European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday August 21,1989 news updates agreement on talks United nations a Argentina and Britain will hold talks next month in Madrid aimed at restoring diplomatic tics that were severed during the 1982 falklands War the two nation shave announced. The talks will be held oct. 17 18, according to a joint communique by British Ambas Slasor sir Crispin Tickell and the director general of Argentina s foreign ministry Lucio Garcia Del solar. The two men met in new York to discuss the timing Agenda and conditions for future discussions Between the two countries. The. Diplomatic level of the talks in Madrid was to be decided later. The communique said the Madrid meeting will cover British Argentine relations including the future of diplomatic and consular ties. In april 1982, Argentina invaded the islands it Calls the Mai Kinas where 2,000 people of Brit ish descent live. Britain which Calls the islands the falklands counterattacked and Defeated Argentina in a six week War that Cost almost 1,000 lives. New palme trial Stockholm Sweden a an appeals court has agreed Loa new trial for Chester Pelt Cresson who was convicted m the slaying of prime minister Olof palme the National to news Agency said.  a 42-year-old swede with a criminal record was sentenced to life in prison last month after his conviction. He denied shooting palme and appealed. The prosecution also appealed be cause it wanted to convict Pettersson of attempted murder in the wound ing of. Palme s widow Lisbeth who was slightly wounded in the attack i february 1986. Pettorsson was convicted of the lesser charge of endangering mrs. Palme s  new trial will begin sept. 12 in the Svca court of appeals the to news Agency said. Tentative settlements reached with some baby Bell strikers san Francisco a striking Telephone company workers in califor Nia and Nevada tentatively agreed Sun Day to return to work and a Union spokeswoman said they could be Back on the Job by the end of the week. The 42,700 workers covered by the tentative pact with Pacific Telesis arc among 200,000 members of the communications workers of America on strike at so called baby Bell regional phone companies in the West East and mid West meanwhile the strike at Bell Atlantic which covers six mid Atlantic states and the District of Columbia moved a step closer to agreement sunday when the company s Pennsylvania subsidiary settled with one of two striking unions. Strikes continued at Rynex serving new York and the Northeast and ame Hitech which covers five midwestern states. No talks were scheduled sunday in those two strikes. All four regional companies have continued service by replacing striking operators and technical and clerical workers with management personnel but there have been delays for installation and operator services. The tentative three year pact at san Francisco based Pacific Telesis was approved by negotiators at 1 15 . Sun Day 16 Days into the strike that affected 13.2 million customers at two pastel subsidiaries Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell Telephone co. Details of the agreement were to be disclosed later sunday. The Union walked out Over a company proposal that employees Bear a share of health care insurance premiums. Pay under the old contract ranges from about $228 a week for some operators to $650 for some skilled technicians according to Union figures. Striking workers arc allowed to return 10 work within five Days of a tentative settlement. Although the contract must still be approved by membership a ratification vote in t expected for several weeks. Pacific Bell serves California and parts of Nevada. Nevada Bell Telephone co. Has 745 workers one third of whom crossed picket lines. The strike against Pacific Telesis began at 11 59 . On aug. 4, when the last contract expired. In Philadelphia representatives of the International brotherhood of electrical workers reached a tentative agreement sunday with Bell of Pennsylvania. The subsidiary said the settlement was similar to an agreement reached thurs Day Between the Cwa and Bell Atlantic. But Ibex workers will stay off the Job until Bell of Pennsylvania settles local issues with the Cwa and until the Ibex and sister company new Jersey Bel reach agreement officials said. Pope makes emotional Appeal for immediate Beirut cease fire 214 arrested in gang sweep in los Angeles by he los Angeles times los Angeles a task Force that police Call operation Hammer swept through South los Angeles arresting 214 people in an assault on gang violence and drug dealing police said saturday. But gang violence continued to claim victims there and in other parts of the los Angeles area. A teen Ager was shot and killed and a 56-year-old woman and three men were wounded in separate drive by shootings on late Friday and Early saturday authorities said. A special detail of 225 los Angeles police officers