European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes re at a ounce monday january 4,1993 a / officials Check the damage caused during a 45-car pm temp in the Chicago area saturday. The incident was just one of Many weather re Latch accidents throughout the United states that injured dozens and left hundreds stranded. See Story on. Page 5.iran-Contra questions the Independent counsel probing the Iran Contra affair plans to question president Bush probably in february a newspaper reported a Page 4homicide rate dips the number of reported homicides in new York City fell 6 percent last year to 2,020. A Page 5staying out Britain will remain outside the european Exchange rate mechanism for at East a year prime minister John major said. A Page horse sense a 4,300-year-old Clay horse unearthed in Syria last fall proves Domestic horses existed in the area earlier than previously believed an anthropologist said. A Page 9will it last after the Pace of the Economy picked up significantly late last year analysts Are wondering if it can sustain that momentum and build on it in 93. A Page 17 c Index Abby Ann Landers ,.20 comics. Commentary. 13 faces a places. 10 letters. .12 Money matters. .17 sports. To listing. .27 weather. 11 Geneva apr leaders of the three ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina returned to the bargaining table sunday after studying a proposal to a Divide the country into 10 autonomous provinces. Political and military leaders of Bosnia a Muslim led government the states croats and ethnic serbs were meeting for the first time since the Start of the civil War. They said the proposal was a Good basis for talks. However bosnian president Alija Izot Bogovic said there would have to be Quot Many corrections to the map proposed by mediators Cyrus r. Vance and lord David Owen. He reiterated his governments opposition to any sort of ethnic division of the former Republic. The Compromise constitutional proposals and map presented by Vance and Owen on saturday would provide for Bosnia to be decentralized with a most governmental functions carried but by its  foreign policy would be the responsibility of the Central government. Increasing divisions appeared Between the bosnian government and croatian sides which Are supposedly allies on the Battlefield. In a particularly troubling Omen for the muslims Dobrica Cosic president of serbian dominated Yugoslavia. And croatian president Franjo Tadjman agreed at closed door talks that the Best solution was a confederation of three ethnic nations. The serbs now have seized 70 percent of  it s Clear from the talks Here so far that the muslims will not accept the idea of three ethnic nations a Cosic said in a statement after the 90-minute meeting. A they insist on a solution which 15 against the interest of the serbs and the croats in Bosnia a he said. Tadjman for his part accused the muslims of trying to obstruct the talks. Hajrudin Somun an aide to ize Begov in said the meeting revived Long standing fears that the serbs and croats might be ready to agree on dividing Bosnia at the expense of the muslims such a confederation might open the Way for the pro posed serbian and croatian states to hold a referendum and join Serbia and Croatia proper at a future . London up a soviet Leader Nikita s. Khrushchev sought a no aggression treaty with Britain in 1959, telling prime minister Harold Macmillan in a secret letter that the United states was counting on Europe to take the Brunt of a nuclear confrontation. The letter obtained by the observer newspaper from a Batch of government papers released new year s Day said the risks to Britain would be reduced if Macmillan agreed that american bases in his country would not be used for attacks on the soviet Union. Macmillan rejected what he and his advisers saw As an attempt to disrupt the a special relationship Between Britain and the United states. He later showed the letter to president Eisenhower even though it was so sensitive he did not mention it to his own Cabinet. _ a in the 5,000-word letter dated april 14,1959, Khrushchev accused the United states of a military boastful Ness and the twisting of facts about military capabilities of each Side combined with a an open Gamble that the Basic blow in a new War would miss the United states and fall to the lot of their european  a i therefore consider that it is you and i who must show especially great care and make a maximum Effort not to allow the realization of designs fraught with grave danger for our countries and also for other states a the letter to Macmillan said. Quot if we came to an agreement with you concerning no aggression and Friendship this would paralyse All the aggressive forces which Are at present hindering the liquidation of the cold War a it continued. Macmillan