European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday february 17,1990 military head of Pacific is resigns from stiff and wire reports Tokyo the . Air Force colonel in charge of the Pacific stars and stripes resigned this week saying the newspaper s ombudsman had criticized him for managing the news. I believe it was appropriate Tor the Good of the organization to tender my resignation col. Edwin j. Montgomery said. He said ombudsman Philip Foisie had said in report that i inserted myself into the newspaper s editorial process especially in the Early part of his nearly four year tenure. Montgomery s resignation comes just a few months before his scheduled retirement from the military. His replacement. Marine col. Walter s. De Forest was announced last month. Montgomery declined to give More details on the ombudsman s judgment but said he was pleased that Foisie had not accused him of censorship. I am disappointed that he saw my efforts to fulfil the charter As management of the news the air Force officer said in a Telephone interview. The Mission i had was to publish a newspaper that was unafraid of news critical to its readers and their profession but accurate in Good taste and which assured that both sides of contentious issues were aired. I be done my level Best to accomplish Foisie s 30-Page report is expected to be made pub Lic next week. The ombudsman is in the Middle of a two week visit to european stars and stripes. I have a very High regard for col. Montgomery As a Man and an officer and i regret he found it necessary to resign Foisie said Friday in Darmstadt West Ger Many. Since his appointment by the defense department last year Foisie has visited both papers to interview their military and civilian staff members to assess the free flow of information to the papers readers. Foisie is a former foreign editor of the Washington Post and former executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Contributing to this report the associated press in Tokyo t soviet general raises Specter of nazism b David Tarrant Brussels Bureau Brussels. Belgium a soviet Gener Al attending an informal discussion Friday on German reunification raised the Prospect that nazism could be reborn. We have to think once again about the possible revival of said Lobov. Chief of the general staff of the Warsaw pact forces. And if we let such a Genie out of the bottle that could be primarily the task of the West to solve that problem because in the West it came to grief once during recent Lobov s comments came during a meet ing of the North Atlantic s inter parliamentary organization. The Assembly s round table Dis Cussion which included for the first time High level soviet military officers and government officials was highlighted by a Wrangle Over the legacy of world War ii and responsibility for the cold War. The debate exposed some of the issues that will Likely complicate a Summit organized to Deal with the International Security implications of German reunification. A new agreement reached in Ottawa Canada provides for the four victorious Allied Powers the soviet Union the United slates. Britain and France an the two Ger Many to negotiate external aspects of the establishment of German Unity including the issues of Security of the neighbouring no Lime or place has been set for the Summit. Soviet Diplomat Valentin Falin said it would take years before his country could forget the War with nazi Germany that caused the deaths of 26,336,000 so Viet citizens. That is the exact figure. We Haven t yet made it Public because we fear the reaction of our population to that. This former civilian adviser in Stuttgart Dies Stuttgart. West Germany is a former civilian equal Opportunity adviser with the Stuttgart military Community died of cancer thursday at the army Hospital at shape in Belgium. S. David so Alliff. 49. A native of St. Thomas. Virgin islands worked for nearly three cars in Stuttgart before re signing in March 1989 because of his health a Stuttgart Community spokeswoman said. So Alliff also served As an army equal Opportunity adviser during the last 11 years of his 25 years of Active duty army service and was a Vietnam War had served on the local american red Cross chapter s Board of directors and spent much of his spare time helping american newcomers find housing and jobs in Stuttgart the spokeswoman said. A military memorial service will be held at 10 . Tuesday at the Picron funeral Home in Basic los. Belgium the town where his family resides. He is sur Vived by his wife. Michelle Scatliffe. And their four children. Is a horrible figure said Falin a Mem Ber of the supreme soviet and an adviser to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Centuries will pass before we could perhaps forget responding to Lobov a West German member of parliament Peter Peter san said you talk about the possible Revi of nazism. I m an expert on that be cause when i grew up Adolf Hitler was running my country. And i supported it. 1 believed in but after the War he said the German people were More forced to re evaluate our values than were the British for in stance for our whole world broke world War ii caused those in the West to conclude that we have to base our political life our personal life on values which Are More important than ideologies of Karl Marx or Adolf Hitler or any one else. And that unites nato. And that unites Europe. Common values Petersen said. But Falin challenged pct sen s View of the past ideals of nato saying founding nato