European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes a . Team in Vietnam for Mia search Page 2 a lawmaker tries to kill Italy base for f-16spage 3 a cartoonist does no to quibble he loves quibble Page 9 a notre Dame beats Syracuse 66-65 in last second Page 21 the St  authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 40, no. 308 monday february 19, 199/ a it forms Sass dalt to and sunday d 8693 a soviets stall on nato Issue Threal Ilock German Rosum Katf amp i West Berlin apr the soviet Union will Block the reunification of Germany if the West insists on nato membership for the combined states a top adviser to soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev saturday. Also saturday two West  said Chancellor Helmut Kohl and foreign minister Hans Dietrich  made concessions to Moscow last week to win Kremlin support for reunification. The run  reports which said the 1 i l i Iii Witt Wii aug i in to seek immedi ate. Inn of Poland Herder by a if maj Germany and promised that East a Teal would continue to Supply the soviets with much needed food and farm equipment. In an attempt to Calm soviet fears about Security Genscher on saturday ruled out Basing nato troops on what is now East German soil. A the West is agreed that with a unification of Germany there will not be any eastward  of  Genscher told the  Rund Funk radio station.  conflicted to some extent with those of  minister Gerhard Stoltenburg who said of Nav Tosh Valji military protections should extend Quot without cake ninja . Germany in the see soviets on Back Page s4s a Evjy  b Vasile Marinel a revived with friends help romanian tells of torture note reporter Randy moly spent 10 Days in is the first of his re editors Mcclain romania.1 ports. Me daily is a filial in Day. By i Brasol Marinel id his stories Are in today s one. Starting on Page 13. Lament will appear tues Andy Mcclain Taft writer. Romania a Vasile irn cd firsthand How continued on Back Page a tics rip a plan require us Homs loan Down p by Janet Howells Tierney a ppm staggers its by Washington Bureau Washington a the veterans administration wants to require Down payments on Home Loans and critics in Congress say the Rule change would prevent Many veterans from buying Homes. The proposal would eliminate one of a the Hallmarks of the a loan  officials said it was necessary to suit Ruthc tide of defaults on mortgage we cd by the administration. It Quot the no Down payer tent provision is a Keystone of the Yard Gram because veterans Are generally hard pressed to save enough us front Home Purchase Money after raving their jobs and education behind to serve in the military Quot said rep. Harley o. Staggers. Do a.  a ctr Theva for Niort go help had or less in Cash a the a for Down pay Sci As part of its proposed 1991 budget. It would require staggers Down payments of less than 4 percent of the Purchase Price. The a had 3.964.649 outstanding Home Loans in fiscal 1988, and 126.253 of those ended in default an official reported. Quot we have had a problem with rising defaults in recent  said Bonner Day. A a spokesman. Quot studies have shown that borrowers who make a Down payment Are less Likely to default on a . In an attempt to control costs a Law went into effect Jan. 1 raising the a loan fee from i percent to 1.25 percent apr veterans using their Home loan Gua Benefit. Now the a is asking Lor crease to 1.75 percent.  say the increase will avoid  additional funding from cont Flag p keep the program afloat. A we be had to ask for  front Congress for the last few is hts Day said. But if our recommendations see a on Back Page Reagan finishes Iran Contra taping. A. Jim a or. By the Washington Post los Angeles a former president Ronald Reagan saturday completed his videotape testimony in the Iran Contra trial of former National Security adviser John m. Poindexter. Reagan underwent about eight hours of questioning Over two Days. Testifying behind locked doors at the . District courthouse Here Reagan endured what appears to have been the most comprehensive examination of his role in the foreign policy scandal. Reagan testified for about three hours saturday. As he left the courtroom at 2 12  Reagan 79. Waved to reporters. But said nothing As bodyguards led him out a stairwell. In a statement spokesman Mark Weinberg said Reagan a testified fully and completely Quot to questions from Poindexter a lawyers and the Independent counsel prosecuting Poindexter. Poindexter s chief lawyer Richard w. Acc Klyr said a the testimony is finished. That Sall i can  Mary Belcher press spokesman for Independent counsel Lawrence e. Walsh said lawyers involved will submit briefs this week on the a a circumstances regarding the release of the tape of Reagan s testimony. . District judge Harold h. Greene has ordered that the tape be made Public possibly As Early As this week. Greene who came from Washington to preside closed the courtroom to protect what has been called sensitive National Security data. The data will be deleted before the testimony is released. A version will be played to the jury at see Reagan on Back Page Navy warns of virus that hit computer network by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau the Navy has issued a warning to network computer users after a memory consuming virus crippled a computer network in Spain for three weeks. The virus known As Quot Jerusalem Strain a Quot slowed to a Hall a network in the Madrid Headquarters of the Navy s officer in charge of construction Mediterranean. The network was returned to full service last week said Jim Gale the outfit s automated data processing Security officer. Although no data were lost and the network s two dozen individual personal computers could be used operators could not use shared data bases and files stored on the network s 120-megabyte hard disk drive. The virus also prevented use of the networks printers Gale said. To prevent another outbreak of the virus naval commands in the Mediterranean area Are warning network computer users to avoid the use of electronic bulletin boards a common source of the virus. The first symptom in Madrid of the infection a also known As the a Plo Quot and the Quot Friday the 3th virus a was a Small rectangle appearing in the lower left Comer of computer screens. The virus gradually took Over the network s computer memory causing machines to slow and eventually Stop he said. The system was restored to full operation with the help of the naval regional data automation Center in Norfolk a. The Center sent an expert with a program enabling the construction Headquarters to identify and eliminate the virus Gale said. It has not been determined How the virus got into the system. Gale suspects an employee May have acc Dently introduced in by running an unauthorized program on one of the networks computers. Quot the virus never spread outside the Headquarters Quot Gale said. While he could not estimate the exact Cost of restoring the system. Gale said it was expensive. The network used chiefly for word processing involving construction projects contained no classified information. It was shut Down for a week while experts tried to determine the cause of its problems