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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday january 6, 1992 at a glance civil rights worker Bill Moore was killed in 1963. His is one of four cases that have been reopened. See Story on pages 14 and 15.�?~hot�?T houses found after a House by House search in 11 Pennsylvania communities for buildings constructed with Sand that had been laced with radioactive Radium a Federal Agency said it had found 25 contaminated Homes. A Page 4quayle�?Ts quiet Campaign Dan Quayle acknowledges waging a quiet six month Campaign to persuade George Bush to choose him As a running mate in 1988. A Page 5cuban cultural Center the historic Palace in Florida where jos6 Marti rallied compatriots to fight for cuban Independence from Spain was rededicated As a cuban american cultural Center. A Page 6book targets Wallace a Book in Progress by one of George Wallace s closest operatives in the 1960s depicts the former governor and presidential candidate As a Womanizer whose powerful political machine was corrupt. A Page 7return of Mati Hari Mata Hari s scrapbooks have come Home 96 years after she left a quiet farming town in the Netherlands to become a nude dancer seductress and world War is most famous spy a Page 8lovable, hug Gable car general motors corp. Has unwrapped a four passenger concept car designed for Highway driving at 100 Miles to the gallon at 50 Mph. Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 comics. 18-20 commentary. ----13 faces a places. 10 letters. 12 Money matters. .17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 Georgia Leader seeks referendum As rebels Pound his stronghold. _. K 4 a. _ i _ ___1 j my Tbilisi Georgia a rebels pounded president Oviad Gamsa Kurdi a a stronghold with rockets and machine guns sunday and he offered to hold a referendum on their demand that he resign. But Gamsa Hurdia speaking to reporters in his makeshift Bunker under the parliament building gave no indication that his determination to hold Power had been weakened by two weeks of fighting that has Cost at least 73 lives. A this is not a democratic opposition. This is an armed terroristic Junta a he said referring to the military Council that claimed control Over the former soviet Republic of 5.4 million people last week. At least one Smalt rocket scored a direct hit sunday on the parliament building. But the sturdy Marble Structure was barely damaged. Smoke wafted around it As snipers fired from rooftops in Tbilisi a embattled downtown area littered with burned out vehicles shattered Glass and debris. Samsak Hurdia a troops estimated at 300 to 500 Strong defended the parliament with a soviet made t-55 tank and several armoured personnel carriers. The 52-year-Otd georgian president looking Pale and worried but is o calmly in English said the rebels had Cut All Telephone lines to his stronghold and were attempting to shut off food and Medicine. But he said they were not Strong enough to storm it. About 1,500 Gamsa Hurdia supporters defied the military councils ban on demonstrations and rallied sunday outside Tbilisi Strain station. On Friday a similar rally was dispersed by about 15 opposition gunmen who threw smoke bombs into the crowd and opened fire with automatic rifles. At least two demonstrators were killed. Israel rejection of protests May stall talks Jerusalem a the israeli government on sunday rejected condemnation at Home and abroad of its plan to expel 12 palestinian activists in retaliation for the killing of jewish settlers. The Issue has raised the most serious stumbling Block yet to the Middle East peace talks. Syria Lebanon Jordan and the palestinians have cited the deportation order in suspending their departure to Washington for the resumption of talks this week. The israelis however planned to leave for Washington. A there is no room for debate about this a defense minister Moshe Arens said when asked about . Appeals to withdraw the deportation orders he issued thursday. He insisted they were necessary to curb a wave of attacks in the occupied Arab territories. The 12 people ordered deported include Muslim fundamentalists and activists of the Palestine liberation organization accused of inciting violence against israelis. The decision followed the slaying wednesday of a jewish settler in the Gaza strip a the fourth such killing since peace talks began in Madrid on oct. 30. Pro Plo uprising leaders called a three Day general strike beginning monday. Their leaflet also urged a a violent escalation against israeli occupation  from Page 1 Trade  a the should be very Tough a Clinton said adding that the president also should a acknowledge that we have a lot to learn from them. Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey called Bush a economic proposals inadequate to Deal with the japanese Challenge. A this piddling laundry list that president Bush has put together. May win an election but it will not win an economic Battle a Kerrey said on in no a news maker sunday. In contrast to the tropical weather Bush left in Singapore Seoul was gripped by freezing temperatures. He went directly from the Airport to the National cemetery to Lay a Wreath commemorating korean and american War dead. Bush began his visit in talks with South korean president Roh Tae woo and later played Tennis with Roh. Today Bush addresses the parliament meets business leaders and visits some of the 39,000 . Soldiers stationed at Camp Casey near the demilitarized zone. With the turnabout in North koreans attitude on nuclear weapons the administration said there was a Chance for improved relations Between Washington and Pyongyang which have been almost non existent. A we would consider doing More if they Are responsive in the Security area a said a senior administration official speaking on condition of anonymity to reporters on air Force one As Bush flew to Seoul. A now they re beginning to sound  yet officials Are leery about whether North Korea actually will allow inspections of its secretive nuclear facilities. . Intelligence believes North Korea might be capable of producing weapons Grade plutonium sometime this year and a nuclear weapon a year or so later. . Concern Over North koreans nuclear program led to a suspension of plans to withdraw 6,000 american forces from South Korea by the end of 1992.Germany from Page 1 Germany for mostly economic reasons. Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pressing for a constitutional amendment that would turn Back would be refugees who fall into that category. But the opposition social democrats say the constitutionally guaranteed right to Asylum cannot be tampered with. Far right germans last year carried out dozens of attacks against refugees. There were widespread condemnations of the violence by most German citizens. So far this year there have been Only scattered xenophobic incidents but tensions persist. A 27-year-old nigerian Asylum seeker died sunday after a disco Melee in the bavarian City of Augsburg but police said it Wasny to Clear How. Officials also said far right a a skinheads hurled tear Gas at a refugee shelter in Sommerla Eastern Germany on saturday night. In apparently unrelated attacks in other East German communities that same evening skinheads also beat up patrons of a restaurant attacked at least two passers by and besieged a German youth club. Eight people were injured some seriously Thuringia state officials said. The attack in Sommerla was the Only one that was clearly xenophobic. According to bavarian police the unidentified nigerian refugee was in a group of about 10 africans who damaged cars in front of an Augsburg discotheque and threatened passers by saturday night. Two doormen at the disco were hospitalized after scuffling with the Asylum seekers police said. A few hours later the 27-year-old nigerian was found badly injured in the Asylum shelter where he was staying. He later died in a Hospital police said. Police did not describe the injury and said it was unclear whether the death had anything to do with the scuffle at the disco.b-2 from Page 1 funding has been approved for 13 others. Congress 1992 defense budget allocated $1 billion to build another bomber but froze those funds until the Senate and House vote to approve the additional aircraft. The defense department responding to the report said the b-2 will be the air forces most reliable bomber the los Angeles daily news reported sunday. The defense department said the air Force will meet its Cost estimates by finding and correcting problems during what r is called the full scale development phase a the refinement of the bombers design and production methods during construction of the first six aircraft. A in fact discovery and analysis of the problems during full scale development As led to proposed solutions and should help ensure that the Cost estimates projected by the air Force Are achieved a the defense department said. The report by the Gao the auditing Arm of Congress noted that other new aircraft have not lived up to the air forces reliability predictions. Some components of the b-1b bomber for example Rose in Cost from $250 million in 1981 to $570 million in 1988, it  from Pago 1 none offered assistance the Navy said. A commercial tug was later sent to Tow the India registered Ismail to the port of Fujara in the United Arab emirates the Navy said. The Chandler based in san Diego calif., and the Arthur w. Radford based in Norfolk va., Are on duty in the Gulf supporting  sanctions on Iraq  
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