European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday april 9, 1992 at a glance there sat least one Well stocked Market in Moscow a the massive weekend Lea Market. A look at those who gather to buy and sell All manner of trinkets and treasures is in stripes  reportedly has his Arthur Ashe the first Black Man to win one of Tennis grand slam tournaments has contracted the aids virus from a blood transfusion said Virginia gov. L. Douglas Wilder a close Friend. A Page 4travel Bill hits $775,000 Bush administration officials took personal or political trips aboard military aircraft that Cost the taxpayers nearly $775,000, but the government was repaid Only $61,585. A Page 5radioactive Sites tracked More than 45,000 locations nationwide including factories and hospitals Are potentially contaminated by radioactivity a study says. A Page 7france to end nuclear tests French Premier Pierre Bergovoy in his first policy speech announced that France will suspend its nuclear testing program in the South Pacific. A Page 9deficit called threat the nation s growing budget deficit threatens to lower american living standards in the next decade the director of the congressional budget office warned tuesday. A Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 15 comics. 15-17 commentary. 13 crossword. 15 faces a no places. 14 letters. Money matters. 18 sports. 19-24 to listings. Weather. Correction because of a source error the stars and stripes incorrectly reported wednesday that mail to american military members assigned to the Netherlands was being delayed because of the dutch rail strike. Delays arc occurring within the dutch mail system because of the strike but mail destined for . Servic Momb ers in the Netherlands is transported by truck. Military testing on animals decried defended at hearing by Ray Rowden Washington Bureau Washington the president of an animal rights organization urged . Lawmakers tuesday to place a moratorium on defense department research involving animals alleging that the creatures a suffering is so  but Pentagon officials countered at a hearing for the House armed services committees research and development panel that Pentagon researchers Are in full compliance with All the Laws that apply and even met the requirements before they were formulated As Law. Critics of the defense departments research indicated tuesday that the Pentagon spends $110 million a year at 58 facilities where More than 500,000 animals die Eakin year. A the situation is so extreme the waste of tax dollars is so vast the suffering is so immense that Ida in defense of Ani Mals urges Congress to place a moratorium on All department of defense research involving animals a said or. Elliot Katz Ida a president. Or. Joseph v. Osterman of the defense departments defense research and engineering directorate said his information indicated that military research took the lives of 190,000 animals in fiscal 1986 and 120,000 in fiscal 1990. Or. Daniel h. Johnson jr., expressed the american medical associations support for Coli tinting Pentagon funded research involving animals. Johnson and Frankie l. Trull president of the National association of biomedical research listed successful animal research projects such As certain open heart surgical techniques vaccines antibiotics Vitamin deficiency treatment and potential vaccines for aids. Johnson protested the abrupt ending of army sponsored research on gunshot wounds at Louisiana state University after widely publicized charges of animal cruelty resulted in congressional scrutiny. Or. Neal d. Barnard of the physicians committee for responsible Medicine gave an opposing View on the leu experiments and said that in his View the leu Case Wasny to the Only example of dodos Lack of concern for animals or for the waste of Money. A if you would like to see films of military researchers placing live animals in position to be killed in a nuclear blast or blow torching a live conscious pig or burning an a-4 fighter Jet with live animals inside i can arrange for you to see them a he said. Or. Martin l. Stephens who spoke for the humane society said some of the society a chief concerns were the vast scope of the military a research the nature of the research As it compares to conventional biomedical research ethical justifications and compliance with the animal welfare  from Page 1 Plo Leader. Arab East Jerusalem exploded with Celebration on hearing the report of Arafat a survival. Thousands of palestinians hugged shouted and clapped. One main Street was almost carpeted with Candy thrown in jubilation. Similar festivities broke out in the israeli occupied West Bank and at Plo refugee Camps in Southern Lebanon. But reflecting the divisions within the Plo reaction was muted in palestinian Camps in Beirut and Northern Lebanon that Are controlled by pro syrian