European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28the stars and stripes Friday july 6,1990 news oi�efsg-24 nations to expand assistance to East Europe from wire reports Brussels Belgium a foreign ministers from 24 leading Industrial nations agreed on wednesday to expand their economic Aid program for Poland and Hungary to include the emerging East european democracies of Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Yugoslavia and East Germany. Wednesdays decision did not involve any specific monetary pledges by the so called group of 24, which was established a year ago to coordinate Aid to Eastern Europe. / rather officials agreed to consider Aid requests from the four East european countries assess what technical and financial assistance each donor nation is prepared to offer and then meet again to Hammer out a coordinated program of support. It v6 die on train near Madrid Madrid a a steel beam carried by a freight train slashed through a car of a passenger train travelling in the opposite direction killing six people and injuring eight a state Railroad spokesman said wednesday. The beam sliced through the car a like a knife through butter a said Jose Luis Sanchez the spokesman. The Accident late tuesday East of Madrid occurred As the two trains a cd on close publisher Dies at 71 Paris a Maurice Girodias a French publisher whose Early editions of such books As Vladimir Nabokov so Lolita Quot and Henry Millers a Tropic of Capricorn led him into Long Battles with French censors died Here wednesday at the age of 71, apparently of a heart attack Girodias who was being interviewed on the jewish Community radio when he fell ill also published works by Samuel Beckett Jean Genet Lawrence Durrell . Donleavy William Burroughs and Georges Bataille although he was Best known for first banging a a Lolita into attacked in Colombia Bogota Colombia a terrorists apparently working for the Medellin cocaine Cartel blew up three police posts and shot a policeman to death police said wednesday. So far this year 159 policemen have been murdered in the Medellin area As the cocaine Cartel has fought the National governments efforts to eradicate the drug Trade and extradite cocaine Barons to the United sets deadline Moscow a Mikhail a Gorbachev says the Kremlin leadership should resign if soviet citizens Arentt better off in two years Gorbachev a remarks to reporters broadcast wednesday on National television were the first time the soviet president and communist party Leader has Given a deadline for reversing the country a political economic and social problems. �?o1 think that in two years if there Are no changes this leadership must go Quot Gorbachev said at the communist party a 28th scolds saudi Arabia Cairo a iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi a Sfanjani on wednesday called the death of More than a thousand moslem pilgrims in Mecca a a bitter incident for which saudi Arabia a must answer to the islamic the iranian Leader making his first comment on mondays tragedy in which 1,426 pilgrims were crushed or suffocated during a Stampede in a pedestrian Tunnel also called on islamic states to a think up a fundamental solution for running the holy shrines of islam according to a Tehran radio broadcast monitored . Now in commissaries from pag%1 selves Lucky that american beef arrived at a handful of commissaries Iti time for the fourth of july cookouts. One thing she of aged after arriving in West Germany was the kind of Choice beef she was accustomed to serving customers Backhoe. A when i first bought feel at the commissary it had less flavor than in a used Sikand it had a Tough consistency a said Hobson whose up band works As a military policeman at the Man nhe Fon confinement facility. A i thought maybe i had bought Softie old now the newcomer to West Ger Nany knows a lat was wrong. A i never even considered that there a be such a difference Between european said american beef a she said. \ despite Hobsons sentiments though Tofta Sale of . Beef has t skyrocketed since the meat with went on Sale at a handful of stores in West Germany on saturday. Mannheim was the first of six army stores to stall Selling the beef. Five air Force commissaries including Ramstein a should have . Beef on Sale next week. All other commissaries in West Germany England the Netherlands and Belgium will have . Beef on their shelves starting july 16 or 17. The meat counter in Mannheim seemed to be doing a brisk business tuesday. But Deputy commissary officer Jean v. Temblor said sales were about Normal for the week after a military payday. J a people Are buying at a Normal Pace Quot temblor said although she agreed with Hobson that the new american beef is a lot tastier than the beef come Issa Ries had been Selling. All that meat was bought Jet Europe