European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 b the stars and stripes saturday june 20, 1992 Ireland approves referendum on treaty for european Union on pct clone of Hanau Germany makes his Point with visitors to the Renaissance fair at attn Zonberg Castle near Butzbach to catch a glimpse or a weekend of pageantry and pomp see pages 14 and 15. Jackson criticizes Clinton the Rev. Jesse Jackson charged thursday that in a Clumsy bid for the backing of alienated White voters Arkansas gov. 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A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers 19 comics.19-21 commentary.13 crossword .19 faces n places .18 letters .12 Money matters.17 sports.22-28 to listings.27 weather.11 Dublin Ireland apr Irish leaders claimed Victory Friday in a referendum for a new european Community treaty on economic and political Union that was in trouble after danish voters rejected it earlier this month. Preliminary returns compiled by Rte the state broadcasting service indicated that the maastricht treaty was winning in All parts of the country with the tightest races in parts of Dublin. Several districts reported the treaty passing by 70 percent or More. If the trend in the count from thursdays referendum continued Ireland would be the first of the 12 european Community nations to ratify the treaty. The Accord would create a european Central Bank a common currency and coordinated foreign policies in the worlds largest Trad fag bloc. Irish leaders appeared to have conc amp from Page 1 Ark project said it believed the Man being sought was 1st it. Robert Martin who was taken prisoner by North Korea during the korean War. The delegation met local officials thursday and Friday and toured the Camp outside Pechora a Blue Collar City of 70,000 people that is 900 Miles Northeast of Moscow. After examining prison documents and interviewing prison officials and inmates the delegation said 23 people named Marken or something similar had been held at the Camp but none fit their description of the missing from Page 1 tries most of them nato members. Four of those countries have policies against homosexuals serving in the military. The others did not actively exclude homosexuals but some take Steps to keep Gays separate from heterosexual enlistees. The study also examined eight police departments around the country and found that none reported Quot any degradation of Mission Quot stemming from allowing homosexuals to serve on the Force. Quot major psychiatric and psychological organizations in the United states disagree with dodos policy and believe it to be factually unsupported unfair and counterproductive a the report said. Quot in addition two Dod service com Mission study efforts have refuted dodos position on the potential Security risk associated with homosexual orientation As Well As disclosed information that raised questions about the Basic policy. New Vork apr the founder of the guardian Angels crime fighting group was seriously wounded Friday morning by a gunman who ambushed him in a cab authorities said. Curtis Sliwa 38, was hospitalized in serious but stable condition with gunshot wounds in the lower Abdomen and the leg police said. It was the second attack in less than two months on Sliwa who founded the comr Ovesia crime patrol 13 years ago. Vinced voters that despite giving up some sovereignty under the treaty they will gain from billions of dollars in subsidies from the dec. A it looks like a Clear Cut majority for maastricht a prime minister Albert Reynolds said. A i am very glad the Irish people have strongly endorsed the treaty. A in Brussels Belgium the head of the european parliament welcomed the Irish vote. Quot this result confirms my determination that we have to continue the Way to ratify this treaty before the end of the year a Egon Kelpsch said in a statement. The government claims that the Union would bring Ireland about $10 billion Over the next five years. Unemployment exceeds 20 percent in Ireland and it ranks 10th in the dec in Gross Domestic product per capita generating less than half As much wealth per citizen As however a russian spokesman said they found new evidence that ethnic germans had been imprisoned at the ramshackle Complex sitting in a Clearing of Pine and Birch Trees. A the information. Will require additional research a said col. Anatoly Volkov the russians spokesman. Journalists were not allowed to accompany the delegation when it toured the prison thursday. Soldiers inmates and prison officials All said there were no americans present. A we done to have any americans Here a said maj. Gen. Leonid Hamluk chief of the Region that has about 10 labor Camps built before and during world War ii. The pow commission headed by russian Gen. Dmitri to Logonov and former . Ambassador Malcolm Toon said in a further the Secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff have recently acknowledged that homosexual orientation is no longer a major Security concern a assistant defense Secretary Christopher Jehn in a letter responding to the Gao criticized the Agency for failing to distinguish Between the social debate Over homosexuality and the particular concerns of the military. The report May be a misleading a Jehn wrote by wrongly suggesting that the Pentagon considers homosexuality a mental disorder or that the policy stems from concern about homosexuals being blackmailed into revealing government secrets. A the Dod homosexual exclusion policy is. Based on what contributes to Overall combat effectiveness Quot Jehn wrote. He noted that the courts have repeatedly upheld the Pentagon policy. The report was commissioned by reps. John Conyers jr., d-mich., chairman of the House government operations committee Gerry e. Studds d-mass., and Ted Weiss . Studds and Weiss Are longtime critics police said the assailant was ducked Down in the front seat of a cab Sliwa hailed shortly after 5 . To take him from his Headquarters on the lower East Side to a Midtown studio where he and his wife Lisa do a daily Early morning radio talk show. The cab headed the wrong Way Down a one Way Street and the gunman popped up and fired twice police said. Sliwa dived out a window and the cab sped away police chief David so i Denmark the Community Leader. Ireland was one of Only three countries to put the treaty to a vote of the people a Lough it is the second smallest of the 12 european Community nations its referendum took on added weight after the Danes voted Down the maastricht treaty on june 2. European Community leaders Hope to work out a solution with Denmark to save the treaty. Another rejection could make a Rescue Effort too complicated to succeed. The treaty awaits a referendum in France and ratification by Legislatures of the other nine countries. On Friday Frances National Assembly followed the Senate in approving changes to bring the country a Constitution in line with the treaty. Ireland ranks 11th in population with 3.5 million people a Luxembourg is smallest with 400,000 people. March that it had found no evidence of american servicemen from the Vietnam or korean wars in the former soviet Union. But it did produce death certificates of eight americans who were held in soviet prison Camps following world War ii. It was not known whether they were . Servicemen or nazi sympathizers. The commission has been studying so Viet Era files and pursuing tips from russians who claim to have seen or known americans in the gulag the far Flung network of prison Camps that held millions of people Over the decades. Yeltsin a spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikova has said 2,800 . Citizens Quot found themselves on soviet soil after world War i world War ii Korea and Vietnam and said some May have survived. Of the Pentagon policy. The House is considering legislation to ban discrimination in the military based on sexual orientation. The study covered Pentagon discharges from 1980 to 1990.role from Page 1 they met on a Hilltop overlooking Bonn. The document states that we nations could make available troops if requested by the United nations or the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. Two weeks ago the North Atlantic treaty organization made a similar decision. The declaration says we military units could be used for a humanitarian and Rescue tasks and for a tasks of combat forces in crisis management including police officers on patrol found Sliwa lying in the Street in the East Village neighbourhood near Manhattan a Tompkins Square Park shortly after 5 . No one else was injured and no weapons were recovered at the scene police said. New York mayor David n. Dinkins visited the Hospital and vowed to do everything he could to find the attacker. Quot there a no doubt that he was set up a the mayor said guardian Angels founder shot in attack
