European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a the stars and stripes tuesday july 17,1990 nurse in spy Case London apr Iraq has released a British nurse who was jailed As an accomplice of a journalist executed As a spy the foreign office said monday. Daphne Parish was put on a private Jet bound for Lusaka Zambia the office said. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein responding to overtures from president Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia released the nurse for a humanitarian reasons a the office said. A we Are grateful to both presidents a its statement said. A i Hope it is part of a move to put relations with Britain Back onto a More even keel Quot foreign office minister William Waldegrave told bbl television. He said the 53-year-old Parish appeared to be in Good health. Parish was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly assisting Farhad Bazot who was hanged March 15 in Baghdad. Bazot had been in Iraq working for the observer a sunday newspaper published in London. Bazot an iranian native who travelled on British documents was arrested in september while trying to Check out reports of an explosion at a military installation. Colleagues insisted he was not a spy just a reporter going after a Story. Bazot was one of several journalists who had accepted invitations to cover elections in Kurdistan in september. Parish was accused of driving Bazo flt to the Al is Kandaris military Complex. A following Baz Oft a execution Britain recalled its ambassador from Iraq and expelled six iraqi military trainees in  Secretary Douglas Hurd also announced a freeze on visits by government ministers to Iraq and cancelled a Trade Mission. However Hurd rejected Trade sanctions against Iraq. Relations Between the two countries were further strained in late March when British customs officers seized 40 components for nuclear bomb triggers at Heathrow Airport before they could be put aboard an iraqi airways flight to Baghdad. In april customs officers seized massive steel tubing that had been ordered by Iraq. British authorities said the tubing appeared to be designed for a huge artillery gun. A through the recent difficulties with Iraq our desire has been open and honest dialogue a the foreign office said. A the release is a constructive signal that they share our desire we Hope that mrs. Parish s Freedom is the latest step toward a new and More fruitful relationship with  the office said it was up to her How Long she would remain in Lusaka. It said it had approached a number of states to seek parishes release and had not worked solely through Kaunda. Rejects . To me Tunis Tunisia apr Plo chairman Yasser Arafat on sunday rejected . Demands to discipline a guerrilla Leader responsible for an attempted seaborne raid on  made his remarks during a meeting at the Arab leagues Tunis Headquarters of foreign ministers and delegates from the 21 member countries. The meeting was called to consider the fallout from the recent break in the dialogue Between the United states and the Palestine liberation organization. News Brief Washington said it would not resume the dialogue with the Plo unless the organization renounced the seaborne raid and took action against Abul Abbas. His palestinian guerrilla group a Plo faction claimed responsibility for the May 30 assault foiled by israeli forces. A a it a out of the question for the Plo to Bend itself to these conditions a Arafat told the closed door session according to participants in the  Plo chairman also accused the United states of a supporting Israel with out limit a participants said. Arafat spoke after the plots chief Delegate to the Arab league Mahmoud Abbas urged a Concrete and efficient measures to protect Arab interests following the suspension of the dialogue. Mahmou Abbas is not related to Abul Abbas. The Delegate did not define what form such measures to protect Arab interests would take but he urged Arab countries to prepare a response if Israel attacks either Iraq or Libya. The meeting started late sunday and was Likely to stretch into monday observers said. The Arab league representatives were also considering. Problems caused by the massive immigration of soviet jews to Israel. League sources said the Plo wants the Arab countries to condemn president Bush a decision to break off the . Dialogue with the Plo. The Plo wants the United states to resume the dialogue begun in december 1988 after Arafat renounced terrorism and backed the right of Israel to exist. 1 St inf div unit newspaper is temporary Goppinger West Germany a the 1 St inf div fwd has suspended publication of its unit newspaper the american traveler while it seeks a commercial printing contract. The papers june 12 Issue was its most recent and the division does no to expect to produce another until at least mid August division spokesman maj. Lane Van de Steeg said monday. One commercial Printer has expressed interest in the paper but the division is looking for others to ensure competitive bidding he said. If a private firm does the printing using advertising to make a profit the army should save about $40,000 annually on printing. The paper had been a biweekly publication through March then a monthly through june when the Extension of its stars and stripes printing contract ended. Van de Steeg said he expects the paper to remain a monthly when