European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes saturday september 14, 1991 at a glance the thunderbird 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 a pressured by growing poverty neglect and injustice Black members of Congress said. A Page 6bridge plans sought the United states has asked Denmark Tor 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 after her plane vanished Over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. A Page 10bcci overwhelmed fed Federal officials say Quot systematic and deliberate criminal fraud Quot by the Bank of credit and Commerce International overwhelmed the Federal Reserve making it impossible to uncover Bocci s illegal ownership of a . Bank sooner. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 letters. 12 Money matters. .17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 outnumbered serbian rebels capture strategic croatian town Belgrade Yugoslavia a serbian guerrillas advanced Friday on two fronts in War battered Croatia seizing a strategic town South of Zagreb and closing in on Adriatic ports. The loss of to Stanica a heavily fortified town of about 8,000 people located 60 Miles South of the croatian capital Zagreb was Likely to be a psychological blow to the hard pressed croats. Although badly outnumbered the serbian rebels have achieved a string of victories against demoralized croatian units occupying about a Quarter of Croatia in the past 2vi months. Croatia and some Western governments accuse the yugoslav army of helping the serbs a charge that the army denies. At least 400 people have died in the fighting that erupted Between croatian Security forces and militants from the serbian minority after Croatia declared its Independence june 25. The serbian Advance continued As a peace conference in the Hague attended by officials from All six yugoslav republics entered a second Day. About 370 croatian troops fled to Stanica across a Bridge Over the Una River into Bosnia Early Friday after a last ditch firefight in the town Center Belgrade radio reported. The guardsmen were disarmed and handed Over to the bosnian red Cross which eventually will repatriate them the radio report said. The Tan Jug news Agency said that some of the besieged defenders had also surrendered to the rebels. Croatia Shina news Agency said All Contact had been lost with to Stanica after its defenders suffered 12 killed and about 35 wounded in fighting thursday. Serbian guerrillas now control virtually All of the Bani a Region South of Zagreb parts of which Are Only 28 Miles from the capital. Last month Koltaj Nicas a defenders fled what they believed to be an impending attack with hundreds of the City a inhabitants. The attack failed to materialize and the croatian troops returned two Days later. In the town of Dubina 12 Miles East of to Stanica the croats blew up a key Bridge thursday in an Effort to Stem the rebel Advance. Croatian forces also were reported to be retreating along the Central Adriatic coast said Milan Martic commander of the serbian forces in the enclave of Krajina of Western Croatia. His fighters were now Only nine Miles Inland from the City Martic said. Croatian Media reported that the town of Kradin and surrounding villages located about six Miles North of Sibenik we re under bombardment Friday morning. The vital Malenica Bridge on the Adriatic Highway about 35 Miles farther North was also under attack. The serbs appeared poised to Cut off All land links Between Central Croatia and the Southern province of Dalmatia. Ethnic serbs 12 percent of Croatia a 4.75 million people accuse the Croatia a nationalist authorities of discrimination and say they want to remain part of Yugoslavia. They demand that the mostly Rural areas they inhabit be allowed to secede from Croatia. Paratroopers Rescue . Troops held hostage by palestinian gunmen Tyre Lebanon up a three palestinian guerrillas who took 14 . Peacekeeping troops hostage in a Southern coastal town for a few hours surrendered Friday following a firefight that killed one peacekeeper and a gunman a . Spokesman said. A the guerrillas who said they belong to the Fatah movement surrendered at 10 local time after 570 French paratroopers. Encircled the building a said timor gospel a spokesman for the . Interim Force in Lebanon. Earlier Security sources said six guerrillas intending to infiltrate into Israel across Southern Lebanon arrived at Dawn in a rubber boat off the coastal town of a Agoura 56 Miles South of Beirut where the forces Headquarters Are. . Peacekeeping troops spotted the guerrillas and tried to arrest them the sources said. The guerrillas opened fire and retreated to a Force Post taking 14 peacekeepers hostage they added. Goksel said French paratroopers who Are part of the Force were dispatched to the scene and encircled the observation Post. Quot one palestinian and one swedish peacekeeper were killed during the fire Exchange a he said. A negotiations with the hostage takers later led to their surrender a he said. It was not known whether the attack ing Force managed to Cross into Israel or was spotted by . Soldiers before reaching the Border area. Fatah the popular front for the liberation of Palestine general command headed by Ahmed Jibril and the Palestine liberation front of Abul Abbas specialize in such Cross Border operations. A number of times they used rubber boats to attack targets inside Israel. The 5,600-Strong peacekeeping Force was deployed in Southern Lebanon in 1978 following an israeli invasion in the area. The Force is made up of contingents from France Norway Ireland Ghana Nepal Fiji Finland Italy and  e from Page 1 Hibit the use of any portion of the . Contribution to natos common budget for construction at Croton. The Bill includes $254 million for the . Contribution to the nato budget. The House military construction Bill would provide $158 million. The administration asked for $358 million. The Senate Bill a Overall spending total of $8.4 billion is $149 million less than requested by the administration and $69 million More than established in the House military construction Bill. House and Senate negotiators will reconcile the two Bills. The Bill is for military construction spending for the budget year beginning oct. 1. The Senate Bill also provides $297 million for beginning the 1991 round of . Military base closures As recommended this summer by the commission on base closures and realignments and approved by president Bush and the Congress. It also includes $674 million for base closings approved by Congress two years ago. The Hill would provide $3.5 billion for military family housing  from Page 1 ing 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 will 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 the control of nato. 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 the russian federation 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