European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 28 a news briefs the stars and stripes tuesday november 13,1990bush to talk with Kohl on Short trip to Germany Bonn Germany apr president Bush plans a Short visit to Germany on sunday and will be accompanied by Secretary of state James Baker the German government said monday Bush will be greeted by Chancellor Helmut Kohl sometime in late morning at the . Air Force base at Ramstein said Hans Klein Kohls chief spokesman. The two leaders will travel to Speyer to visit the same Lith Century Cathedral Kohl showed soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev this past weekend said Klein. Bush will then go to Kohls Home in Ogoc Rosheim for lunch and private discussions said Klein. Barbara Bush the . Presidents wife will accompany her husband said Klein. During that same time Baker will meet with German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Gen Scher in Bonn said foreign ministry spokesman Juergen Chrobot. The Gulf crisis is expected to be the prominent topic during the germ an american discussions. Bush a visit is expected to last Only a few hours. On sunday night he is to Fly to Paris for the Start of the conference on Security and cooperation in continue to probe deaths of Soldier Marine from staff and wire reports in saudi Arabia a military officials Are continuing to investigate last week s deaths of a Soldier and a Marine participating in operation desert shield. Marine Headquarters in Washington identified the victim of a gunshot wound to the head As Lance Cpl. James b. Cunningham 22, of Glendale Ariz. He was asleep in a tent Camp when he was shot by another marines m-16 Rifle Friday officials said. They said the Rifle discharged a single shot. Cunningham was a member of the 3rd Marine regt based in Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. A Soldier taking part in the deployment was found dead in a Shower thursday. Military officials said a preliminary investigation found no evidence of foul play. The Soldier was assigned to the 118th Ord det of the 11th air defense arty brigade. His name was withheld pending notification of next of kin.. Students in Italy threatened by Arab group Rome apr american University programs in Italy have been threatened with retaliatory at lacks on students should american forces invade Iraq italian newspapers reported sunday. Handwritten fliers signed by a previously unheard of Arab group which called itself the a secret popular revolutionary movement a were delivered to three major . University seats in Florence and one in Bologna at the end of october. A if the imperialist americans attack iraqi territory we will hit hard american interests in this City a said the fliers delivered in the two cities. A the United states is an imperialist superpower if by Chance our territory suffers damage or aggression we will react a the fliers also said. Italian authorities in Florence Are investigating the threats to determine whether they Are genuine. In addition american authorities in Rome have asked Interpol and the italian police to increase Security at the universities according to the italian news Agency Agi. The universities involved Are Georgetown Stanford and Syracuse in Florence and Johns Hopkins in Bologna. About 1,000 students participate in their american hostage leaves air Force Hospital Wiesbaden Germany a another american who was freed last week by Iraq was released monday afternoon by the air Force Hospital Here air Force spokesman capt Tom Gilroy said. The former hostage Miles Hoffman left the Hospital a Day after Don and Brenda Swanke were discharged. The three underwent checkups after their arrival in Frankfurt on Friday. Nato s top generals meet with soviet military leaders Moscow apr natos two top generals met on monday with soviet defense minister Dmitry Yazoo to discuss the changes taking place in Europe and eventual reduction of conventional forces of both East and West the Tass news Agency said. . Gen. John r. Galvin the alliances supreme commander in Europe and norwegian Gen. Vileik Eide chairman of natos military committee also met with the military chief of general staff Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev Tass said. The two generals arrived in Moscow on sunday the first visit to Moscow by High ranking military officers of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Yazoo said meetings Between ranking nato and Warsaw pact officers illustrated the new military policies being pursued by the soviet Union the United states and other countries to establish peace and cooperation. A the word peace has now become not simply a Symbol but a necessity for which one must work a Yazoo was quoted As saying. He said the soviet and Western defense alliances Wen building new relationships based on seeking solutions t a Complex issues connected with the settlement of con Fly situations a an apparent reference to the Gulf crisis. After the meeting Yazoo said a the growing Militan contacts Between East and West Are opening the a for the signing of a european conventional Force reduction Galvin and Eide also visited a training session at Thi Taman motorized Rifle division in Moscow Tass said the two nato generals were to hold several Days talks with soviet political and military