European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 1, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 More suspected Basque terrorists caught in France Bayonne France apr Spanish police arrested five commandos of Spain a Eta Basque separatist group monday a Day after the capture of the groups alleged Leader and other High level members. A spokesman for the Vizcaya province government of Spain said the men arrested monday were suspected of carrying out attacks and bombings in the three province Spanish Basque country. The arrests came amid concern about terrorist attacks during the summer olympics in Barcelona Spain. Authorities in Spain said an Eta member had let fall into police hands a notebook containing plans for a weekend leadership meeting in France. Francisco Mugica Garmendia and nine other suspected Eta members were arrested sunday by anti terrorist agents outside Bayonne near the Spanish Border in Frances Basque Region. Mugica Garmendia 39, is said to have taken Over the Eta leadership in 1987. He is suspected of helping plan the 1973 Madrid car bomb killing of adm. Luis Carrero Blanco then prime minister in the government of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Eta a Basque acronym for Basque Homeland and Liberty was founded in 1959 by Young Basque nationalists who sought Independence for Basque regions of Spain and France. In 1968, Eta began attacking police and military officers in Spain after an Eta member was killed by police. Since then the organization has taken responsibility for the deaths of More than 700 people. Eta members for years had considered French Basque country a place of Refuge until France and Spain signed an anti terrorism Accord in May 1987. Of families must vacate housing for Lack of lease by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau a break off in negotiations involving the . Air forces in Europe and a Spanish firm has prompted officials at Torrejon a to move All military families out of a leased housing area by sept. 16. All resident of Royal Oaks located on the outskirts of Madrid Spain must leave by that Date according to a . Air Force official. The decision will affect about 100 military families. The decision came after officials representing Safe and the housing area s owners Al Encinas de los Reyes could not agree on terms for extending the lease. . Families have lived in the area since 1959, when Royal Oaks was completed. Currently about 700 families live in the housing area but that number is expected to drop to about 100 by mid september. Air Force officials will yield occupancy of Royal Oaks on sept. 30 when the lease Between the air Force and the Spanish firm ends said Kenneth j. Zernicke housing manager for Torrejon a. A the air Force sought to extend the lease until dec. 31, but basically it would have Cost too much a said tech. Sgt. Louis Arana Barradas a spokesman for Torrejon a 401st fighter Wing. The air Force is paying about $8.2 million to lease dwellings at Royal Oaks for fiscal 1992. The $8.2 million pays for rent utilities and maintenance Arana Barradas said. Currently More than 150 of the housing areas 854 units Are vacant As a result of the draw Down underway at the air base. Although the last fighter plane has left Torrejon an agreement Between Spain and the United states allows . Forces to remain there through May 1997. Most of the 100 families forced to move from Royal Oaks will live in one of Torrejon s 67 on base housing units Many of which Are duplexes. The others will move into Spanish housing Arana Barradas said. A amp of Camy a backyard View of Royal Oaks which must be vacated by sept. 16. Royal Oaks is located 20 Miles North of the base. The area Nas 221 residential buildings including six single family Homes six two family Homes and 209 four family Homes. But the area featuring twisting tree lined roads also contains Royal Oaks elementary school where about 325 children Are enrolled in kindergarten through sixth Grade. The area also has a theater Chapel gymnasium cafeteria commissary child development Center videotape rental Center swimming Pool housing office and facilities for the areas fire and Security police forces. The school will close at the end of the school year and other facilities will be gradually phased out in coming months but the swimming Pool win be open during the summer Arana Barradas said. Schoolchildren at Torrejon a will attend Torrejon elementary or International schools in the Spanish capital when the 1992-93 school year begins Arana Barradas said tie . Government will pay the moving costs of those families forced to relocate on the Spanish Economy from Royal Oaks. Those families will also receive a $522 moving allowance Zernicke  issues 20-Mark Bills with portrait of Meyersburg poet by the stars and stripes the German Central Bank began circulating new 20-Mark Bills on monday that Bear the portrait of a German poet. The old Bills remain Legal tender but will be withdrawn from circulation. The new Bills with a portrait of Annette von Droste Hilshoff on the front will replace those depicting Albrecht Dir Era a painting of Elsbeth Tucher a Nurnberg patrician s wife. Droste Hilshoff 11797-1848an author whose works Are required Reading in Many German schools died in the town of Meyersburg which is pictured in the background of her portrait. Her most famous work die Jude Buche the jews Beech is depicted symbolically on the Back of the Bill with a picture of a Quill and a Beech tree. The 20-Mark Bill is the fifth new Bill to be released this year. The new issues included versions of 10-, 50-, 100 and 200-Mark Bills. Later this year the Bank will Issue new 5-, 500 and 1,000-Mark Bills. A spokesman for the Federal Bank said Public demand for larger currency and the need to prevent counterfeiting prompted the decision to Issue the new version of the currencies. Service members chosen for skeet Competition Kaiserslautern Germany five . Service members stationed in Germany comprise the american team that will compete for the military in a european skeet Competition in May. Army capt. Larry Krutsinger of he co 5th signal coma Worms recorded the highest score during qualifying rounds at the Kaiserslautern Rod Ana gun club on March 22. Army chief warrant officer 4 Robert Scott of the 45th medical co a Ellingen finished second. Also named to the team were army sgt. 1st class Joseph Mchale of he co 1160th signal brigade Karlsruhe air Force master sgt. Gary Pettengill of the 512th fighter so and air Force maj. Charles Mcgee director of operations at the Headquarters for . Air forces Europe. Pettengill and Mcgee Are stationed at Ramstein a. The five qualifiers will compete in the second european counsel International do sport Mili Taire skeet tournament scheduled May 8 to 10 at the Kaiserslautern Rod and gun  to Berlin May be slower than expected Berlin a in the Rush of reunification euphoria German lawmakers voted last year to move the government Back to Berlin. Now the Economy has hit hard times and Many politicians want to slow the eastward trek irom Bonn. Hans Gattermann the head of parliaments finance committee said monday that the move to Berlin could Cost much More than 50 billion Marks $30 billion. Yet Berlin officials estimated the Federal government would have to spend Only 10 billion Marks $6 billion for the move. The Money arguments weigh heavily in Germany where the once mighty Economy has been teetering on recession. Just a week ago the weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel ran a cover Story with the headline a is unification too expensive the huge  when parliament voted last june estimates of the time needed for the move ran from four years to 10 years although the Issue was left open. Many people now believe the government wont be firmly in place in Berlin Germany a one time capital until Well into the next Century. Volker Kaehne chief of staff to Berlin mayor Eberhard Diepgen said Bonn will be filled with a Potemkin villages if the government keeps putting up buildings there. The reference to fake villages erected to make a Good impression infuriates people in Bonn where the government is cutting up a new office building for Mem ers of parliament. While plans for renovating the old Reich Stag parliamentary building in Berlin Are still under discussion lawmakers will be meeting in a Brand new chamber in Bonn this fall. And a German history museum also is going up in Bonn once the a provisional capital of West Germany. Erwin Huber general Secretary of the conservative Christian social Union told the Cologne newspaper express that he does no to want to undo the decision to move to Berlin a but we should stretch things  diplomats Are waiting to see what happens before making plans of their own. A we will make our moves in accordance with those of the German government a said . Embassy spokesman Neal Walsh