European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday. Way 26. 1990 news briefs Mandela guard convicted of murdering teen Ager Johannesburg. S Ravicz a Friday convicted Winnie Mandela former Bod it guard of Kiing a Black teen age activist and said Mandela was at Home when the kidnapped boy was brought there and beaten. Supreme court Justice Brian g Donovan convicted Jerry Richardson of murdering 3 4-year-Oid James Tompie Weipei Moeke ski on Jan. J. I 9 v he was also corroded of kidnapping attempted murder and assault in cases involving three other men who were abducted and beaten at Mandela s Home m Soweto township. According to testimony. Mandela the wife of Black nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela and a prominent anti apartheid activist herself was not charged in the Case even though witnesses testified that she participated m the beatings. Mandela has said she was not at her House when the assaults took place. Richardson once was Mandela s chief bodyguard and the coach of the Mandela United soccer team whose members also served As guards. His sentencing was postponed until aug. 6. While he undergoes psychiatric examinations. If no extenuating circumstances Are found the death penalty is  starts Malta visit with a rousing Welcome a a l Lett a. Malta apr Pope John Paul ii arrived to a noisy. Joyous Welcome in Malta on frida., the first time the devoutly roman at hoi in Island has welcomed a Pope despite a near2.0f/>> ear old Christian tradition. Scores of maltese faithful Many wearing shorts lined the Pope s motorcade route under a blistering Mediterranean Sun As he began a three a visit. The Pope seemed startled As cannons boomed a welcoming Salute just As he Bent to kiss the ground of the Island nation. Acrid fumes from the cannons drilled toward the welcoming pan.-. John Paul s 48th foreign tour As Pope took him to a Republic of 350.000 people nearly 99 percent Catholic where abortion is banned and or. Ome is not allowed.  Paul will tour Malta and Gozo. The Sec orc largest Isanc m the archipelago and deliver about a dozen  Korea will make memorial Day gesture l med n actions Cap a North Korea said Friday that the remains of live . Service Mem ers killed in the korean v. A will be released on Memona a. It will Mark the first time that remains has e been handed Over since 1954. Jongho. North Korea s Deputy permanent representative at its . Mission said. A we Are Happy to Settle this Issue in a humanitarian  the remains were to be handed Over monday to a . Congressional delegation in the truce Village of Panmunjom. To said North Korea was prepared to follow up with discussions a in the same spirit Quot to return other remains. The agreement on the return of the remains was worked out late last year and this year by .-North korean contacts in new York and Washington. Soviets toughen stand on German unification Moscow Apt a president Mikhail Gorbachev on Frida warned that the soviet Union would review its policies on european arms control and Security negotiations if a reunited German a joined nato. Gorbachev s remarks contained the Kremlin s most dire warning set about what Steps it would take if a reunited German joins the Western military Alliance. The so Viet Union wants Germany to belong to both nato and the Warsaw pact. The Bush administration a a ors 5 a i o membership for a Smied German. Gorbachev told a news conference that Western leaders seem to assume a unified German would join nato and he said the soviet Union was very wary of that Prospect. Quot what should we do then about All the negotiating processes including the european process the Csc process the Vienna disarmament process Quot the superpowers Are involved in negotiations on reducing their nuclear and conventional forces and Hope to reach some agreements during the Summit Between president Bush and Gorbachev m Washington from is. 31 to june 3. Csc refers to the 35 nation conference on Security and cooperation info rope which deals with military Security economic operation and human rights. A Gorbachev did not threaten to withdraw from i european negotiating processes which cover red if tons of troops and tanks on the continent and Otoe Security issues and did not specify How the Kremlin positions in those talks might change. He justified the policy review by saying nato won take similar action if the shoe were on the other foot. Gorbachev said discussion of German Reni Nicatie took up 70 percent of his talks earlier in the Day with French president Francois Mitterrand who also appeared at the news conference. Meanwhile a soviet official in East Germany said Friday that housing problems in the soviet Union will indefinitely Block the withdrawal of soviet troops from East Germany. Gorbachev in december 1988 prom ised a unilateral withdrawal of nearly one tenth of it troops from East Germany. About 36,000 red army soldiers were to have been withdrawn. Latvia refuses order to void Independence declaration a latvian legislative leaders on vie president Mikhail s. Gorba to Btu declaration of Independence. M to a Friday Remec Che. S  to a spokesman so. I in the neighbouring Baltic Republic of Lithuania Central hot water supplies were shut off throughout