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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 c the stars and stripes wednesday june 10, 1992 at a glance Lisa Stansfield was just one of the singers who made a weekend appearance at the Rock am ring outdoor concert in Nair hurring Germany. Sec Story on pages 14-15. Cia predicts gloomy future the Cia predicted that the Pace of economic Reform in Russia and the other former soviet republics will fall victim to a Steep increase in consumer prices and  Page 5 Vereen seriously injured entertainer Ben Vereen was struck and critically injured tuesday As he walked across the Pacific coast Highway. Vereen 45, suffered Quot major injuries a authorities  Pago 7 avoiding Friendly fire a year after Friendly fire claimed the lives of 44 Allied service Mem ers in the persian Gulf War some military top brass were to gather at an army test Range in fort Bliss Texas today for demonstrations of new equipment that they Hope will prevent such deadly accidents in future wars a Page 9 departures moved up army officials have confirmed that 2,700 soldiers who had been scheduled to leave the service Between october and december under Bonus separation programs must go no later than sept 29.�? Page 10 general dynamics buyback defense giant general dynamics corp., which has built up a Reserve of $1.2 billion announced it will distribute some of its Cash to stockholders by buying Back 30 percent of its outstanding shares. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 comics.19-21 commentary.13 faces n places .22 letters .12 Money matters 17-18 sports.23-28 to listings.27 weather.11serbian from Page 1 that 20 people had been killed and 357 wounded in the past 24 hours in Sarajevo alone. Another seven people died and 21 were wounded elsewhere in Bosnia Media reports said. Before the Security Council vote on sending the 60 observers . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali asked it to authorize 1,000 peacekeepers to secure Sarajevo a Airport. Gunmen from both sides in the conflict have agreed to put their troops around the Airport under . Guard. If the 60-Membcr Advance team can gain the withdrawal of anti aircraft guns from the Hills around the Airport the full contingent could follow. That would put . Peacekeepers on the fiercest Battlefront of the yugoslav civil War. In a War where agreements Seldom hold the troops could he exposed to attack increasing pressure for foreign military intervention. Quot As the diplomats met in new York on monday machine guns chattered in Sarajevo a streets rockets shrieked overhead and the whine of incoming artillery shells mixed with the thuds of explosions. Barrages from Cannon mortars and  rocket launchers set buildings ablaze across the City. At the main Hospital doctors said that they were Low on antibiotics aesthetics and oxygen but that response to broadcast appeals for blood had been Good. Three fighters left a dead Comrade wrapped in a Blanket outside the morgue when no one responded to their knocks. They wrote his name on a piece of cardboard stuffed in his Boot. Fighting broke out in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the republics majority muslims and croats voted for Independence from Yugoslavia on feb. 29. Serbian nationalists who boycotted the vote have since seized two thirds of the Republic forcing More than 1 million people to flee their Homes. The serbs say they want Sarajevo to be partitioned along ethnic lines but even ethnic serbian areas of the capital have been badly damaged by the constant  from Page 1 which missiles and other weapons would be scrapped As the two sides try to achieve a 50 percent Cut in strategic nuclear weapons by the end of the Century. The sources insisting on anonymity said the ceiling on Long Range warheads was Likely to be reduced to 4,700 on each Side. The treaty Calls for a cutback to 6,000. At the opening of the pre Summit conference Kozarev said the two govern ments have a a unique Opportunity to make a major step beyond Start a eliminating thousands of warheads without going through years of difficult negotiations. He said he hoped he and Baker could resolve the differences a just before the Summit so the two presidents can strike the Deal when they  Baker offered no such prediction. Yeltsin is scheduled to arrive monday and open two Days of talks with Bush the next morning. The collapse of communism and the soviet Union and the end of the cold War have raised Hopes that the Bush Yeltsin Summit is an Opportunity for substantial new cuts in strategic weapons. It also has advocates of reductions concerned that the Bush administrations focus on the ss-18s and its determination not to give up . Submarine based missiles May destroy chances to maintain the momentum toward new reductions. A at this moment of Opportunity trying to push Moscow Over the threshold from cooperation to unilateral disarmament is dangerously shortsighted and May prove self defeating