European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday february 11,1990. Kohl in Moscow for reunification talks Moscow a West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said saturday thai soviet president Mikhail s. Gorba Chc promised to respect German reunification and that he declared it a very 3ood a for  Kohl and West German foreign min ister Hans Dietrich guns Char also Dis closed that they expected a reunification plan with agreement of the four world War ii allies to be ready in time fora pan european Summit meeting this year. At a news conference following talks with Gorbachev. Kohl gave a glowing assessment of relations with the soviet Union and the Kremlin s Altitude to Ward the accelerating developments be tween East and West Germany. Kohl said he acknowledged in his talk with Gorbachev that de Facto reunification was occurring faster than any one expected and that the two Ger manics along with the allies must work out a program for controlling it. Gorbachev s acknowledgement nearly two weeks ago that German reunification was inevitable set off a Chain reaction of events that have stepped up the move ment toward a single Germany. The soviets face potentially major losses in military and economic cooperation if East Germany joins with the Rich West German nation now part of the nato Alliance. Kohl on a two week diplomatic sweep to forge a Unity plan acceptable to both East and West brought with him an offer of $132 million in Aid for soviet food purchases apparently to demonstrate that Germany will help soften the blow of economic losses from redirected East German Trade. East Germany has suffered a severe economic decline in recent months As an exodus to West Germany increasingly claims its Best workers and precludes Independent efforts at recovery. More than 2,000 East germans flee their Homeland each Day and some West German officials fear the Immi nent collapse of their Eastern neighbor. Soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze said before the arrival of Kohl and guns Char that the soviet government would seek the germans Assurance that they would recognize cur rent Borders and never threaten their european neighbors. By signing a peace treaty and recognizing the postwar territorial divisions Germany would be relinquishing any claims to the ethnic German regions. Kohl returns to Bonn for meetings with East German Premier Hans mod Row on tuesday and wednesday. West Germany s plans for economic integration with East Germany will again be the primary topic. Kohl will see French president fran Cois Mitterrand after his talks with Modrow then travel to Camp David. Md., to meet with president Bush. Sopping up the oily goo Vul ulms and workers from a private cleanup com pan use absorbent pads to soak up crude Oil that washed ashore Friday in Newport Beach Calif. Hundreds have joined the cleanup Effort after the spill last week off a Huntington Beach from the rup tured Tanker american trader. Eighteen Miles of coastline have been tarnished and stale officials have reported 54 Oil soaked Birds including 12 dead. Christian forces clash in Lebanon Beirut. Lebanon a rival Christian forces battled each other with artillery and machine guns saturday in \ Lola Tum of a cease fire in their 12-Day-old Power struggle. Frightened rescuers left corpses to rot in Beirut s streets. Is police count at least 433 people have been killed and 1.684 wounded most of them civilians since the Battle for leadership of an estimated i million christians broke out Jan. 30. The fighters have not Given rescuers guarantees to remove bodies that have been in the streets for Days. Gen. Michel Aoun s troops and the lebanese forces militia commanded by Samir Geagea. Appeared to be gear ing up for More Savage attacks. An anti Aoun Christian radio station reported a Mutiny among his 19,000 troops a week after 1.000 soldiers defected to the lebanese forces or to a moslem commander in West Beirut. Saturday s report could not be immediately verified. Baker from Page 1 soviet officials during which he said Progress was made toward agreements cutting Long Range nuclear warheads and chemical weapons. Gorbachev urged the United Stales to remove 30,000 Mon . Troops from Europe by extending Bush s troop ceiling for Europe s Central front to the entire continent. Among questions remaining after Baker s talks with soviet leaders arc the superpower differences Over West and East Germany. The soviet Union insists that a unified Germany should be Neutral Baker pressed the . Position that a United Germany should continue an association with nato. Bush in his state of the Union address called for troop limits of 195.000 each for the United slates and the soviet Union