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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday november 13,1990 nato s top generals meet with soviet military leaders news briefs Bush to talk with Kohl on Short trip to Germany Bonn Germany apr president Bush ians a Short visit to Germany on sunday and will e 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 11th-Century Cathedral Kohl showed soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev this past weekend said Klein. Bush will then go to Kohls Home in Ogger sheim 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 German 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 Europe. Officials continue to probe deaths of Soldier Marine from staff and wire reports in saudi Arabia a military officials Are continuing to investigate last weeks 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 attacks 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 Quot 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 Quot 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. 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. Dumfries Scotland apr 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 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 Chance. When Baker visited Egypt last week a senior . Official said the United states is confident that Egypt would fight alongside . Forces if War broke out. But asked by his party a newspaper Mayo whether Egypt would Send troops to Iraq following a .-led attack Mubarak said a no we have nothing to do with Iraq but if the anti he said the soviet and Western defense alliances were building new relationships based on seeking solutions to a Complex issues connected with the settlement of conflict situations a an apparent reference to the Gulf crisis. After the meeting Yazoo said a the growing military contacts Between East and West Are opening the Way for the signing of a european conventional Force reduction  Galvin and Eide also visited a training session at the Taman motorized Rifle division in Moscow Tass said. The two nato generals were to hold several Days of talks with soviet political and military leaders in Moscow including a possible meeting with president Mikhail 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 Western soviet Union and the soviet Black sea Fleet in Sevastopol before returning to Belgium. Containing the red improvised explosive device came from the feeder flight 103a from Frankfurt Quot he said. Henderson also testified that the Luggage of passenger Khalid Jaafar was searched for drugs but no drugs were found Jaafar 21, of suburban Detroit was returning from Lebanon. Reports on Abc and Abc television last month said terrorists May have penetrated a drug enforcement administration undercover investigation to put explosives on the flight. The networks said terrorists might have substituted baggage containing bombs for suitcases loaded with heroin that the Dea had placed on .-bound planes to track the routes of lebanese drug traffickers smuggling drugs to Detroit. Bags belonging to . Passengers Charles Mckee and Matthew Gannon who flew into Frankfurt from Cyprus and who it was earlier suggested at the inquiry May have been Cia agents were unlikely to have been switched either Henderson said. The riot began As a protest against the evictions earlier monday of radicals jiving in three houses in other parts of the City. Right and left Wing radicals have occupied Many of former East berlins abandoned rundown tenements since the Borders Between the two former German nations were opened last yeat. Most of the squatters Are members of West berlins Veteran anarchist scene. The leftists have waged numerous Battles with police 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 in nationalism and racism and demand that the nation be replaced by an anarchist state. The Community in Mainzer Street which began during the summer is one of the largest concentrations of radicals in the City. The Street has two bars special housing for women and homosexuals and an a info cafe that distributes information on rallies and protests. Iraq allies invaded Kuwait he said a we do not mind at All entering Kuwait As peacekeeping forces. Although i do not Hope for this Day at  in Washington the powerful chairman of the Senate armed services committee said the Bush administration must have the support of the american people if the nation is to go to War with Iraq. We need is to have a War Over there a bloody War and have american boys being sent and brought Back in body bags and yet not have the american people behind them a said sen. Sam Nunn a a. Quot we be gone that route one time. We done to need to do it  pan am bomb put on plane in Germany detective says radicals clash with Berlin police the drab crumbling tenements Are splashed with scores of slogans and signs denouncing German Unity  
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