European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes tuesday october 29, 1991 at a glance moods a Good ones and bad ones a can be contagious. See stories on pages 14 and 15.dinkins to visit Germany new York mayor David n. Dinkins said that he has accepted an expenses paid invitation to attend a Tennis tournament in Munich Germany in december. A Page 4fire victims remembered survivors of the wildfire that burned thousands of Homes and killed 25 people in the Oakland area gathered for a Church service to mourn the victims. A Page 5foley Calls for tax Cut House speaker Thomas s. Foley says a Federal tax Cut is needed to jump Start Quot the . Economy but the Bush administration warned against vote getting gimmicks that backfire in the Long run. A Page 6umbrellas furled Crews struggled in High winds sunday to dismantle Christo s giant umbrellas after a death prompted the artist to order his a Continental project closed four Days Page 7slow growth on tree plan lawmakers say president Bush s ambitious plans to use volunteers to reforest the nation with a billion Green Trees a year is turning a Little Brown. A Page 7boeing reports profit despite hard times in the airline Industry a healthy orders backlog and reduced defense losses allowed the Boeing co. To report a third Quarter profit of $401 million or $1.17 per share up 6 percent from the same period in 1990. 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 French defense chief says nato to keep key role in Western Europe Bobingen Germany a French defense minister Pierre Joe said monday that nato will remain the essential Security element of Western Security despite an initiative to set up a multinational military Force under the Western european Union. Joe made the remarks during a visit with German defense minister Gerhard Stoltenberg to the Bobingen Headquarters of the 4,200-Man joint French German military brigade which the two countries established in october 1989. A i am convinced that the North Atlantic treaty organization was is and re Mains the essential Security element a Joe said. Earlier this month France and Germany invited other West european nations to join them in establishing a 50,000-Strong military corps under the Western european Union we. British foreign minister Douglas Hurd later criticized the proposal and said it could weaken nato by overlapping the Alliance s Mission. Joxen a remarks were seen As an attempt to counter those fears. . Officials have also said that a european military initiative must complement nato and not detract from the Al Liance a Mission. The we the Only wholly european organization devoted to defense includes All european Community members except Denmark Greece and Ireland. All we members also belong to nato although France is not part of the alliances military Structure. Stoltenberg commenting on the French German initiative on monday said Spain had shown interest in setting up the proposed All european corps. Stoltenberg added that the proposal would also be discussed during a meeting of european Community foreign and defense ministers in Bonn on tuesday. Israel bound soviet tanks Are seized Bonn Germany apr the government admitted on monday that Germany a intelligence Agency tried to sneak 12 soviet tanks past customs officials and ship them to Israel. Prosecutors Are investigating whether German Export Laws were violated with the attempted shipment. But Norbert Schaefer a government spokesman said he does no to believe any Laws were broken. A it is thoroughly usual that defense materials Are exchanged by Friendly intelligence services a Schaefer told reporters. Hamburg authorities seized the equipment. Prosecutor Ruediger Bagger said the israelis presumably wanted to examine the equipment which is of the same Type used by their Arab neighbors. Bagger said authorities seized the military equipment this past weekend. It was not immediately certain whether the equipment had already been loaded on the israeli ship pal Mach 2, or whether the vehicles were still on the Hamburg Dock. Pal Mach was the name of a jewish fighting organization before Israel became Independent in 1948.raise from Page 1 had chosen three top issues this years delegates called for a focus on six. After the pay Issue a Lack of aggressive marketing of and training for the civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services or champs was voted by the delegates As the second most important Issue. The delegates Felt that champs beneficiaries especially overseas Are not fully aware of their entitlements and that fairs workshops and promotions would be ways of educating them. Also the conferees added that there was a need to better train health Benefit advisers on completing champs paperwork. Expansion of the military a dental program available Only to those stationed in the United states was another Issue cited. Delegates said that service Mem ers returning to the United states from overseas assignments should be counselled on that Benefit in their Normal change of station briefings. Another Issue that was