European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes wednesday jut to 1991�? from Page 1 presidency. The  killed a 1989 Case against one of its station chiefs who was alleged to have lied in the Iran Contra affair. And the Iran Contra prosecutor has been stymied by uncooperative witnesses. Walsh for the past year has been delving into whether current and former Cia officials and aides to Bush lied when they denied knowing about North s network. In addition to Gates Fiers had some Contact with Donald Gregg a former Cia officer who was Bush a National Security adviser at the time North a Contra network operated. Gregg is now the ambassador to South Korea. Gates told Congress in 1987 that he had known Little about North a activities in 1985 and 1986. He said he had no idea until August 1986 that North might be connected in any Way with supplying the contras with weapons. Gregg said he never passed his limited knowledge along to Bush. Reagan and Bush claim not to have known of North a resupply network. Fiers oversaw the work of Cia stations throughout Central America from his office at Agency Headquarters in Langley a. And he was in constant communication with North about the secret Contra resupply operation. Yet Fiers and other top Cia officials later insisted that they had known Little about what North was up to. Fiers reported directly to Cia director Casey and spoke frequently with Clair George then the Agency a Deputy director for operations. Fiers also was in close touch with another Cia official who headed up the Agency a latin american division. Casey died in 1987. George is retired. The other official is now a Cia station chief in a european capital. Fiers served in Cia posts around the world in saudi Arabia Pakistan India and  from Page 1 Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf who indicated he wanted to push on toward Baghdad Iraq when ordered by Bush to end the fighting on the grounds that narrow . Military Aims had been met. It continued with disclosures that actual damage to the iraqi military including suspected nuclear weapons research facilities fell Short of official assessments offered in the Early Days after the wars end. Bush however brushed aside suggestions the United states should or could have achieved More. Prompted by a question posed monday in an interview with european journalists he said a i have never been More convinced that what we did was worthwhile. A and i am absolutely convinced that this revision Stic theory a the thinking that we re hearing around this town and other places a is As wrong As it can  in tuesdays speech Bush invoked lessons from the persian Gulf War. To assail attempts by Congress to reorder priorities in a $291 billion defense Bill for fiscal 1992. He asserted that the display of High tech weapons in the Gulf made a Case in particular for the b-2 stealth bomber and the strategic defense initiative anti missile program although neither saw use in the War against  chided the House which passed its version of the defense Bill May 22, for cutting those programs and adding billions of dollars in unneeded Money for the military reserves. And he challenged the Senate which has begun committee debate on the Bill to a pass a budget that defends people not pork that enables us to fight the next War not the last one that promotes National Security period. A a if the Congress sends me a defense Bill that is inadequate that fails to fund needed programs and wastes Money at the expense of defense muscle a no matter How big a Bill How urgent a i will veto it a he said. Not surprisingly that line brought applause from an audience permeated by defense contractors some of whom May suffer from cutbacks required by a Pentagon budget that Bush noted would consume the smallest share of Gross National product than any since the depression. A a new world order demands a new set of defense priorities a Bush said a and together we can put those priorities into  i although the Overall level of spending on defense was generally set by a budget agreement last fall Between the administration and Congress Bush a veto threat was triggered by debate Over the worthiness and pork barrel importance of specific weapons systems. The House for example voted Only about $3.6 billion of the $5.2 billion Bush requested for missile defense systems including successors to the Patriot missile used to defend Israel and saudi Arabia and eliminated any Money for additional b-2 bombers. Bush reaffirmed his desire for a full complement of 75 b-2s, 15 of which have been ordered and four More included in his 1992 budget. Congress however is not Likely to go along. Judge spurns new trial bid in fatal vision murders Raleigh . Apr a Federal judge has denied Jeffrey Macdonald a petition for a new trial in the Quot fatal vision a murders of his pregnant wife and two Young daughters. . District judge Franklin t. Dupree or. Denied the request in a ruling late monday afternoon. Macdonald a former Green Beret doctor is serving three consecutive life terms for the slayings of his wife Collette and daughters Ages 5 and 2, at their fort Bragg apartment on feb. 17,1970. He was convicted in 1979, in Federal court in Raleigh on two counts of second degree murder and one count of first degree murder. He had blamed the deaths on drug crazed hippie in truders who chanted a acid is groovy kill the  the Case was made into a Best Selling Book and to ministries Quot fatal  from Page 1 plan arranged Early monday by the foreign ministers of Portugal Luxembourg and the Netherlands in talks with slovenian and other yugoslav officials on the Northern Adriatic Island of brioni. A Quot in a related development Hansjorg Eiff the German ambassador to Yugoslavia held a news conference to deny yugoslav Media reports that his country was prepared to recognize Slovenia a Independence. The Belgrade Headquarters of the 1st army said that an armoured patrol guarding a Bridge in Backa Palanka on the Border Between the Eastern croatian Region of Slavonia and Serbia a Vojvod Ina province exchanged gunfire with