European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday july 11,-1991 Community theater plays a big role in the life of Many european communities. Stripes Magazine looks at some of these Heaters. Evangelists called snakes evangelists Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman Are like a two rattlesnakes in the same Cage Quot a prospective juror said. A Page 4 rights Effort praised supreme court nominee Clarence Thomas under fire from civil rights leaders praised the movement for contributing to his Rise from poverty. A Page 5 funds to raze embassy a Senate subcommittee votes to provide $130 million to tear Down the new is. Embassy in Moscow that is riddled with listening devices and replace it. A Page 6 poverty linked to cancer a Federal panel focused new attention on poverty As one of the most powerful risk factors for cancer in the United states. A Page 7 Britain to Cut forces Britain responding to the end of the cold War announced a 20 percent Cut in its defense forces Over three years. A Page 8 crowd spits on suspects enraged pet owners curse and spit at the owners of the Long Island pet cemetery who Are charged in a spreading scandal involving mass burials of pets. A a a Page 9 pm to add air bags general motors plans to install air bags for Drivers and front seat passengers in All new cars it Sells in North America by september 1994. A Page 17 Index iraqi n by r. Jeffrey Smith the Washington Post Washington a the first indication that Iraq had secretly enriched nuclear material needed to build a crude atomic bomb was detected last december by . Intelligence experts a month before the Start of a bombing Campaign that . Officials now say left iraqis Covert bomb building equipment largely intact. But officials say the information derived from a secret study of radioactive particles clinging to clothing of hostages who were held briefly at one of iraqis principal nuclear research centers was not considered conclusive enough to influence., the military a Aerial targeting plan. Several experts say this judgment May eventually be seen As one of the most serious intelligence miscalculations before the Start of the persian Gulf War. The wars 43-Day Aerial bombardment was supposed to have eliminated iraqi president Saddam Hussein a nuclear weapons capability. One week into the bombing on Jan. 23, president Bush declared that a your pinpoint attacks have put Saddam out of the nuclear bomb building business for a Long time to  but officials who have seen iraqis new written disclosure of its nuclear research programs and reviewed Independent . Intelligence data have concluded that Iraq May have hidden enough highly in ear Capa Abby Ann Landers. 14 comics. 14-16 commentary. 13 crossword. 14 letters. .7. In Money matters. 17 sports. 18-24 to listings. 18 weather. 11 Rife hed uranium to build a crude nuclear device at some future Date. The prospects for recovering All of the weapons Grade uranium Are widely seen As dim. A a you cannot Rule that out a a government analyst said tuesday when asked about the possibility that Saddam might eventually use the material to build a bomb. He added however that . Analysts have no evidence such an Effort is now under Way. A the fact is that Iraq had an unsafe guarded Covert uranium enrichment program that it hide from the United nations the International atomic Energy Agency and special International inspection teams inside Iraq state department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said tuesday. A furthermore the extent of iraqis program along with information we have from numerous sources makes us believe strongly that Iraq has a program to develop nuclear weapons a she added. Other member nations of the . Security Council have also expressed concern about iraqis nuclear Effort but have not charged that Iraq has a continuing bomb building program. Some . Government analysts say they May have erred in not taking More seriously the preliminary indications that Iraq was enriching uranium through a primitive technologically outmoded method known As electromagnetic separation that uses special spectrometers called Cal trons. This Effort was disclosed to us. Officials by an iraqi electrical Engineer who defected to . Military forces in Northern Kurdistan last March. The information was confirmed in a 29-Page iraqi letter sent to the International atomic Energy Agency on sunday. But officials say the . Intelligence Community got its first substantial hint of the Cal tron Effort in december when it Analysed radioactive particles found on the clothing of . And other foreign hostages who had been kept for several months at or near the Tuwa Itha research Complex. Iraqi officials who have consistently claimed to be uninterested in nuclear weapons production described their Cal tron enrichment program As purely peaceful but nonetheless cited a National Security reasons for having kept it secret. . Government