European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Crisis in the related stories and photos pages 2 and 3 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Goodmore Zilig vol. 49, no. 217 saturday november 17, 1990 a a i 25 daily and sunday d 8693 a Baker turns Down face saving idea by the associated press Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii on Friday rejected a soviet envoys suggestion that a solution to the persian Gulf crisis be linked to the problem of israelis occupation of land claimed by palestinians. Baker said there could be no rewards for aggression and no partial solution to the Gulf crisis. He spoke in Brussels Belgium on the first leg of a 12-Day foreign trip that will include talks on the Gulf crisis. At the United nations diplomats said Baker was trying to persuade Security Council foreign ministers to come to new York to adopt a Resolution authorizing Force to drive Iraq from Kuwait. President Bush was to leave Friday to join Baker for further talks with allies then spend thanksgiving with . Soldiers in saudi Arabia. It would be the first presidential visit to front line troops since the Vietnam War. Despite the Bush administrations growing impatience with Saddam Hussein there have been increasing Calls to avoid Rushing into War. Egypt the soviet envoy and . Congressmen All urged on thursday that More time be allowed for the . Trade sanctions on Iraq to work. Oil prices fell below $30 a barrel on the new York mercantile Exchange on Friday As traders decided that the outbreak of War could take some time. The Market was off $1.87 at $29.25 a barrel. A Hows blackout remained in effect on the second Day of the a imminent Thunder military exercise in Eastern saudi  aloft the space shuttle Atlantis is four seconds into its classified military Mission As it lifts off the launch pad at Kennedy space Center in Florida with a Crew of five astronauts. Story on Page 28. The six Day exercise includes a mock . Marine amphibious invasion with air cover and close air and naval support of ground forces although no live ammunition was to be used. Defense analysts said the 1,100 combat aircraft taking part were a reminder to Iraq that the allies have double its air Power. A that must be a very sobering thought for president Saddam Hussein a said Paul Beaver publisher of Jane a defense weekly. On thursday the soviet unions top Middle East envoy Yevgeny Primakow said the world should do everything possible to persuade Saddam to withdraw from Kuwait a including agreeing to talks on the palestinian question. He said some sort of a face savings reason should be Given for Iraq to leave Kuwait. Baker said Friday however that Washington and Moscow have forged a common position on the Gulf crisis. He said they agreed that a we should not link this Gulf Issue with other  Primakow might have been speaking for himself and not for the soviet government Baker suggested. Saddam has said he might withdraw from Kuwait if Israel pulled out of the West Bank and Gaza strip seized in the 1967 Middle East War. But the United states and its allies have said Iraq must withdraw unconditionally. Baker also said the Bush administration was consult see Baker on Back Pageau shoots amps Effie Bathen sgt. Lorraine Wong gives sgt. Robert a. Robbins one of the shots ordered for soldiers going to the Gulf area. The inoculations were taking place at the rate of about 150 an hour Friday at a Pom preparation for overseas movement site set up at William o. Darby Cavern Furth Germany. Military manpower talks set to augment cafe treaty a it. N a \7"ir\ Tadd a it he tint until Nonito Ronan lir a nil re novt via a Kop not by David Tarrant Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium a a second round of conventional arms talks will begin a week after the first agreement slashing weapons in Europe is signed monday senior nato officials said Friday. The new negotiations will build on the original treaty and in particular cover the thorny Issue of manpower Levels in Europe a a goal that has eluded negotiators for More than 15 years during two separate sets of talks. The first treaty which was agreed to on thursday will slash weapons in the worlds most heavily armed Region by 40 percent. It also opens up each of the 22 signing nations to an unprecedented inspection and verification process on virtually All major conventional Battle weapons stationed from the Atlantic Ocean to the soviet ural mountains. The treaty will be signed by leaders of the nato and Warsaw pact nations in Paris during an East West Summit. Critics have complained that the treaty negotiations which began in Vienna Austria on March 9,1989, had been rendered obsolete by the revolutions in Eastern Europe a year ago. But the countries involved still want the agreement nato officials said. A i think that a far More profound observation is that in spite of the virtual revolution that has swept Over this continent in the past year it is a treaty based on a concept so imaginative and Forward looking that All parties to the negotiations still very strongly believe that it serves their National Security interests a a senior nato official said. The treaty a most complicated part is also one of its most significant the nato official said. The intensive verification procedures a will turn every one of the 22 signature countries into a site of very frequent and intrusive inspections in a continuing process of openness that until quite recently would not have been possible or even imaginable a he said. The 280-Page treaty allows the Warsaw pact and nato to keep 20,000 Battle tanks each. It also limits each to 30,000 armoured combat vehicles 20,000 pieces of artillery 6,800 combat aircraft and 2,000 attack helicopters. A it Means that in the Atlantic to the ural zones 55,000 pieces of major armament will have to be de see cafe on Back Page new weapons restrictions the new treaty worked out by nato and Warsaw pact negotiators restricts the numbers of weapons that each Side May have Between the Atlantic Ocean and the ural mountains in the soviet Union. Battle tanks armoured combat vehicles pieces of artillery combat aircraft attack helicopters a amps Susan Harris