European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars Ano stripes sunday july 8,1998 news briefs Powell to visit Mideast Cheney cuts Short his trip Washington apr Gen. Colin l. Rowell the nations top military officer on Friday announced plans to visit five Mideast nations. In another development the Pentagon said Ity Dick Che Short his current european trip. Defense scr car whency was cutting Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff leaves saturday from Andrews fab md., for Morocco and will also visit Tunisia Egypt Jordan and Israel for talks on regional Security issues. He is scheduled to return to Washington on july 13. The Pentagon said Cheney would skip planned visits to Spain and Portugal in order to return to Washington on tuesday to participate in budget deliberations. It Cheney was in Crete on Friday and was scheduled to travel to Greece on sunday and Turkey on monday before heading Back to Washington on tuesday. He originally was scheduled to return on july 14 after visiting Madrid and Lisbon. Kenya police open fire on rally for democracy Nairobi Kenya apr police fired bullets and tear Gas saturday at thousands of demonstrators who defied a government ban and held a rally calling for multiparty democracy in Kenya witnesses said. A it was not immediately known whether there were any casualties. The witnesses said the police attacked after the demonstrators stoned a plainclothes police officer a police vehicle and a bus. The witnesses said police also beat the protesters. The atmosphere remained tense an hour later. Surrounding streets were littered with rocks Glass and other debris. Gorbachev from Page 1 ing leaders except Mikhail Gorbachev in the party a Leningrad party chief Boris Gidaspow said. In a draft of party rules also expected to come to the floor saturday the party a head would still be called general Secretary. Both he and a Deputy would be elected by the full Congress of about 4,700 delegates. With Gorbachev the presumed Winner for the Post that he has held since March 1985, talk in the corridors revolved around candidates for his Deputy who runs the party a Day to Day affairs. Delegates said they expected a massive overhaul of the party leadership. Moscow party Secretary Yuri Prokofiev said saturday that As much As 80 percent of the leadership might be  28th Congress of the soviet communist party which opened last monday appeared Likely to adjourn sometime late this week. To nato meet a pleases . Houston up a president Bush briefed japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu saturday on the nato Summit saying the United states was cry pleased with the soviet unions reaction to the Western alliances pledge of non aggression. Related photo Page 7. Bush who met with Kaifu As a prelude to the coming weeks economic Summit of the seven major industrialized democracies in Houston also offered his a personal reflections on the nato meeting in a Cable to soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. The exact Content of the Cable to Gorbachev was not disclosed by administration officials but Fitzwater said the president expressed encouragement about Gorbachev a economic Reform program also known As perestroika Fitzwater said it was Clear that the president was satisfied with positive comments by Gorbachev and soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze on the nato meeting in London which ended Friday. According to Fitzwater Bush told the japanese prime minister a we Are very pleased. They the soviets believe the Summit was very productive and heartening to what they want to do a the 16-nation Western Alliance offered political integration and military restraint to the remnants of the Warsaw pact with pledges of non aggression and proposals to use nuclear missiles Only As a last resort and to eventually eliminate nuclear artillery shells in Europe. The leaders also extended an invitation to Gorbachev and other East european leaders to address the Alliance and a establish regular diplomatic Liaison with nato. However the worlds economic Powers May be not be As forthcoming with financial Aid for Moscow. Foreign Aid to the soviet Funion and China loomed As a key component of the three Day economic Summit Between West Germany great Britain Japan the United states France Italy and Canada. The formal talks begin monday at Rice University in Houston Texas. A a Japan and the United states oppose extensive Aid to the soviet Union and Kaifu would like Bush to relax . Intensity about soviet concerns and resume formal contacts and economic assistance to China. Fitzwater said the United states is a not looking to change its policy on China adding that the White House would like Beijing to make a More Progress in a terms of opening up the  the european Community has decided against reconsidering its sanctions against China. