European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes sunday May 26, 1991 at a glance v Ortw i a a since the cease fire american Cis have Learned a lot about dealing with time on their hands. Sec sunday Magazine. 900-Pound loot Teller shy robbers have found a new source of easy Money without having to set foot in a Bank a they re stealing automatic Teller machines. A a  a a a a. A a page4 sea Wolf project grounded a judge has issued an injunction barring construction on the nation s second sea Wolf submarine until a lawsuit is settled this summer. A pages concern on main Street an Independent commission entrusted with determining which military facilities Wilt close is getting an earful As it Tours the country. A Page 6 Battle of Crete remembered scores of world War ii veterans a �?�1 1 a a it a a from opposing armies meet on the Mediterranean Island of Crete to Exchange memories erase past differences and Mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Crete. A. A Page 7 the struggle continues after the Cyclone that killed 139,000 people and shattered the Economy Many in Bangladesh wonder what will happen next month when the real monsoons come. A Page 8 Market not heating up after a runaway Start on 1991, the supposedly reborn Bull Market has lapsed into a protracted slumber. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers ____14 commentary. 13 letters. 12. Money matters 15-17 sports a. 18-24 weather. 11 revamped nato strategy tops Cheney s trip Agenda Washington a defense Secretary Dick Cheney was beginning a 10-Day trip saturday expected to focus on major changes in nato defense doctrine and postwar Security in the Middle East. A a a a a a a a the visit Marks Cheney a first Wisit. To Israel in his More than two years in office. He also will Stop in France Belgium and Egypt. On sunday through tuesday Cheney was to meet with French officials including president Francois Mitterrand new Premier Edith Cross pm and foreign minister Roland Dumas. Pentagon officials have had High Praise for  military cooperation in the War to oust iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein from Kuwait something Cheney was expected to emphasize in meetings with defense minister Pierre Joyc. Cheney then travels to Brussels for the two Day Spring session of the nato defense planning committee and the a nuclear planning group. The session for defense ministers of the 16 member nations of the North Atlantic treaty organization Marks the alliances first major meeting since the formal dissolution of the Warsaw pact. Alliance leaders have been grappling with adjusting the Western Security Force with the reduced threat from the soviet Union and the end of the cold War. One area of discussion plans for a new Quick reaction military Force. The defense ministers weren to expected to Complete a new n  agreement during the Brussels session a senior defense department official said Friday. He spoke on condition of anonymity. The new strategy May be ready for formal signing by nato Heads of government at a Summit this fall he said. In Tel Aviv on thursday and Friday Cheney was expected to meet with president Chai Herzog prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and defense minister Moshe Arens. Y a a. A a a a the defense Secretary planned a four Day Stop in Egypt to meet with president Hosni Mubarak and the country a new defense minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi. Discussions at each Stop will focus on a key bilateral regional and strategic matters a a Pentagon statement said. The Secretary is scheduled to return to Washington on june 4. Accused collaborators in Kuwait granted time to work on defense Kuwait apr Kuwait a martial Law court on saturday heard the cases of 32 people accused of collaborating with the iraqi occupiers but postponed the conclusion of most cases to give lawyers a Chance to prepare their defense. The court acquitted one turkish Man and sentenced a palestinian found with one Bullet to six months probation plus confiscation of the Bullet. Several of the 25 defendants in court said their confessions had been Given under torture. Kuwaiti chief Justice Mohammed Ai Benai denied that cases coming to trial were based on confessions extracted by mistreatment of prisoners. The cases arc being monitored by the British and american embassies As Well As human rights organizations such As amnesty International because of the torture reports and complaints by de sense attorneys that they did not have an adequate Chance to prepare. Two representatives of the new York based group human rights watch started monitoring the trials saturday. Deputy director Kenneth Roth said the group wanted to ensure that the trials followed the standards of the Geneva conventions. In a it was not Clear in a number of these cases that it added up to collaboration a he said. But he added that he was encouraged that lawyers were getting More time to study the files the chief Justice said he expects 175 cases to be brought to the courts Over the next two months most involving More than one defendant. The serious cases scheduled to Start this week involve murder charges against a jordanian to begin sunday and a Case against four iraqis accused of raping and murdering four kuwaiti women to Start tuesday. A a y a a a Quot a Quot a a a those tried saturday included 12 jordanians 10 iraqis five palestinians two stateless arabs a kuwaiti a Turk and a saudi. Most of the jordanians Are of palestinian origin. The defendants were arrested on charges of collaborating with the iraqis in ways ranging from joining the iraqi popular army to helping fix iraqi cars. Many also were charged with car theft. Saturdays session was the first since tuesday when the hearings for 24 newspaper workers were postponed until june 1 to allow defense attorneys time to pc pare. They face the death sentence on five charges of collaborating with iraqis by working at a newspaper which sup ported the occupation All pleaded innocent. A. Palist from . Moscow a russian Leader Boris Yeltsin said saturday that nine of the 15 soviet republics were in near agreement on signing a treaty to preserve the country and rename it the Union of soviet Sovereign republics. Yeltsin appeared at a news conference marking the end of a five Day session of the russian Congress of Peoples deputies. A. A the russian Leader said the agreement to rename the country came at a meeting Friday of soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev and the leaders of eight Republican leaders including Yeltsin. He said All the republics agreed to retain the initials �?ou.s.s.r.,�?� hut change the name a Union of soviet socialist republics a to a Union of soviet Sovereign  Yeltsin beginning his Campaign for the newly strengthened Post of russian pres Iceni said the West also had a stake in seeing a stable soviet Union. A let us Start working out a joint program of getting the country out of its crisis stabilizing the Economy and working toward a transition to a Market Economy because the cataclysms which will take place in this country if the reforms Don t happen will shake All the countries including the United states a he said. During the session the Congress approved a new executive presidency and adopted amendments to the republics Constitution defining presidential Powers. The meeting of the republics leaders and Gorbachev took place at a government Dacha or country House on the outskirts of Moscow and lasted until late in the evening Yeltsin said. The Dacha was the site where Gorbachev reached a landmark agreement with nine of the 15 soviet republics on april 23, under which they agreed to sign his proposed Union treaty in return Gorbachev agreed to Transfer to the republics most of the nation s Industrial and natural wealth. Present at fridays meeting were eight of Quot the nine leaders Anatoly Lukyanov chairman of the supreme soviet legislature and the Heads  in autonomous republics the smaller political subdivisions inside the  Gorbachev said after the meeting a i should say that we managed to come to an agreement on Many things we will continue work on other issues a the offi. Cial news Agency Tass reported. 4 gis wounded by mine in Iraq from wire reports 1ncirlik a Turkey four . Army soldiers were injured when a land mine exploded saturday in Northern Iraq but All were reported in stable condition military officials said. The Pentagon confirmed the sol diets were Hurt in the incident near the Kuni Masi Way station. All four were reported in stable condition at a British Royal Navy Field Hospital. They were not immediately identified. In another development saturday a . Soldier died of injuries sustained when a land mine exploded Friday in Northern Iraq said the Allied command of operation provide Comfort. The . Soldier has not been identified. A . Marine injured in the same blast near Zawita in Northern Iraq is in Good condition at the air Force Hospital at in Ciurlik a Turkey and was to be flown to wies Budzn Germany on saturday