European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page /8 the stars and stripes monday may8,1989 Borin upset Bush Kohl talk Majde Public Bonn. Tot Germany a the government enticed White House officials saturday fors dealing details of a Telephone conc ratios Between Chan cellar Helmut Kohl and no Dent Bush who arc locked in a nato Pon dispute. Kohl and Bush spoke by the Lephar Day in the latest attempt to resolve feud Over West Germany s Call for Early talks with the Warsaw pact on reducing Short Range nuclear missiles in Europe. Officials in Bonn refused to discuss the contents of the conversation saying Bush and Kohl had agreed to keep their talk confidential. However the White House later said the two leaders had failed to resolve their differences. Kohl s chief spokesman Hans Klein said saturday the West German govern ment believed Public disputes would re Duce the chances of solving the problem before the May 29-30 nato Summit in Brussels. The More the positions Are brought a qty the open and the More they Are cd the harder it will be to a Chiey an exc dec of opinions before then Summit a unsaid. The dispute oni can Bonn Effii Washington threatens to Najj Wiar Mony of the nato Summit. Kohl s Center Rizui of Vernonc res Slosing support among part germans incr Chugg by upset with their strategic role defences and wooed by  Mik Hail s. Gorbachev s Warry scr turns to the West. Kohl Wahlst ton reducing the mis Siles to Stag Hon and he wants to Post Pone a a fusion on modernizing the Wear after next year s elections he United slates opposes any negotiations on the grounds that nato needs nuclear weapons to compensate for the overwhelming superiority of soviet bloc tanks artillery soldiers and other conventional forces. Washington also says the missiles soon will be obsolete and must be modernized. The United states posture has not  White House press Secretary Marla Fitzwater said after Friday s 20 minute Telephone conversation Between Kohl and Bush. It does not appear that a basis for agreement is there but Well continue to discuss it and  West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher the main proponent of Early talks with the Warsaw pact on sat urday said the discussion on Short Range missiles has grown out of any  Genscher in an interview on Hesse state radio again urged talks with the Warsaw pact and said West Germany should have an important word in formulating Western strategy As Well As in formulating arms control and disarmament Ini  Panama from Page 1 to do so. Meanwhile in a show of so import for Noriega Nicaragua s Sand Sta defense minister. Gen. Hum Caff Ortega put Nicaragua s army Rebuff is and Reserve son full combat j m saturday and warned other Laim american nations to prepare again a . Military action during ii Nama elections. Ortega accused the Bush administration of vulgar and insolent intervention in Panama s vote. Dismissed charges by opposition Bidales in Panama that Noriega is fanning to Rig the balloting. Alt our troops Are ready to tight a . Imperialist intervention against any latin american people Ortega said. A second International delegation led by former president Carter planned to observe sunday s voting in at least 10 cities and towns. Carter and former president Ford Friday night conferred with Carlos Duque Noriega s handpicked presidential candidate and the two vice presidential candidates of Duque s pro government coalition of National liberation. We told them we Are going to win big tic Iaquilino Boyd the coalition s candidate for second vice president. Boyd added a unlike the Carter delegation the miss a sent by Bush had entered Panama into Clandestine Man Ner like  according to he Laws of Wama they should have asked for visas w the panamanian government Boyd Sau if 20 panamanians went to the United states without visas they would be expelled he added. . Officials in Panama had already privately contradicted an assertion by White House press Secretary Marlin Fitz water that the presidential commission members would not need panamanian visas if they entered the country via Howard a the officials said that under the 1977 Panama canal treaties civilians entering the country through . Military bases normally must com ply with panamanian immigration formalities. There is a panamanian immigration facility at Howard but the delegates did it pass through it. Jurong the officials in the delegation Are setts. John s. Mccain a Ariz. Bob Graham t Fla. And Connie Mack a Fla. Reps. Lawrence Coughlin a a. Robert j. Lagomarsino a Calif Daniel Glickman a Kan. Alan Mollohan d , and Lawrence Jack Smith d Fla. And Miami mayor Xavier Suarcz. W. Germany reviews options on hostage Sidon Lebanon a a West German crisis team has begun assessing ways of dealing with lebanese Kidnap pers threats to murder a German hos Tage unless authorities free a terrorist in Cyprus and Promise a Light sentence for a confessed Twa Hijacker on trial in Frankfurt. We have to conclude now that a West German indeed has been kidnapped foreign ministry official said saturday in Bonn. West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher whose government initially doubted the reported Kidnap Ping set up the emergency team sat urday to Deal with the situation the spokesman said declining to give any other details about it. It. Col. Wajih Abu All commander of the Palestine liberation organization s military police in Sidon said saturday kidnappers have threatened to kill the hostage unless Mohammed Ali Hamadi who has confessed to a Twa hijacking but is being tried for murder of a Passen Ger receives a lenient sentence. Abu Ali said the kidnappers have also demanded that a lebanese