European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday june 14,1992 at a glance retired army cot Don Eastlake is living in Germany a but the Price Isnit always right for Scricc Mem cars who answer the Call of overseas retirement see Story in sunday targeted Gen. Colin a Powell and 700 lovers of Quot old glory Quot paid homage to the american Flag Friday while nearby a dozen demonstrators denounced the nations top military official As a War criminal. A Page 4environmental groups lose the supreme court made it harder for environmental groups to sue to enforce environmental Laws. A Page 5book too Blunt for some some store chains Are refusing to sell magic Johnson a Book on preventing aids because of its Blunt language. A Page 6new Booster for Titan the air Force says it has successfully test fired a new Booster for the Titan in rocket which launches . Spy Page 7 protest Mars Celebration Russia celebrated its first official Independence Day but thousands of pro communist demonstrators denounced the occasion. A Pago 8terminal nearly finished extensive renovations that began in 1989 at the air mobility come terminal Rhein main a should be completed by late july. A Page 92 airlines loin suit the chaotic airline Industry ran into More turbulence As Northwest Orient and America West joined a Legal Battle against Page 17 i Index a. A. A it Abby Ann Landers 16 commentary.15 faces in places .16 letters .14 Money matters.17 Mutual. 18-19 sports.26-32 weather.13 Noriega says Bush deserved protests on trip to Panama Atlanta apr former panamanian Leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega says president Bush deserved the greeting of protests and tear Gas he received m Panama City. Noriega in a Faith oust interview with can called Bush a visit to Panama arrogant and High handed and said it was handled a in an insulting Way toward a country that still has not found All of its dead from the dec. 10, 1989, . Invasion. Bush speaking at a news conference at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro said he was unimpressed by a a discredited drug lord so opinion. A was if his criticism Means anything a Bush said. The president insisted that while a a handful of demonstrators dominated the news a that should not obscure the fact that Panama is democratic Panama is free Quot he said the a warmth from the panamanian people was following the 1989 invasion Noriega was captured and taken to Florida for trial on drug and racketeering charges. He was convicted april 9 and faces sentencing july 10. At least 325 panamanians died in the invasion. Some panamanian groups put the figure at several times that. In the interview parts of which were broadcast Friday Noriega said Washington has covered up the brutality of the invasion. A there Are still common Graves where soldiers of the 82nd airborne threw the cadavers where the bodies were mutilated with flamethrowers to destroy their identity a he said speaking through an interpreter. On thursday tear Gas fired by police to disperse protesters blew in As Bush was preparing to deliver a speech hailing panamas Progress toward from Page 1 ovation. Castro said industrialized nations should Bear most responsibility for cleaning up the worlds ecological damage. A when the threats of communism have disappeared and there Are no longer the excuses of cold wars arms races or military budgets what is left to keep these funds from immediately being dedicated to third world development and combating the ecological destruction that threatens the planet Quot Castro said. Castro urged countries across the Globe to a pay the ecological debt in a five minute speech made As Bush and 104 other leaders looked on in the Rio Assembly room built As a replica of the , general Assembly Hall. The comment was an apparent reference to the argument of developing countries that industrialized nations Are the worlds biggest polluters and should thus pay More for the cleanup a a concept wealthy nations have rejected before and during the conference. The european Community said it would contribute $4 billion and Germany said it would nearly double its Aid to the third world. And Japan a prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa pledged up to $7.7 billion in environmental Aid to developing nations. Miyazawa also vowed Japan will try to keep Carbon dioxide emissions at 1990 Levels by the year 2000 and eliminate substances that deplete the Ozone layer by 1996. Also saturday the 12 dec countries were expected to sign an agreement to bring Carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 Levels by 2000 a a level included in the global warming treaty until the United states pressured negotiators to drop it. Bush who signed the global warming treaty Friday sought to Salvage the . Image for dragging its feet on environmental issues by pressing nations to meet by Jan. 1 with plans for curbing Carbon dioxide emissions and by jinking growth with a clean environment. A i believe we have the Best environmental record in the world Bush said saturday. A a growing Economy creates the resources Ness any for environmental Protection and environmental Protection makes growth sustainable Over the Long the Summit ends today. The president his eyes stinging from the Gas left the area. Noriega said the Reagan and Bush administrations were presenting a distorted picture of latin America. Noriega a former informant for . Intelligence agencies also said a the United states forgets people who have done them favors and then destroys them. And that a what happened to from Page 1 envoy Bernd Schmidbauer has negotiated with iranian officials said to hold Sway Over the kidnappers a and reached a Basic agreement that the hostages will soon be Schmidbauer was expected to travel today or monday to Damascus where hostages usually arc turned Over to their governments. Str big 51, and Kemptner 30, Are the last Western hostages held by pro iranian kidnappers. They were abducted in South Lebanon May 16, 1989, while on assignment with the German Relief organization Asme hum Anitas. The leftist newspaper As Safir which is close to Syria and Iran said a the release could be carried out either sunday or in an unattributed report the newspaper said str big and Kemptner would be released before iranian foreign minister Alt Akbar Velamati embarks on a visit to Kemptner str big Germany on thursday. The front Page report said an unidentified a iranian envoy visited Beirut in the past couple of Days and continued contacts started by Velamati to achieve l he Quick release of the two germans. The conservative newspaper a1 Hayat carried a similar report attributing the information to an unidentified Cabinet minister. Velamati made a one Day visit to Lebanon on june 2 for talks with lebanese. Officials. His reported contacts with the holy warriors for Freedom which holds the two germans could not be verified. The kidnappers said in a statement last saturday that str big and Kemptner would be released a after the completion of Concrete assurances about shiite Muslim Brothers Mohammed Ali and Abbas Hamadi who Are held in Germany on terrorism charges. The statement did not specify the assurances demanded. But it was the first time the kidnappers did not demand the immediate release of the Hamadi Brothers which Germany has rejected. Mohammed Ali Hamadi was sentenced to life in 1989 for the hijacking of a Twa jetliner to Lebanon during Wultich a . Navy diver was killed in 1985. Abbas Hamadi was sentenced to 13 years in 1988 for his role in the Beirut kidnapping of two other germans Alfred Schmidt and Rudolf Cordes who have since been released. Releasing str big and Kemptner would close the Book on the kidnappings or disappearances of 90 foreigners to Lebanon since january 1984.soviets from Page 1 respectively of the Senate pow Mia affairs committee by Gen. Dmitri Volko go nov a senior defense adviser to Yeltsin. The morning news Tribune in Tacoma Wash said it had obtained declassified . Intelligence records that show at least 10 incidents during that time most Over International air space. According to the newspaper the include a a . Navy pby4y2 downed Over the Baltic sea on april 8,1950. A a Navy pv2 downed Over the sea of Japan on nov. 6,1951. A an air Force rb-29 shot Down Over the sea of Japan on june 13,1952. A another air Force rb-29 downed off Japan on oct. 7,1952. A an air Force rb-50 shot Down Over lie sea of Japan on july 29, 1953. A a Navy p2v downed off russians asian coast on sept. 4, 1954. A an air Force 13-29 downed near on nov. 7, 1954. A an air Force rb-50 downed Over the of Japan sept. 10. I an. A an air Force c-u8 attacked and forced Down in soviet Armenia on june 27,1958. A an ec-130 also shot Down Over soviet Armenia on sept. 2,1968, both senators said Yeltsin a Candor is yet to be matched by . Officials. A an awful lot of people have been discounted and pushed aside Over the years for having raised this kind of question a Kerry said. Quot this letter is a statement by the now president of that country. That people were alive and that the folks running around saving so had some basis for a a
