European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday january 9.1990 Cristiani says 6 priests slain by military san Salvador Al Salvador a president Alfredo Cristiani has announced that military men committed the november massacre of six Jesuit priests. It has been determined there was involvement of some elements of the armed forces in the slayings. Cristiani said sunday night in a Brief address broadcast Over radio and television. In addition to the priests who were educators at a Jesuit run University the assailants killed the clergymen s House keeper and her 15-year-old daughter. Members of the far right government had accused the priests of supporting leftist rebels. Cristiani did not specify who was in news briefs placated their units rank or the number of those responsible. However the head of the joint chiefs of staff said earlier sunday night that 47 members of an elite battalion including two officers had been confined to base and were being questioned in connection with the slayings. No military officer has been convicted of a politically motivated slaying since civil War broke out in late 1979. However the army has been linked to right Wing death squads blamed for the Mur Ders of thousands of suspected leftists in the Early 1980s. White House spokesman Marlin Fitz Watern monday praised the salvadoran investigation and hailed the great Cour age of Cristiani. We asked the investigation be Thor Ough and the prosecution move ahead and it looks like that s the course he is on said Fitzwater who was travelling with president Bush aboard air Force one to Florida. Fitzwater was noncommittal on whether Cristiani s announcement affects prospects for continuing . Aid to Al Salvador. . Authorities have indicated that continued bipartisan support for the rightist Cristiani government depends to a great extent on finding out who killed the jesuits and punishing them. Cristiani said a special commission of Honor including High ranking Mili tary men and civilian lawyers had been created to expose the truth about the nov. 16 massacre in its Complete mag  the president said the commission would work with investigators to make sure Justice is done and promised punishment would be meted out Down to the last person  Cristiani has also offered a $250,000 Reward for information leading to the murderers arrests and convictions. The slayings of the six priests prompted Calls from some . Legislators to review or condition . Aid tothe Cristiani administration which took office in june succeeding the centrist government of Jose Napoleon Duarte. Red army pullout plans for Hungary announced Budapest. Hungary a the red army will pull out an airborne regiment two tank battalions and 6,000 troops this year As part of the soviet Union s unilateral troop withdrawal a senior soviet military official said monday. The troop cuts to include also a mechanized infantry regiment will cover More that 40 Mili tary aircraft. 120 tanks some Iso armoured cars and 400 other motorized vehicles said col. Gen. Grigory Krivosheyev soviet Deputy chief of staff. Baker to visit Moscow discuss treaty obstacles Washington a Secretary of state James Baker will go to Moscow Early next month to try to Clear away key obstacles to a new . Soviet treaty sharply reducing Long Range nuclear missiles. Bush administration officials Dis closed monday. Baker also is considering a visit to Prague. Czechoslovakia to demonstrate . Support for the peaceful revolution in Czechoslovakia that displaced a hard line communist government the officials told the associated press. The trip to Moscow for talks feb. 6-7 is one of three sessions Baker intends to hold with soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze before a .-soviet Summit meeting in Washington in june. Troops from Page 1 participated and some already returned to other . Bases. Post officials said they did not know when other fort Bragg troops would return. The 3rd in was involved in seizing Madden dam a major source of electrical Power for . Installations in the area and Cerro Tigre. Which was believed to be the main Supply a Cpl for Noriega s troops. Army officials said. No soldiers from inc battalion were killed but 23 were wounded officials said. Shuttle from Page 1 postponements were caused by problems with the recently renovated launch pad. Monday s launch was called off because the Low Clouds at 6,000 feet would have made it difficult for the astronauts to find the runway Here in the even they had to make an emergency return because of a problem Early in right. Nasa estimated the Cost of the postponement at More than $600,000, including salaries support serv ices and lost fuel. During the final hour of the count More trouble was feared when a meter recorded Zero pressure in a system that sprays the launch pad with 300.000 Gallons of water 16 seconds before liftoff to Deaden the sound of the engines. Technicians sent to the launch pad determined that the Zero pressure Reading was fals Cand that the system Wlasok. The Mission was to be the first of 10 for 1990, the most for one year since the challenger explosion four years ago this month. The satellite to be retrieved is the Long duration exposure facility which is the size of a Small school bus and is packed with 57 experiments containing a wealth of scientific and technological information from its nearly six years in space. Commander Dan Brandenstein and Pilot Jim we Thor acc were to guide Columbia through intricate a Nevers including six major engine Burns to close in on