European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes wednesday january 8, 1992 Here a Earlma Good As she looked As a member of a Stone age tribe in Venezuela before marrying an anthropologist and moving to new Jersey. This Winter she plans to visit her tribe. See Story on pages 14-15. Blackout in . A massive blackout in the Washington area lasted two hours monday snarling Rush hour traffic and bringing an unexpected end to the workday. A Pago 4 record number of murders More than 24,000 americans were murdered in the United states last year a study showed a Pago 5 panel to meet in Indochina a special Senate committee that is looking into cases of americans still missing from the Vietnam War plans to hold hearings in Indochina. A Page 6 . Objects to expulsions the United states has joined the rest of the . Security Council in strongly condemning israelis planned deportation of 12 palestinians. A Page 8 Church abetted suspect roman Catholic officials helped one of Frances most notorious suspected War criminals evade Justice for decades officials say. A Page 9 automobile sales Down sales of cars and Light trucks made in the United states plunged 10.3 percent in 1991 from a poor 1990 showing with the Gulf War and recession cited As reasons. A Page 17 Index t Abby Ann Landers 19 action line .16 comics.19-21 commentary.13 crossword .19 faces a no places .22 letters .12 Money matters 17-18 sports.23-28 to listings.27 weather.11 Bush from Page 1 of the global  Bush and his entourage arrived Here at the dinner hour of a Day the president began with a Low key tour of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto the ancient capital. He had an official arrival ceremony scheduled wednesday morning followed by a visit with emperor Akihito and talks with Miyazawa. Unprecedented Security surrounded Bush a visit a his first to this county since he attended the funeral of emperor Hirohito in the Spring of 1989. The National police Agency said about 26,000 policemen were mobilized in the Kansas Region that includes Kyoto and Nara and a similar number were assigned to Tokyo. In Advance of Bush a official greeting by government leaders there were indications of imminent Trade concessions from the japanese. A government official confirmed Media reports that 23 major japanese companies will set targets to boost imports of manufactured products by More than $10 billion a with about half coming from the United states. The electronics machinery and automobile companies plan to import a combined total of $26.44 billion in fiscal 1993, up $10.18 billion from fiscal 1990, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity Nissan motor co. Announced tuesday that it planned to sell up to 3,000 Ford minivans and other autos a year in Japan if Consumers Here cooperate. Japan a second largest automaker also said it had raised its target for buying .-made Auto parts in the fiscal year ending March 31,1995, to $3.7 billion from an earlier $3.3 billion. And Noboru Hatakeyama vice minister of the powerful ministry of International Trade and Industry announced that 88 japanese companies plan to increase their annual world imports by $10 billion by fiscal year 1993. But he said the government had no Power to enforce those targets for import increases set by the companies because they were  Japan has a roughly $41 billion annual Trade surplus with the United states. About three fourths of the Gap is Auto related. The chairmen of Chrysler corp. And general motors talking to reporters at their hotel Here angrily dismissed suggestions that ailing u a. Automakers were looking for handouts from Tokyo. A we done to have to apologize to anybody Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca said. A to say we Are coming to Japan to get a souvenir or we re going to sit around and accept whatever favors they can bestow on us that a not the game a he said. A the game is you be got to change the Basic trading relationship Between these two  nukes from Page 1. Turc of our relationship including the nuclear dimension with the Commonwealth of Independent states and the newly Independent  the department described a military advisory panels recent endorsement of cutting strategic nuclear arms by roughly 50 percent As a one of Many suggestions being offered to the department. As we continue to review our policies toward the former soviet Union and our Overall defense strategy in a changing  the joint strategic target planning staff advisory panel also said  report disclosed monday in the Washington Post that the United states should radically alter the secret plan for targeting its strategic warheads. Instead of being readied to strike Only the former soviet Union the new plan would include some of the arms targeted for the first time on potentially troublesome nations in the third world. The defense departments statement said the advisory panel a is by no Means the definitive word on the  another official said that sweeping strategic arms reductions if approved by Bush a would be part of a broader set of policy changes reacting to the changed threat from the former soviet Union. Several officials said