European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The sto&an�0ripes vol. 50, no. 254 350 a a ,.lz<--it_.jw.�?T.i�7t- ?5.ciitt.lt_ �?~7- in monday december 23 ,1991 it if a i a a in a Tiv , t Quot Ltd Quot a a a a a 1 v ,wi�il.n4. J d 8693 Summit buries soviet Union Gorbachev s Days numbered troops fire on protesters 7 die in Tbilisi Moscow apr fighting erupted Early sunday Between rebel National guardsmen and troops Loyal to georgian president Oviad Gamsa Hurdia killing seven people and wounding 50 in the capital City of Tbilisi a government spokesman said. There were conflicting reports about who started the gun Battle. The Tass news Agency blamed rebel guardsmen under the command of Tengiz Kito Vani a the former georgian defense minister a and said they attacked the parliament building in Central Tbilisi. Witnesses said about 500 presidential guards opened fire with automatic weapons at 8 05 . On opposition forces and rebel guardsmen massing outside the building for a protest rally. The fighting which continued through sunday afternoon capped a week of increasing tension in Georgia a former soviet Republic in the caucasus mountains. Georgia s opposition movement said it is tired of waiting for Gamsa Hurdia to see troops on Page 2 army Soldier Jacqueline Bridges left of Dallas and an unidentified soviet truck Driver pose at a Moscow Airport on sunday. The two were atop a truck at die Airport where american food and Medicine Are being unloaded from two c-141 transport planes. 26 die 4 Hurt in dc-3 crash Moscow apr eleven former soviet republics have replaced the soviet Union with a new Commonwealth and president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a left without a country to Lead a has indicated he May resign within Days. At the Summit meeting in the Kazakhstan capital of Alma Ata on saturday russian president Boris n. Yeltsin declared that by forming the Commonwealth of Independent states its members broke the chains that bound them to the Kremlin dictatorship for seven decades. The leaders established a joint command by Russia Kazakhstan byelorussian and the Ukraine Over the estimated 27,000 nuclear weapons on their soil appointed former soviet defense minister sevc Ocny Shaposhnikov As interim head of All nuclear and conventional armed forces and agreed that Russia would inherit the soviet Union s seat in . Security Council. It did not however give any one Leader exclusive control Over the a nuclear Button a an Issue that continues to Divide Russia and Kazakhstan. The 11 Commonwealth leaders will meet on dec. 30 in Minsk the ceremonial capital of the Commonwealth to establish a Council to run a joint military command. Yeltsin has said that All republics except Russia will become nuclear free. But Kazakhstan president Nur Sultan Nazar Baev see soviet on Page 2 Vintage dc-3 crashes from stuff and wire reports Heidelberg Germany a a Vintage dc-3 crashed sunday near Heidelberg in a Forest wrapped in fog killing 26 people. Four people survived. The plane which had been chartered by a private German club for a sightseeing tour of the Rhein main and Heidel Beig areas took off from Frankfurt and crashed about noon in the Forest officials at the crash site said. They said Rescue teams had trouble in reaching the wooded Hill where the crash occurred North of this picturesque University town. Hesse state radio said four survivors were brought to the Heidelberg uni vet sity clinic. Three were seriously injured the report said. A police spokesman confirmed that Rescue teams found the four injured survivors while searching the wreckage Early sunday afternoon. A spokesman for classic wings the company which operates the plane said the aircraft took off from Frankfurt with 27 passengers and three Crew members. Hans Uirich Ohl spokesman for Ger Many a civil aviation authority said there had been no radio Contact with the Crew before the crash indicating that the Accident probably happened unexpectedly. He would not speculate whether bad weather contributed to the crash. Ohl said the classic wings company was founded and run by former pilots of the German National airline Lufthansa which used experienced professional pilots for their sightseeing flights. The classic twin Nguie propeller plane was one of Only two of its Type still operating in Germany. S4s Petar Jaeger Odds to reorganize into 2 school regions by Jimi Jones education writer Frankfurt Germany a the department of defense dependents schools will split into East and West regions reducing the number of regions from five to two. John Stremple the school systems director said that the massive draw Down of forces in Europe will Force an eventual reorganization. Quot ultimately we see probably a single Region in Europe Quot Stremple said. But for the Sake of logistics and personnel support Stremple said he Hopes to retain some Quot educational support groups out in the Atlantic and Mediterranean  Stremple said a final plan has yet to be decided on. That decision will depend on the nature of the draw Down and will be based on geographical locations and the ability to establish administrative units that can Quot prudently Monitor the school system Quot he said. Stremple expects it will be a two or three years from now Quot before a final decision in made on the Dodds big picture. Meanwhile some restructuring already has started As student population continues to dwindle. In Germany where the greatest reductions Are being made the system has lost about 7,000 students in the four months that school has been in session. Slots for 200 teachers will be Cut next month. Some District offices Are being reduced and will continue to Cut Back Over the next two or three years Stremple said. The reductions will also affect the final see Dodds on Page 2complete coverage of Aba College basketball a pages 21, 25, 26