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    European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 c the stars and stripes saturday november 16, 1991 at a glance everyone knows that . Wasny to opposed to a Little blackmail now and then. But what about Larry Hagman the actor who played the oilman in the television series Dallas and Linda Gray who played his wife Sec Story on Page 16. Duke trails Edwards polls show David Duke is trailing former gov. Edwin Edwards As voters prepare to go to the polls today in the Runoff gubernatorial election. A Page 4 Poindexter wins Appeal a Federal appeals court in Washington reversed John m. Poindexter s felony convictions in the Iran Contra scandal. A Page 5 Buchanan for president conservative commentator Pat Buchanan plans to Challenge president Bush for the 1992 Republican presidential nomination. A Page 7 new truce reached the warring republics of Serbia and Croatia agreed Friday on a cease fire in Yugoslavia a civil War and to emergency humanitarian Aid to besieged croatian cities. A Page 8 Bill to help serve remembers a $5.2 billion unemployment Bill will give service members up to 26 weeks of benefits and also make them eligible for an Extension. A Page 10 credit card crunch the banking Industry says it will Cut off nearly half of its 120 million credit card customers if Congress forces it to lower interest rates. A Page 17 Abby Ann Landers 19 action line.16 comics.19-21 commentary.13 crossword .19 faces no places .18 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.27 weather.11 Baker chinese talks cover human rights Trade issues Beijing apr Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii pressed chinese officials on political prisoners and other human rights concerns at the Start of his three Day visit Friday saying the United states cannot ignore repression. However Baker apparently has decided against meeting with chinese dissidents while in Beijing said a senior official travelling with him. Baker had considered such a meeting a but no invitations were issued a the official said. Baker met privately for More than four hours Friday with foreign minister Qian Lichen discussing a wide Range of issues including human rights nuclear proliferation Trade and the growing . Concern with North koreans nuclear pro United nations up a . Team responsible for dismantling iraqi president Saddam Hussein a nuclear weapons program airlifted out of Iraq on Friday the first shipment of highly enriched uranium a . Spokesman said. The nearly 13 pounds of uranium-235 a capable of being used in an atomic bomb a were removed from the at to Waltha research reactor and loaded on a . Cargo flight bound for Moscow. Gram officials said. Other meetings were scheduled with Premier i Peng president Yang Shang Kun and Jiang Zemin the head of the communist party. Xinhua the state run news Agency quoted Qian As saying Quot we Hope and believe that through joint efforts the visit would achieve a positive result with the bilateral relations gradually returning to a Normal  Baker is the highest ranking . Official to visit Beijing since the 1989 crackdown on pro democracy demonstrators. The crackdown badly strained relations Between the two nations. The senior . Official briefing reporters Only on condition of anonymity in the soviet Union the uranium will be rendered impotent through a process known As Quot isotopic dissolution and then returned to the International atomic Energy Agency. The removal of the uranium under the supervision of the Iaea is required under Security Council Resolution 687 adopted after the defeat of Iraq in the persian Gulf War. The cease fire Resolution mandates the elimination of Bagh said Baker told Qian that Freedom is an important principle to americans that a in the officials words a a the United states cannot turn a Blind Eye toward the plight of human suffering and political  Baker also brought up chinese Export of goods made by prison labor a practice the United states has demanded the chinese end. The senior official described the session As Businesslike and said the two men a expressed the importance of the .-China relationship. Both gentlemen acknowledged there Are  among those Are human rights and the number of people imprisoned for their actions in the democracy  of Iraq dads entire Stock of weapons of mass destruction. The enriched uranium remaining in Iraq is scheduled to be airlifted out on a second flight sunday. Meanwhile . Spokesman Francois Giuliani said that an inspection team recently discovered thousands of bombs shells and warheads filled with lethal chemical agents a Many of them leaking. Nuclear material flow libyans from Page 1 was Quot not sure what course Well take a but added a when we get ready to say what Well do Well make it very Clear Ana be definite and do  administration officials said Bush hoped to win support from allies for isolating Libya in the International Community and hoped they would follow the Lead of the United states in breaking economic and diplomatic ties. The administrations action appeared designed to pressure Qadhafi to surrender the accused libyan plotters. Yet officials doubt Qadhafi will comply willingly. Boucher said Quot All options Are open to assure that those responsible Are punished and to deter others from carrying out such  with the 1989 capture of panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega Bush demonstrated he was willing to use military Force to seize a fugitive on foreign soil. Lacking declarations of support from allies the administration was intentionally vague about How Tough Bush was will ing to get with Qadhafi. A obviously we Are talking about the full Range of matters that Are available to countries in terms of their authorities a the diplomatic civilian military options across the Gamut Quot Fitzwater said. Starting with the Downing of two libyan planes in 1981, the Reagan administration repeatedly used Force against Qadhafi. The most dramatic incident was the 1986 . Bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi libyans two main cities after a terrorist attack at a Berlin disco frequented by . Soldiers. Experts to each of the 11 War gaming Sites in the Southern Region. Each five person team brought along and installed 21,000 pounds of specialized equipment. A we arrived in Naples on oct. 21. It took us one week to install the equipment and another week to train people to operate the system a said David Kopp a team Engineer. All War gamers did not have to be computer literate because the exercise largely utilized Normal communication channels said . Army maj. John Carpenter the Naples team chief. France a member of nato but not part of its unified military Structure sent two teams to Italy to take part in the exercise. One team came from the ministry of defense in Paris and the other came from the Mediterranean naval Headquarters in Toulon. France committed 30 ships including two aircraft carriers plus 150 aircraft and four army divisions to the Battle against Gray landia. French commanders Are intently studying How the Battle is waged by computer said rear adm. Bertrand Des Grees do Lou chief of the French military Mission at a South. The . Marine corps sent 50 marines mostly from Camp Pendleton calif., to take part in the exercise. A this has been great especially having a Chance to work with Allied marines from the . And the Netherlands a said Marine it. Col. Joe  from Page 1 Lem affected  training for the exercise started nov. A 5. The War games began last saturday and concluded thursday afternoon. The exercise was managed by the . Military a Warrior preparation Center at Ein sied in roof air station near Kaiserslautern Germany. There italian army maj. Gen. Saul Savorelli of South a Deputy chief of staff directed Gray Landiak a forces against nato. A the scenario pits the entire Southern Region against Gray landia a fictitious enemy a said . Army col. John Coughlin the exercise director. Coughlin said that the exercise was f8 months in planning and that a fictitious enemy was chosen because it gave exercise managers greater flexibility for creating situations to Challenge War gamers. A mgr Alandia a very sophisticated enemy was Able to use a combination of amphibious landings and air attacks to cause Blue to refocus its plans a he said. Although Gray landia is not based on reality planners did not invent anything else for the exercise Coughlin said. A we use current weapons systems and military units. The weather is briefed every Day. Rain fog and sea conditions Are duplicated in the models a he said. The goal of the exercise is to put commanders and their staffs under stress and to train them without great expense and a amps Quy Miner Start sgt. William Moak and Petty officer 2nd class Craig Snider provided computer support. Disruption of Day to Day operations in the Art of warfare Coughlin said. A the unknowns in the exercise put a tremendous amount of stress on staffs. Do people get caught up in it absolutely a Coughlin said. The exercise will serve As a Model for a bigger All nato computer exercise scheduled to take place More than a year from now Coughlin said. To prepare for the exercise the Warrior preparation Center sent out Small teams of communication and computer  
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