European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes. Sunday october 6, 1991 at a glance japanese prime minister Toshiki Kaifu confirms he will net seek reelection. See Story on Page 9. Belly Ching litigation both sides claimed Victory in the exploding stomach lawsuit against Arm amp Hammer. A Page 4 Singer hospitalized Singer Tennessee Ernie Ford was hospitalized in critical condition suffering from a liver ailment. Page 5 charges of bribery a demoted employee of United technologies Sikorsky aircraft division alleged in a lawsuit that company officials bribed saudi officials to get exclusive contracts to sell them Black Hawk helicopters. A Page 7 stringent aids Bill Illinois gov. Jim Edgar signed the nations most far reaching aids notification Law requiring health care workers with the his virus to notify patients. A Page 8 sexual harassment the dutch social affairs ministry is trying to turn what it sees As a tide of sexual harassment against women. A Page 9 postwar mending a Healing process is under Way Between kurd and iraqis and kurd and turks says the american who deals the most with those belligerent factions in Southwest Asia. A Page 10 savings for shoppers army and air Force Exchange service officials say their customers saved an average $24 on the retail prices of each $100 Worth of items they bought this year. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. 13 faces in places. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. 18-24 weather. 11 fighting rages on in Yugoslavia despite dec sponsored peace pact Zagreb Yugoslavia a new fighting raged across Croatia on saturday with the Federal army closing in on the Adriatic port of Dubrovnik and redoubling efforts to seize croatian strongholds in the East of the War torn Republic. The fighting raged despite a european. Community sponsored truce arranged in the Hague on Friday to halt the increasing death and destruction. Gen. Andrija Raseta Deputy commander of the army a 5th District covering Croatia told reporters in Zagreb that Federal attacks will not Stop until Croatia lifts blockades of Federal garrisons in the Republic. He said defense minister Gen. Veljko Kadijevic made Clear in a letter sent saturday to croatian president Franjo Tudja Man that this was a Basic condition for peace. Ltd Tud Jmani a office had no immediate comment. Air Force jets struck for a second Day at a television transmission Tower just North of Zagreb where a 75-minute air raid alarm sent residents dashing to shelters. Warning sirens sounded in at least six other croatian towns officials said. At least 12 people were reported killed Friday in separate attacks on Barlovac a strategic City some 30 Miles Southwest of Zagreb and no ska an embattled town along the main Zagreb Belgrade High Way. _ six people were killed when a missile hit a bus station in Barlovac late Friday the croatian defense ministry said. Two More people died Early saturday when armed serb rebels entered villages near Barlovac croatian radio said. At least six More people were killed in no ska some 60 Miles Southeast of Zagreb when Cluster bombs reportedly fell on the town after an All Clear Siren sounded Friday afternoon croatian television and other Media reported. Television showed pictures of burned corpses in cars. Raseta denied to reporters that armed forces Are using Cluster or napalm bombs against civilians. But he did not explicitly deny that they were being dropped on croatian forces. He also refused to Rule out an attack at some Point on Zagreb a City of 1 million people. More army attacks were reported around Dubrovnik the stunning medieval port on the Adriatic. Croatian defense ministry officials said the croats had succeeded in beating Back advances on Slano North of Dubrovnik and an attempted Landing to the South. But Tan Jug reported the army had taken the Village of Silipi near the City a Airport about 30 minutes drive from the Center. Reporters at the croatian daily vies Nik who said they had Learned news from Dubrovnik through a shortwave radio link said 10 people a six croatian guardsmen and tour civilians a had been killed in the City in the past five Days. Heavy mortar attacks have wrecked at least one suburb while phosphorous bombs dropped by helicopters left the Beautiful Cypress and Pine forests around Dubrovnik Duming out of control the a Jeusnik reporters said. 3 jets almost collide Over Chicago Faa says Chicago a an error by air traffic controllers nearly caused three passenger jets to collide the Federal aviation administration says. A warning from one of the planes safety systems and a Quick turn by the Pilot averted disaster la misday about 11 Miles from Midway Airport Faa spokesman Jim Dermody said. A while the investigation is not yet Complete we have determined there was an operational error a Dermody said Friday. A it was an Faa  a Southwest airlines Boeing 737 was leading a Northwest airlines dc-9, flying