European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a the stars and stripes thursday june 14,1990 Warsaw pact a useful to us at last czech official says Prague Czechoslovakia apr the foreign minister of Czechoslovakia says the crumbling Warsaw pact should be preserved in some form to prevent the soviet Union from becoming dangerously isolated. A for the first time the Warsaw pact is useful to us a Jiri Dienstbier said tuesday in an interview with the associated press and two other news organizations. He said that As the Warsaw pact moves away from its role As a military Alliance it can still play a role in european affairs. The Warsaw pact created in 1955 to help the soviets keep their Eastern european satellites in line sent tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the 1968 a Prague Spring Quot reforms. Now Czechoslovakia wants to remain in the Alliance so it can have a voice in negotiating disarmament and a new european Security order Dienstbier said. Dienstbier was considered certain to keep his Post in the new czechoslovak government. Parliamentary elections held last weekend were won by the pro democracy forces that led last year s revolution. Recalling the isolation of Germany Between the two world wars Dienstbier said of the soviets a we should do every thing to pull them into  a we done to want to create any Versailles Complex in Russia a he said referring to the treaty that punished Germany at the end of world War i. A it s even More dangerous because they have All those nuclear  Warsaw pact members met in Moscow last week and the soviets agreed that the other six member nations should have command of their own armies. They had nominal command before but never exercised it a with the exception of romanians refusal to join the 1968 invasion of czechoslovak. The alliances supreme military commander was always a top soviet general or marshal. Czechoslovakia East Germany and Poland want the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe to make its Headquarters in Prague. The 35-nation group includes the United states Canada the soviet Union and All european countries but Albania. Under the three nation proposal a parallel Center for arms control verification and Confidence building measures would also be established in Berlin. The three East european nations want their idea discussed at a meeting of the conference on Security in Vienna on july 10. That meeting is to pave the Way for a Paris Summit in december. Dienstbier and president Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia have Long advocated the eventual breakup of the Warsaw pact and its Western counterpart the North Atlantic treaty organization. Unlike Hungary a new leaders a who want their country out of the Warsaw pact a Dienstbier and Havel say the East bloc Alliance should break up Only gradually. In the meantime they want to remain members. Dienstbier said there Are a positive forces in the soviet Union who want to work with Czechoslovakia East Germany and Poland on transforming european Security. East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere told president Bush in Washington on monday that nato must be a significantly changed to meet the soviet unions Security concerns. The West is insisting that a United Germany be a full member of nato. Moscow opposes exclusive military allegiance to nato for a new Germany. The dispute has halted for the moment efforts to secure the removal from East Germany of the 380,000 soviet troops stationed there. Hot pole radio frequency images of Mercury reveal for the first time the existence of two hot poles along the planets equatorial Belt. The darkest spot visible on this images pole indicates the highest temperatures the Light area surrounding the hot spot is an intermediate temperature and the Gray Border is the lowest temperature. This image is among those released by the new Mexico state University astronomy department at Las  free press Law oked amid Stormy debate by the Baltimore Sun Moscow a the soviet parliament tuesday outlawed censorship of the Media and granted every citizen the right to publish a newspaper ending a history of strict state control Over information. The Long awaited press Law the subject of fierce political fighting for More than a year should permit dozens of struggling Independent newspapers and journals to function legally acquire offices and compete for Access to Normal printing facilities. Despite five years of increasing Candor in the official press under soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev the soviet Media have generally remained subject to control and censorship whenever the party leadership deemed it necessary. The new Law will give editors and reporters of periodicals radio and television for the first time a Legal basis to resist such pressure the Battle Over the press Law continued up to the moment of its passage with Joum Alist deputies beating Back attempts to limit their Freedom. It specifically Grants journalists