an exemplary 20-year military career North almost certainly will get penalties far less severe than that. Court appeals could take years. The National Security Council s former action officer on Central America defiantly critics cd the cos of pursuing him through the Legal sys tem and suggested inc prosecution see North on Back Page a smiling Oliver North arrives at his attorney s office in Washington shortly after the jury in his Iran Contra trial returned a Kii Illy u Ricl thursday. Prayers helped North jury decide Washington not each morning the jurors began their deliberations with a prayer but thursday morning s prayer led by Caswell har fridge a retired bus Driver was especially emotional. And after 12 Days together in con fining quarters juror bar Williams said that prayer was the turning Point for the jury in deciding that Oliver North was guilty on three charges and innocent on nine others. The toughest Issue said Williams was the charge involving the shredding . The guilty verdict on that count was not decided until late thursday morning. We were working on intent said Williams 61, a retired Security guard. Did he intend to do it .1" asked Why it had taken the jurors so Long Williams one of three men on the panel of 12, replied with a half smile we had a lot of women. They were set in their ways but they finally came  the jurors were selected because they said they knew nothing Al out the Iran Contra Case and had not watched on Tele vision or read about North s congressional testimony two Summers ago. It was the most difficult decision of my life said Justine Parrish 39, a Secretary As she hurried into her House late thursday  what she would do now Jean Johnson a cashier said. I m going to take me a Shower and take the next plane out to  Williams said North s appearance As a witness had helped his Case it d help anybody Williams said. After the verdict was announced . District judge Gerhard a. Gesell met briefly with the jurors in his Cham Bers. They were then driven to the Omni Shoreham hotel an expensive Conven Tion hotel where they had been sequestered. They were later taken Home in a Van driven by . Marshals. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl worried about the sliding popularity of his Center right govern ment supports talks with the soviets on reducing Short Range nuclear weapons and wants to postpone a decision on modern ing the weapons until after next year s elections. The Vienna talks opened March 9 with a mandate that excluded nuclear missiles. But Ernst and soviet ambassador olog a. Grinevsky said the seven Warsaw pact nations Sec talks on Short Range nuclear weapons and naval forces As part see nukes on Back Page w. German reportedly kidnapped Sidon. Lebanon a palestinian guerrilla officers Friday said unknown kidnappers were holding a West German hostage after releasing two others i Southern Lebanon. West German officials could not con firm the report. The kidnappers threatened to kill their hostage if the two released West Ger mans disclosed any information about the abduction one of the palestinian guerrillas said. A second palestinian said the reported kidnapping was linked to the Case of Mohammed Ali Hamadi a shiite moslem on trial in West Germany on murder and air piracy charges. The released two told me they Are scared because the kidnappers have threatened to kill their third colleague i they revealed any information about their abduction said it. Col. Wajih Abu Ali commander of the Plo s Mili tary police in the Southern provincial capital of Sidon. The missing West German is Markus Michael 25, who arrived in Lebanon last week to work for the Asme  organi Alion. A government spokesman in West Germany said the two people reportedly kidnapped and released had disappeared and reappeared under Simitar Circum stances a year ago. In Frankfurt West Germany the chief judge in the Hamadi trial vowed the proceedings would not be influenced by an kidnappings. Hamadi is on trial in Frankfurt in connection with the hijacking of Twa flight 847 in june 1985, in which . Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was killed and 39 american passengers were held hostage for 17 Days. Prosecutors have demanded a murder conviction and a life sentence. The palestinians said Heinrich Struebig and Petra Schnitzler were released at 5 . On Friday South of Sidon. Struebig is a -18 year old administrator with Samc human Itas and Schnitzler 26, is a nurse. Abu Ali said five gunmen in a Silver Bow intercepted the Relief workers while Dodge Van on the Southern Edge of Sidon late thursday. Repealed efforts by reporters to talk to see German on Back Page