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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday september 16,1989 pact Calls for monthly Salvador talks Mexico City a the Al Salva Doran government and leftist rebels r reached an agreement Friday calling for monthly talks mediated by the roman Catholic Church to end their nation s 10 year old civil War officials said. The agreement Calls for talks every month probably in Costa Rica to work out details of a cease fire of legalizing the Faramundo Marti National liberation front guerrillas As a political party and of integrating the fighters Back into civilian life. Catholic Church leaders will act As mediators during the talks which will also be monitored by International observers unless both sides agree that a specific meeting should be private sources close to the negotiations said. Both of these Points were concessions made by president Alfredo Cristiani s  rightist government. We worked until one o clock this morning. Everything went very Well. The text will be released today Jose Baclar do Torre a businessman and one of the five members of the salvadoran govern ment delegation said Friday. Torre said both sides were holding a Brief morning meeting to Exchange More views and Settle details before issuing the joint statement. Ana Guadalupe Martinez a guerrilla Leader and member of the leftist delegation confirmed that both sides agreed to hold the talks monthly. Asked if that meant rebel demands had prevailed she replied i believe so because they were the Correct  Torre and Martinez made their com ments in separate interviews. The Catholic auxiliary Bishop of Al Salvador. Gregorio Rosa Chavez de scribed the mood at the discussions As  speaking at a news conference thurs Day nigh tie said the main issues of the10-Point document were the cease fire and bringing the rebels into salvadoran political life. The current round of talks began wednesday and were the first in two years Between the guerrilla group and the government. The talks also were the first for the government of Cristiani who took office june 1. Despite a unilateral truce declared by the guerrillas fighting continued thurs Day in Al Salvador. Army spokesmen in san Salvador said four rebels were killed and two guerrillas and one Soldier were wounded. He also said a helicopter was damaged and two buses were torched. Clandestine rebel radio in Al Salvador said the army had provoked clashes by moving into guerrilla held territory in the North and cast. The civil War has claimed 70,000 lives. News briefs North rejects proposal for korean Commonwealth Seoul South Korea a communist North Korea has rejected a South korean proposal to create a single korean Commonwealth Asan interim measure to unify the rival korean states officials said Friday. The Rodfong Shimun the newspaper of North Korea s ruling workers party rejected the new South korean plan As perpetuating the division of the Peninsula officials at South Korea s National unification Board said. South korean president Roh Tae woo on monday announced the proposal which Calls for a single Commonwealth As an interim measure in merging the nations. To create a Commonwealth both Korea would have to adopt a single Constitution under which a free election would be held to form a unified korean state Roh said. While rejecting Ron s proposal the North korean newspaper repeated the North s Long stand ing formula to unify the Peninsula under a con federation that would keep the two Side conflicting political and economic systems in tact the officials said. The paper also demanded that the 43,000 . Troops stationed in South Korea under Mutual defense treaty be withdrawn before creation of a single korean state officials said. Spanish civil War heroine la ,1 in Hospital Madrid Spain a Dolores Iba Ruri the communist Leader who became a legend during the Spanish civil War was seriously ill in a Madrid Hospital Friday one Day after being admitted for treatment of pneumonia doctors said. Iba Ruri 93, checked into Ramon y Cajal hos Pital on thursday after complaining of serious breathing problems. Doctors said Friday that her condition had improved slightly overnight but remained serious because of her advanced age and chronic blood circulation problems. Iba Ruri better known by her pen name la Pas Onaria was one of the Spanish communist party s founders in 1920 and is currently the party s honorary president. During the 1937 rebel siege of Madrid her defiant phrase no pasaran or they shall not pass became the Battle cry of loyalist Republican forces. Kohl reported Well after prostate surgery Bonn West Germany a Chancellor Helmut Kohl was operated on Friday for a prostate problem the government s chief spokesman said. Kohl was admitted to the urology clinic m Mainz about 30 Miles West of Frankfurt lat thursday and is doing Well following the sur Gery spokesman Hans Klein said. The spokesman announced on sept. 4 that Kohl would be operated on for a not particularly serious prostate problem but not until after the sept. 10-13 National conference in Bremen of his conservative Christian democratic Union. Hungary won t sacrifice Reform for East bloc Unity official says Budapest Hungary a Hungary s commit ment to Reform is More important than an appearance of East bloc Unity Hungary s Deputy foreign minister said in interviews published Friday. The drive toward Reform sparked the hungarian