shiite mos Lem Amin Savour be freed from a Cyprus jail within today. Official lists of Arab prisoners on the Mediterranean Island do not include anyone named Amin Savour. But a Leb anese Man named Amin Zaarour was sentenced to a seven year term in sep tember 1987 after a suitcase full of Gre Nades was found in his apartment. Abu Ali said he Learned of the Kidnap pers demands from two other West Ger mans who he said were kidnapped along with the hostage on thursday. The pair claim they were released on Friday. They told me that they were asked in English by their five kidnappers to trans Mit their demands to the Bonn govern ment and the cypriot authorities Abu Ali told the associated press. Palestinians said the two German medical workers Heinrich Struebig 48, and Petra Schnitzler 26 were kid napped on the outskirts of Sidon with a colleague Markus Michael 25. However a West German television network Adf identified the missing German As 24-year-old Markus Quint. I asked them if the kidnappers have said what they would do if their de mands were not met Abu Ali said. They told me that the kidnappers said that Michael s life will be  Abu Ali said he asked if that meant Michael would be killed and they said that s the impression we got " West German prosecutors have demanded a life sentence for Hamadi for murder in the 1985 hijacking of a Twa jetliner to Beirut. . Navy diver Rob Ert set him was killed and 39 americans on Board were held hostage for 17 Days. A verdict in Hamadi s Case is expected May 17 and the presiding judge has vowed that the court would resist any pressure from the kidnappers. In addition to Michael there Are 15 westerners missing in Lebanon. They Are nine americans three britons an irishman an italian and a belgian. American journalist Terry Anderson a s chief Middle East correspondent is the longest held of the captives. He was kidnapped March 16,1985. Subs from Page 1 Papandreou vows vote on bases the base command Crl to find ways to prevent or at least minimize these  the commanders Wely would be Happy to Cooper age claims and embarrassment of the usually Clandestine a rations. The sea services have us marines have been involved incident it. Dave Smith a. Navy s submarine so 14 at ate. In addition to Darl the incidents detract Ture of underwater of. Readily admitted we Cal in a collision or of adj spokesman for the  holy Loch said. It does t happen were basically at fault. Still notes Petty 0. Europe s London head a fishing net is like Tyi car and pulling it Dow actually Don t know it on the other Side. Sharp thinks some Fis blame damaged nets o if you Are a fish i. Often he said. When we Jive Rogerod up and  r Bob Jenkins of the Navy i nuances a submarine catching k a matchstick to the Back of a the Road. A lot of times they happening he  argument Jane s editor Crmen May find it too easy to submarines. Ii m ii univ in those Waters and your trawler gets caught Yogi can quickly convince yourself that it was a submarine he  Ioannina Greece a any new . Base agreement will have to be approved by greek voters in a National referendum pome minister Andreas Papandreou told thousands of supporters at a pre elec Tion rally in this Northern City saturday. If there is a new agreement with the americans we will Call on the people to take the final decision in a referendum Papandreou told supporters of his ruling panhellenic socialist movement Pasok. Greece and the United states arc negotiating a new agreement on four . Military installations to replace a five year Accord that expired in december. Under that Accord negotiators have 17 months to reach an agreement before the bases Are shut Down. The talks have made Little Progress since they began in november 1987 because of Greece s insistence that the United states provide assurances it will help solve Greece s centuries old disputes with Turkey. Greece and Turkey both nato members Are currently at Odds Over military and airspace control of the Aegean sea seabed Mineral rights and the War divided Mediterranean Island of Cyprus. A 17th round of talks with the United Stales is scheduled in Athens monday. It will be the final set of discussions before the june 18 elections. Papandreou said in the negotiations Pasok puts National interest above All  in his 35-Minutc speech in the town near Greece s Border with Albania Papandreou said Pasok would easily win the elections and among other things criticized the Leader of the main conservative opposition new democracy party for supporting the presence of the american  also attacked a statement made by new democracy Leader Constantino i Tsitakis that a . Air Force base near Athens should be moved to another part of the country instead of being shut  has said that hell Nikon a will be shut Down in june 1990 and that his government s decision is not negotiable. In the hour that the greek government is giving a difficult Battle for the bases so that our National inter ests Are safeguarded or. I Tsitakis is stating. That the bases must remain in Greece he  also said new democracy lacked any electoral programs and had based their pre election strategy on a mudslinging Campaign involving fugitive greek banker publisher George Koskotas. They have reached the sorry state of hanging from the lips of the swindler Koskotas who they proclaimed supreme judge of the political life of the country Papandreou said. Koskotas is in a Salem mass., jail pending an extradition hearing. He fled Greece in november after being indicted in a $200 million fraud forgery an embezzlement scandal and has since accused Papandreou and other senior socialist officials of taking kickbacks and being directly involved in the scandal