the Republic because of the Oil blockade imposed by the its Independence a Lithuania say they Are willing to Compro Kremlin after the nation declared lithuanian official said. Leaders of the three Baltic republics Estonia and Latvia Mise but will not surrender their goal of seceding irom the soviet l Nion. A All three republics were forcibly annexed in 1940 and Are taking vane approaches toward Independence. Estonia and Latvia Are following a More cautious path by declaring a transition period before moving to Independence while Lithuania has proclaimed immediate Independence. The presidium or executive Council of Latvia s supreme Council sent Gorbachev a Telegram declaring that he was out of line. It criticized his May 14 decree that branded illegal Latvia a declaration of a transition period toward Independence legislative spokesman Ivars embrekts said. It said the dispute should be resolved in negotiations. In Tallinn centrist and Radical deputies clashed in Day Over what role the new estonian Congress elected by ethnic estonians should have in relation to the Republic s traditional supreme soviet. _ in the lithuanian capital of Vilnius a spokesman Tor Lithuania a supreme Council said the legislature1 presidium was meeting behind closed doors Friday i hear a report on thursdays talks in Moscow Between Gorbachev and four lithuanian lawmakers. Gorbachev said Lithuania could be granted Independence in two years and economic sanctions would be lifted if it follows Kremlin procedure according to Vaidotas Antanaitis. An observer member of the National legislature who attended the meeting at the Kremlin. A Arafat asks . To Send in forces Geneva Kupij a palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat called on the . Security Council Friday to Send emergency forces and observers to the israeli occupied territories because of an a extremely dangerous and explosive Quot situation. Arafat further demanded International sanctions against Israel because of the latest Quot crimes against palestinians in the recent wave of violence in the Region. The United states promptly rejected and pen Ament . Presence in the West Bank and the Gaza strip As Well As sanctions. Arafat also failed to win support for his demand irom the four other permanent Security Council men Bers Britain France China and the soviet unit who basically just denounced the latest violent and called for peace talks. Soviet . Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov As w Ell As i Luye of China accused Israel of a new brutal crimes by limited suggestions in Security Council action to Startin preparations for a Middle East peace conference. T t a rare or Par it said it would refuse to allow a . Presence whatsoever in the occupied territories Iowa from Page 1 of Gunpowder bags in the barrel. The g to said forms of some of the chemical components of what the Navy had theorized was an igniter were Quot either commonly used in the turrets or Are pan of the meantime  the Navy in reopening its investigation thursday ordered a halt to any firing of 16-Inch guns aboard the services four battleships. Quot i anticipated that the testimony we would receive this morning would expose significant shortcomings in the Navy a investigation and would cast grave doubt on the conclusions a said sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee. A i believe that the testimony we hav e heard has done that and More a Nunn said. Sen. John Glenn a Ohio who represents Hartwigs Home state said the Navy blamed the Sailor a because of its inability to find other reasons. That a wrong. The Rush to blame Hartwig was Fiat  i see Carl Levin d-mich., added a the Navy a conclusion is seriously  but sen. John Warner of Virginia the ranking Republican on the armed services committee said that it was a far too Early to jump to any conclusions about a firing system that has worked tens of thousands of times since world War ii. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he would Reserve judgment on the new reports until additional investigations Are completed. Retired capt. Fred Moosally the Iowa s skipper at the time of the explosion attended the hearing Friday but declined to comment on the testimony saying i m Only Here to  Han wigs sister Kathy Kubicina who also attended the hearing said that even though the new evidence did no to prove what happened aboard the battleship it would help Clear her brother a name. 5rol, was Only a victim a she Matthev just kc.t0 see them adm to mat they made a mistake and just say we really done to know what  a a the Navy was informed several week ago about the results of tests conducts by Sandia on possible explosions using Inch guns. Ten Days ago Nunn wrote adm. Cat Lisle . Trost the chief of naval opera1 tons to complain that the serviced not moving fast enough to act on est Dence that the Iowa blast might have been caused by a friction problem. In that time the Navy conducted its of tests and on to thursday five 96-Pound a filled with Gunpowder pellets were Dropps in a vertical column with weights on top them in an attempt to re create the fort that rams the bags through a 16-Inch gtd barrel on a warship. On the 18th test an explosion curved analysts said