European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                W. Germany a new Law on Drunken driving a Page 2 the Sobian a Pes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 49, no. 94 tuesday july 17, 1990 251 daily and sunday 8693 a Moscow apr West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said monday that president Mikhail is Gorbachev has removed his objection to a United Germany belonging to nato. The soviet objection had been a major obstacle to full German unification. Kohl spoke at a joint news conference with Gorbachev in Southern Russia that was broadcast live on soviet and West German television. He said he and Gorbachev have agreed that a unified Germany will be free to choose which Alliance it will belong to. A a we want to be a member of nato a he said. He said he is sure the government of East Germany concurs. Gorbachev said that the four Power agreement of the victorious world War 11 allies that has governed Germany since the end of the War will cease when the two Germany Are United. Quot unified Germany will receive Complete sovereignty a he told the news conference broadcast live on soviet and German television. Quot it has the right to use this sovereignty to make its Choice that is its internal Choice meaning its variant of social development and meaning what it would like to be a part of what blocs to support Quot he said. The two leaders spoke following a two Day visit by Kohl aimed at removing soviet concerns Over German unification. The news conference was held in Zhc los Novosk in Southern Russia. Gorbachev said that no nato forces must be stationed on the territory of what is now East Germany during a period of three to four years when soviet troops will be withdrawing. He said the soviet Union Hopes that after that period no nato forces or nuclear weapons would be stationed there. Previously the soviets had insisted on a Neutral Germany and recently had suggested a form of associate membership in the North Atlantic treaty organi see Kohl on Back Page Manila area quake kills at least 94 employees climb through a window on the second floor of a philippine government building in Manila just after the major quake that hit Luzon areas monday Manila Philippines apr a major earthquake rocked Manila and nearby areas of Luzon Island monday inflicting serious damage. Officials reported at least 94 people were killed most when a six Story College building North of Manila collapsed. Scores More were believed trapped under the rubble of crumbled buildings including 150 reportedly trapped in the Hyatt hotel in the Mountain resort of Baguio. The . Geological Survey in Golden colo., registered the quake at 7.7 on the Richter scale. There were scores of aftershocks. The office of civil defense said the philippine Christian College collapsed in the provincial capital of Cabanatuan City. The City of More than 80,000 is 60 Miles North of Manila and was near the epicentre. The office said at least 41 people were killed in the City and outlying area. Officials in Cabanatuan said hundreds of students were unaccounted for but it was Uncertain How Many were in the building when it collapsed. In Baguio 110 Miles to the North portions of several luxury hotels collapsed. The Manila radio station a Ezrh said 150 people were trapped in the Hyatt hotel. A woman who identified herself As a Public relations officer of the hotel said most of those trapped were in the Casino. She did not give her name. Officials in Baguio appealed for heavy equipment and for blood which they said was in Short Supply. Air Force master sgt. Dan Fuller reached by Telephone at the .-run Camp John Hay in Baguio said the City was without electricity and damage was widespread. Quot we re without Power Quot he said. A a we be had structural damage Here on base. We do have seven buildings Down downtown which As far As we know they Are completely fallen  he said . Personnel assisted in Rescue efforts. The red Cross reported five dead in Baguio but said it feared the toll could go much higher. The red Cross reported four dead in the Northern province of Pangasinan. One person died of injuries in Manila where the temblor cracked buildings knocked out electricity and communications and sent thousands fleeing into the streets. A radio station in Dagupan 100 Miles North of Manila said 13 people were killed there but the report could not be confirmed. It said ail died in stampedes As panic stricken people tried to flee a movie theater and schools. The quake struck at about 4 30 . In Manila numerous buildings were damaged and a fire broke out in the City a Santa Cruz District. The Institute of seismology and volcanology said the temblor was entered just South of Cabanatuan which is the capital of Nueva Ecija province. The temblor knocked several radio stations temporarily off the air. Stoplights in Manila were knocked out of service creating huge traffic jams. Officials reported widespread damage throughout Luzon where Many towns and cities were without Power. Ezrh quoted an affiliate station As saying a Church in the Northern province of Locos sur collapsed. President Corazon Aquino ordered the military to launch an Island wide Rescue operation. Her spokesman Adolf Azcuna said that the president was meeting senators in her office when the quake struck and that the conferees took cover under a table. Reynaldo Punongbayan director of the philippine Institute of seismology and volcanology said the quake measured 7 on the Richter scale in Manila officials said it was the capitals strongest quake since 1968. A quake measured at 7.8 struck the Philippines in 1976, killing 8,000 people. Most of them died in a tidal wave that struck the Southern Island of Mindanao. Manila radio stations reported cracks in the Walls of Many buildings including the downtown ticket office of philippine airlines Ana the Manila hotel a luxury hotel on Manila Bay from which hundreds of guests were evacuated into the streets. In the capital office workers rushed into the streets in panic. Several were seen praying or making signs of the  held secret meeting on German character London apr Margaret Thatcher secretly gathered leading academics to put Germany on the psychiatrists Couch and explore such characteristics As angst bullying and egotism it emerged sunday. The prime ministers think tank concluded that while the germans have changed the future was unknown and therefore the British a should be Nice to the  the summary of the March 24 meeting at thatchers country House Chequers was written by her private Secretary Charles Powell and published in full in the Independent on sunday. The paper did not say How it got the text but foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd who attended the meeting confirmed its accuracy. A we started by talking about the germans and their characteristics a Powell wrote listing a angst aggressiveness bullying egotism inferiority Complex  a but there was a Strong school of thought among those present that today s germans were very different a that after world War ii militarism and thirst for conquests disappeared. A Pedu cation and the writing of history had changed. We should have no real worries about them a Powell w Rote. However not everyone agreed. A it still had to be asked How a cultured and cultivated nation had allowed itself to be brainwashed into barbarism. If it had happened once could it not happen again a even today the summary said a the see Thatcher on Back Page