European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes a coup try crushed afghan regime says. A surfs up a indoors. A tackling the Tough aids issues. A sooner take Over no. 1 spot. Page 21 the Simand amp of r Pes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 324 wednesday March 7, 1990 a a 25 daily and sunday d 8693 a Panama gis Aid drug ring lbs reports new York apr a cocaine smuggling ring involving . Soldiers and colombian suppliers was broken up recently in Panama lbs news reported in its monday night broadcast. Lbs citing unidentified military sources said at least seven colombians and two americans have been arrested. One service member confessed that he recruited soldiers to smuggle cocaine into the United states aboard military flights lbs said. The soldiers were paid up to $10,000 each to carry drugs according to the report. The Pentagon referred questions about the report to the . Southern come in Panama City. A spokeswoman there Marjorie a. Boggs said the command was a coordinating with investigative agencies to see if there is anything to the  according to the lbs report officials investigating fridays grenade attack on a Panama City nightclub in which one . Soldier was killed Are looking into the possibility that the bombing was connected to the breakup of the smuggling ring. The attack wounded 15 other american service members and 12 panamanians. It was the first such attack on . Soldiers in Panama since the dec. 20 in see gis on Back Page anniversary March a amps Scott a. Miller East German soldiers March in tightly closed ranks during a ceremony celebrating the 40th anniversary of their Cavern in bad a Lungen. But the ranks of the country a army Are far from closed soldiers at the base told the stars and stripes. During a visit last week to East Germany staff writer de Reavis and photographer Scott a. Miller met with East German soldiers and citizens to talk about their country s problems. Their series begins today on Page 13 with a look at the riddled ranks of the National Peoples army. S8ts l. Emmett Lewis  honoured a ceremony in rfcs Felsheim West Germany tuesday honors those who ran to help people injured in a Rush hour train collision last month. For details see Page 28. . Wants european allies to take larger Load Taft says shr a changing roles in Europe by David Tarrant Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium a the United states responding to the cold War thaw and pressures to bring its soldiers Home Hopes to gradually shift its military burdens to its prosperous european allies the . Representative to nato says. But even As it looks to define its new roles in Europe the United states appears destined to continue at least for the time being in its old role As Western Europe a ultimate guarantor of Security said William h. Taft in the . Ambassador to nato. A i do see the requirement continuing into the future for a significant . Presence in Europe on the ground a Taft said in an interview this week in Brussels. A this. Is the glue to the Alliance. And without that you would not have a credible strategic deterrent for the Alliance or a credible conventional  president Bush s state of the Union address in january called for cutting both . And soviet troop Levels to 195.000 in Central Europe. The soviets recently indicated their agreement to the proposal which has been included in conventional arms control talks in Vienna Austria. Taft said such cuts which will reduce . 80.000 troops. Forces in Europe by about. Are unlikely to erode the traditional american role As Leader of the Alliance partly because see Taft on Back Page Kohl Abandons his demand that Poland make concessions Bonn West Germany apr Chancellor Helmut Kohl trying to mend a rift in his government and ease International concern about German unification tuesday abandoned his demand that Poland make concessions in Exchange for a Border treaty officials said. Related Story Page 28. Kohls government agreed to introduce a Resolution in parliament saying that a United Germany should sign a treaty promising it will never Lay claim to polish land said the chancellors chief of staff Rudolf Seiters. The proposed Resolution to be introduced thursday is the closest the West German government has come to assuring Poland that a United Germany would never seek to recover land lost after the 1945 defeat of the third Reich. Kohl has been reluctant to make such a statement apparently fearing he would lose the conservative vote in december elections. He has said he cannot speak for a United Germany. His recent statements on the Border Issue have stirred unease in Poland the soviet Union the United states and elsewhere just As the Chancellor was seeking International support for German unification. His statements also caused controversy at Home. The opposition social democrats and Kohls coalition partners the free democrats charged he was Leopar see Poland on Back Page