European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes sunday april 14, 1991 at a glance there might be Gold in the Ruck suck of troops returning from the persian Gulf a Gold in the form of iraqi military trinkets. . Whitworth above displays what he has collected Over the years. See sunday ii a woman with an extraordinary level of a a Good cholesterol is leading some to Call her a modern Day Methuselah a biblical figure said to have lived 969 years. A Page 4lacocca makes a haul Lee Fao Occa s earnings at Chrysler corp. Rose 15 percent to $4.6 a reason in 1990, the same time the Strug ing automaker s profits plummeted 81 percent a Page 5no easy Street Fiot everyone thinks Gen. Norman sch Var Kopf can write his own ticket in the business or political world after the stunning Success of the persian Gud War. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers .14 commentary .13 letters 12 Money matters. 15-17 sports. 15-24 to listings a. 18 weather. 11 soviet miners defy order by Gorbachev to end strike Moscow apr striking miners in Northern Russia rejected an Appeal saturday to resume Coal shipments to a full Star cd Metal Plant defying an order by president Mikhail s. Gorbachev workers in two key Industrial cities in the Ukraine also vowed to wage general strikes this week to demand political change. Meanwhile nationalists in the rebellious Southern Republic of Georgia flouted the presidents orders by extending their self declared control Over a separatist Region. The chaotic political and economic pressures marked the latest blow to Gorbachev a plans to ban strikes and rallies while implementing a package of a anti crisis economic reforms. The soviet president apparently has Little credibility among average soviets and almost none among striking workers who have made his resignation a chief demand of their spreading labor Heidelberg Germany a the . Army in Europe pin to Reward Devert Sukki and de Era storm personnel with free Mehaca in mgt in Bavaria is not limited to Wadk a who served in the persian Gulf Region. A command spokesman saturday 7be rat a a a or Jav Taw be inn car red to a Ltd rid chileans used 1p it the it son in Europe. Who pulled to i 1 Yaj id a mint and it a jobs the Gorbachev issued a decree Friday ordering Republic and local officials to. A abolish within a weeks time decisions forbidding the Export of products out of the republics regions or districts a a said the state news Agency Tass the decree did say not what would happen if supplies were not resumed. There appeared to be no Way Gorbachev could enforce the decree Short of Force. Municipal officials in the ural mountains City of Vor Kuta a major Coal Basin said they received a Telegram Friday front the russian federation government asking them to ensure Coal is delivered to the Metal Plant North of Moscow according to the Independent news Agency Post Actium. But Vor Kuta miners in a meeting Friday rejected the Appeal a was an attempt to put pressure on miners a a Post Actium reported. They voted instead to continue their strike indefinitely until All political demands arc met. The Vor Kuta miners Are among an estimated 300.000 on strike nationwide. The walkout started for better pay in scattered mines March 1, and has spread to other industries with political demands including Gorbachev a ouster and Transfer of National Power to leaders of the 15 republics. The government newspaper Izvestia printed figures saturday showing an k2 percent drop in Coal production since the strike began. ,. / a the strike has shut 26 blast furnaces across the country and struggling steel Mills Are Short 13 billion rubles in their payments to the government for supplies said Victor Shevchenko a Metal Plant director in the Ukraine town of Makeyeva Post fictum reported. Metallurgy workers in the ural mountains City of Chelyabinsk endorsed the miners demands on Friday and voted to take action themselves unless officials consider their demands by april 20, Tass said. A a a a a a a a woman named head of Agency to oversee German restructuring Berlin apr a lop official in the Agency charged with restructuring former East Germany a crumbling Economy was named saturday to take Over the presi Dancy from her murdered Boss. Birgit Arcuel a former finance minister in the slate of lower Saxony and a member of Chancellor Helmut Kohls conservative Christian democrats was chosen to Lead the or Trust Agency during a special meeting at us Berlin Headquarters. Breuel replaces former tre hand president Detlev Rohwedder who was shot and killed in the study of his Disseldorf Home by terrorists april 1. The tre hand assumed ownership of virtually All economic enterprises and real estate in former communist East Germany after unification and is responsible for Selling what it can to private owners while reorganizing or closing Down less attractive Enterprise sin the process millions of people arc. Expected to be thrown out of work draw. Ing the ire of German leftists. The opposition social democrats criticized Breuel s election and said it sent a a false political signal to the country. A mrs. Breuel has not yet proved that she possesses the necessary social sensitivity and the necessary ability in dealing with the Fate of millions of workers a said Wolfgang Roth the Deputy chairman of the social democrats parliamentary faction. A a a. A. Breuel a 53-year-old Mother of three with a Long economic and political career must oversee the transformation of some 6,000 businesses with Over 3 million employees. Israel admits scud hit Tel Aviv Jerusalem a one of the iraqi scud missiles fired at Israel during the opening stages of the persian Gulf War slammed into a densely populated area of greater Tel Aviv but faded to explode israeli censors revealed saturday can television and the new York times both reported it a the time but others including t he associated press did not run the Story. The warhead crashed through an empty three Story apartment building before finally coming to rest in a ground floor jewelry shop. Residents in a 1-Square-mile radius of the shop were ordered to leave the rooms they had sealed in Case of a chemical attack and enter their bomb shelters As the 650-Pound warhead was defused the scud missile was later taken to an army base for display. During the War israeli censors deleted from news stories details they feared could help Iraq aim subsequent missile barrages. Can and Abc television net works had had their broadcasts Cut for Short periods after censors complained that revealing details were Given live on the air. -.�.������. A a. \ a a. Censors Are still not allowing the exact Date or site of Impact of the irn exploded scud to be published Iraq fired a total of 39 scud missiles at Israel and the occupied territories in 18 barrages during the Gulf War. Two people were killed 230 were wounded and nearly 11,000 apartments were damaged or destroyed. -. ,.a a. A a Nixon would authorize Cia hit on Saddam so t in a a on Isth by a Kwa a major of i x Chi Cunt lock if a a j is i. Pari re s. M it Walt air Bee Mai arid f a c Quot y. I i b a Ariaa pc i /. It Iko c Unn Corn a i. It Sojit t Irequi Ling a to ir.p\, it Tom is rid new York apr former president Nixon says he would authorize a Cia hit on Saddam Hussein to prevent the iraqi president from resurrecting the country s crippled armed forces. A the is an International menace. If 1 could find a Way to get him out of there even putting a contract out on him if the Cia still did that sort of a thing assuming it Ever did. I would be for it a Nixon says in a �?o00 minutes television interview airing sunday in the states unless such action is taken or a revolution overturns him Saddam a in a period of foe years a he s a relatively Young Man a i will again be a threat to peace and stability in 1 he area Quot Nixon predicted. Nixon 1 pealing about a recent trip to the soviet Union said people there spoke negatively about president Mikhail Gorbachev. A they said that he was weak. They said he was indecisive. They said he was a talker rather than a doer a Nixon related. A one of them described him As a brutal w As for Boris Yeltsin Nixon said Nixon he came away in a. Pressed with the Maverick politician. A i found that he was a formidable political personality. That he was no mental lightweight a said Nixon. A we talked a for Over an hour. I t we covered the world and he handled a himself extremely the former president who resigned in 1974 because of watergate also defer he de Nancy Reagan against the sizzling biography written by unauthorized biographer Kitty Kelley a i thought the coverage of the Whol Reagan Book was really revolting a president Reagan was president for eight years a Nixon said. A Nancy Reagan Wras first lady for eight years and i just done to believe in books that muckraker and destroy what most of us thought about them while they were
