European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 Hub stars and stripes sunday february 11,1990/t soviets to Start czech pullout this month the Washington Post Prague the soviet Union announced Friday which have occupied in i in Imp Lei Ijnar the Warsaw pad invasion or 1968. Returning Home this month. However the soviets rebuffed Pra gue s demands for a total withdrawal by the end of this year. Soviet Deputy foreign minister Ivan Boimov made the announcement Over czechoslovak radio in Moscow. Evzen Macck. The top czechoslovak negotiator in talks on the troop withdrawal hailed a soviet commitment to pull out the fundamental pan of soviet combat unur1by the end of May As very Impi Flint even though an agreement Owa total withdrawals the 73.500-Nwm Force was not reached. .,.- president Vaclav Havel s government has Daman did a local pullout before dec. 31 and Ai Fli Stantial withdrawal before elections in june. Western diplomats Here said the soviet announcement Friday was designed to make Moscow look Good and get Czechoslovakia to ease off while the negotiates the timetable for a soviet negotiators. Here last month and week have argued form Gezime to com plete the withdrawal Frey cited a Lack of rail transport a of Barracks and hous ing in Tho Govico Union for soldiers and a Boimov insisted on personally in forming the czechoslovak Public be cause i am aware that it attaches great importance to our discussions and pays a great Deal of attention to the whole prob on wednesday Boimov had criticized As anti soviet demonstrations Here against the presence of soviet troops. The change in the soviet tone produced a new corresponding Modera by czechoslovak officials. . Foreign minister said there were no sum for political motives Behan the soviet demands for a Jil nout. Rather he said the Ria Ere humanitarian. Czechoslovak defense minister Miroslav Vacek offered a possible Compro a the . And Allied position on the future of Germany. Baker advocated that a unified Germas. Tine membership in or association with the Alliance but that nato troops should not move in what is now East Germany in order to assuage soviet and Eastern european anxieties. Baker declined to characterize the reaction of Gorba Chev who was to meet with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Schur Here saturday. However a commentary of the offi Cial Tass news Agency said the German plan put Forth by Baker can hardly be viewed As constructive and Craf a the subject of Germany which has As a major Issue in soviet Domestic to have been the most difficult area of Job incr s talks with soviet leaders. Kremlin officials have the Speed at which the two Cir Many Arcon flying toward unification and have endorsed an a Sigerman proposal that a United Germany be apr Teal. Baker said the United states docs not Germany. Bakr will meet nato and Warsaw pact foreign mind is Tulcin Ottawa. Canada beginning sunday where a pc Cial meeting will be held on open skies a plan that would allow nato and Warsaw pact countries to con duct overflights of the other Side s territory. Regarding strategic arms Baker announced that the two sides made considerably More Progress than any of us had anticipated toward agreeing on How to Deal with sea launched cruise missiles one of the most difficult issues blocking a landmark strategic arms reduction treaty. Baker described the key Compromise As a declaratory approach under which the two nations would pub cd state their limits on the sea launched nuclear Cap Muthe said this would be a Side agreement spa Njegic Armsy and probably not subject to . Bow fint was reached on two of the three highly tccnrnehljs5ues.jjirbush and Gorbachev had hoped would the meeting ". In storage or otherwise noting the encoding of Missit i Dala. Full agreement was not reached on Flat Toig air launched cruise missiles but Baker said the two "75 to 80 percent of the Way toward agreement Baker also announced that the two nations had taken an important step Forward toward an International treaty Banning chemical weapons by agreeing on a . Soviet chemical weapons Accord along the lines of that proposed by Bush at the United nations in think the relationship is in better shape than it has been in the past said Baker who added that there Are still differences Over such matters As the soviet Supply of m ig-29 warplanes was spent discussing the comm no sir of Central committee meeting which concluded just As Baker arrived Here and which endorsed Gorba Chev s Reform program including limiting the role of the communist party and moving closer toward a Market oriented said the two sides have agreed on a schedule of discussions and negotiations on a Broad Range of economic issues including a