European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday september 14, 1991 at a glance the Thunder thirds wrap up a three week tour of Europe next week. See stories on pages 14-15.Gorman wins Case a jury has ruled that televangelist Jimmy Swaggart spread lies that helped ruin fellow television preacher Marvin Gorman s ministry and Gorman must be paid $10 million in damages. A Page 4cheney defends press rules Secretary of defense Dick Cheney defended Pentagon rules on Media coverage in the persian Gulf War but agreed in a meeting with news executives to talk about How to improve reporters Access to combat. A Page 5outlook Bleak for Blacks Black America Quot teeters on the Brink of disaster Quot pressured by growing poverty neglect and injustice Black members of Congress said. A Page 6bridge plans sought the United states has asked Denmark for details about a Bridge project that could keep warships of the future from entering or leaving the Baltic sea. A Page 8earhart survived two researchers produced a photo they say shows that Amelia Earhart survived alter her plane vanished Over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. A Page 10fed drops interest rate the Federal Reserve struggling to strengthen an extremely sluggish Economy announced it was pushing a key Bank lending rate to its lowest level in 18 years. Page 17 Index 1 c x  a Abby Ann Landers. .19 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. .12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 hostage release suggested if Israel frees shiite cleric Baalbek Lebanon a a pro iranian shiite Muslim Leader said Friday that an american or British hostage could be freed within a week but warned of a possible delay if Israel did not release a fundamentalist cleric. A an american or a British hostage could be released within a week or More a said Hussein Muslawi a Leader of the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god. Hezbollah is the Parent organization for the extremist Shnte factions holding most of the 11 missing foreigners in Lebanon. A if Israel keeps its commitments to free More prisoners the process of swapping the Western hostages for the detainees will be moving Forward a he said. Israel on wednesday freed 51 prisoners and returned the bodies of nine guerrillas to Lebanon in a move to facilitate the release of the Western hostages. Most of those freed were shiites. The development coincided with the return to Israel Early Friday of an exiled palestinian and the body of an israeli Soldier who has been missing in Lebanon since 1983. A the process of freeing Western hostages could be delayed because Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid was not included in the first Batch that Israel released Muslawi  it Calls for a new agreement to free a second Batch that would include  Obeid a Hezbollah activist was kidnapped by airborne israeli commandos from his Southern lebanese Village of Jib Sheet on july 28,1989. His Freedom and that of More than 300 Arab prisoners held by Israel have been a key demand by the kidnappers As a condition for releasing their hostages. Muslawi urged those holding the hostages a to close the hostages file today Friday before tomorrow  a but let them free All the prisoners in the jails of the enemy Israel and Europe a he told a news conference at his House in East Lebanon a ancient City of Baalbek. Muslawi said earlier that the hostage Issue was a put on the proper course to a solution when the americans started exerting pressure on Israel to free the Arab  a the release of the lebanese prisoners is the first step. Efforts to Settle the hostage Issue could now proceed a Muslawi told the Beirut newspaper Al Liwa. Also Friday . Secretary general Javier pm rez de Cuellar visited Iran after an invitation last month by the hostage holding faction islamic jihad to mediate a Swap of the Western hostages for arabs held by Israel. The communist party run voice of the people radio quoted unidentified sources As saying the . Leader a has met in Tehran with a representative of the hostage  the return of the israeli body in Exchange for allowing the exiled palestinian to return also could be a step inducing Israel to tree others among the More than 300 prisoners Israel and a proxy militia in Lebanon Are holding. Lebanese Cabinet minister Abdulla Al Amin who is close to Syria said thursday a there is definitely a positive atmosphere about the Issue and there Are hush hush backstage efforts being  from Page 1 can Only result in pitting one group of americans against  in general he said a the nation has polarized into a two party system a a one party inside Washington which makes the deals and the rest of us the party outside that has to pay for the deals with higher regressive taxes and wasteful spending. A Wilder who visited Iowa and new Hampshire in Advance of his announcement plans to schedule Campaign kick offs in new Hampshire and other states soon and has