European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday december 7,1993 a at a glance a a or. Jack Kevorkian continued a hunger strike in his cell at the Oakland county jail in Pontiac mich., Over the weekend. Kevorkian was arrested a week ago on assisted sul cide charges. Meanwhile a poll shows he is picking up support with the Public. See Story on Page 8.scout pledge upheld the supreme court has refused to require the boy scouts of America to let in Young people who wont acknowledge a duty to god. A Page infamous event a new Book citing a treasure of japanese documents seeks to debunk widespread reports that . Officials knew in Advance about the attack on Peart Harbor. A Page 6spy damage a one document that convicted spy Jonathan Pollard passed to the israelis May have led to the deaths of informants time Magazine says. A Page 7 German found guilty a court convicted former communist East German intelligence Boss Markus Wolf of spying treason and bribery. A Page 10 scoring big basketball s Michael Jordan was the richest athlete for the second straight year earning an estimated $36 million in 1993, Forbes Magazine says. A Page 16 i ind i Abby Ann Landers .21 classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Computer. Faces no places focus. 17-20 Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. 14 Money matters. To listings. Sports. Weather. 13 shoots self in Tempe Ariz. Apr Douglas Hopkins who was fired As Lead guitarist for the up and coming Rock band the Gin blossoms shot himself to death. He was 32. Hopkins whose songs and flamboyant playing appear on the bands album new miserable experience was found in his Home sunday said police spokesman Juan Perez. Worried friends went to the Home because they Hadnot seen him for a few Days Perez said. Gin blossoms Singer Robin Wilson confirmed the dead Man was Hopkins but declined to comment further. Hopkins wrote the Gin blossoms biggest hit hey jealousy As Well As found out about you which ranks no. 5 on the current billboard Magazine Modem Rock tracks Chart. Songs on that Chart Are ranked by a Survey of radio play rather than sales. But Hopkins was fired from the group in april 1992 because fellow band members said his drinking hindered his performance at recording sessions for the album. Hopkins killed himself by putting a .38-caliber pistol in his Mouth and pulling the trigger Perez said. He had been hospitalized two weeks ago after another suicide attempt said Perez. The Gin blossoms toured the country this year and appeared on late show with David Letterman and mtg in october. After being kicked out of the group Hopkins formed a band called chimeras but that broke up. At the time of his death he had been performing locally As a soloist or with other bands. U.s., dec near Trade Accord Brussels Belgium a the United states and the european Community on monday appeared tantalizingly close to settling disputes on farm subsidies another Trade issues to Clear the Way for a global Trade pact by the dec. 15 deadline . Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy hinted the United states and the 12-nation trading bloc had settled a bitter dispute Over cuts in government payments to Farmers. But . Trade representative Mickey Kantor continued deliberations with his dec counterpart sir Leon Brittan to try to Clinch an Overall Deal that would save the Uruguay round of world Trade talks from collapse. Arriving at dec Headquarters for the talks Kantor said chances were a pretty Good for an Accord. From Page 1 expected to come As Early As wednesday. The Accord permits the Basing of approximately three dozen f-16s at Aviano in Northern Italy. The air Force expects the first fighting Falcons to arrive in april. Aviano a Active duty military population is expected to grow by about 1,600 from its present strength of 200 once the permanent deployment is finished. The arrival of the military personnel and their families is expected to give a considerable boost to the local Economy. Italian Union officials have stated that the buildup rumoured for months will create 200jobs on base for italians. The Basing Accord Means that the Long search for a Home for the f-16s in natos Southern Region has ended. The f-16s, along with their Parent unit the 401st fighter Wing were based for years at tone Jon a outside Madrid Spain. The last of the wings 72 fighting Falcons left Torrejon in 1992 in compliance with the terms of the .