European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday june 17, 1992 at a glance what do Ross Perot and this Man persian Gulf War commander h. Norman Schwarzkopf have in common they Are nearly equal in popularity with americans. See Story on Page 4.some ads ignore abuse doctors often close their eyes to Domestic abuse affecting their patients. Even though As Many As one in four women seeking emergency care May be battered. A Page 5semiautomatics quashed the new York state legislature and the new York City police department have struck a Deal to kill legislation that would have forced the department to Arm All its officers with semiautomatic weapons. A Page 6macarthur Grant winners an evolution expert who is Blind and the first Black woman mayor in Mississippi Are among 33 winners of Macarthur fellowships. A Page 7farewell to the 40th Berlin was in ruins when William a. Knowlton first saw it in 1945. He returned to Berlin last month to help bid Farewell to the 40th Armor regt. A Page 959th Ord Bell goes silent soldiers of the 59th Ord brigade in Pir Masens Germany rang the brigade Beil for the last time when the unit inactivated june 4. A Page 10record bankruptcies a record 252,733 individuals and businesses filed for Protection under . Bankruptcy Laws during the first three months of 1992. A Page 19 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 comics. 21-23 commentary. 15 faces a no places. .24 letters. 14 Money matters. 19-20 sports. 25-32 to listings. 31 weather. 13 Mexico halts drug War efforts with . To protest court ruling Mexico City a Mexico has halted All cooperation with the United states in the War on drugs to protest a . Supreme court decision permitting suspects to be abducted abroad for trial in the United states. The ruling stems from a Case involving the kidnapping in Mexico of a doctor wanted in the United states for alleged involvement in the 1985 torture slaying of . Drug agent Enrique Camarena. Quot the mexican government on monday night banned All activities by . Drug enforcement administration agents in Mexico until further notice. Mexican agents in the United states also will halt work. Writing in the government newspaper Al Nacional columnist Hermengildo Castro said tuesday that the ruling subverts International Law and a converts the world into a scenario in which the important thing is Force not  an editorial in the newspaper noted the decision came the same Day that .-Mcxican cooperation resulted in the capture of three tons of cocaine bound for the United states. The seizure in the Southern state of Guerrero was the biggest reported in Mexico so far this year. A statement by the foreign affairs department called for talks to set Clear Cut ground rules for cooperation Between the two nations in the drug fight. It implied the ban will last until such an agreement is reached. The . High court decision is a invalid and unacceptable and Mexico will consider any attempt to capture suspects on its territory a a criminal act Quot the statement said. A Edba agents commissioned in Mexico As of this Date will not be Able to carry out the activities they were authorized to. Until new criteria of cooperation Are determined a it said it emphasized that such criteria will have a to guarantee respect of our juridical system and the Complete safeguard of National  in Washington Dea spokesman Billy Yout said agents in Mexico reported late monday they had received no official notification of the mexican order. He said the . Embassy in Mexico City expected to take the matter up with mexican authorities on tuesday. A huge proportion of South american cocaine smuggled into the United states goes through Mexico. Poppies used to make a Large amount of the heroin reaching the states also Are grown in the  from Page 1 initial information on this subject had been handed Over late last week to members of a special Senate pow Mia committee. Yeltsin revealed monday that american prisoners of the Vietnam War were transferred to the soviet Union and that some still could be alive. Earlier he disclosed that a dozen . Pilots and Crew members were held As prisoners in the soviet Union in the 1950s. Yeltsin a spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikova said 2,800 . Citizens a found themselves on soviet soil after world War i world War ii and Vietnam and a Many were held in  a most of them have died a he said. Asked if any have survived he added a a it a not  earlier monday Yeltsin was asked by Abc to during Nis flight to Washington if the rumours about . Pos in the former soviet Union were True and if any were alive there. A your archives have shown that it is True. Some of them were transferred to the