European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes monday May 29,1989 at to reaches agreement with workers unions Washington a at to and unions representing about 160,000 employees reached agreement Early sunday on new three year National contracts thai include the company s first profit sharing pin for Union workers. Officials for american Telephone & Tele graph co. And the unions were expected to re lease details of the settlement on sunday afternoon. Sources familiar with the negotiations said that a Compromise had been reached on the thorny Issue of health insurance. Under the terms of the contracts workers will not have Topay More up front for coverage sources said. At to s demand for the increased up front payment had threatened to Block agreement. Also in the contract according to sources Are annual wage increases for both operating and manufacturing employees. . Cardinal makes plea to captors of 9 hostages bk1rk1, Lebanon a Cardinal John o Connor of new York called off a planned visit to moslem West Beirut on sunday but later appealed to the captors of nine . Hostages to let him Sec them. Some of my countrymen arc hostages Here because they wanted to help Lebanon the roman Catholic archbishop said. I wish that those who Are holding the hos tages would let me Sec them because 1 would go anywhere that a priest can go he said during a visit to an Institute for War maimed victims in the Christian area Northeast of Beirut. The Cardinal escorted by four in uploads of commandos travelled to and from the facility in the Mountain resort town of beit Sheba in a bulletproof Cadillac. O Connor arrived in Lebanon on saturday for a three Day Mission to refocus attention on the Western hostages in Lebanon whose plight has been overshadowed by the fierce fighting the past 11 weeks in Lebanon s civil War. Southern Iran cities struck by Strong earthquake Nicosia Cyprus a a Strong Earth quake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale jolted three cities As a series of tremors rumbled across Southern Iran late saturday and Early sunday. The official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia said the quake was Tell in Ramasani Shiraz and Kar Zeroun just before Midnight saturday. The Tehran geophysics Center announced that the tremors epicentre was 375 Miles South of the capital the Agency tremors injured 17 people and killed about 100 head of livestock the Agency said. Several Village Homes were destroyed in and Ijoyce Ahmad province which was struck by eight weak tremors overnight irn Asaid. Technology can Aid ecology industrialist tells u of m grads by Mark Moor staff writer Heidelberg West Germany third world poverty and threats to the environment arc the leading problems facing the world the chairman of Europe s largest electronics firm said sunday. Karlheinz Kaska chairman of the Board of Siemens a said despair and resignation arc a common response to environmental and poverty problems since in the View of Many people the struggle to improve the one necessarily leads to a worsening of the however the connection Between the two problems is not a necessary one he said. Economic growth need not automatically Lead to increased Strain of the environment. If that is to be True however then we must continue to make Progress on the technological Kaska made the remarks in a commencement speech at the University of Maryland s annual graduation ceremony at the Patrick Henry Village officers club. The 60-year-old physicist who joined the firm in 1950 and has chaired the Board since 1981, is consid ered by Many to be the most powerful person in West German Industry. Kaska is credited with leading Siemens away from its concentration on German and european markets and into worldwide Competition with such corporate giants As at to in telecommunications ism in computers and general electric in Energy and factory Auto mation. Kaske told the More than 350 graduates attending the event that impressive Progress has been made in reducing Power Plant emissions. German Power plants have reduced the emission of Fulfur dioxide from 1.5 million tons in 1982 to 500,000 tons. By 1993, it will be Only 300,000 tons an 80 percent decrease in 10 years. On the other hand Kaska said Energy production has continued to in crease. Technology Kaske said creates ecological leeway for further economic growth and there is simply no denying the fact that without economic growth poverty in the world cannot be Kaska compared the economic growth of East Ger Many to that of West Germany noting that the economic situation in the other part of Germany pro Vides a lesson in contrast demonstrating that collectivist systems simply cannot compete with the results achieved by free economies. The More Freedom you give Market forces to develop the better the results he told the crowd of about 1,500. This is also evident when you look at the damage to the environment which in most cases is much worse in the socialist countries largely because the Lack the Money and the know How necessary to eliminate Sheila a. Worch of Raf Lakenheath England was awarded the annual Bentley memorial award As the University s top graduate for 1988. Worch completed her Bachelor of science degree in psychology with a 4.0 Grade Point average. 