European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 property sales Wiesbaden West Germany the defense re utilization and marketing of fice will hold auctions and retail sales in military communities in West Germany during the next two weeks. Auctions arc scheduled for tuesday at Sheridan Cavern in Augsburg and May 26 at the Friedrichs Feld service Center near Sec Konheim. Bidder registration in Augsburg begins at 8 ., and the auction starts at 9  Bidder registration at the Friedrichs Feld Center begins at 7 30  And the auction at 9 30  Retail sales will be held Friday near Coffey Barracks in ludwigs Burg and at Johnson Barracks in Niernberg and May 26 at the Mainz Kastl storage station. The Sale in ludwigs Burg begins at 8  And concludes at noon. The sales in in Imburg and Mainz Kastel begin at 9  And end at 11   also will continue hold ing its weekly retail Sale each Friday near the Auto strip Yard. The Sale begins at 8 30  And ends at 10 30  All sales arc final and Only . Dollars will be accepted. All events arc open to the Public except for the weekly kaisers Lau turn Sale which is restricted to .  card holders. The stars and stripes sunday May 14.1989 Shevardnadze berates . On Short Range missile stance temperatures _ May 12 a maj to v j  amy.no.1 hmong log and afternoon a Eki id mils Limo let wot Neaskern Germany Twe Cloudy Conov urn rtt inca Hief to and Druple w4 persist Unm at noon tin Northern and Central by tic and North Wistern Germany i in pm to c4t n t 49 64 rom Furt. I Alves s9 71 loft xxi. C a a c fit 72 my tend. Cd attn to 63 mix kit. P Hirmo Lien c 46 m pm c fit Ujwal. 1 46 51 Hon c--piov.&4 of Del 13 7rt  w no t Befi t it Xci Otto to Yuhi i tech Taftt thu of 1 m 61 Poratta. T Dutta 59 33 Moi  r v a Oik. C 4j-n4om 46 m m 46 � ii c6 so m 4t 57 59 Jyh Onslow is 61 63 1 he likened the new missiles Nat plans to develop to the soviet ss-23s that arc being removed and dismantled under the superpowers december 1987 inf treaty that eliminated medium Range missiles in Europe. Nato plans to replace the Lance sys tem which has a Range of less than 60 Miles. The soviets contend the nato plan violates the spirit of the inf agreement and would spoil the atmosphere at future arms control talks. That View is shared to a Large degree by West Germany which has called for .-soviet negotiations to remove the Short Range missiles. Most of nato s Arsenal is deployed in West Germany. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl joining other Alliance leaders said after his talks with Shevardnadze on Fri Day that scrapping the weapons is out of the question As Long As the Warsaw pact has Superior numbers of conventional forces and tactical nuclear weapons. Shevardnadze and guns Char also Dis cussed plans for the june 12-15 visit to West Germany of soviet president Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. Eduard Shevardnadze soviets Start Czechoslovakia pullout Prague Czechoslovakia a the soviet Union on saturday began a partial withdrawal of troops and tanks it has stationed in Czechoslovakia since leading a Warsaw pact invasion to crush communist led Reform in 1968. State run Media said a 6.5-mile column of soviet army vehicles headed for Home from the North moravian City of Olomouc Early saturday. Local communist party officials held a Brief ceremony to Mark the departure Media reported. The partial withdrawal of soviet troops announced last december by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev As part of an Overall plan to Cut half a million soldiers from the red army by 1991 was not mentioned in official accounts of meetings Friday Between soviet defense minister Gen. Dmitri Yazoo and czechoslovak party Leader Milos Jakes. Czechoslovak officials who came to Power after the 1968 invasion with Kremlin support have Given formal Wel come to the partial soviet withdrawal but have not played it up with such fan fare As the More Reform minded communist leaders in neighbouring Hungary. Gorbachev s promised withdrawal of 50,000 soviet troops and 5,000 Lanks from East Germany Hungary and Czechoslovakia by 1991 began last month with the much publicized Dupar lure of 31 t-64 tanks from a base in Southern Hungary. Soviet troops and tanks have also begun to leave Easl Germany. Until Alexander Dubcek launched the Short lived reforms of the so called Pra gue Spring in 1968, the Kremlin had no troops and tanks permanently Slation cd in Czechoslovakia. Soviet and other Warsaw pact troops and tanks first entered the country for lengthy Maneu vers in the Early summer of that year a sign of increasing nervous Ness among Czechoslovakia s communist allies Over Dubcek s reforms. The Warsaw pact troops withdrew just Over the czechoslovak Border in july 1968, but returned aug. 20 in an inva Sion that crushed the reforms and eventually led to the expulsion of Dubcek and nearly half a million other communists from the party. According to Western estimates the soviets have about 80,000 military personnel in Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia s chief of staff. Gen. Miroslaw Macck said in february that the soviets will withdraw 5,300 of those troops 70 tanks and 20 planes by the end of 1990. Only four battalions numbering some 1,500 men will withdraw this year. Navy to delay Shanghai Call until Gorbachev leaves Beijing up China and the United states have agreed to postpone a port Call by . Navy ships at Shanghai by 24 hours to prevent embarrassing so Viet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. He is scheduled to visit the Eastern City this week during his Summit trip to China. The official Xinhua news Agency con fim cd the postponement of the three ship port Call to May 19, one Day after Gorbachev leaves Shanghai for Home but gave no reason for the decision. It said the decision was made Afler consultations Between the chinese and american sides. A soviet Diplomat said the Kremlin had made its anger about inc potentially embarrassing port Call known to chinese officials on an informal level. The Diplomat said the Kremlin made no threats to Call off the Side visit to Shanghai. Beijing students begin hunger strike 77 54 Toronto r73 61 Var owner. C 66 41 sapped by a is coated press. C Cox. A p Cartr Joudy. F Raa correction. A court martial article yesterday in correctly stated that the convicted sol Dier was a member of the 1st amid div. The Soldier was assigned to the 127th postal Del a Usa eur unit. Beijing a about 1,000 chinese students in Beijing began a hunger strike on saturday for Freedom and democracy. The strikers in Beijing s main Square were protected by a Wall of their class males. Student Leader Wang Dan of Beijing University said the students might still be in Tiana men Square on monday when soviet president Mikhail Gorba Chev arrives for the first sino soviet Summit in three decades. As to whether we will disrupt or. Gorbachev s visit to China that depend son inc government Wang said. The student leaders also disclosed thai on Friday night in a major Concession inc government agreed to hold talks Wilh an Independent student group on the slide nos demands for sweeping reforms. But Wang Zhaohua a graduate Stu Dent at the chinese Academy of social sciences said inc government had Sci conditions for talks including pc milling Only partial reports on inc talks. The Stu dents arc demanding Hal the talks be broadcast in full. The students vowed to continue their hunger strike until the government agrees to open talks. Cons Ruff on blamed in quake fatalities Moscow a a politburo commission blamed most of 25,000 a calms in Armenia s Earth quake on shoddy construction and turned its findings Over to pros Ccu lors to file criminal charges Tass said saturday. The catastrophic consequences of inc earthquake in Armenia Are explained above All by the Low Quality of the building and Assembly work by inc inadmissible violation of design norms and inc strength of underground tremors the official soviet news Agency reported. There would have been no such huge number of human casualties if the established standards and regulations. Had been observed in said. A report to the politburo com Mission headed by Premier Niko Lai i. Ryzhkova on Friday ended an investigation that began immediately after inc dec. 7 earthquake Hal devastated Northern Armenia. The commission turned its find Ings Over to the procurator Gener Al s office for criminal charges Tass said