European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Leim a v . Is the Christmas mailing dead hic for parcel Airlift mall the Star amp an author Lutfee unofficial fut location of nth . Samf 0 of act Good morning Vot 49, no. 233 monday december 3, 1990 a sad by and sunday d 8693 Kohl s coalition wins big Bonn Germany up a Chancellor Helmut Kohls government coalition inflicted a crushing defeat sunday on the opposition social democrats in the first free All German elections since 1932. Computer projections compiled after the polling stations closed showed that the government coalition got 56 percent of the vote which would give it 372 seats in the bundestag the Federal parliament in Bonn. Chants of a Helmut Helmut echoed in the Christian democratic Headquarters in Bonn As hundreds of supporters cheered Kohl. He is now certain to remain the Chancellor of the reunited Germany. Quot this is a Day of Joy Quot Kohl told the crowd at the party a Headquarters. Quot this is a tremendous result and we can be proud of  the balloting capped a year of dramatic changes in w lapse of East Germany a communist government the nov. 9, 1989, opening of the Berlin Wall eluding the Coll Chancellor Helmut Kohl with wife Hannelore Waves to supporters after learning his coalition swept the vote sunday. And the unification of the Germany last oct. 3. Germans last cast free votes in an undivided country 58 years ago in november 1932, before Adolf Hitler banned All non nazi parties. But although several officials said sundays elections were the most important in postwar Germany campaigning was lacklustre and the 76 percent turnout was unenthusiastic amid Rainy cold weather Kohls Christian democratic Union and its bavarian sister party the Christian social Union garnered about 45 percent of the vote. As expected the opposition social democrats suffered a crushing defeat obtaining Only about 34 percent of the vote and losing its chances of sending Oskar la Fontaine to the chancellery in Kohls place. Officials of the Liberal free democratic party the Junior partners in the coalition meanwhile were Jubi see Kohl on Back Page . Won t attack Iraq if conditions Are met Baker says by the associated press Secretary of state James Baker prom Quot j Saddam Hussein on sunday that the item states will not attack Iraq if it withdraws its troops from Kuwait and frees Western hostages a a there has never been any suggestion that Force would be used if the , Reso Lutious Are fully complied with a Baker said on Abc tvs a meet the press Quot program. I _. Quot if no implied with the resolutions his Reward for that would not be a military attack by the United states Quot Baker said. Thos amp resolutions Cali for the unconditional withdrawal of iraqi troops from Kuwait the release of All hostages and a .-led multilateral Force has arrayed More than 350,000 troops against Saddam in the persian Gulf Region the . Forces now numbering More than 240,000, Are expected to swell to around 400,000 by next month. And a . Security Council Resolution passe tast week authorized Force against Saddam if he does not pull out of Kuwait by Jan 15. Baker said there is an Quot excellent Chance Quot that Saddam will leave Kuwait because he knows he it ill face devastating military action if . Troops move against . Officials including president Bush have voiced serious concern about Saddam a Possession of chemical weapons and his program to develop nuclear weapons. Although the United states remains concerned about Saddam a weapons Baker said Quot we would have to find a Way to address those issues Quot in the aftermath of a Resolution to the kuwaiti crisis. Bush has said he wants Baker to travel to Iraq sometime before Jan. 15 to have talks with Saddam. The president has also invited iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz to the United states next week Baker reiterated the . Position that he would not negotiate on the , resolutions. . Officials on saturday also said the talks would not be linked with the israeli occupation of Arab lands As the iraqi government has demanded meanwhile Iraq launched surface to surface missiles sunday in what appeared to be test firings . And British military officials said. There were unconfirmed reports that Allied forces in the persian Gulf went on Alert. The launching apparently were monitored either by . Spy satellites or by see attack on Back Page Chad rebel Leader takes Over capital Ndjamena Chad a t rebel conqueror Idriss Deby rolled into the chadian capital on sunday in a Black Mercedes escorted by 20 All terrain vehicles. _. _ libyan news reports said deposed president his Sene Habre had been killed near the sudanese Border. The official libyan news Agency Jana monitored in Rome quoted unidentified sources in Ndjamena As saying Habre and several aides had been killed. Jana did not specify where or when but it said he was killed someplace Between Tine and qum Chaloupa near the sudanese Border in Eastern Chad. Diplomats have said however that Habre and the family fled West to Cameroon. _ the rebels claimed last week that they captured Habress staff ear in fighting near Tine where the former Leader had personally directed government forces. But the guerrillas did not say he had been killed meanwhile Preby entered the City from the North his motorcade drove past a hotel where his no. 2 commander Bada Maldon held talks with the North african country a remaining civilian leadership the motorcade headed for the place Des martyrs the Central Square of this capital of 400,000 people where citizens had gathered. Some 1,000 people cheered Debyn a arrival in the Square. Others in the see rebel on Back Page president his Sene Hare reportedly killed near Sudan