European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday september 10,1990 news update albanian refugees Rome up a italian government Aid to More than 800 albanian refugees who arrived nearly two months ago after being allowed to leave their Homeland will expire within Days officials said. The albanians who were let out of Europe a Only stalinist state in mid july after taking Refuge inside the Walls of Western embassies have been receiving a living allowance of $21.55 per person per Day under provisions of a new Law on refugees. But the payment period runs out in the next few weeks according to officials. Interior ministry officials said that Only 119 of the refugees have requested Asylum in Italy. Another 531 Are awaiting permission to Settle in the United states 62 want to go to Australia and the rest to other countries officials  charged Cumming a. Apr a Forsyth county teen Ager who held classmates at gunpoint inside a local school was charged Friday with 53 counts of kidnapping. Authorities also filed nine counts of kidnapping by Ransom and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against 17-year-old Randy Floyd Addis Forsyth Deputy sheriff Kevin Wallace said. Addis a High school Sophomore was charged As an adult thursday with kidnapping and weapons violations. The kidnapping charges Friday represented one count for each of the 53 hostages he initially held thursday Wallace said. Addis armed with several guns released hostages throughout the Day until he held Only nine police said. He demanded a school bus and $3,000 before becoming dizzy and surrendering to police. No one was injured during the five hour ordeal. Addis who reportedly suffers from emotional and health problems underwent psychiatric testing  sales Frankfurt West Germany a a furniture auction will be held by the Frankfurt consulate general on saturday sept. 15, at 8 30 . The site the parking lot of 19 Joa Chim Becher Strasse is near the Frankfurt military shopping Center. Parking will be very limited. Household and office furniture will be up for bid with All transactions in dollars. Additional information is available from the consulates general services office at German civilian 06975352360. Marines Fly six Relief workers to Monrovia As rebels attack Monrovia Liberia apr rebels attacked the port of Monrovia with shells and gunfire As american and european disaster Relief workers were flown into the besieged City by . Marines. A five nation West african task Force based in the port held off the rebels who attacked saturday after the West africans called for Aid agencies to return to Monrovia and promised to assure their safety. Rebel Leader Charles Taylor who is opposed to the West african intervention in liberians 8-month-old civil War threatened in a radio broadcast to take the port by sunday. . Marines in helicopters saturday flew in four Relief workers from the . Agency for International development and two officials of the belgian doctors without Borders and the feed the hungry program. Ambassador Peter de Vos of the United states said food is waiting in neighbouring Ivory coast but would be brought in Only if it could be distributed in an orderly manner and without risking the lives of Relief workers. Some of the 2,100 . Marines based on ships off Monrovia Are guarding the . Embassy and residential compound in the capital. They have evacuated hundreds of foreigners from the City but have orders not to intervene in the War. Nigeria meanwhile accused France of supporting the rebels because they have French weapons. But a French embassy spokesman in Lagos the nigerian capital said France is not involved and that the arms possibly were supplied by Turkina faso and the Ivory coast. The external affairs ministry in Lagos confirmed that the French ambassador was called in Friday the Lagos guardian newspaper reported sunday. It said Nigeria had expressed fears to the French envoy of a possible split in the economic Community of West Africa should Paris encourage former French colonies who Are now members of the organization to oppose the Community s task Force in Liberia. A nigerian government official who requested anonymity said France stood to gain because an integrated West Africa would result in a loss of French goods and influence in the Region. Nine countries Many of which were formerly part of colonial French West Africa belong to the 16-nation organization. Oil Rich Nigeria a former British Colony is the most powerful member. President Blaise compare of Turkina faso where some of Taylor a rebels say they were trained has opposed the West african intervention and has warned that sending foreign troops to Liberia might cause the War to spill Over into other countries. Reporters who have covered the War behind Taylor a lines say some Burki Nabe soldiers Are fighting with the rebels. Taylor has accused Guinea of sending in troops to fight for Doe a a charge that the guinean government denies. Taylor is holding hostage thousands of civilians from countries that have sent troops to Liberia. After the West african Force arrived on aug. 24, his rebels killed about 200 of them mainly nigerians and ghanaian. People in West Africa can be identified by nationality because of tribal scars on their faces and the languages they speak. In Monrovia sport a nigerian commercial ship ready to unload food and medical supplies for starving civilians retreated out to sea saturday As rebels and West african troops battled. West african warships that Are anchored several Miles offshore kept their distance. Thousands of civilians fled the fighting. No casualty figures were available but those running away said they saw people hit in the shooting and shelling. Reporters were