European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 23, 1991 at a glance  r. Tvs a Young kurdish girl with a piece of bread in hand looks forlorn standing outside her family a temporary Home in the iraqi Village of Kani Masi. Lowdown on Reagan president Reagan was a Strong Man but a weak manager says Lou Cannon a journalist who has written a Book on the former president. A Page 5 who won the War a majority of americans say the allies did not win the persian Gulf War because iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains in Power according to a Newsweek poll. A Page 6 wrong Kennedy consider the plight of Edward Kennedy. His wife s name is Joan his Mother is Rose and he a getting Calls from All Over the country. But this Kennedy is Black has never been a senator and Quot just wants these nuts to leave me  a Page 7 nuclear arms in Hungary soviet military bases in Hungary stored nuclear weapons for possible use in an attack on the West says a former communist party chief. A Page 8 Ramsten to test plan Ramstein is one of 12 air Force bases selected worldwide to test a reorganization plan that blends at least two wings at a single base into one. A Page 9 survival of the fittest High stakes Fly offs have become the catalysts in a survival of the fit test process that is shrinking and reorganizing the defense Industry in response to Cut Back Pentagon budgets. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers .19 comics. 19-21 commentary. .13 crossword. .19 letters. 12 Money matters .17 sports. 22-28 to listings. .22 weather. 11 Kuwait City a Secretary of state Janies a. Baker Iii gained saudi arabians support monday for a Middle East peace conference and then took a Detour from diplomacy to inspect Kuwait a burning Oil Fields a stubborn legacy of the persian Gulf War. Before leaving Jidida saudi Arabia Baker had a 35-minute Telephone conversation with soviet foreign minister Alexander a. Bessmer Nyoh Baker would like Moscow to co sponsor the peace talks provided the soviets resume full Clipso Matic rotations with Israel after a 24-year lapse. A. A a a a Bessmer Nyoh is expected to make a trip to Israel soon. Bakery a detailed briefing and the fact that he is keeping his schedule open raised a possibility that he might Fly to Moscow to make preparations for having the soviets co sponsor the conference. But this could take place Only if he is Able to resolve differences Between Israel and the arabs on the peace talks format. An administration official insisting on anonymity said he could not discuss bakery a schedule past wednesday when he will be in Israel again. During bakery a meetings in Jidida with King a lid and Prince Saud the foreign minister the saudis confirmed that they would not participate in peace negotiations though they May become involved in such Side issues As the environment. But Saud seeing Baker off to Kuwait on monday said a it was conveyed to the Secretary that saudi Arabia believes it is time to put an end to the Arab israeli conflict and to achieve a comprehensive and just solution to the palestinian ques  a. \ therefore the foreign minister said saudi Arabia a supports the efforts of the United states for the convening of an Early peace conference to achieve this  the declaration lined saudi Arabia up with Egypt in support of bakery a Mission. King Hussein of Jordan has promised to keep an open mind. On wednesday in Damascus Syria Baker is scheduled to face his toughest task on the Arab Side a trying to persuade president Hafez Assad to go along. Baker will then Fly to Jerusalem to meet with prime minister Yitzhak Sha Mir and foreign minister David Levy. Baker has requested that Israel modify its terms for the negotiations it has already agreed to hold with Arab governments and the palestinians. Baker has refused to spell out the proposals he left with Shamir and Levy. However israeli newspapers said Baker asked them to consider having the United nations and the european Community participate in the peace talks and not veto palestinians who wanted to attend. Israel tearing outsiders other than the United states would come Down on the Side of the arabs prefers to negotiate directly with its neighbors and the palestinians. 7����?