European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 10, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 Over Here prospective parents warned to Start Early on birth registration by Gary Pomeroy staff writer set Gilbert Pacheco had heard plenty of horror stories from soldiers who waited too Long to apply for passports for their Newborn children. A i know soldiers who lost a lot of Money on air plane tickets for vacations said Pacheco assigned to 51st inf regt in Darmstadt West Germany. So when his wife Beatriz gave birth to their son Diego in the Frankfurt army regional medical Center on May 22, Pacheco had already rounded up the proper documents for his wife and himself. His incentive was $800 Worth of non refundable air plane tickets for the family to Fly to Albuquerque n.m., on june 20. Next he had to obtain Diego a birth registration form. Military hospitals like to Issue the forms before parents leave with their Newborn children. But the department of defense civilian hiring freeze has kept the Frankfurt Hospital from replacing its full time baby registration clerk who departed recently. Soldiers with other duties process birth registration paperwork by appointment Only for the 150 babies bom there monthly. And Diego a appointment was scheduled for july 31, More than a month after the infant would need a passport to travel Home with his Mother and father. Worse Pacheco knew that getting Diego registered at the Hospital was Only the first step. He still had to go to his local personnel unit to process the documents then Forward them via courier to the nearest . Consulate. Only then would Diego be issued a passport. A i was running out of doors to open up a the Tucumcari n.m., native said. Fortunately Pacheco had taken the time to obtain All the proper documents Well in Advance of Diego a s birth. The Hospital agreed to move the appointment up to june 4. He was then allowed to make a rare personal appointment at the . Consulate in Frankfurt to get Diego a passport. A i avoided an ulcer and a Hole in my pocket a he said. Pacheco a Story is tame compared to some of the horror stories Rob Frazier tells. Frazier the vice Consul in the passport Section of the consulate in Frankfurt has seen americans miss funerals vacations and port Calls by not registering children bom overseas. A was soon As parents find out they Are expecting a baby they should go to their local personnel office and find out what they need to do a Frazier said. The personnel units screen paperwork and inform prospective parents of All requirements. After children Are bom personnel couriers throughout Europe transport the documents to local consulates or embassies on behalf of parents. This Europe wide courier system was established to ease the Burden of birth registration for All americans associated with the defense department. It also reduces pressure on the consulates. The consulate in Frankfurt alone handles More than 9,000 reports of birth each year. In emergencies and some Short no Tice situations like Pacheco a consulates Are willing to help. But usually someone must Call on their behalf. A if americans drop in we Send them Back to their units a Frazier said. Consulates and processing centers in other countries in Europe have similar rules. No one should have to worry about a amps Gary Palmoro sgt. Gilbert Pacheco made it through the paper Chase passports while attempting to get Home As fast As possible Frazier said. For routine processing the courier system has saved a lot of time. And while the initial screening at the unit has not eliminated All the problems a it has definitely reduced them a he said. And its better than having a family travel All the Way to a consulate. A a it a a Long Way Back to Pitburg a to get a form Frazier said. Frazier also warned parents that last minute processing can sometimes result in missed port Calls and a two month wait for documents. A a that a a Long time to Cut grass on casual status one said. Contributing to ibis report Statt writer Dave Diehl at Raf Mildenhall England. Noriega a Lone co defendant pleads guilty _ _ it a a. 1. I 1. I a a l a a a a a a u a a ill Quot a i 1 Tampa Fla. Apr the Lone co defendant in Manuel Noriega a Tampa drug indictment pleaded guilty Friday and agreed to testify that the deposed panamanian strongman was his a silent partners in a trafficking ring. Panamanian businessman Enrique a. A ski kit pretext admitted to conspiring with Noriega to take bribes from Tampa based drug smugglers to help ferry $300 million Worth of colombian marijuana through Panama and hide the profits. As part of pretext a a plea agreement the 47-year-old panamanian jeweler acknowledged working with two convicted Tampa drug smugglers in a partnership called Servi cios tourist icon set up to launder drug proceeds. A fourth silent partner in their business was Gen Manuel Noriega a according to the 10-Page plea agreement. The document said Noriega and the other partners each received a commission every time Steven Michael Kalish deposited drug proceeds in panamanian Bank accounts. Kalish has pleaded guilty to other drug charges and has been cooperating with the government. The smugglers had planned to bring in 400,000 pounds of marijuana to the United states hidden in shipments of plantain bananas which were to be re labelled in Panama to hide their colombian origin the agreement said. The partners were to receive $4 million but Kalish was arrested before the shipment was completed. Kalish has testified before a . Senate subcommittee that the bribes were part of More than $4 million in Cash jewelry and air planes his ring gave to Noriega and his associates. In return Noriega gave Kalish a diplomatic passport and false panamanian customs documents to disguise drug shipments from Colombia and provided armoured car service to shuttle Cash according to the indictment. Pretext promised Friday to cooperate fully testify and turn Over any relevant documents to prosecutors. He also will forfeit $ 108,000. Under the agreement which was accepted by . District judge William Castagna pretext pleaded guilty to two of his three drug counts and will be sentenced to no More than 10 years in Federal prison. Sentencing was set for aug. 18. Convicted Tampa drug smugglers in a partnership called the partners were to receive $4 million but Kalish two of 1ins three drug counts and win be senior Servi cios tourist icon set up to launder drug proceeds. Was arrested before the shipment was completed. More than 10 years federa p. A a fourth silent partner in their business was Gen. Kalish has testified before a . Senate sub commit sentencing was set for aug. 18. E. German official says soviets want troops to St  ser pc Gursh Fricha do a Lisp Meckel said Friday that the soviet Cal and consultative Alliance. Warsaw pact. A i do not think that is pos he could not accept a military s salts Baden Sweden apr a St German foreign minister Markus Meckel said Friday that the soviet Union wants to maintain troops in the Eastern part of a United Germany for seven years while Europe works out new Secundy arrangements. U Meckel said he believed it would take seve Ai years for them All to leave a but that the soviet withdrawal period should of Shorter than seven  the Warsaw pact Summit in Moscow on thursday Meckel said there was an dissension Over the future of the finance. Some participants favored dismembering the pact he said and othere thought it should be changed to a political and consultative Alliance. A there was consensus that future Security arrangements should be pan european and that the soviet Union should be fully included a he said. Meckel delivered a speech in English to a conference in salts Baden a Baltic sea resort outside Stockholm to members of the new York based Institute for East West Security studies. His replies to questions were in German and they were translated into English. Meckel described As absurd suggestions that a United Germany could hold membership in both nato and the Warsaw pact. A i do not think that is possible a he said. But he said that a overlapping Security zones could be considered As temporary measures until a permanent european Security system was established. Some analysts say that system could be created through the 35-nation conference on Security and cooperation in Europe which resulted from the 1975 Helsinki human rights and Security accords. Despite . And soviet assurances that nato is no longer a hostile organization the Alliance still appeared aggressive toward Eastern Europe Meckel said. He said he could not accept a a military situation in which our friends in Poland and Czechoslovakia would face the Forward defences of nato at their Western  he said East Germany needed time to build its own democratic institutions and to revise its East bloc treaties before unification with West Germany. Ideally he said All German elections should occur a toward the Middle or even the end of next  a we need much More time than we have at our disposal a Meckel said