European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 16,1991 at a glance More than 5,000 women have been hired to work at the International Auto show in Frankfurt a and some Are finding the work demean ing. See stories on pages 1416. Preserving Fillmore Millard Fillmore has t exactly electrified american history books but the 13th president has a Dutiful if slightly Daffy group of admirers. A Page 4 army jumping the gun the army wants to replenish an already enormous Supply of tank killing weapons by buying More than 2,100 laser guided hellfire missiles now instead of next year when an improved version starts coming off the production line. A Page 5 curbing child abuse the Federal government faced with an upsurge in reported child abuse should Send health care professionals to the Homes of new parents and their babies a panel pages ufos d out after nearly 30 years of being the nation s no. 1 ufos Abductee Betty Hill is retiring from Public appearances partly because too Many flakes Are making ufos reports. A Page 7cuba feels threatened the cuban government said the departure of soviet military personnel would leave it vulnerable to a . Attack unless american forces also withdraw. A Page 9 hard times during the High flying �?T80s, be Thesda md., spared no expense for local services. Now Montgomery county is broke and its budget deficit has risen from $85 million to $185 million in a year. A Page 17index Abby Ann Landers 20 comics.18-20 commentary.13 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.21-28 to listings.27 weather.11 Iraq had enough explosives for nuclear bombs . Says by the new York times United nations a the United nations has concluded that president Saddam Hussein of Iraq could have possessed enough nuclear explosives to build at least two or three atomic weapons a year by the mid-1990s, had his secret production plants not been destroyed by Allied bombing during the persian Gulf War. The unpublished report produced by . Inspectors responsible for finding and destroying iraqi plants capable of producing nuclear weapons and material also said that other countries provided Baghdad with substantial quantities of equipment and material for part of its nuclear program. It said those countries a very probably sent experts to give continuing technical advice. Since the Start of the Gulf crisis last year there have been various estimates of iraqis nuclear capacity and of the quantities of nuclear explosives it might possess. The iraqis who maintain that their nuclear program was entirely peaceful have admitted producing about a Pound of slightly enriched uranium unsuitable for weapons use in violation of their obligations under the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. They have also admitted manufacturing a minute Quantity of plutonium which is also used in nuclear bombs again in violation of International regulations. An iraqi defector however has been widely reported As telling american intelligence that the Baghdad government has acquired about 80 or 90 pounds of highly enriched uranium or enough for four or five weapons. In july a Bush administration official told Congress that Iraq probably had secretly enriched enough uranium to make at least one nuclear device. The new . Report summarizing the findings of the four nuclear inspections carried out so far paints the most comprehensive picture yet available of iraqis Covert nuclear program and its potential. The report is expected to be published shortly As a Security Council document. In a related development the . Security Council on Friday warned Iraq in Strong terms that it must cooperate More closely with inspectors in the future by allowing them to Fly their own helicopters anywhere inside its Borders As they search for secret nuclear plants. Germany has Lent the United nations three helicopters and Crews so that its inspectors can carry out spot checks on Short notice anywhere in Iraq without being dependent on the iraqi authorities Solzhenitsyn Hopes hell be going Home Cavendish it. A Alexander Solzhenitsyn on saturday said events in the soviet Union make it More Likely he will return to his Homeland but the exiled writer said he wont go Home unless treason charges against him Are dropped. A a we la definitely return Back Home to Russia a the exiled soviet writer said at the town s Bicentennial Parade. The 72-year-old writer whose novels and essays exposed the terror of Josef Stalin a Rule said the democratic movement sweeping the soviet Union makes it Likely the charges that led to his exile in 1974 will be dropped. A without these events my return was completely out of the question a he said at saturdays Celebration. A under the Rule of the Kab and the communist party who i always fought with i could not return a said Solzhenitsyn. One of his sons Stephan acted As interpreter. He said he Hasni to made any formal attempt yet to return Home and has no information on whether the treason