told Eisenhower the letter which was a follow up to Moscow talks Between Khrushchev and Macmillan was a Good illustration of the a strange mixture of characteristics of the soviet leadership a Clever naive inexperienced sensitive suspicious of even Woody else and yet cynical  from Page 1 sin said a because any Lull in the bilateral relations Between the superpowers would give cause for concern a. Bush and Yeltsin met in a two hour fireside Summit that also touched on the conflict in shattered Yugoslavia and Yeltsin s troubled Campaign to Rescue Russia s faltering Economy. Before returning to Washington Bush flew to Paris for a final meeting with French president Francois Mitterrand hoping to improve prospects for adoption of a new in. Security Council Resolution to keep serbian planes out of the skies Over embattled Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Bush landed at orly Airport in Paris at 3 45 . Local time. Foreign minister Roland Dumas who urged the leaders of Bosnia s warring factions saturday in Geneva to end their bloody civil War greeted Bush at the Airport. Bush told reporters that he did not want to a a quantify differences in the . And russian positions on former Yugoslavia. He said their positions a Are very  Yeltsin agreed but stressed the need for pursuing a diplomatic solution to the fighting in Bosnia which has killed More than 17,000 and left hundreds of thousands homeless. It was Bush s third major arms control treaty. The first in 1990, reduced tanks and other non nuclear forces in Europe. The second last year will Cut about one third off the . And russian strategic nuclear missile totals. And now the second strategic arms reduction treaty will eliminate All land based Long Range missiles with multiple warheads and impose a Cap of 3,000 to 3,500 apiece on . And russian War Heads by the year 2003 or earlier. A it vindicates our insistence that we must do More than simply freeze the. Arms race in place Quot Bush said. During the election Campaign Bush and his supporters bitterly attacked Clinton questioning his patriotism and character. But in the sweep of the Kremlin ceremony the american president1 assured the russian Leader that his Succes Sor would keep the new relationship with Moscow a on a High  a live told president Yeltsin that i think a will enjoy working with governor Clinton Bush said a and that i know that governor Clinton is committed to the general theory of these arms reductions that Start ii takes  outside on red Square about 100 hard liners rallied to protest the Start ii Accord. They chanted a Yeltsin sold his soul to Bush a and held signs saying a Bush is satan get out of Russia a the demonstrators did not have permission to rally outside the Kremlin but police did not attempt to break up the jeering crowd which quickly Drew hundreds of spectators. A a what a taking place in there is a betrayal of Russia a protester Valentin Pavlov said pointing at the Kremlin s red Brick Wall a Russia is weak now and America is using  in Brussels Belgium nato Secretary general Manfred Warner called the treaty a a decisive step towards enhanced strategic stability Quot visit from Page 1 workers themselves. But Peck said that was unfair criticism and that there was no Way to avoid such incidents Short of providing guards for each Relief worker. A How Are we supposed to erase overnight an atmosphere that a been created Over years a he said. Also sunday belgian paratroopers in Kismay discovered the decomposed bodies of 17 somalis near the Airport possibly victims of clan warfare before Allied troops entered the City belgian officials said. The victims appeared to have died several weeks ago when random attacks and execution style slayings Between the different somalian fans in Kismay killed dozens said a military official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The . Military said saturday that it would Send 4,000 fewer troops to Somalia than expected and give allies More of the front line duties in the Battle against Somalia a  would reduce the . Commitment to 24,000 troops. Twenty other nations have sent More than 7,000 soldiers to Somalia and thousands More have been promised. On saturday about 300 soldiers from Turkey arrived at Mogadishu sport with armoured personnel carriers and Light weaponry to help guard the Airport. However the United states will Hack up most troops from other nations Wim logistical support Peck said. Since . Marines first came ashore dec. 9, the United states and its allies have turned Mogadishu a once Par it be International Airport into one of Africa s busiest with dozens of military and chartered planes Landing and taking off daily. After the United states France a the most troops in Somalia with Italy is third with 2,150, followed by Canada with 1,213, r