European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 kit the stars and stripes tuesday june 12,1990bush welcomes East Germany a Leader Washington apr president Bush extended the first White House Welcome Ever to a Leader of East Germany in a monday meeting he says dramatizes the a magnificent changes sweeping Europe. Prime minister Lothar de Maiziere. Who came to office after free elections in March in what was once a hard line communist state Heads a government that is expected to make Way soon for a single Germany uniting East and West. Bush said sunday he was eager to talk with de Maiziere Quot about his vision As to the postwar Europe. Post German unification  the president posed for photographs with his visitor on the Steps overlooking the White House Rose Garden then ushered him into the Oval office. The two leaders planned to have expanded talks in the Cabinet room and then to have lunch in the White House family quarters. Get a Maiziere is not Only the first Leader of the German democratic Republic to visit the White House he is almost certainly the last. The two Germany s Are moving ahead next month with monetary Union on a footing that will provide massive subsidies from prosperous West Germany for the financially strapped East. The Date has not yet been set. But a pan germanic election could be held As Early As next Januar 0 the country whole again ending the division in Nof by the four allies who Defeated nazi Ger world War ii. Germany Bush alter dining Friday night with visiting German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called de Maiziere visit a just one More step that demonstrates the Mao if cent changes that have taken place Over the past vhf and a  1 ear the West a insistence that a United germans be a full member of the North Atlantic treaty organization remains a sticking Point in  relations an unidentified Captain inspects the British airways Jet after it landed sunday. Pilot thanks Crew for saving his life London apr a British airways Pilot sucked out of his jetliner when a Windshield blew out thanked his Crew on monday for clinging to his legs and getting him Back alive for an emergency Landing in Southern England. Quot they were magnificent. If it was not for them i would Lancaster not be Here now a said Timothy Lancaster whose bruised face testified to his terrifying 15-minute descent on sunday. Quot i remember the buffeting of the wind Quot Lancaster said but he said he was unconscious for part of the time and did not remember being in any pain. Asked if he thought he was going to die Lancaster said Quot it did Cross my mind for a moment or  stewards Nigel Ogden Simon Rogers and Susan Prince who held on to Lancaster a legs during the descent met privately with him for an hour monday at Southampton general Hospital where the Captain was being treated for bruises and frostbite. A the window popped and Tim went out like a rag doll a said Prince who helped hold on to Lancaster after a cockpit window popped off sunday at 23,000 feet. Lancaster was suffering from Shock and a fractured Elbow wrist and thumb As Well As frostbite in one hand High court from Page 1 because society finds the idea itself offensive or  Brennan noted that the government has said there is a National consensus in favor of Banning Flag burning. A even assuming such a consensus exists any suggestion that the governments interest m suppressing speech becomes More weighty As popular opposition to that speech grows is foreign to the first amendment a he  doubts remain on special Quebec role Justice John Paul Stevens in a dissenting opinion said the government has a legitimate interest in Banning Flag burning. A the Flag uniquely symbolizes the ideas of Liberty Equality and tolerance a ideas that americans have passionately defended and debated throughout our history a he said in the 1989 Case the court struck Down a Texas Law Banning Flag burning. Brennan was joined by Thurgood Marshall Harry a. Blackmun Antonin Scalia and Anthony m. Kennedy. Stevens was joined by chief Justice William h. Rehnquist Byron r. White and Sandra Day of Connor. Ottawa not a Canadas provincial leaders returned to their capitals sunday after signing an agreement with prime minister Brian Mulroney that is intended to keep Quebec within the confederation. But serious doubts remained As to whether All 10 provinces would go along with a Deal that would give Quebec special status. Three remaining provinces a Newfoundland Manitoba and new Brunswick a must ratify the Meech Lake constitutional Accord before june 23 in order to achieve the required unanimous consent. Newfoundland appeared the least certain. Premier Clyde Wells who offered Only a conditional signature to saturdays agreements agreed to submit them for approval by Newfoundland a legislature or by its 570,000 people in a referendum. But he said he regarded the plan to give a special status to Quebec As endorsed at the Ottawa meeting to be Quot wrong for Canada and for Newfoundland news briefs the premiers of Manitoba and new Brunswick expressed Confidence that their Legislatures would ratify the constitutional pact. A but Wells statements at a news conference sunday in St. Johns the Newfoundland capital left canadians facing More of the uncertainty that has w racked the country since the Meech Lake controversy erupted three years ago. Wells said he would advise newfound Landers to make their decision on the pact on the basis of what was Best for Canada a for the next 100 years a and not necessarily because Mulroney and other premiers have warned that failure to ratify the pact would push Quebec into Independence. But regardless of what becomes of the Meech Lake pact Many canadians appeared More anxious after the latest negotiations than before to the Point of wondering whether Quebec and the English speaking provinces have moved so far apart that the Meech Lake formula will prove to have been Only a stepping Stone to Quebec a eventual secession. Upstart candidate wins Peru Runoff Lima Peru apr Alberto Fujimori a political unknown four months ago soundly Defeated celebrated novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in a presidential Runoff sunday and promised to improve the Economy of this bankrupt nation. Vargas Llosa conceded defeat he wished Fujimori Success in trying to turn around the country fight drug trafficking and Battle a 10-year-old guerrilla insurgency. Voting took place despite a wave of attacks in one andean Region by maoist guerrillas who had vowed to sabotage the balloting. One voting station was bombed. At least five people were killed and eight injured in separate attacks. Exit polls gave Fujimori 51, an agricultural Engineer and former University Rector a 13 to 19-Point percentage Lead. Communists Lead in Bulgaria vote Sofia Bulgaria apr the renamed communists held a commanding Lead monday in bulgarians first free elections in 58 years bucking the anti communist trend in countries that emerged from the soviet orbit in the past year. The party appeared Likely to become the Only ruling party in Eastern Europe to retain Power in multiparty elections according to projections from Independent polling organizations. However opposition leaders charged that sundays parliamentary vote was marred by irregularities and More than 2,000 protesters demonstrated outside parliament monday shouting a fraud and calling for a general strike. Independent projections gave the socialists heirs to the Long ruling communists about 48 percent of the vote m sundays parliamentary vote. The main opposition coalition the Union of democratic forces had just under 35  from Page 1 Eigners could use Only the crossing on the City a Friedric Strasse thoroughfare Ana the . 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