European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes sunday August 12,1990 cease terrorism jailed suspect asks gang Berlin a one of West Germany s top leftist terrorist suspects has urged her comrades to end their violent attacks. Sigrid Sternbeck whose statement was released saturday by a newsmagazine is in jail and awaiting trial on numerous terrorist charges for her role in the deadly red army faction. She allegedly took part in the 1985 bombing of the . Air Force s Rhein main a outside Frankfurt prosecutors say. Since her capture in East Germany a june there has been wide spread speculation that Sternbeck links to the terror Sternbeck will turn state s witness. She claims to have renounced any gang. In a statement in the upcoming edition of Der Spie gel Sternbeck said the dozens of red army faction members still at Large and their supporters should abandon their armed Campaign. War and destruction these Are not the instruments for political arguments on the threshold of the year 2000," Sternbeck wrote. The 40-year-old prisoner added that the concept of Urban guerrilla warfare has failed.", the statement will appear in Spiegel s editions reaching Newsstands  Magazine released excerpts in Advance. The Hamburg based publication said Sternbeck s Appeal is aimed at the hard Core of the red army faction. West German radio and television news programs featured Sternbeck s comments All Day saturday. The red army faction has been waging a deadly Campaign against West German businesses and nato installations since the 1970s. Victims include Deutsche Bank chief Alfred Herr Hausen who was killed instantly when a bomb ripped through the influential financier s car last november. Red army faction members on july 27 triggered a bomb that badly damaged the car of Hans Neusel the Bonn government s top anti terrorism expert. He escaped serious injury. Many of the still Active red army faction member reportedly j comrades. However Sternbeck is believed to be seeking a reduced sentence in return for her cooperation with prosecutors. Several of the seven other red army faction members rounded up in East Germany this summer reportedly also Are planning to become prosecution witnesses. In the Spiegel statement Sternbeck denied having any role in the bombing at Rhein main a that killed two people. She also claimed she was not involved in killing a . Soldier whose identity card was used to gain a Cess to the . Facility. However Sternbeck has admitted she helped Stock terrorist depots with guns and ammunition in the 1970s. The once dreaded East German secret police maintained regular contacts with her after she moved to East Germany in 1980, Sternbeck wrote. The relationship came to an abrupt end after a peaceful revolution swept out the communist regime. We can t do anything More for you she quoted her secret police Contact As saying. East Germany s new government has accused the for Mer hard line communists of harbouring red army fac Tion terrorists. The allegations Are the subject of a widespread criminal receive instructions from their imprisoned probe and could result in prosecutions against members of Erich Honecker s ousted regime. Iraq from Page 1 Arab nations against a defiant Iraq and for committing egyptian troops to stand shoulder to shoulder with . Soldiers against Saddam. We re not prepared to support the overthrow but i Hope that the economic pressures and military buildup taken against Saddam result in an Iraq that is prepared to live peacefully Bush said. Bush said he believes the United states backed up by numerous other nations has the authority to impose a naval blockade of Iraq under . Sanctions approved last week. White House press Secretary Marlin Fitz water said no iraqi Oij is moving through pipelines in saudi Arabia or Turkey. Bush who began a three week working vacation Friday conferred at his Seaside Home saturday with Secretary of state James Baker who just met with nato allies in Brussels Belgium. On Friday the Atlantic Alliance unanimously supported . Colomic sanctions and its military buildup against Iraq for the aug. 2 takeover of Kuwait. Syria and Iran both enemies of Iraq supported Friday s decision of 12 of 21 Arab league members to Send troops. The soviet Union also supported the decision hoping it would Lead to a speedy Resolution to the  but sending Arab forces was a Green Light to the imperialist and zionist forces iraqi Deputy prime minister Taha Yasin Ramadan said. He also said through the Iraq news Agency that his country s strike capabilities could shake and Burn any spot from which aggression was  a belligerent Saddam who said he holds the saudis responsible for Arab disunity now faces a growing multinational military Force of ground and naval Power. And his Oil flow vital to its ability to import food has been virtually Cut off by a . Condemnation of Iraq s absorption of Kuwait. He s been isolated by the rest of the world. Nobody supports him Bush said. The White House called it encouraging that 11 americans including a 10 year old girl were allowed to leave Iraq earlier saturday. Our embassy is in Contact almost hourly with iraqi officials concerning the safety of . Citizens White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. Iraq had scaled its Borders after its lightning invasion trapping 3,500 americans and other foreigners. But Penelope Nabokov of Albany calif., crossed the iraqi jordanian fron tier after a 660-mile Overland journey. She was flying unaccompanied from France to India when she was taken into custody by iraqi soldiers in Kuwait Dur ing a Stopover. She was later brought to Baghdad with 10 other americans. My daughter is out said the girl s father Peter Nabokov. The americans who crossed into Jordan included non essential . Embassy staff and dependents Border officials said. Defense department sources said sat urday in Washington meanwhile that Patriot ground to air missiles were ear marked for deployment in saudi Arabia and that . Stinger shoulder fired guided missiles already had arrived in the kingdom As the United states pre pares for a possible iraqi invasion. Other anti aircraft missiles to be deployed include the Chaparral a supersonic Mobile heat seeking missile that is capable of knocking out aircraft and Heli copters at Low Altitude sources said. The army was continuing the buildup of . Forces in saudi Arabia the department also said. Speaking on condition of anonymity a source confirmed that elements of the 101st airborne div a .