European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Q Napoleon meets Waterloo a 3 p aids discrimination up study shows Page 5 a education news in 9 p Tyson Foreman score 21 the slur Laid it a stripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 49, no. 65 monday june 18,1990 a a 25c Dally and sunday Good Mornin d 8693 a me. Germany delays Unity vote move to dissolve nation thwarted Berlin apr East Germany a parliament postponed a decision on unification with West Germany on sunday after dramatically flirting with the idea of immediately dissolving their nation. The country a first freely elected parliament decided to put off a vote on unification by a vast majority in a show of hands heading off a move by a group of lawmakers to secure a final decision on the historic question. Earlier parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor when lawmakers from the German social Union proposed that a final decision on unification be put on the Agenda. A the parliament would like to decide resolve to join the German democratic Republic. To the Federal Republic of Germany on this very Day a lawmaker Hans Giinther Schwarz of the German social Union told the chamber. The Resolution was offered by the party because it fell on the 37th anniversary of the june 17, 1953, uprising in East Germany against soviet Rule. An estimated 300 people were killed in the uprising which came amid the construction of barbed wire and minefields along East Germany a Border with West Germany to prevent mass flight to the West. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and West see Unity on Back Page 77 a amps Jim Derheim James Day. A individual consciences amps Jim Derheim spec. Treena Dixon. A like burning the crosses amps Gary Pomeroy Bill Roundy. Backs right to protests amps Nona Kirk. Supports amendment Flag burning raises patriotic Flap in Europe in recent interviews Many service members their dependents and . Employees in Europe voiced support for the proposed amendment and questioned whether destruction of the . Flag constituted free speech. A i believe that the heart and soul of by Randy Pruitt staff writer when the . Supreme court last week struck Down a new Federal Law outlawing the burning of the american Flag it struck some patriotic nerves with service members in Europe. The 5-4 decision also touched off a Cam. ,.pain in Congress to Amend the Bill of it represents the values that the people rights to ban desecration of the . Flag. ,?,ar4 of. Opponents name that such a Constitution the 202nd military police co in Giessen Al amendment would Fly in the face of the West Germany. A when you desecrate the first amendment which Grants Freedom Flag you desecrate the nation s values of speech. Related Story Page 6. And i think that a dangerous. Maj. Al Kitchen of he Btry 32nd army air defense come in Darmstadt West Germany said he is not in favor of amending the Constitution but disapproves of Flag burning. A there Are other ways to solve it a Kitchen said. A the court has made a spec. Treena Dixon who works at the 130th station Hospital in Heidelberg West Germany said she favors the amendment. A they Congress should support it because 1 done to believe in burning a Symbol a she said. A burning a Flag is this co soft he cr0ss a Quot some by is to have a constitutional amendment. A my opposition is not necessarily to the amendment but that the courts have interpreted the Law to say that an act of burning the Flag can be construed As Freedom of speech a he said. Dyes James Day a professor of counselling at Boston University in Heidelberg disagreed. A i think the Flag represents something that requires no further pro see Flag on Back Page suspected terrorist denies link to base bombing s Berlin apr a reputed West German terrorist was living in East Germany with the approval of the i secret police when she allegedly helped bomb a . Air base officials said sunday. West German Federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl said he was investigating whether there was evidence to charge former communist Leader Erich Hon i Ecker and members of his ousted regime with supporting leftist terrorism against West Germany. The disclosure came after the arrests of seven suspected members of the Radical left Wing red army i faction which has been blamed for dozens of killings bombings and kidnappings in West Germany during the past two decades. The suspects had been living in East Germany under false names and some told police that they were in regular Contact with the Stasi the feared secret police of East Germany a former communist regime. Authorities late Friday captured Sigrid Stembeck 40, the seventh alleged red army faction member arrested in a 10-Day Span. She was arrested at her apartment near the East German City of Frankfurt an Der Oder. Stembeck told authorities that she moved to East Germany in 1980 and kept in regular Contact with the secret police who found her a place to live according to a statement released sunday by East Germany a Interior ministry. But she denied that she had any Contact with the red army faction after moving to East Germany the Interior ministry said through the government news Agency adn. West German authorities say she is linked to the August 1985 death of a . Army Soldier who was lured from a discotheque in Wiesbaden West Germany and then shot to death. The soldiers identity card was then used to drive a car Laden with explosives onto the Rhein main a near Frankfurt West Germany. Two More americans were killed in the blast and 20 other people were injured. 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