analysts speaking on condition they not be named said intelligence experts in Washington had known for More than a year of iraqis determination to try to make atomic weapons. Where the experts went wrong they say is in predicting that Iraq would build its weapon through More efficient methods either by diverting a declared stockpile of highly enriched uranium under intermittent International inspection or by building a new stockpile of uranium enriched through processing in modern centrifuges. Senate gets pact to Cut conventional arms Washington apr president Bush asked the Senate on tuesday to approve a landmark treaty slashing non nuclear forces in Europe calling it a the most ambitious arms control agreement Ever  said the treaty a will be of major importance in laying the indispensable foundation for the Post cold War Security architecture in  the conventional forces in Europe treaty was signed by 22 nations in Paris last november. But Bush later decided to hold it on his desk accusing the soviets of going Back on their word. The soviets reclassified three army mechanized infantry divisions deployed in the treaty zone from the Atlantic to the ural mountains As naval coastal defense units. The soviets maintained that the troops 3,500 tanks armoured personnel carriers and artillery pieces were exempt from the treaty because the pact did not cover naval arms. After weeks of negotiations the two sides settled their differences june 1 in Portugal the treaty limits each Side to 20,000 Battle tanks 30,000 armoured combat vehicles 20,000 artillery pieces 2,000 attack helicopters and 6,800 combat aircraft. 1 the ceilings will require the soviet Union and its former Warsaw pact allies to destroy tens of thousands of tanks armoured combat vehicles and artillery pieces. Western nations will have to trim their arsenals but less so than the soviets. A significantly the reductions will eliminate the overwhelming soviet numerical advantage in conventional armaments that has existed in Europe for More than 40 years a the president said. He said the treaty would limit the capability of any country to launch a Surprise attack and initiate a Large scale offensive in Europe. In a letter to the Senate Bush said the treaty was in the Best interests of the United states. A the complexities of negotiating a treaty involving 22 nations and tens of thousands of armaments spread Over an area of More than 2.5 million Square Miles were immense a Bush said. A difficult technical issues such As definitions counting rules methods for destroying reduced equipment and inspection rights were painstakingly  delay urged on women in combat decision Washington a a Senate subcommittee tuesday recommended a two year delay in the Pentagon a decision on whether to allow women in combat. The Senate armed senders committees manpower subcommittee suggestion came in a proposal to next years defense Bill. The proposal Calls for a 15-member commission appointed by the president to consider the question and Issue recommendations in 1993. The House already has voted to allow the services to use women in combat. Sen. John Glenn a Ohio the subcommittees chairman said a postwar hearing produced no consensus among top Pentagon officials military leaders or service women. A this Issue is too serious for us to act hastily a Glenn said. A before wholesale changes can be made we need to be confident that combat effectiveness would not be compromised by those  at a subcommittee hearing last month the military Stop brass suggested that eliminating restrictions on combat assignments could Force women to Register for the draft. But the Pentagon said there was no link Between the draft and repeal of combat restrictions. Hot weather causes shift in Bank hours Kaiserslautern Germany a amps a soaring temperatures inside the Vogel Weh Branch of merchants Bank have caused Bank officials to change Cus Torner service hours. The Bank a new hours which began tuesday Are from 8 . To 1 . Instead of the previous 9 . To 4 . Hours. The adjusted hours will continue until the hot spell Breaks said Rosemary Langhals customer service manager for the Western Region. Temperatures in the facility on the second floor of the commissary building in the Vogel Weh shopping Complex reached 95 to 99 degrees fahrenheit at one Point during the current hot spell said Langhals. None of the windows in the Bank can be opened Langhals said. During extreme weather last summer the Bank was closed for several Days but the heat did no to last As Long As during this Summers hot weather she said. Langhals said she believes that customers Wilt understand and accept the new hours. A a it a extremely uncomfortable for people standing in line a she added. With the new hours a both the customers and employees will  Langhals emphasized that Cash machines located outside the Bank will be closely monitored to ensure that they continue to function while the Bank is closed