on the Central front with the United states allowed to retain 30.000 elsewhere in Europe. Gorbachev proposed applying the 195.000 limit to All of Europe or boosting it to 225.000 for each Side. Since almost All soviet troops Are in Central Europe the soviets could thus slightly outweigh . Forces opposing them. Baker said the idea of a 195,000 limit for All of  was very close to the president s proposal but he said he would consult with nato allies before responding formally. On arms control. Baker said the two sides settled the questions of Access to missile data during flight tests where to store non deployed missiles and How Many air launched cruise missiles would be allowed on bombers. But details about the Range of those missiles remained unsettled he added. The issues arc part of negotiations on a treaty to slash Long Range . And soviet nuclear missiles bombers and submarines. Bush and Gorbachev arc Likely to sign the treaty at their june Summit meeting in Washington. Mandela from Page 1 exile the news was greeted with jubilation. It s a great Mclory for our  said James Stuart a member of the Anc s executive committee. I can hardly believe  these arc incredible Days in which we arc living said archbishop Desmond Tutu a major anti apart Heid Leader. He and neighbors danced and Sang in the Black township of Soweto. Mandela s Hometown after news of the release was announced. Come. Come. Come. Mandela women and Chil Dren Sang in Zulu outside the Small Brick Home Man Dela s family has rented for 40 years in Soweto. In Johannesburg hundreds of Blacks ran through City streets to celebrate some holding aloft newspaper posters that read. He s free but in the capital. Pretoria hundreds of extreme right wingers Yelling hang Mandela marched through the streets with Swastika flags to demand the overthrow of de Klerk s government. Do Klerk who stunned South africans on feb. 2 by lifting a 30-year ban on the Anc. Said Mandela would be freed unconditionally at 3 . Sunday at the Gates of the Victor Var Star prison farm outside Cape town. Do Klerk also said the 3 year Oid state of Emer gency could be lifted soon if there were no upsurge of unrest. He expressed willingness to negotiate the Possi ble release of remaining political prisoners. Mandela in recent talks with the government had demanded Freedom for All political prisoners and an end to the state of emergency. Mandela has been jailed since 1962 and is serving a life sentence for helping to plan the Start of the Anc s guerrilla Campaign. Many South african Blacks consider him their Paramount Leader and he would be a favorite to win the presidency if Blacks were allowed to  South Africa s system of apartheid the 28 million Blacks have no vote in National affairs. The 5 million Whites control the Economy and maintain sep Arate districts schools and health services. Mandela s wife Winnie left the family Home in sow clo. Outside Johannesburg shortly before the announcement was made. She made no immediate statement but smiled broadly As her car drove away. The Rev. Jesse Jackson on a 12-Day visit to South Africa said he welcomed de Klerk s bold and courageous acts but urged nations to maintain pressure on the government until All segregation Laws were abolished. De Klerk in his speech feb. 2, lifted bans and restrictions on dozens of opposition groups scrapped some state of Amer Ncncy regulations declared a moratorium on hangings and promised to free Mandela unconditionally. Do Klerk s predecessor . Botha had offered to free Mandela in Exchange for a Public renunciation of violence. Mandela refused saying the Burden was on the government to legalize the Anc scrap segregation Laws and agree to political negotiations. Asked if Mandela had now repudiated violence do Klerk said the Black Leader would be Able to speak for himself sunday. De Klerk who succeeded Botha in August has pro posed negotiations with Black leaders on a new Constitution that would extend political rights to the Disen franchised Black majority. The government has expressed fears about Mande la s safety in Light of reported death threats from right and left Wing extremists. De Klerk said the matter of Security was being discussed with Mandela s col leagues Bui added when he is released he becomes a free Man. He does t owe it to me to inform me about his  Mandela quartered at a comfortable House at Victor Var Star for More than a year has been meeting regularly with a wide Range of government officials andante apartheid activists in recent months. The government has indicated it would accept his offer to serve As mediator if talks with the Anc took place. Concessions announced by do Klerk in his speech met most of the Anc s conditions for negotiations