European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 a a the stars and stripes sunday August 19,1990 news briefs w. German opposition urges immediate Unity West Ger Many a main opposition party called saturday for immediate unification with East Germany in View Bonn West Germany up Rev Call re Many in 1 of the grave political and economic crisis there. A every Day of further delay of East Germany a accession accentuates the crisis and in a i n n a a c a a a4 Ilir Art i n a nil n i. Creases the costs of Unity Quot said Ingrid Matthaus Maier Deputy Leader of t sit Ion social democratic party. Leader of the West German oppo she urged the East German parliament to approve an immediate merger at its next session wednesday. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohls bavarian partners the Christian social Union also said a Swift merger had become essential. Soweto violence leaves 200 dead hundreds Hurt Soweto South Africa apr Black factions fought running Battles saturday with axes Spears and homemade guns raising the toll from the weeks fighting to More than 200 dead and hundreds wounded. The anti apartheid african National Congress accused the government Friday of encouraging the violence in the Black townships to justify repressive measures and to prolong White Rule. Police fired tear Gas to disperse rival bands of zulus a tribe that has largely rejected a future government controlled by Nelson Mandela Sanc and the pro Anc xhosa in the sprawling Black township of Soweto. Gis missing after dive in Italy a Lake Garda Riva Del Garda Italy a amps a divers continued to search saturday evening for two . Servicemen who vanished Friday while scuba diving in Lake Garda. Military authorities said the men Are assigned to he co 3d in 325th inf airborne combat team in Vicenza Italy but declined to disclose their names until their families were notified. Italian police however identified the missing men As Timothy Bradfield 22, and Andrew Miller 19. Their ranks and hometowns were not immediately available. The two disappeared while diving with a third member of the unit Edward Oliver 21, police said. A military spokesman said All three Are experienced and licensed divers. They had gone to the Lake which attracts divers from All Oyer Northern Italy while on a training Holiday he said. Oliver told authorities he became separated from his two companions and returned to Shore. When they did not appear shortly he called for help and began his own search. Is to pump More Oil if Jeddah saudi Arabia up a saudi Arabia threatened saturday to pump an extra 2 billion barrels of Oil a Day if its open partners refuse to meet and agree to extract More of the vital commodity to meet global shortages caused by the iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Oil minister Hesham Nazer said saudi Arabia could satisfy half of a worldwide shortfall of some 4 million barrels a Day and believed the other half could be supplemented by Venezuela and the United Arab emt rates if they pumped an extra 500,000 barrels a Day. A do you want a thirsty Market to be even More thirsty by reducing Supply and causing economic recession Nazer asked during a news conference. A the first countries that would be Hurt by a recession would be the open  Nazer said the 13-Mcmber organization of Petroleum exporting countries should meet immediately to forge a responsive strategy to the iraqi invasion which prompted a retaliatory embargo that has removed iraqi and kuwaiti Oil from world markets. Some countries have already refused to attend an Emer Ncncy open session. Saudi Arabia said that if members cannot agree to meet it would turn on the taps to fill requests totalling 7.9 million barrels a Day. The nation currently pumps 5.38 million barrels a Day Nazer said. A we did not say necessarily to the members that we want to take unilateral action but if they refuse they leave us no alternative. We do not shy away from contentious and divisive affairs but we cannot see How any organization can turn its face the other Way and say there is no crisis.�?�. It was unclear which open nations had dissented but Libya was believed to be among those refusing Riyadh Scall. The minister warned that even with the increased output of saudi Arabia Venezuela and the use there would be a global shortfall of at least i million barrels a Day. Nazer said iraqis 1.6 million barrel capacity pipeline running through saudi territory would remain closed until that country withdraws from Kuwait. Saudi Arabia has refused facilities to iraqi owned tankers that have arrived at the pipes terminus hoping to Load up with Oil. Nazer said Riyadh a strategy was aimed at assisting Cash strapped developing nations that cannot afford Energy costs. The Price of Oil has risen to $28 a barrel from its pre invasion Price of $14. A we will not let the countries of the third world Down the Drain a he said. A july open meeting had concluded with an agreement to set the Price at $21 a barrel by december with a total open output of22.941 million barrels a Day. Bailey from Page 1 month to replace her arthritic left knee with a Metal and plastic joint. An autopsy will be conducted in two or three Days Mcdonell said. In 1970, president Nixon called her America s a ambassador of love to the world. She was a special Delegate to the United nations under the Ford Reagan and Bush administrations. She wrote humorous and inspirational books including a hurry up America and  last year she published an autobiography Quot Between you and  Bailey was Well known for playing the conceited Dolly Gallagher Levi in the Black version of the musical a hello Dolly a on Broadway from 1967 to 1969. She also appeared on Broadway in a House of Flowers and a bless you All a and enjoyed a Long film career appearing in such movies As a Carmen Jones and a porgy and  a i have lost one of the greatest friends in be Ever had in my life a said cab Calloway a Veteran song and dance Man who starred with Bailey in a hello Dolly a she was one of show business s