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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, May 17, 1993

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes monday May 17,1993 at a glance a he Macc gets a lift front a uh-60 Black Hawk helicopter As the 123rd signal in transports a 22-Membcr radio Access unit and All of its equipment to its base in kit Zingen Germany. Sec Story and photos on Page 18-19. Children remembered Amish from As far away As Colora do gathered for the Ohio funerals of five children struck by a car As they walked along a country Road. Pago 4 mass murder seven people were shot to death and three others were wounded sunday in Fresno calif., in what police called the worst multiple murder Case in the City s history. Pages claims filed in bombing nearly three months after the blast that rocked the world Trade Center 95 claims have been filed against the port authority of new York and new Jersey for bodily injuries and prop erty damage. Pago 7 marines on trial four . Marines Are on trial in Canada charged with the sexual As Sault of a 12-year-old girl. Page 11 sharing space a German school system Short on space moved into a Dodds building in Furth Germany that had room to spare. Pago 12 for a song consumer electronics giant Pioneer electric co. Will become Tho first japanese firm to franchise Karaoke boxes in the United states. Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds 25-28 comics. 21-23 commentary 15 education.". 12 faces n1 places 24 focus .17-20 letters. 14 Money matters 16 sports 29-36 to listings 35 weather 13 Demirel wins parliament vote Rmel Post in Turkey Ankara Turkey a parliament on sunday elected Premier Smiley Ryan Demirel the nation s president amid a controversy Over the limits of his new Powers. Demirel 69, succeeds Turgut Ozal who died of heart failure last month. With his swearing in As head of state Demirel stepped Down from his Post at the head of a coalition government. Dam incl s adversaries have charged that he sought the Post to save himself the humiliation of defeat As Premier in the next elections. The True path party Leader received 244 votes in the 450-Rnembcr legislature in More than the minimum he needed. In earlier voting this month he failed to receive the then required two thirds major Ity set by the Constitution for the first two rounds of balloting. His nearest rival the main opposition motherland party candidate Kamran Inan received 94 votes. With Demirel s election the 182 seat. True path the largest party in parliament must elect a new Leader who by custom is appointed Premier. Demirel has said he would respect the party s Choice. In the interim Erdal Inonu Dep Uty Premier and Demirel Leader of True path s Junior coalition partner social democrats will head the government. The office of president in Turkey has traditionally been ceremonial its Prin Ciple Powers being dissolution of parliament and calling elections both subject to numerous conditions. Until Ozal s death Demirel had been fighting to. Trim the president s Powers disputing Ozal s role in government affairs. At the same time however True path has pressed for constitutional amendments calling for election of the president by the people which would be Stow More Power on the office. I will use All my efforts to ensure that the legislative executive and judicial Powers work in Harmony. In a manner which will both satisfy and please the turkish nation Demirel said. The assurances appeared addressed to motherland Leader Mesut Yilmaz who recently said Demirel is daydreaming if he thinks he will be anything other than a president without Powers and without re  general elections Are still three years off but opinion polls have been showing the popularity of Demirel s Center right coalition to be on the decline due to in kept election promises and economic problems including inflation running at 66 percent annually. The motherland party is hoping to Force Early elections next year. Steelworkers reject pay Accord Frankfurt Germany a a wage pact designed to Stop a wave of strikes and delay pay raises in Eastern Germany ran"1 into snags sunday when steelworkers rejected the Deal. Union leaders said 15,000 steelworkers in Eastern Germany intended to continue the strike that has affected 12 plants. Metalworkers in some regions also raised objections to the Compromise Deal that was struck by Union and employers negotiators on Friday the Union wage commission its Board and the Metal Sec Tor employers association have endorsed the Deal. The Accord was reached in the state of Sachsen and was expected to serve As a Model for other regions. More than 40,000 workers in Eastern Germany remained on strike for 12 Days in support of their demands. The pact raises pay for workers in East Ern Germany to the Levels of Western Germany. The vow came during the euphoria of German unification but the employers now say they cannot afford to make the raises More rapidly As Germany struggles through a recession. Officials of in metall the biggest Union in the coun try that represents metalworkers and steelworkers said steelworkers in Eastern Germany wanted a quicker pay hike. Talks Between negotiators for the Union and employers broke Down in Berlin on sunday. No new Date for talks was set. Rank and file in metall members in Sachsen will vote on the Deal today and tuesday. If 25 percent of those voting approve the pact the workers will return to their jobs on wednesday. Thatcher named Chancellor of . College Williamsburg Virginia up former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher has been appointed 21st Chan cellar of the College of William and Mary the first British subject to hold the Post since before the american revolution. Baroness Thatcher was appointed by the 300-year-old institution s Board of visitors. She succeeds retired . Chief Justice Warren Burger in the largely ceremonial Post. Burger announced Thatcher s appoint ment saturday at the Campus. I think it s one of the great Steps in the history of the College he said predicting that Thatcher will stand up with Churchill As one of the leaders of the 20th Century Burger said. College president Timothy j. Sullivan said he met with Thatcher two weeks ago to discuss her taking up the Chan cello ship. Thatcher in a letter said she accepted due to the College s indissoluble historic link with my country and my love of America but also for the importance of serb from Page 1 to protect muslims in  Safe areas. However the . Commander for Bosnia maj. Gen. Philippe Morillon insisted the peace plan was still on track after bosnian serbian commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and bosnian croat com Mander Gen. Milivoje Petkovic signed a agreement at Sarajevo Airport to ceasefire throughout Bosnia at noon tuesday. The agreement follows almost identical truces Between Mladic and the Bosnia government and the croats and the Muslim led government forces. Morillon said a meeting tuesday be tween Owen ize Begovic and croatian president Franjo Tadjman in mosta would be key to cementing Muslim croat peace. Cmdr. Barry Frewer spokesman for the . Peacekeepers said the United nations is watching with growing concern and vigilance rising Muslim croat ten Sion in Central Bosnia. Canada s Chaste in gave Little Hope for a positive response in the serbian referendum. I think most of us have said in the West in Canada i think in your country too that the legitimacy of a referendum that is carried out in the Middle of a War under the circumstances that this one is being carried out under Pernaci has be Tittle to  Chatelain said that while his govern ment has some concerns about one aspect of Clinton s proposals the lining of the arms embargo for the my Iii Donil rated government of Bosnia that s  say that we re rejecting  indeed my prime enlists Brian Mulroney made the Point Hea he Ai in Europe last week and talking to president Linton last week that  Arri a involvement in this i her Fri get solved . = True learning to our whole  Sullivan said Thatcher had told him she wants her chancellors hip to be Simi Lar to Burger s participating in Cere monies Ana possibly taking part in some classes. It is truly fitting to have As the col lege s next Chancellor an International Leader like lady Thatcher who has had a dramatic Impact on the course of world events Sulivan said. The position of Chancellor is largely ceremonial and partially academic.  carries no administrative authority. Donations sought for Bosnia Aid Rhees main a Germany is donations Are being accepted for a humanitarian shipment that will be trans ported to refugee Camps and a children s Hospital in Bosnia and Herzegovina her this month. The liens needed include All kinds a canned and nonperishable food to Coci Wii Cut u in diapers cleaning Uridil fed posters soap toothpaste   sanitary napkins  , shaving Cream brushes  Blades and All repts of Medicine. To trucks donated a budget re. A car at Rhein main a Germany a j ship the it eded hems to the areas  of seek Brinia and Herzegovina pc or e Lifc-rmaiirn., Contact a Paul Smith a 0�y5-73 i or a Cit a risk main a Famiie be \  
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