European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes monday december 30,1991 at a glance while the French continue to Cap Ture the snob Market with their High priced champagnes other european wine makers Are capitalizing on More plebeian markets. See Story on Page 18.little change for visas the soviet Union s breakup into Independent states has so far meant Little change in visa requirements for travellers. A Page 4sac following soviet path the strategic air come the nerve Center of the . Nuclear strike Force is fading into history along with the soviet Union. A Page 5crew proved itself the Crew of the aircraft Carrier Forrestal had a Chance to prove itself during operation provide Comfort. A Page 885 teachers to lose jobs of the estimated 170 teaching positions targeted to be Cut in Germany next month Only 85 people will actually lose their jobs. A Page 9offer he can to refuse a lot of american schools have offered former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a position on their faculty but one of them the University of Texas at Arlington claims it has the  Page 14 targeting telemarketers a House report is calling for sweeping changes in the Way Federal regulators do business so they can put crooked tet marketeers out of business. A Page 20 Swiss closing embassy in Tehran Index Abby Ann Landers .21 comics. 2123 commentary. .13 faces no places .24 letters. .12 Money matters a .20 sports. 25-32 to listings. .31 weather. .11 Berne Switzerland up a Switzerland announced sunday it is closing its embassy in Tehran because of increasing iranian threats against diplomats stationed there. The move deprives the United states at least temporarily of its direct Contact with the iranian government said Marco Cameroni a Swiss government spokesman. Switzerland has represented . Interests in Tehran since Washington broke diplomatic relations with Iran at the time of the hostage crisis a decade ago. Cameroni said the decision to close the embassy came after harassment of Swiss diplomats stationed in Tehran. He said one Diplomat was forcibly prevented from leaving by air sunday and his diplomatic passport was taken away from him. Walter Haffner the Swiss charge do affaires in Tehran said in a radio interview sunday the iranian press was becoming a never More menacing toward the embassy and Switzerland in general. The iranian press has been attacking Switzerland for a week since the arrest i Benefit from Page 1 tickets kept trying to get in pushing from behind to create the fatal crush. Dirk Swain 20, Darrin a. Brown 28, Jamaal Rainey 15, Yule Daroga 24, Leonard Nelson 17, and Sonya Williams 20, were pronounced dead shortly afterwards said police spokeswoman sgt Mary Wrensen. Two other victims were not yet publicly identified sunday morning. Ems spokeswoman Sandra Mackey said one of the dead was a woman who was four months pregnant. A 25-year-old Man died after being taken to St. Luke a Roosevelt Hospital in cardiac arrest said Ems spokeswoman Lynn Schulman. Five Ems workers were injured police said. Mayor David Dinkins who rushed to the scene said the school was to have provided Security inside the building while the police department handled Security outside. Charrisse Miles 21, said some ticket holders had been let inside the gym then another group of people without tickets began pushing against the doors swarm Miles said adding that she saw about 20 people passed out on the floor. An announcement was made Over the Public address system saying the game would not be held because three people had died outside she said. At that Point people also began running out. One Saia she stayed in her seat to avoid being caught in the crowd. Miles said the event was sold out and heard there were about 2,500 ticket hold ers. Police and paramedics estimated the crowd at Between 3,000 and 6,000 people. Kay Morgan 19, a student at Temple University in Philadelphia described the foyer where the crush occurred As a  a there was just a lot of people coming to get in a Morgan said. A a lot of people did no to even realize that there were people on the  doors opened about 5 . And the Ante was scheduled to Start at 6 . By . It had not yet started. Carlin said downstairs doors leading into the gym were closed but people without tickets kept trying to get in pushing from behind to create the fatal crush. Heavy a whose name is Dwight Myers has started a fund to help the families of the dead and plans to hold a Benefit concert said Marilyn Laverty the rappers spokeswoman. Lori Grant 16, said heavy d and rap Star . Cool j assisted people during the crush. A a i was very impressed that the entertainers tried to come out and help a she said. ? Berne of an iranian suspected of complicity in the murder last August of Shapour Bakhtiar the last Premier of Iran under Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The Man identified As Seal Sahara i has been named by France in an Interpol warrant As one of the men involved in the murder Iran has