no plans to resign As governor according to a senior adviser. The governor said he was running because he did no to want to see the a american dream becoming All the More elusive for the majority of  and he cast his speech in classic outsiders terms when he ridiculed last years comprehensive Federal budget Compromise that Bush and congressional leaders reached a in order to save their own skins the leaders of both parties met behind closed doors for weeks and then emerged to join hands in the Rose Garden to support the most regressive tax package in history and budget proposals that lock us into the status quo for several years a All so that everyone can get  rights from Page 1 report he distributed to Bush Cheney Congress and the military service chiefs on wednesday. A because of the Large numbers of Blacks in the army coupled with their outstanding performance records As Superior soldiers if the draw Down were done on a truly Colo Blind equitable basis a where Merit were the controlling Standard. When the process is Over the army would be not just significantly Black a As it stands today but actually predominantly Black in fact. Those who express this View insist that the last thing that the department of defense wants to do is rely upon a majority Black army Superior soldiers notwithstanding a Fletcher said. A a Christopher Jehn the Pentagon a personnel chief has said that the draw Down will be color Blind a said spokesman air Force col. Doug Hart. Although performance will be important most positions will be reviewed based on the services need for them Hart said. He said it was necessary to a Cut tens of billions in Federal spending that we cannot afford a but outlined no specifics. A in seeking the presidency i recognize that i am the longest of Long shots. I May get but a few votes but 1 would not be doing my Job As governor indeed 1 would not deserve to be who i am if i did not step Forward a he said. A if we fail to heal this nation in 1992, it May not be healed in my  there was historical irony in the setting Wilder spoke in the capital of the old confederacy around the Comer from a statue of Harry f. Byrd sr., a former governor and senator who was a Leader in the states Long fight against racial Equality president passes physical checkup Washington a president Bush a heartbeat has returned to Normal his doctors said Friday. The president said he had received a a perfect Bill of health in a Complete medical checkup. Even before Bush a doctors reported on the presidential checkup Friday his press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Bush was in a great physical health and expects to run for re election next year. Bush a doctors had detected an irregular heartbeat in  from Page 1 removed eventually anyway. We could just get rid of them a whatever the soviets  the soviet army has moved out of Hungary and Czechoslovakia and is leaving the former East Germany soviet Short Range missiles no longer pose a threat to the West. The new nato strategy is being worked out in meetings among top level planners. Overall the new strategy Wilt Call for smaller numbers of troops though More flexible formations and reduced defense budgets taking into account the Lack of a real threat from a soviet Force crossing the German Border. When the Battlefield atomic weapons Are removed the West a european nuclear deterrent will consist of bombs and missiles. Britain and France have their own strategic nuclear weapons not under nato control. The coming reductions will also put pressure on Congress to scrap plans for a tactical air to surface nuclear missile the funding for which has yet to be approved. . And British military officials favor proceeding with such a missile. But German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher has called for abandoning the expensive weapon on the grounds that americans strategic nuclear missiles and land based nuclear bombers Are deterrent enough against any possible soviet attack. He has been backed by nato members Belgium the Netherlands and Denmark. The announcement of natos plans on the tactical nuclear forces stands against a backdrop of related decisions. A French president Francois Mitter Rand announced this week that France will not deploy its new hades Short Range nuclear missiles a program that had upset the germans. Mitterrand said the 30 missiles being built will be put in storage. A the Kremlin is reported to be considering removing its nuclear missiles from the Western soviet republics of the Ukraine and byelorussian. The idea of a greatly reduced nuclear capacity in Europe has been tacitly accepted by Boris n. Yeltsin president of Russia and by . Secretary of defense Dick Cheney. Yeltsin has advocated a nuclear free Europe and Cheney said recently that the United states is in a position to a address the questions because Battlefield nuclear weapons Are a practically  staff writer Randy Pruitt in Darmstadt contributed to this report