territory of the former .s.r. And were kept in labor Camps Quot Abc quoted Yeltsin As saying through an interpreter. Quot we Don t have Complete data and can Only surmise that some of them May still be  Sens. John Kerry a mass and Robert Smith a nil said in Moscow in february that russian authorities had acknowledged the possibility of pos being brought to the soviet Union after pact from Page 1 appear at a hastily arranged news conference to announce the Deal a they resolved it after the morning meeting a he said when negotiators for both sides worked out the final details. The two also agreed to Send a team of . Investigators to Russia to study evidence that . Servicemen missing since the korean War May have been interned in soviet labor Camps. Presaged what both leaders Hope will be a successful gathering that will yield substantial Domestic benefits. The administration forging a path As the dominant nuclear Power has sought to achieve reductions that would strengthen its already formidable Arsenal. The White Blouse rolled out a red carpet for a formal South Lawn Welcome. A military band an Honor guard and a 21-gun Salute greeted Yeltsin the first democratically elected Leader of Russia. A today Marks the beginning of a new Era a new kind of Summit not a meeting Between two Powers struggling for global supremacy but Between two partners trying to build a democratic peace a Bush said. A today the threat of a cataclysmic War has vanished. And today the threat of a nuclear Nightmare is More Distant now than at any time since the Dawn of the nuclear  Yeltsin responded a the time our two nations viewed each other with suspicion and even animosity is now behind us. A your two nations Are increasingly aware that it is More than wasteful to throw our energies away. Into the abyss of confrontation a he said. The Vietnam War but that there was no evidence any were still there. Smith vice chairman with Kerry of the Senate pow Mia panel said the reports Quot should come As no Surprise to officials in the intelligence Community of this country because we have had reports like this for   if you think this kind of information is dramatic and startling wait till you Sec the information that begins to come out on Laos and Vietnam which our committee investigators Are now uncovering a he said during an appearance Iran from Page 1 clients had no information suggesting a cover up involving Reagan or anyone else. Bennett refused to say last month whether Weinberger had been offered any Type of Deal in Exchange for his testimony against Reagan. Weinberger testified on june 17, l�?~>�7, that he did not recall being told about the while House approved shipment of is i Law anti a ire raft missiles Lian in november 11 hs5 Weinberger Horn Israel to Bennett said in april that Weinberger a is a Good Guy in this he vigorously opposed arms sales to  Shultz said in april that prosecutors had questioned him about his testimony to Congress about White House approved arms shipments to Iran. He told lawmakers he was not informed of deliveries made in 1986. In recent months Prosee Siors have questioned More than a dozen former Reagan administration officials about the Iran initiative according to non government sources. The witnesses included Weinberger s former military aide Colin i. Powell now chairman of the joint chiefs of staff former National Sceusi it adviser John Poindexter Michael Ann Acost a former undersecretary of state for political attains and Richard Armitage  it am line  of Dei a n -. ?. A i Imana i of a Imai v on abcs Good morning America. Asked in an interview with Fox afo Rrt ing news whether there is hard conclusive evidence that there Are still . Servicemen in Vietnam and Laos Smith responded  meanwhile Yeltsin Stop military aide said russian authorities Are investigating whether an american Man reportedly sighted in the ural mountains might be one of hundreds of . Citizens missing since world War ii. Gen. Dmitri a. To Logonov made his disclosure hours before Yeltsin  from Page 1 Beirut in an Effort to resolve the germans Case. Str big 51, and Kemptner 30, were abducted May 16, 1989, in Southern Lebanon where they were working for the private German Relief organization Asme hum Anitas. Their capture was claimed by the holy warriors for Freedom whose demand was More straightforward than the Complex political and military concessions sought by other Kidnap groups from the United states Britain and France. The group wanted to Swap the germans for two lebanese Brothers jailed in Germany for terrorism. Germany refused. But diplomats said negotiations led to a Deal for the germans release in return for improved prison conditions for the Brothers