European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes tuesday october 15, 1991 at a glance Staft sgt. Harry Acosta prepares a patient for entry into the Fri the latest medical Marvel at land Stuhl army regional medical Center. See Story on pages 14-15.frankfurter feud managers at Sam s wholesale clubs across Texas owned by the giant Wal Mart Chain have kicked out 92 hot dog stand vendors All of them handicapped or senior citizens. A Page 4number of inmates up americans state and Federal prisons grew to a record 804,524 inmates in the first half of this year. A Page 5digging for world peace a new age group wants to dig up a historic Virginia graveyard in Hopes of finding a vault it claims contains writings that can save the world and prove that sir Francis Bacon wrote the plays of Shakespeare. A Page 7saudi women Drivers saudi arabians King fahd has reportedly ordered that passports be returned to the women who defied a ban on driving cars last year. A Page 8baker in Jordan Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii arrived in Jordan without any indication from palestinians As to whether they would attend a Middle East peace conference. A Page 9soviet stability International monetary fund officials say the soviet Union has begun a Quot magnificent relationship with the Lender it once spurned but they expressed concern Over soviet economic stability. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 10 letters. .12 Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 Thomas from Page 1 vote for judge  sen. Joseph Lieberman d-conn., said that he was not officially withdrawing his support for Thomas but that he was undecided after the weekends nationally televised hearings. Sen. Richard c. Shelby d-ala., who like Lieberman had announced support for Thomas before Hills allegations were made Public said monday a i Haven to changed yet and i might not  he said he would review testimony from the hearings and a make my decision in the  a flurry of last minute Public opinion polls indicated More americans Are siding with Thomas than with Hill a roughly twice As Many people believed Thomas Over Hills accusations of sexual harassment. But poll after poll showed dissatisfaction with the Senate a handling of the controversy. A Usa today Survey of 758 people sunday night found 47 percent believed Thomas when he denied Hills allegations 24 percent believed Hill. A los Angeles times poll conducted among 1,264 people nationwide on saturday and sunday found 51 percent supported confirmation for Thomas while 25 percent favored rejection. The judiciary committee ended its hearings at 2 . Monday after a 14-hour sunday session in which supporters of Thomas and Hill debated whether Thomas was capable of committing the aggressive behaviour attributed to him and whether Hill was capable of making it up. A i know he did no such thing a said Nancy Elizabeth Fitch a former assistant to him at the equal employment Opportunity commission. A i Trust judge Thomas  Susan Hoerchner a workers compensation judge in California who met Hill when both were Taw students at Yale recalled a Telephone conversation in the Early 1980s, when both women were working in Washington a she told me that she was being subjected to sexual harassment by her Boss to whom she referred by name. That Boss was Clarence  a the whole thing was a disaster. The whole process was a disaster a Thomas chief sponsor sen. John c. Danforth r-mo., said As he walked from the ornate Senate caucus room that had been the scene of a rated discussions aired on National television. To bolster her credibility Hill vol world Media find hearings just to hum by the associated press the United states May be transfixed by the Clarence Thomas hearings in Washington. The world Isnit. A fall America watching a said a headline in Japan a Asahi Shimun a on Page 4. However distracted americans May be As the Senate judiciary committee probes allegations of sexual harassment made against president Bush a nominee to the supreme court newspapers and television abroad Are treating it As one Story among Many. Or in the Case of Moscow a newspapers no Story at All. In the persian Gulf the Thomas hearings get less attention than Middle East politics and the United nations monitoring of the destruction of iraqi weapons. The Story has received limited television coverage in Chile but the tabloid la Epoca devoted a full Page sunday to the hearings. In France the Story has commanded steady but not extensive coverage. The respected newspaper be Monde gave its Page 3 account More space than any other foreign Story n saturday and one of the main French television channels had a five minute report on saturday night. The Story was on the front Page of the South China morning Post in Hong Kong on saturday and other newspapers and television also have Given the Story coverage. The Swiss newspaper son tags Zei Tung filled Page 15 with the Story sunday including an analysis of american