European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday december 8,1991 at a glance Richard Pierce is no actor but he is a one Man company that uses famous characters to deliver inspire tonal talks. His most popular impersonation is of a old blood in guts himself Gen. George Patton. See stripes Magazine. Prosecution set to rest prosecutors in the William Kennedy Smith rape trial tied up Loose ends of their Case saturday by calling to the stand a grass expert a doctor and a police officer. A Page 4 Bush signs defense Bill president Bush signed into Law Friday a $291 billion military budget Bill. A Page 5 Gold Rush goes bust hundreds of people converged on an Arizona shopping Center hoping to stake mining claims on what turned out to be fool s Gold. A Page 7 Qadhafi praises Bush in a major overture to the West libyan Leader col. Moa mar Qadhafi praised president Bush As a Veteran politician. A Page 8 Holiday cheer dampened there in t much Christmas cheer in Bethlehem where tradition says Jesus was born. A Page 9 Early re enlistment urged soldiers who wait until the last minute to re enlist May soon lose their Chance to stay in the . A Page 10 differing opinions lawmakers from both political parties called Friday for a untied approach to stimulate the . Economy then offered fundamentally different measures. A Page 15 Index 1 a a a a v v Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. 13 faces a places. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. .15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. 18-24 weather. 11 lir Kef Vul Huaji wow Mwai a new nato command Structure Likely to be outlined this week by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium nato defense ministers Are expected to outline a streamlined command Structure for the Alliance this week in Brussels but they wont be naming Headquarters locations or nations that will Lead them a senior nato official said. A a it a fairly complicated business and the decisions that the ministers will be taking this week will be on the top layer of the command Structure and not going Down very far into the details a the official said. The defense ministers will be gathering for their biannual defense planning committee meeting thursday and Friday. Nato military planners Are revamping the alliances command to reflect new Force Structure plans that Call for highly Mobile smaller forces and multinational units. Its a a very natural consequence to look at the command Structure that controls those forces and see How it can be slimmed Down a the official said. Defense ministers Are also expected to approve a detailed classified document expanding on the alliances new strategic concept which was approved last month at the Summit in Rome. The strategy was revised to replace one that focused on the soviet threat. While the document provides More details about the strategy and its effects on the nato military Structure it is not an operational plan the official said. The meeting comes As member nations Are assessing their individual defense structures. Nato officials will be reviewing How these National plans will fit the alliances collective requirements the officials said. Defense ministers will Likely talks from Page 1 tries has begun showing signs that it fears the new Europe and unified Germany a attitude toward its dec partners will hang ominously Over maastricht. For the moment Britain is applying the air brakes in the european Blastoff although London is joined by Denmark Ireland and Portugal on some issues such As maintaining the North Atlantic treaty organization As the continents major defense mechanism and the Powers to be granted the european parliament. The British have already won a major though largely symbolic Battle. The words Federal goal to describe the maastricht treaty a ultimate Are unlikely to appear in the final text in Light of the British vow not to sign any document using the words. London argues that the creation of a Federal european state is an unacceptable threat to its sovereignty. The Summit will also have to decide How to move toward a single monetary unit and the creation of a Central Bank to manage it. Contrary to earlier expectations agreement on political Unity is proving to be More trouble some than the establishment of the ecu As the common currency for the eco a 340 million citizens. At meetings two weeks ago dec finance ministers agreed on a Complex plan to establish monetary Unity and a european Central Bank by 1998 at the latest. Under the proposal the final state creating a common currency and Central Bank must be approved unanimously in 1996. If this proves impossible then the decision could be made two years later by a Strong majority vote. The proposal would allow monetary Unity without the immediate participation of Britain which says it is not ready to commit itself to the establishment of a common currency. London argues however that a decision of such magnitude should be made Only through a unanimous vote with a final decision on the