great personalities cheering the loudest at Shea stadium when the once hapless new York mets won the world series in 1969 and dragging Johnny Carson from behind his desk for a fun filled rendition of a your love is Here to  the languorous sexuality of her voice her warm smile and eloquent gestures put audiences immediately at Case. Flipping a Feather Boa or swathed in Chinchilla ablaze with rhinestones and jewels Bailey was renowned for her throwaway style of singing a mumbling growl laced with husky  among her Best loved songs were a St. Louis blues a Row Row Row Quot and a a that a Good enough for me Quot a a in a More of a philosopher than a jazz Singer a she said in a june interview with the new York times. A when people say a Pearl where did you get your style i Tell them a i have no style. I just  Quot Bailey who performed for 57 of her 72 years was one of the few entertainers who could still be called a trouper in the classic sense. But she considered herself Foremost a Singer. A a in a not a comedienne a she once told an interviewer a i Call myself a humorist. I Tell stories to music and thank god in tune. 1 laugh at people who Call me an actress. Bom in Newport news va., on March 29, 1918, she was the daughter of a minister and the youngest of four children. Ancestors on both sides of the family included Creek indians. She moved with her family As a child to Washington and later Philadelphia where she made her debut at age 15, winning an Amateur contest by singing a poor  she moved from California with her husband of 38 years to the Arizona resort Community of Lake Hatasu City in 1979. ,. She also is survived by a son Tony and a daughter Dee  from Page 1 innocent civilians As pawns in the Middle East standoff. The statement coupled with an earlier threat to use americans As a defensive shield for iraqi military installations made it Clear that Iraq now intends to make the foreigners a Central part of its anti-. Strategy. Iraqis foreign minister Tariq Aziz said he did not consider the iraqi treatment of foreigners an act of War merely an attempt to prevent . Forces massing in saudi Arabia from attacking Iraq or Kuwait. A foreigners would live with the iraqis in some places that Are the target of probable american aggression Quot a i said in an interview with lbs news in Baghdad. A that might deter the american government from committing the crime that the iraqi people would like to  the minister also told lbs that Iraq will not use chemical weapons unless the United Stales uses nuclear weapons in the  iraqis army newspaper on saturday threatened again to use weapons of a mass destruction Quot against any attacker an apparent reference to its Arsenal of Long Range missiles nerve Gas and Mustard Gas. The United slates meanwhile continued to pour thousands of troops into saudi Arabia to build up a Force that could withstand an invasion by Lens of thousands of iraqi soldiers massed on the saudi kuwaiti Border. For the first time since Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug. 2 and later annexed it . Troops stationed in the forbidding saudi desert conducted Maneu vers at night in temperatures that still hovered around 95 degrees. In other developments a Bush prepared to Call up military reserves to fill in the ranks of military doctors cargo handlers and other specialists. An army source said As Many As 80,000 reservists and National guardsmen could be activated. A the Pentagon launched an unprecedented diversion of civilian aircraft to bolster the . Military presence in the Middle East. A Cheney said the . Military commitment to saudi arabians defense is a a Long term Quot one. A where Well be a year or two from now 1 would t want to speculate a he said White in route to saudi Arabia. The Baghdad government is holding 3,000 americans 4,000 britons and about 14,000 other westerners among the More than 2 million foreigners caught in Iraq and Kuwait when Iraq president Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on aug. 2. In its latest statement saturday Iraq made Clear that it Hopes to use those foreign captives to Force the lifting of economic sanctions imposed on it and to prevent .-led forces from invading Kuwait or Iraq. Saturdays statement which referred to the . Quarantine As a Quot blockade and a an act of War a said that As food and Medicine become scarce in Iraq supplies will be set aside for iraqis military a the shield of the  the statement referred specifically to . Military1 moves to enforce the International embargo on iraqi goods and Oil. Bush has authorized the interdiction of shipments to Iraq a move that has drawn criticism from some . Allies and also from . Secretary general Perez de Cuellar who approved the economic sanctions. The United slates has ret used to use the word  children and the elderly among the foreign nationals would feel the effects of shortage  no their iraqi counterparts i said. A because of the embargo food cannot be secured for aged persons in the manner that we wish a the statement said. A r there were to be any reduction in the necessities of babies then the same calamity affecting the iraqi Newborn will affect similarly the foreign  the White House said on saturday that iraqis holding of american and other foreign citizens is a totally  Bush who was vacationing in Kennebunkport Maine called on Iraq to immediately reconsider its refusal to let the foreigners leave. Quot the use of innocent civilians As pawns to promote what Iraq sees to be its self interest is contrary to International Law and indeed to All accepted norms of International conduct a White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said. British foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said in London that the iraqi ambassador was called in a to underline our grave concern and to relay to his authorities the need for immediate . In Paris France summoned the Iraq  to warn that a serious consequences Quot would result if Steps Are not taken to protect the 560 French nationals in Iraq and Kuwait