European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday february 9,1992 at a glance Maggie Doty an american civilian living in Germany of flies Contact ads a Good Way to meet people. See stories in sunday  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 f. Kennedy mayor Steve Bartlett said. A Page 4boy 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 5haitians protest repatriation thousands. Of haitian americans demonstrated in new York to protest the . Government s forced return of refugees who fled the coup that toppled him. A Page 7japan s Leader involved world War ii documents show that Japan s wartime prime minister was directly involved in forcing asian women to work As sex Staves for japanese  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 9no 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 Mutual. 16-17 sports 18-24 weather. .11 Miyazawa s views on . Rankle his labor minister Tokyo up prime minister Kii Chi Miyazawa peeved because a Cabinet minister released figures showing americans Are More productive than japanese has pressed the official to Stop anti sizing him the Japan times reported saturday. Tetsuo Kondo the minister of labor handed Miyazawa data on Friday showing . Workers produce More on an hourly basis but japanese workers produce More per year per person. Quot the prime minister should look at this scientifically before speaking a the Japan times quoted him As saying. Miyazawa touched off a firestorm of criticism in the United states when he said in parliament last monday a i have Long thought that americans Lack a work  the new report compares the United states Japan the former West Germany Britain and France. In a ranking obtained by dividing the Gross Domestic product a measure of goods and services produced in a country by the total number of hours worked the United states stood at 109 against a base figure of 100 for Japan. Both were exceeded by the former West Germany 119, and France 116, Japan topped the list however when it came to yearly productivity of workers obtained by dividing the Gap by the number of workers employed in each Economy. With Japan standing at a base figure of 100 in 1989, the United states chalked up 95. France also rated a 95. When that number is indexed for the purchasing Power of the currencies of each nation however the . Workers come out on top again at 162 against 100 for Japan. France stood at 146. Ulysses makes thrilling Jupiter flyby Pasadena Calif. A the .-european Ulysses space probe swooped past Jupiter on saturday flying through radiation belts and using the planets Gravity so it can become the first spacecraft to study the Sun s poles. Quot we Are absolutely elated a said Willis Meeks nasal a manager of the $750-million Ulysses project speaking from nasal a Jet propulsion Laboratory. Ulysses made its closest approach to Jupiter at 4 01 . Saturday flying about 235000 Miles per hour Over the planets Cloud tops at a Speed of 61,249 Miles Kilometres per hour. Engineers confirmed the flyby happened 37 minutes and 15 seconds later a the time it took the spacecrafts radio signal to travel 416 million Miles to Earth Meeks said. Quot there was a lot of handshaking a lot of smiles a lot of jubilation a he added. The spacecrafts route also was taking it through Jupiter a Quot torus a a doughnut shaped ring of sodium oxygen and Fulfur particles ejected into orbit around Jupiter by Fulfur spewing volcanoes on the Jovian Moon to. The joint Mission by the european space Agency and the National aeronautics and space administration Quot Marks a new Era of space exploration because studying the suns Polar regions a will be like filling in parts of a Puzzle that we just have not seen before a Meeks  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 mid dle East and Southern Asia. He said nuclear weapons Long thought to be a deterrent to War did not deter 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 pillar 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 coun try. 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. Quot 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 Quot Star wars a would provide a network of satellites designed to shoot Down nuclear missiles. Teller used this forum As a Soapbox for ski. Quot i do not believe that in the Long run proliferation can be completely stopped a he said. Quot i do believe that the Possession of nuclear weapons could be much less desirable if we have Good weapons to Stop  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 a 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. Quot we Haven to had enough people Purchase the policy so that we can have enough Premium income coming in so that we can spread out the risk a said Crystal Williams with the firms Public affairs office. As a result Quot we have determined that we needed to raise the premiums because in fact in 1991 we Aid experience a loss on Uslip a Williams said she did not have further information available on How much the company lost on the Uslip program. Williams also said she did not have figures immediately available on the number people who purchased the policy last year. A when we committed to provide this product with the department of defense we anticipated getting More people to come into the plan once they exited the military. Unfortunately we just Haven to had the Type of sales volume that we anticipated. A we base our premiums on the amount of people we expect to to covered and then the amount of claims we expect to pay and go from there. But we did no to have enough the number of claims that were paid a have enough Premium to support Imber c 9 she explained