future u.ssovict Trade was scheduled to leave Moscow at midday sat urday without meeting the West German delegation headed by Kohl and guns Char which arrives during the an unprecedented appearance. Baker was to be quizzed by the International affairs committee of the supreme soviet legislature in the Kremlin on saturday scheduled to Fly to Sofia. Bulgaria to meet opposition leaders and to Bucharest Romania on Ash liar Mission sunday. Oil from Page 1 news briefs 1,190 political prisoners released by sandinista by he Las Angeles times tip Tapa. Nicaragua two weeks before National elections the sandinista government on Friday freed 1.190 contras rebel collaborators and former National guardsmen in a prison Yard ceremony that officials said emptied nicaraguan jails of All political prisoners. Among the 39 National guardsmen released were allegedly some of the most brutal officer from the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza who was deposed by a sandinista cd insurrection in 1979. Sandinista officials charged for instance that when col. Isaias Cuadra served As director of the tip Tapa Penitentiary under Somoza. He Tor tured at least one prominent prisoner Sandi Nisla commander Tomas Borg. Since the Sand nistas came to Power Borge has served As Interior minister overseeing the prisons an Cuadra has spent to i years in jail. I have suffered a great Deal during these years i have spent in prison Cuadra 56, said on his release. I have come to understand human beings. I understand there Are passions there is pain and that anyone who is a Christian has to know How to but he denied having tortured anyone Al though reports of torture under Somoza were common. Effect. The Impact has been less than we City fire Elf t. Ray Pendleton said. Bonk had been placed across the entrances to the Bolsa Chi the Santa Ana River and upper Newport Bay and there were no reports of Oil reaching those wildlife Hatt Jials. There was conceit the Slick might Drift South to Laguna Beach a Scenic Art of Telony fronted by Rocky tide Webster crisis Tei Nagr for British Petroleum which owns the Oil and Chaft Grid the Tanker said a clean up firm was on Call there. Are we out of the Woods no a yet. But we re work ing to stay ahead of the curve webs Mosaid. Cleanup costs were to be borne by toe ship s own cry american trading transportation co. Int Tiff new Yore Webster said. _ the cleanup Bill has already reached the if cups of dollars Kime told a news conference in . He noted that results of federally and alcohol tests of the ship s officers were Nea British Petroleum said it had 390 Clef up worker along a 20-mile stretch of coast from boar Chica to Laguna Beach. Eight skimmers were at soft and five More were due by Day s end. Four others fire in route. Skim mers had collected 16,800 Gallons foil by 7 . Friday Kime said. Of the Tanker remained of Funtington Beach As the coast guard pumped remaining Oil ambr Fatur out of the Forward hold where the puncture occurred. It looks like the vessel Rode la Over its Anchor and punctured Kime said. J the i million Gallons of Niue to in the Forward Compart ment was being pumped Onlo a Barge. The ship has stopped leaking the coast guard said. Since the spill bcgaj/49 Oil soaked sea Birds have been brought to a wildlife bid station for cleaning said califor Nia department Oish and game biologist John Grant. Except for Wjk change in wind direction that pushed tentacles of m Slick ashore sea and weather conditions were favour la. Federal and local authorities noted their Luck cautious. To hate we be been Lucky said John Turner director of twu.5. Fish and wildlife service. There s a lot of Oil the could come Turner said the stale department of fish and game r had decided against using chemical dispersal is on the Slick and he concurred. The proximity to the Shore was a key in the decision Here he said. The potential toxic affects of the chemicals on animals was also considered along with the fact that chemicals and a dispersal plane could not have reached the scene for 36hours. Turner said by then the spill was too broken up for chemicals to be effective he said. Fish and wildlife experts also went out in a boat to try it Ermine the extent of harm to the environment. B spill is tiny in comparison to that unleashed when thesker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Alaska s Prince Williah Spund last year spilling More than 10 million Gallons. Security from Page 1 official said Tjce notice remains in effect. The statement issued two a months ago warned of the possibility of an attack age fast a . Or West european target. Thurs Day s spoke Only of ". Interests being possible Targete. 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