European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes thursday August 22,1991 at a glance if you like animals Europe has the zoos where you can see them. See stripes Magazine Tor  retrial unlikely Oliver North probably will not be tried again for his role in the Iran Contra scandal prosecutors say. A Page 5smith prosecutors protest prosecutors and the woman who alleges William Kennedy Smith raped her say the judge is giving their Side dirty looks and they want her off the Case. A Page 7bob�?Ts toll climbs to 16 battered residents along the East coast clean up the mess left behind by Hurricane Bob blamed for at least 16 deaths. A Page 8dod Hopes to ease cuts the Pentagon thinks its proposed voluntary separation incentive could eliminate the need for cutting 10,000 to 15,000 mid career service members. A Page 9servicemembers get help the . Army contracting come in Europe has begun requiring that contractors provide proof of third party insurance that could compensate service members caught in disputes Over damage caused by movers. A Page 10salomon chief to testify As Salomon inc. Sought to contain damage from a trading scandal its interim chairman agreed to testify before members of Congress seeking reforms in the government securities Market. A Page 17  Abby Ann Landers. .,.14 comics. 14-16 commentary. 13 crossword. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 18-24 to listings. 23 weather. 11 Yeltsin from Page 1 elements in the military and communist party ousted Gorbachev. The defense ministry a adopted a decision to fulfil the withdrawal of military units and detachments from the places to which the regime of the state of emergency was spread to the Points of their permanent location a Tass reported. Hundreds of tanks and other armoured vehicles have swarmed in and around Moscow and other cities across the country since the coup began. In flying from Moscow the communist leaders were Able to thwart Yeltsin who was leading the opposition to the overthrow. At Yeltsin a suggestion the russian parliament Vot eco unanimously to order the state airline Aeroflot the Kab and civil aviation authorities to prevent the coup leaders from taking off. Thousands of people kept up their Vigil at the russian parliament building following overnight clashes with soviet troops that left at least four dead. Several thousand demonstrators gathered outside the building roared with approval when the announcement of the committees departure for the Airport came Over a Loudspeaker. Meanwhile there was a change in Tenor of official soviet Media coverage of the coup. On wednesday afternoon the state run television news program vre Mya dropped its strict adherence to the government line. It quoted Yeltsin whom it had not been mentioning previously As saying Gorbachev was healthy. Earlier wednesday Yeltsin told lawmakers that Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov a key member of the emergency committee that overthrew Gorbachev had invited him to visit Gorbachev in the Crimea where Gorbachev was reportedly arrested. However Yeltsin said that lawmakers feared for his safety if he left his barricaded Headquarters at the parliament building and decided to Send a delegation of Republic officials instead. Wednesdays developments followed reports that at least two of the coup leaders have stepped Down because of alleged illness. The developments also followed mass anti coup demonstrations in Moscow Leningrad Kishinev and other cities As Well As strikes by Coal miners in Siberia. The three Baltic republics which have Long sought Independence also fought attempts by the coup leaders to take control. The Junta seemed unable to Cope with tens of thousands of people who erected barricades around Yeltsin a riverfront stronghold in the parliament. Columns of tanks and armoured personnel carriers moved around Central Moscow Early wednesday. One patrol of the armoured vehicles was trapped by furious demonstrators just after Midnight As it tried to break through a barricade. Two people were confirmed shot or crushed to death As the vehicles tried to fight their Way through. Witnesses said a third person was killed. A russian Republic official col. Viktor Sama Ilov told the Independent news Agency inter fax that four people were shot or crushed to death in the clash. There were unconfirmed reports of More deaths elsewhere in the City. After hours of negotiations Yeltsin supporters claimed to Nave converted the Crews of nine of the vehicles to their cause and they drove to the russian federation building where Yeltsin former foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze and other reformers were leading the resistance. The first vehicle flew a White Flag of surrender and a red and Blue Flag of the russian Republic with the Hammer and sickle Cut out. The soviet military commander for Moscow Gen. Nikolai Kalinin blamed the deaths on demonstrators who he said attacked soviet patrols As they tried to enforce a curfew. He called them a Hooligan elements who were drunk. In Washington president Bush gave his strongest condemnation yet of Gorbachev a ouster