their Quarry. Once the satellite is caught Mission specialist Bon Nie Dunbar will reach out with the shuttle s Remote 50 foot Arm to snare the 21,400-Pound package which is to feet Long and 14 feet in diameter. It will be like Hunting a speck in the sky Brandenstein said. But Nasa has plenty of experience doing this Type of  once the satellite is secure in the shuttle s cargo Bay Brandenstein Wel Hrbec Dunbar and Mission specialists Marsha Ivins and David Low will concentration experiments for the remainder of the flight. The emphasis will be on materials processing and tests of How the human body adapts to weightlessness. The 10-Day Mission s schedule is to be 10 hours Shorter than the ninth shuttle flight in november 1983, and is a stepping Stone for even longer ones. Columbia is being modified to stay aloft 16 Days Start ing with a 1993 flight. Scientists arc eager to examine the satellite primarily to learn How various materials and systems have withstood the Jong stay in orbit. The information will help in designing a permanent manned space station and other Long term spacecraft such As those planned for the Star wars missile defense system. Bush from Page 1 port efforts to reduce contamination of ground water from pesticides and fertilizers. He promised that in the 1990 farm Bill he will Pressor Market oriented farm policies that allow producers More flexibility to decide what crops to  he also quipped getting a Good farm Bill through con Gress is like milking a Bull. While espousing free Trade and open markets the president also promised to maintain a safety net to protect Farmers from conditions beyond their  the president promised Florida Farmers they can count on the Federal government s help in recovering from the terrible loss of their Citrus and Winter vegetable crop from last month s freeze. You won t be doing it alone he said. Bush said Farmers bounced Back from trying limes in the 1980s, with help from the 1985 farm legislation that led to lower Federal crop subsidies and More land in production. Surpluses have declined dramatically and most Good land has been brought Back into production he said. Net farm income reached a record level last year. The farm credit situation can be compatible especially in terms of water Quality the president said. The administration has already initiated a five year Effort to protect ground water from contamination by fertilizers and pesticides running off farms he said. We must keep your Good land in business with out unreasonable burdens but we must also keep i Good land he said. I am counting on your leadership As we work to expand farm productivity while Safe guarding the  Bush toured High tech agriculture and Ocean exhibits at Wall Disney s Ecol Center nearby before his return to Washington. The trip was Bush s first Public appearance since sex panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega surren dered last wednesday to face trial in the United states on drug trafficking charges. Panama from Page 1 the army s Deputy chief of Public affairs said in Washington on sunday that he was unaware of any instruction from the Pentagon prohibiting female soldiers in Panama from talking to the press. He said he knew of no reason for the prohibition but added that the army s Southern come in Panama May have an operational consideration they have to take into  a defense department spokeswoman maj. Kathy Wood also said she did not know Why female officers in Panama were not allowed to talk to the press. All requests for interviews with Bray and other army women were being for warded to Panama she said. Several news accounts last week de scribed Bray As the first woman to com Mand . Troops in Battle. Although women cannot belong to the traditional combat sections of the Mili tary Bray commanded a military police unil that was assigned to capture a Pana Manian defense forces Kennel for guard dogs. The news accounts described the Bat lie at the Kennel As fierce. Fitzwalter the White House spokes Man said wednesday that the Kennel had been heavily defended and that three panamanian soldiers had Bee killed in the firelight. It was an important military opera Tion he said. A woman led in and she did an out  the reports stimulated wide Dis Cussion about the role of women in com Bat. Rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., who is chairwoman of the House armed services Subco Omillee on military installations said Bray s actions showed hat women should be allowed to carry out combat roles. Bui on saturday the los Angeles times said the army acknowledged that he firefight at the Kennel lasted Only 10 minutes and that no panamanian sol Diers had been killed. It quoted Mcclain As saying that Bray was half a mile away from the Kennel when the action started. Mcclain said saturday thai Bray told him she did nol know where the reports of inc three panamanian deaths had come from. But he said Bray was in direct control of her unil throughout the operation. Mcclain said sunday thai the army still opposed a combat role for women. Fitzwater said sunday that he had Lakin the figures on the dead panamanian soldiers from newspaper accounts. As far As i am concerned she per formed with distinction whether three people were lulled or not he said. Last week reporters in Panama were invited to sign up for interviews with female soldiers As part of a press Opportunity on women in the of Hilary. Peter Copeland of the Scripps Howard newspapers found Bray independently of the army offer and interviewed her he said