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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a the stars and stripes tuesday september 4,1990 news Brief police fire warning shots As soccer fans turn Rowdy Leipzig East Germany apr police fired warning shots after a crowd turned violent following a weekend soccer match the East German news Agency adn said monday. One Young Rowdy was shot in the leg the Agency said. Police arrested 33 youths who were armed with knives tear Gas and pistols that fire Blanks. The Agency said three policemen and two onlookers were injured in the Melee. The Agency said about 150 rightist youths from East and West German shouted Quot fascist slogans through the City Center on their Way to a soccer match that took place sunday Between Bayer Minchen and the local Leipzig team. The Agency did not say what the slogans were. After the game the armed group attacked police vehicles providing Security for the match prompting the police to fire warning shots the Agency  from Page 1 Ber congressional delegation. A they have sent troops on the ground in saudi Arabi which very few nations have done they Are being very Brave and courageous and president Mubarak has taken the leadership of the Arab world in a very effective Way a Pell said. Pell promised legislation a that will end the threat that any Aid could be Cut off to Egypt a reference to a . Law requiring cessation of Aid to countries that fall behind in paying debt arrears. Egypt has asked the United states repeatedly to reduce or eliminate its military debt. Until the persian Gulf crisis it had received no response. The debt is for sales of . Armaments to Egypt from 1979 to 1985. After that the package of . Military and economic Aid to Egypt about $2.1 billion a year has been As Grants. Following Egypt a criticism of iraqis invasion of Kuwait and its dispatch of about 4,000 troops to saudi Arabia to join . And other Western forces the . Government has considered dropping the military  Day from Page 1 the women a doubles title. Contestants take turns tossing Clam shells into holes in the Sand 25 Xhu feet apart. Michigan gov. James Blanchard was expected to join More than 70,000 people Early monday for the 4.5-mile Mackinac Bridge walk in Mackinac City. The event traditionally kicks off statewide labor Day festivities. Elsewhere state fairs demolition derbies Union gatherings and musical concerts were scheduled. Residents in Western new York organized the mock funeral procession along Lake Erie on monday. A mourners Quot were encouraged to bring summertime items for interment in a coffin. Quot everybody feels so awful at the end of summer so Why not say goodbye with a funeral a said organizer Jan Reuther of Tonawanda. Bush officials preparing for Summit with Gorbachev Kennebunkport Maine apr president Bush is returning to Washington for a hectic few Days of preparation before his third Summit meeting with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. As aides scrambled to work out logistics and prepare an Agenda for the hastily called Summit Bush monday was concluding a three week vacation in Maine that he took under the Cloud of the persian Gulf crisis. He returns to Washington two Days after announcing that he will meet with the soviet Leader on sunday in Helsinki Finland. Meanwhile administration officials said monday that details Are still being worked out on the upcoming Summit a including the possibility of extending it by one Day so Bush can meet with finnish president Mauno Koivisto. Deputy press Secretary roman Popadiuk said such a Courtesy session would Likely come on saturday and that it could mean that Bush would leave for Helsinki on Friday instead of saturday. Bush spent sunday hosting his longtime Friend evangelist Billy Graham at his Seaside vacation Home. The pair went to two churches for morning services. A these Are rather trying times and right now i would suggest we get our strength from being one nation under god a Bush told the congregation at the first congregational Church. Officials said Bush a one Day Summit with Gorbachev will Likely entail about five hours of talks focusing on the persian Gulf crisis. They said the two men would also discuss conventional arms reduction talks Between the two nations and regional issues including Cambodia and Afghanistan. The president said he was pleased with soviet cooperation on a number of global issues. A i think it is important at this juncture that we discuss issues not just As they relate to Europe and try to update where we can on these arms negotiations but also to discuss the Middle East a the president said. Concerning the persian Gulf one official said of the two superpowers a a we re comparing notes. We would be explaining where we think the situation is where we would  Side meetings Between aides Are not planned for the Summit said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Such sessions usually Are Standard during Summit meetings. Another official described the one Day session As More an Quot informal meeting Between the two leaders on the subject of conventional arms talks one official said the two leaders discussion a would just be a review of the continuing negotiations to reduce soviet and . Troop strength in Europe. Bush has said he does not expect the soviet Union to mediate Between Iraq and the United states. But the administration would Welcome any pressure that