European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes sunday february 9, 1992 at a glance Maggie Doty an american civilian living in Germany finds Contact ads a Good Way to meet people. See stories in sunday Magazine. Dallas loses bid Dallas is out of the running for the 1995 special olympics world games because of renewed attention to the assassination of president John Kennedy mayor Steve Bartlett said a Page 4 boy remembered heroics a 13-year-old Arkansas boy whose hands were mangled in farm machinery said he got help by copying the Coo headed heroics of a youth with severed arms who turned a Doorknob with his Mouth. A Page 5 haitians protest repatriation thousands of haitian americans demonstrated in new York to protest the . Governments forced return of refugees who fled the coup that toppled him. A Page 7 Japan a Leader involved world War ii documents show that Japan a wartime prime minister was directly involved in forcing asian women to work As sex slaves for japanese soldiers. A Page 8 economic emergency russian vice president Alexander Rutski called for a one year state of economic emergency to avoid what he described As  a Page 9 no room on Post army sgt. Scott Mcjunkin is one of Many soldiers with families who Are returning from Europe and finding there is no room on Post. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 14 letters. 12 Money matters. 15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. A. 18-24 weather. 11 Germany . Seek to attract sex soviet nuclear scientists Washington apr Germany and the United states Are looking for ways to encourage former soviet nuclear scientists to come to the West and keep Radical nations from attracting their expertise . Officials say. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii and his German counterpart foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher will discuss the Issue when they meet in Germany this week the officials said. Among proposals under consideration Are finding ways to place former soviet scientists at american universities and private research facilities. Japanese leaders also have expressed interest in joining the United states in trying to prevent countries like Libya and Iran from gaining nuclear expertise from scientists from the former soviet Union officials said. The main purpose of the trip which Baker was to begin tonight is to follow up with russian leaders proposals by president Bush and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin to make deep reductions in strategic nuclear weapons stockpiles. Bush is calling for a ceiling of 4,700 Long Range warheads a a Little More than half of the . Arsenal of 8,000 to 9,000 a and Yeltsin has urged going Down to 2,500 warheads apiece. Baker plans to visit several of the new nations formed out of the soviet Union including Armenia and Azerbaijan where tensions Between armenian christians and azeri muslims have crackled for centuries. . Officials said Baker also May Stop at Chelyabinsk a formerly closed City in Western Siberia where stored nuclear waste exploded in 1957. The City was once the Center of a highly secret operation to refine plutonium and other ingredients of nuclear warheads. Bakery a visit would dramatize the new relationship with the successors to the soviet leaders and . Eagerness to have nuclear weapons dismantled and destroyed. Chelyabinsk is near russians Border with Kazakhstan. Word of the Baker Genscher meeting came after the White House announced that Bush has assigned a weapons expert to work with the former soviet republics to keep their scientists and their expertise out of unfriendly hands. Robert l. Gallucci also will help in converting the old soviet state run defense establishment to peaceful commercial enterprises and assist in the coordination of humanitarian and educational needs. Baker will see Genscher in Frankfurt on monday before witnessing operation project Hope the dispatch of . Cargo planes carrying emergency food and medical Relief to the former soviet republics. Reduce from Page 1 the disintegration of the soviet Union a said Alfred Dregger former chairman of the cd Csc Christian democratic Union Christian social Union. Some of the free nations that resulted from the collapse of the soviet Union now possess nuclear weapons he said. Dregger said All nuclear weapons must be internationally controlled including those in emerging countries in the Middle East and Southern Asia. He said nuclear weapons Long thought to be a deterrent to War did not deter iraqi president Saddam Hussein when he confronted three nuclear Powers a France great Britain and the United states. The conferees spent Early saturday discussing who or what organization can Best Deal with this new threat. Nato received Many votes although Many like Cohen said it must change itself. And an american presence was considered vital to Europe a defense. Quot for us europeans a significant conventional and nuclear presence of the United states is of vital interest when we think of the Security environment of the future a Gerhard Stoltenberg German defense minister said in the mornings keynote address. Norbert Gansel a member of the German parliament said Quot in a in favor of an absolute interlocking policy Between the european states and the United states and  he called nato a Quot fundamental Pil if Europe feels that the . Commitment is import Taifita now is the time to say so More then it Yasheen saying so Gen. John r. Gamit Lar of Overall  Galvin pointed out that americans Strong role in nato is evidence of its commitment to Europe. But he admitted that it is now harder to articulate to the Public the nature of the threat. He said Europe must speak More clearly if it believes America remains important to its defense. Quot if Europe feels that the . Commitment is important now is the time to say so More than it has been saying so a he said. Some said that one Way to Avert disaster on the continent is to Supply sufficient Aid to the emerging nations in the East. Sir Arthur Hockaday of the Council on Christian approaches to defence and disarmament in London reminded the conference that Europe has dealt twice this Century with a Quot Down and out country. That country was Germany he said. In 1918, at the end of world War i Germany was left to its own devices to rebuild itself. That led to the disaster of world War ii after which Germany was dealt with properly Hockaday said. A we now have another country that is Down and out a he said referring to Russia and the Baltic states. He said he hoped the world remembers the lessons of 1945 and 1918 and lends those nations a helping hand. Quot it seems to me vitally important that we should be prepared to take risks to avoid a collapse which would be a catastrophe a he said. It fell to Edward Teller the hungarian born nuclear physicist to discuss How to eliminate the nuclear weapons that so threaten the world and worry those attending the conference. Teller of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the University of California is regarded As the Man who convinced president Reagan of the effectiveness of the strategic defense initiative. Ski often referred to As a Star wars a would provide a network of satellites designed to shoot Down nuclear missiles. Teller used this forum As a Soapbox for ski. A i do not believe that in the Long run proliferation can be completely stopped a e said. Quot i do believe that the Possession of nuclear weapons could be much less desirable if we have Good weapons to Stop  insurance from Page 1 crease from $614 to $921. The rate hike could come As a Shock for service members planning on getting out of the military this year. With the Economy in a recession Many service members face the Prospect of leaving the military without another Job and Are assessing their health insurance needs. Quot this is going to come As a big Surprise to those who have already made their decision to separate based on the current health insurance rates Quot said Sydney Hickey director of the National military family association a Washington based advocacy group that works on military family issues. The department of defense estimates that 330,000 service members will leave the military in fiscal 1992, which ends sept. 30. A Mutual of Omaha spokesman said the increase in rates was caused by Low sales volume in previous years. 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