European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 22, 1992 at a glance will the military a new postal system really give your letters More zip above postal workers in in Ciurlik Turkey stay Busy sorting mail. Sec sunday plans race h. Ross Perot working to set up an Independent Campaign for the presidency plans to open two offices in Houston to gather petition signatures for placing him on the Texas ballot. A Page 4music sales curbed Washington gov. Booth Gardner signed into Law Friday a Bill making it illegal to sell sexually explicit Rock music to teen agers. A Page 6children Send hate mail a newspaper editor who failed to publish a schoolteacher s photograph said he was deluged with death threats from third graders in the Philadelphia area and thinks the teacher put them up to it. A Page 7trying to defuse tension lebanese president Elias Herawi travelled to Damascus Syria As part of what was described As an intensive International Effort to head off military retaliation by Israel for the bombing of its embassy in Argentina. A Page 8hot spot for Job Hunters the . Military Community in Berlin has a unique offer in these Days of draw Downs and hiring freezes Job openings galore. A Page 9war with Disney forecast the director of Sterix Park which next month loses its status As France s biggest theme Park says he is bracing for a War against soon to open euro Disney. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 16 commentary. 15 faces a places. 16 letters. 14 Money matters. 17 Mutual. 18-19 sports. 20-26 weather. 13 quake survivor found in rubble Erz incan Turkey a rescuers on saturday found a woman who survived for More than a week in the wreckage of a Hospital flattened by a deadly earthquake in Erz incan a news report said. The survivor was identified As 22-Ycar-old Yurcan Eraslan a nurse in the Eastern City a main Hospital the Semi official Anatolia news Agency reported. It said Eraslan told rescuers that two of her friends were also alive and trapped under the rubble. Turkish Rescue workers immediately resumed efforts to locate them. Doctors reported that Eraslan was in Good condition. A i cannot believe my daughter is alive. I had been waiting to obtain her dead body for All those Days Quot Enver Eraslan the nurses father told Anatolia gov. Recep Yazicioglu said Eraslan was saved by turkish rescuers. A foreign teams left the area saying there were no More possibilities left to find More survivors. We arc very a inv with what we have achieved a a he said according to Anatolia. Most Rescue teams began pulling out tuesday saving they did not believe anyone could survive More than 72 hours under the rubble. Temperatures have dropped to below freezing each night. Rescue workers have pulled 488 bodies from the rubble since the March 13 quake but the death toll is expected to Rise. Rome s main Airport on terrorism Alert Rome apr the major International Airport in Rome has stepped up Security after receiving word that it could be the target of terrorists authorities said saturday. A there is information from our ministry of the Interior about the possibility. Of attack by terrorists a said a top police official at Leonardo a Vinci International Airport. An Interior ministry spokesman Iceland from Page 1 speaking on condition of anonymity said the government periodically received such indications. He declined to say what group was suspected. But the police official said authorities feared terrorism linked to the Arab is Racli conflict. The increased Security measures which did not apply to other italian airports were expected to last several Days. They came four Days after a bomb demolished the israeli embassy in Argentina killing 28 people. A extra Security officers were sent to the Airport to help out As Long lines of passengers snaked outside the International terminals saturday morning. Police checked passengers passports airline tickets and suitcases before allowing them into the terminal. Authorities also stepped up a Ray checks of baggage the police official said. Since june 1989. A the country has been in isolation thousands of years a Wright said a when they finally joined nato in 1949it Wasny to until the 1960s before their Standard of living started coming on Par with that of the rest of Europe and the United icelanders had Little until then Wright said. But when the americans came there the icelanders recognized the visiting troops comparative wealth. To prevent Black marketing of hard to get items that were available Only to the americans the icelanders came up with the customs restrictions. Fri Thor or. Eydal Deputy Public affairs officer and an icelandic citizen had further explanations for the restrictions especially when it applies to meat and Dairy products. A the restriction for uncooked meats milk Dairy products and eggs came about because of a fear for the local livestock contracting diseases from the states and Europe a Eydal said. A Iceland is fairly