Northeast on approach to a runway at Midway. A Midway airlines dc-9, also in route to the Airport was flying West and would have crossed the path of the two other planes the Faa said in a statement. The Midway Pilot saw the Southwest plane after a warning from his planets traffic Alert and collision avoidance system. The Pilot turned South flying within 800 feet of the Northwest plane. The Midway plane and the Southwest plane passed within about 1,000 feet. A we lost Standard separation Between All three air planes a Dermody said. The Midway flight originated in Detroit the Quot Southwest flight in Kansas City and the Northwest flight in Minneapolis. The number of passengers on Board the planes was not available. No injuries were reported. A there Wasny to any abrupt Radical movement a Dermody said. A i kind of doubt the passengers even knew what  the Faa said Friday the Midway Airport airspace area will be studied to determine whether changes Are needed in air traffic procedures. Assess from Page 1 who is a former Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for legislative affairs. Garcia was the first hispanic to be nominated and confirmed As the Senate a sergeant at arms. A Jerry Newman vice chairman and chief operating officer for slim fast foods in North Woodmere . Newman was formerly a consultant to the Secretary of health education and welfare on matters of higher education and civil rights. A Arthur e. Thomas the president of Central state University in Wilberforce Ohio. Thomas is a former vice president for academic affairs at the University and also served As the director of the Boling Black cultural resources Center in Dayton Ohio. A Julius Section a retired lieutenant general and currently president of Prairie View a amp a in Prairie View Texas. He is a former chief operating officer of american coastal industries inc. A Myrna h. Williamson of Alexandria va., a retired brigadier general and currently a full time professional speaker Trainer and seminar Leader on self improvement personal assessment motivation team building and leadership development. After returning from Germany the group will also provide a report to a recently formed defense department task Force on oct. 16, a Pentagon official said Friday. The nine member Pentagon task Force will Analyse the report and make recommendations to Christopher Jehn the Force management and personnel chief. The Pentagon task Force will be headed by Sara b. Ratcliff the Deputy assistant to the defense Secretary for civilian personnel policy and equal Opportunity. Other members will be from the Pentagon a family policy support and services office each of the services personnel chiefs and equal Opportunity secretaries said air Force it. Col. Doug Hart a defense department spokesman. A a the task Force will determine if there Are in fact problems and then if they find there Are problems they will decide what to do to Correct them a Hart said. Air Force and Navy officials on Friday said they were not aware of any task Force groups being formed to assess the equal Opportunity environment in their services. . From Page 1 estimated that Iraq was one to two years away from enriching enough uranium to produce a nuclear weapon. Although Iraq pledged to the United nations after the Gulf War that it had no nuclear weapons program the , special commission in charge of finding and eliminating iraqis weapons of mass destruction says it Nas found proof of one. The commission urged a ban on Baghdad a nuclear Power program so it cannot serve As a cover for weapons research. Under the action Iraq would be barred from All nuclear activity except work with isotopes for medical treatment Industrial uses and geological and environmental research. Isotopes have no applications for nuclear Power or weapons research. The commission has also asked the Security Council to continue close inspections of Iraq for an a indeterminate length of time commission spokesman Johan Molander said in new York. Kay steam submitted its preliminary report to . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar on thursday. The Security Council is monitoring iraqi compliance with the Gulf War cease fire Resolution which orders the Baghdad government to destroy its weapons of mass destruction and cease building or acquiring new ones. After the discovery of the documents two weeks ago Kay s 44-member team was detained by iraqi troops and allowed to leave Only after it provided a Catalon of the documents. Kay said about 5,000 people including advanced iraqi scientists and engineers worked on the nuclear weapons program. Kay said that based on the approximately 50,000 pages of documents his team studied the major obstacle Between Iraq and nuclear weapons production appeared to be sufficient enriched uranium necessary to make nuclear bombs. . Teams have found 1,250 pieces of equipment used in the Centrifuge method of enriching uranium