European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes Friday september 8.1989 Aoun criticizes . For withdrawing diplomats Beirut Lebanon a syrian and Chris Tian forces battled with artillery for five hours Early thursday and Christian Leader Gen. Michel Aoun criticized the United states for with drawing its diplomats accusing it of Black propaganda against him. He appealed to americans to support All the lebanese moslem and christians in our War of liberation against Syria s 40,000 troops in Leb anon. Police said two people were killed and seven wounded in the predawn shelling which ended a we Klong Lull in the 6-Monlh-ofd confrontation Between Aoun s forces and an Alliance of syrian and druse militia fighters. S. African Leader says voters Back his reforms Johannesburg South Africa a acting president . De Klerk thursday said the results of National elections show that mos White voters support his plan to Grant some political rights to Blacks despite his party s worst showing in 41 years. Black activists said at least 25 people were killed wednesday in clashes with police during elections from which Blacks were excluded. The governing National party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority in the ballot ing losing nearly a Quarter of its scats in the dominant while chamber to anti apartheid and hard line segregationist parties. With just two of 166 election districts undecided it appeared the nationalists would retain at least 93 of their previous 123 scats in parliament. House passed defense Bill totally unacceptable to Bush Baltimore a president Bush denounced a House passed defense Bill As totally unacceptable to the commander in chief on thursday and accused the chamber of holding the defense budget hostage to $20 billion in unneeded  Bush in a speech to the american legion that mixed defense and anti drug themes also praised wednesday s decision by colombian president Virgi Lio Barco to extradite a major drug figure to the United states. The extradition of Eduardo Martinez Romero to face . Drug Money laundering charges sends a Strong signal of the courage and determination of president Barco and the colombian government to Deal with the Scourge which drugs arc inflicting on All of us Bush said. Saying remember Pearl  Bush also poke fun at his 1988 Campaign Gaffe to the same group one year ago confusing Pearl Harbor Day. Today surprisingly is sept. 7. Can you believe it and i m determined not to repeat the mistake i made exactly one year ago when 1 referred to this As Pearl Harbor  a year ago. Bush a world War ii combat Veteran told the american legion convention in Louisville by i wonder How Many americans remember that today is Pearl Harbor  the japanese air attack on the . Naval base in Hawaii occurred dec. 7, 1941. The president moving from drugs to defense said americans deserve Protection from both the fear of War abroad and the fear of drugs and crime at  but he claimed that the National defense would be threatened by the House version of a defense spending Bill for the fiscal year that begins oct. 1. A House Senate conference committee begins work on a com Promise version Friday. While suggesting that he could live with the Senate passed Bill which preserves most of the administration s programs Bush declared the House version is totally unacceptable to the commander in chief of the United states armed  congressional negotiators must reconcile rival ver Sions of the legislation to authorize $295 billion in Pentagon spending and $10 billion for defense pro Grams in the Energy department. The House refused to fully fund either of the two types of Mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles Bush wants. It chopped in half to $502 million from $1.1 billion. Bush s request for the rail based multiple War head my and it deleted All funds for the single War head Midge than. The House Bill contains unneeded programs Cost ing nearly $20 billion from 1990 to 1994, holding our defense budget hostage to projects that will strip Money from programs crucial to strategic modernization Bush said. Fellow veterans real peace is not an Accident so Letus modernize our strategic forces and thus encourage arms control Bush said. The president a longtime american legion Mem Ber wore a Cap from his Home Post Post 77 i Houston at the beginning and end of his appear Ance although removing it for the speech. On drugs Bush said his $7.9 billion anti drug pack age unveiled in a speech to the nation tuesday will require the bravery and sacrifice that americans have shown before and must  As veterans you know How Battles Are often fought House by House Block by Block. Well Well win this Battle the same Way. We re going to win win it Kidby kid neighbourhood by neighbourhood he said. Greece from Page 1 difficult to reconcile interests within their two alliances. . Ambassador Stephen j. Ledogar said in an interview wednesday that some Tough problems have so far blocked a nato Compromise on verification proposals. He mentioned specifically difference Between the United states and Canada which arc pushing for maximum verification and european nations that arc concerned this would mean almost con slant visits by military inspectors fro the soviet bloc. But both Ledogar and a diploma from another nato nation expressed Confidence that the verification proposals would be ready during the current round of  ambassador olog a. Grinovsky in an interview with West Germany s cd television station announced Warsaw pact intentions of introducing sweeping verification proposals he billed