usually in West Germany England and Ireland and occasionally in Yugoslavia. A a this meat is More tender to Cut a ten Clor said. A a it a the difference Between grass fed beef acid the . Corn fed beef. Grass fed is More Hobson said she thinks its Only a a flatter of time before service members and their up fuses remember How tasty american beef can be and apart buying it up. A i think maybe when people Twe it Home see a she said. A and when they Geok it there la be no t other customers said they keep a close Eye on prices As the . Beef replaces european cuts in military stores. On tuesday Mdfee shoppers in Mannheim said prices were roughly we same As they have been paying for european beef a the . Beef Loolu Good a said Jeanette Holmes whose husband works in a transportation unit in Mannheim. A normally the ground beef they sell looks Brown. This looks fresher. If prices done to go up everything will be fine.�?T? Gwendolyn Bavins whose husband sgt Joe a. Blevins is a military policeman in Mannheim said she might even be willing to pay a few pennies More for better beef a if the if eat tastes better and we re Able to get it regular left would be Worth it a she said. A a in pc got to feed a family of four and in a worried about Knees going up. But a Little taste of Home might Sas Jim Cert ohm saudi Hobson and her son Christopher 5, look Over the new selection of us. Beef at the Mannheim West Germany commissary on tuesday. A. A babe Worth it Quot added shopper Carol re amp Baugh whose husband Gordon is a tank welder at i Sullivan Barracks. A a in be been in Germany three Yeta without going Home and its going to be really me having something from the states % commissary officials said . Beef deliveries to military commissaries would be subsidized by the . Government for at least the next three years and that should keep prices from going up. Reinhard Kunz meat department manager at the Mannheim commissary said . Ground beef is Selling for a few cents More than the european variety but other beef cuts Are Selling for the same or less. He expects that to remain the Case . Beef is being shipped to military commissaries in much of Europe by order of Congress. Congress issued its directive in retaliation for a european wide ban on the Sale of hormone fed . Beef on the commercial Page 1 Bush and his counterparts from West Germany France Britain Canada and Italy who Are members of both nato and the so called g-7 group of Industrial nations. Japan is the seventh member of he group but is not a member of nato. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French president Francois Mitterrand have both advocated Western Aid to the soviets saying Quick assistance is needed to help ease the soviet transition to a free Market. On monday in a . Television interview soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev joined the Call. A we need More cooperation while the government is working out measures for the transition to a Market Economy a Gorbachev said in an interview with lbs. Asked specifically if he was referring to Aid Gorbachev said yes although he added the soviets would not a pass the hat but Bush repeatedly has resisted that idea. His advisers argue that sending Money to Moscow at the same time that he is raising taxes and cutting programs at Home would be highly unpopular. They also argue that Aid to the soviets now would merely give the soviet bureaucracy a Cushion to use to avoid reforms. Similar Large Western Aid to Poland a decade ago was largely wasted they Point out. A Cut in soviet military spending was the second proposal for changing soviet priorities that Bush has floated As a seeming condition for . Participation in an Aid plan. Earlier this month he had suggested that the soviets Cut their Aid to Cuba As a condition for receiving american assistance. A a in be always maintained that they were spending a very Large percentage of their Gross National product on defense a Bush said wednesday. A i Hope that Given the changes in the world be Able to curtail that defense spending some. And if they do i think it would be much easier for the West to give them certain kinds of economic Bush was scheduled to spend thursday and Friday at the nato Summit then Fly to Houston on Friday night. He will spend the weekend there before the formal opening of the economic Summit which is scheduled to run monday through fires Motorman hero receives $15,500 London apr the High court on wednesday awarded a London underground train conductor $15,500 for psychological stress suffered during the 1987 Kings Cross subway station fire. Arthur Barren was commended for bravery after he disobeyed orders not to Stop his train at the burning station. Thirty one people were killed and 80 injured m the nov. Is 1987, fire at London a busiest subway station. It
