European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 3,1990 news briefs some Long distance Cal sin Germany to be cheaper Bonn West Germany a amps a callers in West Germany now get More for their Money when they make Long distance Calls to locations at least 62 Miles away. The Long distance time unit was extended beginning sunday to 18 seconds from 15 seconds while the unit Price remained at 23 pfennig. That Means a Call can last 20 percent longer for the same Price. The new rates include Calls made to East Germany. In addition West German Calls to and from West Berlin will be cheaper because that Call unit has been extended to 24 seconds from 20 seconds. And a toll free system similar to the 1-800 system in the United states went into effect sunday. Previously callers paid local Call Rales when they used the system which is known As service 130. The Price paid by companies and customers. The a to be included in the system also was reduced sunday when the Call unit was expanded to 15 seconds from 12 seconds. About 2,400 customers can be reached on the system which was introduced in 1983. Toll free numbers have the prefix 0130.Lithuania Hopes soviets will agree to hold talks Moscow apr Lithuania on monday invited soviet officials to visit Vilnius and sent a delegation to Moscow in Hopes of beginning talks toward resolving a tense standoff Over the Baltic republics declaration of Independence. Lithuanian president vytautas Landsbergis said he hoped for a peaceful settlement despite soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a demand saturday that the Baltic republics parliament renounce its March 11 move to secede. Vilnius was reported to be mostly quiet monday. About 1,000 pro  demonstrators rallied outside the lithuanian prosecutors office against the occupation of the building Friday night by soviet soldiers sources said. Both a prosecutor appointed by Lithuania a breakaway government and one sent from Moscow were working in the building monday and employees reported no direct conflicts. Murder from Page 1 monday to discuss the consequences of the recent verdict the spokesman said. Leonardo Williams a spokesman for the . Embassy said shorts commander a Legal officer three unarmed military policemen and three Drivers were prepared to take Short into custody if the United states had been awarded jurisdiction. A when informed Friday morning that the supreme court had not authorized shorts being turned Over to . Authority they returned to Soester Borg a Williams said. Short would have been flown to a . Military Hospital in West Germany for psychiatric evaluation. A this would have been the first step in determining whether Short should be returned to his unit at soes Turberg to face possible charges a Williams said. The television report quoted a defense lawyer for Short As saying that the americans were trying to mount a a Little Panama a an apparent reference to the . Invasion of that nation in  chemical weapons. From Page 1 a French built iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in june 1981. Israel claimed Iraq was using it to develop nuclear weapons but Baghdad denied the charge. British authorities arrested several iraqis in London last week on accusations that they tried to smuggle electronic devices called Kry trons from the United states. The devices Are used to trigger nuclear weapons. In his first Public comment on the arrests Saddam denied claims that Iraq intended to use the devices for atomic weapons. He said they were a Only condensers that we bought for $10,500, and its not logical that these could be used in atomic  but he defended iraqis right to build unconventional weapons. A i categorically deny that we have any atomic bombs but let them iraqis critics hear Here and now that we do possess binary chemical weapons which Only the United states and the soviet Union also have a he declared. These weapons contain two relatively Safe compounds that Are mixed shortly before release to create lethal toxic gases. It was believed to be the first time the iraqi Leader has admitted that his county possesses binary weapons although Western intelligence agencies have Long said the iraqis were developing such weapons at top secret installations. In a Clear reference to Israel believed to be the Middle East a Only nuclear Power Saddam said a those who Are threatening us with nuclear bombs we warn them that we will hit them with these binary half of Israel Quot sue a a a a a amp to Nti sate Iraq a and to pave hey of attack  y c via Israel t0 iraqi officials admitted that they used no chemical weapons during the 1980-88 War Wiklof but claimed they used them in self defense an they deny widespread allegations by govern and human rights groups that they Ikin lil weapons outlawed under a 1925 Geneva ns1ca,l against their kurdish minority a in Quot Arcas Quot belch hlr0t0co1list rebel kurd. Separa almost 100,000 iraqi kurd fled to Turkov gust 1988 claiming that iraqi warplanes were dron11 chemical weapons on their villages. Are Ping j Iraq has warned Israel several times in the no a a i years against launching preemptive strikes Affias burgeoning arms Industry. Baghdad now says in?,?1 name of non Dicino  Morriw j j1 Ca Pable of producing Long Range missiles and Rock t can put satellites into orbit. In december Iraq announced it had tested to Long Range missiles with ranges of up to 200 m a enough to reach either Tehran or Tel Aviv a a 1 Israel said a preemptive strike was unlikely de Smitj Iraq s development of missile technology. Saddam a fierce rhetoric comes amid growing Arnol frustration with israelis refusal to enter peace talks Witzl palestinians. Tension has also mounted Over