European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes monday. May 15,1989 news updates scandal figure freed Athens. Greece a George Louvaris. One of the key figures allegedly involved in a financial scandal shaking the government was released on bail for health reasons on Friday an offi Cial announcement said. Louvaris one of Premier an Dreas Papandreou s closest friends paid the 50 million drachmas $330.000 Hail and was released on condition that he docs not leave the country and that he re ports to a police station every 10 Days a court official said he was jailed april 12 pending trial for allegedly receiving stolen Money from the troubled Hank of Crete. Manila demonstration Manila. Philippines a president Cora on Aquino s rela Tives joined mayors and other officials in a rally in front of the . Embassy Friday demanding . Charges against an american oppo nent of Ferdinand Marcos be dropped. An american Diplomat greeted the demonstrators As they arrived at the embassy gales. Sen. Agapito Aquino mrs. Aquino s brother in Law handed the Diplomat a letter asking that charges of conspiracy to transport explosives be dropped against Steve Psinakis. Psinakis married to a member of one of the country s most prominent families is accused of conspiring to transport explosives from Missouri to California in 1981. His trial opens monday in . District court in san Francisco. Talks suspended St. Paul Minn. Up negotiators for Northwest airlines and its 4.900 pilots have halted their contract talks until May 23, a spokesman for the air line pilots association said. The suspension of the talks could mean that there will be no Quick settlement which could Dis courage Friendly suitors from bid Ding for Northwest s Parent com Pany. Nwa inc. Oilman Marvin Davis has offered $2.7 billion for the company and other possible suitors Are looking Over Nwa s financial records. Shevardnadze berates . Ori Short Range missile stance Bonn West Germany a press ing for a new round of superpower arms talks soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze warned saturday that the Kremlin might have to consider devel Oping a new nuclear missile if nato upgrades its Short Range rockets. After a meeting with Iwest German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gunsch or which Shevardnadze described As a sign of the new stage in our relations the soviet Diplomat berated . Resis Tance to negotiations on Short Ramige nuclear weapons. What is to be feared by talking Shevardnadze said at a news conference. No one can be forced in  do what he docs not want to  he described nato plans to replace its aging Arsenal of Lance missiles with new missiles of a longer Range As the development of a new weapons system and said his government would not want to have to take a like step toward rearm Ament. This would have to be considered but it would not be by our own Choice Shevardnadze said. He likened the new missiles nato plans to develop to the soviet ss-23s that Are 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. S 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 German which has called for .-sovict negotiations to Remote 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 qucsti9n As Long As the Warsaw pact has Superior numbers of conventional forces and tactical nuclca/1 weapons. Shevardnadze and Genscher also Dis cussed plans for the june 12-15 visit to West Germany of Soeyfet president Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. Eduard Shevardnadze soviets Start czechs Ovak a 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. Slate 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 a of 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 u 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 tanks from East Germany Hungary and Czechoslovakia by 1991= began last month with the much publicized Depar Ture of 31 t-64 tanks front a base in Southern Hungary. \ soviet troops and tanks have also Begyn to leave East Germany. Until Alexander Dubcek launched the Short lived reforms of the so called. Pra gue Spring in 1968, the Kremlin hid no troops and tanks permanently Stalio cd in Czechoslovakia. \ soviet and other Warsaw pact troops and tanks first entered the country Tor 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. Miroslav 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. Council gives awards of adult scout leaders Garmisch West Germany nine adult scout Leader is were awarded the Silver Beaver award at the 39th annual conference of the transatlantic Council boy scouts of America. The awards Are Given to scout leaders who have made outstanding Volunteer contributions to their troops and the boy scouts of America. Only 257 such awards have Boen presented in the transatlantic Council since 1959. Recipients of Tjie Silver Beaver award were Alfred s. Bouncy Athens Greece Michael c. Allen Ramstein West Ger Many Richard to Olsen Vienna aus Tria maj. Charlo Craig Nordfelt Hahn West Germany Patrick Rich Brussels Belgium Arthur h. Stimson Bonn West Germany capt. A Csc Thomas Geilen Kirchon. West Germany George Thul in Geneva and Fred Wurm Wiesbaden West Germany. Navy to delay Shanghai Call until Gorbachev leaves Beijing up China and a United states have agreed to postpone a port Call by . Navy ships at Shanghai by 24 hours to prevent Embarrass my 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 inc 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 after consultations Between the chinese and american sides. A soviet Diplomat said the Kremlin had made its anger about the 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. Correction a court martial article yesterday in correctly stated that the convicted sol Dier was a member of the 1st army div. The Soldier was assigned to the 127th postal Del a Usa eur unit. Beijing students begin hunger strike Beijing a about 1,000 chinese the student leaders also disclosed that students in Beijing began hunger strike on on Friday night in a major Concession the saturday for Freedom and democracy. Government agreed to hold talks with an Independent student group on the students demands for sweeping reforms. But Wang Zhaohua a graduate Stu Dent at the chinese Academy of social sciences said the government had set conditions for talks including permitting Only partial reports on the talks. The Stu dents Are demanding that the talks be the strikers in Beijing s main Square were protected by a Wafi of their class mates. / 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 Visol to China that depends on the government Wang said. Broadcast in full. The students vowed to continue their hunger strike until the government agrees to open Alks. Cons Ruffion blamed in quake fatalities Moscow a a politburo commission blamed most of 2,5,000 deaths in Armenia s Earth quake on shoddy construction and turned its findings Over to pros Ccu tort to file criminal charges Tass said saturday. Tie catastrophic consequences of their earthquake in Armenia Are explained above All by the Low Quality of the building and Assembly work by the inadmissible violation of design norms and the strength of underground tremors the official soviet news Agency reported. There w old have been Nosuch huge number of human casualties if the established standards and  been observed it said. % a report to the politburo com Mission headed by Pronior Niko Lai 1. Ryzhkova on Friday ended a investigation that began immediately alter the dec. 7 earthquake that devastated Northern Armenia. The commission turned its find Ings Over to the procurator Gener Al s office for criminal charges Tass said. Body Huml