European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Itt related stories and photo pages 2 and 3 Hie Straffi amp Andi amp ripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 206 tuesday november 6, 1990 Iraq issues warning to Arab opponents our counterattacks will be destructive editorial in army newspaper proclaims by the associated press Iraq threatened monday that if attacked it would strike Back at All Arab nations contributing to the multinational Force arrayed against it. A your counterattacks will be destructive and will not be limited to securing our country a sovereignty a the official iraqi news Agency said in a broadcast of an army newspaper editorial. The dispatch made specific reference to saudi Arabia and Egypt. In saudi Arabia Kuwait a exiled ruler pressed . Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii for the liberation of his nation. A what i would like to see is the liberation of Kuwait As soon As possible whether through the Security Council or not a Kuwait a Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah told Baker. His comments were made monday in the saudi Mountain resort town of taif As the leaders discussed options available to Force Iraq out of his occupied emirate. After showing conciliatory signs Iraq took a hard line sunday. A we Are going to defend our 19th province on any condition even if we have to fight a dangerous War a information minister Latif Jassim told a news conference in Baghdad Iraq. The hard line declaration was in contrast to a weekend move by Iraq to allow some hostages to Telephone Home. The Calls were the first from the hostages since they were detained following iraqis aug. 2 invasion and subsequent annexation of Kuwait. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has also invited some of the families of hostages to visit their loved ones during the Christmas Holiday and at least one american family has said it would accept. But the . And British governments advised families against travelling to Iraq or Kuwait. Fifteen europeans and four americans freed Over the weekend were in route Home monday. They were among thousands of foreigners trapped in Iraq and Kuwait when Saddam a troops invaded Kuwait. Also during the weekend former japanese prime see Iraq on Back Page Gay Soldier has right to re enlist in army supreme court Roundup Washington apr a homosexual Soldier monday won a supreme court Battle to re enlist in the army despite the military a ban on homosexuals. The justices without comment let stand a Federal appeals court decision requiring the army to allow ferry Watkins of Seattle to re enlist. Watkins is a 16-year Veteran with an excellent service record. Mondays action does not affect in any sweeping Way the military a ban on homosexuals. The Case nevertheless has been closely watched by Gay rights advocates. The appeals court ruling in Watkins Case did not address the Validity of the Bank but noted that the army repeatedly had re enlisted Watkins while knowing he is Gay. , Watkins has greatly benefited the army d therefore the country by ins military service a an Capri fl6pa 9th . Circuit court of appeals Ripari u ear addition Watkins homosexuality cried nuf138 5?  army in any Way. Equity hiwl5?and a is that the army be stopped proof his homosexuarty1�?T a re ens Watkins on the basis in other action the court p1,?rfed.t0 ask a California murder Case to set new fend notes u Erl 001111 appeals by convicted de wants who say their rights were violated. Ciak inti times say a hey in hear an Appeal by state offi Toni up be car Owen Duane Nunnemaker sentenced rms Quot murdering his estranged wife in 1975. A let stand a ruling that lets prosecutors punish businesses convicted of dealing in obscenity by seizing their property. The court without comment rejected an adult bookstores Challenge to an Illinois anti pornography Law. A refused to let some puerto Rico Cable to systems be prosecuted for caning the Playboy Channel rebuffing arguments that states anti obscenity efforts May be hampered unduly. The justices without comment let stand rulings that such prosecutions Are preempted by Federal Law. A left intact a ruling by Ohio a highest court in a nationally publicized Chim custody Case that said the Public has no right to attend juvenile court proceedings. A the justices without comment rejected a Columbus Ohio newspapers arguments that the Constitution requires most juvenile court hearings to be Public. A let stand a ruling that barred employee Benefit plans from discriminating against workers who Are disabled later in their careers. The court without comment rejected arguments by Ohio officials that younger workers forced to retire because of disabilities Are entitled to greater benefits. The appeals court vote in the homosexual Soldier Case was 7-4. In the Appeal rejected monday Bush administration see Soldier on Back Page beat the blues 25 daily and sunday d 8693 a if Tracy Baker two soviet officers Stop to stare at tvs cameras and electronics in a suburban Berlin  soldiers now strangers on German soil by Marc Fisher Washington Post Runsdorf Germany a in East German schools children Learned that the soviet soldiers they saw everywhere were a Blessing twice Over. The red army liberated germans from nazi oppression and then protected them from Western aggression. Today there is no More East Germany but the 360,000 soviet troops and their 200,000 family members still on German soil have become a manifold Burden. In the weeks after German unification hundreds of soviet soldiers Are deserting showing up at government offices to apply for welfare even turning up at american facilities to seek Asylum. Soviets Are peddling their Caps and uniforms to Street dealers. And from Dresden to Berlin soldiers and occasionally officers Are hawking soviet rifles grenades and even ground to air rockets. The deep Bonds of German soviet Friendship repeated m the old communist propaganda turned out to be a Mirage. Angry germans have taken potshots at soviet guards mugged soviet soldiers and sprayed red army facilities with abusive Graffiti. A the danger is that these German extremists will attack a munitions Post and our guards have the right to shoot Back,�?T1 said Mikhail Logvinov a see soviets on Back Page