� a \ after his meeting with the kuwaiti leaders Baker drove to the outskirts of the City to visit a site where a Crew from red Adair co. Of Houston was trying to put out one of the More than 500 Oil Well fires set by iraqi troops. Baker conferred inside a Small bus with the senior members of the three Texas based firefighting outfits in Kuwait then walked to a corrugated Metal observation Post less than 50 Yards from the blazing Well to get a closer look. Mulroney shakes up his Cabinet Toronto apr struggling to halt Quebec a secession drive and boost his sliding popularity prime minister Brian Mulroney Nas reshuffled his Cabinet. In sundays shake up he named his longtime foreign minister Joe Clark minister for constitutional affairs. Clark will spearhead Mulroney a Effort to keep French speaking Quebec the country s second most populous province from breaking away. About two dozen ministers including some of the most senior in the government received new portfolios. The Only newcomer was Pauline Browes a Toronto member of parliament who becomes minister of state for the environment. Both the governing Liberal party in Quebec and a recent report by a Quebec legislative commission have called for. A referendum on sovereignty in the province next  show a majority of people in Quebec now favor a break with Canada. Mulroney who has sunk to 17 percent in the popularity polls has been looking for a Way to counter the. Growing secessionist sentiment among Quebec a 6.5 million people. French speaking canadians who make up about a Quarter of Canadas population Long have Felt they Are in a struggle to save their language and culture. Many English speaking canadians. On the other hand oppose any special treatment for Quebec. Clark a former prime minister who has been foreign minister for nearly seven years will be Mulroney Point. Man in the fight to keep Quebec in the federation he was one of the few men available with All the main requirements for the Job a Well known Long experience bilingual and respected in Quebec. An added Bonus is that he is from the West Alberta. Finance minister Michael Wilson who has been taking a battering because of the recession will run a new Industry arid International Trade super ministry and Lead a new Cabinet committee on economic and Trade policy. Dan Mazankowski Mulroney a right hand Man As Deputy prime minister and agriculture minister takes Over the finance ministry. Barbara Mcdougall moves from employment and immigration to take Clarks place at external affairs. She is the second woman to hold that Post in Canada. Flora Macdonald handled the Job during Clark s Brief tenure As prime  top ministers involved in the shuffle include Benoit Bouchard moving from Industry to the health portfolio Jean Charcot who resigned As sports minister in 1989, coming Back As environment minister and Bernard Valcourt moving from fisheries and oceans to employment and immigration. Also Perrin Beatty moves from health to communications Bill Mcknight from defense to agriculture and Marcel Masse from communications to defense. Slight increase set in German phone rates Bonn Germany a amps a the German governments decision last week to halt a planned increase in Telephone rates carried one Small hitch a and it will Cost you 2.30 Marks a month. A the 30 million Telephone customers in the Western German states will pay an additional 2.30 Marks a month beginning april 1, because at that time they lose 10 of their 20 free monthly unit Calls Quot postal ministry spokesman Harald Doerr said monday. The phone unit costs 23 pfennig but varies in duration based on the distance of the Call. At a news conference Friday in Bonn officials said they were jettisoning the plan to increase the unit Cost to 25 pfennig and to boost pay phone rates by 40 percent. In an accompanying announcement that was not As widely reported it was disclosed that the postal ministry was transferring 10 free unit Calls from westerners to the 2 million Telephone customers in the Eastern states that had none. A was of april 1, phone rates All Over the country will be the same Quot Doerr said. Quot right now the new states in the East pay  Doerr acknowledged that there had been a lot of confusion about Telephone and postal rates in the last several months. A everyone in the government is trying to find ways and Means to help finance the enormous Cost of rebuilding the old East Germany a Doerr said. A customers can rest assured there la be no phone rate hikes for the next two  a y a a a. A 7. German train Engineer on trial for crash Darmstadt Germany a amps the trial of an Engineer involved in the worst train crash in the history of postwar Germany began monday in state court. Helmut Hosch faces 17 charges of negligent homicide in connection with the feb. 2, 1990, Accident. In addition 86 people were injured 37 of them seriously when the commuter train he was driving on the Wiesbaden Frankfurt line ran a Stop signal in the Riis Felsheim train station and collided w Ith another crowded commuter train. The Hessen state government honoured the . Army a 106th trans in with a non Battle Streamer for the emergency Aid rendered by unit members after the crash. The Accident occurred across the Street from the Entrance to Azbill Barracks where the unit is stationed. If convicted Hosch could receive a maximum sentence of five years or a Fine a spokesman for the Justice ministry said. The trial is expected to last several weeks the spokesman said