European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse 1a Flection if time your stars and stripes Carrier will be calling soon. Please have your payment ready. The sub amp Ampf ripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Quot a vol. 49, no. 48 Friday Junel 1990 a a 25 daily and sunday d 8693 opens with pledge end a decades of d Washington apr president Bush opened Imit talks with Mikhail s. Gorbachev on wednes pledging to end a decades of division and discord pile tensions Over a unified Germany. The soviet Quot j a the trenches of the cold War Are rident said lie White House said agreements would be signed Lay ending production of chemical weapons and ing the major elements of a treaty to slash Long be nuclear arms. The leaders will also commit selves to deeper cuts in the years ahead Pes All but evaporated for Progress on reducing and troops in Europe an Issue intertwined with Hornier Issue of German Unity. Presidential Sman Marlin Fitzwater All but closed the door on Man agreement saying a i done to think we expect delusion on that subject at this Ith Broad smiles and warm handshakes Bush and Tachev began their talks on an upbeat note mask differences Over the changing political landscape of ipe. The first round of their four Day meeting Bush Gorbachev talked for two hours 15 minutes in the office accompanied Only by translators and takers. Arkady Maslennikov the spokesman for Gorba said the meeting was a Businesslike open and he said Bush and Gorbachev id meet twice More this year to sign the vent ional arms pact for Europe and the final treaty Mclear weapons. He Day began with trumpet fanfares and a 21-gun Lite and was ending with a Black tie dinner at the Lite House featuring a menu of Maine lobster and Lert ailment by american opera Singer Frederica von the one of the worlds Foremost Mezz sopranos. Apart from the Summit Gorbachev hosted Ameri see Summit on Back Page �1�?hi a mme president Bush welcomes soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev on his arrival at the White House military May not want cafe pact experts say by David Tarrant Brussels Bureau 1russels, Belgium a top soviet military aunties believe an arms control agreement to slash invention Al forces in Europe May no longer be Nec iry or even desirable according to senior nato itary officials. He new soviet View is an outgrowth of the drastic age in the military balance stemming from the revolutions in Eastern Europe and German unification. For the soviets who lost 20 million people fighting Germany during world War ii German unification now represents its most important National Security Issue. Therefore the soviet Union will continue to stall the conventional arms control talks in Vienna Austria until issues of Security surrounding German unification Are resolved an official said. In addition the soviets already have achieved Many of the objectives they had when talks began in March 1989, according to a just completed analysis drawn up at nato Headquarters. Western allies hoping to Cash in on the peace dividend have already set in motion budget and Force reductions. The modernization of the land based nuclear Arsenal in Europe has also been cancelled. The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the agreement to withdraw soviet forces from Hungary see cafe on Back Page girl 13, wins spelling Bee Dodds boy 11 oth by Janet Howells Tierney Washington Bureau. Washington a Amy Dimak 3, of Seattle won the 63rd annual Naonal spelling Bee on thursday Cor Tetly spelling she Defeated 13-year-old Eric Enders Fel paso Texas. He misspelled a a Jouanier a which a my then spelled correctly. A Jouanier is a customs officer i Brannoc is a fabric. There were 226 youngsters Between the Ages of 10 and 14 who participated in the two Day finals. The department of defense dependents schools contestant Edward Tami so from Spang Dahlum elementary school in West Germany was eliminated in the fourth round when he misspelled a co Cotte a a sexually promiscuous woman. When Edward Tamiso heard the obscure word he said he became uncomfortable a not because of its racy definition but because he Wasny to sure How to spell it. �?o1 spelled it co a be to Quot the 12-year-old said. A i thought they mispronounced it was one of those words that did no to get a lot of attention when the boy and his father were studying for the event. In Early rounds wednesday the spellers were Given words that had been included in the study list of More than 2,000 words. In later rounds thursday however the words were not in the study list. Edward made it through the third see Dodds on Back Page
