European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 01, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes n Reagan ordered to let pol Dexter have diaries Page 2 d Barry Case witness makes Deal testifies to grand jury Page 7 d test your 5-Star trivia knowledge Page 13 d stateside base closing realignment list Back Page the is adj def ripes authorized unofficial publication f 0 tm1 . Armid Forchi Good morning vol. 48. No. 290 thursday. February 1, 1990. Sam sum., d 8693 a worry Joy Greet shutdowns reaction to base closure plan mixed in Italy Britain Greece by Deedee Arrington Bureau suit and local government officials i England and Italy expressed sharply Dif Fering views tuesday about the impending . Base shutdowns in Europe while some americans in Greece said they were pleased with plans to shutdown bases there. We have been fighting for its closure Tor a Long time now and we Are All Happy to hear the said Comiso mayor Salvatore Zago of the closure of the near by . Air base in Sicily. I have already arranged for a meeting with defens minister Nino Martinaz Roli to discuss the possible conversion of the the news had the opposite effect on local official in Fairford England where . Operations will Stop by oct. I. We re All very worried. It will Roc the boat said Scotty Thomlinson a cotswold District councilman for the last i5 years. Comiso and Raf Fairford arc two of12 overseas bases that defense Secretary Dick Cheney plans to close. See related stories. Page 3. At Hill Nikon a some american said they were glad the base was closing because of nearby Athens air pollution and limited employment opportunities for family members. The people 1 know. Are pretty Happy one woman said. One or two people who were just getting Here were disappointed but they were mostly peo ple who had been Here before and enjoyed their previous inactivation of the 487th tac missile Wing at Comiso. A ground launched cruise missile unit is already under Way in accordance with the intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty. Fairford s 13 Kc-135 Tanker aircraft will move to Raf Mildenhall. Other . Operations in Europe that arc scheduled to shut Down in the next three years arc Nea Makri naval communications station Northeast of Athens Raf Grenham common Landraf Wethersfield England Perhac a see worry on Back Page response varies to possible resignation by Gorbachev from wire report unconfirmed reports tuesday that Kremlin Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev plans to resign As head of the soviet communist party caused the Bush administration to scramble to verify them and assess their Possi ble Impact on relations Between the two a report from Moscow on tuesday Cable news network said Gorbachev is considering resigning his Post As head of the communist party but that he would retain his position As soviet doing so. Gorbachev would continue to preside Over the soviet parliament which has expanded pow ers under the new soviet said it had been told by a Well informed and usually reliable communist party source that Gorba Chev May try to leave his closest ally Alexander Yakovlev. In charge of the communist party while he follows popular pressure to remove the party from its monopoly control of political the report coincided with a state department announcement that Secretary of state James a. Baker i is postponing by a Day his scheduled talks in Moscow next week with soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. The talks now scheduled feb. 8-9, Arcto focus on arms control and the continuing fighting in Afghanistan where Moscow and Washington arc Back ing opposing department spokeswoman Margaret d. Tutwiler said Baker requested the delay so the talks would no interfere with a crucial meeting of the soviet communist party. If Gorbachev plans to resign his party Post his formal announcement could come at that time. The report rocked the nation s financial markets sending the Dollar climbing against foreign currencies and spurring a rebound in the Bond Market trader said. Stock prices gyrated wildly and Oil futures prices also almost every Case the moves were Short lived As the report remained unconfirmed through the close of the markets in the United was not immediately Clear whether Gorbachev s reported plan to resign if True is a bold political mover whether he was being pushed aside As a result of a Power struggle within the Kremlin Hierarchy. One theory experts offered tuesday was that Gorba Mikhail Gorbachev reportedly May relinquish his Job As see response on Back Page head of the soviet communist part -. Milhon in Noriega Washington up the jus Tice department said six countries act ing on a . Request have located an Frozen $20 million in assets belonging to former panamanian president Man Uel Antonio Noriega. Austria became the sixth country to freeze Bank accounts associated Noriega. David Runkl. A so for the attorney . The other fiyjc3rntries where ban accounts umsted with Noriega have been myth Are France. Switzerland Jermany Luxembourg and the eel said. These Are Mumy Bank accounts the Tenn of Panama i number of documents that aided in the investigation of no Riega s assets Runkel said. Some documents have Bee brought to this country for further examination Runkel said. Noriega was moved sunday from a Lasc Montcell where. I held since his arrival to the metropolitan correctional Center a Federal prison Southwest of Miami is lawyers want Noriega turned custody As a prisoner of War Wal nah awaits Transfer to a unidentified . Under the Geneva f of War Are not to be housed in Pris . District judge William Hoeveler has not yet ruled on the Challenge to . Government jurisdiction Over no Riega. The former panamanian Strong Man s lawyers said they will ask the world court to declare Noriega a Pris Oner of tuesday a member of the inter National court of Justice said in the Netherlands that Noriega would not be Able to petition the court privately on his prisoner of War Mbaye vice president of the i court told United press inter a that the id is Only pm powered totem tale disputes Between states which arc new England hit by 28-Inch snowfall Page 5
