European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 9, 1991 at a glance some cats love attention a and an exhibition can be just the place for feline fanciers to give it to them. This persian is one pro that does no to let the hubbub of a cat show get under its fur. See Story photos on pages 14-16.firings condemned lauded chief Philip Arreola has won both Praise and criticism after firing two officers for returning a naked teenager to Jeffrey l. Dahmer who killed the boy when they left. A Page 4panel�?Ts a secrecy criticized the Bush administration s Council on competitiveness routinely tries to weaken health safety and environmental regulations under a shroud of a butter secrecy a two watchdog groups contend. A Page 5soviets detail Vietnam role the soviet Union sent 3,000 troops to Vietnam during the . Involvement there and downed the first american planes according to the first account in the soviet press about the secret military action. A Page 8school staff cuts averted teachers and parents of Parma Sens elementary and Middle school in Germany Are relieved that they will keep their full complement of teachers for this school year. A Page 9slicing up the pie seizing the Bank of credit and Commerce International a called a a full service Bank Quot for drug lords and dictators a was easy. Dividing what s left of Bocci s global Empire among depositors and creditors will be the hard part. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers.  ��?��x-.v.v.wvftvivs20 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. Azerbaijan Leader headed for win in 1 St popular vote Moscow apr Azerbaijan a Leader moved toward Victory sunday As the Only candidate for president in the republics first popular election. Nevertheless some 50,000 people gathered in Freedom Square in Baku the azerbaijani capital to protest the election according to the Independent turan news Agency. It said there were allegations of vote fraud. Elsewhere in the fragmenting soviet Union an unspecified number of people died in ethnic violence in the South ossetian Region in the Republic of Georgia the Tass news Agency reported. Tens of thousands of people in the Baltic celebrated their new Independence in rallies sunday in Lithuania and Estonia. Also in Lithuania a Convoy of soviet military trucks and armoured vehicles left the capital of Vilnius two Days after the Kremlin recognized Lithuania a Independence. Despite a Call for boycotting the election by the opposition popular front of Azerbaijan turnout was heavy across the Southern Republic. President Ayaz Muta Libov was expected to win the election easily news agencies reported. Muta Libov the Leader of the republics government and communist party since front of supporting the aug. 18-21 hard line coup that briefly ousted soviet presi 1990, has been accused by the popular _ _. _. P that briefly Ltd a Dent Mikhail s. Gorbachev. Since then Muta Libov has seized communist party property in Azerbaijan and resigned As the party Leader. Muta Libov 53, is an economist and Technocrat who Rose to the republics top Post through the party ranks. Azerbaijan declared its Independence front the soviet Union on aug. 30, join i ing other republics in taking advantage of diminished Kremlin Power. Tolje soviet Union forcibly incorporated Azerbaijan in the 1920s. It is engaged in a bloody ethnic conflict with the neighbouring Republic of Armenia which is mainly Christian. At the heart of the dispute is Magorno Karabash a mainly armenian enclave that Azerbaijan has controlled since 1923, the hostility has existed for centuries. Ethnic violence flared in the past 24 hours in the neighbouring Republic of Georgia with a intense shooting reported in the Region of South Ossetia North of the capital of Tbilisi Tass reported  from Page 1 Egypt in the 1967 six Day War Israel has settled some 100,000 jews there who live among 1.7 million palestinians. Shamir was quoted sunday As arguing that if Israel agrees to freeze settlement construction it would Send the wrong signal. A if today we agree we will Settle no More this would mean we Are giving up these territories. This is How the arabs would understand it. This is How others would understand it a Shamir said in an interview published by the daily Maaris. Contradicting previous israeli assurances he also said settlement expansion was necessary to absorb soviet jews. A this process. Of increasing immigration it is Clear and self understood that it goes hand in hand with a Campaign or settlement a Shamir said. A fall the territories of Bretz must be settled by jews More and  a similar statement by Shamir in january 1990 Drew an angry International response. Since then Israel maintained it would not direct soviets to the territories As a matter of policy. But it insisted every newcomer had the right to choose a new