European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 2 a the stars and stripes thursday april 2,1992 at a glance Sonja and John Chittester smile with the new Friend they made at the Volk fest held last month in Darmstadt Germany. See today a stripes Magazine for a Story and schedule of upcoming fests a rite of Spring in Europe. Sailors face ouster two Navy sailors have been court Martiale and 11 others will be discharged for alleged homosexual activity in Japan As part of Quot a major major investigation Quot officials say. A Page 5 tales of a Uncle eds on Street Comers in Philadelphia a working class Irish neighbourhood of Grays ferry teen age boys talk openly of Quot Uncle de Quot and what he offered for socks underwear and sex. A Page 6 remembering the falklands ten years afterwards it seems As though the falklands War Between Britain and Argentina was a War that should never have been. A Page 9 donation fight to continue the parents of a baby who died nine Days after being born without a full brain will pursue a quest to make it easier for such infants organs to be donated. A Page 10 end of recession seen analysts see signs that the Long recession May have ended and an anaemic yet sustainable recovery might be at hand. A Page 10 Abby Ann Landers 15 comics.15-17 commentary.13 crossword .15 faces no places .14 letters .12 Money matters.18 sports.19-24 to listings.23 weather.11bush from Page 1 lies has been largely $3.75 billion in Export credits for purchases of american Grain. In addition the United states sponsored an International Aid conference that resulted in an Airlift of medical supplies and leftover persian Gulf War rations. Among those meeting with the president was sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee. Nunn said he and Senate colleagues from both parties had made about 30 recommendations to Bush on the package. A i think people understanding want to concentrate on Here at Home but in the world we have in today one of the jobs of the president is to explain to people that the Fate of people Here at Home to a great Deal depends on what happens aboard a Nunn said. He said assistance to Russia and other former soviet republics a is fundamentally in the . National Security  wednesdays announcement marked the revival of White House emphasis on foreign policy. Bush has played Down the subject for three months apparently believing voters Felt he had devoted too much time on foreign policy instead of trying to repair the Economy. Yet democrats and republicans alike have accused Bush of moving too tentatively to bolster democracy in Russia and the other new states. Bush was stung last month when former president Nixon said the administrations support for Russia was pathetic. A the stakes Are High and we Are playing As if it were a Penny Ante game a Nixon said in a widely circulated memorandum. The White House has embraced his  Page 1 United states. A this generous offer of assistance from the West has Arisen from recognition that the republics cannot by themselves manage the huge task of economic reconstruction a Kohl said in a statement. Russia and the rest of the Commonwealth of Independent states successor of the soviet Union would receive the Aid Kohl said. A the West must do All it can to help stabilized democracy and the Economy in the new states Kohl said. The Aid plan is a big Success for Kohl who has been pressing the United states Japan and other countries for months to pump Money into the Commonwealth or watch its members slide into anarchy. Horst Kohler state Secretary at the German foreign ministry said the plan envisions $18 billion in assistance from the International monetary fund and from the g-7. The group consists of the United states Britain France Italy Germany Canada and Japan. The assistance would also include $6 billion for a fund for the stabilization of the Ruble Kohler  Page 1 Brown said during the televised debate in new York. A a we re going to have to pay for  Clinton jumped in to say Browne a plan would add $180 billion a year to the deficit abolish the social Security Trust fund and Cost new yorkers $4 billion because it eliminates the Federal tax deduction for state and local taxes. To keep the deficit from ballooning Clinton said Brown would need a 16 percent Flat tax and an accompanying 16 percent National sales tax. A if people want it they can have it but it is a rip off a Clinton said. With nearly All of Vermont a 246 cities and towns reporting Brown won 46 percent of the vote to Clinton a 17 percent. Uncommitted delegates out polled the Arkansas governor with 25 percent. Former Massachusetts sen. Paul Tsongas who dropped out of the race won 9 percent. In terms of delegates Brown got six to Clinton a three bringing the totals to 1,018.25 for Clinton and 159.25 for Brown according to the associated press count. A candidate needs 2,145 to win the democratic nomination. In their two confrontations tuesday Clinton and Brown steered Clear of per Vermont results Here Are returns in the presidential primary in Vermont on tuesday. Democrat Jerry Brown 46% Bill Clinton 17% Paul Tsongas 9% uncommitted 25% others 2% a amps Sonal attacks and generally agreed that cities need billions of dollars to help the homeless fight crime improve schools and tackle other Urban problems. A if we would Stop trying to police the world and try to take care of ourselves then we can put these people to work a Brown said in promising Enterprise zones and other Job creating efforts in inner cities. Clinton too rattled off a list of areas in which the Federal government could do More for cities but said one Cost free step needed to be an aggressive Effort by the president to fight racism. A we lived by the politics of selfishness in the 1980s,�?� Clinton said. A in the 1990s, we re going to have to say that we re All in this together a a the evening debate opened with a protest from minor candidate Larry Agran former mayor of Irvine calif., who was not allowed to participate and was then forcibly removed from a Lehman College auditorium and arrested. Outside new Alliance party candidate Lenora Fulani led a boisterous rally to protest her exclusion. As Clinton and Brown slug it out in new York a new National poll shows Clinton the Choice of 51 percent of democratic voters and Brown favored by 30 percent. But the new York times lbs poll published wednesday showed that worries about Clinton caused by a series of controversies persist. The Survey found that 33 percent of democratic voters viewed Clinton favourably while 28 percent had negative views. Among All 1,638 adults polled March 2629, Clinton was viewed favourably by just 24 percent and unfavourably by 41 percent. That matched Bush a  rating but the president was viewed favourably by 42 percent. Bush won a head to head matchup with Clinton 49 percent to 40 percent. The poll had a sampling error of plus or minus three percentage  Page 1 the role of armed forces in democracies and a workshop on practical ways to manage the military. Estonia a newly Independent Baltic nation used the meeting to Appeal for help in getting rid of russian soldiers still stationed there. For most of the sex soviets it was the first time they had visited the Headquarters of the 16-nation North Atlantic treaty organization. Only a few military uniforms a Gray or Olive drab a were spotted among the delegations. All but two of the former soviet republics a Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan a were represented. A Surprise participant was Georgia the first time the former soviet Republic sent an official to a nato meeting. Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania and Bulgaria also attended. Atlantis uses extra Day to study atmosphere space Center Houston a Atlantis astronauts wednesday used a Bonus Day to get pictures of a soviet Well Blowout and gather More data on the atmosphere photographing Earth a Lustrous Halo and measuring the fragile Ozone layer. The shuttle originally was scheduled to land wednesday. But Nasa on sunday extended the Mission to today to allow More experiments. A routine Check of All shuttle systems used in entry and Landing was successfully completed wednesday morning Mission control said. Ground controllers lost Contact with the shuttle for about 30 minutes Early in the morning when one of three satellites used to relay communications Between the orbiting shuttle and the ground malfunctioned. Gaps in satellite coverage routinely cause communication lapses of up to 15 minutes. Normal coverage was restored when ground controllers switched to using the two functioning satellites Nasa spokeswoman Barbara Schwartz said. The glitch posed no threat to today s scheduled Landing and had not interfered with science operations she said. A it looks like its going to be a Greal extra Day. Its going to just be a wonderful finish for the Mission Quot Mission manager Marsha Torr told the Crew of sever tuesday. The nine Day Mission is the first shuttle flight devoted to studying the atmosphere. On wednesday the astronauts tool measurements of the Ozone layer the shield against harmful ultraviolet rays that is being destroyed by Man made chemicals