European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2b the stars and stripes sunday. January 7,1990 Juk Battle group May Man proposed drug blockade Washington apr the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy has been chosen to Lead an anti drug interdiction Effort off the coast of Colombia but final decisions about when the warship May be Pul to work Haven t been made yet. A defense department source said saturday. The Carrier and an accompanying guided missile Cruiser the Virginia left their Home port in Norfolk Van a on thursday to engage in routine training exercises in the Atlantic a Pentagon official said. But he added that a question Mark remained As to when and if the warships would see duty in a proposed  anti drug interdiction Effort. A thai s the group the Juk is the one to be used Quot the official said. A but its still a question when they a be Pul to  two colombian radio networks Caracol and run on saturday quoted unnamed Pentagon sources As say ing the ships were headed toward Colombia to begin setting up a blockade to snare drug smugglers. Bui the Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity said the final plans were still being worked out on a Pentagon proposal to launch a virtual air and sea blockade of the colombian coastline As part of an Effort 10 help Colombia curb the flow of illicit narcotics. An . Official on saturday denied that any blockade was under Way. A nothing s been initiated a in 1crms of activating such efforts he said. A we arc consulting Quot with the colombians and will continue to do so Over the next few Days the official said. He declined to say when the heightened military operation might begin and said it should not be called a blockade. Parolee charged in 8 murders Rochester , apr a Man on parole after imprisonment for strangling an 8-year-old girl was ordered held without bail Friday on charges of murdering eight women. Authorities say they have linked him to three More slayings Over the two years he has been free. Arthur Shawcross 14, of Rochester who had been making salads in a restaurant since his parole in 1987, gave statements about the slayings and told police where to find three bodies police chief Gordon f. Urlacher said. A state police source who spoke on condition of anonymity said Shawcross had confessed to 11 slayings. Authorities had been investigating the deaths and Distaj pc Arances of 16 women in the Rochester area since March 1988. Most of the women Shawcross is accused of killing were involved in prostitution and drugs police Sard. Police said the break in the serial slayings came wednesday when officers in a helicopter were searching a Park 12 Miles cast of Rochester where the clothing of a missing woman had been found. The officers spotted Shawcross car then the body of another missing woman. A Pul lout predicted the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen Colin Powell being Ini entered Friday in Panama predicted a amp invasion troops could be withdrawn a Over the next few weeks. The gradual pullout would reduce troops from 25,400 to about 10000 army Navy and air Force personnel permanently stationed at us. Bases in Panama a military spokesman  from Page 1 the cancellation said the soviet Leader was a a postponing Contact with foreign politicians scheduled for january to Deal with Domestic problems. A top communist parly official in Moscow confirmed that Gorbachev had German from Page t lion of Central Europe and fix their treaty Community with a cooperative Security policy a adn quoted Gysi As saying. East Germany a defense ministry announced on thursday that it was cutting the compulsory army service term from 18 months to 12, and Gysi called on Bonn to Lake the same action. He also proposed that both nations pull Back any defense installations located within 30 to 50 Miles of the inter German Border. Arms production should be Quot consider Cheney from Page 1 ored by the current government of Nicaragua Quot he said. Cheney said there were Quot different circumstances Quot in Panama a including he . Right to be in Panama under the canal treaties the killing of an american Marine the harassment of other service members by the panamanian defense forces and president Bush a obligation to protect the lives of thousands of americans living in Panama. He said the United Stales used military Force in Panama a very reluctantly. We exhausted All other options. To try cancelled appointments with Kinlock and other foreigners. Gorbachev also is concerned with unrest in the South. Kab guards were recently rushed to the soviet iranian Frontier after rampaging protesters threatened guards and wrecked Border fences causing $4.94 million in damage. The violence came after weeks of pressure from the people s front of Azerbaijan which wants the Border opened for ably reduced Quot and chemical weapons should be removed from Bolh Stales by 1991, Gysi contended in his disarmament program entitled a Model for Security 2000. It also called for All arms modernization to be halted and for Bath sides to refrain from Selling weapons outside their military alliances. Under the communists proposal All foreign troops would be removed from Germany by 1999. West Germany a army of 480,000 is backed by about 250,000 . Troops while the East German Force of 170,000 is reinforced by 400,000 soviet soldiers. Leading defense officials of Kohl s Christian democratic Union unveiled a to Deal with that situation and finally moved Only when it was Clear that american lives american interests were in fact in  Cheney said that judging by the a huge Quantity of weapons found in caches in Panama it was reasonable to speculate that former strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega was involved in the International arms Trade. Quot when 1 was there right after the operation i visited several of the Sites that at that time we thought had maybe 30,000 or 40,000 weapons. Now it looks like 75,000. We have one report that May take it As High As 100,000, be said. Cheney noted that a for a military Force of some 4,500 people it docs l make any sense at All to have weapons of that  Trade cultural exchanges and meetings of relatives the newspaper argument i Sakti. Or arguments and facts said saturday. Meanwhile officials in Agram. Near the Border of the Long troubled District of Magorno Karabash downplayed a report from the Peoples front of Azerbaijan. The report said that armenian extremists were responsible for the explosion at the Agram bus station Early new West German military strategy in interviews with the Hamburg based Bild ant sonntag. The newspaper distributed its report to news agencies ahead of sunday publication. Military policy expert Otto Hauser was quoted by the newspaper As saying that a United Europe required Quot new concepts in defense and that reduction of the West German compulsory service term should not be ruled out. Kohl and defense minister Gerhard slow Tynberg have worked out plans for reorganizing West Germany a military Structure which they expect to begin putting into Force after a conventional arms agreement is reached Between nato and the Warsaw pact in negotiations in Vienna Austria the newspaper said. Asked about the newspaper report. Defense ministry spokesman win Fried Dunkel in Bonn declined to say what changes West Germany might consider in the Wake of a Vienna agreement expected by Bolh sides this summer. Parliament member bed Wilz an expert on defense policy from Kohls party called for the a european parts of nato and the Warsaw pad to realign themselves into a european Security Force Independent of the superpowers. German citizens in both states have expressed Strung support for ending the Easi West division of Europe that has separated them into rival political blocs for four decades. In the newspaper Well am sonntag Deputy defense minister Willy Wimmer also discussed the need to reorient Ger saturday morning and that two people were missing. Tass said two people were killed and two injured in the blast which it said was caused by a Gas leak in the terminals basement. Magorno Karabash has been Tom by Armen Ian azerbaijani violence for two , who dominate the population want the area transferred from the jurisdiction of Azerbaijan to Armenia. Man defences to diminish the a front line Quot role played by the German states. Wimmer suggested that the nato Alliance could be retained As a maritime Force leaving land defense matters to the continent. East germans go to the polls on May 6 for the first free competitive and secret elections in the nations 40-Ycar history. The issues of German Unity and european Security Are High on the Campaign Agenda. The communists have been stripped of their constitutional mandate to Rule but they retain Marc voter support than the fledgling and fractured opposition groups. Culling defense expenditures would free up state funds that could be devoted to upgrading Industry and improving Basic goods and services for the nation of 16 million which is mired in an economic crisis. In the prosperous West German state Kohls Coli has regained a slight Lead Over the opposition social democrats in opinion polls conducted since the Berlin Wall opened on nov 9 and since relations Between the two Germany began warming after four decades . Reunification remains an Issue close to the hearts of West German voters who go to he polls in december and Kohl has made Clear that a return to one Germany is his ultimate goal. Bild am sonntag said the shifting or German defense policy away from the superpower dominated blocs to a Neutral Europe would be made Clear before the West German elections