European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday december 0,1093 re at a glance if 9 Christmas at the White House and every visitor knows it. For starters there Are a Criche a Monorail and a fewer than 22 festive Christmas titles. Then comes the House of so cml an enormous Gingerbread White House. Above first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton shows off a tree. Sec Story on Page 8. Nato partnership nato officials plan to discuss ways to pay for the proposed partnership with their former enemies. A page4 gun warning issued . Surgeon general Joyceyn elders has a message for parents toy guns Are not child s  a Pago 6 cosmetic concerns american women should face up to skin problems caused by makeup dermatologists say. A Pago 9 russian pay boosted with sunday s National elections approaching. President Boris n. Yeltsin has nearly doubled the monthly minimum wage for government workers. A path films tie up talks . And european negotiators remain deadlocked Over film and to show exports in their bid to open the Way for a 116-nation Trade pact. A Page 16 Index Abby Ann Lander a a a 24 classifieds. Comics. Commentary. Crossword. Faces in places. .21 focus. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. Money matters. Sports. To listings weather. Bonn Germany apr Germany gave a Rcd carpet Welcome to Plo chairman Yasser Arafat on tuesday for his first talks Ever with Bonn government leaders and backed him in a rift with isl Rael Over the withdrawal of troops. For years Chancellor Helmut Kohl and his predecessors kept their distance from the Palestine liberation organization partly to avoid offending Israel. Germany feels a special obligation toward the jewish state because of the holocaust. A t now that Israel and the Plo have offi Dally buried of Cir Mutual enmity Kohls government is warming up to Arafat. The government sent a foreign ministry official to Cologne Bonn Airport to Greet Arafat on a red carpet put Kim up at its posh Petersberg guest House for the night and praised him for his role in the Middle Eastern peace process. Quot the ice was broken Between Israel and the Plonto i costly because of you Quot foreign minister Klaus Kunkel told Arafat during a news conference at the Petersberg perched on a Mountaintop with a picture postcard View of the Rhine River. I Kink i and israeli ambassador Avi Primor had lunch with Arafat at the Petersberg. Arafat also was invited to private discussions with Kohl and others in the German government. Armed troops from Germany a paramilitary Federal Border guards surrounded the hotel and barricaded the Road leading up to it to protect the Plo chief. Tests from Pago 1 department tuesday is considerably larger than previously thought. Before tuesdays announcement the government had announced 826 nuclear tests since 1945. Energy Secretary Hazel of Leary said the nuclear test data Are Quot just a beginning to the process�?T1 of releasing hundreds of formerly classified documents and data from the departments nuclear weapons program. The department also planned to release information on the quantities of weapons Grade plutonium stockpiled at government facilities and promised to reveal information about experiments on humans who were deliberately exposed to plutonium radiation More than 40 years ago. Of Leary said she planned within seven months to release More information about the experiments conducted on 18 people in an attempt to determine the effect of plutonium radiation. She also said More details would be released by june on an estimated 800 experiments conducted on More than 600 individuals As part of a weapons program Over the Yean. The existence of these experiments had previously been disclosed in a congressional report and other documents. But few details Are known. O Leary said she was Quot appalled shocked and deeply saddened to learn about the Experiment on the 18 individuals who she said did not know the extent of the health Hazard. These experiments also have been reported previously. The Energy department did not elaborate on any environmental effects of the formerly disclosed 204 tests. Of Leary said the department was beginning a systematic de classification of documents and also was easing the often cumbersome process by which information would be made available. Speaking earlier on Abc of Leary called tuesdays release Quot a very big Deal but it is of course just a foot in the Bathtub a since the Energy department has about 32 million pages of classified documents on testing and production. Private researchers and nuclear weapons proliferation experts have kept their own rough count on weapons tests and plutonium inventories. Quot its a first step a said Tom Collina a nuclear weapons