European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                West Point s new Captain of Cadet corps Page 13 the St ars and stripes authorized unofficial publication for the us armed forces � Gabd a Norrina vol. 48. No. 162 tuesday september 26. 1989 a d., sum., 8693 a . Will slash chemical Arsenal if soviets follow suit Bush says United nations a president Bush challenging the soviet Union to rid the Earth of this Scourge of chemical weapons said monday thai the United states will destroy More than 80 percent of its stockpiles if Moscow reduces its arsenals to an equal level. The world has lived too Long in a Shadow och Chi Cal warfare Bush told the . General Assembly seeking to Spur a 40-na Tion treaty conference aimed at Banning the weapons entirely. While the chemical weapons plan was the Centrepiece of his re Marks Bush also paid tribute to the soviet Union for removing a number of obstacles on treaties reducing Long Range nuclear weapons As Well As troops and tanks in Europe. Bush took note of the array of agreements reached during a weekend of talks Between Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and soviet foreign minister Edu Ard a. She Varnad Cas Well As a decision to hold a Summit meeting with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev by Early next summer. Each of these achievements is important in its own right but they arc More important still As signs of a new attitude thai prevails Between the . And .s.r.," he said. Serious differences remain we know that but the willingness to Deal constructively and candidly with those differences is news that we and. Indeed the world must  let us act together beginning today to rid the Earth of this  president Bush Bush s nationally televised speech marked his first to the . General Assembly As president. Bush who served As . Ambassador in the Early 1970s, told his audience it was a Homecoming for him and his wife Barbara. His speech was interrupted twice by applause once when he called for the elimination of chemical weapons and again when he touched on the Progress of the weekend superpower talks. Shevardnadze who was scheduled to address the world body tuesday called Bush s speech a constructive statement in the spirit of the times in the spirit of the tasks that we Are facing thai the us j s facing Ancin a broader context  he said the soviet Union has a positive View of the chemical weapons proposals. In his remarks. Bush said the world is witnessing a Rise of Freedom and cited advances in Hungary Poland. Latin America and Africa. Make no mistake. Nothing can stand in the Way of Freedom s  the president said. Today we Are witnessing an ideological collapse the demise of the totalitarian idea of the omniscient All powerful  yet he cautioned we have not entered an Era of perpetual  i said regimes throughout the world arc emerging armed with old and in appealable see Arsenal on Back Page chemical weapons at or Germany s use of Mustard Gas it world War to the 1 925 Geneva conference issued an International convention Banning the use in War of asphyxiating poisonous or other gases arid of bacteriological methods of warfare.". Types of weapons Mustard Gas relatively easy to produce Mustard Gas causes skin bums and blistering. Temporary blindness and scarring of lung tissue. Lethal in. Large concentrations Mustard Gas seriously injures four to five Parsons for each one that it kills. Nerve agents developed during research on insecticides nerve Gas actually Vapours or liquid impairs the body s ability to regulate muscle action causing death . Colourless and odourless these chemicals am inhaled or absorbed through the skin and Kwh almost immediately even in minute Quant tree. Biological weapons these include Lular emla q fever anthrax Yerow rain a lungs produced toxin Trylch Otherene Myc toxin and other bacterial viral or fungal agents. Biological weapons cause a variety of symptoms prior to Tiung their victims. 7tn/ul i. A us Al a if i. Rob a a big pm l \ Foo la to i 4\ifp- lev Tif a final r1-. ". \ i in i m who hat chemical weapon at least 22 nations have the eap Awty of producing chemical weapons according to the . Defense department. Among the countries be teed to have chemical weapons stockpots Are Iran. Iraq. Libya Syria and Egypt As Well As the soviet Union and the United states. Where they have been used in recent years chemical weapons have reportedly been used by Iraq against iranian troop and kurdish rebels by the soviet Union against moslem guerrillas in Afghanistan and by Angola against rebel in the 1 970s, chemical weapons were used by Vietnam against cambodian resistance forces and by Vietnam and Laos against hmong tribesmen. In quo Tribune Gnu Etc a Jom of cart 6oun Ftp tit Nutof set my Onago trim Wrt Ravoiti group of 7 s worries Send Dollar sliding legalization of drugs in Colombia suggested from staff and wire reports Hie Dollar fell against most euro Pean currencies on monday the first Day of trading following Neek end statements by the croup of seven that expressed concern Over the Greenback s recent strength. In Frankfurt West Germany the Buck tumbled from Friday s closing rate of 1.9495 to 1.9047 at Mon Day s midday fixing a drop of nearly 41/ pfennig against the German Mark. Hie military rate reflected the drop As Ell plunging from 1.92 to 1 he. I As very surprised said Jens i a Fischer assistant vice presi Dent of manufacturers Hanover Trust co. In Frankfurt. Kavc Rhody was thinking about the possibility of maybe 1.92." the group sometimes referred to simply As the g-7, is made up of the finance ministers of he leading industrialized nations i he i filed Stales Canada Britain. France West Germany Italy and Japan. At their weekend meeting in washing ton they expressed dismay at the Dollar s persistent climb and noted that a Rise of the Dollar above cur rent Levels. Could adversely affect prospects for the world Economy according to a statement. The statement was the group s strongest sign vet of concern about the rising Dollar traders noted and it was a message to which markets around the world paid attention. The trading Day began in Tokyo see Dollar on Back Page Bogota Colombia a a Lead ing presidential candidate said monday Colombia May have to legalize drugs in order to fight the powerful cartels waging War on the government also monday two politicians said the government should negotiate with drug lords. Representatives of the nation s 4,600 judges were to meet with the acting jus Tice minister Carlos Limo s Simmonds the judges threatened sunday to go on strike unless Simmonds promised them better Protection from drug cartels that persistently threaten their lives. Since 1981. About so judges and 170 judicial employees have been killed mostly by drug traffickers. Justice department spokesman David Runkl said in Washington that . Officials sent 100 bulletproof vests and other Security items to Colombia last week to help protect judges. He said it is the responsibility of colombian officials to distribute the hems. Four bombs exploded sunday night in Bogota but there were no injuries colombian police said. In the five weeks since the government began a crackdown on traffickers. 107 bombs have been set off. Six people have been killed and 130 wounded. Sen. Ernesto Samper seeking the government Liberal party s nomination Lor the presidential election in March said of the drug War if the repressive action fails the Road left is legalization of  Samper made the comment in an interview published monday by the Bogota daily la Republica. He is the first serious presidential candidate to suggest Cigali. Ing drugs. The government began its crackdown on the drug cartels when leading presidential candid at Luis Carlos Galon was assassinated aug. 18 at a Bogota political rally. President Virgilio Barco said he would extradite drug lords to the United states prompting the cartels to declare War on the government. 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