European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday May 22, 1989 news updates terrorism warning Bonn West Germany a Federal Interior minister Wolfgang Scha cubic on saturday warned of a increased risk of terrorist attacks Fol lowing the sentencing of Twa Hijacker Mohammed a Hamadi the risk of terrorist attacks an hijackings has increased consider ably the Hamburg based Bild am sonntag newspaper quoted Schau blk As saying. Hamadi was convicted of murder and air piracy in Frankfurt in connection with the 1985 hijacking of a Twa Airliner. A . Navy dive was killed and 39 americans were held hostage for 17 Days during the ordeal. Hamadi was sentenced to life in prison. Scha cubic said Security had been stepped up at the nation s airports and that passengers should expect delays because of More extensive baggage checks. Peace commission Kabul Afghanistan a president Najib said saturday he will appoint a commission to talk peace with moslem guerrillas but warned his troops arc ready to inflict smashing rocket blows to defeat the rebels. Bradley probe los Angeles up mayor Tom Bradley could be subpoenaed to testify before a City Council com Mittee investigating his financial affairs in a prone that has grown to include allegations of possible insider trading the committee chairman has said. There arc no Active plans right now to subpoena the mayor but i m not ruling it out City councilman Michael woo said. Woo said a report in the los an a Clos times that the . Attorney s office has subpoenaed records of Bradley financial dealings with the or excl Burn Nam Lambert invest ment firm raises new questions in the committee s probe of the May or s financial dealings. Bank failures Washington up two More Texas Banks the first National Bank of Gordon and Security Bank and Trust co. Of Wharton have been closed bringing the total number of Bank failures in the state this year to 57, the Federal Deposit insurance corp. Said. The closures brought to 82 the number of Banks that have failed in the nation this year. Last year there were 113 Banks failures in Texas and 200 in the nation. A soaring Dollar might Spur protectionism briton says s Agar Spain a Britain s finance chief expressed concern on sat urday that the value of the Dollar could soar to the High Levels of the mid-1980s and Spur greater protectionism in the United slates. I think it s very important that that does t recur Nigel Lawson Britain s Chancellor of the exchequer said at meeting of european finance ministers on Spain s Costa brava. He urged further cooperation Amon the major industrialized nations to Stem the unexpected pickup in the value of the Dollar compared with other key Curren cies. It is very important that the International cooperation within the g-7 the group of seven industrialized nations insufficiently Strong to Avert too Sharp an increase he said. There must be fears of a repetition of what happened in 1983-85when the Dollar really rocketed into the strato sphere beyond All reason he said. Those High Levels he said led to a upsurge in protectionist sentiment with in the United  Lawson spoke after a Daylong meeting of the financial leaders of the 12 nation sin the european Community. The focus of their talks was on inter Nal monetary and lax issues. Lawson said no mention was nude of the Dollar. The Dollar has surged sharply in recent weeks despite repeated attempts by Cen trial Banks of the leading industrialized nations to Cool the Rise. Finance officials of the world s seven major Industrial Powers the United states Britain France West Germany Italy Canada and Japan have pledged to work together to keep the value of the Dollar stable. The recent Rise in the Greenback threatens their efforts. Lawson declined to speculate on what has prompted the pickup. Some analysts and traders have attributed it to the Bright economic Outlook inthe United states and the relatively High level of interest rates. Investors can ear More by putting their Money in Ameri can investments than those of West Ger Many or Japan for example. Analysts also cite the political prob lems of West Germany and Japan As Rea sons investors May be More interested in dollars. Japan s prime minister Noboru take Shita has said he will step Down because of a Slock scandal. The West German government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl is struggling to maintain popular support. Kohl is embroiled in a dispute with the United states and Britain Over plans for Short Range nuclear weapons in Europe. The United states and the six other economic Powers began a drive in sep tember 1985 to push the Dollar lower As a Way of reducing America s Trade deficit Sand heading off protectionist moves in Congress. The Reagan administration in Power at that time publicly renounced further moves to weaken the Dollar in february 1987 in an agreement with its allies. In the louvre Accord the major economic pledged to work to support the Dollar s value at then current Levels. In december 1987, the economic pow ers reaffirmed their commitment to stabilize the Dollar. They backed up that pledge with massive intervention in financial markets the process by which countries buy or sell dollars for example to try to change its value. The Dollar s current climb has left i above the top of the Range on which the group of seven nations Are believed Mohave Sec cily agreed at the december 1987 meeting. Aquino opposition elects Laurel Manila up president Corazo Aquino s adversarial vice president Sal Vador Laurel sunday was elected head of an opposition party that once swept former Leader Ferdinand Marcos into Power. The platform of the