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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday july 9,1990 news updates Kohl gets High Marks Hamburg West Germany apr Chancellor Helmut Kohl who Hopes to be the Chancellor of the new United Germany is enjoying his highest level of popularity in More than six years a new poll snows. In a poll conducted by the incas Institute Kohl had a popularity rat. Took part in the poll the Hamburg based Bild newspaper said. A the poll gave Kohls main opposition challenged in the next election a 37 percent rating. The left leaning social democratic party spa candidate Oskar la Fontaine dropped 4 percent from the previous week Bild said. T the Institute called it the a Best image rating for Helmut Kohl in Over six years Quot Kohl 60, became Chancellor in 1982, confiscated property Moscow apr a court has ordered that a country House Mercedes Benz automobile furniture weapons collection and thousands or dollars in Cash be returned to Galina Brezhnev the flamboyant daughter of former soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev a newspaper reported. The property was seized when her husband Yuri Chur Banov was imprisoned in december 1988 for accepting bribes and All his property was confiscated. She filed suit in a Moscow District court arguing that the goods belonged to her according to Komsomol Skaya pravda the Young communist leagues newspaper. It said the court ordered the government to return a country House or Dacha Worth 64,000 rubles $ 108,474 at the official rate Mercedes that was Given to her father by an unidentified foreign government furniture and chandeliers. There a also a collection of weapons Worth 118,000 rubles $200,000stuffed and mounted animals valued at 80,837 rubles $137,011 and 65,492 rubles $111,000 in savings. Ministry site denied. Orlando Fla. Apr zoning officials have unanimously rejected an Appeal by Tammy Faye Bakker wife of imprisoned pal ministry founder Jim Bakker to hold Church services at a building in a Busy Industrial Park. The Orange county zoning Board cited Public safety concerns in upholding a staff decision to shut Down services at the newest site of mrs. Bakkers new covenant ministries a next door to a welding shop. Mrs. Bakker who did not attend the hearing has authority to operate a radio television production studio at the location. The ministry set up in Orlando last year previously was housed in a shopping mall a hotel and a piano store. Curfew in Kashmir Srinagar India apr the governor of the troubled Northern state of Kashmir ordered an indefinite curfew in the capital effective saturday and gave the army full control of the Battle against moslem separatists. Soldiers in camouflage uniforms manned checkpoints and patrolled in machine gun mounted jeeps strictly enforcing the curfew said residents who spoke on condition of anonymity. The hindu dominated government announced a special Powers ordinance to give the army command of countering the moslem insurgency newspapers reported. As Warsaw Poland apr Lech Walesa and rank and file workers accused Solidarity s parliament members of forgetting their roots sunday at a meeting in the Gdansk shipyard where Solidarity was born. The six hour meeting which Drew More than 2,000 workers and their families was attended by Solidarity parliamentary Leader Bronislaw Seremek and 160 lawmakers swept to office after the Union endorsed them last year. Prime minister Tadeusz Mazo Wiecki under increasing attack Over the effects of the governments painful economic Reform plan turned Down a request to attend. Instead he asked workers to come to him wednesday. Held symbolically in the workers Hall where the East blocks first Independent Trade Union was formed in 1980, the meeting underlined the rift that has widened recently Between workers in the provinces and the government and parliament Solidarity elite in Warsaw. 1 it took place one Day after Mazo Wick it and Walesa met face to face at a secluded monastery outside Warsaw and announced a truce in their political War Over the Pace of reforms in Poland. But the prime minister remained embattled. Representatives of Poland a 2.5 million private Farmers have Given him until wednesday to agree to guaranteed minimum farm prices or face a nationwide Road blockade. In a partial answer to Walesa Scalls for faster political change Mazowiecki Friday ousted three former communists from his Cabinet and agreed to Early parliamentary and presidential elections. Only about 100 of the 260-Strong Solidarity parliamentary caucus known As the citizens parliamentary club failed to come to Gdansk to meet with the shipyard workers. Some of those who rejected the invitation s cease had earlier cited the aggressive tone in which it was framed. About 400 people jammed the Hall sunday and More than 2,000 listened outside Over loudspeakers As Walesa addressed the lawmakers not minting words. Quot today i hear voices saying a who dared to