European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday april 10,1990 Havel proposes All european Security commission be created Bratislava Czechoslovakia apr in a speech to a six nation conference on Central Europe monday president Vaclav Havel proposed creation of a new Security commission to gradually replace nato and the Warsaw pact. A it is impossible to return to the Europe of the past and therefore a timetable should be agreed upon to shape the Europe of the future Havel said in outlining his prescription for curbing the continents historic conflicts. The dissident playwright turned president suggested the Bratislava conference find ways to a build a solid Wall against All expressions of nationalism and chauvinism a said his spokesman Michael Zan Tovsky. The Daylong meeting gathered representatives of Poland Hungary and Czechoslovakia with Austria Italy and Hungary attending As observers. It seemed unlikely to reach any decisions on its Broad Agenda partly because Hungary was represented by officials of the reformed communist leadership that was soundly Defeated in Sun Days free elections. Jozsef Antall the Leader of the victorious hungarian democratic forum and the Likely new Premier of Hungary was invited but sent the party a vice president Ferenc Kulin hungarian officials said. Outlining 10 questions to the closed door meeting Havel invited consideration of a proposal to create a new All european Security commission this year Yantovsky told reporters. The idea was first outlined by foreign minister Jiri Dienstbier at a Warsaw pact meeting in Prague on March 17, when the czechoslovak said it Drew a mixed response the coolest reaction coming from the soviets. Both superpowers have reacted somewhat coldly to the insistence by Havel and Dienstbier that Europe a military blocs Are outdated and should be disbanded. Czechoslovakia wants to use the 35-nation Helsinki process involving the United states Canada and All european nations except Albania As the basis for the new Security commission and for new agreements to preserve peace on the worlds most heavily armed continent. Havel who called mondays conference for Poland Hungary and Czechoslovakia to Ponder cooperation in their a return to Europe a proposed the three Pool efforts to join the 12-nation european economic Community. He also said they should take a joint stand on the Warsaw pact and soviet economic bloc com econ. A three countries Are emerging from More than four decades of soviet domination and communist Rule. Uniting could help them combat the influence Likely to be wielded by a United Germany. However such cooperation could be marred both by conflicting interests such As those of debt Ridden Poland and relatively wealthy Czechoslovakia and by the ethnic conflicts that have clouded Eastern Europe a democratic reforms. Those conflicts could threaten european peace As they did Between the two world wars and for centuries before. Israeli soviet jews share Start of passover Jerusalem up a jews across Israel prepared monday for the Start of passover crowding stores to Purchase Flowers candies and last minute items for the festive meal where they will retell the Story of their ancestors exodus from Egypt. This passover occurs during a year promising to bring a record number of soviet immigrants to Israel a As Many As 100,000, according to government estimates. Slightly More than 12,900 immigrants came in 1989. Israeli families army Camps and other organizations have invited thousands of newcomers from the soviet Union and other countries for the traditional seder meal. Passover observed for seven Days in Israel and eight elsewhere begins at Sundown. During the Holiday leavened bread is prohibited and unleavened bread matzo is eaten to remind jews of the Speed at which their ancestors were forced to leave Egypt after 10 generations in slavery. Families clean their Homes from top to Bottom to make sure every Comer is free of All traces of leavened food known As Hametz. On the first night of passover families and friends gather for the seder meal where the haggadah Book is read aloud recounting the jewish exodus from Egypt. Children in Tel Aviv Israel join a group of rabbis in prayer beside a leftover leavened bread is burned to signal the Start of passover. A barrel in which news updates Memphis Belles Dies Memphis Tenn. Apr Margaret Polk the a Memphis Belle Quot whose Romance with a b-17 bomber Pilot became a celebrated world War ii love Story has died of cancer. She was 67. Polk died at her Home. A Bert Morgan who was widely credited with being the first b-17 Pilot to Complete 25 missions Over nazi occupied Europe named the plane a Memphis Belles in Honor of Polk. Morgan said his Long separation from Polk during the tour cooled the relationship. A she was a courageous lady and id like for her to be remembered As an upbeat person who never had a bad word for anybody a said Morgan now 69, of Asheville  recovered Zurich Switzerland apr a painting by Vincent Van Gogh missing since last month was recovered when three men tried to pick up $1.3 million in Ransom and were arrested police said. The Canvas a Wheatfield with sheaves a was recovered undamaged after the arrests said police spokesman Marcel Frieden. The painting disappeared from a warehouse of a moving company March 12.Mannheim service set for 10-year-old boy Mannheim West Germany a amps a a memorial service will be held wednesday for the 10-year-old Stepson of a Mannheim Soldier a Community spokeswoman said monday. Tyrone f. Idencio was found unconscious in his bedroom in Benjamin Franklin Village housing area sunday afternoon by his Mother said spokeswoman Doris Scott. The Mother Thealena Burks called . Medical personnel who attempted to revive the boy with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He was pronounced dead minutes later she said. Idencio was the Stepson of spec. Gerald j. Burks of the 377th trans co 28th trans in. No other details were available she said. The cause of death is being investigated by military officials. The memorial service will be held at the spinel i Barracks Chapel at 10 30 . Bank hookups ease Access to stateside Cash a. I m 11ju i i nil la j j. .1 j  Iii Limus. A a and Frankfurt West Germany a amps a merchants Bank Green machines at numerous locations in West Germany Are now connected to a pair of International Money machine networks giving overseas americans easy Access to stateside Bank accounts. The service is available to service members with stateside Bank cards even if they Are not account holders at the military Bank in Europe. However a service member a Bank Back Home must be part of either the Cirrus automated Teller network or the armed forces financial network before withdrawals can be made. Stateside Banks typically assess fees of Between 60 cents and 95 cents to Complete each transaction. To use the system service members simply insert their stateside Bank cards into one of the on line merchants Green machines punch in their personal identification numbers and make withdraw merchants Union Shii at Odds no Frankfurt West Germany unresolved issues include the size of Sas a merchants National rank an across the boat pay raise for Etc and the Union representing Bank to toy Desand management s request for toy yes in West Germany deadlocked Over a new Coa tract four months after a series of one Day strikes disrupted Bank operations. Bank and Aioo  met Dan 18, and no new Myrh Grare ached sled. Employees if Tenn to to Wiebort to we  Ted Lam some sunday work. Merchants serves military customers in West Germany the Netherlands Greece and Britain. The erne tract dispute affects Only the als. Account balance information and Cash advances on some credit cards Are also possible. All merchants Green machines will be linked to the Cirrus and Afan networks by the end of june. Green machines Are already hooked up in the following locations Truman Plaza in Berlin the Abrams building and Drake Cavern in Frankfurt the shopping Center and Patrick Henry Village in Heidelberg Ansbach a Hindenburg Cavern Katterbach army Airfield Vogel Weh shopping Center in Kaiserslautern Benjamin Franklin Village in Mannheim Ramstein a Rhein main a Kelley and Patch Barracks in Stuttgart Ana Wurzburg. Machines to be connected m april Are located at Jager Cavern in a Chatlen Burg Warner Barracks in Bamberg Baum older Cambrai Fritsch Cavern and Kelley Barracks in Darnstadt be Frankfurt shopping Center the Shopp no Center and Kalb theater in Furth. Cavern in Karlstedt the Samusch shopping Center the Giessen shopping Ter and filling station the Hanau s p Ping Center Karlsruhe shopping c Harvey Barracks in Khz men Barracks in Schweinfurt Robmson b Racks in Stuttgart and the wies