European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday june 16,1992 at a glance a my experts say hundreds of thousands of office workers Are being disabled each year in an epidemic of motion related damage to the hands and arms. See stories on pages 14-16. Clinton defends statement Bill Clinton is sticking by his criticism of a Black rap Singer even though his remarks Drew fire from Jesse Jackson and raised eyebrows among some of his supporters. A Page 4 memorials ground broken it took almost six years but the ground has finally been broken on a memorial to America s korean War veterans. A Page 6 civil rights Leader retires the Rev. Joseph Lowery one of the founding ministers of the 1960s civil rights movement retired from the pulpit with an angry Sermon. A Page 7 hostages release delayed the release of. Two German hostages was delayed after the pro iranian kidnappers proposed to free Only one while retaining the other. A Page 8 unit feels cutback Pinch ninety five percent of the supplies destined for Lajes azores Field is handled by the . Army trans terminal unit. That unit which used to have an authorized strength of 48 soldiers has been Cut to nine. A Page 9 Law issues warning United Auto workers president Owen Bieber warned the big three . Automakers that the Union May strike next year in response to what he contends Are efforts to fragment it. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 action line. ----16 comics. 18-20 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 10 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 21-28 to listings. 27 weather. 11 Fitzwater no Wuicik buy Audi i i  warning about Panama on a White House spokesman Marlin trip for the political gain of Bush a appearance in the country Lati Cally denied monday that president Bush a where . Troops overthrew panamanian dictator Gen. Man Washington apr White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater emphatically denied monday that president Bush a military and Security advisers urged him not to speak at an outdoor rally in Panama. Fitzwater said the trip was successful despite the chaos that erupted at a rally in a Panama City Plaza last thursday after police fired tear Gas. Bush and his party were forced to flee. The los Angeles times citing sources in the Pentagon a Southern come As Well As diplomatic sources reported sunday that military advisers had warned Bush against speaking in Public in Panama City and also cautioned that the panamanian National police was ill trained to Cope with riots. Quot we were never advised that Way by anyone Quot Fitzwater told reporters. Quot we were assured that it was Safe and that there was no reason not to  the times said the White Chase pressed ahead with the trip for the political gain of Bush a appearance in the country where . Troops overthrew panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega in december 1989. A we think it was a very successful trip Quot said Fitzwater. A the reception there was As warm As air he a received. The crowds along the motorcade route in and out were extremely warm. The crowd at the rally was very warm. They had 10,000 people there. All waving flags a Bush never got to deliver his speech celebrating democracy at the rally in the Plaza Belisario Porras. The president and first lady Barbara Bush wiping tears from their eyes were whisked away by secret service agents with guns drawn As the tear Gas wafted Over the Square. To was the first visit to Panama by a . President since 1978. The demonstrators included relatives of the several Hundred civilians killed in the . Invasion that toppled Noriega. Troops from Pago 1 that could be dispatched for . Peacekeeping operations. It ends a 47-year ban on sending ground troops overseas. The lower House approved the Bill by a vote of 329-17. The vote was boycotted by 137 socialist lawmakers who submitted resignations in Masse monday in a final attempt to Block the Bill by removing the Chance for a consensus which is considered important in Japan. After the final tally was announced the Bill a supporters stood and applauded. Prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa Rose and solemnly bowed. The socialists hoped their offer to resign would compel Miyazawa to dissolve parliament and Call general elections that in effect would be a referendum on the peacekeeping legislation. However the majority Liberal democrats who hold 278 of the 512 lower House seats would have to approve the resignations the first of their kind in Japan s postwar his Toiv. The governing party decided to go ahead with the vote on the troops Bill after negotiations with the socialists broke Down. Although they Are not allowed to quit without parliamentary approval the socialists refused to attend mondays session saying they would return to their constituencies to Campaign against the Law. The legislation now Only requires adoption by the Cabinet which is controlled by the Liberal democrats. Quot its very regrettable a socialist Leader Makoto Tanabe said of the vote. The actual vote took More than