European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a t he stars and stripes the town was the scene of a shootout wednesday Between authorities and mohawks Manning barricades to Block the expansion of a Golf course. Toe indians a Toto oven Neiron Iiran a Iii a a n11 j Al expansion would occur on their ancestral Landl one police officer was killed he of if rotation but it is not Clear if he was shot  or fellow officers. Talks aimed at Quot ending the Oka standoff Between  and police continued sunday. Que a a. A. Tuesday july 17,1990 Oka Quebec apr indians locked Niff food dispute with authorities reversed themselves sunday Ahlf kept up their blockade of a Bridge into Montreal. The mohawks said they decided not to lift the blockade As promised because authorities had reneged in a Promise to reduce a police contingent in Oka about 20 Miles West of Montreal. Bee province was represented by native affairs minister John Ciaccia. He sad sunday he believed that the two sides were close to Patching tip their agreement of the night before. A we have obtained if operation of que bet police a said Ciaccia. Yvo ? a they have reduced us re a to Tewiel 7 v. A Vii h we ill t v a ult to full the mohawks of the Kahn awake Reserve blocked the Mercier Bridge on wednesday in sympathy with the Oka indians. The Bridge blockade enraged some residents who faced massive traffic jams trying to get into Montreal from the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River by alternate routes. On saturday evening a mob of about 2,000 residents gathered at the Boundary of the Kahn awake Reserve and shouted racist Slung at the it Tives. At one Point they bar net a a Dummy bearing the words a non Ali Almors a or a no to the warriors. They also chanted War whoops danced find waved Quebec flags. The crowd dispersed Only after Ciaccia emerged from in hours of talks with native negotiators in Oka a and promised the Bridge blockage would be lifted. He said provincial Authon is would make a a significant reduction in their Oka police contingent in Exchange. But in a statement released sunday. The Mohawk Council of Kahn awake said the Deal was off because police forces had been boosted both at Oka and near the Mercier Bridge. From Page 1 with the Warsaw pact. A i told or. Chancellor that As the ancient greeks said everything flows and everything changes and we live in a dynamic time when change is very rapid a Gorbachev said at a joint news conference in Moscow. In the last month he said there had been Quot Many substantive developments in East West relations and a the new context opens new prospects for entering into new understandings a later walking with Gorbachev through Stavropol where they flew together after three hours of private talks Kohl told West German television that they had already touched on All important issues a and i think that by noon tomorrow we can come up with some very Good  in Stavropol pointing to the caucasus mountains in the distance the soviet president noted that he and Kohl were at an Altitude of 2,300 feet. A we want to develop our relations further upward a he continued. A it will take time to reach the height of mount Elbrus but in our prospects we want to go even beyond  Elbrus is the highest Peak in the Range. Kohls invitation to Stavropol near where Gorbachev was bom and where he started in communist politics was itself an. Unusually personal gesture. No other Western Leader had Ever visited Corba Chev in Stavropol. From Stavropol the two leaders flew by helicopter to the caucasus resort Village of Ark Hyz where they planned to hold further talks and spend the night. Both Leaden came to the talks from crucial meetings Gorbachev from the party Congress and Kohl from the Summit meetings of nato and the seven major Industrial states. At the outset of the communist party Congress hard liners in the military and in the party attacked Gorbachev for abandoning East Germany and Eastern Europe to the West without gaining anything in return. But the political defeat of Yegor a Migachev the leading hard liner  resistance. At the same time the decisions by nato gave Gorbachev the Means to claim that the West was making significant concessions on two of Moscow a major demands a a continuing role in Europe and assurances that neither nato nor a United Germany would pose a major Security threat. The major decisions at the nato meeting included a proposal for a joint non aggression declaration with the Warsaw pact an invitation to Gorbachev to address the nato Council an agreement to upgrade the structures of the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe a fundamental revision of nato nuclear and conventional forces and a commitment by Germany to limit its armed forces. On the Day before Kohls arrival Gorbachev received the Secretary general of nato Manfred Womer for a formal presentation of the nato declaration. From Page 1 by had been reaffirmed. No reason was Given for the change. But the news which one airman said is circulating rapidly by word of Touth pleased Hagen and Avis friends who like to Wear the fashionable jewelry when they dress up. Quot its impossible to enforce a said airman Jon Ransom 23, of the prohibition against earrings. Ransom is assigned to the 316th Supply so at Ramstein n. Quot its not like speeding. Its something that a entirely harmless a he said. For Ransom wearing an earring is a fashion statement. He compared it to wearing a Parrot made of Balsa Wood on his shoulder As he used to do when he news