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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes monday a Huaiyu 11,1993 a at a glance nearly 20 years ago. President Nixon said that All american pos were on their Way Home from Southeast Asia. But Many cases remain unresolved and the Issue continues to haunt the nation. See Story on pages 18-20,Colorado Boycott hispanic journalists voted to move their annual convention from Colorado because of the state s new ban a on civil rights protections Tor  Page 4 joining the Celebration Arizona is set to emerge from years of conflict embarrassment and a Boycott championed by Stevie wonder when it celebrates its first official Martin Luther King or. Holiday this month. A Page 5haitian protest hundreds of demonstrators chanting Quot Justice for haitians Quot jammed the Gates of a Miami Federal immigration detention Camp where 45 refugees were in the 10th Day of a hunger strike. A Page 6 11 deed goes punished a 75-year-Otd Man who tried to help a Down on its Luck family said he was kidnapped at knife Point robbed tied up and left in a ditch a Page 9getting a spark comparatively mundane products a to sets video game machines and car stereos a Are driving an unexpected electronics sales Boom. A Page 17 Index Abby Ann Landers a. M. 21 action line. Classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Education. Faces a places. 24 letters. .14 Money matters. .17 sports ,. 29-36 weather. Berlin apr. Communist East Germany pressed for military intervention in neighbouring Poland in 1980 to Stop the Rise of the Solidarity Union movement according co documents revealed by researchers. East German Leader Erich Honecker was said to be willing to help save communism in Poland in the same Way his country had done in joining Moscow in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. The documents were reported saturday in two Berlin newspapers the Berliner Morgan Post and. Bild Zeitung scholars at the free University of Berlin unearthed the papers during research into the archives of East Germany which ceased to exist after the 1990 unification with West Germany. The crisis built up in Early november 1980 when the polish supreme court permitted the existence of Solidarity the first Independent Union in a communist state. There were widespread fears in the West that communist allies would take Over Poland. Honecker is quoted As saying on nov. 20,1980, in a note to the polish ambassador to East Germany Quot bloodshed is the last Means. But even this must be applied to Stop Solidarity. The hard line East German Leader urged soviet communist chief Leonid i. Brezhnev to apply Quot collective measures of help for our polish friends a according to records of the East German politburo the communist party a policy making body. The documents said Honecker was disappointed that a meeting of East bloc communist leaders in Moscow on dec. 5, 1980, did not reach an agreement to intervene. Instead the leaders decided to rely on polish leaders invoking martial Law. Professor Manfred Wilke who Heads the free University research group said Only Honecker dissented at the Moscow meeting. Quot he repeated in Moscow the readiness of the East German communist party to help the polish communists As had been done in 1968 in Prague a Wilke was quoted by the Morgen Post As saying. Moscow up the ukrainian parliament will discuss ratifying the original strategic arms reduction treaty when it reconvenes later this month the Independent inter fax news Agency said sunday. Also the defense ministers of the four former soviet republics with1 nuclear weapons a Russia Kazakhstan Ukraine and Belarus a will meet Jan. 21 to discuss control Over the Commonwealth of Independent states nuclear Arsenal inter fax said sunday. The meeting a a Day before the Jan. 22 Summit of Cis Heads of state in the belorussian capital Minsk a was largely prompted by Ukraine a delay in ratifying Start i a spokesman for the Cis combined forces come told inter fax. The ratification of Start i by the United states and All four nuclear armed members in the Cis is necessary before the implementation of the recent Start ii an Accord recently signed by president Bush and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin. Start ii which will slash . And russian nuclear arsenals by two thirds is inextricably linked to Start i. Only Ukraine and Belarus have not yet ratified Start i although Belarus was expected to endorse it soon. Rioters police Battle in Bombay Bombay India up rioters armed with firebombs and rocks fought running Street Battles with police in More than a dozen Bombay districts despite curfew orders sunday amid a resurgence of bloody sectarian fighting. Authorities said at least 183 people had been slain and several Hundred wounded in clashes among muslims hindus and police in the past six Days in the two Western Indian cities of Bombay and Ahmadabad. Bombay is indians motion picture Center business capital and largest City. Ahmadabad 310 Miles North of Bombay in Gujarat state is the Center of the country a huge textile Industry. J the latest outbreak of bloodletting came after a three week Lull. State officials say nearly 425 people have died in communal rioting and arson in the two cities since  from Pago 1 aug. 27 to protect rebel shiites. . Officials said Iraq moved missiles into the zone after an american f-16 fighter shot Down an iraqi warplane that had violated the protected airspace on dec. 27. On wednesday the allies gave Baghdad 48 hours to move the Sa-2 and Sa-3 batteries or face an Allied raid. Baghdad repeatedly rejected the demand and pledged to respond Quot in  on saturday the Pentagon and White House announced that Saddam had Quot backed Down and dispersed anti aircraft missiles threatening Allied patrols in Southern Iraq. The Bush administration also said there would be no warning the next time Allied patrols in the Gulf were threatened. An editorial sunday in iraqis Al Juhu Riya newspaper echoed the iraqi spokesman s suggestion that Bush was trying to turn Clinton against Baghdad. The editorial quoted by the iraqi news Agency said Bush a actions in the closing Days of his administration were an attempt to embroil Clinton in foreign issues. Although Clinton who will be inaugurated Jan. 20, has pledged to give priority to Domestic problems he has repeatedly voiced Strong support for Bush a handling of the standoff with Iraq. The latest iraqi statement came a Day after Saddam met with his command Council and the leadership of his Arab baath socialist party the iraqi news Agency said. It gave no details of the saturday session. Iraq claims the right to keep its missiles where it wants and disputes the legitimacy of the no Fly zone saying it was not approved by the United nations and violates iraqi  from Page 1. Dent elect Clinton. A i think Saddam Hussein is testing just to see How far he can go Over the line before someone says a Stop a a said it. Cmdr. Dick Manski 33, an a-6 intruder bomber Pilot. A i think he will try to Challenge our new  rear adm. Philip a Coady jr., commander of the 10-Shin Carrier Battle group in the persian Gulf noted that the allies have Given Saddam a permanent warning to keep his combat aircraft and missiles away from the air exclusion zone. A a he a under warning that the ultimatum. Is still in effect and will require no subsequent warnings a Coady said. Coady 51, of Boston said Saddam a we can operate with a far greater sense of Comfort but never with a sense of relaxation rear adm. Philip j. Coady or. Missiles were no longer in threatening positions. A i certainly consider that it is a Small Victory a he said. A we can operate with a far greater sense of Comfort but never with a sense of  the last major conflict in the Region occurred during the persian Gulf War which erupted Jan. 17, 1991. But tension have never gone away. Saddam chafes under . Restrictions established by the Gulf War cease fire. In addition potential Flash Points remain including the need to protect Oil tankers and Iran a drive to transform its military into a stronger regional Force. The United states has kept its Navy in the Gulf for More than 50 years protecting the vital Oil supplies that Are pumped from its shores. The Gulf supplies about 20 percent of the worlds Oil needs including about 10 percent of . Consumption and 40 percent of Western Europe a. The current task Force has had no Contact with Iran except for one frigate that passed peacefully. But Iran a Arsenal is growing most recently with the addition of two new submarines purchased from the soviet Union  
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