European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mideast peace talks Barren Israel Syria dissatisfied but agree to meet again Madrid Spain apr israeli negotiators emerged monday from their first direct talks with syrian officials expressing frustration and saying the syrians had rejected everything they proposed. But both sides said they had agreed during the five hour session to meet again a once they can get past the Sticky issues of where and when. The talks which began late sunday after much procedural wrangling were the first in the history of the Arab israeli conflict but their meager yield demonstrated the enormous Gap Between the parties. Syrian foreign minister Farouk Al Sharaa said israelis delegates had a talked about everything except the land that the israelis occupied and have been occupying for the last 24 years. That is the Golan  syrians chief negotiator Muwafaq Alaf described the session As a waste of time and complained that Israel refused to Budge on its resistance to territorial concessions. A although we Are not at All satisfied we will continue talking with them a he said adding that no time or place had been set. Israeli officials said they failed to establish any kind of rapport with the syrians who insisted on nothing Short of a Complete israeli withdrawal from occupied syrian territory. Israeli negotiator Yossi bin Aharon stressed that despite the sessions failure see Mideast on Page 2 returning from exile Imelda Marcos former first lady of the Philippines monday. Marcos returned Home after nearly six arrives at Manila a Aquino International Airport on years of exile in Hawaii. See Story on Page 9.Gorbachev says soviet Union teeters at abyss Moscow apr president Mikhail s. Gorbachev candidly acknowledged monday that the Post coup leadership has failed to prevent the breakup of the soviet Union a and we have approached an  Gorbachev told a meeting of the governing state Council that he still believes the increasingly Independent republics will maintain some form of Union because they a cannot Cope with his tragic situation by acting alone. In a report on the closed door Kremlin session the soviet news Agency Tass said Gorbachev supported russian president Boris n. Yeltsin a Radical economic Reform plan to free prices and privatize industries to create a free Market Economy by next year. Gorbachev told the leaders of 10 republics and his top economic and political advisers that the nation was in a the most critical  after the failed August coup by communist party hard liners Gorbachev said a Hope arose that we would be Able to master the situation take the Road of reforms and prevent a breakup of the  a this did not happen and we have approached an abyss a he said. Tass also reported that Gorbachev told the state Council the existing economic relationship Between republics should not be allowed to disintegrate and that it would be unpardonable to create additional obstacles. Gorbachev reportedly blamed disagreements among the republics for delaying the signing of a new Union treaty reconstituting the soviet Union As a Loose confederation of Sovereign states. He said these same differences of opinion were preventing the specific agreements needed to implement an economic treaty creating a common Market. That see abyss on Page 2attempts to mail weapons worry postal officials by Crystal Laureano staff writer Frankfurt Germany a seven explosive devices and 124 weapons have been detected at the Frankfurt air mail terminal in the past six months alarming postal officials who fear a serious Accident. The mail terminal handles about 105 tons of mail daily one third of which is outbound mail. Items that have been detected include handguns grenades packed in food cans 30mm gun shells and a just last week it a Claymore mine said maj. David Field commander of the mail terminal at the Frankfurt International Airport. One person mailed eight 30mm gun rounds. Postal workers in Frankfurt identify about a dozen boxes each week that contain weapons and explosives that Are restricted by customs regulations from being mailed into the United states. A of course it has to pass through the Guy who put the package together and two or three Peoples hands in the Apo a Field said. A and then it bounces around on the autobahn to get up Here and then the mail gets beat up at my place. A my biggest concern Are the grenades and the mines a Field said out one handgun gave postal officials a scare. A it was loaded it was a revolver and see weapons on Page 2