European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 30, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9marcos labels new charges harassment Manila Philippines apr Imelda Marcos was arrested wednesday for allegedly keeping unauthorized foreign Bank accounts. She called the move part of a harassment Campaign to deter her from running for president. A i think this will just strengthen my candidacy a said the widow of president Ferdinand Marcos while waiting at the police station for her lawyers to Post bail. She was freed after posting $1,132 Bond. Marcos was arrested hours after pleading innocent to four other criminal charges filed by the government of president Corazon Aquino who Rode to Power the 1986 popular uprising that forced the Marc oses into exile. She was served the warrant at the luxury hotel where she has been living since returning nov. 4 from exile in the United states. She got into a police car and was driven to suburban san Juan where she was booked and fingerprinted. She was then escorted into the office of police chief Ernesto Joses where she sat quietly fingering a Rosary. Hundreds of supporters and curiosity seekers milled around the station several of them shouting slogans in support of Marcos. A you have no heart a said Marcos supporter Lily Chavez. A you should change this government which oppresses fellow Marcos campaigning for the May 11 election was to have travelled wednesday to Pangasinan province North of Manila to Pray at a religious shrine. The warrant issued Jan. 13, accused her of three violations of Central Bank regulations barring filipinos from maintaining foreign currency accounts abroad without permission. Earlier wednesday the 62-year-old Marcos was arraigned on four charges involving alleged corruption during her husbands administration. She pleaded innocent and an August trial Date was set. Marcos was accused of using her position As a Cabinet member to secure leases of stalls for vendors at terminals of the state run Light railway transit system in 1984. Government officials Are banned by the Constitution from doing business with the government. Marcos dismissed the charges As harassment. Ferdinand Marcos and his wife fled the country for Hawaii in february 1986 after his 20-year administration was toppled. He died in Hawaii in 1989. Imelda Marcos is facing More than 80 criminal and civil charges. Spec. Brett Reading buys cookies from Brownie troop 757 of Frankfurt. From left Are Theresa Wiersgalla Anne and Ellen Zophy Krystyna Crisp and Jackie Mccauley. Troop Leader Robin Zophy is in background. Scouts Selling scrumptious sweets by the stars and stripes nearly 15,000 girl scouts in 10 european countries Are offering a bit of americana to military communities during their annual cookie Sale that started saturday. According to Anne Baker cookie Sale director at North Atlantic girl scouts the Sale lasts for three weeks in most areas. The cookies sell for $2.50 per package. Most communities offer seven varieties Shortbread Peppermint wafers Vanilla with Coconut stripes Peanut butter and chocolate Oatmeal and Peanut butter Lemon Vanilla cremes and Caramel and Pecan clusters. Proceeds from the sales support girl scout programs throughout the european come. Programs include camping career Days Community service projects and training opportunities for girl scout volunteers. Cookie supplies Are limited and Baker urged people to scan local newspapers and posters that announce specific times and places where sales will be held. The North Atlantic girl scouts have sold cookies in Europe since 1981.no Croatia yet Lahr officer says by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau a Canadian forces official downplayed newspaper reports that suggest his country is on the verge of sending a Germany based army unit to perform . Peacekeeping chores in Croatia. A there in Germany we have not received official orders of any kind a said army maj. Norbert Cyr a spokesman at the forces european Headquarters in Lahr. Canada has participated in every . Peacekeeping Mission to Date. The Canadian government offered earlier this month to contribute a battalion size unit to future . Efforts to enforce a ceasefire in Yugoslavia a breakaway Republic which Canada and Many other nations have recognized As Independent. . Representatives Are working to establish conditions under which a peacekeeping Force could function. But no announcement about the formation of such a Force has been made. And even if Canada does dispatch troops Canadian defense officials have shown no inclination to Send those troops stationed in Germany Cyr said. A there Are Many other units in Canada that Are available for this Type of Mission a he said adding that the Germany based units proximity to Croatia does not enhance significantly their usefulness for such work. The Toronto Star reported Jan. 11 that the forces Are a ready and awaiting a United nations go ahead for a yugoslav Mission and that troops a Are Likely to be deployed from the Canadian forces base in Lahr the forces own weekly newspaper in Germany Der Kanadier printed in its Jan. 22 edition a three paragraph summary of the Star report without response from the forces. Many Lahr based troops also believe the order is imminent and that a specific unit a 1st in Royal 22nd regt a has been picked for the Job Cyr said. He said uninformed observers might be Reading too much into the fact that the battalion is conducting first Aid Small arms and vehicle maintenance training a cyclical activity scheduled months in Advance. Some officers May be researching Yugoslavia and making sure their units equipment is in order Cyr said adding a a they re just doing it because its a prudent thing to do. But i think people Are jumping to when the Star article appeared another unit a the Canadian airborne regt which is not based in Germany a was on standby status for . Peacekeeping duty Cyr said. Even that fact Sheds Little Light on what might occur in Yugoslavia however because the standby unit probably would be deployed for a different . Mission a peacekeeping in Western Sahara. The United nations Hopes to supervise a truce there so residents of the War wracked former Spanish Colony can vote on Independence or annexation by neighbouring Morocco. Serb blocking peacekeepers . Envoy says Zagreb Croatia apr a . Envoy said tues May that a cease fire was holding Well enough to allow deployment of peacekeepers in War zones. However he Laid he Hasni to won the support of a recalcitrant serbian eader. The . Undersecretary for peacekeeping Marrack moulding said after talks with croatian president Franjo Tadjman that one of the United nations main preconditions for dispatching peace troops namely a reasonably stable cease fire has now been but earlier Goulding told reporters he had failed during talks monday to persuade Milan Babic the Leader of the serbian enclave of Krajina to accept the peacekeeping plan. Goulding told reporters that Babics a a irreconcilable stand could postpone the planned dispatch of some 10,000 . Peacekeepers in Croatia. But he said it was still possible without Babics approval. A serbian Leader returning from new York said . Officials had told him they would consider the deployment As Early As next month the Tan Jug news Agency reported. A fall the necessary prerequisites have been created for the plan to be accepted by those who have not done so thus far a said Borisav Jovic the serbian member of Yugoslavia a defunct collective presidency
