European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 9 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 48, no. 354 Friday april 6, 1990 a a 25� Dally and sunday d 8693 Summit set for May Washington apr president Bush and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev will hold a five Day Summit in the United states beginning May 30, the two superpowers announced thursday. A a in a looking Forward to meeting with him a Bush told reporters. The simultaneous announcements came from the White House and the official soviet news Agency Tass As Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze were holding their second Day of meetings expected to focus on arms control issues. Bush said the talks Between Baker and Shevardnadze Are a going reasonably the president is scheduled to meet with the soviet minister on Friday. Bush and Gorbachev have planned the Summit to discuss three major arms control agreements on Long Range nuclear missiles chemical arms and troops and weapons in Europe. They Are also expected to discuss such political issues As Germany reunification. The two leaders Hopie to sign a treaty limiting Long Range nuclear missiles deployed on land in submarines and aboard bomb ers but several knotty issues must be settled first. Scheduling the Summit weeks earlier than initially anticipated could pose a problem. Baker and Shevardnadze both stressed How Little time there was to prepare. A there is very Little time Only seven weeks a Shevardnadze said. A there is still a great amount of work to be done. And this time the Agenda As everybody knows is very Baker agreed. A quite a bit of work remains to be done a he said. A we Hope As far As our Side is concerned we will be Able to move Forward on the full Range of our in the arms control Field Bush and Gorbachev May initial an agreement for a phased reduction of american and soviet chemical weapons. But an International ban depends on agreement among More than a score of nations negotiating terms in Geneva. They could set final terms for reducing . And soviet conventional forces in Europe but a treaty would have to be finalized at a 35-nation Summit meeting later this German parliament has 1st session Berlin apr East Germany a first freely chosen parliament declared the nation a democracy on wednesday and began building a political system that will Lead it to unification with West Germany. The lawmakers elected in the nations first democratic ballot on March 18 convened for the first time and formally dismantled the communist system that ruled for four decades. Meeting in the Palace of the Republic which was built by the former stalinist regime the 400-member parliament began rewriting the Constitution to Mirror that of West Germany. The new legislature and the government it creates could be East Germany a last As a Sovereign state As the nation moves closer to unification with West Germany. The parliament also empowered Christian Democrat Leader Lothar de Maiziere whose party won the most seats in the parliament to build a new government from the 11 parties represented in the parliament. Christian Democrat Sabine Bergmann Pohl was elected president of parliament and urged lawmakers a that we do Justice to our responsibilities and that we soon sit in a common German Bergmann Pohl who will serve As acting head of state called on lawmakers to work with their counterparts in West Germany to merge their nations and to bring the capital of a single Germany Back to a United Berlin. The gathering was Rich in symbolism and the culmination of the revolt that toppled the former cd mum most regime last fall but the shape of de Maiziere a see parliament on Back Page Little Soldier boy a youngster wearing a chinese soldiers uniform and clutching a toy Rifle holds his fathers hand As they walk by Tiana men Square in Beijing. Meanwhile real armed soldiers guard the Square. See Story and photo on Page 8. Soviets seize Legal offices in Lithuania Moscow apr about 50 armed soviet soldiers dressed As policemen invaded the lithuanian prosecutors offices thursday expelled employees and occupied the building said witnesses and spokesmen for the republics parliament. The incident came a Day after Lithuania a secessionist government accused the Kremlin of backing forces Bent on its overthrow. Lithuania and Moscow have faced off in a tense showdown since the Republic declared Independence March 11. Statements in recent Days indicated movement toward a common ground including a possible referendum by lithuanians. But thursday men armed with automatic weapons entered the prosecutors office site of a previous soviet attempt to seize authority from officials appointed by the breakaway republics government. The men a fully occupied the building and there Are six or eight paratroopers on each floor dressed As policemen a Henrika Poncei Secretary to Lithuania a chief prosecutor said in a Telephone interview from Vilnius. A bulletin put out by the lithuanian supreme Council quoted Kazimieras Motieka Deputy Leader of the parliament As saying soldiers were a dressed in police uniform is and carried boxes of ammunition with them into the the chief prosecutor is the republics top Law enforcement authority. A confrontation arose at the same offices last week when Moscow officials tried to remove arturas Paulauskas the chief prosecutor appointed by the new lithuanian government and install their own Man. Employees refused to obey the Moscow loyalist and see soviets on Back Page elusive serial rapist terrorizing a town area by Deedee Arrington Doke Kaiserslautern Bureau Kaiserslautern West Germany to the a town rapist who has eluded police and baseball Bat toting vigilantes for three years has left an imprint of fear in Kaiserslautern county. About a year ago for example the wife of an american Soldier acting on what she called a a weird instinct a whirled around to see someone looming behind her. Her eyes met those of a Man coming toward her on a a prey amp round. The Small woman put her child and his playmate in a stroller and quickly headed for Home in Vogel Weh government housing As the Sun went Down. A fall that was in my mind was a that a him. We be got to go Home a a she said of the encounter. But her fear lingers. Because laundry facilities Are in the basement of the unsecured housing building she washes and dries clothes Only when her husband can go with her. And he watches for her from the window when she is due Home from her evening exercise class. A even. To take the trash out during the Day i always look behind my Twenty two women have been victims of unsolved rapes or attempted rapes in the special agent Woody Taylor of the air Force office of special investigations said that 22 rapes Over three years is High for an area like Kaiserslautern. The victims All women have been americans and West germans Between 19 and 70 years of age. Most have been attacked during hours of darkness and All of the assaults artists composite picture of suspect. Greater Kaiserslautern area Between feb. Have taken place near wooded areas. 23, 1987, and Jan. 25, 1990. One Man is the rapist is described As a Black Man responsible for at least five of the rapes with a husky athletic build. He is 20 to . And West German investigators said. 35 years old is acne scarred and is by police believe he also committed most of tween 5 feet 7 inches and 6 feet 2 inches the other attacks. A West German police tall. He often carries a knife spokesman said the attacker is believed to he is Strong. So Strong be the country a first serial rapist. So Strong authorities continued on Page 3
