European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o Canadian forces cutbacks won t hit troops Europe Page 2 o Kentucky Man gets 16 years fatal bus Accident Page s o with 20-ton gear unit plays the heavies Page 9 o Hawks end pistons winning Streak at 13 Page 21 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 48, no. 314 sunday february 25, Good morn Lna d 8693 a it. Go Wii Leader Washington m. Gavin airborne is dead it. Gen. James m. Gavin.19sji .5d,.n Moscow suggests of 750j300 one of inc youngest am rican generals of world War ii died Friday Al the age of 82. Inc Pentagon said Friday night. Pentagon Spok Tsirlin maj. Bill o c Onnell s d a died Al a Nurs Home the Baltimore area. Taiin commanded Hie 82nd airborne div do Wii and jumped with is troops several Assai is. Including Normandy id the ill fated attack at / n him. He held inc two stars of a major general who was .17. Early critic of he Gavin Vietnam War. Gavin served As ambassador to France under Kennedy and later was chairman of Arthur 0. Little & co. Inc Cambridge continued Back Page troops Vienna. Austria a the soviet Union. A suggested that nato and the Warsaw pact limit Cir troops Central Europe to 750,000 each Lynn East German negotiator said. Of the superpowers have agreed to a Cal Frog of 195.000 troops each for the United slates a of soviet Union Central Europe. The agreement reached Jef Mellings among nato and Warsaw pact foreign ministers Ottawa is to depart of a final Accord reducing troops tanks Artil Lery and other non Ftp Clear arms Europe. Negotiators Hope to a cacti agreement the Accord before the end of this year. The new proposal combined with East bloc nations plans Var Cut their own armed forces would Lead Tonato having More manpower the Region than the a saw pact. East Germany s chief Delegate at the Arv to talks. Klaus Dieter Ernst said thursday. Erab said the seven Warsaw pact countries would have Rwal troop strength Central Europe of 600.000 to 160,000. While the West would Hac a total of some i Mitra troops. That Ernst said. Western to contest Ernst s Esti mate saying nato Haru out 900.000 troops Cen trial Europe which covers Fesl Germany. Last Ger Many the Netherlands ill Giurin. Luxembourg. Czechoslovakia. Poland Hungary Ujiki Denmark. the Wake of democratic Reform Jin East european nations and their growing independen syrom the soviet Union. Hungary Ana a have begun negotiations with the Kremlin a total withdrawal of soviet troops from their territories. Those talks Are separate from the ongoing Vienna talks. Carter Nicaragua former president Jimmy cuter and wife Rosilynn arrive it Managua air port Friday. Carter is heading a delegation of International observers to Monitor sunday s elections Nicara Gua. Related Story Page 4. Bush mourns death of Al Salvador s Duarte at age 64 san Salvador Al Salvador a Jose Napoleon Duane who became Al Salvador s first democratically elected president 50 years died Friday of respiratory failure. He was 64. Duarte s death was announced by his personal physician Jose Luis Saca. Duarte who was unable to end a 10-year civil War that battered his nation had been battling liver cancer for months. Washington the White House announced that president Bush and his wife. Barbara were deeply saddened by the death. The statement also said that Bush and Duarte enjoyed a warm close working Duarte who is to be buried sunday governed from 1984 until june 1989. When his Christian democrats lost control of Congress and he had to turn the presidency Over to Alfredo Cristiani. Leader of the rightist Arena party sup ported by the oligarchy that Duarte fought for so Long. Washington the White House said a statement that Duarte had brought a message of Hope to All of latin Ameri Ca. President Duarte was the father of salvadoran democracy a dedicated serv ant to the people of Al Salvador and a firm Friend of the United states said the statement issued by presidential press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater. His Wisdom and dedication to the growth of democracy Central americ Awill be Long remembered. President Duarte was also a Strong supporter and exponent behalf of human rights and social Justice and has left a Strong legacy this the White House also announced vice president Dan Quayle was leading a . Delegation to Duarte s funeral. Quayle. Who met with Duarte latin american issues Al Salvador and Washington joins president Bush expressing his sadness and his sympathies to the family said Quayle s spokesman David acc Mcwith. Quayle was to Fly to Al Salvador Sun Day morning and was to continue a planned trip to los Angeles sunday night. May 19x8. Doctors at Walter Reed army medical Center Washington diagnosed Duarte s cancer removed 60 percent of his stomach and said it had spread to his liver. At that Lime doctors gave him from six to 18 months to live. Duarte. Who was once arrested beaten and exiled for ins Fidelity to democracy called his inauguration 1984 a Light the Long night of horror and he Lik ened himself to Moses delivering a peo ple from their tribulations. Duarte was crucial to the replacement of authoritarian Semi Feudal system with incipient democracy. But he finished his term and his life burdened by failures compromises frustration and dashed did t work miracles said a see Duarte Back Page