told Switzerland he is the Holder of a diplomatic passport. Switzerland has formally denied this and says he entered the country on a Normal tourist visa last september a one month after the murder. Aids drug shows Promise London apr a drug prescribed for infections has shown Good results in the treatment of aids according to a report in the sunday times. However the newspaper reported a three year trial on the drug acyclovir has been halted prematurely to allow control group patients to have Access to the treatment. Or. Paul Griffith a professor of virology at London a Royal free Hospital said the death rate of patients treated with acyclovir combined with at was 10 percent the sunday times reported compared to a death rate of 20% for patients treated with at Only. But a doctor involved in the trials said the Early results were a a minor step  a the trial was stopped because of some Success rate and some improvement in survival a said or. Brian Gazzard of London s Westminster Hospital. A the results have not been published yet but i would not say that it is a dramatic  the sunday times reported the experiments on acyclovir were taking place in great Britain Germany and Australia and involved a total of 300 people suffering from  from Page 1 starting today in the belorussian formerly byelorussian capital Minsk the administrative Center of the new Commonwealth. Ukraine in particular has been undaunted in creation of a separate army of several thousand men. President Leonid Kravchuk has declared control Over All soviet troops and weapons in Ukraine except Long Range nuclear missiles. He said saturday that Ukraine intends also to be a sea Power. Even As he announced plans for the russian guard Yeltsin said Commonwealth members must agree on a unified military. The West led by the United states has insisted that the former republics establish a secure Central command Over the old soviet Arsenal if they want Aid and diplomatic recognition. The russian Leader said the Commonwealth would be guided by councils of member states leaders but affirmed that neither the Commonwealth nor Russia would dominate Over the other members. A we Are equals among equals a Yeltsin said. Differences on economic defense and foreign policy have troubled the new Commonwealth in the week following its proclamation and four Days after soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev resigned. The Commonwealth also has to work out what to do with soviet military hardware. Russia has taken control Over the largest and most sophisticated aircraft Carrier. The move Drew a protest from Ukraine where the vessel was stationed before it was transferred to Russia. Yeltsin whose government is the Central pillar of the Commonwealth has taken control of most soviet troops and vowed not to use them in hot spots like Magorno Karabash and Georgia. The latter has not thus far joined the  from Page 1 make reductions beyond the 30 percent cuts mandated by the strategic arms reduction treaty or Start signed by Moscow and Washington earlier this year. Under a tentative agreement All the nuclear weapons will be moved to Russia the largest of the four republics and the soviet unions official successor. Congress has appropriated $400 million from the . Defense budget to help carry out the dismantling project. But Cheney made Clear there was Only so much the United states could do to press the republics into compliance with the treaty obligations of the former soviet Union. He said the administration was taking the Republic leaders at their word that they would keep their vast nuclear stockpiles under a centralized command and adhere to promised cuts. A so we continue to press them on these issues a Cheney said. A but there a a limit to How far they re willing to go in terms of actually sharing detailed information with us information that is of a classified nature for example and has been up a til now a he said. Meanwhile a High official was quoted sunday As saying that Ukraine wants guarantees it would not come under attack before it dismantles or reduces its nuclear weapons Arsenal. Victor Ajit nov ukrainian Industry and Trade minister in an interview reported on israeli radio a Day after Cheney a comments. He was quoted As saying that Long Range nuclear weapons had Al ready been transferred from the army to direct government control. A there is already a decision in principle to take nuclear weapons off their status of High Alert including the Long Range weapons a Antonov was quoted As saying. A but we would like guarantees we will not be attacked by foreign elements when we dismantle our weapons a he reportedly added. But Antonov was also quoted As saying he hoped the republics would reach some agreement to dismantle atomic weapons in a meeting expected in Minsk the capital of Belarus later this week. Once such an agreement is reached Ukraine would be interested in obtaining american or other assistance to dismantle nuclear weapons the radio quoted him As saying