European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes wednesday May 31,1989 Summit ends with pledge for peace from Page 1 the Era of containment the . Policy of checking political and territorial expansion by the soviets. The Short Range missile Issue had created internal political problems in West Germany s coalition government. The minority coalition partner the free democratic party had been pressuring Kohl to Campaign for carry negotiations with the soviets to eliminate the missiles. But Kohl s foreign minister. Hans Dietrich Gunsch or. A free Democrat did not mention the missiles when is ing up the Summit accomplishments tuesday. Instead Genscher praised Bush s Call for a Quick agreement on conventional arms. The dynamics of this proposal arc so great that nobody can hold them Back Genscher said. The West German delegation was As Quick As others to proclaim its enthusiasm for the Summit agreements. Kohl said the Summit has provided a historic Chance for disarmament of conventional weapons and praised the shining cooperation that enabled the allies to Complete their work. Kohl said the foreign ministers Compromise did not represent a defeat for any country. The ability to Compromise is part of Man s existence he said. Still. Kohl could t resist poking fun at British prime minister Margaret Thatcher his main rival in the dispute. Margaret Thatcher stood up for her interests in her temperamental Way Kohl said. We do some times have differences of opinion. We have different temperaments. And she s a woman and i m  in an interview with the West German television net work Adf Kohl also implied that the missile agreement left room for a future Banning of the weapons. None of us knows what will be in the Distant future Kohl said when asked if negotiating removal of news briefs 1,000 in Beijing protest unionists reported arrests Beijing a about 1,000 students and workers rallied outside police Headquarters tuesday to protest the reported arrests of cad Cosof a new Independent Union aligned with the student pro democracy movement. A chinese source said an important communist party Central committee meeting schedule this week was postponed because conservatives did not have enough backing for their purge of moderate leaders. Those believed to be targets of the conserva Tives include she Reform minded communist party Leader Zhao Ziyang who reportedly was stripped of Power last week by Premier i Peng. Students occupying Central Tiana men Square continued to snub i and his supporters unveiling to the cheers of tens of thousands a 33 foot replica of the statue of  goddess of democracy immediately Drew an angry response from Beijing authorities. They ordered the statue removed immediately. Khomeini reportedly making Good Progress Nicosia Cyprus a Tehran radio said monday that iranian Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is making satisfactory Progress after undergoing surgery to Stop bleeding in the digestive system. Iranian television showed the 86-year-old shiite moslem patriarch being visited by relatives at a hos Pital. The surgery was performed last tuesday. The television announcer said Khomeini suffered a slight heart complication on saturday. The broadcaster gave no details but said the condition was relieved on sunday. No injuries reported after quake in Mexico Mexico City up an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale Shook South Eastern Mexico and the capital tuesday but there were no reports of injuries or damage a researcher at a Scimo logical Institute said. David Novelo a seismological researcher at the Institute of geophysics of the National autonomous University of Mexico said the temblor hit Mexico at 7 50 . The weapons was a dead  her pan Thatcher said she was very very satisfied with the missile Compromise. As for the West germans she said it is All written there very firmly indeed and wriggle As they May that is what they have All signed up for in his Bonn news conference Baker said the Alliance has agreed to delay looking at modernization of the Lance missile until 1992. West German officials did not want a decision on upgrading the Short Range mis Siles until after the december 1990 National elections. Baker said the Alliance would take a look at the world situation in 1992 and then decide if it needed to upgrade the missiles. The decision will depend upon How close the East has moved toward the values of the West he  missile question was one of several themes addressed in nato s comprehensive concept a document approved at the Summit that outlines the Alliance s goals on conventional and nuclear arms policies. It states that a minimum amount of nuclear weapons is necessary in Europe since the removal of All nuclear weapons from Europe would critically undermine deter rence strategy and impair the Security of the  document said soviet strategic nuclear arms pose a major threat to the whole of the Alliance and deep cuts in these systems remain a priority for the , the document praised the willingness of the soviet Union to reduce its forces and adjust them toward a defensive posture and said the allies await the implementation of these measures. This would be a step in the direction of redressing the imbalance in Force Levels existing in Europe and toward reducing the Warsaw pact capability for sur prise attack the document  Summit leaders including Thatcher said they questioned whether the Alliance could achieve Bush s goal of a conventional arms agreement within six to 12 months. Given the colossal amount of proposals on the negotiating table i think it s quite optimistic. I think it s very optimistic Thatcher  also expressed concern about which air Craft would be included in the arms negotiations say ing that both the British and the French did not want to Sec dual capable aircraft those that carry both