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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, December 6, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday december 6 1993 at a glance a bodyguard stands with an m-16 Rifle As colombian president Clear Gaviria Trujillo announces that the $6.2 million Reward on drug lord Pablo Escobares head will be shared by the widows and orphans of his victims and by the men who hunted him Down. See Story on Page 10. Hollywood lectured president Clinton lectured Hollywood on the need to do More to reduce violence in shows and movies. A pag�6honestastronaut the Fri used a limousine ride and a night on the town to lure a Rookie astronaut into a bribery sting operation but the astronaut a pumped the investigators efforts reports say. A Page 9birthrate decline women in the 12 european Community countries Are having fewer children than Ever according to a Survey. A Page 10bread rationed Georgia introduced bread rationing in the capital of Tbilisi and began distributing bags of flour to supplement the meager bread allowances. A Page 11no Park ing zone a group trying to halt the opening of a Disney theme Park in Northern Virginia says opposition to the project is building. A Page in l Index Abby Ann Landers .24 classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Faces a places. .19 focus. Horoscope. Letters. Money matters. .18 sports. 33-40 to listings. Weather. 15 panel from Page 1 doors to the compartment containing the gyroscopes. At one Point there was a tech Gap Between the two halves of one Latch. 1 after More than two hours Hoffman and Musgrave closed All four latches. The spacewalk lasted 7 hours and 54 minutes a one hour and 54 minutes More than planned a and was nasal a second longest spacewalk. The longest one conducted during a satellite capture last year was eight hours and 29 minutes. Mission control congratulated the Crew on a an excellent job.,. Just a Superb Effort All the Way  a we re real pleased with the Way things went a said shuttle commander Richard Covey. Sundays spacewalk was the first of five outings to restore Hubble to full vision and fix other problems. Today a spacewalk by Tom Akers and Katham Thornton is to be devoted to replacing Hubble s shaky solar panels one of which was Bent during its3v5 years in space. In the five Days of cargo Bay activities the space walkers have 11 parts to install on the $1.6 billion Hubble including the two pairs of gyroscopes. Sundays efforts restored the Telescope to six operating gyroscopes a full capacity. Three of the old ones had failed. Hubble a biggest problem is its primary Mirror and installing corrective tenses is the major reason for the repair flight. A manufacturing error caused the Telescope to be launched in april 1990 with an improperly ground Mirror Nasa did not discover the problem until two months later. Hoffman worked on the 43-foot-Long Hubble from the end of endeavour s robot Arm suspended High above the shuttle cargo Bay like an Iron worker. He was dwarfed by the Silver Coto Rcd Telescope about the size of a bus and its Gold coloured solar wings. A Blue Earth served As the  move to Heidelberg Germany a amps the Headquarters of the 7th . A the Headquarters of the 7th . Army Reserve come and the 4th medical brigade is scheduled to move today to Tompkins Barracks in Schwet Zingen. It will be located in building 4222 in the area previously used for billeting and storage. Both units will have new phone numbers. The phone numbers for the Reserve command Are Dan 379-6543 and civilian 06202-80-6509 the numbers for the 4th medical brigade Are Dan 379-6509 and civilian 06202-80-6509. Fax number Dan 379-6380 will be used by both units. From Pago 1 that two chemical detection alarms sounded during a rainstorm when the wind was out of the North in the direction of Iraq. The French soldiers were Wear ing protective suits with detection badges and the badges also registered the presence of chemical agents. Ferrand told Shelby that the French called czech troops to verify the detections and the czechs confirmed the presence of a nerve agent and Mustard Gas. The czechs have speculated that the detected chemical agents could have come from Allied bombing of iraqi chemical stockpiles with the wind carrying dispersed chemicals. But u. S. Military officials say the prevailing wind was in the wrong direction for that to occur. Ferrand told Shelby that he informed French military Headquarters of the chemical detections but that he was unaware of whether the information was passed on to the . Central come. Defense Secretary Les Aspin said last month that the Pentagon accepted the czech chemical detections As accurate but that there was no Way to verify them. Undersecretary of defense John Deutch said the czech detections were a the Only cases that we know about during the War. The Pentagon has maintained that neither Side in the Gulf War used chemical weapons. Crimes from Page 1 pre form dropped by 5 percent according to a liminal a finding of the of big sunni crime reporting program. A the Small reported declines May be positive but i doubt most americans will draw much Comfort from them because the Levels of violent crime and drug trafficking remain so staggering a Fri director Louis j. Freeh