European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes monday May 14,1990 Aquino rules out shortcuts on bases Manila Philippines up a president Cora on Aquino on the eve of talks on the future of key . Facilities ruled out sunday any shortcut deals on a renewal of . Basing rights vowing to observe difficult procedures outlined in the philippine Constitution. A this government shall keep Faith with the people and is determined to uphold All constitutional provisions regarding these bases Quot Aquino said in a nationally televised statement. She said that upon the expiration of the bases pact on sept. 16, 1991, any new Extension should be in the form of a treaty approved by the Senate and submitted to a plebiscite if necessary As outlined in the Constitution. The majority of the 23-Mcmber Senate last year endorsed a Resolution Aquino calling for the Dis mantling of the bases saying that they represent a lessening of philippine sovereignty. Aquino a statement knocked Down speculation that she would agree to bypass the Senate and forge an executive arrangement extending the lease on the sprawling naval Complex at Subie Bay Clark a and four smaller facilities in the Philippines. The bases Are manned by 40,000 troops. Defense department employees and dependents and they Are regarded As vital in projecting . Military might in the area. Philippine foreign Secretary Raul Mang Lapus and special . Negotiator Richard Armitage were to begin exploratory talks on a new Basing arrangement monday at the tightly guarded Central Bank building at the Edge of Manila Bay. A we enter these talks with our National interest As the Paramount consideration. Regardless of the outcome our government has already begun to look beyond the bases a Aquino said. Aquino said the executive legislative bases Council created to look into on alternative uses of the bases submitted tuesday plans that a open up possibilities of major contributions to National  �?o1 have Given instructions to Ope rationalize portions of the plan that can be implemented immediately starting with those base areas that have already reverted to us a Aquino said. Large tracts of base lands were turned Over to the Philippines in 1979, but the government has not put them to use. Congressman Bonifacio Gillego said he was a amazed at the change in the tone and Tenor of Aquino a statement which he said was a departure from her Quot options open  a in effect she is saying there a life after the bases a Gillego said. Some 1,500 filipinos rallying sunday in Manila demanded the dismantling of the bases. . Negotiator Richard Armitage Waves a greeting As he arrives sunday in Manila z talks on . Bases. Smiling at left is . Ambassador Nicholas Plait airmen from Page 1 .45-caliber pistols. The rebels often use pistols in Street attacks. Asked whether it appeared the attackers were rebels the officer replied a what do you think pistols two or three assailants bases talks tomorrow a . And philippine officials had expressed concern that the communist rebel new Peoples army would try to kill americans before the talks begin today on extending the lease on Clark the Subic Bay naval facilities and four smaller installations. The lease expires in september 1991. On May 4, suspected rebels killed american Marine gunnery sgt. John Fredette near Subic Bay 50 Miles West of Manila. . Officials barred Oft Post leaves for the 40,000 troops defense department civilians and military dependents following Fredette a slaying. However they relaxed the ban a few Days later. Troops were allowed to leave their garrisons but were required to be on Post and off the streets Between Midnight and 5 30  chief leads seminar for sex klansmen Birmingham Ala. Apr the president of the Southern Christian leadership conference led a court ordered race relations seminar saturday for four former Kun jux Kinsmen and said the response was belter than head expected 1, did t anticipate the tremendous experience we  the Rev. Joseph lower of Atlanta said after he and other Sulc representatives met for two hours with the sex klansmen in a hotel. However one of the sex klansmen Roger handle red army from Page 1 of Steele called the session Quot a wasted two  another former Klansman Terry Tucker of Cullman. Called the session a a learning  a a we be got a lot More common ground than people would think a he said. A i never have hated Blacks and i Don t think they hate  still another of the four attending the seminar Doug Berryhill of Huntsville said it was a a productive meeting and 1 Learned quite a  the session was ordered last year by . District judge . Haltom or. As part of a settlement of a lawsuit stemming from Kjan violence against Black marchers in Decatur on May 26, 1979. Gunfire wounded two Whites and two Blacks during the March Black marchers were protesting the conviction of Tommy Lee Hines a retarded Black Man found guilty of raping a White woman. Kinsmen attacked the marchers and shots were fired wounding four people. Lowery said he talked to the four Quot about the oneness of the human family self respect and the economics of race a How All poor people Are taken advantage  cullor Helmut Kohl including Kohls insistence that a United Germany must be a member of nato. Moscow rejects nato membership for a United Germany. Besides Moscow a worries about disrupting the current european balance of Power analysts say the soviets also do not relish the thought of finding new jobs for Homecoming soldiers. Kyi he Ryin amp 10 soothe the soviets has offered expanded economic ties Between wealthy West Germany and the economically struggling soviets. U thu ?y1 t Inion s fore amp a Trade relations have been badly billeted by turmoil in Eastern european countries pressing for Radical changes in the soviet led economic Alliance com econ. West German news Media say the East German government has worked up proposals for dealing with the Overall problem of arranging West German Mark payments to cover East German Trade with the soviets once the German economic Union takes effect. I a prom Nunt Bonn based newspaper said the Bast German government docs not want to Cut Back exports to the soviet Union. But As with the soviet troops the major complication is reaching a settlement on swapping Transfer rubles for West German Marks. The East germans have proposed having payment overhangs worked out by Quot bilateral deliveries of goods said the newspaper. It said that in that Way East German markets and factories would be further protected from economic shocks East Germany is expected to undergo As it scraps its planned Economy for free Market principles. Joblessness could Spur big flight to West e. German official says Lakiki _ i ? a a West Germany up a East German labor minister regime Hildebrandt in an interview published sunday warned that the planned economic and monetary Union with West Germany could cause mass unemployment that would Lead to another flight of hundreds of thousands to the West. She told the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel she thinks predictions of 100,00 to 300,000 unemployed Are a optimistic a but predictions of 2 million to 3 million Are exaggerated. Hildebrandt said there is hardly a factory in East Germany that will not have to fire workers because of inability to compete on world markets or at Home with stertwt1 said the process already has a we already have More than 10.000 unemployed Young people she said. Quot do you think they will remain in the German democratic Republic when Thev in nor a Wofe n5 a premix ship when we have hundreds of thousands of unemployed on the streets who have no future in this country a do you think they will wait patiently for the next welfare payment9 no there will be a new massive wave of emigration a a  changes in the East West German 5�iy-j? monetary and economic Union scheduled to go into effect july 2. She said the draft treaty should be amended to give East Germany a transition period protected Quot whih East get it Quot a commission of East West German experts at a meeting Bonn agreed late saturday on s main details of the treaty which is a key step toward the political unification of the divided country. The official East German news service adn said West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere Are to meet in East Berlin today to discuss the treaty. West German finance minister Theo Taigel and East German finance minister Walter Romberg also scheduled a meeting in East Berlin today to discuss the financing of the Union. _ Hildebrandt painted a grim picture of the situation in East Germany where thousands of workers and Farmers took part in demonstrations and warning strikes last week to express their fears that the substitution of the Strong West German Mark for the weak cast German Mark and the introduction of a free Market Economy will Cost loss of jobs markets and income. _ she said she has installed a Quot crisis staff Quot in her ministry to plan a How we can prevent a collapse of our Economy and mass unemployment or at least mitigate Der Spiegel also reported that East German Interior minister Peter Michael Diestel fearing social unrest Germany to give him 44 million Marks Izo million Worth of weapons Shields for police and surveillance equipment. Diestel said he considers it particularly important to have a Well functioning police apparatus because he is certain there will be 2.5 million to 4 million unemployed the Magazine reported