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 inspirational talks. His most popular impersonation is of Quot old blood in guts1 himself Gen. George Patton. See stripes  testifies at trial sen. Edward Kennedy told a jury Friday that he did not hear screams or see any evidence that his Nephew had raped a woman at the family a oceanfront estate last March. A page4bush signs defense Bill president Bush signed into Law Friday a $291 billion military budget Bill. A Page 5gold Rush goes bust hundreds of people converged on an Arizona shopping Center hoping to stake mining claims on what turned out to be fools Gold. A Page 7nobel winners see Progress the winners of the 1991 Nobel prize in Medicine physiology said research breakthroughs could bring an explosion in treatment for regulatory disease within 20 years. A Page 8holiday cheer dampened there in t much Christmas cheer in Bethlehem where tradition says Jesus was born. A a Page 9early re enlistment urged soldiers who wait until the last minute to re enlist May soon lose their Chance to stay in the army. A Page 10differing opinions lawmakers from both political parties called Friday for a unified approach to stimulate the . Economy then offered fundamentally different measures. A Page 15 Iran Wrt Wirt  Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. Faces a places. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. Weather. 11 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 won t be naming Headquarters locations or nations that Wilt Lead them a senior nato official said. Quot it s 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 Quot 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 Al Fiance a 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 aim 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. Quot 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. Quot As far As we Are concerned a he added a the decision whether to enter a single currency 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 Wilt meet dec. 20 in Brussels. Foreign ministers of nine former East bloc countries and the nato nations will take  from Page 1 replica of the battleship Arizona. The Arizona on which 1,177 . Servicemen died bore the Brunt of the attack. The Parade climaxed a series of ceremonies the past two Days in which Pearl Harbor survivors shared stories that mixed remembrances of personal loss with the message that the victims of the japanese attack had not died in vain. Some survivors made Light of the deeds that won them medals. Retired capt. Donald k. Ross said he was Quot a Little bit dead from wounds received from a japanese bomb blast when he managed to get up steam on the dam aged battleship Nevada enabling it to sail from its berth next to the Arizona. Ross now 81, won the medal of Honor for his performance on what he said was Quot the Day hell was in  the Nevada which was run aground on a reef to prevent it from being sunk was salvaged and saw action in the aleutians and the a Day invasion of Europe. Another Nevada survivor retired capt. Joseph k. Taussig or. Of Annapolis paid tribute to the courage of Quot those who responded to the Surprise attack. A no one left any Post of duty that Day a he said. Taussig third of four generations of Annapolis graduates won the Navy Cross for heroism on dec. 7. The Nevada was represented by one of the largest contingents in fridays Parade. They marched behind a Banner that proclaimed Quot  Nevada a the ship that   As the marchers streamed by a Middle age Man who was watching the Parade voiced a sentiment repeated Many times during the week to surprised that there a this Many  several of the ceremonies held last week emphasized the role of women particularly Navy nurses in Hawaii during the War. At one of them Lenore Ricken. Who was on duty at a Hospital where More than 700 burned and otherwise injured Pearl Harbor survivors were taken the Day of the attack described How sick men gave up their Beds to wounded buddies and How prostitutes from hotel Street then Honolulu a red Light District had flocked to the Hospital to  from Page 1 illness while in the same cell with Anderson. The two were unable to see or speak to each other. Emotion overwhelmed Anderson As he faced colleagues including some he knew from the Middle East and tried to describe his feelings since his release. He broke Down in tears on the shoulder of his sister Peggy say who for Yean kept her brother a name in the headlines As she campaigned for his release. But Anderson swiftly recovered. Asked if he would do things differently if he Ever went Back to Lebanon he recalled his abduction on March 16, 1985, after a game of Tennis. He laughed and said Quot in a not going to play Tennis on saturday mornings anymore 1 can Tell you that of All the emotions he described a Hope fear despair a the one he focused on least was anger. Quot i done to hate anybody a he said. Quot i m a Christian and a Catholic. And it s required of me that i forgive no matter How Bard that May  other sex hostages have expressed far harsher views calling for punishment of the captors. Quot the big Bosses and things like that really should get what they deserve a Steen said Friday in Wiesbaden. A a they be stolen five Yean of my life. How much is it Worth a Anderson did admit to wishing at the beginning that his government would have Given the captors a an a bomb just to get me out of that  but he said he came to the conclusion that a the United states in the end after some time took the right policy in not negotiating with my  Anderson said american teacher Thomas Sutherland freed nov. 18, was his cellmate for most of the ordeal. A a i spent most of those 6v years locked in the same room with Tom sometimes on the same piece of Chain always within arms reach a Andeson said an unlit 6-Footby-6-foot Dungeon with a mattress and a water bottle was one of their jails though not the worst. The left place was a big bedroom in a fortified apartment. Anderson said he taught Sutherland and other fellow hostages sign Langue be when the hostage takers forbid them to talk