European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes Friday May 22, 1992 at a glance ill. Cmdr. Kevin Mattonen and other members of patrol so 23 have been Busy prowling the Mediterranean in their p-3c Orion maritime patrol aircraft. Weinberger pastes test former Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger has passed a lie Detector test As part of an Effort to convince special prosecutors he took no part in a cover up to protect former president Ronald Reagan. A Page treaty differences settled All differences with Kazakhstan on the Start missile reduction treaty have been resolved . Officials said wednesday. A Page 52nd artists group protests a second artists group has suspended Grant review work for the National endowment for the arts in protest Over decisions by its new  Page 7 end to fighting pledged rival guerrilla factions who have been fighting for control of the new islamic government in Afghanistan agreed thursday to abandon combat As a Means of solving their disputes. A Page 8 growing isolationism seen the los Angeles riots will reinforce increasing . Isolationism the International Institute for strategic studies said thursday. A Page 9 Index j Abby Ann Landers 19 action line .16 comics. 19-21 commentary.13 crossword. 19 faces no places .18 letters. 12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.27 weather. 11 Cheney says ousting Saddam would have been too costly by Susanne m. Schafer a military writer Washington . Troops would still be occupying Iraq if the allies had tried to take Baghdad and Force president Saddam Hussein from Power defense Secretary Dick Cheney said wednesday. A we would have had to run him into the ground and doing that in Baghdad or in a nation As Large As Iraq would have involved a lot of us forces a Cheney told a gathering at the National press club. A i done to think it was the kind of situation where we could have pulled up with a pad a Wagon in front of the presidential Palace and said a come on Saddam you re going to the Slammer a a Cheney said. The Secretary said pursuing Saddam would have Cost Many lives. A and How Many additional american lives is Saddam Worth not very Damn Many a the Secretary said. Critics have charged the conflict failed to destroy important parts of Saddam a War machine and allowed him to pursue a bloody crackdown of Iraq s kurd. Cheney said establishment of a postwar government in Iraq would have required the presence of . Troops More than a year after the War ended an occupation that would have antagonized the Mideast. A How Long could we have maintained that coalition of Arab states if we had been involved in the Long Range occupation by the . In Iraq would guess if we had gone on to Baghdad i would still have forces in Iraq today a Cheney said adding a i done to know How we would have let go of that tar baby once we had grabbed hold of  on other topics a Cheney criticized Congress for failing to hold to the administrations defense budget plan faulting in particular the chairman of the House armed services committee rep. Les Aspin d-wis., for a old  he wanted to slash $7 billion from the Bush administration defense budget for 1993. A queried about a Bill introduced in Congress to allow homosexuals to serve in the military Cheney defended the present policy that a a Gay lifestyle is incompatible with military service. Cheney said that he would have to be convinced that such a change would not affect military  from Page 1 a does not represent pro life  thursday morning Fitzwater  be drawn Back into the swirl. A i have nothing to add to the Story a he told reporters. A a in a not going to be a second Day Story on this  president Bush refused to comment directly explaining Quot in a not going to get into the details of a very popular television show a but he said lie was All for two Parent families. Democratic presidential front runner Bill Clinton was equally cautious saying an out of Wedlock birth a is not the example we want to set for our  Johnny Carson seized on it in his monologue on the tonight show a Dan also came out against Gilligan a Island because he thought Gilligan and the skipper were sleeping in adjoining hammocks a Carson joked. And David Letterman announced a list of a Dan Quayle Stop 10 other complaints about  the no. 1 complaint a not enough positive portrayals of really dumb  the Issue divided Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford hosts of the syndicated to show live with Regis amp Kathie Lee. Philbin said the vice president had a Point. Gifford asked what else Murphy could have done under the circumstances. Guardian Angels founders Curtis and Lisa Sliwa also disagreed on their talk show on wac radio in new York. Curtis said Murphy Brown a is setting the wrong  but Lisa asked what Quayle expected Murphy to do a a have an abortion a anyway she added a a in a not sure Dan