the administrations deliberations entered on a package of . Arms reductions aimed at inducing the former soviet republics to eliminate multiple nuclear warheads on land based missiles a move urged Fay Bush last september but resisted by then soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. . Officials said that silo based multiple warhead missiles Are among the most destabilizing nuclear arms because they Are vulnerable to destruction in a preemptive attack. Eliminating All but one warhead atop such missiles is expected to make such an attack much less attractive. Soviet officials have criticized the proposal As one sided because it would require greater cuts in their existing stocks than in the . Arsenal. But . Officials said that one option under consideration is to balance some of the soviet reductions in land based weapons with reductions in . Sea based weapons an idea that the defense department strongly opposed just four months ago. The military advisory panel which included several current and former Navy officials urged for example that at least two nuclear warheads be removed from existing sea launched ballistic missiles that now Cany eight such warheads apiece. It said this a could Lead to greater targeting flexibility and increase the missiles  from Page 1 Russia Are showing up on the Black Market the government said monday it will Send a special team to help ensure the Aid is delivered to needy people. The newspaper Bild am sonntag reported sunday that a a considerable portion of German Winter Aid for russians a is being stolen and sold to the suffering at exorbitant prices by Black marketeers. Dieter Vogel spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl confirmed that 10 German Supply specialists would travel to Russia this week to investigate ways to ensure that the goods reach their destinations. A the Federal government attaches a great Deal of importance to making sure the goods Are correctly distributed he said. Specialists from the  eventually might be sent to Russia to help oversee the distribution of goods Vogel said. He said the foreign Trade and agricultural ministers of the  will discuss distribution problems during a meeting in Brussels Belgium on Friday. The Canadian forces also plan to begin flying Basic medical supplies for infants children and the elderly to hospitals in Russia Ukraine Lithuania Latvia and Estonia later this month. The Canadian red Cross is coordinating that Effort and the flights will originate at Canadian forces base Uplands in Ontario. Foreign ministers of the 16 nato nations agreed last month to use the Alliance to help coordinate Aid shipments to the former soviet Union. Nato expects to facilitate transport of Relief supplies from a variety of sources such As the red Cross and european Community. Staff writers Joseph Owen in Stuttgart and Rosemary Sawyer in Brussels contributed to this report ., South Korea drop military exercise Seoul South Korea apr the defense ministry announced tuesday that the annual military exercises with the United states will be cancelled this year now that communist North Korea has agreed to sign a nuclear safeguards agreement. In a statement relayed by its official news Agency North Korea said it would a faithfully fulfil its obligations under the nuclear non proliferation treaty and thus make an Active contribution to the cause of completely eliminating nuclear weapons from the Globe and defending peace and Security in  news reports in South Korea said North Korea was expected to have the Accord with the Vienna based International atomic Energy Agency ratified by jan.30. North Korea is one of the worlds few remaining hard line communist countries. It has been under world pressure to sign a safeguards agreement with the Vienna Agency and open its nuclear facilities to outside inspections. International experts believe North Korea is a few years away from being Able to make a crude atomic bomb. North Korea insists its nuclear program is for peaceful use Only. Coup plotters in Iraq executed report says Athens up1 a Iraq reportedly executed at least 80 army officers accused of participating in a plot to overthrow president Saddam Hussein in a coup do stat Iran a state owned islamic Republic news Agency said tuesday. Quoting a source close to the supreme Assembly of the islamic revolution in Iraq or Sari the news Agency said the iraqi authorities also executed 76 people charged with taking part in anti Saddam demonstrations in the holy City of Karbala. The Irna report came about two weeks after iraqi opposition leaders met in Damascus apparently at the invitation of Sari and Drew up a plan to overthrow Saddam. Sari is a Tehran based umbrella organization for iraqi rebel groups. An Irna report monitored in Athens said a at least 80 senior iraqi army offi cers accused of involvement in a failed coup attempt against the Baghdad regime have been  the news Agency did not say when the coup attempt occurred or was planned to occur and when or where the executions were carried out of the civilians executed for participating in a demonstration in Karbala several were said to be children aged 10 to 15