European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 22, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 9u.s. Isolationism growing study says nuclear proliferation seen As threat to stability by Maureen Johnson the associated press London a the los Angeles riots will reinforce increasing . Isolationism and America will refuse to be the worlds policeman the International Institute for strategic studies said thursday. American voters appeared a to care Little about foreign policy except when it impinged on Domestic issues such As unemployment and Trade Quot the institutes annual strategic Survey said. A Given the self involved mood of the country the idea that the american military might function As a Globo copy was simply laughable a it said. The 248-Page report cited the spread of nuclear weapons to the third world As a possibly the most serious threat to International Security the London based Institute also warned that communist North Korea is engaged in an iraqi style secret buildup of nuclear weapons and is stalling Over nonproliferation treaties to buy time. However Institute director Francois Heusbourg said at a news conference that the number of would be nuclear Powers had decreased with Brazil Argentina German to Crew detained in China Beijing up a in the second harassment incident in a week involving foreign journalists chinese police detained two members of a German television Crew thursday a German embassy official said. Jochen Wichmann and Andreas Buhrow who work for the Beijing Bureau of the German network de. Were grabbed by police near the ancient drum Tower in North Central Beijing As they filmed a Street scene the embassy official said. The official said the police apparently roughed up the pair seizing their foreign journalist credentials and videotape and leading them into a building nearby. A producer who was not detained was negotiating for their release. The producer told the embassy official the incident began when Wichmann and Buhrow began photographing a mentally disturbed woman undressing on a Street. A crowd gathered and police showed up ignoring the woman and detaining the Crew. The official said the German embassy was trying to Contact the chinese foreign ministry and police. Chinese Security agents last sunday searched the Beijing office of the Washington Post seizing what they said were classified documents from the newspapers correspondent and detaining her family during the incident. Taiwan South Korea and South Africa All dropping their nuclear ambitions. The big risk was the increased availability of weapons and scientists following the collapse of the soviet Union and uncertainty about whether the former soviet republics Are prepared to give up their arsenals. Heusbourg said an inward looking America would remain involved in nato the Middle East and Asia. But he cited the Low . Profile in the breakup of Yugoslavia and in Cambodia As a sign of changing times with american political leaders concentrating on building up Domestic support. A the los Angeles riots have increased that probability of that happening a Heusbourg said. The riots erupted april 29 after a jury acquitted four White men in the police beating of a Black Motorist. The Institute said North koreans weapons buildup was As ambitious As the huge nuclear weapons program and the chemical Arsenal that iraqi president Saddam Hussein was gradually forced to destroy after the persian Gulf War. North Korea has a suspected nuclear program at Yon Byon 55 Miles North of the capital Pyongyang a Large scale chemical weapons program and was improving its scud missiles by developing a version with a longer Range the report said. North Korea signed the nuclear non proliferation treaty in 1985, but has still not ratified a follow up treaty signed in january this year. The country said the report a apparently hoped to buy enough time to Complete its first nuclear weapons. The worlds Only declared nuclear Powers Are the United states the former soviet Union. Britain France and China. The main suspected non dec lard Powers Are Israel Pakistan and India. A Israel almost certainly has a Complete strategic and tactical nuclear Arsenal while India and Pakistan can assemble nuclear weapons virtually at will a said the Institute. Libya Iran and Algeria still had nuclear designs but North Korea was the biggest threat Heusbourg said. Main perpetrators in the spread of weapons were the governments of China Israel and North Korea and Western and japanese companies. The Institute founded in 1958, is an Independent research and publication Center funded by publications and subscriptions from 3,000 members in 85 countries. Creeping menace a German geologist operating thursday morning High above the Mosel River assesses the danger of a huge Rock that is gradually sliding downhill threatening the wine Village of Krov. Fearful inhabitants of the Valley area were evacuated tuesday night and officials said a blasting operation will he conducted saturday to halt the slow but sure slippage of the massive Rock bars paper with and for abortion clinic Dublin Ireland apr the guard a newspaper was not for Sale in Ireland thursday because it carried an advertise sent for a clinic that performs abortions. Police were at Dublin Airport Early thursday when the 2,000 copies of the guardian arrived on a flight from Man Hester. The distributor Eason and son decide d to hold the copies at a warehouse in Tead of distributing the papers which in lured a full Page and for the Marie slopes health clinics. Irish Law forbids the publication of abortion facilities and the advertisement included the Telephone numbers for seven Stopes clinics in Britain. Ireland has the most restrictive abortion Law in Europe a permitting Only a Pill that terminates pregnancies in the first 72 hours. About 4,000 women travel to Britain for abortions every year. Most British publishers have in the past avoided confrontation by removing such ads from copies sent to Ireland. Guardian editor Peter Preston said the advertisement was not part of a any organized Effort to test Irish opinion on this matter. A this was a commercial advertisement taken in a routine Way without any wider consultation or consideration a Preston said in a statement. Alan shatter the Justice spokesman for the opposition Pine Gael i arty said halting the paper would make Ireland a the laughing Stock of prime minister Albert Reynolds has promised a referendum on abortion in november. The procedure was banned under the Constitution in a bitterly fought referendum in 1983. The abortion Issue has also become embroiled in the ratification of a european Community treaty on political and economic Union. The ratification referendum is scheduled for june 18 in Ireland a fiercely pro Community country and a major beneficiary of special funds for poorer members. But anti abortion groups oppose the treaty because they say it will open the floodgates to abortion in Ireland where 90 percent of the population is roman Catholic 77 Schleyer killing solved German official says Stuttgart Germany a after 15 years authorities said thursday they know which members of the red army faction killed the chief of the German employers federation. The kidnapping and slaving of Hanns Martin schlep or in 1977 remains one of the most notorious acts carried out by the leftist group. State prosecutor Klaus Pflieger said testimony this week by Peter Juergen Boock a red army faction member who had also been convicted in Schleyer a abduction left Only two men who could be responsible for the killing. They tire Stephan Wisniewski and Rolf Clemens Wagner who Are both already serving life terms Tor terrorist activity Pflieger said. Boock testified at the trial of two suspected rial army faction terrorists and has been making revelations since March saying he was renouncing terrorism. Schleyer was kidnapped in september 1977 in Cologne by the red army faction in an attempt to Force authorities to release 11 captured terrorists. Schleyer a body was found after 43 Days in the trunk of a car in France
