European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Navy Secretary optimistic on Gulf situation Page 2 a average life Span could reach 85. Page 5 a gop candidates fear poor voter  7 a celts bulls spurs blazers tops in Aba  22-23 Hie Stamf Csuri Pes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 203 saturday november 3,1990 a a 25 Oahu and sunday d 8693 a Bush presses War of words still has Hope of no shot being fired by the associated press president Bush promised Friday to drive Saddam Husser from Kuwait while holding out the Hope of bringing . Troops Home a without a shot being  Bush told a gop rally in Cincinnati a Saddam Hussein must get out and he must get out totally and the legitimate rulers must be  it was the fourth Day in a Row that Bush kept up his verbal barrage against the iraqi Leader who invaded Kuwait three months ago on aug. 2. But Bush said he had no apologies for raising the subject at one political rally after another As he seeks to provide last minute help for gop candidates in next tuesdays midterm elections. F a Mac it Lxi us m. My 1 a Vul 1l iv1i1v/1 �?T11 repeat it the next Day a Bush a ill repeat it today ill repeat it Tomor v and ill. Declared. Later Friday the White House confirmed that the president would visit the troops on thanksgiving. Bush will travel to saudi Arabia also stopping in Egypt after a trip to Paris for the nov. 19-21 conference on Security and cooperation in Europe White House press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said. Bush planned to share thanksgiving dinner with a few of the roughly 230,000 americans deployed in the Region. Earlier he urged the families of american hostages to ignore Saddam a invite see Bush on Back Page packing it in Shelby Yastrow Mcdonald a corp. Senior vice president holds paper wrappers that will replace plastic foam boxes like those stacked behind him. Mcdonald a announced thursday that it will phase out the packaging because of environmental concerns. Major nations of ban on clumping waste at sea London apr the worlds largest Industrial nations have agreed to a global ban on dumping Industrial waste at sea and set the stage Friday for a further prohibition on the far greater volume of Marine pollution discharged on land. The dumping ban was adopted late thursday by consensus among the 43 nations represented at the five Day meeting of signatories to the London dumping convention. It is legally binding on All 64 nations that have signed the 20-year-old treaty including the United states Britain Germany France the soviet Union Japan and most other industrialized nations. Under the Resolution a sponsored by Denmark Iceland Finland Norway Sweden Spain and Brazil a Industrial dumping at sea will be phased out by 1995. A Survey will be conducted to identify areas suffering the worst dumping and member countries will be expected to prosecute their own flagships found violating the ban. The Resolution Calls for dumping to be stopped with see dump on Back Page sex communist party hoarding billions German minister says Berlin apr a minister in Chancellor Helmut Kohls new All German Cabinet was quoted Friday As estimating the wealth of the former East German communist party at up to $200 billion. The figure is a Hundred times bigger than the sum named by officials of the former communist party. Hans Joachim Walther a member of the former East German parliament who was appointed As a minister without portfolio in Kohls Cabinet after the Germany United on oct. 3, made the remarks in an interview published by the Dresdner Morgen Post newspaper. The report follows the arrest of three former communist party officials who admitted to illegally funnel ing 107 million Marks about $70 million in party funds to the soviet Union. Two of the officials Wolfgang Pohl and Wolfgang Lan Nitschke were arrested last week. Karl Heinz Kaufmann who was being sought on an International warrant was arrested on thursday in Oslo Norway. Walther head of the conservative German social Union party was asked by the Dresdner Morgen Post to give his views on the wealth of the communists now called the party of democratic socialism ads. A i consider it possible they have holdings of Between 200 billion and 300 billion Marks about $133 billion to $200 billion a the newspaper quoted Walt Hersee party on Back Page some e. German produce found unfit by Mary Neth staff writer. Fruits and vegetables grown on farms m what was East Germany Are loaded with deadly chemicals and pesticides. But its unlikely that american shoppers will find the produce in overseas commissaries officials said Friday. T t Che ten Nal markets that buy for the . Commissaries do Purchase local produce a Matt Hyatt of the defense subsistence Region Europe said Friday. A but the produce purchased must be of the highest Quality. It is checked by veterinarians and must conform to european common Market German and .  col. John c. Barck chief of veterinary services for the army a 7th medical come in Heidelberg Germany said Small lots of local fruits and vegetables purchased for direct delivery to the commissaries Are inspected by . Army veterinary personnel and Are subjected to pesticide screening. When fruits or vegetables exceed allowable Levels 7th medical come carries out a recall and makes a Public announcement about the item and the risk involved. The Host county is also notified of the Laboratory findings Barck said. On thursday the German ministry of health announced that High percentages of cadmium Mercury Dot and dioxin have been found in vegetables and lettuce produced in the five new German states. Cadmium and Mercury Are heavy metals. Dot is an environmentally devastating insecticide that has been banned by the United states and other countries. Dioxin is a chemical often used in herbicides and  such contaminated foodstuffs will quickly disappear from the German Market a said Klaus Henning of the health ministry. A the amount that is now in the stores does not present an acute health  the German health ministry has begun inspecting All produce and foodstuffs produced in the former East Germany Henning said. A use of pesticides such As Dot within the area has been banned in accordance with German Law a he said. Growing areas within the new German states Are also now being checked for possible soil pollution. A land areas found to be contaminated by chemicals will no longer be allowed to be used for agriculture a Henning said. The German government is spending More than 3 million Marks about $2 million for equipment to measure pollution of food produced in the former East German states. The health ministry also will look into health damage that people of the area May have suffered because of the contaminated food Chain. A Only by analysing hair and tissue can we assess whether there has been such damage and if so to what extent a said a health ministry spokesman