leaders in Moscow including a possible meeting with president Mik Hail s. Gorbachev. Afterwards Eide was scheduled to visit Leningrad and meet with regional military officials. Galvin was scheduled to visit the Kiev military District in the Wester soviet Union and the soviet Black sea Fleet in Sevastopol before returning to Belgium. Doi Ouia Ieuv woo a quoted As saying. Pol before returning to Belgium. Pan am bomb put on plane Germany detective says Ries Scotland apr the bomb that containing the red improvised explosive device c own pan am f Toht 103 in 19rr travelled in a from the feeder flight 103a from Frankfurt a he Saif Dumfries Scotland a the bomb that brought Down pan am flight 103 in 1988 travelled in a suitcase that probably was put on the flight in Frankfurt Germany a detective said monday. Detective Constable Derek Henderson said the suitcase could not be matched to any of the passengers aboard the Boeing 747 that crashed in Lockerbie killing 270 people. Henderson said investigators set about Matching passengers to All the bags in baggage Container ave 4041, which contained the bomb. Of a possible total of 65 bags in that Container 38 originated from Frankfurt of which 33 were recovered and identified he testified at an inquiry chaired by lord Fraser the lord advocate of Scotland. The 66th item on the list was a Bronze Samsonite suitcase which investigators were unable to link to any passenger. A the conclusion i would draw is that the suitcase containing the red improvised explosive device Cairn from the feeder flight 103a from Frankfurt a he said Henderson also testified that the Luggage of Passen Ger Khalid Jaafar was searched for drugs but no drug were found. Jaafar 21, of suburban Detroit was return ing from Lebanon. Reports on Abc and Abc television last month sail terrorists May have penetrated a drug enforcement administration undercover investigation to put explosives on the flight. The networks said terrorists might have substitute baggage containing bombs for suitcases loaded with he Roin that the Dea had placed on .-bound planes track the routes of lebanese drug traffickers smuggle drugs to Detroit. Bags belonging to . Passenger Charles Mckee and Matthew Gannon who flew it Frankfurt from Cyprus and who it was earlier suggest at the inquiry May have been Cia agents were unlike to have been switched either Henderson said radicals clash with Berlin police Berlin apr hundreds of leftist radicals hurled rocks from rooftops and fired flare guns at riot police monday turning a Berlin squatters commune into a tear Gas choked Battle zone. Radicals barricaded one end of the Street with debris and battled with police for More than two hours. Armoured trucks equipped with water cannons drenched the Long Row of tenements in Eastern Berlin. At least 12 people were arrested but no injury figures were immediately available said Berlin police spokesman Werner Tronicker. Clouds of tear Gas Hung Over the narrow Mainzer Street where radicals have occupied at least 12 abandoned buildings during the past few months. Thundering Punk Rock music emanated from the buildings As leftists hurled rocks and firebombs and fired the flare guns and 400 police responded with clubs tear Gas and water cannons. Scores of radicals most wearing Black masks or scarves Over their faces stood on rooftops and Flung huge chunks of Concrete to the Street below. The Battle spilled onto an adjoining six Lane thoroughfare paralysing much of the Rush hour traffic on the East Side of the from Page 1 appear. On Abc tvs a this week with David Brinkley said Congress must vote before America goes to War. And Senate foreign relations chairman Claiborne Pell , said the United nations should have some input Quot before . Troops so into combat. V 5 Nunn said Bush s new offensive posture was at Sharp the riot began As a protest against the evictions Eai her monday of radicals living in three houses in Oak parts of the City. Right and left Wing radicals have occupied Many former East berlins abandoned run Down tenement since the Borders Between the two former German nations were opened last year. Most of the squatters Are members of West berlins Veteran anarchist scene. The leftists have waged numerous Battles with Polia Over the years including a huge riot in Eastern Berlin on oct. 3, the Date the two German nations United. The leftists claim German Unity has led to a Rise ii nationalism and racism and demand that the nation h replaced by an anarchist state. The Community in Mainzer Street which began do ing the summer is one of the largest concentrations o radicals in the City. The Street has two bars specie housing for women and homosexuals and an a inf cafe that distributes information on rallies and pro tests. The drab crumbling tenements Are splashed wit scores of slogans and signs denouncing German Unity. Odds with the original objective of defending saudi Ait Bia. A it is something the military were not Given to Bee with and were not prepared for a Nunn said on to lbs to program a face the a and i think Fol president has a real obligation Here a perhaps he Ca do this he should a to explain Why liberating kuwaiti in our vital sen. Richard g. Lugar r-ind., said Congress shod vote on a declaration of War before any substantial Roku Tail conflict with Iraq