80,000 students March in Beijing 30,000 demons Rafe in Shanghai Beijing a about 80,000 students from throughout China marched in Beijing on sunday to recharge a Reform movement jeopardized by a govern ment Power struggle that has left the hard liners in charge. Many students vowed to continue their two week occupation of Tiana men Square in Central Beijing. On saturday student leaders called for an end to the occupation. Also sunday sources said government hard liners formed a censorship group to assert More control of the increasingly Independent state run Media which have been largely sympathetic to student demands. Students from most of China s 31 provinces paraded through the narrow streets of the capital s old Quarter shouting slogans demanding the fall of conservative Premier i Peng. I declared martial Law in Beijing on May 20 to suppress the student led protest movement. Well keep coming until i Peng Steps Down the marchers chanted. I Peng is a big political thug said a student from coastal Shandong province. Another 30,000 students marched against i in Shanghai with one Banner depicting the Premier As a cockroach with a military Cap. Thousands of chinese also marched in Taiwan Hong Kong and Sydney Australia to show Solidarity. Unlike demonstrations last week that Drew up to a million people there were few non students in the Beijing March. Factories Are now taking economic measures against workers who participate one Stu Dent Leader said. But Large crowds of residents continued to applaud protesters and to gather around University Gates read ing student posters and listening to student broadcasts. Hard liners led by i who is believed to be actin for senior Leader Deng Xiaoping reportedly have placed moderate communist party general Secretary Zhao Ziyang under House arrest and removed him from his Post. Zhao had expressed sympathy for the students whose demands included talks with the government concerning a Freer society and an end to corruption and profiteering by officials. Martial Law was declared in response to the student occupation of Tiana men Square which entered its 16th Day sunday. About 10,000 students remain in the 100-acre Square Down from a Peak of about 200,000. Bush from Page 1 every conflict would be sided by the United sates As of the very first minute de Mita said. They Are the Best guarantee that no other War will break out in the Observance. Bush s most Public appearance during his visit to Italy was held under a near cloudless sky in sunny 7wegree weather. On the Way to a pc ceremony roman Catholic Church service in Anzio the president s motorcade held up for about four minutes when right Wing demonstrators vaulted barricades formed a human Pyramid and threw leaflets in front of the Lead car witnesses said. The president was never in any danger they said and italian police acted quickly to end the disruption. Four demonstrators reportedly were arrested. More than 400 . Service members took part in the ceremonies at Nettuno. Army and air Force units came from Vincnza and san Vito Del Normanna in Italy while most of the sailors and marines came from the Navy s amphibious assault ship Guadalcanal and amphibious transport Dock Austin anchored off Nettuno. Btry d of the 319th airborne Field arty from Vincnza fired the 21-gun Salute with its 105mm How following the ceremony Bush headed for Rome s Ciampino Airport for the trip to the belgian capita land monday s 16-nation Summit. The Summit s first session is expected to tackle the missile Issue which threatens to sour a meeting that was originally planned As a Celebration of 40 years of peace. During a visit to Nurnberg on saturday West Ger Man Chancellor Helmut Kofil All but ruled out any Compromise in Brussels saying negotiations to reduce the weapons cannot be postponed into the Distant future simply to show a unified face at the nato Summit. Published reports in West Germany have described Kohl As being so walled in on the missile question that any Compromise at the Summit could Lead to a breakup of the coalition Kohl s Christian democrats share with the free democratic party. The Sii Deutsche Zeitung reported foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher As telling the Chancellor that it would be better to let the Summit end in open dissension than for the germans to crawl on their at an Ftp convention in Cologne on sunday Gen Scher restated West Germany s insistence that talks begin soon on Short Range nuclear weapons the associated press reported. Disarmament cannot exclude any category of weapons Genscher said winning thunderous applause from the 400 delegates. Why fear disarmament negotiations when they would create More Security and certainly not less in Europe the foreign minister said West Germany is committed to nato and to Western defense efforts. But the a reported he added that just As defense capability is necessary for a lasting peace in Europe so is cooperation dialogue and if Bush makes no headway on the missile question he May fare better with a proposal expected during tuesday s sessions to withdraw As Many As 34,000 . Troops from Europe in what would be a dramatic response to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev s Dis armament initiatives. During Bush s visit to Italy on saturday White House officials stressed that such a move could come Only with the allies approval. Bush is also expected to push the nato leaders on easing economic sanctions against the soviet Union imposed after it sent troops to Afghanistan to support Kabul s communist government. The president was scheduled to meet with nato european commander Gen John Galvin and .nato ambassador Alton keel on monday morning. Contributing to anti report surf Waters j. King a niger in rom and
