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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday May 28,1990 news briefs filipino woman killed in suspected rebel attack Manila Philippines up a filipino woman was killed outside Clark a hours before travel restrictions were cased saturday for american troops police said. Gunmen believed to be communist rebels fired on a jeep and killed the woman but left her australian Boyfriend unhurt they said. Meanwhile officials announced the deploy ment of an additional 3,000 troops in the capital following a spate of ambushes and grenade at tacks that have left 10 people dead in the Las five Days. Police said Thomas Brian of Rosebud Mel Bourne and his filipino Girlfriend Judith Ochia 25, were driving along Macarthur High Way outside Clark 50 Miles North of Manila at 11 . Friday when four men stopped their vehicle. When he saw that the men were armed Brian stepped on the Gas and ducked but the men opened fire hitting Ochia in the head and body and killing her police said. Brian escaped in Hurt they said. Police said the gunmen might have mistake Brian for an american. The attack came hours before officials at Clark and the Subic Bay naval facilities relaxed travel restrictions for 40,000 . Service Mem ers dependents and defense department personnel. Beginning saturday americans were allowed from 7 . To 7 . To travel to the entertain ment districts outside the installations. Walesa s Effort to Settle railway strike unsuccessful Warsaw Poland a striking Railroad workers threatened a 90-minute nationwide work stoppage for monday after rejecting Soli Darity Leader Lech Walesa s Appeal to Settle the crippling dispute in a Midnight visit to strik Headquarters. It failed. Goodbye Walesa said As he lefts  at 3 . Sunday. The Solidarity Leader had met for three hours with strikers who had broken off negotiations with the Warsaw govern ment saturday afternoon. Walesa warned that the strikers actions could Lead to civil War and the resignation of Solidarity backed prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. The week old labor strife started by Wildca strikers has strangled freight transport to Poland s Baltic coast and train service across the country s Northwest. Freight traffic from Poland s Industrial South As Well As Czechoslovakia and Hungary has been disrupted and the army has been drafted to move essentials. It has also posed a mounting Challenge to Post communist Poland s reformers who have refused to even discuss strikers pay demands saying it could scuttle the Shock economic pro Gram. Remains from Page 1 press saturday that a Pilot also was believed to beaming the dead. There were Large scale returns of remains in 1953and 1954. Then after years of no returns the North koreans announced May 14 that they would turn Over the remains of five americans on memorial Day. The american led . Come in Seoul said More than9,000 . Come military personnel were unaccounted for after the War ended including 8,177 americans and sol Diers from Canada Australia and England. Official figures show that 33,629 . Soldiers were killed and 103,284 wounded in the War. Other members of the congressional delegation Are democrats Frank Mccloskey of Indiana James Bil Bray of Nevada Bob Traxler of Michigan and be Campbell of Colorado and republicans Bob stump of Arizona Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania and Gerald Solomon of new York. Gorbachev tells country Don t panic at rising prices Moscow a president Mikhail Gorbachev sunday in a nastily televised address called for his countrymen to remain Calm when food prices Rise sharply in a shift to a partial Market Economy. Don t panic comrades said Gorbachev in above to Stem a run on stores. Hoarding was sparked by Premier Nikolai Ryzhkova s unveiling last thursday of a new economic Reform package. The president who is scheduled to depart tuesday for a Summit with president Bush in Washington gave no indication during his 45-minute speech of plans to change his itinerary. Nor did he indicate any intention of altering the government blueprint for securing approval to move from Central planning to a regulated Market  two Davs of panic buying stripped shelves Bare i Moscow after Ryzhkova s announcement of a plan that would triple bread prices on july 1 and raise prices inmost other foods next year. In addition to touching off panic buying the Reform plan has prompted criticism from radicals including Boris Yeltsin who advocates a far More rapid transition to a Market Economy. Yeltsin an ideological rival to Gorbachev is run Ning on a Radical Reform platform for the presidency of the russian federation largest of the 15 soviet republics. Yeltsin failed to gain a majority in the first two rounds of balloting in the russian Congress last week. But said he will make another bid in a third round scheduled for monday. Gorbachev in his speech gave assurances that apart of the reforms lower income people would be compensated and those thrown out of work would be retrained for new jobs. Some economists have Esti mated that up to 40 million people could lose their jobs under the reforms which Are expected to drive Many inefficient businesses into bankruptcy. The soviet president said however that this transition to a Market Economy. Cannot be postponed because negative consequences will  what we need