European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and Stripe wednesday july 10,1991contrafrom Page 1. Presidency. The Cia 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 Stym Iep by u Coo Pera t Ive 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 a 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.  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 7 connected in any Way with supplying the contras with weapons. Gregg said he never passed his limited knowledge along Toburn. 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 Turkey. Gorbachev serb from Page 1 ,. Reporters tuesday referring to his ultimate goal of a Union treaty. A we agreed by mid july to agree on amendments and then to come together to sign a final  the endorsement would boost Gorbachev a standing at the group of seven gathering where he will present economic plans and ask help for specific projects his spokesman Vitaly Ignatenko said. A a big agreement was achieved and in a leaving not Only with my own ideas and impressions but also with a common position of All participants in this process a Gorbachev told the state run evening to program Eremya. A it came out Here that we. Can solve All problems More successfully if we remember that we have been formed As one powerful economic  Ignatenko said Gorbachev will Tell g-7 leaders about plans to a a demilitarized the soviet Economy and will ask for Western cooperation in Industrial projects. Ignatenko said Gorbachev also would give the Western leaders a specific Date that the soviet Ruble would be made fully convertible the last major obstacle to full integration in the world Economy. A we intend to Speed up the process of making the Ruble convertible a Gorbachev said at a briefing tuesday with Spanish president Felipe Gonzalez. A we must introduce ourselves As an organic member of International  Yeltsin said he is satisfied with the program Gorbachev is going to present in London. A the Gorbachev firmly said that the nine republics Are going on the path of Radical Reform in a democratic Way. This is the most important thing we wanted to hear from him a Yeltsin said. Officials at mondays meeting outside Moscow represented the same nine republics that signed a landmark cooperation agreement with Gorbachev on april 23 Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan turkmen a Kadzhi Kristan the Ukraine Kirghizia byelorussian and Azerbaijan. Six secessionist republics Quot a Latvia Lithuania Estonia Moldavia Georgia and Armenia a did not sign the april 23 agreement. All 15 republics have been challenging Kremlin Rule casting doubt on Gorbachev a ability to present a unified front to the g-7 leaders Yeltsin a agreement is considered  and Gorbachev differed tuesday tin the role of the six in a future Union. Yeltsin said they would be considered a foreign countries after other republics sign the Union treaty while Gorbachev said they a should be cat with on the basis of the current constitutional  the soviet Constitution allows republics to secede Only Over a five year period and after holding a referendum and negotiations on compensation for Kremlin owned property. Secessionist states say the provision thwarts Independence drives. 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 a fatal vision 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 intruders who chanted a acid is groovy kill the  the Case was made into a Best Selling Book and to miniseries a fatal  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. 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 ties 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 he amp ird 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  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 Quot 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 vec Cronje no Vosti that German army personnel trained slovenian militiamen As a malicious invention without any  austrian foreign ministry spokesman Walter Grei 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. S he said Austria would reject out of hand yugoslav complaints that his 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. Japan smooths Way to . Summit Tokyo apr Japan eager to rekindle a a global partnership with the United states erased a few More irritants to bilateral relations on the eve of prime minister Toshiki Kaifus Summit with president Bush. In the two Days before Kaifus scheduled departure today for the Summit in Maine the government cracked Down on the Shady dealings of huge japanese brokerages which have worldwide influence and anted up $500 million in .-sought assistance for the persian Gulf operations. With new agreements of increasing Access for . Companies to Japan a construction and semiconductor markets relations Are on the mend since Kaifu and Bush held their last Summit three months ago in California. At that time Japan a confused hesitant response to the persian Gulf War was still fresh in the minds of resentful americans. . Officials also were miffed by what they claimed was Japan a failure to pay about $500 million in pledged Aid to the .-led forces. Americans believed that they carried a Burden in the War even though Japan is dependent on Mideast Oil supplies. J on tuesday however Japan pledged that amount in Aid for kurdish refugee Relief and the removal of iraqi mines left in Kuwait. A foreign ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity about this weeks Summit gave an upbeat evaluation of bilateral relations. A when you take a look at the record there have been a number of significant achievements. Since the last meeting in april a he said. He said Japan hoped to a get Back to the track of global partnership that Kaifu and Bush had touted when they met last year. Indeed global issues seem pertinent since the meeting immediately precedes the group of seven Summit in London. At Center stage will be the question of Aid to the soviet unions collapsing Economy