European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Billy Joel pulls no punches a Page 13 the a is Anil ripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 25 wednesday May 9,1990 a a 254 daily and sunday d 8693 afire aboard Navy ship kills Sailor injures 12 Norfolk a. Apr a fire broke out Early tuesday aboard the guided missile destroyer Conyngham about 80 Miles off North Carolina killing a Crew member and injuring at least 12 others the Navy said. Five of the sailors had injuries serious enough to require evacuation to Shore said capt. Paul Hanley a . Atlantic Fleet spokesman. The Conyngham was conducting routine operations with 383 Crew members aboard when the fire broke out at 5 35 . In the ships engineering area officials said. Fleet spokesmen had no information on the extent of the Blaze or damage to the ship. Hanley said three coast guard cutters were standing by along with the guided missile Cruiser Normandy and the destroyer Briscoe As the con see fire on Back Page approximate location of ship fire Bush willing to discuss tax raises Washington apr president Bush is ruling out raising income taxes but is willing to discuss other tax increases ranging from a National sales tax to higher levies on alcohol and cigarettes. Republican lawmakers said tuesday. Bush discussed taxes with congressional gop leaders after budget director Richard Darman delivered a gloomy assessment of the Economy said participants at a White House meeting. Bush invited Republican members of Congress to a meeting to discuss ways of cutting the deficit. A value added taxes taxes on booze and cigarettes a National lottery a one cent National sales tax All sorts see Bush on Back Page Kohl rejects soviet suggestion Bonn West Germany apr Chancellor Helmut Kohl on tuesday rejected Moscow a suggestion of delaying International settlement of the military complications of German unification and East Germany said it does not favor the idea. Speaking to reporters Kohl said the matter of a United Germany a military allegiances must be cleared up before the two German nations Are formally merged. Kohl said the germans a need no singular nation a meaning that a United Germany should have its sovereignty. The Chancellor was referring to a suggestion by soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze at last weeks unification talks in Bonn that formal Unity could occur before a a external aspects of the merger process Are cleared up. During saturdays meeting of the two Germany and the four world War ii victors Shevardnadze also suggested a a transition period during which the four wartime allies would retain postwar rights even after German Unity. Shevardnadze a remarks had initially triggered jubilation among some West German politicians who sensed that the Pace of unification was rapidly picking up. But by tuesday that had changed into concern about delaying settlement of the International aspects of German unification. There had even been talk among some politicians of cancelling West Germany a dec. 2 Federal balloting in favor of elections for a United Germany a parliament. But Kohl said tuesday a without questions the dec. 2 elections will still occur. S s it 1 Helmut Kohl Frankfurt killer prowls Parks for homeless by de Reavis staff writer Frankfurt West Germany a a killer armed with an Iron bar is stalking Frankfurt Sparks by night and crushing the skulls of the homeless sleeping on Park benches. The killers bloody Trail began feb. 1, when he beat a homeless Man into a coma. Three months later the victim Hasni to awakened. On april 2, the killer struck again near the zeil shopping mall in the Friedberger anlage Park battering a Man to death while he composite slept on a Bench. And then this of suspect month he went on a bloody orgy by killing three within 24 hours a one Early Friday and two on saturday. The last two men were sleeping 40 feet apart on benches in the continued on Page 3yyy.y.y f High time to Duck a a Mother Duck and her two babies venture onto the Indianapolis motor Speedway just As indy Champ Rick Mears fires up for a practice run monday. Mears who had to Call for help in shooing the trespassers away went on to bum up the track with the fastest Lap of the month �?224.389 Mph. See sports wire Page 27.