European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes news Brief air Force no Dies in car crash in Spain Zaragoza a Spain a amps a an air Force no died in a single car Accident saturday one Day after processing out of his unit at Zaragoza a. Another Zaragoza no received minor injuries in the Accident on Highway n-2, about three Miles Northeast of the base. Set. Armando Sauceda 23, died in the 3 . Crash. He had been assigned for the last four years As an Airfield management specialist with the 406th combat group base operations division. Sauce Day a Auto crossed the median strip and hit a Guardrail along the opposite Lane according to a Spanish police report. Sauceda died in surgery in a Zaragoza Hospital said air Force capt. Cliff Atkinson. The passenger in the Sauceda vehicle tech. Sgt. Jose l. Martinez 37, assigned to the 406th consolidated aircraft maintenance so was released after treatment at a Zaragoza Hospital. Sauceda a resident of Texas City Texas checked out of his unit on Friday and was scheduled to Fly Back to the United states on monday for final out processing from the air Force Atkinson said a memorial service for Sauceda will be held in the base Chapel at 4 . Wednesday. Air Force officials refused to identify sauce Day a family from Page 1 minister Yasuhiro Nakasone urged Saddam to release japanese hostages. Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was expected in Baghdad later monday in a controversial attempt to win the release of More hostages appeals by individual nations for the Freedom of their nationals prompted Belgium a foreign minister to complain that the individual efforts were eroding Unity against Iraq. A Saddam is creating this Royal court of All sorts of Western pilgrims who visit him to obtain the release of hostages a the minister Mark Eyskens said. At the request of Belgium and other nations Italy scheduled a meeting of european Community foreign ministers in Rome later monday to discuss cracks in their stand against negotiating the release of hostages. Military activity picked up on both sides of the conflict. Iraq said it was recalling an unspecified number of retired army officers to Active duty. More than 300,000 troops in the multinational Force have gathered in saudi Arabia to counter an estimated 430,000 iraqi soldiers in Kuwait and Southern Iraq. The United states on monday sent another aircraft Carrier into the persian Gulf. The presence of the Midway in Gulf Waters described by a spokesman As part of Quot routine flight operations Quot was an apparent show of Force against Saddam. In another development about 2,500 syrian troops arrived in saudi Arabia on sunday joining an estimated 4,000 syrians already deployed As part of the multinational Effort they brought with them about 150 tanks the first Armor Syria has sent Mohammed Salman Syria s information minister told reporters in Damascus Syria on sunday that his country is committed to the defense of saudi Arabia. A should saudi Arabia or any other Gulf state ask us for More troops we will not hesitate to respond to the request a he said. Later monday Baker planned to move to the red sea fat Ort City of Liddah saudi Arabia for talks with King Ruhd the Linchpin of the Arab Alliance against Saddam. The top . Foreign official is on the second Day of a we Klong trip to the Middle East and Europe to sound out allies on strategy. Baker is on a fast paced trip to seven countries in which he said he would Lay the foundations for stronger economic and political measures against Iraq or even military action. The ousted Emir of Kuwait Sheik Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah Crown Prince Sheik Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah who also was prime minister and their government have been in exile in taif since the invasion. Tuesday november 6,1990 state Bank official joins criticism of Gorbachev s Reform program Moscow apr a state Bank official on monday joined criticism of Mikhail Gorbachev a plan for converting to a Market Economy a Day after two of the soviet presidents economic advisers predicted it would spark hyperinflation and Cut Peoples Standard of living. Oleg Moz Haisky head of the Bank a hard currency department told a news conference that Gorbachev a decrees creating an auction among soviet businesses for the foreign currency they hold and a network of stores Selling goods in hard currency were misguided. He called the expansion of the use of dollars in the soviet Economy a Dollari nation bring us closer to the goals of perestroika but would Worsen the state of the Ruble and could make those goals More Distant a Moz Haisky said. Gorbachev a Compromise program for restructuring the soviet Economy which the legislature adopted oct 19, is already under Sharp attack in Many of the 15 to Public. The addition of criticism from the state Bank official As Well As Gorbachev a own advisers casts doubt on whether it will succeed. The advisers a Nikolai Petrakova and Stanislav Shata Lin a and 11 other economists warned in a letter to the newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda that Gorbachev a Compromise will increase the budget deficit and disrupt economic links among the 15 soviet republics. A the decrease in the Standard of living of the population will be significant before stabilization,., the inflationary spiral is winding up too quickly the collapse of the consumer Market is growing and the Economy is moving further from a state of equilibrium a the economists said in the letter published from Page 1 Counselor at the Berlin Branch of the soviet embassy. Overnight the massive soviet army Here has become a White elephant. Sometimes confined to Barracks strictly limited in their exercises hungry in a land of expanding