European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                3 slayings in Germany probed for link to Milwaukee murders from staff and wire reports authorities said Friday they Are investigating whether a Man in Wisconsin suspected of killing and mutilating up to 17 people is linked to unresolved murders in Germany. Jeffrey l. Dahmer 31, was charged thursday in Milwaukee with four counts of homicide and held on $1 million bail. He also was accused under a habitual criminal statute that could add 10 years to each count if he is convicted. German authorities said Friday that they Are investigating possible links Between Dahmer and at least three in Jeffrey l. Dahmer stares straight ahead As charges Are read against him in Milwaukee county circuit court thursday. Solved murders that occurred Between 1979-81 when Dahmer was stationed with the army in Baum older Germany. A spokeswoman for the Baum older military Community said Friday that Dahmer was a medic assigned to the 2nd in 68th army regt 8th inf div Mech Between july 13, 1979, and March 24, 1981. But she could shed no further Light on  military history at Baum older. Records depending upon their nature Are not kept longer than one to three years she said. Joyce Wiesner a spokeswoman for the army Reserve in St. Louis said he was discharged As a private first class on March 26, 1981, about two Days after he left Baum older. She would not say what kind of discharge he received. The victims in the unsolved murder cases were two German women and one unidentified woman whose bodies were found near Pir Masens Rosenbach and Baum older authorities said. The two German murder victims were identified As a Christel ebels Hiuser 30, who died of two Stab wounds in Pir Masens on july 31.1980. A Erika Handschuh age 22, a Hitchhiker from Heidelberg who was strangled and stabbed near Baum older on nov. 30.1980. A the unidentified woman a charred and mutilated body was found in a Field outside Rosenbach a Village Between Kaiserslautern and Baum older on nov. 2, 1979. Like All Dahmer a victims identified so far in the United states the unidentified woman was Black. Police determined she had been murdered on oct. 28. Law enforcement officials from the three areas said they were looking closely mysteries in Germany suspected serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was an army medic stationed with the 2nd in 68th army regt 8th inf div Mechin Baum older Germany from july 13,1979, to March 24, 1981. German police Are investigating Dahmer a possible link with at least three unsolved murders near Baum older during that time. @1 _ Erika Handschuh nov. 30, 1980 at Dahmer in connection with the murders and would seek to question him if further investigation was necessary. A we Are studying the information we have on the Dahmer Case. If we decide to hear him on this Case we will either go through Interpol or diplomatic channels. The decision should be soon a said Hermann Hillbranch chief District attorney in bad or Cugnach which would oversee the Baum older area death. A when we know More about Dahmer and we know he was definitely stationed see slayings on Page 2palestinians last hurdle to talks israeli says Jerusalem apr foreign minister David Levy suggested Friday that Israel would Grant concessions to get peace talks started but that a dispute Over palestinian negotiators remained the chief obstacle. Israel radio meanwhile reported that the jewish state is posing new conditions before it will accept the . Formula. It said Israel wants the goals of the negotiations to be spelled out in Advance. It is also insisting that Jordan a foreign minister a not a palestinian a speak for the joint jordanian palestinian delegation. The report did not give the source of its information. Yossi Ach Meir a top aide to prime minister Yitzhak Shamir refused to comment. The reported demands came a Day after syrians foreign minister insisted that president Bush had Given his country assurances Israel would withdraw from a fall fronts a including the Golan Heights. Israel captured the land from Syria in the 1967 Middle East War. Washington said however that it was Only repeating support for existing . Resolutions. Like United states and Arab nations Are awaiting israelis formal response to proposals by Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii for a peace conference. Syria get Lebanon and Jordan have agreed to attend the conference and saudi Arabia has said it will attend As an observer. Levy speaking in an interview with the Jerusalem Post newspaper said Baker might return to Jerusalem possibly soon after next weeks .-soviet Summit to give Israel a list of possible palestinian delegates. A this palestinian representation is the main problem. The rest of the things Well overcome together Quot see talks on Page 2 top soviet Admiral says by the los Angeles times Moscow a the commander of the soviet Navy announced thursday that the number of vessels in his country a Fleet will be Cut by 20 percent to 25 percent within the next decade the official soviet news Agency Tass reported. Adm. Vladimir n. Chernavin said however that the soviet Fleet one of the worlds largest would maintain defensive sufficiency despite the cuts. A combat capabilities of the Navy will be maintained thanks to the qualitative renewal of All branches of the service a Chernavin told Tass. The announcement of planned naval cuts came during a visit to the soviet Union by Gen. Colin l. Powell the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who praised recent cuts in the soviet armed forces and the planned reductions of the . And soviet nuclear arsenals. Western diplomats in Moscow said Leet to be that the naval cuts probably reflected a decision to decommission old worn out ships and reshape the soviet Fleet to emphasize Quality instead of Quantity. Chernavin said that the latest soviet ships particularly the typhoon class guided missile submarines the third generation attack submarines the kirov class cruisers and new Sov Remen by class destroyers would form the basis of the country a restructured Fleet. The authoritative London based in Cut by 20% Ter National Institute for strategic studies said that the soviet Navy in 1990 had 323 submarines 227 principal surface combatants 395 patrol and coastal combatants 331 mine warfare ships and 77 amphibious Craft. In the last few years the soviet Navy has been reducing its overseas presence As part of the nations new military strategy which Aims at de emphasizing offensive capabilities while maintaining see Fleet on Page 2