documents were aggressively anti soviet. Those documents stated that there is not enough room for the two systems the soviet and the american. And one system that is the soviet Union has Togo. It cannot be achieved through peaceful Means and that is Why the United slates should apply Falin said. This is the document adopted Back in 1948. If you say to us now that that was an invitation to peaceful Good neighbourly relations. I m afraid even now in the atmosphere of glasnost and candid ass we would not be Able to be Lieve after Falin s comments. Rep. Larry Smith d-fla., poised the forum for Al lowing speakers to explore some Basic very sad realities of memories past and limes but Smith criticized what is apparently Misper captions about the past and Why in is thai this nato Ira to Organiza Tion came into being and what our Pur pose 3 w. German hackers get suspended terms by de Reavis staff writer three West German hackers have received suspended prison terms for Selling nato compel or codes to the Sovil Kab. . Officials have said the hackers never obtained Access to highly Classi fied information. The three hackers received sus Pended sentences ranging from 14 months to two years from a West German court thursday a spokes Man for the West German Justice ministry said Friday. The defendants were identified As Peter Carl Markus Hess and Dirk Brzczinski. They admitted that they had received about $50,000 for sell ing codes to a soviet agent in East Berlin who called him sell the men were arrested in March after . And West German investigators found that the three had Ille Gally gained codes and passwords giving them Access to High priority military and research computers inthe United states Japan and Western Europe. A f9urth suspect Karl Koch 30, committed suicide in May. The Case dates Back to August 1986, when . Astrophysicist Clif Ford Stoll noticed an unpaid s3 Bill for computer usage at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory near san fran Cisco where he worked. Stoll told the court that it soon became apparent that an outsider had gained Access to the computer. Stoll who wrote a Book on his Hunt for the hackers was Able to track the men s computer Trail through Nasa and military research computers in new Mexico and Illinois. Eleven months later. Stoll tracked the hackers to their computer Lair in Hannover Wesl Germany. $4,300 raised for sick child Giessen Wesl Germany is germans and americans attending a Benefit concert for a 9-Ycar-old cancer a tical thursday night contributed More than $4,300. Nearly 700 people attended the Bene fit for Joshua Harding whose Battle with cancer began 13 months ago. The Harding family moved Back to Tennessee from Giessen in late Decem Ber when Joshua s condition deteriorated. Freddie Harding. Joshua s father has used All of his leave and is on leave without pay status from his position As a teacher at Giessen High school. Joshua is a patient Ai Vanderbill University Hospital. Donations to the Joshua Harding fund Are being accepted at All merchants National Bank branches. Contributions should include inc account number 141225173. And frankly i m a Little bit would have imagined that there would have been a Little bit More understanding on the part of our colleagues from the soviet United states has a lot of dead bodies As memories which it certainly can drag up if that s what we re wont Todo around this table and talk about the past instead of the future and use Itas an Anchor rather than a but in his remarks Falin spoke of the need to look to the future while acknowledging that the draw of the past was we want to understand each other if we want to Sec in each other More humane characteristics and less Mon Strous characteristics that so preoccupied us in the past then the old assess cols old beliefs will have to be discarded and we will have to distance ourselves from such assessments and , Falin said that after the signing of a non aggression treaty in 1970 be in can the soviet Union and West Ger Many Many soviets began hoarding Salt matches and soap apparently remembering the treaty with the soviets that nazi Germany broke during world War when the people were asked Why icy were hoarding Falin said they said a treaty with Germany has been signed. That Means that War is of sergeant jailed for indecent acts Raf Lakenheath England is an air Force staff sergeant who and milled thai he molested a Friend s. 10-and 12-year-old daughters was Given a two year jail Lerm and a bad conduct dish arc Al a general court martial Friday. William Mapp an 11-year Mcleran As signed to the 48th trans so admitted to iwo Counis of indecent acts with a minor said maj. Bob Blevins the air Force prosecutor in the Case. The incidents occurred bal win april and october. The 29-year-old no also was reduced Loe a and ordered to forfeit $250 a month for 24 months. The Exmore va., native was tried and sentenced by air Force judge it. Col. Clinton c. Pearson. No in ludwigs Burg demoted for sex offence Stuttgart West Germany is a sergeant first class was demoted to sergeant this week after being convicted of co milling an indic Cal acl with a girl under 16. The sergeant assigned to the 51st Sig Nal in in ludwigs Burg had pleaded in Nocent to the charge wednesday Al a one Day trial at the Stuttgart trial Cen Ter a Vii corps spokesman said. The Inci Donl from which the charge stemmed occurred in november. The stars and stripes is withholding the def Andam s name to protect the Vic Tim who is a relative of the defend and
