European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday february 12,1990 . Offers Romania $80 million in food Bucharest. Romania a Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii offered Romania $80 million in food supplies on a Brief visit to Bucharest on sunday morning but told the country s interim leaders that the United Stales expected continued movement to Ward democracy. We want to do our part to assist the transition to political pluralism and a free Market Baker said after meeting with interim president Ion Iliescu and Premier pc arc roman. A stale department official said the assistance would include 500.000 metric tons of feed Grain and 7.500 tons of Buller. Baker is the highest ranking american official to Visil Romania since december s revolution which toppled communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. His visit came amid controversy Over the new provisional Council of National Unity. Which will run the country until elections on May 20 and includes opposition parties for the first time. Many of the 18 Council leaders who met Baker said they told him that the old National salvation front which took Power during the revolution has kept its grip on Power in the new government. Several said the new Council is a Guise for the old communist party. Baker said he told Iliescu and roman that the betterment of relations of the United states with Roma Nia will depend on fully free fair elections and the respect for human rights and the rights of terming the changes since the overthrow of Mccau a c-5 Giuy transport plane from the military Airlift come at Rhein Maln a West Germany stirs up Snow As ii lands sunday in Bardu Foss Norway. The plane carried 75 . Troops snowmobiles and supplies for a nato exercise. Troops from ., 5 other nations gather in Norway for nato exercise a Csc a Reform movement that clearly i think we have to Baker said after meeting with the officials that his visit was intended to encourage the Continua Tion of the process of he announced the humanitarian Aid package at a meeting with leaders of 18 parties and four unions at the residence of . Ambassador Alan Green or. Baker said romanian officials assured him they arc committed to fully free and fair Baker stopped in Bucharest after a Brief visit to Bulgaria following talks in the soviet Union. His next Stop is Ottawa where he will attend a conference on the open skies proposal to allow spy flights by the East and West. Bush to sign drug Accord at Summit Washington up president Bush and the leaders of three andean nations plan to sign a document of agreements at this week s drug Summit that will commit them to an unprecedented War on drugs administration sources say. The document jointly drafted Over the past three months would have the United slates Back a sweeping plan to replace the illegal South american drug Trade with Legal Commerce from fruits to textiles the sources said. In addition the United states would bolster efforts to halt the smuggling of .-made weapons to South american drug lords and limit the Export of Chemi cals used to make cocaine. In return Colombia Peru and Bolivia the world s biggest cocaine producers would increase drug fighting efforts and share More intelligence with the United states the world s biggest cocaine consumer. This will be the first comprehensive Effort to attack the illegal drug Trade in this hemisphere said a . Official who helped prepare for the Summit that will be held under tight Security thurs Day in Cartagena Colombia. For 5&s system Konu Lussan by Ron Jensen staff writer Bardu Foss. Norway some 50 transport planes crammed with troops and military equipment invaded the Small town of Bardu Foss on sunday for a nato exercise Sel to unfold 250 Miles North of the Arctic Circle. By week s end. More than 6,300 troops from six countries will occupy this fro zen landscape for a Winter test of nato s Allied come Europe Mobile Force known As the am. The am has primarily a deterrence role in said maj. Kjell Jorgon sen. A norwegian army officer involved in the exercise. And the Force will perform that role in some unconventional ways soldiers will meet with local mayor visit schools and even engage Rome area teams in soccer matches. That is not Ordinary military patrol Ling As you arc used to Jorgenson said. In a real scenario such waving of the nato Flag would help prevent tension from evolving into hostilities Jorgon san said. They want to show the world that nato is present he said. That is to say. That an attack on the country where the am is will be an attack on troops from the United states Canada West Germany Italy Luxembourg and Britain arc participating this week. Troops from Norway do not participate but provide Host nation support. In a real situation the am would be deployed Only when inv cd by a nation that Felt threatened Jorgensen said. For this exercise Norway asked nato to deploy the am because of supposed tension prompted by an unnamed Adver sary. The am has practice cold weather tactics 15 times before in this Arctic re Gion. The Force also has exercised in such Southern Region countries As Italy and Turkey. The deployment phase of the exercise which began sunday will continue through the week. Besides the troops 1,571 vehicles and 32 helicopters will be assembled for the exercise. Combat pc rations will begin feb. 18 and will last for six Days. Genscher from Page 1 will Start talks on unification with Bonn if it wins the elections March 18. East Germany remains a member of the soviet led Warsaw pact and More than 380,000 soviet troops arc stationed in East Germany. In West Berlin cily planning chief Michaelc Schr Cyr said the government was developing strategy for the increasingly Likely Case that Berlin would be the Cap ital of a United country. She promised 19 work closely with officials in East Berlin. Mandela from Page 1 through the streets of big cities and impoverished townships rejoicing at Mandela s Freedom. Mandela was greeted by a thunderous cheer when he and his wife. Winnie walked hand in hand under a Brilliant Blue sky through the Gateway of Victor Vorster prison. The mandalas gave clan Chad fist salutes to the hundreds of supporters who had waited for hours outside Many of them waving Green Gold and Black Anc flags and wearing to shirts emblazoned with a Youthful image of Mandela. Mandela and his wife walked to a Sedan and climbed in. The ear set off slowly in a police escorted motorcade. The decision to free Mandela Afler a prolonged International Campaign on his behalf was announced saturday by president . De Klerk. Eight Days ear Lier do Klerk stunned the nation by lifting a 30-year ban on the Anc and announcing other reforms aimed at Clearing the Way for Black while negotiations. Mandela in his speech called de Klerk a Man of integrity who had gone further than any previous National party Leader in accommodating Black Politi Cal aspirations. But he said further Steps including the lifting of the state of emergency and release of All political prisoners must be taken before talks can begin. Mandela often called the world s most famous Pris Oner was the last Well known political inmate in South Africa. Six of his Anc colleagues who had been imprisoned for More than 25 years including Walter is Sulu were released in october. In the mid-1980s, Mandela rejected offers to go free from his sentence of life imprisonment in Exchange Lor a renunciation of violence. Do Klerk abandoned this condition although he said after meeting Mandela on Friday night that he believed the Black Leader was committed to peaceful but Mandela told the Cape town crowd that the Anc resorted to violence in 1961 As a defensive action against the violence of apartheid and he added. The factors which necessitated the armed struggle still exist we have no options but to continue he said. He urged whiles to join us in the safety of a new South Africa. The Freedom movement is a political Home for you Mandela whose imprisonment included years of hard labor on windswept Robben Island in Cape town s Harbor told his family your pain and suffer ing was far greater than my
