European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside Stroeb d publisher Malcolm Forbes Dies of heart attack Page 2 d . Planning help for gis caught in cuts Page 2 d airline smoking ban goes into effect in  Page 5 d former baseball Star Tony Conigliaro Dies Page 21 the stub and unofficial publication Fob 1x1 . Armed focal Good morning void. 48. No. 315 monday february 26. 1990 T  m bum., d 8693 a lithuanian opposition claims landslide Victory in election Vilnius. . Up Lithuania s opposition saudis organization according to unofficial tallies sunday swept to Victory at the polls dealing a blow to the soviet Republic s two communist parties. But saudis Leader vytautis Landsbergis cautioned that new almost dictatorial Powers sought by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev May become the main obstacle to lithuanian Independence and that military intervention could not be ruled out. Related Story Page 28. Gorbachev May get a w Ide scope of Power. Lands Burgis said. He added they want to Stop the collapse of the soviet Union. The Power May be aimed at blocking lithuanian  he said saudis representatives and lithuanian communist party Leader Algirdas Brazauskas plan to travel to Moscow sunday evening to Start talks with the soviet leadership. Despite his communist party leadership. Brazauskas scored an overwhelming Victory in the first official results announced by the election commission. He won 91.7 percent of the votes in his District. The popular Leader a Likely presidential contender in a free Lithuania splintered off from the soviet communist party last year creating a loyalist communist  results from saturday s election were slow in coming but unofficial results provided by the Well organized saudis showed a landslide Victory by the  results Are expected monday afternoon. If it is not a landslide. I Don t know what a land see Victory on Back Page Gao finds overseas service members Short millions in allowances by Janet iio\vei.ls-11krneywashington Bureau Washington  stationed overseas have been shorted millions of dollars in housing and Cost of living allowances the general accounting office said in a just released study. According to the Gao. The investigative  of Congress underpayments just for moving expenses for service members stationed at six overseas bases totalled More than $4 million. Much of the underpayments result from faulty data used by the defense department s per diem. Transportation and travel allowance committee. The Gao also faulted the committee for Lack of internal management controls. The study ordered by the House armed services committee relied on interviews with 200 service members at i overseas installations Between August l 88andjunc 1989. Six installations included in the study Are in Europe including Frankfurt. A Litzburg and Kaiserslautern in West Germany. Rota. Spain Naples. Italy and the Raf Lakenheath Mildenhall area in  an increase from $382 million in i985 to about $1.2 billion in 1988. Overseas housing allowances do not cover such costly expenses As automobile registration repairs and insurance the study  non rent portions of the hous ing allo Wance such As utilities maintenance and expenses from moving in and out were computed incorrectly. See Gao on Back Page thumb s up nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega holds up his Ink stained thumb Sun Day to certify that he voted in the elec Tion. Related Story on Page 28. Shuttle launch scrubbed again Cape canal r u. Ii. A the launch of the shuttle  tis on a secret military in vision  scrubbed with a seconds left in the countdown Earls sunday lol lowing three Days of delays caused by unfavourable weather. Nasa tentatively rescheduled the launch for monday about i . Pending Resolution of a computer problem that caused the postpone ment. The five astronauts who had been lying on their backs in the spacecraft for nearly five hours de parted the launch pad an hour after the scrub. Sources said that the $500 Mil lion satellite to be deployed on the Mission will be capable of taking sup Sharp photos and listening inon military and diplomatic communications around the world. Bush Kohl say a reunified Germany should remain full nato member Camp David. Mil. A presi Dent Bush said sunday he and West Ger Man Chancellor Helmut Kohl have agreed that a reunified Germany should remain a full member of  including military participation in the Western Alliance. Kohl who met with Bush at the Camp David presidential Retreat Over the week end said. Neutralise would be a very false  after two Davs of discussions Over delicate issues of a reunified  said he recognizes the legitimate Security interests of All states in Europe particularly Poland. Poland decimated by the nazis i world War ii fears that a new Germany would seek to regain Border territory that was formerly under German Rule. Nonetheless. Bush and Kohl said they Sec no need to include Poland in discussions on reunification involving the four Allied Powers from world War ii and the two Germany. Hast Germany is a member of the so Viet dominated Warsaw pact and Many in Europe have supported the concept Ofa Neutral Germany rather than one Allied with the United slates and other nato nations. East Germany like Poland has abandoned its communist monopoly govern ment and the two Germany Are discussing the adoption of a common currency based on the West German system. Neutralise would be a very false so Lution for  said Kohl adding that he does not expect the German Public to support a move away from nato. In a joint news conference after the talks. Kohl was asked whether soviet troops Long based in East Germany might be Welcome to stay in a new Germany. A unified Germany cannot belong to two different Security systems he said. When asked if Germany might develop an Independent nuclear weapons sys tem he said we Are not at All longing to be an atomic  Issue of German reunification is at the Center of dramatic political upheavals in Europe the past  allies that Defeated nazi Ger Many in world War ii the United states soviet Union Britain and France have agreed to Convene meetings that Are Likely to Lead to a unified Germany perhaps As soon As this year. Bush told the news conference that the timetable was up to the germans and that he was not trying to Speed it up or slow it  sweeping changes in the soviet see nato on Back Page