said in a statement. The number of slayings remained Sta ble while All other reported violent crimes went Down robberies by 5 percent forcible rapes 4 percent and aggravated assaults 1 percent. In Cincinnati police spokeswoman it. Cindy Johns said officers have noticed crimes Are More severe despite the fewer incidents. A victims tend to be subject to More violence a she said. A what used to be hitting someone on the head and taking their Wallet now has become taking their Wallet and shooting them in the leg. Its still a felonious assault but the level of violence is Ever  Dennis r. Martin president of the National association of chiefs of police said the Fri figures Are a seriously flawed because Many police departments yield to local pressure and downgrade crimes or a deliberately alter their numbers to make their communities appear safer than they really  a we wish the statistics were True Quot Martin said. A but the fact is that crime in this nation continues to rise.�?�. Regionally reported crimes in the Northeast declined 8 percent in the Midwest 7 percent in the South 4 percent and in the West 2  from Page 1 will expand eventually the official said. A we expect that at the end of this process we will have some new nato members a the official said. A if we done to expand we might As Well take the Alliance encase it in Lucite and put it on a shelf. We have to do something to show that nato is open to the new geopolitical  in a speech Friday in Washington Aspin said the initiative Means a interested nations would sign a declaration indicating their agreement to commit to join the partnership. A each new partner would be required to identify the military facilities resources and forces it would be willing to make available to the partnership As Well As the extent of its intention to participate in joint training planning and  the partner also would need to Iden life what it intends to do to achieve civilian control of the armed forces and make its defense budget and policies a transparent a that is visible to its own citizens and other nations. But the proposal stops Short of offering the full membership sought by the czech Republic Poland and Hungary. That talus Calls for All nato members to come to the immediate defense of any one member that is threatened or attacked. Rather the Pentagon official outlined the proposal As More of a screening pro Cess a with no fixed time Frame a that will a show which states Are serious about becoming nato  a they can move As quickly As they want to show that they have something to bring to the table that they have something to offer nato a he said. Nations that sign on to the peace partnership will be Given the Opportunity to have political representation at nato Headquarters and hold joint military training exercises with Alliance members. The first such training exercises Are expected to take place before the end of 1994, the official said. A that will be a powerful Symbol to the states that wonder whether this is just a gimmick a the Pentagon official said. . And nato officials have sought to defuse concerns among russian officials that an expanded Alliance reaching to their Doorstep poses an unacceptable Security threat. Aspin believes the current . Proposal achieves that goal. A it gives Russia less heartburn. This is a proposal they find very comforting and they have been very supportive fit a Aspin said Friday Russia is Welcome to participate in the peace partnership initiative As Are All the former soviet republics although most will probably not be interested because of their geographic cultural and political distance from Europe the official said. A Hdldn to and 10 do anything on nato expansion that would jeopardize Russia evolving in a positive Way a he said. Nato foreign ministers agreed to the basics of the peace partnership proposal in meetings last week in Brussels that were attended by Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher. Another proposal to be unveiled at the Summit is the idea of creating combined joint task forces that will allow european nations to use nato assets in situations that Are not specifically Alliance concerns such As the War in the former Yugoslavia the official said a this would create within nato the capacity for autonomous european action that could use the assets of the Alliance without relying on the integrated command Structure of nato a he said. Command and control logistics and Airlift Are some of the assets that the Alliance could contribute to such a task Force he said. Hie United states is even willing to allow such task forces to come under the command of the a Stern european Union the european Security framework. A it  have to be run by an american general a the official said. Aspin is to spend wednesday and thursday in Brussels. In addition to discussing the peace partnership and combined joint task Force issues he will attend meetings of the nato defense planning committee and nuclear planning group. He plans to travel to Paris and London for talks with French and British defense officials and also will visit some . Troops in England. He is to return to Washington  contributing to this report the associated press and the los Angeros times \  
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