European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 17, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 rats taking Over Pentagon memo says api  a i tit  i. / Arlington a up a rats have been observed in practically All sections of the Pentagon in 1991, including 51 reported sightings in food service areas often near steam tables Coffee urns and Cash registers a published report said sunday. A a they be gotten More Brazen because there Are More of them around a said John Rebstock general manager of Ara food services inc., a National company that runs the Pentagon a cafeterias and snack bars. Quot when one of them runs out Between somebody a legs you be got to take  Rebstock wrote in a May 1 memorandum to building health officers that three to five rats were being caught weekly in food service areas. Quot my message is simple a Rebstock wrote a help is needed and requested. The level of infestation has become  the Washington Post reported sunday that Rebstock had sent the memo with a dead norwegian rat sealed in a plastic bag. Rodents Are not a new phenomenon at the Pentagon the worlds largest office building which was constructed on a swamp in the Early 1940s and whose Structure includes a system of passageways that mice rats favor. But officials told the newspaper that the last two mild Winters have generated a population explosion. Inn a am Ere a and i never saw a rat until 1991, said Andrew Jones executive director of the Pentagon concessions committee which oversees the food service and other stores in the building in which 24,000 people work. A i see them now a Jones told the Post. Quot they re evident in the daytime. A i saw one rat As it went through the cafeteria in search of the seafood area a he said. Quot there was a woman who  the Pentagon a Many routes for rats make the food areas particularly vulnerable to infestation. Quot i was seeing them every Day for a while a said or Lander Roberson an Ara sanitation manager. A a in a make a noise with the pans so they  be surprised. You a hear them go thu Pety thump across the  Bush Marks 200th birthday of Bill of rights month i icon t a a if n to. _ a i it 1 _ Montpelier a. A president Bush on monday led a Celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Bill of rights declaring that the historic document stands As a Model for other nations building their own democracies. In a sub freezing chill Bush joined congressional leaders and the judiciary in an outdoor ceremony at James Madison a Home in Central Virginia. A two Hundred years after its ratification this extraordinary document is recognized around the world As the great charter of american Liberty and democracy a Bush said in a proclamation which he signed on the porch of the mansion that once belonged to Madison. A indeed As James Madison predicted the principles enshrined in our Bill of rights have become for All Peoples fundamental maxims of free government a a the president said. Sunday marked the Bicentennial of the Day that Virginia became the necessary 11th state to ratify Madison a Handiwork and made the first 10 amendments part of the infant . Constitution. Their guarantee of personal freedoms a including Freedom of speech press and religion the right to a jury trial protections from self incrimination and unreasonable searches and the right to a keep and Bear arms a became a Cornerstone of american Liberty and a Model for other nations to copy. Indeed the 450 guests invited to lunch with Bush and other . Officials inside a heated tent on Madison a Montpelier Plantation near Orange va., included several dozen ministers from Eastern european countries and soviet republics. Madison the fourth . President . Overturns Resolution equating zionism with racism and father of the Constitution originally opposed the idea of amending the Constitution immediately. But Thomas Jefferson and others convinced him that the explicit protections for Peoples civil rights would help Sway states reluctant to ratify the Constitution itself. Madison then a congressman became the biggest proponent of the Bill of rights. Originally he offered 19 amendments but Congress whittled them to a dozen and two a dealing with congressional pay and apportionment a failed to pass the states Muster. United nations a the . General Assembly on monday repealed its 1975 Resolution equating zionism with racism. The vote was 111-25, with 13 abstentions. Some members hugged each other and congratulated each other on the vote. It was Only the second time in . History the Assembly had overturned one of its own resolutions. Israel the United states and the West had called the original Resolution a stain on the United nations that undermined its credibility. Zionism is the ideology of reconstituting the jewish nation in its biblical Homeland and Israel has used the 1975 Resolution to Back its claim that the United nations is biased against the jewish state and unfit As a peacemaker. General Assembly resolutions Are not legally binding like Security Council decisions but Cany moral weight As the expression of the will of the International Community. Arab nations had sought to Block repeal of the Resolution by seeking to require a boo thirds vote instead of a simple majority in the 166-member general Assembly. Israeli ambassador Yoram Aridor had said Between 90 and 100 nations would probably vote to overturn the Resolution. The one line Resolution said a the general Assembly decides to revoke the determination contained in its Resolution 3379.�?� the Resolution had at least 71 co sponsors including the soviet Union which supported the 1975 measure. The original Resolution adopted by a vote of 72-35, with 32 abstentions proclaimed a zionism is a form of racism and racial  Benjamin Netanyahu spokesman for israelis delegation to the Middle East peace talks in Washington said Israel would View the votes of Arab states As a sign of their willingness to make peace. A it is impossible to fully support peace with Israel and oppose rescinding this Resolution a Netanyahu told Israel radio from Washington. The 1975 Resolution passed at the urging of the Arab states backed by the soviet bloc reinforced longstanding israeli opinions that the United nations was biased against it. Passage of the Resolution deepened the contempt of Many israelis for . Resolutions calling on Israel to give up territory occupied in the 1967 Middle East War. . Not ready to pull out of s. Korea Cheney says Washington a the United states is not ready to withdraw its troops from South Korea despite a non aggression agreement Between the Seoul gov emment and North Korea Secretary of defense Dick Cheney says. A not yet a Cheney said in response to a question about the possibility of withdrawal. He was interviewed sunday on the Abc to program meet the press. North and South Korea signed an Accord Friday pledging non aggression and greater exchanges of people and communications. It stopped Short of ending the state of War Between the two that has existed since the korean War armistice of 1953. A i think we Welcome the developments that have occurred the coming together if you will at least diplomatically in a sense of the North and South a said Cheney. Quot but what i would like to see is fundamental change in the very hostile military posture the North has maintained for 40 years. That Hasni to happened  there Are 43,000 . Troops stationed in South Korea but Washington has announced it will withdraw 7,000 troops that Are mostly support personnel by the end of 1992.bottles up worke Rebois a replica of a giant coca cola bottle into place saturday in new York i times Square. The 42-foot-tall bottle is part of a three dimensional Neon sign that the City plans to officially Light on new year s eve just before the traditional ringing in of the new year