European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes sunday june 17,1990 a greeting for Granny a amps Dave Didio seven year old Stephan Donahue holds a handmade Tion of his grandmother Rose Donahue who was sign outside the baggage claim area at Frankfort arriving from Wichita Kan. Stephan is the son of International Airport on Friday to attract the Atten Gary and Cornelia Donahue of Butzbach. Nicaragua to Cut army by half Force senior officers to retire Managua Nicaragua apr president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro said Friday the sandinista army will be reduced by half and senior officers will be retired. Chamorro who took Over after the leftist Sandinia tas were Defeated in free elections said the cutbacks will take effect by aug. 3. She did not specify whether the cuts will affect Reserve forces As Well As Active duty troops. The presidents announcement came in a speech to the Cabinet representatives of the United nations and the organization of american states the diplomatic corps and the army general staff. She did not say whether the army chief Gen. Humberto Ortega would be among officers forced to retire under the reforms but she had said earlier he would hold the Post Only temporarily. Onega brother of former sandinista president Daniel Onega told reporters later that the army will decide which officers stay and which leave. During the 10 years of sandinista Rule Nicaragua never made Public the size of the army but estimates put its strength at nearly 55,000. Gen. Ortega said Friday that the army numbers 96,000, but it is not Clear How Many of those Are Active duty troops and How Many Are reservists. The president said the cutbacks will bring the army strength to a less than 41,000 men and women Quot adding a this Means half of the members that it had on april 25, the Day i assumed the presidency of the  meanwhile Chamorro said 14,200 of the  Contra rebels have demobilized so far. The contras had waged a nearly decade Long insurgency against the sandinista. A with All certainty we can say that today the War has been left behind Quot Chamorro said. About 1,000 contras have yet to demobilize but Are expected to do so she said. The president also said she is ordering the army and the Interior ministry to disarm civilians. The measures were announced As the president prepared to leave for a regional weekend Summit in Guatemala also to be attended by Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii. It will be Chamorro a first Summit meeting As president. Mitterrand protests English use Paris apr president Francois Mitterrand in a letter released Friday said the european Community has improperly allowed English to become its dominant administrative language at the expense of French. France was ready to help dec bureaucrats a acquire the linguistic competence needed to perform their Mission a the president wrote in a letter to Jacques Delors the Frenchman who is president of the european commission. Several conservative members of Britain a parliament criticized Mitterrand a letter. A the Many a Dotty Quot sir Nicholas Fairbaim said. A French is the language of privacy and English is the language of  a it might not be a bad idea if president Mitterrand took some English lessons preferably from mrs. Thatcher a said another member of parliament Neil Hamilton. Mitterrand said using French increasingly As an official dec language is a top priority of his government. A today a tendency exists in certain sectors of the commission to Convene meetings of experts who Are asked to work Only in English Quot he wrote. Mitterrand said Many dec documents including contract offers and work documents were issued Only in English despite a treaty calling for multilingualism. A such practices Are not acceptable and France will continue to oppose them Quot he wrote. A France is ready to put at the commission s disposition the Means of enabling its employees to acquire the linguistic competence needed to perform their  world today serbian police attack on protesters denounced Belgrade Yugoslavia apr a coalition of five opposition parties m Yugoslavia a communist ruled state of Serbia has sharply denounced a police attack on demonstrators demanding free elections saying it left at least 100 people injured. More than 30,000 serbs staged the largest Ever anti communist rally in downtown Belgrade to protest serbian plans to delay multiparty elections by at least one year and to demand round table talks Between author ties and opposition parties. The demonstration ended peacefully but some 500 protesters who went to the nearby Belgrade television station to demand unbiased coverage of their demands were met by club wielding police who dispersed them in a Brief  Snow surfer Dies on Steep Mont Blanc slope Chamonix France apr Bruno Gouvy a Snow surfer who made pioneering descents in the Himalayas and the Alps was killed Friday while trying to conquer a Steep slope on Mont Blanc police said. Gouvy 27, reportedly held the Altitude record for his sport with a descent on mount Everest in 1989 that started at 27,650 feet. According to police he skidded on an ice Patch Friday shortly after being dropped by helicopter on the top of the Aiguille Verte Green Needle 13,523-foot-High Peak on the Mont Blanc Massif in the French Alps. As those aboard the helicopter including a film Crew looked on Gouvy skidded More than 3,000 feet Down a Steep face before crashing into a Crevice. Snow surfing which has become increasingly popular in the Alps is a form of skiing in which the practitioner rides on a single Board one foot behind the other in a position similar to an Ocean surfer balancing without the use of ski poles. Gouvy who last year Snow surfed Down the West face of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps also was an experienced Mountain climber and a devotee of free fall  finnish soldiers infected with aids virus Helsinki Finland apr three finnish soldiers who served in the . Peacekeeping Force in Namibia have tested positive for the his virus the defense ministry said Friday. The men were thought to have contracted the virus which can cause aids while on duty in Namibia the ministry said. Finnish soldiers serving in . Peacekeeping forces worldwide Are regularly tested for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Until now no infections had been found officials said. Finland had Over 900 soldiers serving in the 4,650-Strong multinational namibian peacekeeping Force. They All returned Home after Namibia became Independent in March this year. Soviets nato setup system to share quake information Erice Sicily apr the soviet environmental minister and nato Secretary general Manfred Braer have inaugurated a new network for sharing information on earthquakes. The system operated by the Ettore Majorana Center for scientific culture in Sicily will provide quicker sharing of readings from sensors in the United states Canada Sweden and Italy officials said. It will share information with the . Geological Survey in Golden colo., and be linked by facsimile machine with the soviet Union China and countries in South America and Africa. The soviet minister for meteorology and the environment Yuri Israel said during the ceremony that the new system will be a a new Force for the Protection of humanity and an example of scientific cooperation a the italian news Agency Ansa reported. Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti also attended the inauguration. The ceremony coincided with a nato committee s meeting on the challenges of Modem society