matter awaiting the leaders at maastricht. A for economic and monetary Union to succeed it must come from a real convergence in the performance of the National economies a British prime minister John major wrote last week in the Paris newspaper be Monde. A was far As we Are concerned a he added a the decision whether to enter a single current system will be made by the British parliament in place at the  take up these issues when they meet again in May. The ministers Are also expected to discuss Europe a Security and defense identity based on the outcome of the european Community Summit in maastricht Netherlands. They Are also expected to address ways to build nato ties with Eastern european nations As called for at the Rome Summit. The Council created in Rome to Foster this relationship the North Atlantic cooperative Council will meet dec. 20 in Brussels. Foreign ministers of nine former East bloc countries and the nato nations will take part. Dead from Page 1 rally As breath a Bush said at the battleship memorial. A they reacted instinctively by Rushing to their  the attack killed 2,403 americans and the president spoke emotionally about those who died in the water of the Harbor. A it wrapped its  around the finest sons that any nation could Ever have and carried them to another better world a Bush said. After that speech Bush took a handkerchief out and wiped his eyes saying a this is a moving  Bush and his wife Barbara dropped Flowers into the water from the Arizona memorial. During a moment of silence four f-15 fighters flew overhead in a a missing Many formation As one of the planes pulled away from the group. Bush was observing the 50th anniversary of the devastating attack on the . Pacific Fleet in three separate speeches. He also planned to speak to a Large gathering at a naval pier. Pearl Harbor survivors began assembling at the cemetery hours before Bush arrived. By 3 a.m., there was a line of aging veterans waiting to pass through the Metal detectors. The president arrived shortly after first Light to the strains of the Navy hymn and then a a taps instead of the customary a Hail to the  far More than the 5,000 people who had been expected at the ceremony crowded the Steps behind the president the Plaza in front of him and overflowed into a mall that stretched away from the memorial. Flags flying at half staff snapped in the Breeze As Bush said he understood what the survivors were feeling. Bush a Navy flyer shot Down by japanese artillery during the War said the names of his fallen comrades Are among the 18,000 etched on the cemetery memorial. A during every passage of my life in be often thought of those who never returned a Bush said. A every Soldier and Sailor and airman buried Here offered his life so that others might be free a the president said. A not one of them died in vain a Anderson from Page 1 was related to a sinus infection which is being treated. He was also diagnosed after his arrival As having an inflammation of the lining of his right lung or pleurisy. According to the medical bulletin the pleurisy is a almost completely cleared  on Friday evening Anderson and some old colleagues and friends had a Fet together in his luxury Hospital suite be was having dinner saturday night with relatives the statement said. Andersons friends said they Are astonished at his vigor and doctors said initial tests have shown him to be remarkably fit for a Man who spent nearly seven years chained in Captivity. During a Friday news conference however Anderson said his Short jog earlier that Day had made him realize a a in a in a lot worse shape than i thought i  Navy cmdr. John Woodhouse a Mili Tail spokesman said saturday that he did not know How Long Anderson would stay in the Hospital which has cared for 11 sex captives who were held in Lebanon. Woodhouse referred to Andersons words Friday when he told reporters a we plan to stay Here a few More  a you know As much As i do a Woodhouse said. Anderson said Friday that once Back in the United states he planned to take a vacation and sort out what to do next. A you done to just walk out of a cell one Day and walk out into the world the next. Its a pretty strange place a he said. In Between the medical exams on saturday Anderson rested and spent time with his loved ones. His 6-year-old daughter Salome her Mother Madeleine Bassil his sister Peggy say and says husband Are with him in Wiesbaden. In Britain the Royal air Force said former hostage Terry Waite his wife and their four children left saturday for a vacation at an undisclosed destination. The family issued a Brief statement thanking the Raf for its a tremendous support and wonderful hospitality at the Lyneham base where the 52-year-old Waite had been undergoing medical examinations and debriefings since returning to Britain on nov. 19. Waite a Church of England envoy disappeared in january 1987 after going to meet representatives of islamic jihad an iranian Allied shiite Muslim group that held several British and american hostages including Anderson