European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes tuesday december 10,1991 Barbara Yow runs an aids aware Ness program for the Heidelberg medical Community that s bringing the message to teens. See Story on pages 1415. Kennedy guest testifies a guest at the Kennedy estate on easter weekend testified that he heard no noises from the Lawn below his bedroom window at the time a woman who has accused William Kennedy Smith of rape says she screamed and struggled. A Page Buchanan blasts Bush Patrick j. Buchanan who is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination today assailed president Bush for abandoning Quot conservative  a Page 5 times Herald Swan song the Dallas times Herald printed its final edition after agreeing to a $55 million buyout by Cross town rival the Dallas morning news. A Page 6 . Running out of Money at the United nations staff members Are worried that they May get no december paychecks at All. A Page 7 Libya plans bombing trial Libya will try two men charged by . And British authorities in the bombing of pan am flight 103, the country a foreign minister says. A Page 9 economic showdown looms a struggle is raging inside the White House that could determine when the country comes out of the recession and what policies will guide the Economy for years to come. A Page 17 Index k 1 Abby Ann Landers 20 comics.18-20 commentary.13 faces a places .10 letters.12 Money matters.17 sports.21-28 to listings.27 weather .11hostages from Page 1 years earlier. Last week president Bush also demanded the return of the remains of Higgins and Buckley. Earlier monday Anderson talked to reporters after finishing a predawn jog at the air Force Hospital. A a it a fantastic Quot Anderson said of his Freedom. A a it a not like i dreamed of because i  have dreamed it this Good a said the last american hostage released from Lebanon. Shiite Muslim kidnappers freed him last wednesday. Anderson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press was wearing an a sweatshirt jogging pants and running shoes and did no to look As winded As after the previous Days run. He said he Felt so Good he took an extra Lap. Running with Anderson was col. Earl Ferguson head of the military Hospital Alliance from Page 1 country As a federation of Sovereign states were derailed by the abortive Hartline communist coup attempt in August. Much of the Kremlin a authority has since been claimed by Russia the three Baltic republics have seceded from the Union and 10 of the remaining 12 republics have declared some form of Independence. In the midst of the political turmoil the already crippled Economy approached collapse Ana ethnic violence flared. Russia byelorussian and the Ukraine comprise nearly three fourths of the soviet unions people and possess most of its economic strength in addition to making up the county a a traditional slavic heartland. The slavic leaders announced creation of the a Commonwealth of Independent states Quot after a two Day meeting in the byelorussian Village of vis Kuli. The meeting was organized after ukrainians voted overwhelmingly dec. 1 to break from the soviet Union. Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev told a news conference monday that Yeltsin telephoned president Bush to inform him of the agreement. The leaders of Britain and France scheduled urgent talks for monday and planned to consult the United states Over the Issue. The question of nuclear Security is further complicated by the Uncertain status of kazakh where Many Long Range nuclear weapons Are based. Membership in the Commonwealth would be open to All former republics and other countries a who share the Aims and principles of this agreement Quot the document said. Other republics said they were waiting for More information about the slavic pact. A a it a a completely new situation. We Haven to yet received official documents of this so called Commonwealth Quot said Mikit Kazaryan head of armenians office in Moscow. It was unclear whether the act had to who has developed a Friendship with the former hostage. Ferguson said Anderson had finished his medical tests and a could no to be doing any  a a he a doing great a said  i feel pretty Good actually a said Anderson no was in High spirits after a night in which he went out for his first pizza in nearly seven years and then shared a bottle of wine with friends in his Hospital suite. A i had a Good night had a Good get together and schmooze with some of my friends last night for a couple hours. Drank another bottle of wine and i feel Good a said Anderson. Although Anderson said adjusting to Freedom has been More difficult than he had imagined he declared he Felt ready to re enter the world. A i thought i was very prepared for this and i thought id be Cool and Calm and collected and a big Brave Man. And it being finally free hit me a lot harder than i expected Quot said Anderson who arrived Here last thursday. A a in a getting realty in a coming Back real Good a said the former hostage. With Anderson Here is his sister Peggy say his 6-year-old daughter Salome and her Mother Madeleine Bassil. Anderson has been sightseeing in Wiesbaden with Bassil and Salome during the evening hours sneaking out of the Hospital to avoid the press. He said he is anxious to see the rest of his relatives Back in the United states. The former hostage was bom in Lorain Ohio and grew up in Batavia new York. Meanwhile freed hostage Alann Steen who suffered a seizure and spent a night in a suburban Detroit Hospital finally made it Home for a Little rest. Steen 52, was greeted by about 30 cheering friends and relatives at his wife a Home in Clarklake mich., on sunday afternoon. The Day before he suffered a seizure doctors said May have been caused by beatings during his nearly five years of Captivity in Lebanon. A i Felt bad slighting you people last night Quot said Steen a communications professor at Beirut University College. Soviet republics form new Alliance the soviet unions three slavic republics Russia byelorussian and the Ukraine formed a new Alliance in an agreement that appears to strip the Central government of its remaining Power. Russia byelorussian and the Ukraine comprise nearly three fourths of the soviet unions 290 million people and possess most of its economic strength in addition to sharing an ethnic heritage As the country a traditional slavic heart. Ethnic composition each of the constituent republics is named for the predominate ethnic group. Charts show the size of the majority White proportion of ethnic russians Black and other significant minorities shaded. O Ukraine russian rep. Q byelorussian 4% ukrainian s a. _. A an it amp a12% russian note. Numbers May not equal 100 due to rounding Oft source Central intelligence Agency percentages based on 1979 data be approved by other republics the voters or the already weakened Central government. Central authority has All but collapsed since the August coup As Yeltsin a government has taken Over the functions and resources of most soviet ministries. Before the announcement of the Commonwealth Gorbachev insisted in an interview with ukrainian television that it would take More than a declaration on paper to dismantle the soviet Union. A the Union still exists Quot he said in the interview recorded saturday. A your Apt. Dean Cape it does to or the Brothers might say might talk about the former Union. No. Its not a Structure not writing or speech its reality. It s people. Its life. Its society. This is what the Union  Nazar Baev told soviet television that the leaders should work out joint military control but conceded that a treaty maj not be signed. A but we  frighten the whole world and at least agree on some sort of political and military Union to keep control Over the strategic weapons in one place Quot Nazar Baev  from Page 1 might have been killed after being returned to the vietnamese. The United states which withdrew its forces from Vietnam in 1973, lists 2,273 americans As missing in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos. In the program a former soviet navigator identified As Pavel Ponoma Yov said that he had helped Fly two Ameri cans to the soviet Union and that he had seen three other captured service Mem ers on flights from Vietnam. Yuri Pankov a soviet reporter who took part in making the segment of the australian program has written an article on the same subject for the soviet financial journal Kommer Sant. He wrote that at least one american had been taken to the City of Sai Shagan in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the years immediately after the War. The state department said Friday that two diplomats from the United states in Moscow were sent to Kazakhstan about two weeks to to investigate the report but had been forbidden to go to Sar Shagan which is in a restricted area. Oleg d. Kalugin a former Kab Serai brought Back to president Mikhail Gorbachev to reorganize the Intel Genoe Agency after the unsuccessful coup in August was among those interviewed. Kalugin said he headed an interrogation team in Vietnam from 1975 to 1978 and questioned americans there