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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday May 17, 1992 at a glance say Good night Johnny and get ready for heeler cd a Jay on late night to. But first the facts on Carsons 30-year talk show career in sunday Magazine. Lawmaker to help probe rep. Dan Rostenkowski chairman of the powerful ways and Means committee has pledged to cooperate with Federal investigators who subpoenaed his records in an investigation of the House Post office. A Page 4 of Connor richest on court Justice Sandra Day o Connor remained the supreme courts wealthiest member in 1991. Assets held by her husband and herself Are Worth Between $1.77 million and $4.53 million forms show. A Page 5 sex Champ gets term for rape Trevor Berbick who lost his heavyweight boxing title to Mike Tyson was sentenced Friday to four years in a Florida prison for raping his children s baby Sitter. A Page 6 pilots reportedly off course a British air traffic controller said Friday that . Pilots had wandered behind Allied lines when they fired at what they thought were enemy tanks killing nine British soldiers. A Page 9 another retailer Dies the death Knell rang for another big new York City retailer Friday As Alexander s inc. Closed its 11 stores and filed for bankruptcy Protection. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers 16 commentary. 15 faces no places .16 letters .14 Money matters.17 Mutual .18-19 sports.26-32 weather.13 Japan tells Quayle it will Aid 4 Eastern european nations by the new York times Tokyo a japanese leaders told vice president Dan Quayle on Friday that after months of coaxing by the Bush administration they would lend and invest up to $400 million in private enterprises in Eastern Europe. But Japan again refused to Send substantial Aid to the former soviet republics until four disputed islands Are returned to japanese hands. Japan a announcement came at the end of a four Day visit by Quayle. The trip was intended to repair the damage from president Bush Sill fated Trade Mission to Tokyo in january and refocus attention on a a global partnership Between the two countries. While both sides declared Quayle strip a Success they also conceded that the most vexing economic issues facing the two countries were deliberately kept off the Agenda. The package that Japan announced included up to $300 million in Loans and $100 million for equity investments in new businesses in Czechoslovakia Hungary Bulgaria and Romania. The United states has committed $1.34 billion to that Region this year. According to the state department $589.6 million of the american Aid is in Grants while $747.8 million is in the form of Loans or other assistance. Quayle hailed the japanese plan As a a turning Point in efforts by the United states and Japan to coordinate Aid outside Asia. A Eastern and Central Europe is about the farthest place from Japan As you can get a he said at a breakfast meeting with american correspondents based in Tokyo. A they have no cultural they have no historic  yet Japan he said has come to recognize that the Region has been a much of the catalyst for democratic changes around the world. Nonetheless Japan a contribution is bound to fuel the growing unease Here that a global partnership really Means that Japan finances International initiatives for which Washington has run out of Money. Quayle faced Many questions along those lines during his stay. And he repeatedly denied that the Bush administrations vision for the Post cold War Alliance Between the two countries was to use Japan As a silent dispenser of Cash. Many lessons Learned in space say history making astronauts space Center Houston a endeavours astronauts said they gleaned Many ideas about assembling a space station during a Maiden voyage that featured a record setting four spacewalks and the Rescue of a wayward satellite. A that was one of the purposes of this Mission was to go look at what its going to take to build a space station. I think we Learned a Heck of a lot of lessons a astronaut Pierre j. Thuot said during a Crew news conference Friday. Endeavour was scheduled to land at 5 01 . Edt saturday at Edwards fab in California. The touchdown was to feature the first use of a shuttle drag Chute. A a it a time to come Home huh a shuttle commander Daniel c. Brandenstein asked saturday after the Crew was awakened by the Jimmy Buffett tune Gravity storm. A a it a looking that Way a Mission control replied. In the most dramatic moment of the nine Day Mission Thuot Thomas d. Akers and Richard j. Hieb a the first three Man space walking team a on wednesday grabbed the stranded Intelsat 6 satellite with their gloved hands in a last ditch Rescue Effort. They then attached a rocket motor that shot the Craft nearly a fourth of the distance to the Moon. The International telecommunications satellite organization said the satellite was doing Fine in a 51,750-mile-High orbit. The satellite