voted As deserving of the army a attention was area programs for teen agers. Without added costs programs for teens could be made a More integral part of military communities said Aisha Bonner a senior at Baum older Germany High school the briefer for the conferences youth work group. Bonner explained that a Lack of both teen and adult leadership for the programs is caused by the perception that teens Lack influence in military communities. Having teen representatives sit in at regular commander Council meetings As Well As commanders attending teen program meetings would help change that she said. A prevention costs less than intervention a Bonner said referring to the expense of dealing with juvenile delinquents or having to return teen agers to the states when they break Host country Laws. The delegates also voted for the leadership to look at ways of providing equal Access for the entire army family to All Dod facilities and services. The sixth Issue was to allow soldiers to enrol for Montgomery i Bill education benefits anytime during their service instead of Only immediately after enlisting. Reno said that the expansion of the i Bill will be included in the services proposed budget for 1993.shamir from Page 1 took up spots around the 18th-Century Royal Palace where the talks will be held. Israel officially refuses to talk with anyone from the Plo which it views As a terrorist group out to destroy the jewish state. A palestinian delegates Espousal of Plo loyalty have thus become a festering Issue. The palestinians Are attending As part of a joint delegation with Jordan. In a 45-minute meeting with the left leaning labor party Shamir on monday asked for its support on the governments stance in the Madrid conference. The labor leaders headed by party chairman Shimon Peres pledged to withhold criticism during the talks according to a statement from Shamire a office. But Peres also said on israeli radio that labor had asked for a suspension in building jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza strip. Israel plans to double the number of jewish settlers in the West Bank to 200,000 next year. In Exchange Peres said the palestinians should end their nearly four year uprising and Arab states should halt their Long economic Boycott of Israel. The United states has also proposed As a Confidence building measure an end to the economic Boycott in return for a suspension of settlement building. Shamir however rejected the proposal saying in his offices statement that a the moment you announce a freeze or a halt you weaken our position in on sunday Arafat broached the settlements Issue saying they should be dismantled if Israel withdraws from the occupied lands. A International Law and . Resolutions say that the colonies Are illegal and rest illegal in fact a Arafat told radio France internationale. Arab leaders demand that Israel give up All or part of the West Bank Golan Heights and Gaza strip As Well As halting settlement building which they say underscores israeli claims to the land. The Bush administration also believes Israel must Trade land for peace a a Deal Shamire a government strongly opposes. The head of the plots political department Farouk Qaddoumi said in Paris on sunday that Syria Jordan Lebanon Egypt and the Plo agreed last week not to proceed to the second phase of the talks until Israel stops building the settlements a although he stopped Short of making the settlement halt a formal condition. The conference is to continue for three Days before moving into a second stage of separate talks Between Israel and the various Arab delegations. The Issue of Plo influence continued to prompt similar political jousting. Israeli defense minister Moshe Arens accused palestinians of deliberately try ing a to scuttle the negotiations after palestinian Delegate Saab Ere Kat claimed last week that the palestinian jordanian team was representing the Plo. Shamir was similarly Adamant. A we Are not going to negotiate with the Plo a he Saia. But Arens said he thought the Issue of the renegade Delegate a could be settled to everybody a other developments a in the israeli occupied West Bank seven jewish settlers reportedly were wounded monday in a shooting attack on a bus. It was not immediately Clear who carried out the attack or their motives. A a German newspaper said in a report attributed to unidentified intelligence sources that seven Arab terrorists were m Madrid and planned to attack the sewer system under the conference site. The report in the tabloid Berliner Kurrier could not be confirmed independently. A the Beirut newspaper and Miyai quoted Ali Akbar Mohtashemi Irani former Interior minister As describing the Madrid conference As a High treason and a a crime against the palestinian peo Mohtashemi a founder of Hezbollah the shiite group believed to be an Brella for factions holding Western hos tages in Lebanon was quoted As saying a i have the wish to sacrifice myself of the Sake of fulfilling the teachings o Imam Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the liberation of