understood Murphy Browne a a fictional  the Bliwas agreed that callers to their show wanted to talk about nothing else. A we Haven to had anything like this since Anita Hill and judge Thomas a Curtis marvelled. A Why is this Rich Guy telling us about parenting Quot asked a male caller. A first they have nursemaid then governesses then they Send the kids off to boarding  by late morning the slow ask successor at the Mike Joy Behar was sputtering a a in a sick of this topic a no one else seemed to be possibly because they could recall the Golden age of television whose code of decency forced Rob and Laura Petrie to sleep in separate Beds on the Dick Van Dyke show. On monday 38 million people watched the episode in which Murphy Brown unmarried to anchorwoman gave birth to a boy. About the Only person with nothing to say was the woman who plays Murphy Brown Candice Bergen. Her spokesman Allen Eichhorn said that when he told her on tuesday about Quayle a remarks she said a ooh really. Of Fine. Thank  a i done to think she cared to jump into the fray a he said. But Diane English the shows producer did. A if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father then head better make sure abortion remains Safe and Legal a she  from Page 1 was a Coal Miner. The defense was barred from presenting new evidence because it missed by one Day a deadline for filing an Appeal. Jim Mccloskey an investigator from Princeton n.j., who specializes in helping people he believes Are wrongly convicted and who worked on Coleman a behalf said the lie Detector test was a desperate attempt to save Coleman a life. A we really did not expect him to pass it a Mccloskey said. A the pressure was just  after failing the test Coleman was a completely devastated and could hardly speak Mccloskey said. A polygraph expert said however that nervousness because of the impending execution would not have affected the tests accuracy. Colenia became the 14th person executed in Virginia and the 175th nationally since the . Supreme court in 1976 let states resume capital punishment. He was previously convicted of the attempted rape of an elementary school teacher and served a year and a half in prison. He also was charged with exposing himself in a Library to a librarian two months before the  said police got the wrong Man both times. Brad Mccoy the murder victims husband drove seven hours to Greenville correctional Center for the execution and said he was frustrated that Coleman never admitted his guilt. A a we la still have scars but we can get our lives Back a Mccoy said outside the prison. A the wont be Able to Hurt anyone else  the execution proceeded after the . Supreme court denied a reprieve in a 7-2 vote. Justices Harry Blackmun and David Souter dissented. Mccloskey said he and a defense attorney Kathleen Behan stayed with Coleman until almost 11 . A the was in remarkably Good humor a Mccloskey  from Page 1 tories earlier this week in the bloodiest conflict in the sex soviet lands the Battle for control Over Magorno Karabash. The Region lies within Azerbaijan but is populated mainly by armenians who want Independence or Alliance with Armenia. Nash Chevan has a seven mile Border with Turkey and fears Are rising that Turkey will act on thinly veiled threats to Send troops into the Region in support of Azerbaijan. Turkey and Azerbaijan share a language the islamic Faith and an ancient deep rooted animosity toward mainly Christian Armenia. Linder soviet Rule they could not form close links but now they Are restoring relations rapidly. Turkish diplomats have been expanding ties with the former soviet asian republics where most of the people Are Muslim and speak turkish dialects. Although the Region is underdeveloped it has Rich reserves of Oil Gas and other natural resources. Itar Tass said Border troops of the Commonwealth of Independent states stationed in the Nash Chevan were put on Alert thursday. The Moscow press Center for Border troops said the Alert was a precaution to protect the troops against increased tensions and prevent their weapons from being stolen. It said Commonwealth forces is Ere not involved in the fighting. The Commonwealth military commander Yevgeny Shaposhnikov on wednesday warned that outside intervention in the armenian azerbaijani conflict could be catastrophic. A if there is military interference by another party that will obviously place us on the verge of a third world War and that cannot be allowed a he told a Moscow news conference. Also wednesday Azerbaijan a new nationalist Leader accused the Commonwealth of siding with Armenia in the conflict and threatened to pull out of the Commonwealth a federation of sex soviet republics. Russia alarmed at the escalating tension on its Southern Borders dispatched defense minister Pavel Grachev to hold talks with armenian officials thursday in Yerevan the armenian capital