invite the parliament deputies a a he said. A does no to this Hall have the right to Call you it has you started from Here. Walesa said the parliament has to be accountable to the voters. The Solidarity chairman in his Only reference to the talks saturday said he am Mazowiecki discussed How they fell into their current dispute. A we said bluntly because we never talked about what was supposed to happen after communism How we would accomplish the second stage How we would go along with Poland without forgetting where we came from Quot he said. A today we must return to the  Abidjan ivoj7 coast a liberian rebels besieging the capital of Monrovia have rejected a cease fire proposed by president Samuel k. Doe and fighting resumed sunday rebel sources said. The sources in Contact with rebels battling government troops in the suburb of Paynesville said the insurgents were moving slowly from House to House. They spoke on condition of anonymity. Paynesville eight Miles from the City Center has been the scene of fighting for several Days. Rebel military commanders said it could be some Days before they take control of the capital and they were counting on the demoralized government troops to give up the fight. Rebel spokesman Tom Woewiyu Here to travel to Liberia for a meeting with rebel Leader Charles Taylor said the rebels will Send a delegation to peace talks in Freetown Sierra Leone mediated by the economic Community of West african Stales. The rebels have rejected an eco was proposal to Send a peacekeeping Force to Liberia to separate the combatants and supervise new elections. But Woewiyu said the rebels would discuss ways to end the fighting with the mediators. Woewiyu said the rebels will not accept a cease fire until Doe has left Liberia. The rebels were prepared to discuss arrangements for a transition government although Taylor would have to head it he said. Doe had broadcast a message Friday night from his executive mansion saying that a cease fire had been arranged in the fighting. The liberian president remains holed up in the mansion guarded by his elite presidential guard. Despite reports that Doe has agreed to leave Monrovia if his Security and that of his Krahn tribal supporters can be guaranteed the president has Given no sign that he plans to leave soon. Israeli planes strafe major base of Hezbollah in 2nd raid in 3 Days  f am i a m Nab Atiyeh Lebanon apr israeli warplanes blasted a major stronghold of the iranian backed Hezbollah in South Lebanon sunday. It was Israel s second attack on Lebanon based guerrillas in three Days. Police said at least two people were killed and seven were wounded in the attack which followed reports that kidnappers linked to Hezbollah or the party of god might release one of 16 Western hostages they hold. In Israel the military command confirmed the raid. It said in a communique Quot the target was destroyed and All planes returned safely to  it said the base was Quot a launching pad for attacks on Israel and the Security zone.�?�. It was not immediately Clear if the anticipated hostage release would be cancelled in retaliation for the attack moslem fundamentalists claim Western support of Israel encourages its attacks on Lebanon. Before the air raid at 1 05 . A source close to Hezbollah said in Beirut that a decision has been taken in Tehran to release the  a the details on where when and How Are now under consideration in Lebanon said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The first report on the possible release came saturday from Iran s official news Agency which said a european hostage would probably be freed soon. After the israeli warplanes Streak away a Chain of loud explosions echoed across the strike area Between the villages of Jarjou and Ein Bouwar. A three Story House used by Hezbollah As an ammunition depot was set ablaze police said. Barnhart in army Hospital for tests irn it was admitted one Dav after Ren a. A _ Heidelberg West Germany a amps spec. Anthony Barnhart the Soldier who disappeared for 15 Days after buying a bogus Mercedes from an army chaplain was admitted to Heidelberg army Hospital saturday for mental and physical examinations said Dave Stewart Public affairs spokesman for 7th medical come in Heidelberg. Barnhart assigned to the 4th in 8th inf div at c Oleman Barracks in Mann i Gomez from a Raey round Mirope Quot amp not Quot he called his wife Wendy from St a a Bourg France Friday morning to Tell her a br0 a who was assigned to the 3 he was coming Home. Armor in at Sullivan baracks in a the 24-Vear-Niri a Heim refused to discuss the matter i because of Ems reas int dry appeared bad Hart and has since left Europe $ 10 125 for a 1072 a <er,k2,n assignment in the United slates that he bought hmm r u 350slc has been unavailable for comment. Ricky d. Brock. The car to Fred Muff i a he barn arts have filed a Laws a Clunker and quit running after Ihry seeking the Relur  
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