Briefe Maiziere links merger to Berlin Magazine says Munich West Germany apr East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere has made a treaty on the formal merger of the two Germany contingent on Berlin being named the capital of a United Germany a Magazine reported sunday. The argument a Var what City should be the capital of a United Germany a the current West German capital of Bonn or Berlin Germany a capital before world War ii a has become one of the most contentions issues to be resolved before unification y the two Germany merged their economies on july i under a treaty outlining economic monetary and so trial uni Ltd. Officials from both countries Are now trying to Iron out Legal and constitutional differences Iff a second treaty so that formal unification can a completed by december. All German election have been proposed for dec. 2. Quot this important Point the establishment of Berlin As Germany a future capital must be settled before the treaty can be signed a de Maiziere was quoted As saying in the weekly Munich based Magazine Bunte. The East German Leader criticized West German Chancellor Helmut Kohls position that Berlin cannot be the capital of Germany As Jong As soviet troops Are stationed there. Patronized a bar with a tropical theme. Quot i like to Wear it if it fits the occasion a Ransom. A a a a and  earring is a popular european fashion allowing air Force Myk Tjom in May help the military blend in better with the focal Community pointed out sgt Gary Kinney also of the l856th goer Puter systems group. A you go off base and there a a Large percentage of men who Wear them a the 23-year-old Kinney said. A policy change May not Sway the attitudes of tradition bound air Force members who done to Tike the fashion. And the three Ramstein airmen realize that Many in the older generation associate men wearing earrings with homosexuality. But they All can reassure their supervisors that they done to need to Wear their earrings to work to keep the holes in their ears open. Kinney suggests that those who want to Pierce their ears do it during an extended vac amp to Ute amp a that a Post can be worn initially. Then when the newly pierced airman returns to work a if you poke it once or twice a Day a Ransom said a a it la probably be  from Page 1 Gress ended adding impetus to the mass resignations already under Way. The party a Radical democratic platform faction announced thursday its decision to break off and form its own party. No new nationwide figures have come out recently on How Many of the party a 18 million members have turned in their red cards. From january to mid june 186,000 members quit. Although amounting to Little More than 1 percent that figure was a record for the period of time concerned party officials said. And the trend then was upward. The rally which soviet television estimated Drew about 50,000, was several shades More hostile in its anti communist rhetoric than other recent protests. It highlighted a growing movement among Radical reformers to abandon working from within the communist party. Emphasis has shifted to forming a potent uncompromising opposition from the outside. A we Call on All communists who have not done so yet to Cut their ties with this shameful organization and leave a said Arkady Murashev an opposition member of the Congress of Peoples deputies the National parliament. Until now the major opposition group the inter regional group of deputies has usually refrained from head on attacks on the party. Murashev Scall signalled a readiness for open political Battle. A the idea that brought us Here was to express our contempt for the party forum that just finished a Sergei Bilo Zemtsev another opposition Deputy said evoking a chorus of derisive whistles from the crowd. The crowd ranging from teen agers flying the Black Flag of anarchism to elderly red army veterans with chests full of medals stretched across the main Entrance to red Square. The rally which began with a 45-Minule March from Gorky Park continued for More than three hours despite a Cool steady rain. Waving signs that included a throw the communist party onto the trash Heap of history and a honorable people quit the communist party a they chanted a Down with the communist party Quot and a Down with the Kab a 4 injured in Flash fire on Saratoga May port naval station Fla. Apr a Flash fire eight Levels below the deck of the aircraft Carrier Saratoga injured three civilian welders and a Sailor saturday the Navy said. The men were replacing a pipe at about 2 30 . When the fire started said it. Cmdr. Stephen Hondo a spokesman at the Atlantic Fleet Headquarters in Norfolk a. Quot one of the injured civilians and the Navy Man suffered second degree Flash Burns and were flown by helicopter to area hospitals. The other victims were taken by ambulance a Hondo said. None of the injuries was life threatening he said. Damage to the ship docked at Mayport naval station was minimal and the fire burned itself out almost immediately said capt. Barry Dysart executive officer of the Saratoga. Quot there was no structural damage to the ship. It will have no Impact on our operations at All a Dysart said. Both the Navy and Atlantic Marine inc., the welders Jacksonville Fla., employer said they would investigate to determine the cause of the fire. The Saratoga is based aim port and carries a Crew of about 5,000 when fully staffed. It has been undergoing minor repairs since returning a june from training operations along the Eastern Seaboard