guerrilla factions. Others saw Arafat As irreplaceable. Before Arafat was reported found Sari Nuseibeh a member of the advisory committee of the palestinian delegation to the peace talks said the loss of Arafat would a raise a very serious question about the process whether it will be possible to continue  a there just wont be anybody with the same strength the same position with the same commitment a Nuseibeh said from his West Bank Home. Arafat a two most important aides have been assassinated Over the past four years and no one else has been groomed As a possible successor. Bassam Abu Sharif Arafat a chief adviser in Tunis told a network news that the Plo asked Carter to relay its request a palestinian official in Tripoli Adnan Eleidy said a libyan air Force plane found the survivors at Dawn. Arafat for help to the White House. A the palestinians Are grateful to president Bush for expressing his will to ask the american satellite to spot that plane a he said. Abu Sharif would not answer directly whether such data actually was received but he said the american a Good will toward Arafat will definitely help the peace  in Washington a Bush administration official speaking on condition of anonymity said Carter called late tuesday and his request was relayed to Brent scowcroft Bush a National Security adviser. The official said Arafat was found before a decision was made on whether to provide the satellite data. Antonov night on a Fligl to Tunis. Abu Sharif said wednesday that Arafat was accompanied by nine bodyguards and assistants and the three plane crewmen. In his last Contact with libyan air traffic controllers tuesday night the planets algerian Captain said he was flying toward Sarra to escape a sandstorm Plo sources said in Tunis. Sarra is 150 Miles from the sudanese Border and about 900 Miles Southeast of Tripoli. Before Arafat was found israeli officials expressed Little sympathy for the head of what Israel deems a terrorist organization. Defense minister Moshe Arens was quoted on Israel radio wednesday As saying a if it turns out that Arafat is dead Israel will not be sorry because it is not possible that there will be a More extreme Leader than him of the  Arafat founded Fatah the first guerrilla resistance group opposed to the state of Israel in 1959 Ana has headed the Plo since february 1969.nato from Page 1 has anything to do with the United nations planned air arms and diplomatic sanctions against Libya scheduled to take effect april 15. Maj. Dirk Piest a spokesman for the dutch air Force said the missiles Are being sent to participate in the training exercises and will arrive Only a few Days before the manbevers Start in May. Reports appearing in italian newspapers in recent Days have said that the deployment of the missiles is part of a nato plan to shield Sicily against a libyan missile attack. A the deployment of the missiles is part of our exercise and no real world event has triggered that deployment a Callen said. Comiso once an air Force ground launched cruise missile base is near the Southern coast of Sicily. Libya is about 300 Miles away. Callen said dutch military authorities have not announced plans for the shipment of the missiles other than that they will be in place in time for the May exercise. Patriots won Fame in the persian Gulf War when they knocked out iraqis scud missiles. Following . Bombing raids on Tripoli and Benghazi in april 1986, Libya fired a missile that landed near the italian Island of Lampedusa site of a . Coast guard base. The . Security Council has voted to impose the sanctions on Libya if it does not hand Over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103, which killed 270 people. The United nations also wants Libya to prove it has renounced terrorism and to give France Access to four libyans sought in the 1989 bombing of a French Airliner Over niger. That attack kilted 171 people. Contributing to this report the associated press Noriega from Page 1 and racketeering counts. Spencer had written a note to the judge tuesday asking if jurors had to agree unanimously on each count to return a verdict of guilty. He also asked if there were options other than finding Noriega innocent if jurors could not agree on a count. Spencer said the jurors wanted guidance on what to do a if we deliberate for Days and Days and Days and we do not reach a unanimous verdict on a  Hoeveler encouraged them to try to reach a decision on each count. But he said the verdicts need not be the same for All 10 drug and racketeering charges and that a deadlock on one count would not mean a mistrial in the whole Case. A if you can to agree on any particular count you can to agree on it a Hoeveler said. A we will declare a mistrial on that particular  Noriega faces a sentence of up to 160 years in prison on the 10 counts remaining in his 1988 Miami indictment