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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes news briefs ballistic missile launched by Israel soviets report Moscow a the soviet Union reported that Israel launched a ballistic missile with an 800-mile Range into the Mediterranean sea Between Libya and Greece on thursday. Israeli officials neither confirmed nor denied the launch. We know nothing about this thing an offi Cial or the israeli army said. The soviet news Agency Tass quoting data from the ministry of defense of the .s.r.," said the missile was launched from the Jerusa Lem area and landed 250 Miles North of Benghazi Libya. That area is in Mediterranean Waters near Greece. Mother Teresa suffers Chest pains High fever Calcutta India a Mother Teresa had Chest pains and developed a High fever thursday a week after she suffered a heart at tack her doctors said. Or. . Ashim chief cardiologist at Wood lands nursing Home said the 79-year-old roman Catholic nun has had sort of a second heart  Mother Teresa who has devoted her life to helping the poor was admitted to the nursing Home on sept. 5. Her condition is serious Ashim said. She suffered Chest pains during the night which required intensive measures to re Lieve. These measures arc  he said doctors were constantly monitoring her heartbeat but refused to say what Steps had been taken. Mother Teresa is tired and rest ing he said. House panel oks raising benefits for disabled vets Washington a a House veterans affairs subcommittee voted wednesday to approve a 4.9 percent Cost of living increase in the benefits paid to 2.2 million veterans with serv ice connected disabilities or to their survivors. The full committee was expected to act soon on the legislation which would raise expenditures for fiscal 1990 to $9.34 billion instead of $8.9 billion under the current schedule Accord ing to committee estimates. The increase would become effective dec. 1. The Bill approved by the subcommittee on compensation pensions and insurance also raises the special monthly payment for loss or loss of use of certain organs or portions of the body from $63 a month to $66 a month. Nuclear weapons test to determine survivability Las vegas a a nuclear weapons test designed to determine the survivability of Amer Ica s space and military hardware was con ducted thursday morning in a Tunnel at the Nevada test site the Energy department said. It was a Small test and it was very Success Ful Doe spokeswoman Karen Randolph said. The weapons effects test code named Disko Elm was carried out at 8 . In a Tunnel 860 feet under Rainier Mesa about 90 Miles North West of Las vegas. Friday september 15,1989 Senate Falls 1 vote shy of overriding fax veto Washington a the Senate failed by single vote wednesday to override president Bush s veto of congressional restrictions on co production with Japan of the fax Jet fighter. The 66-34 vote one vote Short of the required two thirds majority came after a debate in which both the White House and Congress were accused of trying to monopolize the Power to regulate the nation s International Trade. In the debate Bush supporters said the legislation represented a serious erosion of the Powers of the presidency and would Force renegotiation of the terms of the fax production contract Between the two nations. The vote Means Japan can go ahead with the fighter an updated version of the f-16 produced by general dynamics corp., under the Deal negotiated with the Bush administration. Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas pleaded with colleagues not to aggravate the president and to sustain Bush s veto of legislation Dole called meddling micromanage Cmunt and not  Senate Robert c. Byrd d-w.va., the principal sponsor of the fax Resolution told the Senate that the fax Resolution is top important to have a turf Battle Over declaring that it improves the terms of the Deal for the United states. Senators seeking to overturn the veto said it rep resented a White House Power grab in the International Trade Arena and a direct threat to the constitutional Power of Congress to regulate Trade. Eagleburger cautions allies to avoid bankrolling soviets Washington a Deputy Secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger urged the nato allies wednes Day night to avoid bankrolling the soviet Union until president Mikhail Gorbachev s reforms become permanent. In a major foreign policy speech Eagle Burger also warned against extending Trade and arms control con Cessions to Moscow without the kind of systematic reforms which alone can make for a stable and confident relationship Between East and  Eagle Burger said Gorbachev is no anti communist and he intends to make the soviet Union As Strong As he possibly  and yet the . Official said the political and eco nomic reforms Gorbachev is undertaking offer the first realistic Hope for a transformation in the nature of the soviet system and for a qualitative improvement in East West  Eagle Burger spoke at