European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday june 6,1990 a a girl Sells cookies monday at Monrovia a Sprigg Payne Airport As americans await a flight from Liberia. Liberian rebels regroup at Gates of capitals International Airport Monrovia Liberia apr rebels overran the worlds largest rubber Plantation and regrouped at the adjoining Gates of liberians main International Airport on tuesday after a mortar Battle with retreating troops. President Samuel Doe holed up in his Monrovia mansion 35 Miles to the Southeast continued last stand negotiations to end the 5-month-old civil War. He met tuesday with Church leaders who have offered to act As intermediaries. Diplomatic sources in Contact with the Plantation adjoining Roberts Field International Airport said rebels lobbed mortar shells and fired machine guns As they poured into the Plantation by the dozens from across the Farmington River. The River is the last natural Barrier Between the rebels and the capital of Monrovia. Expatriates living in the area said they had heard no reports of casualties. About 15 or 20 government soldiers remaining in the area returned rebel gunfire on tuesday and then fled toward the capital they said. There was considerable shelling and shooting Between the plantations Riverside Marina and the Rob Bertsfield hotel which is a three minute walk from the Airport they said. Although the rebels Are believed to be in the hotel they had made no Effort to capture the Aii port by midday tuesday although they had effectively shut it Down and occupied the management offices of Harbel the town owned by and operated by Bridges tone fires tone inc., a . Subsidiary of the japanese company Bridges tone corp. Rebels surrounded the factory of the 15-by-20-mite Plantation on monday night stopping production. It contains 75,000 people a 8,400 Are employees and the rest dependents a and has been swollen by up to 10,000 refugees from the fighting. Plantation sources said some workers left their posts As the rebels approached. Rebels now control every major Industrial concern in Liberia with the possible exception of Bong Iron Ore mine which has been Cut off from the capital for Days and is believed to be behind rebel lines. Airlines suspended flights to Roberts Field on monday after government troops fired on some of their own men believing them to be rebels. The airlines thought rebels were firing mortars and cancelled flights scheduled from Europe. The transport ministry meanwhile broadcast a statement tuesday saying that the Airport was open. Information minister Emmanuel Bruwier told the associated press a the Airport has not been closed. The Airport is open. The Airport staff still Are working. I think it is Safe for planes to  however rebels Are known to have at least two antiaircraft guns and have threatened to shoot Down aircraft. It was not Clear Why the rebels had not occupied the Airport or advanced on Monrovia. However rebel Leader Samuel Taylor has said that he did not want a Bloodbath in the capital and wanted to give residents time to leave. Hundreds of liberians and Over 50 . Embassy workers missionaries and their families crowded another Airport inside the capital amid fears of Slaughter if the City fell. The . Embassy said four warships of the . Navy a 6th Fleet carrying 2,000 marines arrived off the coast and were standing by in Case an emergency evacuation of the estimated 2,000 americans remaining in Liberia became necessary. The state department said the marines would not intervene in support of does besieged  from Page 1 of a United Germany. Europe and the United states want Germany As part of nato but the soviet Union has walked at that idea. Speaking to the conference Shevardnadze said a Compromise could be found in soviet differences with Washington Over Germany. He said that the soviet led Warsaw pact would begin a a a transformation at its next meeting and that nato should do the same. A this is the Way As we underlined in the past that we can find a Compromise on the German Issue a Shevardnadze said. In his speech Shevardnadze said the soviet withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Eastern Europe would ease tensions and a give More latitude to  in addition to the nuclear warheads he said his government will withdraw 60 tactical missile launchers More than 250 units of atomic artillery and 3,200 atomic guns. West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher welcomed the announcement but said the soviets enjoy a superiority in Short Range missiles. A the unilateral Steps from the soviet Union Are going to make negotiations on weapons easier. So we Welcome it As a positive step a Genscher said. In his efforts to gain Moscow a support for nato membership for a United Germany Baker carried with him to Copenhagen promises of Western economic help and nuclear and territorial assurances. The possibility that West Germany would build houses Tor returning soviet troops was even included in a nine Point program. Baker told reporters on his flight from Washington that building houses for troops withdrawn from Eastern Europe a fits right in with the economic cooperation plan. His problem is Selling the package to Shevardnadze. The soviet people Harbor deep distrust of Germany. Memories linger of world War ii in which the nazis were routed from russian soil after More than 20 million soviets were killed. News briefs pan am Jet lands in Scotland after report of bomb threat Prestwick Scotland apr a pan am Jet t sing 208 passengers and Crew members from a Ermany to Washington made an emergency Landi in Scotland on thursday after a bomb threat was i ported police said. A the Crew received an allegation from a passing that there was possibly an explosive device on Boa the aircraft a a police spokesman said Reading a p pared statement. The Jet landed at Prestwick Airport police said a Man was detained after the Aicra flight 61 from Frankfurt West Germany landed 3 02 . Police of the Strathclyde police Force brought bomb sniffing dogs to search the Boeing 747. The Strathclyde Force based in Glasgow cont used much of the personnel for the investigation Oft bombing of pan am flight 103 Over the scottish Tou of Lockerbie in december 1988. That bomb killed 259 people on the new Yor bound flight and 11 people on the . German glider Pilot killed in crash with f-16 Jet fighter Hahn a West Germany a amps a a 60-year-o glider Pilot was killed tuesday afternoon when aircraft collided with an air Force f-16d Jet figh Northeast of Kaiserslautern German police said. The two seat f-16 received minor damage and Ian de safely at Hahn a its Home base. It was ret Mii from a training Mission from Ramstein a when i Accident took place at about 4 30 . Near the Villa of Tesche Moschel. The f-16�?Ts Crew members were not injured. The were identified by Hahn spokesman staff sgt. Johm Rea As capt. James c. Luithly of the 50th tac figh Wing at Hahn and Mai. Julius Hargrove assigned the 86th tac fighter Wing at Ramstein. The victim was German according to local police Rockenhauser. A Board of officers will investigate the Accident. Major police shake up implemented in Belgium Brussels Belgium apr the belgian Goyer ment tuesday announced a major shake up of la country a police forces and Law enforcement services the first such deep reshuffle in the history of la belgian police Force was the result of a devas Talu report by a special parliamentary committee Sel l after police were unable to solve a series of my Steno slayings and failed to prevent the bloodiest sports n the country had Ever experienced. Prime minister Wilfried Martens told partial that the government authority and control on All police forces would be strengthened. Belgium has four major police units state poll City police criminal police and state Security. A the rivalries Between the existing police forces such that we can speak of real police warfare parliamentary committee said in his  from Page 1 political fortunes said Apple computer inc. Chairty John  the has indicated. That maybe his personal Ture is Uncertain and he a been quite honest a that a Sculley said. A but i think he a a so said he s to stand up to adventurism that he believes in i found change that he is on a steady course that n not going to deviate from that.�?�. In All the pomp of the Long Day a historic Nio occurred quietly behind closed doors when the a Leader stepped into the Tower of the posh Rai hotel and Shook hands with South korean 1 res Roh Tae  simple gesture and the one hour talk that j symbolically ended 45 years of enmity and her. Possibly huge shift in the political landscape Olashia Gorbachev and Roh in agreeing to work toward Lishing full diplomatic relations put pressure on Korea to reconcile with South Korea