nationalist party which is holding its first Conven Tion since it became inactive during the martial Law years in the 1970s, proposed the gradual dismantling of key . Mili tary bases in the Philippines when their lease expires in 1991. Laurel who broke with Aquino i september 1987 Over the president s handling of a 20-year-old communist insurgency was unanimously elected party president. Sen. Juan Ponce Enrioc who with Aquino led the revolt that drove Marcos into exile in Hawaii in february 1986,was elected Secretary general. However the senator now said the ailing Marco should be allowed to return to his Home land. Aquino has banned Marcos from re turning dead or alive to the Island be cause she fears he would destabilize the nation. Marcos 71, is in critical condition after kidney surgery in Honolulu. Both Laurel and Enrioc have compete to be the opposition s Standard bearer in the 1992 presidential election and their selection to the top two posts of the party was aimed at unification. We believe that Marcos should bellowed to come Back Enrile told a press conference sunday. There is no reason Why he should be deprived of his right to come Home at this time of his life. He is so ill. How can he destabilize the country if she s Aquino s afraid of the Shadow of a dying Marcos Enrile said then How much More if she s con fronted with a vibrant vigorous political opponent Laurel echoed Enrioc s senti ments. It is the right of every filipino to bellowed to come Home when he wants to come Home Laurel said. The party approved resolutions Reite rating opposition demands that Aquin resign and Call an election and that she allow Marcos to return. The demand shave been ignored by Aquino. Her opponents also have called for the phasing out of . Bases on the Island. The Nacion Alista party. Takes the stand that the philippine  allow an Extension actually a phas Coul of the bases preferably within five years but in no Case for More that 10 years from the termination Date of 1991," the party platform said. The Philippines is Host to six . Facilities including Clark a and Subic Bay naval facilities the oldest and larg est bases outside the Continental United states. The party convention at the luxurious philippine International convention Center at the Edge of Manila Bay was attended by about 4,000 delegates Many of them Marcos political allies. Marcos was elected president in 1965as the candidate of the Nacion Alista party. The party formed in 1907 and the oldest in the nation became inactive when Marcos declared martial Law in 1972. The resurrection of the nationalist party is the opposition s third attempt to unify its squabbling members. After Marcos ouster Aquino s opposition first formed the grand Alliance for democracy. A year ago the opposition regrouped under a party it called the United nationalist Alliance. Both efforts at unification collapsed. North Dakotas wrapped up in a quilt quandary Antler. . A Lcona Tennyson is known As the Betsy Ross of the Prairie for her work i assembling inc world s largest quilt. Now like the orig Inal Balsy Ross she has a fight on her hands stat officials want to take apart her labor of love. I will never allow it to be dismantled. I will fight to the end for that declared Tennyson a 74-year-old ranch owner and insurance Saleswoman. The quilt is shaped like North Dakota and features intricate details of each of the state s 53 counties and 1,358 townships. It weighs 800 pounds and measures85 by 134 feet 1 % times As Long and wide As a Basket Ball court. Twenty five to 40 people Are needed to carry it. But Tennyson s Pride and Joy now sits in a Heap stuffed with Mothballs and covered with plastic in storage room at Minot slate University s athletic com plex. Critics Call it a White elephant and they say ten Nyson is Loo stubborn to admit in. The North Dakota historical Board which oversees Ilams placed in inc state museum in Bismarck refused to accept inc quilt for display saying that it is not a historical artefact. The Board recommended that it be dismantled so thai each county could be Given ils particular Section a proposal that angered Tennyson. It is too Beautiful of a piece of. Work to be Tor apart she said. The sections fit together just like sections of land on the  the stale Centennial commission which gave Tennyson about $10,000 in expense Money for the project has appoint cd a special committee to find a solution to the quilt problem. State tourism director Jim Fuglie a member of the panel says he Pooh poohed the quilt until he walked on in racing a pain from his Hom Clown of halting or to  the incredible calculation to make it fit to scale is phenomenal Fuglie said. My instincts arc not to dismantle it. I think Iacre is a Way to display it. We just Haven l found , a Rusly haired Greal grandmother lives alone in a modest Home in this town of 100 people just two Miles South of the Canadian  recently bought a Van to haul the quilt to events during inc slate s Loolah birthday Celebration this sum Mer. She probably will charge $ 1 to Sec it she said. State officials rallied around Tennyson when she struggled to make her quilt the world s largest especially when she had to enlarge it at the last minute to surpass a quilt in Australia. Gov. Cor Joe sinner held a news conference to pro mole inc project and the Quill was displayed on the stale Capitol grounds As Well As in Fargo s civic Audi  guinness Book of world records certified the quilt last july As the world s largest. A quilt that was assembled in san Francisco to memorialize aids Vic Tims was Many times larger but its panels were landside by Side not sewn log Lucr