Gorbachev can bring against Iraq a longtime recipient of soviet arms. Bush said he has not spoken to Gorbachev since Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug 2. He said he has not telephoned Gorbachev a something he has done to Many other world leaders a a because i had anticipated seeing  Bush proposed the meeting to Gorbachev a week ago. He held his proposal so closely that several top White House staff members did not know about it when they were in the soviet Union last week. They were there with White House chief of staff John Sununu at Gorbachev a request to explain the technical Workings of the . Executive Branch. Sununu was informed of the arrangements for the Summit meeting but was not a key player in setting it up aides said. White House staff members met sunday to begin working on logistical details and plans for contacting their soviet counterparts. A a everybody a scrambling to put their pieces together a one official said. Sig Rogich who oversees White House Advance logistics ended his vacation Early on sunday to coordinate the planning. Sununu was having his family Back to Washington from his Home state of new Hampshire on sunday a Day after his arrival from the soviet Union. Bush a wife Barbara and Gorbachev a wife Raisa also will travel to Helsinki. Jackson urges Bush to work for diplomatic solution to Gulf crisis Washington apr any diplomatic solution to the persian Gulf crisis must regain kuwaiti sovereignty assure saudi arabian Security and a assure the integrity of Iraq a the Rev. Jesse Jackson said monday. Jackson returned from Iraq on sunday with 47 freed american hostages after he met for six hours with iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein. The civil rights Leader and former democratic presidential aspirant urged president Bush to pursue a diplomatic solution to reverse iraqis takeover of Kuwait and cautioned against relying solely on military pressure. A just As our generals Are in saudi Arabia with a military presence our politicians should be As evident in seeking diplomatic solutions a he said on Abc tvs  Jackson who met with Jordan s Crown Prince has san As Well As Saddam said a diplomatic solution must a regain the sovereignty of Kuwait assure the Security of saudi Arabia and assure the integrity of  he called for an end to the a drum beating hostile  in another interview on Abc tvs a Good morning America a Jackson said he challenged Saddam on his takeover of Kuwait saying the annexation and his threats against saudi Arabia were errors. If War Breaks out Over the crisis Jackson said innocent people will be killed and Oil Wells destroyed. Asked to respond to criticism that he was exploiting the hostages plight for his own political gains he said a suffice it to say blessed Are the peacemakers even when they Are  Jackson said he rejects the idea that Saddam a annexation of Kuwait is the Only problem in the crisis and that Only a military solution will work to resolve it. Jackson went to the Middle East with a journalistic team and said he plans a series of broadcast reports on the  from Page 1 to go out and steal two buses a Clay said. Altogether he supervised 500 filipino and Indian workers at re Kellogg a . Contractor which maintained two Oil refineries in Kuwait. He accounted for All but four and then took off himself. By then the filipinos were desperate to leave the Gulf state where some had worked for a decade. A i know of one Case where 12 iraqi soldiers raped a filipina lady a he said. A they killed her brother when he tried to help her. That a a fact. She was still in the Hospital when i  Clay left behind $85,000 in the Bank and an apartment full of belongings which he does no to expect to see again. His tiny Convoy made it to Baghdad after two traffic accidents and some close shaves at the Border. At each Roadblock filipino friends stood in the bus door and passed out his papers. The group was stuck in Baghdad for three Days which Clay spent huddling Between the others in a car or hiding in three hotel rooms with 128 others. He rented another bus for the equivalent of $5,000 for the seven hour drive to the Jordan Border. By then his party had grown by 25 filipina women. When Clay reached Jordan he had to spend three Days hiding among dozens of real filipinos under a makeshift shelter at a squalid desperate Camp in no Many a land past the Iraq Border before the jordanians could process the refugees. There he sent scouts to find a Westerner and ask hypothetically what would happen if they knew of an american refugee. They found Jim Nuttal of save the children who saved Clay. But the Tough part was getting out of Iraq. Clay cleared every hurdle finally garnering the treasured exit stamp on his false travel paper. Then at a last Check before entering Jordan an iraqi guard stuck his head into the bus. He glared at Clay and said a Marine a a filipino a said Clay. The iraqi took him off the bus for six hours of interrogation. But his friends rallied. They piled their Luggage across the Road insisting that if Clay were returned to Baghdad they a go too. They scuffled with iraqi guards swinging truncheons. Finally one woman barged into the Border office wailing that she could not be separated from her Uncle. Finally the Stem faced iraqi handed Back clays document and waved him Onward. With a Trace of a smile he said a goodbye   
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