As bolder than anything nato could  offers Western diplomats said had been made during earlier closed door negotiations Grinovsky said the soviet Union would even be prepared to countenance the permanent stationing of nato officers on its territory to Check it compliance with eventual accords to Cut Europe s non nuclear  diplomats at the talks have Dis missed president Bush s goal of agreement by year s end As too optimistic. But Ledogar said he thought i realistic to aim for some agreements by next  also told West German television that 1990 was a realistic targe for preliminary agreement after what he called the unique breakthrough achieved in the first two rounds of talks. Bush has proposed limiting the unite states and the soviet Union to no More than 275,000 troops outside their Bor Ders in Europe. The West wants no More than 20,000tanks, 16,500 artillery pieces and 28,000 armoured troop carriers for each  the sensitive Issue of aircraft Iden tired by both East and West As the big Gest stumbling Block of the talks nato proposes that East and West each be limited to no More than 5,700 combat air Craft and 1,900 combat  one country could have More than 3,420 combat aircraft and 1,140 combat helicopters. The Warsaw pact in March propose to reduce six kinds of weapons including aircraft by 10 to 15 percent by 1994,cutting by a further 25 percent by 1997 and moving to purely defensive forces bythe year 2000. Navy from Page 1 substantive proof that Hartwig was homosexual and there is no mention of that in the  it is the conclusion of this investigation that the tragic explosion was caused by a wrongful and intentional act mos probably the insertion of a detonating device Milligan said. Gunner s mate2nd class Clayton Hartwig was the most Likely person to have introduced that  Milligan recommended that the Iowa guns resume Normal firing activities after being re certified. In a lengthy briefing supplemented by videotapes Milligan said the sailors were killed when a fireball measuring 2,500to 3,000 degrees shot out of the gun. He said the propellant in the Iowa Magazine on the Day of the explosion was stable and Safe. It was not the Caus of this  Milligan said investigators also found deficiencies in procedures aboard the ship adding that routine pref ire Brief Ings were poorly attended and poorly  but he said no accidental cause could be found and a criminal investigation was launched when Hartwig s sister Kathy Kubicina of Cincinnati disclose the existence of a $100,000 accidental death and dismemberment policy on he brother s life naming Petty officer Ken Dall Truitt As a beneficiary. Given the information on the insurance policy service records and personal effects investigators immediately focused on train and Hartwig Milligan said.  Navy which released its 1,100-Page report at the Pentagon said its investigation could not pinpoint a precise reason for the blast Given that the personnel most knowledgeable of action Sand intentions were those Tio lost their  however the Navy said the explosion was most probably caused by an intentional act. The weight of evidence indicates that some Type of detonation device was deliberately placed betwee the powder bags being rammed into the Breech of the Center gun. The most Likely person with the a Cess knowledge and possible motivation to accomplish this act has been identified As gunner s mate 2nd class Clayton m. Hartwig us the Center gun captaining Turret two at the time of the explosion the Navy said. The Center gun Turret exploded during a gunnery exercise about 330 mile Northeast of puerto Rico. The weapons aboard the world War in Era battleship can fire 2,700-Pound shells a distance of 23  projectile is propelled by explosives loaded into the gun barrel contained in silk bags. The gun usually re quires up to six bags each containing about 100 pounds of Black Gunpowder. Navy officials acknowledged that the report s conclusions about Hartwig were based on circumstantial evidence. But they contend that this evidence combined with an exhaustive Fri and naval investigative service study into the blast supports their theories. Milligan cited in his Section of the re port an Fri analysis of Hartwig that said Clayton Hartwig died As a result of his own actions staging his death in such a fashion that he hoped it would appear to be an  the report said investigators found that Hartwig had experimented with cd Plosive devices and detonators had frequently talked about dying and had a fascination with ship  said Han wig had recently had a falling out with an extremely close Friend and that on the night before the explosion his attempts at entering into close relationship with another Sailor had been rejected Colombia from Page 1 saying he was  no Lime have i had links to the my Dullin Cartel and 1 Don t know any fits members he said. In the emergency measures imposed by Barco was a re institution of the extradition agreement with the United state that had been thrown out by the colom Bian supreme court in 1987.attorney general Dick Thornburgh said in a statement late wednesday applaud the extraordinary courage and resolve of president Virgilio Barco an the government of Colombia in their efforts to restore the Rule flaw to  Martinez 36, was indicted in Marchin Atlanta As a result of an investigation code named operation Polar Cap that Federal officials said revealed an opera Tion that laundered billions of dollars i cocaine profits through . And foreign Banks. Charges were brought against 127people and two latin american Banks As a result of that investigation