European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes sunday june 30, 1991 at a glance some Lucky folks get to celebrate their birthdays with fireworks. They were born on the fourth of july. See sunday Magazine. Pink slips Greet vets Charles Bullard came Home from the persian Gulf War to a triumphant Welcome but when the echoes died away he found himself without a paycheck. A Page 4 War memorial rejected the commission of Fine arts has Quot flatly Quot rejected the proposed design for the korean War veterans memorial a. 38 realistic ground troops set against a mural Wall a after five years of revisions a panel official said Friday. A a a. A a Page 5 12 new cardinals Pope John Paul ii has formally elevated 23 new cardinals from six continents on Friday including two americans a Page 8 Check it out Consumers Are becoming increasingly sceptical about buying life health and property insurance without first investigating whether. Their insurer is on solid financial ground Industry observers say. A a a a a a Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers commentary. Letters Money matters. Sports. Weather. Iraqi rejected by kurdish leaders Sard Eva Iraq a kurdish leaders have rejected an iraqi proposal on autonomy for Northern Iraq saying it does not include a Large enough area and has other unacceptable conditions kurd ish leaders s us. Massoud Barzani Leader of the Kurdistan front an umbrella group of eight major kurdish parties said he will return to Baghdad for More negotiations. Barzani had said after talks in Baghdad earlier this month that an autonomy Accord was imminent. But on Friday he said a it still needs further  1 a we will Tell the iraqis that the preconditions Are unacceptable a said Jalal Talaban Leader of the second biggest group in the front the patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Barzani Leader of the dominant Kurdistan democratic party said the main problem was that the proposal excluded several kurdish areas including Oil Rich Kirkuk from the autonomous Region. But members of the Kurdistan front have also rejected iraqi preconditions under which the kurd would have to Side with Saddam Hussein a baath party against its enemies inside and outside Iraq and sever tics with the West. The iraqi proposal also keeps police authority under the presidency and requires political aspirants to swear allegiance to the baath party said Harahan Sali a spokesman for to Labanie a group. A such an agreement wont inspire the Confidence of the kurdish people. Unless they feel Safe it is not Worth the paper it is written on a said Sali. / Talaban said the main Points of the kurd so counterproposal were for greater autonomy and a new Constitution to be drawn up by a freely elected parliament. The eight parties met separately saturday to discuss proposals. The Kurdistan front leadership was scheduled to meet sunday to discuss a final draft and. When and with whom Barzani will go to Baghdad for new talks. A in my View this will be the last round of our talks a Barzani said an interview at his Home a heavily guarded compound in the mountains of guerrilla held northeastern Iraq. A we will give the subject As much time As it needs but we will not deliberately stall the  Ite said that Baghdad had been advised that the negotiations will continue. Kurdish leaders have authorized bar Zani to negotiate and sign an autonomy agreement that would end decades of kurdish revolution and subsequent oppression by the Central government. The talks came after about 1.5 million kurd fled Northern Iraq after a failed rebellion against the Central government following the persian Gulf War. A  Alliance repatriated most of the approximately 450,000 kurd who fled to the turkish Border. The kurd who escaped to Iran arc slowly returning. New York City feels Early pain stemming from 7 0,000 Job cuts 14 13 .12 .15 18-2411 corrections because of errors in a press release. The stars and stripes reported incorrectly in the t thursday edition that elements of the 1st inf div fwd were among the units to participate in a a Welcome Home ceremony held thursday in Stuttgart Germany. The 2nd a Rind div fwd should have been listed As a participating unit. Because of a clerical error. T he stars and stripes incorrectly reported Latoya Jackson a appearance schedule in the a on stage Quot pages in last thursdays stripes Magazine. She will appear at the following locations in Germany Baum Holder Hall of champions parking area july 3 Ansbach Katterbach Airfield heliport july 4 Frankfurt Volk fest Arena Ostmark july 5 Mainz Lee Barracks Parade Field july 6, and Stuttgart Pattonville Airfield july 7. The los Angeles times new York a this City a fiscal crisis hit with magnum Force Friday As More than 10,000 municipal workers were Laid off their jobs in often tearful