began a two Day crack Down Friday evening arresting 133 suspected gang members on charges ranging from Selling drugs and drunk driving to failure to pay outstanding traffic tickets police said. Another 81 people who were not believed to belong to any gang were also arrested in the sweep. Operation Hammer which has been employed by police several times this year in different pans of the City is an Effort to notify gang members that police Are not going to 4lgo away it. Bruce Hagerty said. Police in operation Hammer which was to continue through late saturday night also recovered several ounces of cocaine marijuana and other drugs As Well As seven guns police said. Santiago de Compostella Spain a Pope John Paul ii his voice cracking with emotion called Sun Day for an immediate cease fire in Leb anon while he spoke at one of christianity s most revered pilgrimage Sites. In the name of god i Appeal to All those responsible to initiate an immedi ate cease fire and dialogue that will take into account All the legitimate and histor ical rights and allow All the people to live in peace and Mutual respect the Pope said at the end of a mass for thousands of Young people. It was the Pope s second Call in a week for peace in Lebanon. He said that despite his Appeal for an end to fighting Between christians and syrian backed moslem it seems that the intention is to destroy the City of Beirut and particularly the neighbor hoods where christians  sorted world youth Day in Santiago de compost la. Spanish City ii Cen has Pope John Paul ii blesses the crowd sat urday in Santiago de compost la. The Northwestern. Drawn millions of pilgrims in the 11 tunics since the Bones of the martyred apostle St. James were reportedly found  flags red and White with a Green Cedar tree in the Center were waved among the crowd of several Hun dred thousand youths gathered on mount Gozo for the morning mass Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said that the Pope was trying to do everything he can to bring peace to Leb anon and that the Vatican was Contact ing lebanese  was speculation the 69-Yeaw old pontiff would announce a trip to Beirut before returning to Rome on monday from his three Day trip to Spain. The Pope was scheduled to travel later sunday to Oviedo the capital of the mining Center of Asturias where he was to make a speech about Christian labor. On monday morning he was 19 travel to the Mountain shrine of the Virgin of Covadonga the Patron Saint of spam s War against the moslem in the 13th Cen Tury. A Vest gators trying to unravel firing of shots from West to East Germany Eschwege West Germany a West German police Are investigating a bizarre Border incident in which at least90 Small Caliper bullets were fired from West Germany into an East German Vil Lage. A police spokesman in the Small town of Eschwege near the East German Bor Der said sunday that 90 Bullet casings were found at a site on the Werra River where the attack apparently took place. But authorities had no clues to the identity or number of assailants in the incident that occurred Early Friday nor did they know what motivated the at tack. No one was injured in the incident but it has added another Strain in relations Between the two Ger Many. Shots from a Remote area on the West German Side of the Werra were fired Early Friday for More than an hour int two houses and a barn in the East Ger Man Border town of a Ahlhausen according to the East German adn news Agency. East Germany filed an official protest with the West German government on Friday afternoon calling the incident an extraordinarily provocative  the protest said the incident seriously endangered the life and health of the Region s residents As Well As members of the East German Border  however Eschwege policemen who spoke on condition of anonymity said that they were alerted to the incident too late to catch the perpetrators. The police sources said that if they had been alerted immediately they could have set up a Roadblock and intercepted the assailants As they turned from the Remote River site which is accessible by Only one Road. We Don t understand Why the East Ger Man Border guards did t activate an alarm one policeman said sunday. Then we could have intercepted the  police and Border guards have con firmed that two houses and a barn have numerous Bullet holes As a result of the attack. Adn said East German Leader Erich Honecker sent the regional communist party chief to Dahlhausen to console the two families whose Homes were Damn Fol. One of the residents Egbert Jost suggested to the news Agency that West Ger Man Border guards were negligent in not preventing the attack or the escape of those who carried it out he called the incident the worst Provo cation on the West German Border since the War  rein How Feige a 75-year-old pensioner whose infant granddaughter was in the Home when shots were fired called the at tack indescribably