European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday january 11, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9expanded role for nato forces backed Brussels Belgium up Western Alliance forces should be used in the future for peacekeeping operations or observer missions outside the nato area the alliances Secretary general says. In an article in the latest Issue of nato review Magazine Manfred Worner said he did not feel nato should develop into a pan european Security organization or become the Security Arm of the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe which grew out of the 1975 Helsinki human rights Accord. A the Csc is clearly the appropriate forum for handling the political economic and Legal dimensions of tension and crisis situations in Europe a Worner said. But he added that a apart from contributing its experience and expertise to the management of the Post Helsinki Csc arms control regime there May Well be scope for the Alliance to contribute its logistics intelligence resources and even rapid reaction forces to Csc or . Mandated peacekeeping operations or observer Quot notions like in or out of area will More and More lose their relevance a Worner said. Nato has strictly stuck to the principle that it could not operate outside the area covered by the territories of its member states. A Onato will have to further improve its political and military instruments to Deal with the new types of crisis and conflict and support where possible peacekeeping and humanitarian missions a a Worner said. A i must emphasize that this is my personal View and very much looking to the longer term. A it is also a View that is admittedly far ahead of any consensus among our member nations a but i am convinced this is the direction in which we must go. We have to think ahead if we want to stay Dolphin death toll increases to 19 around Greece Athens Greece up a the bodies of six dolphins were washed ashore on the Mediterranean Island of Rhodes this week causing concern that a deadly epidemic threatened More deaths of the mammals. The bodies of four dolphins washed ashore on Rhodes tuesday and an additional two wednesday bringing the total to 19 in six weeks sources in the hellenic Center for Marine research said thursday. The researchers expressed fears that the numbers May Rise. Marine environmentalists expressed fears that the dolphins were threatened by a disease caused by a virus or were victims of a deadly pollutant dumped into the Mediterranean. Andreas Lioulias director of the Hydro biological Center of Rhodes flew to Athens on thursday bringing with him parts of the dead dolphins for analysis at the toxicological Center. Within the past six weeks dead dolphins were found either floating on the sea or washed ashore on Crete Rhodes and the Island of Aegina near Athens. Last summer the bodies of 25 dolphins were found in Greece mainly in the sardonic thermic and am Rakic Bays in the Aegean. Sources in the greek Branch of Greenpeace an International environmental group said Marine biologists have not been Able to pinpoint the cause of the deaths. A study under Way in Holland May not be completed for two years. A Diamond in the rubble Leslie Sosnick and her husband David Wangsness know what it Means to search for a Needle in a Haystack. Sosnick shows off her wedding ring that was found wednesday by a Crew cleaning up the couples fire dam aged lot in the Oakland calif., Hills. The pair had searched through the nibble of their gutted Home for More than 70 Days in Hopes of finding the one Carat Diamond ring before the cleanup Crew discovered . Slashes acreage set aside for spotted owl by the los Angeles times Washington after months of study the . Fish and wildlife service said thursday it has designated 6.88 million acres of old growth Forest in Washington Oregon and Northern California As habitat critical to the threatened Northern spotted owl. The final designation was a dramatic reduction from the 11.6 million acres in which the Agency first proposed limiting Timber cutting last april. But the decision to scale Down the acreage did not assuage the Timber Industry in the economically depressed Pacific Northwest. Barry Polsky a spokesman for the american Forest resource Alliance accused fish and wildlife officials of a flow bailing estimated Job losses. Mark Rey the Timber organizations executive director called the action Quot a Legal Lynching of an entire Region by an out of control Federal fish and wildlife officials have estimated that saving the owl could Cost 33,000 jobs in the Northwest but the Timber Industry maintains that the toll actually could reach 80,000 to 100,000. In making its final plan Public the service estimated that reduction of the critical habitat to 6.88 million will have the effect of saving about 1,000 jobs and annually returning 65 million Board feet to the regions Timber Harvest. Environmental organizations whose 1987 lawsuit forced the government to identify the owls critical habitat charged that reducing the area of Protection will cause the death of half the remaining Birds which now number fewer than 500 by some estimates. The area outlined in documents submitted to a . District judge in Seattle and made Public thursday will not ban logging but will sharply restrict it and re quire Timber sales to be approved by fish and wildlife officials on a Case by Casc basis. After an outcry from Timber and business interests last year the fish and wildlife service last August dropped 3 million acres of private lands from the 11.6 million acres it first proposed to designate As critical habitat. From the remaining 8.6 million the new action excluded 582,000 acres of state lands plus 1.7 million acres belonging to the . Forest service and the department of the interiors Bureau of land show Maxwell was beaten Story says Paris apr a Magazine said thursday that pictures taken during a second autopsy on Robert Maxwell indicated the publisher was beaten before he died at sea. But two doctors who examined the body said that conclusion was wrong. The weekly Paris match published graphic pictures showing what it said were bruises scattered Over maxwells body. It said the finding cast doubt on a Spanish autopsy a conclusion that the publisher fell off his yacht and died of natural causes nov. 5. No report from the second autopsy has been made Public. However a British doctor who participated in the second autopsy in Israel denied it had found evidence of foul play. A Spanish pathologist also disputed that there were any signs of violence on maxwells body. Bob Cole a spokesman for the Maxwell family which requested the second autopsy said he had no comment. Spanish officials conducted the first autopsy because maxwells body was found floating off Spain a Canary islands. The second autopsy was conducted in Israel shortly before the jewish publisher was buried in Jerusalem. Maxwells Media Empire collapsed after his death. Authorities Are investigating allegations that he diverted More than $1.2 billion from the assets and pension funds of two Public corporations he controlled in a desperate attempt to Deal with losses at his private companies and heavy debts. Paris match said its photos were taken from a videotape made during the autopsy in Israel the night of nov. 9-10. It did not say How it obtained the videotape