croatian police sharpshooters but no casualties were reported. The shooting came in the resumption of a clash that both sides blamed the other for starting monday night. At that time the army said its patrol came under rocket fire from the croatian National guard the republics embryonic army prompting its troops to Loose a heavy fire and destroy a police  croatian officials said that without provocation an army tank blasted a Cannon round into the police car killing one officer and wounding three others. Federal military units have been deployed in Slavonia in peacekeeping positions since almost daily clashes erupted in Early May. Those pitted croatian Security units and vigilantes against rebel serbs opposed to the republics Independence fearing persecution if. Their lies with Serbia Are snapped. The nationalist regimes of Slovenia and Croatia declared Independence june 25 to escape what they regard As domination by communist ruled Serbia the largest of Yugoslavia a six republics. The 4.6 million roman Catholic croats charge that Croatia a rebel serbs Are being aided by the Federal army which is dominated by officers from the 8.5 million Strong Christian orthodox serbian Community. About 600,000 serbs live in Croatia and the communist regime of Serbia says it will not allow the rival Republic to secede with its serbian dominated enclaves. Many people fear ethnic War. The extreme nationalist croatian regime of president Franjo Tadjman a cashiered communist army general accuses serbian president Slobodan Milosevic of fomenting unrest to realize a plan to create a a great Serbia that would include All yugoslav territory except Slovenia and a Small part of Croatia. In Slavonia officials said rebel serbs in the Village of Morkovci 90 Miles Northwest of Belgrade raked a local train with gunfire before Dawn wounding at least one passenger. The incident came hours after the serbs loosed heavy machine gun rounds toward the neighbouring croat dominated town of Vinkovic and Village of stari Jankovic the officials said. They said that at the same time about 30 explosions were heard inside Morkovci. There was no word on casualties. Intermittent firefights were also reported on the outskirts of the slavonian towns of Vukovan and Osisek the regional Headquarters. A Germany from Page 1. News Agency quoted yugoslav Deputy prime minister Alexander Mitrovic As saying in a weekend interview that the slovenian leadership had become puppets of Germany and Austria serving a a policy for the creation of a fourth  a such insinuations could possibly damage our bilateral relations a Vogel told reporters in Bonn. A and we expect therefore that the yugoslav Federal government opposes these  Vogel branded a report in the Belgrade Yugoslavia daily acc Ernie no Vosti that German army personnel trained slovenian militiamen As a malicious invention without any  austrian foreign ministry spokesman Walter Groci Nurt said his government was working on a reply to official complaints by Yugoslavia that Austria meddled in Yugoslavia a Domestic affairs. A at first glance they Are groundless a Greinert said in Vienna Austria he said Austria would reject out of hand yugoslav complaints that i country violated provisions of the conference on Security Ana cooperation in Europe. A main principle of the organization is non interference in Domestic affairs of another country. Croatia and Slovenia were provinces in the Austro hungarian Empire before world War i. They joined Serbia to form the kingdom of Yugoslavia after that War. Nazi Germany annexed Austria also a German speaking country in 1938. In 1941, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and broke up the country in a Way that still has generated hatred Between serbs and croatians. A pro nazi puppet regime was set up in Croatia and it murdered hundreds of thousands of ethnic serbs. It was part of the misery created by Adolf hitlers attempt to dominate Europe with his third Reich or German Empire. The first was considered to have been the holy roman Empire. The second was created in 1870 when Germany was United under prussian leadership and ended with the defeat of Germany in world War i. La. Report says Gates should resign los Angeles apr Daryl Gates should step Down As chief of the los Angeles police department a Force that employs a a siege mentality with instances of brutality aggravated by racism a report released tuesday recommended. A the land has an organizational culture that emphasizes crime control Over crime prevention and that isolates the police from the communities and the people they serve a said the report prepared by a panel formed after the March 3 beating of Black Motorist Rodney King. There was no immediate comment from Gates who had said he would resign if the commission agreed with his critics who contended that he had created a climate that condoned racism and brutality. The commission appointed by Gates and mayor Tom Bradley held Public hearings interviewed City leaders and reviewed More than 1 million  documents in its three month investigation. It was headed by former Deputy Secretary of state Warren Christopher. The commission found that the chief has no serious oversight in a position that carries a virtual lifetime guarantee of tenure. Under its proposed reorganization the panel said the mayor should appoint the police chief Anc the chief should serve a five year term renewable at the discretion of the mayor appointed police commission with a 10-year limitation. Termination would require approval of the mayor and could be reversed Only with a two thirds vote of the City Council the report suggested. A for reasons set Forth in support of our recommendation that the chief of police be limited to two five year a rms Fri be eve that commencement of a transition in that office is now appropriate,.�?� the report said. The american civil liberties Union and other groups called for Gates to resign after the incident in which White police officers beat King. A videotape of incident provoked widespread Public outrage. Four officers were charged As a result