isolated and the livestock Here is extremely susceptible to these for sanitary reasons Eydal said not even garbage such As beef carcasses and uncooked Dairy products from the base commissary is normally mixed with icelandic garbage for fear that Birds will carry livestock diseases to outlying areas. Such garbage is usually incinerated on base. If it cannot be incinerated on base then precautions Are taken to prevent the remains from being exposed to the environment. For Seaman Richard Howard who Iceland officials list items with customs restrictions following is a list of Iceland customs restrictions on items service members May want to take with them any time they leave the base a food a Iceland defense Force members and their families can pack a cooler or picnic Basket with food they will use during a trip off the base. The amount of food must be a a reasonable Quot amount for personal consumption with regards to the number of people in the party and the length of the stay. Note uncooked non icelandic meat cannot be taken off base. A beverages a All non alcoholic beverages can be taken off base in quantities reasonable for the trip. A alcohol a taking distilled spirits off base is still prohibited. However Beer and wine in specific quantities Are allowed off base. That a one bottle 0.75 liter of wine per adult and one six pack 12-ounce containers of Beer per adult on any Day. But there is a limit of five times per month and these items must be declared on ration cards at the Gate. A tobacco a rules on tobacco items Haven to changed. The limit is either two packs of cigarettes five cigars one Pouch of pipe tobacco one can of snuff or one Pouch of chewing tobacco. For cigarette smokers the Only change is that neither pack of cigarettes needs to be open. For those who run out a pack of cigarettes on the local Economy costs approximately $3.75. A photographic and audio equipment a one still camera and accessories per person with 10 Rolls of film one video camera per family and 10 videotapes and 25 audio cassette tapes or compact disks per vehicle May be taken off base. Meridith Winder lives in the dormitories the old rules meant not getting a Chance to enjoy himself at a Navy run recreational facility located three hours away from the base. A it was real hard to enjoy yourself up there Quot Howard said. A they had All of the Kitchen facilities you a Ever want. But you had to be real careful in what you took off base in the Way of food. It was real hard to have enough to Howard said that the same applied if you wanted to go camping for a couple of Days. But under the new rules he can take enough with him to eat. Since the new rules were introduced More americans apparently Are getting off base and seeing the Island. A a there a More spontaneity when planning to do something off base a Abbott said. A with the Way the weather changes Here you have to take advantage of every from Page 1 ment dropping demands for converting these to civilian use. But diplomats cautioned that the new information had to be verified a comprehensive disclosure still was needed equipment had to be destroyed and Iraq still must accept Long term . Monitoring. In the past Iraq has hindered . Weapons inspections teams. In one incident iraqi soldiers fired shots Over the Heads of inspectors to prevent them from taking photographs at a nuclear site. Another team was prevented from taking documents related to Iraq s nuclear program leading to a four Dav standoff in a Parkine lot. Other . Experts were roughed up by iraqi demonstrators outside their Baghdad hotel. The . Security Council has warned of a serious consequences if Iraq continued to flout the cease fire terms. President Bush and British prime minister John major have threatened military strikes against weapons installations. According to Boothby Iraq said in its latest disclosures that in june it had destroyed a Large amount of ammunition spare parts Long Range scud missiles modified Al Hussein versions missile launchers chemical bombs and nerve Gas warheads. The quantities were Quot quite significant a Boothby said. He spoke to reporters saturday before leaving for Baghdad from Bahrain regional Headquarters of the in special commission overseeing the elimination of iraqis weapons of mass destruction. Whether Iraq had made a full disclosure a remains to be seen a he said. A the proof of the puddings in the during its stay the team will verify iraqis new weapons disclosures receive iraqi proposals for destroying missile production and repair facilities and possibly destroy some weapons Boothby said. On previous missions ballistic missile teams Nave destroyed 62 scud missiles and their variations. Iraq under president Saddam Hussein Nas walked at complying with demands made by the Security Council when it agreed to a cease fire after the .-led Alliance drove Iraq from Kuwait in february 1991. As a result the United nations has kept in place painful economic sanctions
