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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday August 25, 1990 Rheinland Pfalz wont reveal its list of . Base closings by Mary  stuff writer Mainz. West Germany a Rheinland Pfalz is not following Hessen s lend in making Public a list of installations the United Stales Rcpt Ledly has agreed to close in the West German state. Randi Geil the Rheinland Pfalz Interior minister said Friday that he has such a list but he s keeping a Promise to not divulge the locations and size of the installations until mid september when Congress is informed. A we re sticking to that  said Gail a Christian Democrat on thursday Hessen minister president Walter Wallmann released a list of 14 bases the United states reportedly has agreed to close in Darmstadt Giessen Hanau Wiesbaden and the Frankfurt area Geilus political opponents in the social Democrat free Democrat and Green parties expressed outrage on Friday at the Interior ministers refusal to announce the installation closings. Rudolf Scharping who Heads the social Democrat opposition in the state parliament said go ill a refusal to it the Public in on the list was Quot scandalous Quot Gail said however that he was unwilling to use Hessen s decision a was a yardstick for official action in Rheinland Pfalz which is Home to 68,000 . Military personnel 9,000 civilian workers and about 75,000 family members. 1 a amps Jim Ofiu a Hospital cheer a Hig Blue smurf seems to be just what the doctor ordered at lie  station Hospital in Heidelberg West Germany As the cartoon character tickles the fancy of Vanessa Hubbard 8, during a Surprise visit. The smurf from the big bang Park in France poured lie Hospital on Friday visiting Siek children and promoting a special Uso bus trip to the amusement Park on labor Day. In april Carl Ludwig Wagner the Rheinland Pfalz minister president gave the Pentagon a list of 12 military facilities in Rheinland Pfalz that the state wanted vacated first when . Troop withdrawals begin. The list included the army depot be 426 and the Hoyc Nocken training area in Kaiserslautern the civil support unit Camp in Lan Stuhl and the army Airfield and Marshall Cavern in bad Kreuz Nach. Seven installations in Mainz were also targeted by the state Lee Barracks a military housing area at an Der san Flora a sports area at an Der san Flora Mainz Fin then army Airfield the training area on the Rhine River at Mainz Mombach the Wackenheim ammunition depot and the of of timer Forest training area. Geil also would not reveal if any of the planned installation closures included facilities on Wagner a list. . Officials in Europe and Washington either denied or had no comment on the installations that Hessen released thursday. On Friday however a v corps spokesman said the . Army in Europe is planning for Force reductions and associated installation closures. An announcement will be made after the plans have been completed and approved and after Host nations have been officially notified the spokesman  oks Moscow up a armenians parliament passed a declaration of Independence on the same Day that soviet Interior ministry troops were deployed in the Republic in response to fighting that left 50 extremists dead and More than 100 wounded reports said. In passing the declaration thursday the lawmakers claimed the right to form their own army Interior troops and Security forces a it. Gen Mikhail Kolesnikov soviet commander of troops on the embattled Southern rim provided the first details of a massive Battle tuesday Between soldiers and hundreds of heavily armed armenian fighters in an azerbaijani Village near the Azerbaijan and armenian Border. Quot according to our information 50 extremists were killed and More than 100 wounded in an engagement they initiated near the Village of Aganis Aurum a Kolesnikov said. Soviet television said 800 armenian fighters battled two detachments of soviet soldiers for nearly 10 hours. It reported the same casually figures and showed dramatic footage in which the Village appeared to have been destroyed. The casualty toll was much higher than previously reported in the latest round of violence in the caucasus where mainly moslem azerbaijanis and predominantly Christian armenians have waged a virtual civil War Tor 2 a years Over control of the Magorno Karabash autonomous Region. Kolesnikov said Interior ministry troops were deployed in Armenia thursday within a three mile one on the other Side of the besieged Border. Quot the task put Forward by the command after the measure was authorized by the Republican leadership is to dear the area of militants and carry out Active operations against them Quot he said Armenia has several Large illegal armies and Wais the main target of Percsi Donl Mikhail Gorbachev s july 25 decree ordering the breakup of vigilante units in the so id i Union 3 renovated schools to open late by the stars and stripes students at three schools in the fian furl and Munich districts in West Germany w ill enjoy longer summer \ Aea Linns because renovations present the facilities bom opening As scheduled monday. 1 Miner Junior High school at Rhein main All near i rank int. Will open tuesday assistant District superintendent Elizabeth Walker said Friday. She said the school needed the extra Day to real Range classrooms. The opening of Frankfurt Middle school which underwent summer Long work has been delayed until after i Abor Day w Alker said. Students report to class on sept. 4. Students will make up the Days by attending class on a in service Days Quot which Are Are normally reserved throughout the school year As workdays for teachers hut not students. Quot we have in service Days built into our school schedule. 1 he Frankfurt Middle school is using its i service Days during the time delay a w Alker said. In the Munich District 1 Ethelm elementary school w ill open w wednesday. C a pet is being Laid today and it will take two Days to move in the  the superintendent. Frederick Killian said Friday. Schools m the had Kreuz Nach. Bremer Haven Kaiserslautern. N urn Berg and Stuttgart districts will open on monday. Afire flight a firefighting plane releases its Load of fire retardant thursday on flames near can tar on on the French Riviera fires fanned by Mediterranean winds have destroyed at least 27,500 acres of land and several Homes along Frances Southern coast from Marseille to  ice oust squatters from old military Bunker Eindhoven Netherlands apr police under court order evicted More than 40 squatters from a former military Bunker thursday near the Center of this Southern dutch City. No injuries were reported in the four hour confrontation during which police broke apart a human Chain blocking the budding a entrances. Police encountered no violent resistance spokesman tint gilding said. The two Story Concrete Structure once used As a communications Center by the dutch army is to be demolished to make Way for a housing project. Most of the squatters had come from other locations to help the eight squatters who have lived in the building since its evacuation three years ago. Since the height of the squatter movement in the 1970s, the eviction of squatters has developed into a uniquely dutch ritual whereby police and squatters mobilize impressive forces but Randy inflict serious injury. Thursdays action came three weeks after the squatters lost an Appeal against a court order to evacuate the former army building heroin smuggler gets 13 years for record Cache Canterbury England apr a turkish truck Driver who admitted smuggling the largest known consignment of heroin into Britain has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Prosecutor Jane Mcneil told Canterbury c rown court that customs officers found nearly 110 pounds of heroin with a Street value of 513.4 million m a truck full of cat pets driven he Ishan  27, of Ankara. Mcneil said it was the largest known Livow shipment seized in Britain.  was stopped at Ramsgate on the Northeast Kent coast after Ossing from the in rope an continent on a ferry. The drug was  hidden m a false Section of the trucks fuel tank  
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