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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday july 8,1990 in news Oner Powell to i it Mideast Cheney cuts Short his trip Washington Asp a Gen. Colin l pow Ell the nations top announced plans to in another develop vis defense Secreta Short his current euro Powell chairman leaves saturday from Rocco and will also visit Israel for talks on scheduled to return to the Pentagon said itary officer on Friday t five Mideast nations Lent the Pentagon said k Cheney was cutting an trip. The joint chiefs of staff i draws fab mde a for to Tunisia Egypt Jordan and 1 Security issues. He is in Tonon july 13. _ Eney would skip planned visits to Spain and Porf Gal in order to return to Washington on tuesday to participate in budget deliberations f Cheney was in Crete it a Friday and was scheduled to travel to Greece in 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. . J. Kenya police open fire on rally for democracy Nairobi Kenya of a police fired bullets and tear Gas saturday 4j thousands of demonstrators who defied a government ban and held a rally calling for multiparty democracy in Kenya witnesses said. It was not immediately known whether there were any casualties. V 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. It the atmosphere remained tense an hour later. Surrounding streets were littered with rocks Glass and other debris. Rachev ing leaders except Mikhail Gorbachev in the party a Leningrad party chief Booty Gidaspow said. In a draft of party rules afro expected to come to the floor saturday the party a heart 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 fit the Post that he has held since March 1985, talk in to the Corn Dors revolved around candidates for his Deputy to runs the party a Day to Day affairs. Delegates said they expected a massive overhaul of Quot the party leadership. Moscow party Secretary Yuri Prokofiev said saturday that As much As 80 percent of the leadership might be changed. The 28th Congress of the soviet communist party which opened last monday appeared Likely to adjourn sometime late this week. At economic Summit Houston apr after reshaping their military doctrine the most powerful Western nations Are quickly refocusing their attention on what May prove to be an even More volatile Security concern in the new decade a the economic landscape. The Bush administration saturday expected japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu to Tell president Bush that Tokyo is going ahead with its proposal to resume Loans to China Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady said.  they la probably come in with a loan package a he said. See related photo Page 7. Although the United states continues economic sanctions against China because of that nations human rights violations it can do Little about Japan a bilateral relations with Beijing Brady told a reporter saturday before Kaifu arrived Tor the meeting. Bush and Kaifu got a jump on the seven nation economic Summit which officially begins monday with their bilateral meeting saturday. Most of the other participants were also due Early for some Texas style social preliminaries. The leaders of the worlds richest democracies face a full a Likely contentious Agenda a ranging from whether to provide the soviet Union with Cash and other direct assistance to How to resolve a family Trade fight involving billions of dollars in agricultural subsidies. Other countries participating in the 16th annual economic Summit Are Britain West Germany France Italy and Canada. This is the first time in seven years that one of the economic summits has been held m the United states and Houston picked by the president because it is his adopted Hometown is going All out to prove that its made a dramatic turnaround since hitting Bottom during the Oil Price bust in the last decade. Before the serious talks begin Bush was to play Host to the other Summit leaders at a combination Rodeo Barbecue and performance by the grand of opry on sunday. Concerning soviet Aid the United states Britain and Japan find themselves aligned in opposition to a proposal being pushed by West Germany and France to provide a $15 billion assistance package to bail out president Mikhail Gorbachev a floundering economic reforms. Bush on. Friday continued to insist that such Aid would be inappropriate at a time when the soviet Union is still spending huge sums on its military and also provides $5 billion annually to support Cuba. Bush flew to Houston from London where he took part in a two Day nato Summit he told reporters on the plane that he had received a recent communique from Gorbachev. While he refused to disclose its contents there was speculation that it was similar to a recent letter that Gorbachev wrote to British prime minister Margaret Thatcher appealing for Western Aid. Earlier in the week Gorbachev said the soviet unions current government should resign if it can to turn the country a Economy around in two years. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at. _ growing impatient with opposition to his soviet Aid plan said Western nations must ask themselves what Are you ready to do a Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney said he believed an answer to that question will be reached during the three Day economic Summit the leaders Are expected to explore the question in depth during a working dinner monday night. Bush Arr Vettin a clearly upbeat mood having boasted on air Force one in route from London that his nato proposals had found Quick acceptance in the Western Alliance. This week will Tell whether or not the City a Summit slogan a a Houston shot a is the Harbinger of further consensus or abrupt discord. Court martial ordered for go accused of killing Pantol Kianian 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. 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 Taen after a firefight near an electrical be Neiping station. Matt Doug Foster a fort Bragg spokesman refused to comment on the Case. If convict 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 Watje 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 investigators 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 to be Alliance. A in atom a nuclear policy is beginning to creak at the seams 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 a 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 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 Stilt 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 to Rule out nuclear weapons in Europe but added that in the current environment of great changes he could a never say  a a 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. A i 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 it 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 joint declaration with nato countries and the Neutral nations of Europe statin that a we Are no longer adversaries an reaffirm our intention to refrain from the threat or use of Force against other countries. If Gorbachev accepts natos invitation he probably will use the forum to gain key concessions from the Alliance Wallace said. 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 lid. So far Bush has Opp economic Aid to the soviet Union. A pm d i but Gorbachev will argue that if the Wesl does not provide economic Aid to the soviet Union and Eastern Europe Security in Europe will never be ensured. A when one part of Europe is Rich and one part poor a Wallace said a you can have All the non aggression pacts and Security pacts in the world but in the end someone is going to be aggrieved and someone is going to throw their weight   
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