publishing resumes and to cover Goppinger and sch Sobisch a mind military Community news. In the meantime the division Hopes to distribute a photocopied news bulletin to its units in Goppinger Neu Ulm and Bobingen starting next  from Page 1 nation after an unspecified transition period. West Germany and its nato allies had insisted that a United Germany be a part of the Western Alliance. A Kohl and Gorbachev also announced agreement on several other issues including the size of the army of a United Germany and a timetable for the withdrawal of soviet soldiers from East Germany. Gorbachev said the two sides in talks that started sunday in Moscow and continued in Gorbachev a native Stavropol Region had managed to ease each others concerns about the future of soviet troops on the territory of what is now East Germany. Kohl said soviet troops should be withdrawn from East German territory three to four years after Germany is United. The soviets now have about 380,000 troops in East Germany. During the same period the armed forces of a United Germany will be reduced to 370,000 men Kohl said. The combined strength of the East and West German armed forces is now about 600,000, with West Germany providing 480,000 men. Kohl said that the rights of the four world War ii victorious Powers will cease immediately after unification but that their troops could stay in Berlin As Long As the soviet troops Are in East Germany. He said a United Germany and the soviet Union will sign a comprehensive treaty that will govern All aspects of their bilateral relations. The two leaders were in Southern Russia after a visit sunday to Gorbachev a Home Region. The soviet Leader said he thought the a fresh air of the Northern caucasus would help both leaders formulate their thoughts clearly the Tass news Agency reported. It was Kohls second visit to the soviet Union since february and Gorbachev a hospitality indicated that the soviets seek close ties with the economically powerful germans. Tass said parallel talks were held sunday Between foreign ministers Eduard Shevardnadze and Hans Dietsch Genscher As Well amps finance ministers Valentin Pavlov and Theo Taigel. During Kohls visit the two leaders discussed How West German economic Aid can help Gorbachev restructure a and revive a the ailing soviet Economy. The West German government has backed a $3.1 billion loan to support Gorbachev a efforts a so far ineffectual a to transform the soviet unions centralized Economy to a Market oriented system. At last weeks Houston Summit of leading Industrial democracies Western leaders rejected a proposal strongly supported by West Germany and France for a $15 billion Aid plan to Shore up the soviet Economy and demonstrate Western support for  from page�?~1 Way the germans threw their weight about in the european Community suggested that a lot had still not changed. German behaviour in the eco a we pay so we must have our Way a was seen by some As a Harbinger of Germany a economic dominance Over Western  the new Germany had never been tested by calamity the document said. A no one had serious misgivings about the present leaders or political elite of Germany. But what about 10, 15 or 20 years from now a no formal conclusions were drawn the summary said but a the weight of the evidence and the argument favored those who were optimistic about life in a United Germany. When it came to failings and unhelpful characteristics the germans had their share and perhaps More but in contrast to the past they were much readier to recognize and admit this themselves. A the Overall message was unmistakable we should be Nice to the germans. But even the optimists had some unease not for the present and the immediate future but for what might lie further Down the Road than we can yet  the participants according to the newspaper included historians Hugh Trevor Roper Oxford University Snorman Stone american professors Fritz Stem of Columbia University and Gordon Craig of Harvard journalist Timo thy Garton Ash and George Urban former research director at radio free Europe. The summary was published amid political upheaval Over the resignation of Cabinet member Nicholas Ridley for his harsh comments about the germans and opposition politicians were Quick to accuse Thatcher of insulting a Friendly ally. The labor party a Gerald Kaufman said it was an a offensive farce for senior Cabinet ministers to a sit around pulling the germans to  but Hurd saw nothing wrong with a brainstorming session about the implications of a momentous event like the unification of Germany. What mattered he told bbl to was that the experts verdict on Germany was positive. It was virtually a a fantasy to suppose that we re going to be faced with a new Hitler or a new Gestapo a he said. A we can really dismiss that As a  thatchers views did not appear in the summary but she has voiced misgivings about the economic might of a United Germany. Hurd implied that it might be the British who have a mental problem in their tendency a to believe that we Are dealing with a lot of Clever foreigners and that the Best thing is just to draw Down the blinds shut out the real world swear at the present world and pretend that we can go on just living in the  a that is our real weakness a he said. A a it a not shared by the Young. They live in the Modem world and they want Britain to make the Best of the modern