-Spanish defense cooperation agreement signed in 1988. The 401st originally was to move with its f-16s, into a new base at Croton in Southern Italy. But congressional opposition to funding the base shelved that plan and the 401st fighter Wing minus its planes transferred to Aviano in Early May of 1992. Torrejon s f-16s transferred to air National guard bases in the United states and to Ramstein and Span Dahlem air bases in Germany. The bulk of the f-16s coming to Aviano reportedly will Transfer from Ramstein. The remainder will come from a stateside base. No fighter aircraft Are based permanently at Aviano at the foot of the Alps and about an hours drive Northeast of Venice. However dozens of fighter aircraft have deployed to Aviano since Early 1993 to support natos operation deny flight the  Effort to enforce a no Fly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Currently a mix of 30 fighter aircraft is deployed to  from Page 1 other problems. The $1.6 billion Telescope got two new pairs of gyroscopes and new fuses during sundays spacewalk by two other endeavour astronauts. Quot we be been up to Bat twice and the Crew has hit two Home runs a said Joe Rothenberg nasal a associate director of flight projects for Hubble. Despite the astronauts accomplishments Nasa officials still were anxious about the upcoming spacewalks scheduled for the extremely delicate task of installing new optics. The two exc Urr Sions so far required extra unexpected work discarding the solar panel monday and fussing Over a misaligned Telescope door sunday. The discarded panel joined 6,700 other pieces of space junk being tracked by the . Space Good and was expected to stay in orbit for a year before falling through the atmosphere and burning up. Quot just to watch that thing floating through space was just like 2001. Someday somebody s going to put that to music Rothenberg said. In the 1968 film 2001 a space Odyssey objects Drift majestically through space to booming music. Hubble s old solar wings Shook every time the Telescope moved in and out of Daylight. The one that was scrapped was badly twisted and could not be rolled up for transport Home. It retracted about a third of its 40-foot length and then stopped. While Thornton and Akers were detaching the deformed panel late sunday the panel flexed with the slightest motion and flapped like a Sheet on a clothesline on a Windy Day. The european space Agency made both the old and new panels. Story Musgrave and Jeff Hoffman spent nearly eight hours in the open cargo Bay sunday held up by the misaligned door to the Gyroscope compartment. When they were through the Hubble had six working gyroscopes again to guide it three electronics units to run the gyros and a new set of eight fuses. And after mondays 6v4-hour spacewalk it also had the new solar wings. They will not be unfurled until today. Musgrave and Hoffman were to replace Hubble a wide Field planetary camera and magnetometers during spacewalk no. 3, beginning late monday. The new camera contains corrective mirrors to compensate for the error in Hubble a primary Mirror Thornton and Akers Are to install a new Telescope computer and corrective lenses for three other instruments wednesday. Musgrave and Hoffman Are to make the last planned spacewalk of the Mission  from Page 1 agreement yet on where to aim the missiles instead though desolate spots in the oceans were being considered. Another option would be to have no targets at All. In any event the officials said an agreement could not be verified. That is one Side could not know for sure whether it was still being targeted by the other. Also the officials said it would take no More than five minutes to re target some or All of the missiles. Three former soviet republics that have strategic nuclear missiles on their territory a Ukraine Kazakhstan and Belarus a would be included in any . Plan to target american missiles elsewhere said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity. Ukraine has resisted american efforts to get the country to dismantle its missiles. But ukrainian foreign minister Anatoliy Zlenko stressed last week in Brussels Belgium after a meeting with Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher that the missiles in Ukraine Are under russian control. The new York times reported that under a draft plan from the Pentagon american missiles would be aimed at the Ocean instead of missile silos and military bases in Russia. The change would be largely symbolic but some Pentagon officials believe it also would reduce the Chance of an accidental nuclear War. Quot if somehow a missile is launched accidentally the idea is that it would come Down in the Arctic or North Atlantic and our main worry would be maybe hitting a Bunch of whales a an unidentified . General told the newspaper. It. Sharon Heath a spokeswoman for the . Strategic come near Omaha neb., told the associated press that the Clinton administration also was looking at ways to change How it targets other countries. She would not specify. One expert said the proposal does not go far enough to remove the risk of nuclear War. Bruce Blair of the Brookings institution said both countries should reduce their Reliance on rapid launch by for example removing All warheads from missiles and storing them