and-.heart-, wrenching scenes not seen in the City since the financial collapse of the mid 1970s. A v  a a it a like a funeral Wake Here a  Hospital workers Union chief at Harlem Hospital. A we Are seeing the death of a great Hospital. People Are crying and  meanwhile mayor David n. Dinkins and the City Council remained at an impasse Over How to close a record $3.5 billion shortfall in the City a budget for the new fiscal year. A Dinkins wants to boost property taxes to help plug the Gap and perhaps rehire some of the workers. Council leaders Are calling for even deeper spending cuts that reported knife threat spurs Ramstein review Ramstein a Germany a amps a base officials Are reviewing a june 6 incident in which the son of a military member allegedly threatened another child with a Kitchen knife a Ramstein spokesman said Friday. No one was Hurt in the incident. The. Weapon allegedly involved had a 3-Inch Blade and a 5-Inch handle said staff sgt. Doyle Tillman the boy also allegedly verbally threatened the girl also a military family member. Security police took the boy into custody and later turned him Over to his sponsor Tillman said. The children s names and Ages were not released. Both Are military family members. Unofficial sources said that the youngsters were a Ramstein elementary school  result in 4,800 additional layoffs. The deadline for approving the budget is Midnight sunday. Negotiations with the City a municipal unions on contract concessions to help Deal with the fiscal crunch remained stalemated. As discharged workers left their jobs Friday Union leaders went into emergency sessions to reassess their Stra. Segies. A. A. A ,. A a Union sources who asked to remain unidentified said that labor organizations were willing to make perhaps As. Much As $600 million in concessions in a variety of areas including pay. And benefits but Only if the City stops the layoffs and uses the Money to rehire a sizable number of the 10,000 let go. The layoffs Cut deepest into the ranks of the City a health Parks and sanitation workers. A 1 he Odds that the newly Laid off work ers will find jobs in the private sector Are not Good. The recession has already sent the jobless rate in the City shooting to almost 9  me Only me working in my House a Maria Velez 48, a dietary aide at Harlem Hospital cried aloud in English and Spanish As she prepared to leave. Then breaking Down in tears she said a a want my  the councils plan which was presented As an alternative to the mayors proposal Calls for $476 million less in property tax increases and restores funding for the Central Park zoo some essential health programs libraries and cultural institutions. But it also would make $330 million in new cuts on top of the $1.5 billion Dinkins has proposed. Besides the 4,800 workers who would be Laid off under the Council plan another 3,500 would be forced to leave through Early retirement. Allman concert switched the venue for the Allman Brothers bands concert thursday in Cologne Germany has been changed trom the sport Halle in Cologne Millheim to the a Werk in Cologne Millheim. Tickets remain valid. Sex congressman new York a a Federal a Quot peals judge has ordered former . Rep. Mario Biaggi freed from a Texas prison where he is serving an eight year sentence on bribery related charges in the so called we tech scandal . District judge Constance Baker Motley ruled Friday that Biaggi could be. Freed for medical reasons from a Federal prison in fort Worth where he has been since april 10, 1989. He would have been eligible for parole in december. Earlier Friday an appeals court said former . Rep. Robert Garcia and his Wile could be retried for their part in the we tech scandal. Biaggi 73, who served 10 terms in Congress has heart problems. Biaggi was forced to resign from office aug. 5, 1988, after he was convicted on charges he took s1.8 million in stocks and Cash from we tech corp. We tech once a Small South Bronx machine shop grew into a $100 Mil lion government contractor through various bribe schemes. It collapsed in 1986 amid allegations of corruption. In the Garcias Case lawyers for the couple had argued that a new trial w Ould violate the a double jeopardy clause of the fifth amendment which says a person can to be tried twice for the same crime. But a three judge panel of the 2nd . Circuit court of appeals said a second trial was allowed if an error caused the conviction to be reversed. Last year the court vacated the convictions of Garcia and his wife Jane on charges they took illegal. Payments Loans and jewelry from we tech. . District judge Leonard b. Sand had sentenced the Garcias to three years in prison with the recommendation they be released after six months. Garcia served part of  before the convictions were reverse. His wife remained free during the Appeal