European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                19421992 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 205  my 500 sunday november 8,1992 b d 8693 moving into a Nightmare company s bankruptcy throws stored goods into limbo by Nancy l. Torner . Bureau Raf Alconbury England a the Mickey mouse Snow dome that sits on Nora and capt. Ned Neveras Kitchen counter in base housing has become their Centrepiece. The dome is the Only Possession that the couple have retained from the past save for a few towels and washcloths some flatware an outdoor Extension Cord and a couple of suitcases of summer clothing that were left behind by movers last summer. The rest of their worldly goods were packed june 29 for what was to be a Rou. Tine move across town to base housing at Raf Alconbury. Circumstances proved to be anything but routine however. A delay in the availability of base housing landed their belongings in storage at the last minute where the items remain today in a kind of hostage situation. Action to get the goods released is currently in the British courts. Quot its the reverse of winning the lottery Ned Nevera said. A there s been a lot of lost  the ordeal began in May when the Neveras decided it would be More convenient joke in base housing than on the Economy. Paperwork for the move was completed just before Nevera went on temporary duty during the first two weeks of june. Upon his return Nevera had the traffic management office in that area schedule the packing for june 29 and the actual move for june 30. When the packers arrived he drove to the housing office to collect the keys to his new abode Only to learn that he could not set up House  Asbestos insulation in the ceiling tiles and the door to the heating room was removed. A your lease to off base housing had Al irs a a vim or Tow Rte to Btu no lot of Leal Tnp Ned never ready been terminated so we could t stay there a Nora Nevera said. Since Ned Nevera was leaving on july see moving on Page 2 violence erupts As ship loads plutonium Cherbourg France a a japanese freighter that will carry Home the largest Ever shipment of plutonium took aboard the highly toxic cargo saturday while French naval commandos clashed violently with environmental protesters. An old Blue Crane loaded the 15 huge containers holding 1.7 tons of plutonium into the Akatsuka Mam s cargo hold. The ship slipped out of port late saturday. Hundreds of police naval commandos in motorized rafts frogman a French warship and a floating Barrier protected the Akatsuka Marstrom the Media environmentalists and hundreds of curious onlookers. A 15-truck Convoy brought the plutonium to the military port before Dawn saturday from Frances nuclear fuel processing Plant at la Hague which belongs to the government Agency co Gem a. The ship arrived in port about the same time. Minutes earlier commandos boarded and seized a Greenpeace boat the moby Dick. The Craft was preparing to leave Cherbourg Harbor to meet the Akatsuka Maru in a symbolic protest Greenpeace spokesman Damon Moglen said. Moglen said the commandos kicked in doors smashed windows and pointed guns at people s Heads. A naval boat also ran Down Greenpeace inflatable rafts escorting the moby Dick he said an activist aboard one raft suffered a hand Cut from the boat s propeller Moglen said in a news conference another was hurled into the air and suffered a possible concussion. Both were hospitalized. Ten activists and seven journalists aboard the crafts were briefly detained and released but the captains of the moby Dick and two rafts re Greenpeace activists display a Banner saturday protesting the ship see violence on Page 2 ment of plutonium from the Western French port of  negotiator Hopes for end to Trade Tiff Hatfield England apr the european Community s chief Trade negotiator voiced optimism saturday that Europe and the United states can Settle a dispute Over farm subsidies that threatens to turn into a Trade War. Dec commissioner Frans Andriessen speaking after a two Day meeting of Community Trade ministers said he had no immediate plans to meet with . Negotiators. But he said he was confident an agreement could be reached by dec. 6, the Day the United states has threatened of impose tariffs on some european products. German economics minister Jurgen Molleman who attended the meeting at Brocket Hall said British prime minister John major president Bush and Jacques Clors French president of the dec s executive commission should meet if the Trade talks failed. A there should be a Summit. So we have the instruments to find political ways and Means out of the crisis Moi Iemann told sky television news. Talks Between the United states and the 12-nation Community broke Down tuesday in Chicago and on thursday the United slates fired the first Salvo in what could become a damaging Trade War. Washington said it would impose 200 percent tariffs on some european products a mainly French White wine a within 30 Days if the dec refused to slash payments to Farmers. France Europe a biggest farm producer has opposed efforts to Cut agricultural payments As deeply As demanded by the United states. Its Farmers have protested against any cuts and the government is worried about the farm vote in legislative elections next March. France claimed saturday that at least three other dec nations a Ireland Belgium and Spain would support Trade sanctions against the United states. A either Well convince the americans not to apply their measures or we wont. If we Don to the Community will have to react a Dominique Strauss Kahn France s Trade minister told reporters in Paris. He indicated that Germany and Britain opposed retaliating against the United states fearing a global Trade War that could cripple recession bound economies. Britain Germany the Netherlands and other nations have pleaded with the French for a Compromise