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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 16, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8b the stars and stripes thursday May 16, 1991 "1 a. It. A it my my min a tall order a win l w washers in their Gondola Are dwarfed let a the backdrop of 183,108 Square get of Glass contained in the 508-foot-High Deutsche Hank building in Frankfurt Germany. They Are just one of several such teams that will spend four to six weeks on the project. Washing ton a the Dale of the next  Summit hinges on the Fate of 1,107 tanks of a More d Perso n n Al a Fri e is a and other a i Ece s of. M military. Equipment hearing the markings of the soviet marines. A a i be made Clear that i would like to go to Moscow under certain conditions and id like to think that i will a president Bush said tuesday. The main condition standing in the Way is a dispute Over what to do with that weaponry. A a a in practical Tennis the equipment has no real stride Gic value. 3quot v 3 a Quot to the Kremlin already has pledged to destroy nearly 20,000. Pieces of similar equipment to comply with a treaty that experts agree Vii 11 eliminate the soviets Abil Ity to launch a Rion ii dear attack against any of the nato countries. A another 1,100 pieces of hardware a ,120 tanks753 armoured Conha t vehicles and 234 artillery pieces be longing to the relatively Small soviet Marine Force  More or less won t matter much. But both sides say its the principle of the thing. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev is sending his military chief of. Staff Gen Mikhail a. Moiseyev to Washington next week to try to Settle the dispute and Clear the Way for Gorbachev to meet Bush at the Summit perhaps As Early As next month. V a this is really the Only obstacle to a Summit, . Official said privately this week a if it is resolved we can schedule the Summit with the expectation that we can refocus attention on the strategic arms reduction treaty and get that ready for signing in time for the meeting. We re that close. Quot. Bush and Gorbachev  scheduled to meet in Moscow last february but the talks were postponed because of the persian Gulf War and the failure to finish work on Start to slash Long Range nuclear weapons a. V a a a a a a a a a 3. V. It became apparent that1 a simmering dispute Over the conventional forces in Europe treaty which was signed with much fanfare by 22 nations Iasi november but never submitted Lor , was holding up further Progress on Start. The conventional forces treaty committed Allna to and Warsaw pact countries to abide by specific limits on their non nuclear military equipment Europe. Caps Are placed on. The number of tanks armoured combat a vehicles artillery pieces combat aircraft and helicopters each country is permitted to keep. .3\ for the soviets that meant counting and cutting the forces they have arrayed across Eastern Europe on the territory of their former Warsaw pact allies and those based Oil their own soil As far As the ural mountains that Divide soviet Europe and Asia. V. 3 because the soviets had such an overwhelming advantage in ground forces and because the limits were designed to make the arsenals for East and West essentially equal the agreement meant the soviets would. Have to take most of the cuts to get Down to Western Force Levels. 3w33 r. A a a 3 3 3 Quot 3 according to the private arms. Control association the nato countries must destroy 4 percent of their equipment in Europe. The former soviet satellites Quot that at the time were bound to Moscow by the Warsaw pact must Cut their total weapons by 38 percent and the soviets Are obligated to reduce their arsenals by 27 percent the association said. 3 v 33 3.3 a the size of the cuts and their one sided Ness met resistance among soviet military leaders. But. The treaty which was negotiated in record time once Gorbachev approved the concept was rushed to the 34-nation Paris Summit arid signed in november. A shortly thereafter the United states and its allies objected to  claims that equipment assigned  so called coastal defense units strategic rocket forces and naval infantry known to americans As Marine were exempt from the accord.3 3 a a . Officials arid observers worried that hardliners in the military led by Moiseyev were trying to circumvent or sabotage the landmark treaty negotiated by foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze before his resignation in december. A it. A Manila Philippines up a former first lady Imelda Marcos said in a taped television a interview shown wednesday she Avon id consider running for the philippine presidency in 1992 if. The people demand it. A it he presidency is a. Mailer o 3destiny,&Quot the widow of former president Ferdinand Marcos said in the Channel 7 program business today. A it is not that you Are open to it there is nothing you can do about it if destiny conies to fore you just Don t argue just get tin top of it. As Marcos would say a she  to her late husband. Marcos. By was the human settlements minister and governor of metropolitan Manila before her husband was ousted in a civilian backed military revolt in 19kb. The former president who ruled for 20 once Moscow up Nicholas Daniloff. The american journalist Jai cd by the Kab on espionage charges and expelled almost five years ago is Back in the soviet Union in his new capacity As a College professor. Daniloff 37, a journalism instructor at northeastern University in Boston is visiting the soviet Union in an Effort to arrange russian Exchange student visits to northeastern. He arrived in Moscow May 6 to what he said was the unbelieving reaction of soviet Airport Border guards who Check All arrivals. A i walked up to the Border guard a Daniloff said a tuesday a the. Looked at me lie looked at me and looked at me again. Then he looked at my passport then he. Picked up the Telephone and looked at the passport. A a by this Lime a line of 30 people formed behind me who finally went to another Booth to be  on aug. 30, 19kb, Daniloff Bureau chief for . News and work report and at the Lime american Dean of the Moscow press corps was picked up by the Kab on espionage charges and jailed for a month in the czarist Era Lefo Tovo prison Daniloff was arrested after Gennady Zakharova soviet who worked at the United nations was arrested in new York for Daniloff noted Quot spending sb.000 to but classified  years died in Hawaii in 1989. Y. 3 the former first lady has filed suits in Manila courts to Force the government of president. Cora on Aquino to allow her to return from exile. 3. The philippine supreme court has upheld Aquino a decision to ban the Marc oses from returning. Honie a calling them a. Security threat but Aquino said she would allow Imelda Marcos and her world children to return later this year to face criminal charges involving allegations of theft of government funds. A new York court last year cleared Imelda Marcos. Of racketeering charges stemming from her alleged ill gotten 3 wealth. A a a a it. Aquino. 58, has said she would not seek re election at the end of her six year term. Quot a a a a. A As educator Daniloff  Uri Orlov from prison Camp As part of the gain Orlov now lives in the United slates. A they arrested me basically As a hostage a he said. Zakharov was eventually convicted for spying and expelled. Daniloff w Hose Case became a cause celebre was released in Exchange without standing trial after the intervention of then foreign. Minister Eduard Shevardnadze Dan loll was ordered to leave the. Soviet Union departing sept. 30, 19kb for Frankfurt Germain. I lie soviets also had to release human rights Cham bar Daniloff As a pro Quot All of w hat happened is in the Long past said. Quot now 1 am trying like mad for tenure lessor he joked. Fluent in russian he said that his feelings were Quot ambiguous Quot on returning to the nation of his ancestors and where he also worked for nearly a  a correspondent. He plans to remain in the soviet Union until May 25. City in soviet Georgia ordered under curfew 3 from wire reports Moscow a the georgian legislature has declared g state of emergency and nigh Long Cui it few in thy South ossetian City of ask Heinvali to curb ethnic violence the Tuss news Agency said. The state of emergency was imposed for one month and the curfew will be in effect from 10 . To 7 . Daily Tuss said. Soviet Interior ministry troops have been patrolling ask Heinvali Tor the past six weeks. South ossetian mostly Muslim want to be an autonomous Republic Loyal to the Kremlin. The mainly Christian georgians want to secede from the soviet Union Quot. Thatcher in South Africa Cape town. South Africa a former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher arrived from London on  Cape town South Africa on her first visit  country since she was a Junior Cabinet minister in the Early 1970s. Accompanied by her husband Denis Thatcher stepped Oit the plane at . Malan Airport to he welcomed by South african foreign minister . 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