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher opposes direct economic Aid to Moscow supporting the . View that Gorbachev must Reform Nis Economy and resolve regional issues before receiving Western assistance. Thatcher along with the United states and Japan supports providing Only technical assistance to Moscow. Favouring direct Aid to the soviet Union Are West Germany France and Italy who along with the United states Britain and Canada Are members of nato who also Are participating in the economic Summit. Bush said he has a some big problems with the $15 billion direct Aid package proposed in recent weeks by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. However he said he fears no a breach of Alliance cohesion if the economic Summit ends with a division Over soviet Aid. Accused of fort Bragg . Apr a court martial has been ordered for a 19-year Soldier charged with murdering a panamanian during the . Invasion. In ordering the trial fort Braggs commander it. Gen. Gary e. Luck on Friday reduced the charge against master sgt. Roberto Enrique Bryan from premeditated murder to unpremeditated murder a Bryan 42, is charged in the dec. 23 shooting of an unidentified panamanian. The army times an Independent publication reported that Bryan is accused of shooting a prisoner taken after a fire fight near an electrical generating station. Maj. Doug Foster a fort Bragg spokesman refused to comment on the Case. If convicted Bryan could receive life in prison and a dishonourable discharge. No Date was set for the court martial. A your argument will be that the killing was a lawful but unfortunate killing a said Bryan a lawyer Mark Waple. At least three other . Soldiers have been prosecuted for their actions during the invasion that drove Gen. Manuel Noriega from Power. Two soldiers were charged with the unpremeditated murder of a civilian during firefight that investigate said was staged to cover up a soldiers loss of his military handgun. One Soldier was convicted and one acquitted. Another Soldier pleaded guilty to obstruction conspiracy and other charges in that  from Page 1 vision on deploying a modernized version of a tactical air to surface missile probably because the Issue is expected to Divide the Alliance. A in atom a nuclear policy is beginning to creak at the scams and nothing is being done to counter the erosion of its credibility Quot said Marc fielder an analyst with the London based Royal United services Institute. A in two years time the Only Subsara Telic nuclear system will be air launched Quot fielder said. A and the germans the dutch and the belgians do not want to modernize  natos policy of nuclear deterrence now depends on both intercontinental or strategic nuclear weapons based in the United states and tactical or Short Range nuclear weapons based in Europe. The uncertainty Over the alliances next step gives Hope to those who support a nuclear free Europe another expert said. A i done to think its been ironed out a said Andrew Duncan a spokesman for the International Institute for strategic studies in London. A the thing about having any sub strategic weapons in Europe is still wide  although nato leaders did not want to bring up divisive issues during a Summit aimed at showing a United front to the soviets delaying a decision on a new Short Range nuclear deterrent May make the Issue even harder to resolve in the future fielder said German unification and an East West treaty to slash conventional weapons in Europe Are Likely to be completed by years end. With the image of soviet and american tanks being destroyed the Public May find it absurd that nato would be debating the need for hundreds of air launched nuclear missiles fielder said. British prime minister Margaret Thatcher made Clear in statements Friday that the change in natos nuclear doctrine did not mean that nato was no longer prepared to use nuclear weapons. She also reminded journalists of a Long standing american commitment to deploy troops in Europe Only with the backing of nuclear weapons. A obviously we re trying to give a signal that we really mean less willingness to use nuclear weapons Early on a said a Brussels based Diplomat. The Diplomat said the diminishing of the soviet threat a has not come far enough Quot to Rule out nuclear weapons in Europe but added that in the current environment of great changes he could a never say  a the soviets who have Long advocated a nuclear free Europe will a want to tease out the details of natos new a last resort policy on using nuclear weapons said Bill Wallace director of the Institute for soviet and East european studies at the University of Glasgow. �?o1 would guess that if nato is saying that nuclear weapons Are really a last resort Gorbachev will say that really Means we re really talking about a defensive doctrine a so lets spell ii out a Wallace said. Nato Summit leaders also approved proposals by president Bush to invite soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev to speak to a nato meeting and for the countries of the Warsaw pact to sign a Alliance joint declaration with nato counties and the Neutral nations of Europe stating that a we Are no longer adversaries and reaffirm our intention to refrain from the threat or use of Force Quot against other  Gorbachev accepts natos invitation he probably will use the Orum to gain key concessions from thurr a a Vav amp a <ic6 said 1 the soviet Leader Likely will insist on a pact in which a unified Germany states that it entertains no aggressive intentions toward the soviet Union he said. At the same time Gorbachev May try to broaden the idea of a non aggression act to include economic development e said. So far Bush has opposed direct economic Aid to the soviet Union. But Gorbachev Vytill argue that if the West does not provide economic Aid i the soviet Union and Eastern euro Security in Europe will never be ensured. A when one part of Europe is Rich an one part poor Wallace said y0lj,c have All the non aggression pacts Anai y purity pacts in the world but in the it. Someone is going to be agg Feyoo someone is going to throw their we