European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes wednesday december 11,1991 at a glance they Call Erin a jury the ice Maiden on the Tennis court a jury a Story is part of a package looking at Tennis in Europe. See stories on pages 1415. Smith takes the stand William Kennedy Smith took the witness stand in his own defense tuesday telling for the first time publicly his Story of being Quot picked up Quot by a seductive woman who Quot sort of snapped Quot when he called her the wrong name during consensual sex. A Page 4 Fri wants hostage takers the Fri is trying to identify the terrorists responsible for taking 17 americans hostage in Lebanon since 1984, with an Eye to bringing them to Justice. A Page 5 Early outs snubbed fears about the Economy and the shrinking private Job Market lessened the Appeal of Early retirement unthinkable for most government workers. Such Lack of interest could Hurt younger workers next year. A Pago 6 i _ Buchanan campaigning Patrick Buchanan on tuesday launched his conservative Challenge to president Bush in new Hampshire with an Quot America first Quot message he said was aimed at working people of both parties. A Page 7 Maxwell Money missing trouble at Robert maxwells wrecked Media Empire deepened monday with word that Bank lenders failed to find More than half of the $1.2 billion in missing Money he had frantically shuffled before his death. A Page 17 Index  a we Savavi in a Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. .16 comics. 19-21 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 22 letters. 12 Money matters. 17-18 sports. 23-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 a act honors Vii corps for advisers work in Gulf by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a the National association for the advancement of coloured people has cited the army a Vii corps As the Only . Command to have fielded an equal Opportunity adviser team in operations desert shield and desert storm. To formalize the recognition a act officials awarded the corps a trophy monday afternoon at the corps Kelley Barracks Headquarters in Stuttgart. They also issued a plaque to each of the teams advisers. Michael a. Lamberg elected a act european conference president on saturday said the awards had nothing to do with his organizations recent strife with the army about discrimination complaints. Quot i did no to come Here to present this to Vii corps to heal the wound because the wound is far from being healed a Lamberg said after a Brief ceremony at the officers club. Issue he said issues that prompted the dispute will take a Long time to resolve asked Why the a act honoured Vii corps instead of focusing on said a and its Only going to happen if we All work  commands that failed to Send equal Opportunity advisers to the per Lambergs predecessor. Air Force tech. Set. Arthur w. Diggs s an Gulf Paula Brown edme the a acpt a Northeast Region direct the urging of . Civil rights commission chairman Arthur a Fletcher who had made similar allegations in August. Diggs resigned As president oct. 5 while under threat of a act suspension for having conducted an unauthorized March in Frankfurt to protest the alleged injustices. Master sgt. Orrin d. Miller the corps equal Opportunity chief was among those who received a plaque monday. Quot i done to think we did anything different from what the regulation requires a Miller said speaking about his teams work in the persian Gulf which included visits to a major subordinate commands assistance to units that did no to have advisers and briefings to the corps commander who was then la Gen. Frederick m. Franks or. Corps personnel and administration director col. Johnny d. Rusin disagreed with Milter. The arduous conditions under which the corps operated in saudi Arabia and Iraq would have made it easy to put the equal Opportunity program on the Back Burner he said but Franks made it a High priority. Asked Why the a act honoured Vii corps instead of focusing on the a a Lambergs predecessor air Force tech. Sgt. Arthur w. Diggs staged a six Day hunger strike in september to protest what he called . Army Europe a disregard of a a wide Range of injustices in its equal Opportunity program. Diggs ended his fast at Region it Tor said that while adherence to regulations is to be expected Quot in reality we know that it May not always be the  Quot certainly Vii corps took a step in the right direction a she said. British stand could derail dec Unity treaty maastricht Netherlands a with Britain digging in european Community leaders deadlocked tuesday Over workers rights and the Issue threatened to torpedo an ambitious treaty on european Union. A it is possible that the whole thing will collapse a said danish foreign minister Uffe Elleman Jensen adding he saw Little Chance of a Compromise Between Britain and other dec members. The talks stalled after Britain refused to accept a new draft treaty that would allow the european Community to impose regulations on issues such As maternity benefits and working hours. The deadlock came on the final Day of a two Day Summit that was supposed to wind up the months of negotiations on