European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday May 13, 1991 at a glance vjvvwisr�<-,, Madonna jogs in France prior to the opening or the 44th International film festival in Cannes. No budget for afghans the Bush administration apparently has not requested funds for the afghan rebels in its proposed 1992 budget. A Page 4 dim future for Gorbachev William Webster the retiring Cia director says Mikhail Gorbachev a political chances Are a dimmer than they were a year  a a. A Page 5 parades in vegas Honolulu about 20,000 people turned out for a Parade in Las vegas to Welcome Home veterans of the Gulf War while a Parade in Honolulu featured units from the army Navy air Force marines and . A Page 6 Busy season for pupils a swarm of bees a from spelling to geography a Are keeping Dodds students Busy. A paged child compositions a Volunteer outfit has a published Quot nearly 100 books written by first through fifth graders in Heidelberg. Germany. A pages 14-15 big stakes ticket brokers in the United states Are turning state lotteries into a nationwide numbers game. A Page 17 Index _ 1 Abby Ann Landers 19 comics 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. .12 Money matters. 17 5jp its a. 22-28 to listings. 22  .11 Gorbachev Yeltsin showing More new found teamwork Moscow up a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and russian Leader Boris Yeltsin met sunday in the Kremlin to discuss the possibility of signing a new Union treaty. Gorbachev has promised that the. New treaty will establish new relations Between the Federal government and the republics giving the republics greater economic and political Independence. Because Yeltsin a russian federation is the largest of the 15 soviet republics his signature would he a major Quot Victory Lor Gorbachev a efforts to build a new looser Union of states. Sundays Kremlin meeting comes three Days after Yeltsin told soviet journalists he is ready to end his personal feud with Gorbachev to save the nation. The meeting also follows by three weeks Yeltsin a signature on a joint agreement with Gorbachev to cooperate to try to end the nations political and economic crisis. The russian information Agency said the leaders of the. 16 autonomous regions of Yeltsin s russian federation also took part in the Kremlin meeting. A one of the possibilities being discussed was having the autonomous regions of the russian federation take part in signing the Union treaty Between the Republic and the Federal government. The soviet Union is composed of 15 Union republics such As Russia Armenia and Georgia each with a major nationality hut within some Union republics there Are autonomous republics or Large regions.  a a a a a a a a a Quot. A a the russian federation has 16 autonomous republics some of which Are As big As some countries in Europe and Yeltsin obviously wants them to participate in the new Union treaty. The treaty would replace the 1922 pact that led to the formation of the Union of soviet socialist republics in which the republics had Little autonomy until the Onset of Gorbachev a reforms in 1985, the Independent inter fax news Agency on saturday reported Yeltsin s Promise to end his feud with Gorbachev and work toward a democratic soviet Union based on their april 23 pact. A personal relations Are personal relations while we arc the leaders of two state structures the russian state and the soviet Union a the Agency quoted Yeltsin As saying. A that Means if Vve do not work together the Union will just cob  Yeltsin said he is ready to cooperate again with Gorbachev because the soviet president no longer places total Reliance on conservative forces such As the Kab Security police and the army As he did during the Winter. But he warned that Gorbachev would be finished if he backs away from cooperation this time alluding to Gorbachev a scuttling of 500-Day Market Economy plan he worked out with Yeltsin in August Butr then let die in the supreme soviet in the fall. A whoever is the first to deviate from this document will be ruined a Yeltsin said. Prosecutors in Smith s rape Case aim to shield accuser s private life Palm beac11, Fla. A aided by strict stale rules prosecutors in the sexual Battery Case against William Kennedy Smith will try to protect his accuser against having her personal life put on trial. A v a a a a a we heed women to know they can report the crime of rape without invasion of their privacy a Palm Beach county state attorney David Bludworth said sunday. But Harvard Law professor Alan Dershow to a p prominent con s t i t it Ion a i Law expert has predicted the defense team will test Florida a