government s decision to allow thousands of East Ger mans unfettered passage to the West through Hungary Deputy foreign minister Laszlo Kovacs said. Kovacs told the state run Mai news Agency and the newspaper Magyar Hirlan that the government would not sacrifice measures held to be important by us in the Light of a possible disagreement by one of our Al  comments referred to East Germany s dismay Over Hungary s decision to let More than 13,000 East germans leave for West Germany. Combined with those who have escaped illegally across Hungary s newly opened Border with Austria the number of East germans fleeing their rigid communist state has reached about 24,000 since May. Watt German Border officials said More than 500 new refugees arrived thursday night and Friday morn ing. The East germans Are automatically granted citizenship in West Germany. They Are being housed inc amps and receiving assistance with housing and jobs. Magvar Hirlan also reported Friday that dozens of romanians and Czechoslovakia is have been caught each night trying to slip across Hungary s Border with Austria. Austrian Border police were quoted As saying that at least equal numbers make it across each night  Border police said 40 romanians and five Czechoslovakia is arrived before Dawn on Friday. The East German government has accused Hungary of violating a 20-year-old agreement to prevent unauthorized departures of East bloc citizens for the West and has called the exodus an organized provocation by West Germany with Hungary s collusion. On Friday an East German Leader rejected Calls by West Germany for it to adopt reforms similar to Hun Gary and the soviet Union in a bid to halt citizens from wanting to leave the country. The Reform proposals of those people contain Only one Point they want the Type of Reform that docs away with socialism Central committee member Gunter Mil tag wrote in the communist party daily newspaper cues deutschland. Thanks a lot for that. It just won t be that  Mittag also accused West Germany of sparking the exodus with promises enticements and also with psychological  he called on East germans to do everything possible to strengthen the nation of 16.6 million people. The Reform minded communist government in Hungary opened its Border to Austria at Midnight Sun Day. Reagan discharged from Hospital Rochester Minn. A former president Reagan left the Hospital for his Home in los Angeles on Friday tipping his hat to Well wishers and revealing a shaved spot on his head where Mayo clinic physicians performed Skull surgery a week ago. Reagan 78, and his wife Nancy boarded a privately owned dc-9 Jet which took off shortly after 10 . About 100 people Many of them travellers at the Rochester Airport gathered As the Rochester Lourdes High school marching band played while Reagan said goodbye to Mayo clinic officials. Reagan spokesman Mark Weinberg said thursday that the reagans would go directly to their Home in los Angeles after the flight. Weinberg also said thursday that doctors were completely satisfied with Reagan s recovery. The former president had been recuperating at St. Marys Hospital since doctors on sept. 8 drained fluid that had built up on his brain after he was thrown from a horse on july 4.on thursday Reagan met with labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole who was in the state to give a speech and soviet parliament member Boris Yeltsin. The 58-year-old Yeltsin was in Minneapolis for a private dinner wednesday with business leaders. He said he squeezed the Reagan visit into his we Klong tour of the United states simply As a sign of respect for him and an Opportunity to wish him a rapid recovery manager from Page 1 Byrd said his client can t be reached for comment because he is travelling. Stuttgart Community officials also had Little to say about the  formal complaint was lodged it was acted upon and As far As we re concerned it s been resolved spokeswoman capt. Re acc Mongo said. Lee s report said that in september 1987, Byrd began proposing to the Captain who worked As a Liaison official Between the club system and a local military command. Continually rejecting his offers she filed sexual harassment charges with the Stuttgart equal Opportunity office on feb. 19, 1988, and was assigned to a new Job four Days later without Byrd s knowledge. Fiore argued that Byrd s actions weren t sexual harassment because the marriage proposals were Honor Able and sincere and totally devoid of any direct or indirect sexual  unless the military intends to establish a Rule that smitten suitors Are Only entitled to propose mama once the penalty in this Cass could act As a deterrent to a revered institution of our society Fiore argued. Allen suspended Byrd anyway and it. Gen. Ronald l. Watts then Vii corps commander backed the Deci Sion when Byrd filed a grievance. When the Case reached the review Agency Lee deter mined that management has completely jailed to show any sexual nature in the relationship Between Byrd and the Captain. The Captain now a major said she is still Friendly with Byrd and his Contact with her had no sexual overtones according to the report. Lee also wrote that the Community had offered no evidence that Byrd based any employment decision about the Captain on her rejection of him. Even Byrd s supervisory authority Over the Captain was unclear Lee reported  
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