European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 9,1991going great guns bikers armed with rifles Shew their pedal Power Over Cle race Baas St. Gallee to Zurich thousands of spec the weekend in Switzerland a traditional Neil Italy Bicy tutors viewed the 30th running of the annual , czechs sign Accord Page 8 a the stars and stripes soviet says Date for Baltic pullout cannot be met Moscow apr a soviet military commander said tuesday he cannot withdraw troops from the capitals of the newly Independent Baltic states by a dec. 1 deadline because of his country a critical nationwide housing shortage. Lithuania Latvia and Estonia set the deadline monday saying the continued stationing of soviet soldiers in the cities of Vilnius Riga and Tallinn was a impossible and threatening.�?�. It. Gen. Valery Mironov commander of the Baltic military District told Tass a i do not think this decision can be accomplished because there is no place to House the troops in the soviet Union. A it is possible to withdraw troops from the capitals and accommodate them in Barracks on three tier bunk Beds a Mironov told the soviet news Agency. A it is possible to set up a Field Camp but All this requires a lot of Money and  the Baltic states have demanded a rapid withdrawal of soviet troops from their territory since winning their Independence from the soviet Union after the August coup collapsed. Moscow has already removed nuclear weapons from the three countries and promised to gradually withdraw its troops by 1994. The exact number of soviet troops in the Baltic has always been a closely guarded military secret. Lithuania claims to have been a reluctant Host to More than 90,000. Latvia and Estonia have smaller numbers although the Navy has historically and strategically important bases in Estonia on the Gulf of Finland. Mironov told Tass that Baltic authorities were trying to halt military housing construction projects under Way causing tension Between local authorities and the military. In recent Days he said local governments started trying to evict soldiers and their families from civilian housing. A was the commander of armed forces in the District i cannot turn a Blind Eye to the attempts not to let us Complete construction of housing that is already under Way to the fact that almost 11,000 people have no apartments a he said. A there Are no grounds to believe that troops can be withdrawn overnight or within a week. People need somewhere to live a he told Tass. The housing shortage throughout the soviet Union is desperate for soldiers and civilians. Prague Czechoslovakia apr Germany and Czechoslovakia signed a landmark Friendship treaty on monday renouncing All use of Force and aiming to ease tension in the heart of Europe. The treaty the text of which has not been published was initiated by foreign ministers Jiri Dienstbier of Czechoslovakia and Hans Dietrich Genscher of Germany. The signing came during the first Day of a five Day official visit to Prague by German president Richard von Weizsacker. Rude Provo a leading newspaper has criticized the treaty for failing to Settle the Issue of property expropriated when nazi Germany marched into Border regions known As the sudetenland in 1938. For centuries czechs lived under the domination of the German speaking hapsburg dynasty As a part of the austrian Empire until joining with the hungarian dominated slovaks to form an Independent Czechoslovakia in 1918. The Munich treaty of sept. 30, 1938, signed by Germany Italy France and England gave German dictator Adolf Hitler the right to take Over Large parts of the country a sudetenland Border regions. Following liberation of Czechoslovakia from nazi occupation during world War ii czechoslovak president Edvard Benes ordered some 3 million ethnic germans forcibly removed from the disputed territory. According to an unofficial version of the treaty a preamble published by the rude Provo daily the Munich agreement is considered a null and void a thus confirming Legal continuity of Czechoslovakia dating Back to 1918.attacks continue on foreigners across Germany Stuttgart Germany a officials in southwestern Germany on monday reported attacks against foreigners in at least six towns As extremist violence continued to boil Over nationwide. Dietmar Schlee Interior minister for the state of Baden Wiir Temberg described the situation As  he has ordered police to step up Security for Homes of foreigners in the state ministry spokesman Rainer Knubben said. Most of the attacks late sunday involved unknown assailants throwing firebombs into Homes of foreigners with one attack against ethnic German re settlers from the soviet Union the spokesman said. No injuries were reported the Interior ministry said. In Central Hessen state police said a dark haired German Man walking along a Street was attacked and stabbed in the thigh and Arm by two unknown assailants who yelled a Asylum pig a apparently thinking he was a foreigner. In another incident in Hessen a group of Radical rightist a a skinheads smeared swastikas on the outside Walls of a Home for foreigners. One of the occupants was injured when the assailants sprayed tear Gas in his face police said. Over the weekend police throughout the country reported dozens of attacks against foreigners. In West Central nor Rhein westfalen state alone 18 attacks w Cre reported. Eight people were arrested police said. Asylum seekers from the third world have been mostly targeted during the spate of attacks Over the past three weeks but the violence has also spread to West europeans. A portuguese owned bar in Hamburg was set on fire late Friday night. Artist s  umbrella show put on hold a just too much rain by the los Angeles times los Angeles a the environmental artist Christo poised to unveil at Dawn tuesday his Gigantic work featuring 3,100 umbrellas at Sites in Japan and Southern California has postponed their opening indefinitely. The delay was caused by heavy Rains at the Japan site in the Ibaraki prefecture 75 Miles North of Tokyo. �?o1 do not feel any pleasure in opening my umbrellas in the present miserable weather at the Ibaraki site a Christo said in a statement issued monday in Japan. Weather reports indicated that storms caused in part by an offshore typhoon would continue there intermittently until thursday night. But Christo needs Only a few hours break in the rain to open the Japan segment consisting of 1,340 Blue umbrellas according to Auric Huber general contractor of the project. A i just talked to Christo and he said that at the moment it is overcast but not raining at the site a Huber said. The umbrellas each of which stands almost 20 feet tall and weighs 488 pounds can easily weather the storm. A prototype was in std under winds reaching 65 Mph. But Christo wants to open the umbrellas in the sunlight so that the Bright fabric he has chosen for the canopies will look Luminescent. Safety is also an Issue. A ninety of the umbrellas Are based right in the Sato River a Huber said. A it is not Worth the risk of opening them if the River is too High. It might be too  whenever the Japan segment does open the 1,760 yellow umbrellas in the United states site which is in the Tejon pass about 60 Miles North of los Angeles will open about 16 hours later to allow Christo time to Fly to the United states. A towering Over the Flowers at Tejon pass calif., Christous umbrellas wait for their unveiling