monetary Union and closer political ties among the 12 dec members. Despite their differences the dec leaders agreed tuesday to adopt a single european currency by Jan. 1,1999, a dutch spokesman said speaking on condition of anonymity. The monetary Accord which was provisionally approved by finance ministers monday provides that the British parliament must agree before the Pound is abandoned. However the agreement to adopt the european currency unit a or ecu a will be moot if the nations do not also reach an agreement on political Union. If the treaty is signed it would be the most far reaching step in the dec since 1986, when Laws were enacted creating a single economic Market of 338 million people by 1992. That agreement provides for tree movement of Money people and goods within the Community. In talks tuesday British officials reiterated that prime minister John major simply could not accept the proposed workers clauses a a so alled a social  major sees the provisions As rolling Back 12 years of conservative government that have emasculated Britain a once mighty labor unions. Britain also was insisting the eco a foreign and defense policies must not undermine nato. French european affairs minister Elizabeth Guigou told reporters a Industrial policy Ana social policy Are two sides of the same Coin. We do not want a Europe of just  her words recalled Napoleon Bonaparte a disdain for the British As a a nation of  on defense Britain said new treaty proposals ensured that the Western european Union a nine nation Security group would not be subordinate to the Community and that nato remained preeminent. A was the text draft treaty stands Europe will not have its own defense policy a Guigou complained. Victim from Page 1 shut off funding to scores of soviet ministries putting Gorbachev in the humiliating position of presiding Over an apparatus that is disintegrating discredited and broke. Nevertheless presidential spokesman Andrei Grachev insisted that his Boss had no immediate plans to step Down. Also tuesday the byelorussian and ukrainian parliaments ratified the Commonwealth treaty reached dec. 8 in Minsk the byelorussian capital. Ukrainian lawmakers added amendments emphasizing that their Republic is fully Independent and will create its own army which will come under the commonwealths a military Structure Only until the nuclear weapons based in the Ukraine Are eliminated. Shak Nazarov told the Young political leaders in Moscow that the agreement a of the three slavic states is a pure coup do eat As it eliminates a state which can be abolished Only by a Congress of Peoples deputies of the .s.r.,�?� the soviet news Agency Tass reported. Gorbachev has urged the 2,250-Mem-Bcr Congress to meet to consider the Commonwealth agreement. He contended monday that the Union cannot be dissolved by just three of its 12 republics and that the slavic pact be submitted to a National referendum. Russian leaders said tuesday that the Congress no longer exists because it transferred its authority to the smaller supreme soviet legislature after the August coup. A the existence of Independent states on the territory of the former Union has become an objective fact a a reality that can no longer be ignored a said Gennady Burbulis Yeltsin Stop Deputy. A we Are proposing. A lawful course to avoid a split with Ukraine to avoid conflict with ethnic minorities a said russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev. The russian officials speaking at a news conference raised the possibility that Gorbachev could have a Job in the Commonwealth which May be joined by other republics. Yeltsin cancelled Alt appointments tuesday to work on details or the slavic pact at his country Home Tass reported. He was scheduled to meet today with top military officials. Anderson from Page 1 met the Little girl for the first time in Damascus Syria where he was taken after his release. As Andersons plane taxied to the terminal firetrucks lining the Tarmac shot water into the air to Salute his arrival. In an interview with the a some 38,000 feet Over the North Atlantic Anderson said a tin going to rest physically and mentally a j then he added he would consider writing a Book about his dismal years in chained Captivity in Lebanon saying it would be surprising if he decided against the idea. He declined to say whether the United states should track Down the abductors and bring them to trial. Alann Steen another american hostage freed last week m Lebanon said the kidnappers should be tracked Down. Anderson departed for Frankfurt a Airport at Sunrise tuesday waving Farewell to about 50 staff members and patients at the air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden Germany where he was taken after his release. His five Day stay at the facility had been a marvelous a Anderson said before he boarded an awaiting Van. A a it a been warm and wonderful and like  monday evening 35 american fifth graders from Wiesbaden Saukam elementary school Sang Christmas carols in front of the Hospital Balcony. Anderson along with Salome and Bassil appeared at the front door and joined in. Staff writer Vince Crawley contributed to this report