appetites the soviets Are suddenly at the mercy of a country they had dominated since 1945. Under a Deal struck by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev last summer the soviet Union has until 1994 to withdraw its forces from former East German territories. In the meantime Germany is paying for the soviets food and supplies Germany will pay to train soviet soldiers in new careers transport them Home and build them apartments there. That will take Money a at least $10 billion according to the estimates. For now the soviets Are still omnipresent with 1,000 installations still heavily armed. But they Are inside a Western nation on the land of a nato member and surrounded by their former enemy the German army. In Runsdorf a German town of 3,000 just South of Berlin the soviet forces have their sprawling Headquarters a dilapidated walled compound that houses 70,000 soldiers and civilians. The soviets closed the main Highway to germans requiring residents to take a circuitous route around the base soviet officers once filled the restaurants and the rental boats on the towns Lake. With the Power positions now reversed the germans pent up resentment is bubbling Over. Someone has scrawled a russians out a on the 6-foot-High Concrete Wall that surrounds the compound. An angry delegation of town Council members last week got their first meet lights and quieter i a in my opinion they could leave immediately a Klaus Otto a 35-year-old restaurant owner said of the soviets. A who Are they supposed to protect now but it wont be easy to get them out of Here. Life be better for them now. This is Paradise for them. They re getting just outside the bases main Gate communism and capitalism meet in a bizarre Bazaar. Soviets throng outside a makeshift a Chi i video Market stocking up on Boom boxes and Vars. A few Steps away German entrepreneurs preside Over tables overflowing with jeans and other Western clothing. Soldiers inspect a Row of used West German cars for Sale a no rubles accepted. Since july soviet soldiers have received their pay in taste of the Western life. A supermarket Chain from the West called plus has opened a Branch in a ramshackle warehouse. The aisles Are packed with soviet families stocking up on toilet paper chocolate Yogurt and eggs a scarce items on the base. The tension is so palpable the potential for disaster so great that both the germans and the soviets Are trying to Speed up the troop withdrawal. Quot the presence of our troops on German soil has lost All sense a Kremlin foreign policy adviser Vyacheslav Dashi Chev said in a German television interview. A foot dragging is the Root of All a i think the soviets will withdraw sooner than scheduled if they can solve their housing problem a said Lutz Stavenhagen a top aide to Kohl. Quot two years would be optimal. In the meantime they will try to keep a very Low profile. We will watch them and they will watch Kohls government is trying to help the soviets leave As quickly As possible but a the problem is that they simply have nowhere to put these people a Stavenhagen said. Meanwhile the strains Are Likely to intensify. Kohl recently received a letter signed by about 400 wives of soviet soldiers in Potsdam imploring him to save them from being sent Back to a Village about 100 Miles from the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster. A no one will listen or help a said the letter. Asked about it a soviet spokesman said a these women were misinformed. Things Arentt As bad As they but Logvinov said he has heard of soldiers who returned to the soviet Union from Hungary or Czechoslovakia could not find apartments and so were forced to move in with relatives in the chernobyl area. Quot the reality is that the living conditions in the soviet Union and Here Are very very different a Logvinov said. A when a Young Soldier from Central Asia or a Small town in Siberia suddenly experiences everything Here honestly its a psychological Burden. A we have to rethink everything a exercises Contact with the population. Emotions Are running pretty from Page 1 lawyers had argued that the Federal government never should be barred from applying a valid regulation such As the army a ban on homosexuals Watkins was drafted during the Vietnam War in 1967. He was 19. In filling out a pre induction medical form he marked Quot yes in answering a question that asked whether he had homosexual tendencies. He was inducted anyway and subsequently was allowed to re enlist three times. After two Tours of duty in Korea Watkins was stationed at fort Lewis near Tacoma. From 1967 through 1980, he was the subject of three army investigations. Each one was sparked by Watkins telling some Superior about his homosexuality but after each investigation he was allowed to re enlist. In 1981, the army adopted a new regulation requiring the discharge of All homosexuals. A review Board in 1982 voted to discharge Watkins but before the discharge orders were issued a Federal judge barred the army from taking such action. Seven years of court mane vering and conflicting rulings followed before the 11-judge panel s ruling last year. But Watkins was forced to accept an honorable discharge in 1984 after a three judge appeals court panel voted against him. His lawsuit against the army sought reinstatement with Back pay. He would be eligible for a full army pension with four More years of service. The 1989 ruling in favor of Watkins did not say he was entitled to Back pay and implied the army could try to discharge him for any future homosexual acts. But the ruling said the army Quot May not attempt to discharge Watkins for any alleged homosexual acts that were the subject of past discharge proceedings or for any past or future statements by Watkins acknowledging his