morality. A despite the marketing of naked skin everywhere Many americans privately Are rather prudish a the Zurich weekly said. Italian television has portrayed the hearings As americans latest obsession. La Republica a leading National daily ran a Story sunday focusing on sex scandals in american politics. One place where the Thomas Story has received considerable attention is Britain. The Independent on sunday gave the Story front Page coverage. The sunday times and the sunday Telegraph also had front Page reports plus commentary inside much of it bemused. A America has filing itself again into one of the spasms of passionate moral debate that nations More tolerant of human frailty find so hard to understand a the sunday times said. Unitarily submitted to a polygraph test Independent of the committee. A Ems. Hill is truthful a declared Paul minor who used to conduct such tests for the Justice department. A there was no indication of deception to any of the relevant  lie Detector tests generally Are inadmissible in court but As a strategy to shape Public opinion the test was explosive. The committee also released the transcript of staff interviews with another former employee of Thomas Angela Wright who said that he had pressed her to Date him and made inappropriate a comments about my Anatomy. She said he once asked a what size Are your breasts a Wright said Thomas made that comment in 1984, when he was chairman of the Leoc and sworn to enforce Federal Laws against discrimination and sexual harassment. A i feel that the Clarence Thomas that i know is quite capable of doing just what Anita Hill alleges a said Wright now assistant metro editor at the Charlotte . Observer. The committee also released a staff interview with a former co worker Rose l. Jourdain who said Wright told her at the time she was increasingly uneasy about comments on a her figure her body her breasts her legs. Both Wright and Jourdain were fired by Thomas and he testified he believed that was the reason for Wrights allegations. Hills witnesses were followed by 16 More witnesses who vouched for Thomas character. A there is no Way he is the Man she alleges a said . Alvarez a former aide to Thomas. Another Thomas Friend Phyllis Berry Myers asserted that in her opinion Hill a had a crush on Thomas that he did not reciprocate. Prize from Page 1 when she returned to Burma to nurse her ailing Mother. Her speeches on the need for democracy and human rights in Burma eventually made her the focus of her homelands growing opposition to military dominated one party Rule but the movement was quickly crushed and Suu Kyi was placed under House arrest. Sej ersted the Nobel spokesman said the five member awards committee cited Suu Kyin a adherence to the a non violent philosophy of indians Mohandas Gandhi in the face of a a regime which is characterized by brutality. He said it also saw Suu Kyi As having tried to reconcile the opposing factions. A this is one of the Foremost examples of civilian courage in Asia in the past several decades and has become an important Symbol of the fight against oppression a Sej ersted said. Suu Kyin a husband briton Michael Aris said he hoped the award will result in her release and show the world her courageous non violent struggle for human rights. Aris said he and his sons would attend the dec. 10 awards ceremony and accept the peace prize for his wife. Burma a rulers have said Suu Kyi May leave the country but she has refused to do so unless her return is guaranteed. Aris a visiting professor at Harvard University said in Cambridge mass., that he had not had any communication with his wife since Christmas 1989, about six months after she was put under House arrest but he said it is a my belief my intuition that she is Well. In Bangkok Thailand exiled Bennese dissidents hailed the award saying it would put pressure on the burmese military government to hand Over Power to the  from Page 1 sources said speaking on condition of anonymity. A a it a difficult enough to move a 30-ton Cal tron a a uranium enrichment device that the iraqis trucked around the country in an Effort to evade the inspectors last summer Boothby said. A but its far simpler to move a filing  nevertheless the inspectors found a highly incriminating records left behind including four steel trunks of documents on iraqis program to develop Hydrogen bombs. Hans Blix the director of the Vienna Austria based International atomic Energy Agency said some of the documents showed that Iraq had a program to manufacture Lithium-6, a substance used Only in a bombs. The Leader of the joint atomic . Team that seized the documents David Kay said some of them showed that Baghdad had manufactured several pounds of Lithium-6 and had a a ambitions to make Over 200 pounds a year. Commission officials called the Lithium-6 documents the a smoking gun they had been looking for to prove that iraqis secret nuclear program was geared solely toward weapons production