European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse A retirees get Good news bad hews Page 2 a Barry apologizes to . 5 a Dodds performance gets High Marks Page 9 a Grady keeps Lead in pea championship Page 21 blockade of Iraq imminent . Acting on enforcement plea from wire reports that a Baker said on the Abc program look control of the Oil Rich emirate. Article 51 of the . Charter gives the Washington up1 a Secretary of a this week with David with receipt of the formal request by states and other countries Quot a state James Baker announced sunday that declining to give any kind of to Meta Kuwait whose ruling family for the past .c�5 fikpipj"8 cd porn of 0,1 the United states acting on a request from ble for the operation Baker said the 250 years was ousted by the iraqi inva a u 1 a a the exiled government of Kuwait will measures the United states will take Sion Baker said the military quarantine a let s not use the word blockade begin blocking shipments from Iraq to in perhaps in concert with other foreign could begin a almost Baker said. A a let s simply say that we now Force a Trade embargo. Forces gathering in the Middle East a will Baker said a the government of Kun have the ability a a the Legal basis a for a those sanctions have to be simple be those measures that arc necessary and wait the legitimate government of Kun interdicting those kinds of shipments rented. We now have a formal request proportional under the wait has just requested of us and of the development came As the report from the legitimate government of Kun the United nations approved the other nations support for enforcement of de approach of an iraqi ship to a saudi wait to Lake measures. To implement chapter 7 sanctions against Iraq after its the . Economic sanctions. Port raised the Specter of a showdown those sanctions and we intend to do troops stormed into Kuwait aug. 2 and Baker said the request created under continued on Back Page can to afford Berlin move official says Bonn West Germany apr finance minister Tho Taigel said sunday that a United Germany cannot afford to move its working capital from Bonn to Berlin. A i need at the moment every Mark for the people for investments a arid not for showcase building a Taigel said on the West German television program a Bonn he also estimated that a supplementary budget to help East Germany survive the rest of this year would probably need to be a something Over 10 billion Marks about $6 billion Quot West Germany has already budgeted nearly 25 billion Marks nearly $16 billion for this year to cover East Germany a budget deficit. East Germany a economic situation is growing More dire each Day As it struggles to shift from 40 years of communism to a free Market. The Ger Many merged their economies and the powerful West German Mark became the official cur Ncncy of both states on july 1. More than 270,000 East germans were thrown out of work As businesses and factories fell to the Rigours of capitalism. Some experts have predicted up to 3 million of East Germany a 8 million work Force could ultimately lose their jobs. Taigel said a differentiation Between the capital and seat of government in a United Germany is needed according to a transcript ofic program on the West German network Adf. He said moving the government from the West German capital of Bonn to Berlin it term any a prewar capital cannot be financed a in the coming West Germany cannot afford to abandon so Many government buildings in Bonn he added. Negotiators from East and West Germany stipulated in a unification treaty which paves the Way fur the Germany so Legal merger that Berlin will be the capital. But they left open the question of whether the government would also be located there. Before accepting the treaty East German prime minister Lothar de Mai Here had insisted that the agreement designate Berlin As the capital of a United Germany the pact still must be ratified by both German parliaments and there is resistance in the upper House of West Germany a parliament to moving the govern my nth a Headquarters to Berlin Klaus Ruben Bonne a Deputy City manager who has helped Lead the fight to retain the government m the Village like town on the Rhine estimates it would Cost no less than 50 billion masks $.11 billion to relocate government of ficus and employees in Berlin. A amps Ken Clauson Kasio a Man strolls freely left through the freshly paved intersection of Zimmer Strasse and Charlotte Strasse. Little remains to indicate that until recently a guard Tower and the Berlin Wall right blocked the Street. 29 years of division crumble with the rest of the Berlin Wail Are signs that should be taken seriously. I done to think its just a cultural decision and it be decided just by a few City planners and the Walls demise in november 1989 took people every where by Surprise. As recently As january 1989, Erich Honecker had bragged that the Berlin Wall would stand for another 100 years. The East German communist parly chief was personally proud of the Wall for he had directed its erection in 1961. A a a in the predawn hours of aug. 13, 196. 50,000 East German soldiers and harder guards began rolling barbed wire across All the streets leading into West Berlin As outraged residents saw their City being split by the Iron curtain the allies were stunned and politically paralysed. For months before the Wail went up. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev menacingly rattled his no continued on Page 3 by Ken Clauson staff writer Berlin a what a left of the Berlin Wall is 29 years old today. And As its steadily Lorn Down the Only question remaining is what should be done w Ith the Sand it scarred. Quot it should become a Park a Peter Unsicker a 43-year-old sculptor and gallery owner said sunday. A millions of people were suffering because of it and w e can to Ever forget much of the Broad Swath Cut by the Wall through Berlin is now prime real estate in the City Center. Mercedes Benz already is eyeing potsdamer Platz. Unsicker whose Art focused on a divided Germany fears some people Are willing to forget the Wall too quickly by bulldozing the ground and planting businesses instead of memorials. A from the first Day it was broken through people were planting Trees in the open he said. A these the Sims an prices authorized unofficial publication forthe . 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