European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday december 4, 1993 i world the stars and stripes Page 13summit Dublin Ireland apr determined to solve the intractable feuds of Northern Ireland Irish Anc British cad Chad their on differences to resolve As they net both sides were playing Down expectations As prime minister Albert Reynolds welcomed his British counterpart John major to Dublin along with foreign Sec retail Douglas Hurd and Northern Ireland Secretary sir Patrick Mayhew. Security was intense around Dublin Castle where the two men were meeting. Traffic on the main Belfast Dublin Highway was backed up As the Irish army and police stopped and searched cars. Hopes of agreeing on a communique in Advance were abandoned earlier this week and two More meetings Are expected this month. The negotiations have been complicated by the leak of an Irish position paper and by the exposure of Britain s secret contacts with the outlawed Irish Republican army and its supporters in the Legal sinn fein party. Quot i think there is an overwhelming feeling in North Ern Ireland and elsewhere that we should seek to produce peace in Northern Ireland if we can Quot major told the House of commons on thursday. Quot but there Are parameters to those discussions and that must be  by government policy and personal belief Reynolds and major Are committed to clashing ideals Reynolds to the eventual Union of his country with Northern ire land major to upholding the United kingdom unless the people of. Northern Ireland clearly decide they want out. The same differences a Between pro British protestants and Catholic Irish nationalists a Are at the Root of the violence in Northern Ireland that has claimed More than 3,100 lives in the last Quarter Century. Even if Reynolds and major find a formula for accommodating their differences the Road ahead is daunting. Britain still insists it won t negotiate with the Ira before the group stops fighting the Ira says talks come first. Protestant unionist parties won t talk to sinn fein before a cease fire if Ever. And there is the threat of More violence by Quot loyalist gunmen from the protestant Side who have killed More people this year than the Ira. The latest Catholic victim was buried thursday in Belfast. The Ira also was on the attack thursday killing a Soldier As he patrolled in a Northern Ireland Village near the Irish Border. Quot while the House of common condemns a sol diets death today there will be someone from the government speaking to his murderers tomorrow a the Rev. William Mccrea a hard line protestant legislator said thursday. Mccrea was instrumental in exposing the British Ira contacts last weekend and his comment under a a my Ift % a. It a i a one night stand in Spain no. This Isnit a filthy camera Lens but it could be a scene from Alfred Hitchcock a Quot the  to thousands of starlings appear to Blacken the sky As they descend upon a Park thursday in Huesca Spain. The Birds usually spend the night in the northeastern Spanish City at this time of year during their trek to Wanner pastures. Britain s prime minister John major led and Irish prime minister albeit Reynolds meet at Dublin Castle on Friday to discuss peace for Northern Ireland. Lined the bitterness and unease of the protestant majority in Northern Ireland amid All the talk of peace. In Belfast sinn feints Deputy Leader Martin my guinness said the killing was Quot regrettable but blamed Britain. A if major had accepted the Ira s offer of a two week cease fire and talks m May Mcguinness said Quot perhaps now this Young Man a and others who have died since then arid now a would not have  kurd in Start Bonn Germany up a about 150 kurd in the Southern City of Stuttgart said Friday that they were starting a hunger strike to protest a German crackdown against kurdish separatists. The announcement followed a week of protests by turkish kurd in Germany angered by Bonne a decision nov. 26 to ban the kurdish workers party pkg and 35 groups that authorities say Are linked to the extremist movement. In the Northern City of Hamburg police said demonstrators who occupied a kurdish cultural Center had agreed to leave the premises. The Center had been closed As part of the crackdown. On thursday night 60 people were held by police for identification during a demonstration in Hamburg. About 2,000 people marched through the City protesting the crackdown. Authorities said they had decided to ban the pkg and other groups because they were convinced that the groups were carrying out Quot terrorist activities in Germany. The pkg is widely thought to be responsible for a series of attacks this year on turkish offices in various european and German cities. The group seeks autonomy for the kurdish Region of Southeastern Turkey and accuses turkish authorities of grave human rights violations in the  search launched on to Chi Minh Trail Hanoi Vietnam a the target the to Chi Minh Trail. During the War hundreds of . Planes attacked this Supply route the Lifeblood of North Vietnam a Campaign against the United states. Hundreds of american pilots were lost. Nearly 20 years after the War ended Vietnam and Laos joined their one time foe to search for Sone of those missing pilots in an unprecedented 18-Day operation launched Friday. President Clinton encouraged such cooperation when he made the recovery of mias a condition for establishing Normal relations with Vietnam. The United states lists 2,248 americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia 1,648 in Vietnam 514 in Laos 78 in Cambodia and eight in China. . Officials have said it is unlikely there will Ever be a full accounting because so much time has passed and Many of the airmen went Down Over water or in the mountains. The investigation by nearly 50 american specialists and their vietnamese and laotian counterparts will include some of the 62 so called Quot discrepancy  in these the Crew was last known to be in imminent danger of being captured. Maj. Roger Overturf a spokesman for the joint task Force full accounting at Camp . Smith Hawaii said the operation was significant because of the Large number of missing in the area. Quot that a Why we needed a trilateral operation a Overturf said. Quot we have cases where we believe the actual site of the loss occurred in Laos but those areas were under the control of vietnamese forces. Quot and even Over the last 20 years there have been some shifts Back and Forth As to the precise location of the Border Between Laos and  the operation required approval by All three governments whose representatives met in Hanoi on nov. 11 to work out the details. It. Col. John c. Cray of Tacoma wash., commander of the search team said the cooperation was hard to obtain in the past. A Large percentage of the airmen was downed in an area from 100 Miles North of what was the demilitarized zone that divided the North and South at the 17th parallel to 100 Miles South of the Doz and 100 Miles West of the Doz. Some . Warplanes went Down Over Northern Laos along the Border while either heading to or returning from bombing missions Over North Vietnam. Other losses occurred during a secret War against Laos in the 1960s, when the United states would not publicly acknowledge the airstrikes against that country for political reasons. The to Chi Minh Trail a Maze of dirt roads and River Crossings stretched at least 30 Miles wide across North Vietnam and Laos and reached southward 200 to 300 Miles into South Vietnam and Cambodia