European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday May 23,1991. A. Conventional arms talks remain stalled Gen. Colin l. Powell escorts soviet Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev into the Pentagon. By the Washington Post Washington . And soviet officials appeared to have made Little Progress tuesday after a second Day of meetings designed to resolve a dispute about the conventional forces in Europe treaty officials said. At Issue Are four infantry units with 1,100 tanks armoured combat vehicles and artillery that the soviets have reclassified As naval  units. The soviet1 Union says they Are exempt from the Accord but Washington says they should be subject to treaty limitations., both nations were among the 22 that signed the treaty last year. Officials said tuesdays discussions included sessions with president Bush As Well As the secretaries of defense and slate they said Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev heard repeated expressions of . Determination to stick by its interpretation of the treaty. The officials expressed Hope that the talks would influence the general to re turn to Moscow convinced of . Resolve and perhaps More Likely to Compromise. A there arc still differences that have a to be a resolved a Secretary of states James a. Baker said during a Pic hire Tak ing session. The Bush administration has said it will not agree to a another .-soviet Summit until the treaty dispute is resolved. The argument also appears to he blocking Progress on a strategic arms reduction treaty. A a it a very very important that we reach agreement with respect to the issues that still remain on cafe a Baker told reporters. A a a obviously it would permit us then to address the remaining issues on the strategic arms treaty. A these Are things that both president Mikhail Gorbachev and president Bush have indicated they would like to see resolved so that there can be a Summit a it addition to seeing Bush and Baker Moiseyev visited defense Secretary Dick Cheney National Security adviser Brent scowcroft and Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Fie also held five hours of meetings monday with Reginald Bartholomew undersecretary of state for International Security of a fairs. A. A a a a the White House said in a statement that Moiseyev met Bush for 15 minutes in the Oval office after seeing scowcroft the statement said Moiseyev presented his View of the talks to the president. Bush responded by reiterating the Western position it said. Armaments shipment Security spurs Dod Conrail meeting Washington a defense department investigators met with Conrail officials tuesday to Dis cuss whether reported cutbacks in the railroads police Force have resulted in shipments of weapons and ammunition moving unprotected through Western new York. 7. Lalii ilife  Delphia Conrail and the defense department s military. Traffic management Corrid office issued statements saying the Railroad has agreed to cooperate in a probe of the allegations. 7 t he next step wih be for government investigators to visit Conrail a Buffalo area offices the Pentagon Smili Lary Traffie Maria lenient come said in a statement. Investigators Are also slated meet with Conrail police officials ii Rome Quot Rochester and Syracuse. N.y., said Ruth Blevins a command spokeswoman such investigations Are Standard whenever the com Viand receives reports of alleged wrongdoing she said. Results of the investigation Are not expected for a a couple of weeks or so a she said. The investigation came in response to recent reports in the Buffalo . Evening news alleging that Conrail failed to live up to its Security agreements with the defense department when the Railroad moved several boxcars of artillery shells through Buffalo to fort d rum. Regulations require that such boxcars be inspected hourly when a train is stopped. Documents obtained by the paper showed at least five hours elapsed Between checks when a train stopped in Conrail a Frontier Yard in Buffalo on april 24 a before and during operation desert Stortv dozens of boxcars containing shells bombs and Small arms am munition reportedly moved along Conrail tracks from Western arms manufacturers to destinations in new York and new Jersey. In january Conrail reduced the number of police of liners patrolling Central and Western new York from 19 to 1 1. Milwaukee a a Federal judge has revoked the citizenship of a Man who allegedly worked As a guard at a nazi concent rat in. Camp. I . District judge Thomas Curran ordered no year old Anton Baumann to relinquish his certificate of naturalization within by Days for lying on his 195 1 visa application. A a a a a a a a prosecutors alleged Baumann worked As an is guard at the St Uithof concentration Camp near. Gdansk Poland. Curran said it had not been proved that the Ynigo Slavian born Baumann was at the Camp but it was dearly establish cd that he Xmas a term bar of the is Adolf Hitler s elite military and Security Force. A the fact of his armed uniformed service is sufficient to establish that he assisted in the persecution a Curran wrote in ail opinion dated Friday. Immigration officials said revoking Baumanns citizenship probably would be a first step toward deporting  sentenced for Mcchord blast Seattle apr a Man was sentenced monday to five years in Pii Smi it Uucius Parl in a bomb ii re sri damaged but no one was injured. Damaged government cars and an office building at acct word a Eli. . District judge Jack Tanner Sente need Louis m.  Lakewood Tanner  in january to using explosives to commit a Fem a. Baldassari 25, was one of live men charged in the nov. To bombing outside me chords a office a of special investigations. Two pipe bombs filled with Low Grade explosives were placed in the wheel Wells of two government ears. The cars and the office building were balt assure was accused of helping make the bombs. Three other civilians Are to be sentenced later this month. The fifth Man. Airman Steven Hawkins was convicted in military court and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The government accused Hawkins and one of the civilians a Reh Drummond of planning the bombing As revenge against air Force officials who were investigating them for burglaries on and off the base. A a kiss in fails to halt Calif Street name change. From wire reports Alamo Calif a a a kiss in by Gay activists failed to Stop county officials from approving Gay court residents request to change their streets name. The Contra county Board of supervisors voted 4-0 on tuesday Tor change the Street name to High Eagle Road said Phil Batchelor county administrator. One member abstained. A they had a petition filed by 92 percent of the residents on the Street and they took action a he said. Name changes usually Are routine affairs but this one Drew attention when Gay rights groups said the action was homophobic. Some protesters staged a a kiss in on Gay court in this suburb 30 Miles East of san Francisco. -5 apartheid protesters arrested new York a five people were arrested t tuesday while protesting eing of anti apartheid activist Winnie Mandela in South Africa police said. Three women and two men All unidentified were charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly blocking traffic Between noon and 2 . In front of the South african consulate said police spokeswoman sgt. Mary Wrensen. The five were issued appearance tickets and released she said. They were part of a group known As the Sisters against South african apartheid. A on May 14, Winnie Mandela anti apartheid activist and wite of african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in prison for her conviction on charges of kidnapping four youths und being an accessory to an  proposal killed Baton Rouge la. A state senators tues-1 Day killed a proposed seven Day waiting period for gun. P u ref vase s 4nt Joutsi a n a the a -17 vote rejecting the bilt by sen. Jon Johnson of new Orleans came after sen. Mike Foster a fellow Democrat effectively killed its intent with an amendment that removed the waiting period. Johnson said he would ask the Senate to reconsider its vote on the weakened Bill later in the week. It s a Little bit better than what we have at the. Present Tine a said Johnson