nuclear or conventional weapons included in the negotiations. Summit leaders also approved a political declaration outlining the Alliance s View of the Long term prospects for East West  vision of a just humane and democratic world has always underpinned the policies of this Alliance the statement said. The changes that Are now taking place arc bringing us closer to the realization of this  the communique said the Alliance wants to establish a new pattern of East West relations replacing ideological and military confrontation with cooperation Trust and peaceful Competition in which human rights and political Freedom Are guaranteed. Finally the allies said attainment of lasting peace will require that the unnatural division of Europe and particularly of Germany be  want to move beyond the postwar period. Based on today s momentum of increased cooperation and tomorrow s common challenges we seek to shape a new political order of peace in  his Toast at tuesday night s dinner with Kohl in Bonn Bush said if Hope exists for ending the Divi Sion of Europe it is because we have for 40 years been willing to defend our own  United states and its allies share a vision of a less militarized Europe where great armies no longer face each other across barbed wire and Concrete Walls the presi Dent said. That is Why i put Forward my conventional arms control initiative yesterday. We seek a Europe without barriers United by free markets and  contributing to this report stall Witters Joseph own in annuls Waed Reavis in Bonn Florida s Claude Pepper Dies of stomach ailment Washington a rep. Claude Denson Pep per whose political Odyssey look him from the Senate to the House spanned 53 years and 10 presidents and made him the unrivalled Champion of America s senior citizens died tuesday. He was 88, and the oldest member of Congress. Pepper had been hospitalized since april 6, suffer ing from an undisclosed stomach ailment. He died at Walter Reed army Hospital where he returned a month ago after an interim stay at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Congressional and medical sources who asked not to be named confirmed his death. The Florida Democrat was elected to the Senate in 1936 As a Liberal crusader for Franklin Roosevelt s new Deal. He promptly made his Mark As an architect of some of the nation s most enduring safety net programs including social Security the minimum wage and medical assistance for the elderly and for handicapped children. He remained in the Senate for 14 years. Then after an interlude practising Law and teaching following a bitter re election defeat he began a House career that would include 14 terms. He was still going Strong when he barnstormer the nation last year in an Effort to fend off Reagan budget cuts and elect to the White House a fellow Liberal Michael Dukakis who was All of 3 years old when Pepper first came to Congress. Pepper did t have to Campaign to win his most recent term in the House. No one ran against him after he won with 74 percent of the vote in 1986. Born in 1900 in Rural Alabama Pepper was the pre eminent eyewitness to America s turbulent journey through the 20lh Century. He was 5 years old in 1905 when he first saw an automobile. He witnessed the passing of Halley s Comet in 1910, and again in 1986. He met Orville Wright and greeted the Apollo 11 Crew on their return to Earth. He stared Adolf Hitler Down in a Nurnberg Beer Hall sized up Josef Stalin at the Kremlin and earned Winston Churchill s undying affection for casting the Only vote in the Senate for the land lease act the first time around. Among several leadership posts Over the years he was most recently chairman of the rules committee a position he took because of its influence in deciding what Bills would go to the floor affecting the elderly and poor. Pepper also gained prominence As chairman of the House select committee on aging an advisory forum that he unabashedly used to draw Public attention to the problems of old people. He was instrumental in the passage of the medicare catastrophic coverage act of 1988. One of Pepper s proudest achievements was the 1978 Law that he wrote abolishing mandatory retire ment in the Federal government and raising the retire ment age generally from 65 to 70 in the private sector. His own advice to the older set was to keep on doing what you re doing but maybe at a slower Pace. In recent years Pepper pushed hard for legislation to provide Federal Money for Long term Home health care but colleagues Defeated the Pepper Bill last june finding a procedural Way to do it so As to spare his feelings As much As possible. In his final years he dug in his heels against cutting social Security benefits to elderly retired workers half a Century after campaigning for establishment of the retirement program. At 80, he began a syndicated advice to Trie elderly newspaper column. Though he had been in the House for nearly four decades he was still called senator by colleagues in Congress out of respect for his first office on Capitol Hill. His Senate career ended in 1950 after a Campaign that saw him branded As red Pepper playing on claims during the communist scare of the Era that he was soft on the soviet Union. A fellow Democrat George Smathers took his place. Pepper went Back to his Law practice but then was elected to the House from the Miami District in 1962. He was never Defeated again largely because of his dogged attention to retirees in a City heavily populated by them. Although he was a millionaire from investments and property holdings. Pepper always scoffed at the thought of fading away in a rocking chair. He was born on sept. 8, 1900, on a farm near Dudleyville ala., and grew up poor. He put himself through the University of Alabama and Harvard Law school toting cafeteria trays and emptying Coal ashes in a Power Plant