European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Vol. 50, no. 97 Friday july 19,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Baker Assad come to terms on peace talks Damascus Syria a the United states and Syria agreed thursday night on terms for a Middle East peace conference. It is now up to Israel to decide whether to participate. The announcement was made after Secretary of states James a. Baker Iii met with syrian president Hafez Assad Baker told reporters that the Bush administration agreed with Syria on a . Observer who would take notes he can communicate with the participants and the sponsors but he will be an he also will report to . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar. A i am pleased to report that Syria has agreed to the proposal that we have made including coming to a peace conference a Baker said. A i think that this is an extraordinarily important and positive step. It gives us something to work with and we re going to try and build on it throughout this a Baker said he was looking Forward to talks with prime minister Yitzhak Shamir and other israeli leaders in Jerusalem on sunday night hoping they would endorse the . Proposal for a peace conference As Well. The Baker Assad meeting launched bakery a new Effort to try to arrange negotiations betwee see Baker on Page 2 35c d 8693 at urls from wire reports. Athens Greece a president Bush said thursday that the United states will do whatever it can to help resolve the 17-year-old dispute Between Greece and Turkey Over the Island of Cyprus and try to resolve it this year. But he emphasized that America should act As a a catalyst a and could not a wave a magic speaking to the press Bush said he held discussions with greek prime minister Konstantine i Tsitakis about Cyprus and greek turkish relations a and i told him that if we could be a catalyst. I would willingly fulfil the but he said a i done to suggest that the United states will wave a Wand a magic Wand and solve a problem that has plagued this part of the world for a Long Turkey invaded Cyprus 17 years ago to put Down a reek Lead coup on the Island whose population is 81 percent greek cypriot and 19 percent turkish cypriot. Since then Turkey has occupied two fifths of the is land out raging greeks and providing the latest conflict in centuries of feuding and outright warfare Between Greece and Turkey. Earlier in an address to the 300-member parliament Bush said a in the new world order i have discussed none of us should accept the status quo in Cyprus. A a today i pledge that the United states will do whatever it can to help Greece and Turkey and the cypriots to Settle the Cyprus problem. This will happen this Bush who was welcomed in parliament with pro longed applause said Greece and Turkey a face a great Challenge to resolve this dispute which divides in similar remarks in an arrival speech at Athens Airport the president said he looked Forward to a stability in the Balkans peace on Cyprus and reconciliation Between Greece and Turkey. The first . President to visit Athens in 32 years Bush had words of Praise for Greece which a stood for what is right in the persian Gulf by insisting that aggression must Nat Greece sent two frigates to the Middle East to join the fight against Iraq. He was greeted by president Konstantine Karaman is who also welcomed president Eisenhower to Athens 32 years ago. Bush then held talks with i Tsitakis Leader of a conservative government that has begun repairing strained .-greek relations. Bush referred to Kara Pinalis and i Tsitakis As men who Quot have pressed passionately for Freedom and offered new Hope to the the trip to Greece a to be followed by a similar two Day Stop in Turkey a came on the heels of a three Day economic Summit in London capped by Bush a agreement with soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on a historic treaty to Cut Long Range nuclear weapons by 30 percent. Security was tight in Athens in response to a series of bombings protesting the visit a one of them tuesday in an insurance office located on the route Bush s motorcade would pass on its Way from the Airport. Theresee Bush on Page 2vietnam says it sent remains of Man in photo Washington a Vietnam says one of the men believed to be pictured As a missing prisoner of War is dead and that his remains were Given to the United states last year the Pentagon said thursday. But morticians have been unable to make a positive identification. According to the Hanoi government the remains of air Force col. John Leighton Robertson were Given to . Officials in april 1990, Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said. That would be one month before what is believed to be the Date on the photo in which the men Are holding a sign with a cryptic message that says among other things �?o25-5-1990.�?� a in this specific Case we have never made a positive identification of the individual that Vietnam says they be identified a Williams said. A they say its one of those three people in the picture. We have never made that determination. We just can to confirm what they the remains in question were among those of 10 servicemen Given to the United states last year. However Only one of set of remains has been positively identified Williams said. The Pentagon says it has thus far been unimpressed with the evidence despite the claims by relatives and others that the picture shows the three missing american servicemen. Retired Gen. John w. Vessey jr., the a residential emissary to Hanoi for powr a issues told a a House panel on from left Gladys Fleckenstein Mother of it. Lany j. Stevens Barbara Robertson wife of col. John l. Robertson and Johanna wednesday that the photo might be a Lundy wife of maj. Albro l. Lundy jr., hold photos of their loved ones who were reported dead or missing in Southeast Asia. See remains on Page 2