now is social Accord he added Reading from a text in the 45-minute televised address. Dunkirk vets Salute comrades Dunkirk France a thousands of British veterans of the Dunkirk evacuation stood at attention sunday and Sang god save the Queen Honorins comrades who died 50 years ago in one of world War ii s most crucial operations. The veterans Many leaning on canes or umbrellas gathered at the main Square near a statue of pirate Jean Bart one of the few objects left standing in the area after the German bombardment that chased Al lied troops to the beaches in 1940. Some of us have been Here before lord Donal Kaberry president of the Dunkirk veterans association told the assembled crowd which include French belgian dutch and australian veterans As Well As the britons. We were Here 50 years ago when we crossed the beaches and went Back to the United kingdom to re group fight again and win said Kaberry 82. He Wasan acting major in the British expeditionary Force when he was evacuated with 338,000 other Allied troops in what became known As the Miracle of Dun  some 6,000 British veterans and their relatives descended on this port City in far Northern France for weekend celebrations commemorating operation Dynamo when a ragtag Fleet of 800 naval vessels barges fishing boats and pleasure Craft rallied to Winsto Churchill s Call to save the Allied armies from the encircling wehrmacht. Seventy three of the so called Little ships Many involved in the operation braved Choppy Channel Waters thursday in a crossing from Dover to Dunkirk to join the commemorations. Some sprung leaks but most were Able to Muster in a Circle onshore sunday. Graduates from Page 1 through the european division and Jennifer Patrici Minney of Wiesbaden received the col. William c. Bentley memorial award for the highest Grade Point average 4.0. West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher shared the guest speaker position with Walters. Both Genscher and Walters received honorary doctor ates. Walters told the graduates that although anything except peace might be hard to imagine our expectations in this rapidly changing part of the world cannot race so far ahead that we forget what made it Possi div and although the relationship Between Germany and the United states will evolve certain essentials must be preserved if that relationship is to grow an Prosper he said. For Pur relationship with Germany is utterly unlike the cynical Power alliances of the  is based on far More than the perception of a com Mon threat it is a Bond of kinship based on  Genscher in an address that outlined a larger Europe closely linked with North America said Nat will continue to exist As the Central expression and mainstay of trans Atlantic partnership. The foreign minister said a United Germany will remain a member of the Western Alliance and nato will remain the Anchor of Security and stability of the Community of free and democratic  but he said nato must also be open to complementary structures of Security building cooperation spanning the alliances in Europe. It must help develop those structures and see them As additional Security. The development of a stability oriented partnership with the soviet Union and the other european countries is the right perspective for the Atlantic Alli Ance Genscher said. He stressed the importance of the european Community in the new Europe. The dynamic further development and integration of the european Community on the Road to european Union create new opportunities for trans Atlantic Polit ical dialogue and tangible cooperation. Through the new Quality of this development to Ward european Union through economic monetary and political Union the european Community will be come the most important pillar both of North Atlantic cooperation and of the future peaceful order in  Colombia from Page 1 roofs of buildings near Many voting Booths Early sunday. The four main candidates were Gaviria Rodrigo Lloreda 48 Alvaro Gomez 71 and Antonio Navarro 41. Gaviria became the Liberal party candidate after Luis Carlos Galan s assassination by drug traffickers on aug. 18. His killing prompted the government to declare War on the drug cartels. Lloreda a former foreign minister has said he would end extradition of trafficking suspects to the United states. Lloreda represents the conservative party the country s second largest party. Gomez broke from the conservative party to run Asan Independent. He too has suggested that he would end extradition. Gomez broke from the conservative party to run Asan Independent. He too has suggested that he would end extradition. He wants cocaine legalized in the United states and other countries saying this would deprive the traffickers of profits they use to terrorize Colombia and undermine its democracy. Navarro was one of the leaders the april 19 move ment guerrilla group known As the m-19. The rebel group disbanded earlier this year in Exchange for Par dons and the right to form a political party. Navarro stepped in when the party s first presiden tial candidate Carlos Pizarro was assassinated on april 26 in a killing blamed on drug traffickers. Navarro favors continuing the government s crackdown. The third presidential candidate assassinated was Bernardo Jaramillo of the patriotic Union party. He was slain March 22  
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