European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes saturday november 30,1991 at a glance in Vassek Tkv was a m so is having just finished his evening prayers an afghan refugee makes his Way toward his crutches before boarding a . Air Force Relief flight its 100th such Mission. See Story and pictures on pages 14-15. Flu vaccines in demand the nation is on the verge of running out of influenza vaccine just As the flu season is off to one of its earliest starts experts said. A Page 4 aids care costly treating the nations aids patients will Cost $4.4 billion this year while care for people infected with the aids virus will reach $1.4 billion a study estimated. A Page 5 fighting spirit the disabled adopted daughter of boxing legend Joe Louis is doted Over by a guardian whose greatest fear is the Day she can no longer care for the 15-year-old girl. A Page 7 the forgotten hostages two and a half years after being kidnapped in Southern Lebanon two German Aid workers May soon become the epilogue to the hostage Story a the ones left behind. A Page 9 a Fine Swine a most unlikely character is climbing his Way into collectors lighted cabinets these Days. Make room for Leroy and his pig. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 crossword. 19 faces a no places. 18 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 soviet fiscal crisis deepens Russia takes Over property Moscow a the russian federation on Friday claimed temporary control Over All soviet foreign ministry property including overseas embassies and Trade offices saying the Kremlin does no to have enough Money to run them. The announcement came one Day after the National legislature debated a huge deficit spending package designed to prevent the wobbly Central government from going bankrupt As Early As monday. The widening financial crisis threatens to jeopardize badly needed foreign investment and is weakening the authority of soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev whose leadership already has dwindled since the failed August coup. It threatens to leave his government unable to pay millions of bureaucrats fund the military and operate hundreds of buildings from those of the Kremlin to Lenin a Tomb. A bailout for the soviet finance ministry was approved late thursday by one chamber of the National supreme soviet legislature but not the other. New rules of legislative procedure left the next step unclear. In the absence of a National budget for the last Quarter of 1991, Boris n. Yeltsin a increasingly powerful russian government says the republics foreign ministry will administer soviet foreign ministry property. A the step has been taken to prevent the failure disintegration of our foreign service or to be More precise of its infrastructure a said Mikhail Kamynin russian foreign ministry spokesman. A a it a risky to leave it like it is now a he said but added a this is a temporary  soviet foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly Churkin said the russian decree would have Little Impact on Day to Day foreign policy because the ministry does not own Many of its buildings. Even its Headquarters on Moscow a Smo Lenskaya Square Are rented from the City of Moscow Churkin told a news briefing. Russia the largest and richest soviet Republic already has Cut off funding to about 80 Central government ministries. It has taken control of the Money Supply and the country a most valuable commodities including Oil Gas Gold and diamonds. A earlier Friday Alexander Kotenkov coordinator of russian lawmakers in the National parliament said Russia demanded a say in All other important economic decisions in the soviet Union such As the bailout package. Kotenkov said he was speaking on behalf of the russian government. On thursday the upper chamber of the supreme soviet authorized the state Bank to give 90 billion rubles to the National finance ministry to pay its Bills for the fourth Quarter of the year. That translates to $159 billion at the artificially High official Exchange rate. The Resolution was not approved by the lower House of the legislature which was unable to Muster a quorum. The lower chamber the House of the Union was not scheduled to meet again until tuesday. Without the funds the state Bank said the Kremlin could run out of Money by monday the Start of the fourth Quarter of the fiscal year. France sends 300 troops to Togo Paris up a France on Friday sent 300 soldiers to Western Africa for possible deployment in Togo where rebel army units have surrounded the provisional prime ministers office officials said. French troops stationed in Chad and the Central african Republic were dispatched to Benin on Togo a Eastern Border French defense ministry sources said. Earlier Friday togolese army units claiming to have taken Power in the tiny West african nation gave prime minister Joseph Koukou Koffi Goh 48 hours to leave his office and demanded the provisional government be immediately replaced. In Paris a French foreign ministry spokesman said the government was closely following developments in Togo and that it would a take All necessary measures to ensure the necessary Security for the More than 3,000 French nationals in the  in a letter to French president Francois Mitterrand Koffi Goh called thursday for the a a urgent deployment of French troops to a Are establish  the French foreign ministry spokesman said the measures being taken a concerned the Security of French nationals a but he repeated the process of democratization undertaken by the Koffi Goh government should be continued. Reports reaching Paris from Togo indicated the capital of lome was Calm Friday after another Day of fighting Between the army and pro democracy forces that left More than 20 people dead. In a statement the rebel troops again demanded a new government and the dissolution of the provisional legislative Assembly that this week abolished the country a Only political party. That action sparked the crisis. It remained unclear Friday whether president gassing be Eya Dema was backing the attempted coup. Ghana Nigeria Accra a o j i lome a Lagos Porto novo 100 Miles 100 Kmap to. Dean Caple woman gets 13 years in prison for death of abused stepdaughter by Edrea vis Staft writer Mainz Germany a a German judge on Friday sentenced Christine Valdez to 13 years in prison in connection with the death of her 8-year-old stepdaughter. Judge Friedrich Jungbluth told Valdez a German citizen that the court had reviewed the evidence to determine whether her stepdaughters death was premeditated. A determination of premeditation would have resulted in a life sentence. Valdez had no comment following the verdict. Her attorney Petra Kaadtmann said no decision has been made on an Appeal. The trial began nov. 7. Valdez dressed in a Gray sweater and jeans sat Stone faced during the hour Long sentencing and explanation by Jungbluth. The judge said the court found that Valdez was As guilty As her husband in the abuse which led to the death of Michele. A you the Mother were responsible for the Well being of the child and yet you  even buy a bed for Michele and she slept on the floor a Jungbluth said. A you kept her standing in the Corner of the room All Day where she Wasny to allowed to talk to the other children. You Are also responsible for Michele a systematic starvation and the Barbaric abuse she had to endure until her death. We cannot accept any excuse for your  staring at Valdez Jungbluth depicted Michele a physical injuries beginning at the top of her head Down to her legs As described in a coroners report. A How could you be so pitiless what could a child Ever do to deserve such treatment it is incomprehensible and repulsive a Jungbluth said. Valdez a husband former staff sgt. Richardo Valdez is serving a life sentence in fort Leavenworth Kan. The sentence was delivered by a military court in bad Kreuz Nach in August 1990 in the maiming and unpremeditated murder of Michele. Michele died of staphylococcal pneumonia on March 28, 1990. Doctors said her death was prompted by bacteria that entered her bloodstream through abuse related injuries. At the time of Michele a death Valdez was stationed with he co 4th in 34th Armor in Mainz. The family lived in the Mainz Fin then housing area. Christine Valdez had two daughters Charlene 10, and Senetra 8, from a previous marriage when she and Ricardo Valdez married in 1988. He also had two daughters from a previous marriage Nel Leke 10, and the victim. Charlene and Senetra live with their natural father. Nelleke lives with her natural Mother during the final pleas on thursday state prosecutor Roland Steinhard asked the court to give Christine Valdez 15 years the maximum sentence for unpremeditated murder. Kaadtmann asked the court for a five year sentence. Jungbluth said Friday that he did no to hand out the maximum sentence because Valdez was a first time offender and she had been under severe stress caused by her family a situation