researcher at the Institute for science and International Security Quot hopefully it will set up a process that will Lead to More information. Denny from Pago 1 tacks at Florence and Normandie avenues in South Central los Angeles. The riots followed the acquittals on most state charges of four White defendants in the 1991 videotaped police beating of a Black Motorist Rodney g. King. Two of the four were later convicted on Federal civil rights charges. Williams was convicted of felony mayhem for attacking Denny and four Misdemeanour assault counts. The mayhem count carried a maximum eight year term each Misdemeanour count six months. Ouderkirk said he would sentence co defendant Henry k. Watson to probation until 199/ and to 320 hours of Community service. Watson 29, was convicted of Misdemeanour assault and pleaded guilty to an assault count against trucker Lany Tarvin. Williams sentence inevitably was to invite comparisons with the 2tt-year Federal by Chuck Roberts staff writer Rhein main a Germany Allied planes air dropped 54.9 tons of emergency Relief supplies monday night to the towns of Baglaj Desanj and Bra Dina in former Yugoslavia according to a . Spokesman. Baglaj and Desanj have been Cut off from food convoys since late october because of a blockade by bosnian serbs said Peter Kessler a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees in Zagreb Croatia Baglaj and Desanj 50 Miles Northwest of Sarajevo Are jammed with 100,000 displaced people. Prior to the october delivery the last Convoy to reach the two cities was june 1, when three , workers and other bystanders were killed Kessler said. A Convoy tried to enter the two cities last week but was turned away at gunpoint after three Days of attempting to pass serbian soldiers one of the soldiers put his gun to the head of the Unher team Leader negotiating with the serbs Kessler said. Also hindering the Convoy was the refusal of the serbs to Clear the Road of land mines buried throughout the area in the Snow and ice Kessler said. The Convoy consisted of four trucks carrying wheat and flour and an escort of two vehicles carrying medical supplies. The monday Airdrop were made by six Bosnia from Page 1 i people who could be assigned to the operation the sources added. Currently the base plays Host to 30 aircraft dedicated to provide Promise including . Air Force c-130 Hercules transports and German and French c-160 tra Salls operation officials said 562 . Military people Are assigned temporarily to the base to support the operation including Crew members Load masters and people who package the supplies for flight. About 200 people permanently assigned to Rhein main also support the air deliveries. The United states has spearheaded prison terms Given to two White police officers in the King beating. As a precaution against possible violence police opened an emergency operations Center and went on standby Alert. For some Black activists the Denny attack soon became the ideological answer to the King beating Danny bake Well Leader of the los Angeles based brotherhood crusade was frustrated last week when he was not allowed to testify that the beating of Denny and others was an angry answer to verdicts in the King Case. To 3 Sites the operation since july 3,, supplies to Sarajevo Bosnia s capita. In february aircraft began parachuting supplies to smaller towns and villages in the Eastern part of the War ravaged Bosnia because Supply convoys were being stopped by serbian forces. A on most Days aircrews flying the c-130s from Rhein main take six plan loads of food and supplies into Sarajevo. An additional six to eight aircraft drop Aid packages Over Bosnia five nights a week a . Official told the Stan and stripes on thursday. Opening the Airport at Tula could create a Supply Jine to nearly 300,000 people in the surrounding area said a spokesman with the . High com missioner for refugees. . C-130 Hercules and two c-160 German tra Salls working with the United nations As part of operation provide Promise. The cargo consisted of food except for 1.96 tons of Holiday gifts loaded with the food bundles As part of operation provide Santa. The huge response to operation provide Santa produced about 65 tons of Candy clothing and toys that kept rolling m after the nov. 30 deadline said chaplain capt Steve Schaick. Roughly 15,000 pounds of donated items Nave been air dropped to Bosnia and Herzegovina and airlifted to Sarajevo the capital. The preparation and packing of the donated items will end Friday but Schaick said the delivery is expected to continue for three weeks. The chaplain said provide Santa was an absolute Success. Quot it reminds me and lot of the people involved that there a a real sense of generosity embedded in All ofus he said