European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page amp 28 a / the stars and stripes sunday july 8,1990 at Paris apr a dozen pieces of ancient Romot jew Elry were stolen from the louvre museum officials said fonday. It was the a test in a series of Art thefts that has prompted an overhaul of Security in Paris museums. The first and third Century earrings bracelets and necklaces were found to be missing wednesday the same Day a Renoir was Cut from its Frame at the louvre and two other works were taken from two Smalt museums but the jewelry whose toss War discovered in an news briefs inventory Check ordered after the Renoir theft was removed Long before said Jacques Sal Lois director of the museums of France shaken by thefts carried out to Brood Daylight officials have announced serifs Adf measures tighten Security at paric Mai tums. P the Interior ministry is assigning a special police unit to work with museum Security personnel systematic inventories Are to be carried out and t five Small museums have been closed indefinitely to individual visitors. Louvre director Michel Laclotte said the museum would shut at least four rooms. Experts said the stolen paintings a landscape and two portraits All Small formats were considered of limited Market value. The most valuable of them Renoir a Quot portrait of a seated woman Quot a a climate to be Worth a few Hundred thousand dollars Afta Osi a relatively Small sum today for a Well known artists work. A a. A 4 a a a a a. Sources say Doe failed. Q get . Ferry assistance Abidjan Ivory coast apr siberian president it amuck Doe asked the United states to him and 100 troops to i Home Region of Nas re ferry about 3,000 a Al troops from hism Rahu tribe in the area Miles Northeast of tic capital. In Washington senior administration official denied that Doe had made any such request. The official said Doe suggested to . Diplomats in lib rur earlier tvs week that he would like to Stop off in his Home Region but made no formal request for . Help getting there. The United states has offered to help Doe leave the country and the . Envoys made it Clear to him that the offer of transportation applies Only to International travel the official said. The question of . Transportation for troops Loyal to Doe has not Arisen theft official mid. A a a a. At a / does remaining forces in the liberian capital of Monrovia have Ocon surrounded by Leader resigns under opposition pressure Sofia Bulgaria apr bulgarians socialist president Petal Mladenov submitted his resignation Friday for Wang mounting pressure from students and the Ohp Guition for him to step Down state Media reported. Mladenov a resignation Fetter was read on the state television 8 . News program by a to commentator. students who have been on strike for nearly a month issued a declaration earlier in Quot the Day calling on All bulgarians to go on a 30-Mlnute a wanting strike Quot saturday Fimia Dynov did not step Down by 8 . Friday the state Bra news Agency reported. Vienna Austria apr police attacked demonstrators Friday in Albania capital near the embassy District where up to 4,000 any Luitel seekers jammed diplomatic missions. Albanians communist boat offered no Quot generosity for defectors. J a about 10,000 albanians gathered in a Central Dot Are following earlier protests demanding that leaders of the last hard line communist nation in Eastern Europe adopt major reforms according to a sketchy report from Tirana by the Austria press Agency. Cheney in Greece for base this rally remained silent however. Some demonstrators on its Periphery scattered when police charged Only to regroup according to the austrian Agency Whei reported no injuries. The clash occurred in Skander beg Square not far from a scaled off area of Tirana containing embassies that have become Travens for albanians in the last two weeks. A diplomats said More than 2,300 albanians were holed up inside More than a dozen embassies. Athens Greece not a defense Secretary Dick Cheney arrived in Greece Friday for a 4-Day visit to inspect . Military bases and to sign an agreement for an 8-year Extension of base rights. Unlike years past when the visit of any american official provoked demonstrations and even terrorism Cheney a arrival on Crete caused no reaction and Little criticism. The visit is part of a tour of Greece Spain Turkey Norway and Portugal. Cheney was to spend two Days inspecting two american bases on Crete before signing the new Accord in Athens on sunday. A on monday he is to Confer with prime minister Constantine i Tsitakis a recently elected conservative. Earlier this year the american government announced that it would close two bases at Athens As part of its military cutbacks in Europe. But it will keep the bases on Crete which is dose to Libya and the Middle East and a number of smaller installations in the country. _ from paged 1 a a a a warning strikes to demand higher wages and Job Protection Saia Union spokesman Retief Kuchenbecker. About 10,000 marched through East Berlin to press their demands. Prices have soared in this new free Market society following the economic merger and Metal workers have held strikes daily Ait various plants. East German stores have stocked their shelves with More expensive West Gen pan products forcing up prices. There have also been widespread reports of Price gouging by East German a stores. De Maiziere and other off idols have criticized the Price rises. The costs of some foodstuffs varied by 100 percent from one Region to not Civ a Quot there a no Way that can be justified merely by higher transportation costs or overhead a de Maiziere told legislators thursday. Adn reported Price rises of 400 to boo percent in the Northern Mecklenburg and Pomerania regions and said there were Long shopping lines in Southeastern Dresden. A a a a there Are cities in the Cdr East Germany where the average Price jewels Are Way above those in West Germany a said economics minister Gerhard Pohl. A we need certain guarantees that Cdr citizens. Wont Baert plotted several thousand Metal workers struck at seven lants near Leipzig where pay talks deadlocked two ays ago according to adn. The Union wants East Germany to adopt the West German system of stipulating salary Scales and Job descriptions in huge collective contracts by which All the workers in a specific Industry Are bound. 