Georgetown University in a lecture me moralizing a former american Diplomat Samuel bar Ger. Answering questions afterwards the Deputy Secretary of state also sketched a gloomy picture of Cambodia s future. He said the United Stales does not have it within it Power to determine the future government and that All rival factions must be represented. This would appear to include the Khmer Rouge which was accused of murdering some i million cambodians while ruling the South asian country. A peace conference in Paris collapsed in late August. Predicted optimistically that the new government in South Africa May begin dismantling the system of racial segregation known As apartheid. The chances for change Over the next few months arc substantial Eagleburger said. In his speech Eagle Burger concentrated on the future of the Western Alliance and its stance toward the soviet Union under Gorbachev. He has made hopeful pronouncements on arms reductions and has slowed the overseas adventurism which did so much to galvanize Western Solidarity in the Early 1980s," Eagleburger said. And yet he continued herein lies a danger to Western interests that with the perception growing among the Western Public that the soviet threat has diminished there will be a tendency among the Mem Ber states of the nato Alliance to compete in expand ing their relationships with the  already Eagle Burger said without offering any specifics some Western nations Are showing tendencies toward unilateralism in Trade  he added ominously obviously it is in the euro peans interest As much if not Nwe than our own to avoid bankrolling merely cosmetic soviet reforms or reach arms control agreements which undermine nato s ability to deter  rampage from Page 1 shooting people along the Way. He eventually ended up in a pressroom in an Annex area which is where he killed himself Dotson said. I thought it was firecrackers going off said Bud Graser a Pressman. When 1 saw what it was i turned around and told everybody to get out of  de Green a supervisor in the Plant s etching room said he heard at least 20 shots. I seen two victims and then i got out Green said. Dotson described  47, As a disgruntled employee of Standard gravure which prints newspaper inserts and sunday newspaper supplements. He was on permanent disability although the nature of his disability was not immediately known. Company president Michael Shea could not immediately be reached for comment. A police officer who knew was Backer told Dotson that the Man had been argumentative and confrontational for a number of  this Guy s been talking about this for a year said Joe White a Standard gravure employee. Refugee from Page 1 pact allies restricting travel to the West by East bloc citizens to reflect its new commitment to the rights of refugees. But Hungary will Only allow citizens from other East bloc nations to Cross its Border with Austria if it deter mines they Are refugees under . Guidelines Somo Gyi said. The official Mai news Agency reported a second Day of talks in East Berlin Between a senior hungarian communist party official Maria Ort nos and the East German politburo member in charge of ideology Kurt Hagar. Mai described the talks As Friendly and open but made Clear that the two Warsaw pact allies remain far apart Over Hungary s role in the exodus. In Berlin the East German communist party daily a cuts deutschland called the meeting Businesslike and  it also made no critical remarks about the hungarian government for the first time since the Refu gee wave began suggesting some mending of the rift created by the affair. Somogyi insisted wednesday that the East germans were not refugees and they did not request Asylum As refugees because West Germany Grants citizenship on request to any East germans. In West Germany officials wednesday said refugee Camps were emptying quickly As thousands left to join West German relatives and look for jobs. East Germany has bitterly accused its Warsaw pact ally of breaking an agreement and undermining it sovereignty by allowing East germans to flee to the West. Mai carried a terse note wednesday night from the foreign ministry promising to extensively Contra dict accusations contained in a formal protest by the East German government. The rebuttal would come soon the ministry said without elaboration. Hungary s role illustrates the dramatic change sweeping Eastern Europe especially in Poland and Hungary. Poland is the first Warsaw pact nation to install a government led by non communists while Hungary s reformist communist leadership has prom ised free elections by june. A polish foreign ministry spokesman thursday confirmed there were East German refugees holed up in the West German embassy in Warsaw Poland. About so East germans were in the embassy polish television reported. The Vatican newspaper thursday praised Hungary for permitting the exodus and lauded its recently introduced political and social reforms in Hungary  
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