spent More than two years in a worthless Low Earth orbit after it was left there by a misfired Titan rocket. President Bush called Nasa administrator Daniel s. Goldin on Friday to congratulate him on the satellite capture. The astronauts said More than one year of training had not prepared them for the difficult Job of capturing the whirling 4/2-ton satellite. A a it a something we  train for a said Thuot who failed during two spacewalks to Latch a 15-foot handle onto the satellite. A we done to have a simulator that can put All the components  after the satellite Rescue Akers and Katherine c. Thornton practice Assembly methods for space station Freedom which the National aeronautics and space administration Hopes to Start building in late 1995. Food from Page 1 violence that broke out across a cracking Yugoslavia last june. Fighting in Sarajevo pits slavic muslims and croats against serbian Federal troops and irregulars trying to prevent yet another Republic from splitting off As an Independent state. More than 1,300 people have died and hundreds of thousands have fled their Homes since the people of Bosnia voted 10 weeks ago to secede from serbian dominated Yugoslavia. But the serbs have seized two thirds of Bosnia. Serbian forces have established blockades around Sarajevo leaving the City a 400,000 people with virtually no source of food Roberson said. . Workers have been in the Region since november helping people left homeless or hungry by the destruction Roberson said. Until last week most of their efforts have focused on the 530,000 people driven from their Homes by fighting in Croatia and Serbia. A Bosnia pleaded with us to help Sarajevo. They saw All we be been doing with Croatia and Serbia and asked Why we Hadnot done More for  Roberson said. But the refugee Council is already pushing the tolerance of most of the warring factions said an official with the . Embassy in Belgrade Yugoslavia. In a land where blood lines and Battle lines Are one and the same unbiased humanitarian assistance gets a very Little respect a said the official who asked not be identified. Negotiations Over the Safe passage of the Sarajevo convoys Are a Case in Point. Croatian leaders welcomed the offer of Aid for their besieged comrades in Sarajevo. But the yugoslav government in Belgrade which controls the serbian forces around Sarajevo demanded to be involved apparently wanting to re establish some of its former sovereignty said Michael Einik . Consul general in Zagreb. The refugee Council sought assurances from both sides that the convoys consisting of up to 65 trucks carrying food medical supplies and health items would not be attacked. Roberson said the United nations proposed that one Convoy originate from Zagreb and the other from Belgrade. But the renewed fighting has jeopardized the negotiations. Navy from Page 1 correction because of an editing error a Story in i he stars and stripes on saturday misrepresented the number of productions held in the Frankfurt playhouse and candlelight dinner theater. The article should have said that the playhouse performs six Large scale productions a year and supports six More of smaller scale that Are held at the dinner theater. We re going to find out Early on who really has hangups about women or  once the program ends july 1, Fetter Man will put whatever finishing touches Are necessary on the course and begin inserting it into training programs throughout the Navy. Its no Accident that would be aviators will serve As the program Laboratory. Not Only has the aviation Community taken heat from the Tail Hook incident but the naval aviation schools c omd is in Pensacola a few blocks from Fetterman a office. A a in a right there a he said. A if we re going to put this into effect throughout the Navy i want to be really sure of what we re talking  Letterman believes the program will put More bite into the recent Zero tolerance message. It will emphasize that leaders at All Levels had better enforce the rules on sexual harassment the Way they tackled the military a anti drug policy a decade ago. A there was education yes a he said a but we had a Hammer there too. Its hard to test whether someone does no to like women or Blacks or whatever. The detection Means is not As  but Fetterman said he believes the time is right for a values oriented program like this with women having shown their Mettle on the battlefields of the Middle East and society in general having become More sensitized to the Issue of sexual harassment. A we have a clock moving pretty fast and a lot of people Haven to caught up with it a he said. A a we re going to help them catch up. I truly believe in what we re doing Here and i think we can change the trend lines  Fetterman knows he faces difficulty a it he a close knit institution that is Macho to its Core. A people May say that we re asking a lot but really what a the alternative a  
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