a a we re making very Clear to the coup pm Peters and the coup people that there will not be Normal relations with the soviet Union As Long As this illegal coup remains in effect a Bush said tuesday. New . Ambassador Robert s. Strauss arrived wednesday on his first Mission to Moscow. He was instructed not to present his credentials to the Cou leaders and was to report Back to bus on his  from Page 1 Trust the in As much As they would Trust an operating room contaminated with  a spokesman for the . Army in Europe defended the army a efforts to provide equal Opportunity. A i feel that within the army we have a system for processing complaints and i feel that it works Well a the Usa eur spokesman said tuesday. A we have careerists involved both in the military and the civil Side in our equal Opportunity program and they do a great Job in getting Down to the problems. A no system is perfect. But i feel not Only Here in Usa eur but in the army equal Opportunity program we have career professionals who Are administering that problem. Serious complaints Are pursued to a  when told of Fletcher a comments it. Col. Doug Hart a spokesman for the department of defense said a racial and gender discrimination is most definitely against the Law and against defense department  he said people with these types of complaints can go to the social action officer or the equal Opportunity office on the base. A complaints can be taken to those offices in Confidence and they will certainly be looked into a Hart said tuesday. The complaints fall into several patterns Fletcher said. A the soldiers claim there Are Kun flux klan applications showing up at various bases and communities. The problem seems to be a great Deal worse than anyone cares to admit a he said. A the school system Over Here seems to be failing Black youth the same Way its failing them in the .,�?� he continued. A i had hoped because of the nature of the military with its tight knit families and commanders looking out for its troops etc., that the school system would be Colo Blind a but he said there Are too few Black teachers and principals. Fletcher said Black civilians told him of the a Glass ceiling a meaning the pay level of gs-12, which offers salaries from $37,294 to $48,481. A Blacks have a hard time rising above that because All of a sudden All the qualifications that got them to that level not Only disappeared but were suddenly being questioned a he said. He said the same thing happens in corporate life in the states causing the same frustrations and anger. A soldiers All Over told me a what we have Given you has been the tip of the iceberg. Pull the lid All the Way off and you la see something that will blow your mind a a Fletcher said. A i remind Blacks that White people done to treat White people very Well either. I always Tell them to watch How White people treat each other before they say they Are being discriminated against because they May just be getting equal  upon his return to Washington Fletcher said he will begin procedures to validate the charges and complaints he has received. He said he will give them to the equal employment Opportunity commission president Bush Secretary of defense Dick Cheney and the civilian secretaries of the different military branches. Arthur a. Fletcher a bom dec. 22,1924, in Phoenix Ariz. A a served in the . Army from 1943 to 1945 wounded in the Battle of bulge. A received Bachelor of arts degree from Washburn University Topeka kan., 1950, a Public school teacher in Berkeley calif., from 1951 to 1955. A assistant director for the Public information office of the Kansas state Highway department in Topeka from 1955 to 1957. A reports control manager at Aero Jet general corp. In Sacramento calif., 1rom 1957 to 1961. A special assistant to the governor of the state of Washington 1rom 1963 to 1969. A employee relations consultant at the Hanford atomic Energy facility 1967 to 1968, a assistant Secretary of labor for employment standards at the . Department of labor from 1969 to 1971, a alternate Delegate to the 26th session of the . General Assembly in 1971. H executive director of the United negro College fund 1972 to 1973, a president of Arthur a. Fletcher and associates inc., 1973 to 1976. A Deputy assistant to the president or Urban affairs from 1976 to 1977. H appointed chairman of the . Commission on civil rights by president Bush in february 1990. Source . Commission on civil rights a amps Fletcher said leaders in the House of representatives an Senate will also receive his findings ,. A i will personally hand carry it All to be sure they receive it he said. His commissions recommendation could result in a Sere hearings in Europe he said. Such hearings he added would the first time that the civil rights commission has come to trope on an investigation. Fletcher said the country is ready for another Kerner c011?1 Sion. In 1967, president Johnson appointed a commission led gov. Otto Kerner of Illinois to investigate the causes of a riots in the mid-1960s. A a the commission put most of the blame on a White racism a ties United states was moving toward two Sci