charges will be dropped. Solzhenitsyn Winner of the 1974 Nobel prize in literature was expelled for writings that contained brutal descriptions of soviet prison Camps. His works include the gulag archipelago and one Day in the life of Ivan Benisovich. In letter to the leaders published in soviet periodicals last september he urged reforms that included free functioning for the russian orthodox Church an end to the communist party a monopoly on Power and Independence for several of the soviet republics a All of which have come about in recent weeks. Solzhenitsyn settled in Cavendish a Southeastern Vermont town in 1976 with his wife Natalia and Stephan who is now an 18-year-old student at Harvard College. To provide transportation. But Iraq has so far refused to allow helicopters which Are waiting in Turl to operate Over its territory saying would violate its sovereignty. The . Representative to the nations Thomas r. Pickering said i iraqis attempt to deny the inspectors of the German helicopters constituted very serious breach of its obligate under Security Council Resolution 707. That Resolution authorizes the inspectors a to conduct both fixed Wing Ami helicopter flights throughout Iraq for All relevant purposes including inspection surveillance Aerial surveys transportation and logistics without interference of any if Iraq does not comply fully Pickering added it will face a very serious the councils president Jean Berard Merimee delivered what he termed a not an ultimatum but a very serious warning to iraqis representative Abdel Amir Anbari telling him that Resolution 707 a has to be fully Anbari said later that he was Only a messenger and did not know a what will be the next step on the part of my government or on the part of the crash kills Mother 2 children Long Beach Calif. A a Small air plane plunged into an unoccupied building and burst into flames shortly after Takeoff saturday killing All three people on Board authorities said. The single engine Cessna 210 crashed about 100 Yards Northwest of a runway at Long Beach municipal Airport said Mary Landreth a los Angeles county sheriffs Deputy. A it sputtered quite a bit and then the engine stalled a said Bob Caslon spokesman for the City fire department the victims were a Mother believed to be the Pilot and her son and daughter Caldon said. Their names were withheld until relatives could be notified. The one Story building containing warehouses for machinery and lamps sustained $100,000 damage when the plane crashed through a Large front window and burned Caldon from Page 1 land of vis. Croatian Media later reported the boats had opened fire on a maritime warehouse in the Arbor. A military warehouse in Ploce which Croatia listed As one of the facilities that surrendered also was said to be under attack. The Tan Jug news Agency said air Force jets stopped attacking Ploce after destroying four trucks that were carrying weapons out of the warehouse. Croatia a decision to blockade military facilities Drew Sharp criticism from officials of the european Community who have been trying to arrange a peace plan for Yugoslavia and an immediate response from the army. The army has Long been accused by Croatia of helping guerrillas of the serbian minority who have seized a third of the breakaway Republic in fighting that has left More than 400 people dead in the past 2vi months. The army has said it Only intervened to separate serbs and croats. Fierce fighting was reported found the Eastern croatian stronghold of of Ijelu Pankrac and Stara Gradiska Tan Jug said. Belgrade Media said that Hrvatska do Bica had fallen to serbian fighters and that the croats were establishing a new defense line outside of the town located 55 Miles from Zagreb. Zagreb radio said More than 1,500 mortar shells rained on Vukovan on saturday and mortar and tank grenade fire resumed after Dawn sunday. Croatian defense ministry officials said late saturday that three garrisons a the 27th of july Barracks and the ses Vete warehouse in Zagreb and a Barracks just North of Gospic 90 Miles South surrendered after barricades were erected. Another four Barracks the arms warehouse in Ploce arid two watchtowers on the hungarian Border surrendered later the officials said sunday. They claimed 300 to 400 soldiers in total had Given up including 50 officers in split about 10 in the Northern Adriatic port Rijeka and More than 100 soldiers in Gospic. From 50 to 60 officers and civilians working for the military in Rijeka were reported to have deserted. Both sides in the fighting have engaged in heavy propaganda campaigns and the figures provided by Croatia could not immediately be confirmed. Members of Croatia a ethnic serbian minority who make up about 12 percent of the republics 4.75 million people insist they will never be citizens of an ind Pei Dent Croatia. Croatia a blockade imposed Early sat urday appeared to be a response to sever Days of serious military losses to the serb
