European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes Friday february 15,1991 the heavy Snow that gave skiers and resorts such Delight this week also dumped Mounds of Snow on roads and cars including those parked at a German Auto Dealership. A amps Dav Edidio s get Ideal Winter by Norm ze1gler travel outdoor writer recent Snow accumulations and continuing cold weather have. Brought Good to excellent skiing to much of Europe. A. A a the weekly rundown of conditions from the German automobile club and a reports that most resorts on the Conti nent received Between 4 inches and 20 inches of new Snow this week. Unlike the past three Winters when Only the upper slopes were open in Many areas it is possible to ski Down to the Valley at most resorts. Conditions for Cross country skiing a re also Good. 1 according to. Elf06116&Quot Amman at Adack a Munich office Many ski areas Are experiencing a an Ideal  Amman said the regions with the most Snow Are the South Tyrol in Italy the French Alps and the Kiir Nten and Tyrol provinces in Austria. In Germany the area that benefited most from the recent storms was the Black Forest. A tourist official at the. Feldborg ski area said conditions arc the Best they be had in the last three years with a 30-Inch base on the slopes. The armed forces recreation Center resorts in Germany also report Good conditions. According to arc Public affairs spokesman Harry Connors Garmisch has a the Best skiing we be had in five years the Best Snow. People ought to take advantage of  a a  by Noriega co defendant Miami up a a co defendant in the drug Truf fucking Case of deposed panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was allowed to plead guilty wednesday to one count of drug smuggling in Exchange for his cooperation with prosecutors. In a plea agreement with Federal prosecutors three other counts contained in a i98k. Federal indictment were dropped against amed Paredes 30, said Diane Cossin speaking for . Attorney Dexter Lehtinen. Paredes who surrendered to . Drug agents in Panama City in july is the third of 15 people indicted with Noriega to plead guilty. He is free on $200,000 Bond. Paredes admitted to one count of cocaine importation and distribution Cossin said . District judge William Hoeveler did not set a sentencing Date but said he would pronounce sentence after the Start of Noriega a june 24 trial. Paredes son of Noriega a former political rival panamanian Gen. Ruben Dario Paredes faces a maximum of 10 years in prison. Prosecutors however May seek a lesser sentence depending on the extent of Paredes cooperation. \ defense lawyer Joel Rosenthal said Paredes would testify against Brian Davidow and William Saldarriaga two Noriega  scheduled for trial next week. A a a based on what his testimony is i would imagine he will be a witness in the big show too a said Rosenthal Nia says Brussels Belgium a amps a the romanian foreign minister seeking closer ties to its former Archenemy nato has declared the Warsaw pact politically and militarily dead. / a a Quot the pact has no future at All a 1 think it s totally dear Quot romanian foreign minister Adrian Nastase said in a Brief news conference after meeting thursday with nato Secretary general Manfred Werner. Quot the ideological basis for the pact has  the soviet Union announced tuesday that the military referring to Noriega a trial. The 1988 Miami indictment accused Paredes of helping the Medellin Cartel arrange the shipment of More than 700 pounds of cocaine to the United states aboard a boat called the Krill Bowel the 1985 and Early 1986. The indictment also accused him of supplying chemicals for cocaine labs in Colombia in 1983. Davido Saldarriaga and Noriega Are also charged in the Krill incident. Ramon Navarro a key government witness who says he was an accomplice claims the men participated in a planning meeting for the cocaine shipment in Panama City. Paredes is said to differ w Ith Navarro about the meet ing saying Noriega talked to the participants on the Telephone hut did not attend. His plea leaves Daniel Miranda As the Only co defendant who will sit with Noriega at trial. The 1988 Miami indictment accuses Noriega of turning Panama into a drug trafficking and Money laundering Sanctuary for South american drug smugglers doing business a the United states. A simultaneous indictment in Tampa accuses Noriega of conspiring with a smuggler to import More than a million pounds of marijuana into the United states. Noriega surrendered to . Agents in the dec. 20, 1989, . Invasion of Panama and w As brought to Miami to stand trial. If convicted he would face a maximum penalty of 145 years in prison and a $ 1.1 million  pact dead Structure of the Warsaw pact set up in 1955, will be scrapped by april 1. The soviet Union plans instead to maintain bilateral detente treaties with other countries in the Kremlin led pact which also includes Poland Hungary Romania. Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. The soviets also have sought to turn the pact into a political Alliance. Nastase said that in View of Romania s increasing Quot contacts with Western countries and the european Lav nomic Community it would be Quot totally natural Quot for Romania to seek associate membership with nato. Cholera epidemic begins to spread in s. America a Lima Peru a cholera epidemic that has claimed 77 lives is spreading to the Central Highlands of Peru and outbreaks of the disease also have been reported in Ecuador and Chile news reports said wednesday. Pm Tesmen for the ecuadoran and chilean embassies in Lima said there Wras no official confirm mat Ion of any cases in their countries but Ecuador declared a health emergency in Oro and Loja provinces on its peruvian Border. A peruvian health ministry communique tonight said 77 people had died out of 11,085 cholera cases treated. _ housing and construction minister Guillermo Del so a said wednesday his ministry did not have the resources to maintain the decaying capital s water and sewage infrastructure. Officials have said the epidemic May be spread by raw sewage flushed into the Ocean. A a. Radio and newspaper reports said at least three people died and half dozen cholera cases had been reported in the Central Mantaro Valley. Engineer halts German try just before blast rips track Gross Gerau Germany a amps a an Alert it Neer stopped a freight train travelling from Mannheim Frankfurt Early wednesday seconds before an get sum ripped out three feet of track. High explosives Laid on the tracks Between the to of Gross Gerau and mor Felden went off at 3 4.0 accor ing to Hartmuth Lange a spokesman for Bun Desbah the German Federal train system. The Driver had noticed something strange ahead Troug it the train to it Siop seconds before the Cut Sion Lange said. There were no  extortion note was found near the scene a my Money from the Bun Desbah Quot Lange adding that police have ruled out terrorism. A Sui Ger trains use the same rail route but Feu underway in the Early morning hours he said