rape victim Protection Laws while assailing the woman a credibility. Smiths Miami lawyer Mark Schnapp did no to return repeated Telephone Calls seeking comment about possible strategy. Bludworth charged Smith the 30-year-old Nephew of sen. Edward Mkennedy on thursday with second degree sexual Battery and Battery in the March 30 incident. He also is prosecuting the supermarket tabloid the Globe for identifying the alleged victim in apparent violation of a 191 state Law. Smith surrendered to police on saturday and was released after posting $ 10,000 bail. Florida has strict rules of evidence in rape cases. The rules were recently tight Ned after the 1989 acquittal of a suspect by a Broward county jury. The jury Foreman in the Case said she virtually asked for the attack by wearing a miniskirt and no panties. The legislature passed a Law prohibiting introduction of evidence about sup Pitburg Pitburg a Germany a amps about 401 people toting balloons yellow roses flags and banners gathered at bit Burg on sunday to Welcome Home 12 of the Community s fighter jets and pilots an air Force spokesman said. The f-15 aircraft which represent about half of the 53rd tac fighter so arrived at about 1,2 30 sunday in three four ship formations. Families of the pilots who returned sunday were escorted to the Ai Cratl after each of the dozen planes taxied one Posedly promiscuous dress by a victim during the six week investigation of the alleged rape at the Kennedy family a oceanfront estate Bludworth repeatedly said he considers rape a worsening problem in Florida and that it is the most under reported crime. The woman a name was disclosed april 15 by the Globe and in subsequent Days by Abc to the new York times and other papers. The number of Balm Beach county women requesting Smith rape exams dropped from 10 in the april 1-april 17 period to one the rest of the month said Kris Kama supervisor or the county s sexual assault program. Bludworth criticized new s reports of it the 29-year-old woman a past the  lawyer David Roth also blasted a Quot blatant invasion of her privacy by the news Media. A there certainly have been enormous misrepresentations falsehoods and lies in the Media concerning my clients Back ground and the alleged facts of the incident a Roth said late last week. John Namey a former prosecutor from Orlando Fla said Smith s lawyers a patently want to make the trial his word against hers while attacking her Sharac Ter. A a a. A that s what every defense attorney wants in these cases a he said. Smith a medical student at Georgetown University has denied wrongdoing. He has neither confirmed nor denied having Intercourse with the woman. State rules say if consent is at Issue the defense May seek a in a closed door hearing a to present evidence that a tends to establish a pattern of conduct or behaviour on the part of the victim which is so similar to the conduct or behaviour in the Case that it is relevant to the Issue of consent a the woman has told police she met Smith at a Palm Beach nightspot and the two went to the Kennedy estate where she says he attacked her. Afterwards she called a Friend Anne Mercer who came to the estate with her Friend Chuck Desi Derio. Ltd ,. The woman took a photograph and Legal pad with two phone numbers written on it and Desiderio took an urn from the estate a police affidavit says. The woman told police she wanted to prove she was at the estate. Joseph Mincberg a West Palm Beach attorney representing Mercer said his experience has been that judges Are a very protective Quot of alleged victims. The police probable cause affidavit had nothing about Smiths version of events., -. A a Vsmith has declined to talk to police. Return by one in front of the cheering crowd said maj. Jerry Brown spokesman for big Burgh a 36tb tac fighter Wing. About 200 maintenance personnel who support the Squadron Are expected to return to Germany on tuesday. A Date has not yet been announced for the return of the rest of nhe 53rd, which has now been joined by personnel from bit Hurge a 22nd tac fighter so. Quot the 53rd deployed to the persian Gulf Region on Dee. 2l>. During the War the 53rd nato tigers As the unit is Nick named received credit for destroying i soviet made Mig lighter planes Brown said. No Squadron members were injured during the War. In addition to Pitburg personnel remaining in the Gulf area following desert storm the 36th tac fighter Wing has personnel involved in the kurdish Relief Effort. Airmen from the wings engineering services and Security police squadrons have been building shelters and feeding refugees in Turkey and Northern Iraq Brown said