a said sen. Joseph r. Biden jr., d-dcl., and a senior member of the Senate foreign relations committee. Czechoslovak breakup looms As election winners fail to agree Fragus Czechoslovakia apr talks Between the two rivals charged with governing Czechoslovakia ended tuesday without agreement on How to prevent the country from breaking apart Media reported. A the federation is lost a Vaclav Klaus a czech was quoted by the state news Agency Csuk As saying after talks with populist slovak Leader Vladimir Mesiar. Klaus the conservative Federal finance minister was tapped As Federal Premier after weekend parliamentary elections. There was no immediate comment on the talks from Mesiar whose party fared strongest in the weekend balloting in Slovakia the poorer Eastern third of the country. A the talks revealed deep and fundamental differences. On the future Structure of Czechoslovakia a Klaus told reporters. Klaus said there would be new talks thursday on who should sit in the new Federal Cabinet. It was not immediately Clear however whether me Ciary a movement would designate anybody to take part in the Federal government. Klaus supports a continued czech slovak federation and his party won elections in the czech lands the More populous and industrialized Western two thirds of the country on that program. I be is the driving Force behind economic Reform which has caused hardship in less developed Slovakia. Mesiar by contrast campaigned for slovak sovereignty a one step Short of Independence a a separate slovak Constitution and a referendum on whether Slovakia Breaks away from the federation. He Heads the movement for a democratic Slovakia or hods in slovak. It won almost 38 percent of the vote for the regional slovak parliament. Mesiar said sunday that the body could declare sovereignty soon after it meets on june 23. The outcome of the first Klaus Mcdiar talks made the future look Bleak for president Vaclav Havel who indicated through his spokesman monday that he will not stand for re election by the new Federal parliament if Czechoslovakia Heads for a split. The spokesman Michael Yantovsky told reporters that Havel a candidacy depends on the continuation of a common state and economic and political reforms begun with the 1989 a velvet revolution that unseated the communists. Klaus said he insisted at the talks with Mesiar that Havel be re elected president. Mesiar said sunday he rated Havel a chances of re election As  Mesiar was ousted As slovak Premier in May 1991 by Havel allies and has made no secret of his dislike for the play Wright president. . Takes dig at allies Over Rio Summit Washington a the Bush administration suggested tuesday that support by allies particularly Germany and Japan Lor measures at the harsh Summit reflected guilt and a desire to be a politically  the extraordinary comments from a senior administration official came during a White House briefing ahead of president hush strip later this week in Rio de Janeiro. The Brueling rules dilated that the official s comments not be attributed to him by name and when reporters prevailed on him to put his remarks on the Reoul lie refused. The Sharp tone of the official s comments underscored growing frustration in the administration Over its isolation at the International environmental conference. A Iudici the cloak of anonymity the Oil  called the Rio Summit a a circus and said that a a chaos prevailed there. Why Are . Allies backing measures spurned by Washington Quot Quot the first explanation is the guilty developed world logic which runs throughout a lot of the rhetoric and runs throughout Peoples action Quot the official said. Quot on the one hand some people feel that the countries that Are wealthier that have grown More owe the rest of the world. Some developed countries Are More susceptible to this. You see it particularly in the Case of Germany. Ana to a certain degree  separately associate budget director Robert Grady who oversees environmental policy at the White House tried to explain Why the Bush administration had become such a lightning Rod for criticism. Quot it May be that our presentation and rhetoric have been inferior to other countries but our actions have been Superior a Grady said. The United states has been widely criticized for weakening an Accord on world climate and for refusing to sign a Bio diversity agreement to protect plants and animals from extinction the senior administration official asserted that the United states has a Rich history of actions to protect the environment that is at Odds with its near Universal condemnation at the Rio Summit. A and that a not altogether accidental because this is one area in which they can engage in International decision making in a politically Correct fashion a the official said. The briefing coincided with the governments publication of a Slick 44-Page Booklet entitled Quot us. Actions for a bet Ter environment a sustained   
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