an expect is flood of tens of thousands of soviet jewish emigrants Ini Israel following Moscow a easing of travel restrictions i Saddam claimed that during the War with Iran a Iraq was offered enriched uranium and even a in i plete atomic bomb by people who were either Ameri i can British or zionist agents. But Iraq turned Down these  1 he gave no details. Scores of prison rioters surrender Manchester England apr guards retook half of a victorian prison devastated by an uprising and scores of inmates surrendered to authorities monday. Forty nine guards and prisoners were injured in the rioting sunday at the medium Security Strangeways prison one of Europe a most crowded. On monday the prison looked like the scene of a bombing said Ivor Serle a chapter chairman of the prison officers association. A the prison is wrecked inside and will have to be virtually rebuilt a he said. A it is like a building that has been  firefighters working under police Protection brought under control fires set in the Chapel and a gymnasium but smoke still billowed from one Corner of the building. About a dozen inmates were huddled on the shattered roof of a 100-foot-High prison building in the rain monday morning occasionally shouting abuse and hurling roof tiles into the Yard below. Some wore prison officers shirts and several were wrapped in Green prison blankets. A helicopter clattered Over the prison area in this Northern Industrial City. Earlier eyewitnesses said one prisoner climbed up on the roof dangling a police officers riot shield As a trophy. The Home office said All but 119 of the prisons 1,648 inmates had surrendered by late morning guards seized half of the facility without a fight but inmates still controlled five of the prisons 10 wings Serle said. Serle said reports that 12 sex offenders were killed by other prisoners could not be confirmed. He said no bodies had been found. All guards were accounted Fot and no hostages were taken. Prisoners on the roof raised a Flag late monday afternoon saying a no dead a but Home Secretary David Waddington told the House of commons that the pot Sivility of deaths a cannot be ruled  e. German party chief quits under fire East Berlin apr the charismatic head of East Germany a social democratic party quit his Post amid allegations he had links to the hated Stasi secret police his party announced monday. Ibrahim Bohme who denies the allegations said he was resigning because it will take a lengthy investigations to Clear up the accusations said August Kamilli a High ranking social Democrat. East Germany has been thrown into a political crisis by charges that Many of its politicians had links to the Stasi secret police which the former hard line communist leaders used to control East Germany. The accusations have seriously overshadowed efforts by the conservative Alliance that won East Germany a March 18 elections to put together a coalition government with the social democrats. Bohme became the second top political Leader to give up his Post because of allegations of Stasi links just before the elections Wolfgang Schnur admitted former ties to the communists secret police Andi resigned As head of democratic Awakening one of in parties in the Alliance for Germany which won m  from Page 1 Marshall Cavern. A seven in Mainz a Lee Barracks a military housing area and a sports area at an Der san Flora the Airfield at Mainz Fin then the training area on the Rhine River at Mainz Mombach the Wackenheim ammunition depot and the Ober Olmyr Forest training area. Wagner said he went to Washington to seek information about the extent and Speed of planned . Reduction of troops and to discuss details of such reductions. He said he asked . Officials that a Ger Man american committee be formed to work out compromises in Case of differences about which installations should be returned first. He did not discuss the installations he would like to be considered first for closure. A it is far too Early for that a he said. A first we have to know the number of american troops that Are going to be withdrawn. Those figures Are not available yet. They depend on the talks in Vienna and on the .  in an interview in Washington last week he said the state a would like to see the . Close first those bases where we have the Best Opportunity to develop alternative uses and create  Wagner said it was his understanding that troops would be withdrawn from Europe in two phases one beginning in the near future and lasting until 1995 and a second phase in the latter half of the 1990s. A even after these reductions i believe there will be quite a few . Troops left in Germany a he said. The government of Rheinland Pfalz studied 21 areas in the state where the . Military employs West German civilian work forces of 50 or More be fore deciding on its two lists. Another fist also has been prepared he saw. Too Early now to release it a he added. Sources in Bonn said last week that. For. Coordinate his initiative with the West . Thai eign ministry. The foreign ministry typically Tarasi Lead in discussions with other National govern i a we done to encourage it a the source said my such As Wagner a. A but nobody can Prohic a Vest German military source said. The j by bypassing the foreign ministry had by bypassing the foreign m a Wjk ii to Ore complicated  but Wagne i Sec j with the seated in the United states were German ministry of  a Rte a a up nitration of Rheinland Pfalz has the highest Csc recall americans outside the United states j population includes 68,000 military per to. Family members and 9,000 civilians. Washington ant contributing to this report staff writers it Chuck Deedee Arrington Doke in Kaiserslautern West a y