turned away by ghanaian soldiers who took up positions on the Mesurado Bridge leading from downtown Monrovia to the port. Other troops come from Nigeria Sierra Leone Gambia and Guinea. Soviet demand for 10 billion Marks is Price of Unity Genscher admits Berlin apr West Germany a foreign minister on saturday acknowledged that the soviet unions demanding billions of Marks has become the a Price of  Hans Dietrich Genscher spoke a Day after six nation talks on German unification ended without full agreement. The talks stalled in part because of soviet objections to nato weapons systems capable of firing nuclear arms from East German soil. Soviet officials also Are demanding the payment of More than 10 billion Marks $6.5 billion for removing the 380,000 red army troops from East Germany. West German officials say the soviet financial demands Are exorbitant. Quot for All practical purposes this has become the Price of German unification a Genscher said in an interview with a Cologne based radio station. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl discussed the Issue by Telephone with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on Friday Genscher said. Another Telephone Call is planned for monday. Kohls government already has agreed to provide major assistance to the soviet troop withdrawal Effort. Despite the difficulties Genscher said he is confident that the final unification document will be agreed on wednesday in Moscow. Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze will meet with Genscher . Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and their counterparts from Britain France and East Germany. It is scheduled to be the last session of the six nation �?o2-plus-4�?� talks that began last May in the West German capital of Bonn. Genscher says that failure to reach speedy agreement on the final document could Lead to burdening the new country with open questions after full unification on oct. 3. The financial Issue is extremely sensitive in part because the soviet demands Are Only part of an Ever expanding financial Drain linked to German unification. Elmar Pieroth a financial expert in Kohls Christian democratic Union says he estimates that East Germany will need 1.2 trillion Marks $775 billion Over the next five years to achieve Western standards. Much of the rebuilding costs will come from private investment although Many germans Are convinced that taxes will also go up to finance the Mammoth project. At the same time that the soviets Are pressing their financial demands the West germans Are also coming under pressure to help finance . Forces in the persian Gulf. While Kohls government has said it is still considering the american request there Are growing indications it will be rejected. Kohl said in a speech saturday that the newly United Germany will have to play a role in the financial jolts caused by the Middle East crisis. He singled out Jordan overrun with refugees from Iraq As one country that Germany will have to be ready to assist financially. The West germans have interpreted their Constitution in a Way that forbids the deployment of German forces outside areas of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Baker will be in Bonn on saturday to discuss Germany a possible contribution to the Gulf  committees urge Jaruzelski to resign Warsaw Poland apr a National conference of Solidarity citizen committees on sunday called on president Wojciech Jaruzelski to resign As soon As possible allowing new presidential elections to be held this year. The Resolution combined with an ongoing petition drive to oust Jaruzelski increases pressure on the former communist party Leader who tried to crush Solidarity in 1981 to surrender the office he has held since july 19, 1989. Jaruzelski is the Only top communist Leader in Eastern Europe to survive in office following the democratic changes that swept the Region last year. Representatives of local citizens committees stopped Short of endorsing Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa to take Jaruzelski a place during a meeting held at the polish Senate. They also took no stand on the dispute that has split the Solidarity movement into rival factions favouring either Walesa or prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki. A the conference of citizen committees evaluating the current political and social situation thinks the first step toward full democracy should be the resignation As soon As possible of general Wojciech Jaruzelski from the office of president of the Republic of Poland and the holding of popular presidential elections yet this year a activists said in a Resolution. The conference also called for the polish parliament to shorten its four year term and hold new elections to its two houses the Sejm and Senate by next Spring at the latest. The present parliament was elected in june 1989 under a political Deal now criticized As outdated that reserved 65 percent of the seats for the communists or their then allies. It said the next parliament should then adopt a new National Constitution taking into account the results of a debate on the Issue that citizens committees would help to organize. A proposed amendment to the conferences Resolution to endorse Walesa for president was withdrawn without a vote after a Brief but heated debate in which some participants said such an act was premature. Citizens committees exist throughout Poland composed of local activists who identify with a the ethos of Solidarity but Are not necessarily linked to the Solidarity Trade Union. Citizens committees mounted Solidarity a victorious electoral Campaign in 1989, Ana they now work mainly on political and governmental problems in their regions