-based air As Sault unit were being sent to join the . Operation code named desert  As the first troops from Egypt and Morocco landed saturday it was unclear How they would be deployed with Ameri can soldiers but All the forces were land ing at the same northeastern saudi base. The Pentagon has committed 50,000 ground troops but the number could sky rocket if Iraq invades with forces massed on the Kuwait saudi Border. Egypt and Morocco were expected to provide 5,000 troops each according to diplomatic sources who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity. They were under the Flag of their respective countries. Cairo radio called them an Arab umbrella to safeguard the  no other . Allies have committed ground forces but a naval Armada is form ing in an Effort to Force Iraq out of Kuwait. The United states already has nine ships in the persian Gulf seven in the Mediterranean and two aircraft carriers and their Battle groups in the red sea and Indian Ocean. Britain committed two fighter aircraft squadrons anti aircraft missiles and other air and sea forces totalling More than 1,000 service members to the Gulf area. Australia Canada and West Ger Many promised ships. Denmark said it would make ships available and Spain was considering sending a frigate France and the soviet Union sent ships to the Gulf Independent of the multinational Force. Barry from Page 1 held or. Barry accountable for his criminal conduct and he must now accept responsibility for that  thirteen witnesses testified during the trial that they had seen the mayor use cocaine marijuana and opium some 200 times. Mundy conceded that the mayor was an occasional cocaine user but said the prosecution had relied on liars Little Lucifer to make its Case and had failed to prove the charges. Several Black leaders suggested that Barry was prosecuted simply because he is a High profile Black politician. Among them was nation of islam minister Louis Farrak Han who at first was barred from attending the trial. The 12-member jury consisted of 10 Blacks and two Whites. The jury Foreman was White. Barry came to the City in 1965 As a civil rights worker. Three years later after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King jr., the City erupted in its worst racial violence. Barry was often credited with Cooling tempers in the aftermath. The verdict is the culmination of a criminal investigation that began in december 1988 after the mayor s visits to Lewis hotel room in Washington. Lewis testified that Barry used cocaine and crack repeatedly on two trips to the Virgin islands. He said that they also smoked crack in a Washington hotel room and that they conspired to cover up their drug use when police began investigating a complaint that Lewis had offered crack to a hotel maid. Lewis began cooperating with the government a year ago after he was convict pm of drug charges in the Vir Gin islands. Barry s lawyers depicted Lewis As a liar who fabricated allegations of drug use to shorten his time in prison. Moore the government s Star witness testified that she and Barry used drugs together at least 100 times in hotels boats and Homes around the City from 1986 to 1989. They were lovers for two years then simply partners in drug use she said. The defense attacked Moore s credibility and motives. She admitted that she was nearly broke and in trouble with the police when the Fri asked her to cooperate in the sting operation. Noriega from Page 1 Jon May said Friday. "1 Don t believe it. But of course it has nothing to do with our  the canal treaty was signed in 1978, but Only after Torrijos asked Noriega to draw up plans to sabotage the canal and attack the . Southern \ Nui head quarters at Quarry Heights. A note in Noriega s handwriting referred to a plan called smells Burnt which called for a series of commando teams to attack and sabotage the targets. When . District judge William Hoeveler who is presiding Over the Case was informed last wednesday that o Kane had hired a reporter he chastised the lawyer in court and ordered him to get approval for future investigators. Prosecutors said o Kane violated professional ethics by allowing the documents under military guard to be distributed publicly. In its article the Magazine said the the plan was continually updated even after Noriega became head of Panama s Mili tary in 1983. One team was to attack the lock Gates and another the locomotives that pull ship through the canal his memo showed. A document marked secret said mis Sion make inoperable the Panama canal and areas of defense of same six commandos disguised As civilians were to attack the underground co Nunu Center at Quarry Heights killing a Sentinel then igniting a 5-gallon gasoline tank. Others were to hit the canal itself. Well wait until Zero hour to open fire against some ship passing the Rouen the locks if no ship passes we will Tuv on the control Tower the document said