the right to have Access to officials and to use a tape recorder or camera officials who interfere with a journalist s work can be fined up to 500 rubles about a months pay for a mid rank bureaucrat. Reporters have the Legal right to refuse to prepare material a contradicting their convictions and to take their name off material they believe to have been distorted by editors or  service held for Soldier killed by train Stuttgart West Germany a amps a a memorial service was held tuesday for a 7 the engr brigade Soldier killed by a train Early saturday. Spec. Joe Woundedface jr., 23, of Phoenix ariz., was hit at about 1 30 . Between Kom Westheim and Stuttgart a zazen Hausen neighbourhood and was pronounced dead at the Accident scene Stuttgart military Community spokesman George Huettig said. The Accident is under  scout Mannheim West Germany a John a. Kenney a member of troop 17, has been promoted to the rank of Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting. For his Eagle scout project he coordinated a fire safety program with the help of local officials. His efforts included placing fire Hazard warning stickers in All Utchins of the Benjamin Franklin Vil age housing area and publishing a fire safety Brief in the Mannheim messenger. Kenney a senior at Mannheim High school is the son of Jack and Nan Kenney. The 18-year-old has been involved in scouting for 10 years. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. Police have a blast at Keg party Edwardsville Kan. Apr police wanted to pull the plug on a party of underage drinkers so they pulled the trigger at their Keg. A better to do that than leave it full and have 35 to 40 juveniles running around drunk a police chief Dennis Robertson said tuesday. Police were called sunday about a Keg party involving minors in this town of 3,300 near Kansas City Kan. Just two officers were on duty and they had two other Calls they had to respond to Robertson said. A there was nobody around and nobody to get Hurt a Robertson said and because of the other Calls an officer decided to fire his gun into the Keg of Beer draining it. No arrests were made. If the officers had had time they would have taken the Keg to a chapter of mothers against drunk driving so the group could get the Keg Deposit Robertson said. Verdict delayed in Ceausescu trial Bucharest Romania apr the trial of Nicolae Andrita Ceausescu the brother of deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ended wednesday but the verdict was postponed until june 21. On the final Day of the trial the three judge military panel hearing the Case accepted a request from the prosecution to change one of the charges against Ceausescu from aggravated murder to attempted aggravated murder a lesser crime. The prosecution then told the court that the 66-year-old former police general who commanded a police training school near Bucharest should be found guilty of a inciting genocide and a attempted aggravated  but the court postponed the verdict at the request of the defense. Ceausescu whose trial started in March faces a maximum 15 years in prison if convicted. The charges Stem from Ceausescu a alleged role in trying to suppress revolutionaries in the december uprising that toppled his brother. The original charge of a aggravated murder in the indictment referred to the seven people Ceausescu was accused of having shot. Nicolae Andrita is one of the late dictators five Brothers. Explain the changed charges prosecutor Vasile Pantea said a we cannot prove that the bullets from his gun killed this and that  a we do not have the right to play with existing evidence a he added. The court ruled there was no evidence to support the claims of the families of the seven victims allegedly shot by Ceausescu who had earlier testified in court. Pantea told the court presided Over by col. Igon Dima that the defendant instigated some 1,200 cadets to open fire on demonstrators dec. 21. He referred to witnesses testimonies that quoted Ceausescu As ordering a kill those dogs a an allusion to the demonstrators. Nicolae Ceausescu was toppled by the romanian army which sided with revolutionaries dec. 22. He and his wife Elena were charged with genocide and other grave crimes at a summary trial sentenced to death and shot by filing squad three Days later. Pantea also referred to testimonies that the defendant leaned Over arms across from the intercontinental hotel in downtown Bucharest and shot randomly into a subway station. Vasile so Moceanu the defendant s attorney rejected All charges of the prosecution and asked the court for the acquittal of his client. Ceausescu pleaded innocent rejecting All the charges against him. A i swear with my hand on Tom Cross that i am not guilty at All. It s a off line up a he said occasionally turning a head toward his lawyer. 1ic3u us Juu mis we i. _ pacing the Dock nervously cause admitted that he had fired a gun in to a i wanted to see what it is like to fire gun. I never used a gun before he to the court