an hour because 16 communist party legislators who also oppose the Bill staged a Quot cow walk Quot creeping with almost imperceptible Steps to the ballot Box. Parliament has been entangled for weeks in legislative mane vering by opponents of the Bill. There were several All night sessions and one record breaking 13-hour-Long vote. On sunday Miya Zawa s Cabinet won the first vote of Confidence Ever taken under Japan a postwar Constitution. The Liberal democrats first tried to gain parliamentary approval for sending troops overseas Early in the persian Gulf crisis but failed due to Public disapproval. A amps employee found dead in apartment gr1esheim, Germany a amps stars and stripes employee Regina c. Kirkendall 32, was found dead in her apartment Here Early sunday evening. Her body was discovered by a Stan and stripes co worker. Cause of death had not been released by investigating authorities As of late monday. Kirkendall was the newspaper s language assistant and letters to the editor clerk and was scheduled to become the official translator and incentive awards administrator for the Stan and stripes in july. She was also the newly elected recorder for the newspapers works Council Kirkendall was born in Darmstadt and had been a stars and stripes employee since april 1986. She is survived by her parents Gerhard and Suzanne Herbert a brother and two listen. One sister Astrid Herbert is an employee of the newspaper. A memorial service will be held at 2 30 . Friday at the Griesheim cemetery Chapel Sarajevo from Pago 1 Agency said the Airport area and other serb controlled areas in Sarajevo were peaceful overnight and Early monday. In Belgrade about 10,000 people gathered to demand the resignation of Milosevic and dissolution of Serbia a parliament and government to pave the Way for a new leadership. It was the third Day of popular protest demanding the resignation of the Man held most responsible for Yugoslavia a wars. The regime controlled Belgrade University Recto rate was meeting to consider student demands that All faculty and administrators join in shutting Down the 65,000-student institution the oldest and most prestigious in what was the largest Ilic offo Quot a a Republic of former Yugoslavia. Quot there is no Field in which this govern ment has made any Progress a said a declaration read to the crowd gathered before the University Rector office on Vasina Street in the Center of Belgrade. Yeltsin from Page 1 Quot cleansing for the trip before leaving Yeltsin told reporters at the Airport that Yegor Gaidar a appointment As acting head of the russian government Quot Means the reforms Are moving  Gaidar is Deputy prime minister As Well As chief economics adviser and is the architect of yet in a Reform program. Originally he too was to go to Washington but Yeltsin issued the decree appointing him just before leaving. Yeltsin has come under increasing criticism recently for appointing old style officials to the government. Reformers in the government As Well As Western economists have expressed concern that he May be backing away from reforms. Yeltsin said prior to his departure that he Hopes his meetings with Bush in Washington and other Western leaders in Munich next month Quot will finally break the knot holding Back the multimillion Dollar governmental commitment he says will Lead to even greater private foreign investment in Russia. But the russian president Quot is going to have some problems a said one of Yeltsin a biggest Western boosters . Ambassador Robert Strauss. A there should be some Tough negotiations a Strauss predicted. Western economists Are concerned because Yeltsin fearing a social explosion has Felt forced to slow his reforms which have sent the inflation rate to More than 300 percent so far this year. Yeltsin has walked at lifting controls on Energy prices and is maintaining subsidies to thousands of state owned enterprises that in a Market Economy would go bankrupt throwing millions out of work. Quot we Call for a strike because All educational functions Are impossible under these conditions a said the declaration which was greeted by chants of Quot Milosevic get  a representative of the University s assistant professors said they would join the strike. The students had invited Milosevic to address them but he did not show up. Opposition to Milosevic has mounted since the United nations slapped harsh sanctions on Serbia and its ally Montenegro on May 30. Chicago from Page 1 hair Salon on the South Side. Windows were shattered on at least 30 buses but no one aboard them was Hurt Chicago transit authority officials said. On the West Side looters broke shop windows and carried away carpet liquor and food As police tried to disperse a crowd of hundreds. Some shopkeepers sprayed fire extinguishers to keep people away. Docks a fast food restaurant was looted of Frozen shrimp fish and Chicken said owner Randall Dawson. A the whole shopping Center that in a in is just ransacked a he said. Quot this is no  on the North Side people jumped on two taxis smashing them and turning them Over