European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse 19421992 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 207 350 tuesday november 10,1992 d 8693 a Linton gets Down to work he avoids comment on possible pardons Little Rock Ark. A president elect Clinton returning to the task of building his administration Send break is staying out of president Vay i the Iran Contra scandal. After a weekend Bush Swa. Staying t in a Trade War with Europe and pardons in now Quot i just done to think i should say much right n Clinton said after Senate minority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas on sunday joined other republicans in calling on Bush for pardons for former defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger and other defendants in the Case. A these decisions have to be made a a Clinton added shrugging off questions about pardons in the Iran Contra arms for hostages scandal and Bush a plans to impose punitive tariffs on French wines and other exports. After a weekend of jogging Golf and going with his family to a Tom Selleck movie or. Baseball Clinton was conferring monday with the director of his transition team Warren Christopher. Clinton went jogging before Daybreak monday running through a slight Mist along downtown streets dodging cars at one intersection. He then stopped at a Myca to exercise before beginning his meetings. A1 Gore the vice president elect was flying in for talks with Clinton after a weekend at his Home in Tennessee. With 72 Days remaining before he takes Power Clinton tried to Dampen expectations of Swift action on filling senior White House and Cabinet jobs. A a in a going to work hard but not Rush decisions a Clinton said. A i was so exhausted after the election i read very much for two Christopher said he expected that the major appointments would not come before december and that the first emphasis would be on the economic policy team. Vernon Jordan chairman of the transition Board Sefe pardons on Page 2 president Bush to join elite club of pensioners Era brought out big guns Lor races see stories on Page 7 president elect Clinton climbs Over a Fence sunday at the governors mansion in Little Rock alter going for a run visiting a fast food restaurant and talking with his neighbors in the Arkanas new Way to do surgery robot assists in procedure Sacramento Calif. A with nerves of steel superhuman precision end us bedside manner whatsoever a 7foot surgical assistant called Rob Doc entered medical annals Over the weekend Rob Doc a mechanical Arm with a Drill at the end was used saturday during bin replacement surgery on a patient at setter general Hospital spokesman used Benson said it was the world s first operation using a surgical robot. A patient was run Orion in habit condition tha improves precision. More than 200,000 americans undergo hip replacement every year. The operation was the first of 10 tests approved by the food and drug administration to determine if Rob Doc is Safe and effective for use during Bip replacement surgery. Hospital administrator Larry Maas noting robotics have been used in Industry said a we see no reason to exclude Bealts care bum that technology. To behave the technology will Bave Sajor Audi nations not just for orthopaedics Rob Doc is a product of integrated lie machine dubbed jew Doc Fth that enabled surgeons to insert the j can make the i to Macb Bolt manually but the developers of Rob Doc believe the computerised Drill or. William Bargar an orthopaedic surgeon and veterinarian Howard Paul developed the procedure the human operation came after six years of work and 2< surgical tests orally violence leaves germans looking Back Berlin a violence at a huge anti racism rally left Germany with Little stomach for celebrating mondays third anniversary of the Berlin Walls fall. Berlin on monday gave honorary citizenship to former soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev former president Reagan and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl a the Trio credited with bringing East and West Germany together. Monday also marked the anniversary of Kristal nacht the nov. 9, 1938, to Gram when nazi brow shirts rampaged across Germany destroying jewish businesses and beating up jews. The name refers to the Glass from jewish shops that littered streets. The anniversary was noted monday with the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the passauer Strasse synagogue one of Many burned by the nazis. The Frankfurter Mundschau newspaper said disruptions by egg hurling Radi cals made sundays rally in Berlin a a a catastrophe with a disgusting undignified an estimated 350,000 people attended the demonstration to protest against right Wing violence and intolerance. A this country currently seems to be More threatened by itself than we perceive a the newspaper observed. Berlin police said that the disruptions were the work of about 300 or 400 members of the far left anarchist scene which advocates the dissolution of Germany and frequently tries to disrupt official gatherings. The euphoria of unification gave Way Long ago to worries about the Cost of merging the country a bankrupt formerly communist East with its Long prosperous West. The Burden has been compounded by see violence on Page 2
