European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 in at dead end Nicosia Cyprus of a Iran s  said efforts to free Western hostages in Lebanon have reached a a dead  the minister Ali Akbar Velamati said Friday that efforts Sereyda Lemater because the hostage captors had received nothing for captives they had released in the past Tehran radio reported. A a a a a a a a a \. A a. Velamati repeated Iran a previous conditions for gaining the release of the hostages the release of hundreds of Arab prisoners held by Israel and its proxy the South Lebanon army militia. He also said relations with the United states severed in 1979, could improve Only if America frees billions of dollars of iranian assets Frozen in the United states. But he did not link thai Issue to the hostages. Iran denies any involvement with the hostage holders saying it Only has influence with them. The radio monitored in Nicosia said Velamati was speaking in an interview with two . Television  for the Freedom of 13 westerners missing in Lebanon had risen with reports in lebanese newspapers that a hostage Deal was imminent. Those a Hopes were reinforced by Iran s release last week of British Busi Nessman Roger Cooper jailed since 1985 on charges of espionage. Dutch foreign minister Loans Van Den Brock returned from a visit to Tehran on thursday saying Fra a is ready and already making efforts Quot to win Freedom for the captives. Six americans and seven other West Erners arc missing and believed held hostage by pro iranian shiite Muslim fundamentalist groups in Lebanon sources it Tehran had said that a a Deal to free. The hostages was being worked out. And that last week visit to Tehran by Swiss foreign minister Rene Feber was significant. Feller sometimes acts As an intermediary with Washington a but when interviewers asked when the westerners might be freed Velamati said that those. I forms had. A a reached dead  gesture of discovery a a japanese priest uses an Olive Branch to bless the Spanish replica of the Santa Maria in Barcelona i,0n Friday. A japanese foundation and the Span ish government financed the construction of the sailing ship to Mark the up coping 500th anniversary of Columbus discovery of America. Industrialist claims massive mistakes made in unification Bonn Germany up1 a one of Germany Stop industrialists in a speech containing some of the harshest criticism to Date of unification policies said Friday a massive mistakes a were made in trying to Reha Hili Tate the Economy of former first Germany. Daimler Benz chairman Lizard Reuter in an address at a managers conference in Stuttgart said that in the initial stages of. Unification Many officials in. Bonn had refused to see the extent of the problems involved in the merger. He warned against what he said was Quot the infantile Conception that with the introduction of a Market Economy system alone All problems would he solved overnight.�?�. A massive mistakes were made,&Quot.not  the constant refusal to look the facts in the eve and the claims that German unification could be financed Wii i out heavy burdens that is without tax increases a he   a a. A. But a government spokesman announcing that Helmut Kohl will trave a  Germany said the Chan cellar had no fear about going to the Region a where wide spread discontent t has led to daily protests against soaring unemployment. Opposition parties and Fany Eastern liar mans blame Kohl for the growing economic crisis in former i last Germany. A ,. When he last visited Eastern Germany in his Campaign for dec. 2, 1990 All German elections Kohl said that he would turn the Region into a Blooming land scapes a soon without raising taxes _ by the los Angeles times Moscow a the soviet committee on constitutional compliance in a landmark ruling Friday declared invalid military regulations that require army and Navy officers to carry out communist party policy and to follow the orders of party officials. The committee held that the longstanding regulations which ensured party control Over the 5 million in the armed forces violated the constitutional amendments that ended the communist party a political monopoly. A a but the ruling comes in the midst of a Strong conservative resurgence that has significant support among the soviet Mali tary and it seems certain to fuel the controversy Over removing the armed forces from party control As part of president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a political reforms. The committee on constitutional compliance which functions As the a Jpn Tiyo a constitutional court but has no Powers of enforcement ordered that the regulations be rewritten to reflect the constitutional amendments that a year ago formally ended the party so leading role in the government and other soviet institutions. The committee noted that standing military regulations adopted in 1975 but dating to the founding of the red army required that officers a should translate into life the policy of not Only the soviet government but the communist party As  a a a a other regulations have obliged Garrison commanders to obey instructions from local party officials As Well As their military superiors. In its decision the committee held that both requirements contradict the constitutional amendments adopted a year ago by the Congress of people s deputies the National parliament that replaced one party Rule with political pluralism. The committee suspended those aspects of the regulations. Gorbachev had already ordered the soviet defense ministry to transform the extensive political Structure within the armed forces so that it oversaw the a patriotic and National education of soldiers rather than their indoctrination in communism and party policy Ttye number of political officers found at every level of the armed forces Down to the Basic infantry company is being Cut 37 percent according to military spokesmen. But the party has about 1 million members in the armed forces officials acknowledge and the Roje of the party is so traditional in the armed forces and has remained so Strong that their a de politicization is a  by. A a  a while conservatives oppose the move radicals insist that until the break is Complete the military will remain an Arm of the communist party r a Manila Philippines up1 a president Corazon Aquino named a new chief of staff of the armed forces of the Philippines on saturday in a move that set aside the seniority Rule and sparked tensions in the troubled military. The nomination of army commander maj. Gen. Lisandro Abadia 52, As head of the 159,000-member armed forces will be sent for confirmation to the commission on appointments where 4t is expected Tso undergo scrutiny by senators and congressmen. Retired generals and senior congressmen said they expected resignations or retirements of senior officers in three classes in the philippine military Academy whom Abadia bypassed. A the resignations will be a quiet protest a said a former intelligence official. Abadia is the second Asp chief of staff in three months named by Aquino who has crushed seven military uprisings since she came to Power in 1986 in a revolt that forced the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos from 20 years in Power. Abadia who was graduated Magnu cum laude from pm in 1962, succeeds Gen Rodolfo Biazon who will reach the retirement age of 56 on april 14. Named to succeed Abadia As army chief was another Young officer Brig. Gen. Arturo ii Nile 50, the pm superintendent. Biazon was promoted Asp chief in december As a gesture of appreciation for the role he played in crushing a coup attempt in december 1989 that left 99 peo pie dead and nearly toppled the Aquino regime. Abadia was promoted to army chief in december