European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday december 19,1991 the stars and stripes c Page 9 mechanics gear up for demolition Derby of conventional arms German workers on tuesday demonstrate the dismantling of a tank in Potsdam. Potsdam Germany apr mechanics clamber around the empty Shell of a 40-ton, soviet made tank. A roaring Crane lifts off the Turret. A few Bangs with a Hammer and the Crane slips the 1-ton gun free. The next step is a Blowtorch then the Furnace where the. Armoured steel will emerge As molten Metal fit for Plo shares. Eager to follow up on diplomatic treaties drastically reducing conventional weaponry in Europe German mechanics demonstrated tuesday How the physical work Wilt be done a and hoped for a chunk of one of Europe a biggest destruction jobs Ever. Once All 22 nations have ratified the conventional forces in Europe treaty they have 40 months to destroy about 39,500 offensive cold War weapons a tanks armoured vehicles artillery warplanes and attack helicopters. The starting Date for the demolition Derby however is Uncertain. The nato allies and the Eastern nations Are to be left holding the same numbers in each category. The East which has More of everything has to do about three fourths of the total destruction to meet the limits. German officials estimate it May Cost $19,000 to destroy each tank thus the entire Job will Cost hundreds of millions of dollars. A i believe there never has been such a process in the history of Mankind a German col. Alex Berger said. Germany must destroy its weaponry and that of the former East Germany. It has arms from the soviet Union the United states Britain Denmark Canada Belgium and the Netherlands on its territory. An East German t55 tank and a Btr-60 armoured vehicle were Guinea pigs for the demonstration. Mechanics had prepared the two Green hulks by removing the treads wheels and engines and stripping seats sights lights Ana everything else so that they were Down to painted Metal. In 1w hours the tank was in three parts a Hull Turret and 100mm gun. Torches Cut away the housing for drive wheels the key step in rendering the offensive weapons systems incapable of being repaired. Other than Selling the Metal for scrap officials said it was also possible to abide by the treaty by blowing up weapons encasing them in Concrete or Selling them outside the Region. Some May also be put in museums or other historical displays. The demonstrating company Maschi Newbau Gabelsberg a Mph is one of 14 German firms bidding for the work. It Hopes to add the project to its Normal menu of building cranes and trailers and provide More jobs for Potsdam a City suf Cring High unemployment like others in former communist East Germany. General manager Harro Draheim said the company once had 2,000 workers but now is Down to about 600. A this Job would help keep our people Busy for quite a while a he said. The disarmament treaty signed in november 1990, has been approved by the . Senate but awaits Complete ratification. We Chi it was signed the soviet led Warsaw pact still existed and the soviet Union looked like a fixture in world affairs. 8south Korea now nuclear free Roh declares Seoul South Korea apr president Roh Tae woo said in a nationwide broadcast wednesday that South Korea is nuclear free an announcement aimed at increasing pressure on North Korea to abandon nuclear arms development. His televised speech signalled that All . Nuclear weapons have been removed from South Korea an important step in the Campaign to persuade communist North Korea to agree to nuclear non proliferation. A at this moment not a single nuclear weapon exists in our country a Roh said. He said a pledge made nov. 8 not to produce possess or deploy nuclear weapons has been realized and he challenged North Korea to do the same. Roh urged the North to unconditionally accept International inspections of its secretive nuclear facilities and to dismantle nuclear reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities. His speech came five Days after the two Korea signed a historic Accord calling for peaceful coexistence after 46 years of division. The agreement Laid a framework for reconciliation but did not Deal with nuclear issues which has threatened immediate ratification by South Korea s parliament. There was no immediate reaction from North Korea which has denied its nuclear program is weapons oriented. But intelligence reports indicate the North is close to building its first atomic bomb. In a commentary in the government no Dong sin Mun newspaper wednesday North Korea said it would not sign an agreement on nuclear safeguards until it could a fully confirm Quot that the United states had withdrawn its nuclear weapons from the Southern half of the Peninsula. Seoul and Washington have said the Issue has reached a critical stage and that the North must sign safeguards before the february meeting of the International atomic Energy  sentenced to 1 year in shooting death by Lynda Davidson Kaiserslautern Bureau Ramstein a Germany a a combat arms training instructor has been sentenced to a year in jail for shooting and killing an air Force weather forecaster last july. Sgt. James d. Lough of the 86th Security police so at Ramstein a was found guilty after a seven Day court martial. Lough was convicted of negligent homicide instead of premeditated murder in the death of tech. Sgt. Scott r. Kincaid 27, of the 86th weather so. A military panel also recommended that Lough 26, be demoted to the lowest enlisted Grade and ordered to forfeit $753 a month for six months. The Cumberland md., native who was Quot 17th air forces top combat arms specialist for 1990, will return to Active duty after serving his jail term at the . Army confinement facility in Mannheim. Lough a four member defense team led by civilian lawyer Joel Cohen contended that Lough acted in Sel defense was intoxicated and suffered a concussion during the evening affecting his reasoning. The shooting occurred at Lough a Home in Eule Bis a Village near Kaiserslautern after two couples and assorted friends and co workers had spent an evening of steady drinking at a local pub. During the evening Lough had alleged to the wife of one member of the party that her husband was having sex with another woman in the group. One of the people in the party senior airman Brian Tebon kicked Lough in the head As the partners were walking to various Homes after hearing of the accusation. Before being kicked in the head Lough had no problem walking said airman 1st class Gary Harris one of the partners who testified at the trial. Afterwards . Lough  even stand up straight. He Wasny table to walk and was asking who hit him Quot Harris said. Witnesses said that Harris and Jane Kincaid accompanied by her husband Scott helped Lough Home and put him to bed. Tebon and his wife sgt. Tabitha Tebon went to their own Home after the kicking incident. When Tebon took his wife Home he picked up a Cane to protect himself in Case Lough was angry for having been picked then went to Lough a House to question him about the allegations of illicit sex. Then Tebon told Harris and the Kincaid to leave which they did. Tebon stayed to confront Lough and Scott Kincaid subsequently returned to also confront Lough about the allegations Tebon testified. By the time Kincaid returned Lough had already drawn his 6-shot revolver i from the floor next to his bed Tebon said. Witnesses testimony conflicted about the sequence of events that then led to the shooting and the passage of time Between several key elements of the incident. Lough did not testify but Cohen played Lough a taped confession taken the same Day As the shooting. A the last thing i remember was Kincaid approaching me in an aggressive manner and that a when i fired on him a Lough said in the tape. Blood alcohol tests administered to Lough and Kincaid revealed that Kincaid a blood alcohol level was 0.253 at the time of death and Lough a was 0.142 about four hours following the 2 30 . Shooting. Daniel estimated that Lough s blood alcohol level would probably have been Between 0.186 and 0.23 when the shooting occurred. A person with a blood alcohol level of 0.08 is considered legally intoxicated. After the verdict was announced Lough was visibly person Home and is trying to get some sleep and is threatened by two people one of them carrying a club and is sober and knows the person they re threatening is drunk that they the jury done to allow him to defend