1. Be said he had received All along from Bush said German troop strength would be one of the topics he would discuss with Gorbachev when he Fum to Moscow on july 15 to try to overcome Gorbachev a remaining objections to German unification. Kohl said that he a found also discuss economic Aid to the soviet Union with Toiba Chev who sent a letter to Bush Friday formally requesting consideration of economic and financial Aid for his attempt to transform the soviet Economy according to american was Bush a proposal to declare nuclear arms weapons of a last rest la that prompted the most intensive discussions with prime minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain and president Francois Mitterrand of France both insisting on a Fuller explanation of Why even if the Alliance reduced its Reliance on nuclear weapons it needed tos make any potential aggressor worry that it might use them in self defense. A these will continue to fulfil an essential role in the Overall strategy of the Alliance to prevent War by Insung that there Are no circumstances in which nuclear retaliation in response to military action might be discounted Quot the statement said. A however in the transformed Europe they will be Able to adopt a new nato strategy making nuclear forces truly weapons Oflas resort a the document said refer nato from Page 1 coming out of this Summit and said he was a always ready to go Quot to Brussels to meet with the Western allies. Nato s Secretary general Manfred Wilmer will Fly to Moscow to discuss the declaration with Gorbachev whose own policies arc under attack in the soviet Union. Unspoken in the declaration is a desire by most nato leaders to provide Gorbachev with striking evidence to demonstrate to his critics that his conciliatory foreign policy toward the West is bringing results. Bush said he thought fridays declaration will help Gorbachev with his however a Bush continued to oppose direct american economic Aid to the soviet Union. In a a London declaration drafted Over the last to o Days by foreign ministers in the Palace of Lancaster House the nato leaders were clearly trying to speak to history in the same ringing tones that the North Atlantic treaty sent out from Washington at the height of the cold War 4 years ago when the Alliance was formed a the Atlantic Community must reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries in the cold War and extend to them the hand of Friendship Quot they said inviting the members of the crumbling Warsaw pact to join in declaring that the Era of mutually hostile bloc ads Over. A the Walls that once confined people and ideas Are collapsing a the Allied Heads of government said. A was a consequence this Alliance must and will . In a wide ranging review of Alliance strategy and Force Levels they also prom Iseff to prepare a new defensive approach using Small multinational Light forces stationed far from the former front lines instead of a Forward defense a and to reduce the Reliance on nuclear weapons now enshrined in the strategy of Quot flexible they invited the Warsaw pact countries to establish a regular diplomatic Liaison Quot with nato and agreed to strengthen the role of the 35-nation conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. Significantly they made a major Concession to soviet fears about a United Germany within nato and agreed to set limits in German armed forces As soon As the United states and the soviet Union signed a treaty reducing their forces stationed in Europe expected later this year. Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany who was effusive about the support ring to the United states Britain and France. It promised a new nato military strategy a moving away from a Forward defense a where appropriate toward a reduced Forward presence and modifying a flexible response to reflect a reduced Reliance on nuclear Forward defense is the old Alliance strategy of Basing combat ready american and German forces close to the East German Border ready to repel a conventional attack As soon As it starts. Flexible response is the nato deterrence doctrine of keeping an attacker guessing about when and whether the response might be nuclear retaliation. Finally the nato declaration proposed that the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe a 35-nation forum that includes Neutral nations As Well As members of the Eastern and Western alliances a should become More prominent in Europe a this has been a longstanding demand of Gorbachev a and the nato document listed a series of Steps to bring together All of the National leaders at least once a year establish a Center for prevention of conflict and create an Assembly of Europe that would include parliamentary representatives of All participating countries
