European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 8,1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3nato s team work 92 under Way Oslo Norway apr nato warships troops and planes headed from . And european bases toward the alliances Arctic flank near Russia on Friday to shadowbox an enemy that has vanished. The cold War is Over the soviet Union and the Warsaw pact Are gone and Russia wants to join the North Atlantic treaty organization. In this confusing new order a with no Clear enemy natos future under debate and slashed military budgets a the alliances soldiers still have to practice. Nato has committed 170 ships 300 aircraft and 45,000 personnel including 16,000 soldiers from 11 countries to team work �?T92. The military exercise spanning the Atlantic Ocean was planned two years ago. The environmental group Greenpeace said it would probably be natos last North Atlantic exercise in which vessels carry nuclear weapons. A by going through with it As planned they re trying to maintain the ability and capacity that has been built up Over a Long period and to signal that nato will remain a Force a said Nils Marius Rekkedal of the norwegian defense research establishment. He said future nato exercises could be smaller. Much of the 1992 Force will head to the North Atlantic and Arctic seas that were the soviet North fleets corridor to the West. In late March ., British and dutch units will land on the beaches of Arctic Norway the Only nato member sharing a Border with Russia. As in the cold War Days troops will avoid finn Mark a sparsely populated norwegian province that Borders russians Kola Peninsula. Norwegian researchers say Kola has the worlds greatest concentration of military Materiel and atomic weapons. Rekkedal said military and naval activity at Kola has declined during the past year due to shortages of fuel and supplies a and the general state of  last autumn when there was still a soviet Union the red army cancelled an exercise on the norwegian Border that was to have been one of its biggest in the Arctic. But As norwegian defense officials often remind nato the Kola Fleet is modernized and some soviet forces pulled out of Central Europe have been moved to the Arctic. A the russian political situation is extremely unstable and the enormous capacity on the Kola remains a said Gunnar Angel Tveit spokesman for the norwegian defense ministry. A we could have a new coup in a month or  norwegian peace and environmental groups oppose the nato exercise As environmentally damaging and pointless. A Why is it necessary to land so Many thousands of troops on the norwegian Tundra a said Veronica Biong of Greenpeace Norway. A when the soldiers go screaming into the night who is the enemy they Are thinking about a Senate wants Iraq tried for environmental crimes Washington a Saddam Hussein and other iraqi officials should be prosecuted by an International tribunal As environmental terrorists for blowing up kuwaiti Oil Wells and flooding the persian Gulf with Oil a Senate report said Friday. Sen. Joseph i. Lieberman d-conn., said Saddam and his army committed environmental crimes of a unprecedented proportions by blowing up 732 kuwaiti Oil Wells As a a pure act of vengeance and by dumping More than 6 million barrels  into the Gulf. A we believe the iraqi officials responsible for these acts of environmental terrorism most notably Saddam Hussein himself should be prosecuted for their crimes against nature a Lieberman said at a news conference. Shevardnadze offers to help chaotic Georgia a Moscow apr former soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze returned to his native Georgia on saturday and pledged to help a in every Way to save the Republic from economic and political a i chaos a news Agency said. The russian information Agency said Shevardnadze arrived in the capital of Tbilisi and was met at the Airport by acting prime minister Tengiz Sigua and other members of the ruling military Council. A i am not a private individual Here a Ria quoted Shevardnadze As saying at a welcoming cer Sony. A i am a states Man i am going to get Zievard adze Down to business and help my nation in every  Many georgians see the 64-year-old Shevardnadze As a Leader who could unify various political factions divided after the ouster of president Oviad Gam Sathur but Gamsa Hurdia supporters say Shevardnadze represents the centralist forces in Moscow and claim he orchestrated the armed revolt that removed Gamsa Hurdia from Power last january after two weeks of bloody fighting in Tbilisi. At a news conference in Moscow on Friday Shevardnadze condemned Samsak Hurdia a regime As  he said he is planning to cooperate with a Broad spectrum of political parties for the Benefit of a new democratic Georgia. C. A the country a Economy is practically in ruins Recto Ries stand Idle and people do not work. There s a catastrophic situation with Power plants. No Public transport no gasoline Oil Gas a Shevardnadze said. Crime situation is very Complex As Well. Food supplies Are running  Lieberman was head of a task Force from the Senate committee on environment and Public works that studied the environmental effects of the persian Gulf War. A report of the task Force was released Friday. The senator said that environmental War crimes were prosecuted following world War ii when some German officers were tried at Nurnberg for flooding parts of the Netherlands and for destroying Forest land in Poland. Such environmental War crimes trials should be conducted for Saddam said Lieberman. In addition to prosecuting Saddam the report also recommended a International Laws to define environmental terror ism As a universally prohibited crime a to make it easier to capture prosecute and punish those who commit  acts against  a the United nations should set aside 30 percent of any War compensation received from Iraq for correction of environmental damage. A there should be International protocols to protect environmentally unique areas during a War. A contingency funds should be appropriated to enable american agencies  As the coast guard the Public health service and the environmental Protection Agency to respond More quickly to International environmental disasters. A a a a  wfcwj., t a a it. No working zone Tyrone Pearson awoke Friday morning to find this 300-Pound hog in his Sumter s.c., Yard rooting up Flowers and plants. It took Pearson and other a Urban sow boys two hours to Corral the Critter. Principal schools himself on child delivery st. Charlesmo. A each Day brings new challenges for High school principals. Kyle thrasher principal at Francis Howell North High school in st. Charles county near st. Louis found himself helping a 16-year-old student deliver a 4,/t-Pound baby. The student showed up in the nurses office last week complaining of Back and leg pain a was if she might have pulled a muscle a said nurse Linda Johnson. She said the tall Young woman showed no sign of pregnancy. But Johnson a diagnosis quickly changed. A she used the restroom and told me she thought she might be de livering a baby a the nurse said. Thrasher said that by the time he got to the nurses office the top of the Baoyu a head was already in sight. A we were having a baby no matter what a he said. A nothing was going to Stop  his Iob was to Calm and encourage the student. After five minutes or so he said a we heard the baby cry. It was a big Relief for  the nurse who had never before assisted a delivery said the student remained Calm and called her a a Brave Young  paramedics arrived soon after the birth. Both Mother and daughter were reported in Good health