European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 50, no. 352 wednesday april 1,1992 d 8693 Security Council approves embargoes against Libya ulsted nations a the . Security Council voted tuesday to punish Libya for failing to surrender suspects in the terrorist bombings of pan Ali flight 103 and a French Airliner by imposing air and arms embargoes. The Security Council vote came hours after Britain said Libya was preventing foreigners from leaving the country an accusation Libya denied. It was Only the second time a the first followed the iraqi invasion of Kuwait a that the Security Council has imposed sanctions on a single country for flouting the councils demands on peace and Security. Tuesdays vote in the 15-member Council was 10 in favor none opposed and five abstentions a including China. As a permanent Security Council member China could have vetoed the sanctions. The sanctions which carry the threat of the use of military Force take effect april 15. The Resolution includes a ban on flights to or from Libya and Calls for a significant reduction in the number of libyan diplomats in .-member countries. It also bans arms and aircraft sales to Libya. Before the vote libyan ambassador Alt Echo Uteri told the Council that his government feared sanctions would open libyan cities to attacks like the deadly . Airstrikes in 1986. U Echo Uteri said the Council was faced with a Choice either to respect the . Charter and International Law a for to legitimize unjust measures which France the United states and Britain see As the beginning of further subsequent measures such As the imposition of an economic siege and military measures against a smaller  earlier tuesday Britain said col. Moa mar Gad a fits government was refusing exit visas to foreigners. A Western diplomatic source in Cairo Egypt said the restrictions on exit visas for foreigners began about a week ago. The source reached try Telephone from Cairo spoke on condition of anonymity. A the libyans do not say this is a matter of policy a the diplomatic source said. A they give bureaucratic excuses such As a shortage of the necessary  the . Measure seeks the surrender of six suspects wanted in the bombing of two jetliners. It would require Libya to renounce terrorism and to give Concrete proof that it has halted support for terrorism. Libya said All six men Are innocent and would not get a fair trial in the West. Britain and the United states have indicted two libyan men in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland an attack that killed 270 people. France seeks four other libyans in the 1989 bombing of a French Uta Airliner Over niger in which 171 people  defense chief quits in tank scandal Bonn Germany apr defense minister Gerhard Stoltenberg resigned tuesday Over a growing scandal surrounding the shipment of 15 Leopard tanks to Turkey in Defiance of parliament. Stoltenberg said that he had turned in his resignation to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and that Kohl had accepted it. Kohl sitting beside Stoltenberg at a news conference said two of Stoltenberg Stop aides a Ottfried Hennig and Willy Wim Mer a also were stepping Down. On monday Stoltenberg tired another top aide Wolfgang Ruppelt for letting the tanks get through to Turkey despite a parliamentary freeze on the weapons shipment. Stoltenberg had said then that he had no intention of stepping Down despite intense pressure to do so. Volker Rishe Christian democratic party Secretary has been nominated by Kohl to succeed Stoltenberg. Inside today the scandal is among the most serious to hit the German military establishment in recent years. Surrounding it is German pressure on Turkey to improve its treatment of its kurdish minority. Opposition figures have been calling for Stel Tenberge a ouster for months. Late last year the defense ministry was caught trying to Send armoured vehicles to Israel without the required approval. The vehicles were discovered at Hamburg Sharbor disguised As farm machinery. Stoltenberg had also been accused of doing a poor Job of meshing the armed forces of Western and Eastern Germany. Kohls government last week ceased All arms shipments to Turkey a nato ally alleging it had used German supplied weapons against the kurd. But even before then there were Calls in Bonn to end the arms deliveries which have been occurring since 1964. Parliaments budget committee in november froze funds for the delivery of 15 Leopard tanks to Turkey because of alleged attacks on kurdish civilians. But the German company responsible for refitting and sending the tanks was apparently never told of the committees decision and the equipment was sent. Relations Between Turkey and Germany have plummeted Over the suspension of arms shipments. President Turgut Ozal of Turkey has charged that Ever since unification Germany has been meddling in other nations affairs. Ozal said that a a Hitler a Germany did the same  about one Quarter of the 1.7 million turks living in Germany Are ethnic kurd. Kurdish protesters have attacked two turkish consulates in Germany and several turkish Banks have been fire bombed. Gerhard Stolte Bergand the winners Are reductions in civilian jobs to hit local nationals hardest army says by David Tarrant staff writer local National employees will Bear the Brunt of the . Army Europe a draw Down of its civilian work Force the commands top civilian personnel official said. Usa eur which is More than Halfway through its draw Down of military forces is cutting Back its civilian work Force by half said Archie Crimmett usage  a Deputy chief of staff for personnel. The cutbacks will fall heaviest on local nationals or los because they make up. About two thirds of the command s civilian work Force. A it would be fair to say the great majority of those Cut would be in because los comprise the great majority of our work Force a Grimmett said. The army expects to accomplish most of the civilian reductions through hiring freezes resignations and retirements but layoffs will occur a particularly among local National employees said Grimmett adding  will be impossible to avoid some layoffs. A some will be layoffs. I can to Tell you what the percentage will be a he said Andreas Rogel a Board member for the local National works Council an organization of elected representatives for the local National employees said he expects to be informed by Usa eur later this week How Many local National positions will be lost. Rogel said that he has heard that an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 local National positions will be Cut. Altogether the cuts Are expected to trim nearly 35,000 jobs from usar euros pre draw Down level of 67,000 appropriated fund civilian positions in sep tember 1990, Grimmett said. Currently the commands civilian work Force numbers about 57,500. Usage  a figures do not include All . Civilians working in Europe for exam ele those employed by the department of defense dependents schools the 5th signal come the defense commissary Agency and the european divisions of the army Materiel come and the corps of engineers Are not included in usage  a figures. Those groups have their own draw Down plans Grimmett said. Counting these agencies As Well As non appropriated fund employees the number of civilians working in Europe will drop from 104,000 at the Start of the draw Down in september 1990 to about 50,000 by september 1994. Usa eur officials Hope to eliminate see jobs on Page 2