Hometown. In an interview with Israel radio sunday Shamir warned that Bush a decision to delay consideration of the loan guarantees could endanger a Middle East peace conference. A in essence this act of linkage can objectively endanger the substance of the peace process a Shamir said. If consideration of the loan guarantees is put off Shamir said the arabs a will dance on the rooftops and their level of demands will Rise  he added a this very fact will not permit the peace  the loan guarantees which Israel formally requested Friday Are needed to absorb a wave of soviet immigration that has exceeded 300,000 since 1989. More than 1 million Are expected. The guarantees will allow the jewish state to borrow More at advantageous terms on International markets. Israel anticipates it will need to borrow at least $15 billion of the $50 billion needed to resettle soviets Over the next five years. Baker Lias been trying to put together a regional peace conference and is due to return to the Region next week for further talks. Bush meanwhile sent Shamir a new years greeting. The two Day Rosh a Shana Holiday was to Start sunday night. A let us work to end the sterile confrontations of the past. Our Peoples look Forward to a future of peace Freedom and Prosperity a Bush wrote. He added a working together our governments can find the Wisdom and leadership we need. The United states will stand beside Israel in the quest for peace and  addresses from Page 1 starting the program to avoid adding to the turmoil of massive troop draw Downs in Europe and unit deployments to the Middle East army officials said. About 40 percent of overseas zip codes were affected by the change. A the mail wont be delayed by using the old address a Thompson said. A this problem should have no Impact on deliverability. A it just makes those people who have sent in their change of address cards irritated because no one is doing anything with it a Thompson said. Unlisted zip codes were rejected by business computers and the new two letter designations for overseas areas that replace state names a such Asae instead of new York after Apo a were unrecognizable to the data base officials said. An example of the new format for a Soldier in Babenhausen Germany would be sgt. John Doe  Box 123 Apo a 09089 the new mailing formats can be read by scanners that will automatically sort items for overseas delivery As opposed to the current system of hand sorting Kuwait from Page 1 about Long  a i think just stationing equipment there for a Quick reaction Force that could go in and fall in on equipment that a maintained by maybe a Small Force a is ail that a needed said Coble a native of Tulsa okla. Sgt. Robert Rachal agreed that a presence should be maintained in Kuwait for the Short term but predicted that soldiers would not need to be stationed there much longer. A in eight months i think it will All blow Over a said Rachal of he troop. Continuing a Navy presence would be enough a for three years Max after that Rachal said. The kuwaitis a Are still a Little bit tense a said Rachal of Natchitoches la. A but everything a  a in some form of Way our presence is needed there a said spec. Robertson Ball of he troop. A but in other ways i feel the kuwaiti government should build up militarily a the situation in Kuwait is a pretty much in turmoil a according to spec. Christopher Blue of 54th chem troop. Blue of Manchester n.h., said the United states was helping Kuwait by providing a a Force that will keep people away from  the soldiers played Down problems of adjusting to kuwaiti air which has been heavily polluted by hundreds of burning Thompson said. . Corporations Are being advised by the postal service to hold onto the change of address cards sent to them and to make the changes when their computers Are Able Thompson said. Stateside companies should receive new directories and updated software this month and next so address changes should begin taking hold then said Jack Thompson a senior operations specialist with the postal service. A primarily the problem is that Many Haven to updated their computer software yet but we expect that to change in a month or two a Thompson said. A by october things will have settled quite a  m Oil Wells set afire by the retreating Ira army a we had a few colds and a lit breathing problems a Ball said. A but was mostly pretty  a for a while it was kind of bad a a Blue. A but it would change with t  a there were Days that the wind shift and the Clouds would Roll in from the i fires a Coble said. A but most of the a the wind was favourable so we weren to felted by  the remaining 1,300 soldiers of t 11th army Cav regt still in Kuwait w return to Germany by mid september v corps spokesman said. Soldiers from the 8th and 3rd inf i Sions have been assigned to replace t 11th army Cav regt in the Region