European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 29,1994 demo sets sales Darmstadt Germany is the de sense re utilization and marketing offices in Europe Are holding the following sales demo Rota Spain will hold a Cash and carry Sale Friday in building 186, behind the four seasons store on naval station Rota. The Sale will be from 11 . To 2 . The first hour will be for . Id card holders Only. The Sale will be open to the Public from noon to 2 . . Personnel must pay for merchandise wit dollars Only and Spanish personnel must use pesetas. Items for Sale include dressers tables be Sand typewriters. All purchases must be removed by 2 . The Day of the Sale. Contact Geoffrey c. Noyes at Dan 727-1357or civilian 0034-56-821357 for information. Demo Schweinfurt Germany will hold an appliance Sale feb. 10 in building 400 at Hewil Flecken training area. The Sale will be from 8 . To 1 . The first hour will be for . I card holders Only. After 9 ., the Sale is open to the Public. All merchandise will be sold As is without warranty As to condition. Items must be paid for in Cash either dollars or Marks. Checks will not be accepted. Purchases must be removed by 2p.m. The Day of the Sale. Call James r. Jones at Dan 343-7342 or civil Ian 0641-46176 for information. Demo Kaiserslautern Germany hold Cash and carry sales every tuesday thursday and Friday from 8 . To 9 30 ., and wednesdays from 11 . To 12 30 . Sales Are across the Street from the 26th area support group Headquarters building 2389, in Kaiserslautern. The thursday sales Are open to the  tuesday wednesday and Friday sales Are reserved for . Id card holders. Additional sales will be monday and feb. 28from 8 . To 9 30 . At the same location. These will be open to the Public demo Kaiserslautern also will hold auction tuesday and March 1 at the 21st theater  area come conference Center building 3188, across the Street from Danner Cavern in Kaiserslautern. Registration begins at 8 . And the auction begins at 9 . For information about the sales Call Dan 483-8691 or civilian 0631-40307. Wedgwood to shut outlets on . Bases in Europe Birndorf Germany is Wedgwood will close All 15 of its  and air Force Exchange service sales outlets in Europe by March 27, an Exchange spokeswoman announced wednesday. Waterford Wedgwood retail limited located i Stoke on Trent England said in a letter this month to cafes Europe that declining sales led to its closure decision. Cafes Europe is working to find another distributor of Wedgwood products which include China Waterford Crystal and collectibles said Carrie Higley Krowka a spokeswoman for the Exchange at its euro Pean Headquarters in Birndorf. She said officials arc confident of finding a Wedgwood distributor soon. Under a marketing agreement the Exchange service receives a portion of Wedgwood sales in return for sales site permits. Wedgwood stocks and staffs the 15outlets, 13 of which Are in Germany. Some Wedgwood products also Are available through Exchange service Catalon sales. Panel deeply concerned by Harding s admission shh hib him he him Frisi i he a Portland Ore. A Tonya Harding s emotional admission that she withheld information after skating rival Nancy Kerrigan was attacked May have done her olympic chances More harm than Good and investigators focused Friday on what she knew and when she knew  United states olympic committee is deeply concerned with statements made. By Tonya Harding relative to her stated knowledge of the attack on Nancy Kerrigan soc executive director Harvey w. Schil Ler said. V ". A source told the associated press that Harding statement could be the most damaging revelation yet with olympic officials trying to decide whether to keeper on the team for next month s Winter games in Norway.  could solidify a lot of thought the source said. Both the soc and the United states figure skat ing association have said they would remove Harding from the team if she is linked to the attack on her chief american rival. Immediately after Harding read her statement the Ussa announced that a five member panel was set up to investigate whether Harding had a role in the at tack. That panel is the first step in what could Lead to Harding s exclusion from the Winter games. The panel hired a Portland lawyer John Bennett together evidence and will meet for the first time on tuesday doping to have a recommendation for the Ussa within 10 Days to two weeks said William Hybl the former chairman of the  olympic com Mittee named to head the group. Harding s name will be on the  roster submitted to International olympic officials monday but she could be removed from the squad As late As feb. 21. The games Start feb. 12, but women s figure skating does not Start until feb. 23.prosecutors, meanwhile Are trying to compare har Ding s statement thursday with Public comments Shehas made since the Jan. 6 attack that knocked Kerrigan out of the . Figure skating championships in de troit. -.  ". Subpoenas delivered to Portland s three major net work to stations this week to produce videotape of Harding s statements were to have been answered by 2 . Friday. On Jan. 11, one Day after returning to Portland from Detroit Harding told Koin to that she did t believe her former husband Jeff Gillooly was involved in the plot to Hurt Kerrigan. I can t believe it she said. I mean Why Doe someone want to discredit me i just Don t under  the oregonian newspaper Friday also cited unidentified sources who said Harding changed her Story in the course of her Lovi hour session with the Fri on Jan. 18 after investigators showed her they knew the truth. --.,  Ussa panel investigating Harding is the first step in a process that includes a hearing an Appeal to the soc binding arbitration and ultimately the courts. There is also the possibility that the International olympic committee could Rule against Harding even . Courts say she must be included on the team. This is really a sports organization endeavouring to provide due process to an athlete but still enforcing the rules of the association in terms of its code of con duct the highest standards of ethical behaviour an Good sportsmanship Hybl said from Colorado Springs Colo. Mul Tomah county Deputy District attorney Norm rink said he was t going to be rushed by the approach of the olympics. We re on our own timetable he said. We re going Tonya Harding goes through her routine. To do a thorough and Complete  while her sex husband was closeted with investigators inside Fri Headquarters working on a plea bargain thursday Harding stood before a throng of television cameras at an athletic club and with shaking hands and a trembling voice admitted that her earlier claims that she totally believed in his innocence were misleading. I had no prior knowledge of the planned assault on Nancy Kerrigan said Harding dressed in a red White and Blue Warr Nup suit from the 1991 world figure skating championships and Reading from a statement. "1 am responsible however for failing to report things i Learned about the assault when i returned Home from nationals when i returned Home monday january 10th 1994,1 was exhausted but still focused on the National championships. Within the next few Days i Learned that some persons that were close to me May have been involved in the assault. My first reaction was one of Dis belief and the disbelief was followed by Shock and fear. I have since reported this information to the Authori-ties.". A. ,. Harding said she was sorry and ashamed that people close to her had attacked Kerrigan adding that she hoped to remain Kerrigan s olympic teammate. Kerrigan left her practice rink on East Dennis,mass., without a word about Harding s apology but coach Mary Scotvold suggested Harding should quit the olympic team. This has never happened before in figure  s just no precedent that i can even relate this to Scotvold said. I would probably say she would do herself some Good to  Poland to invite nato forces for joint exercises Berlin a eager to get under the Western Security umbrella Poland s defense minister said Friday that his country plans to invite nato units for exercises with other Eastern european nations in Poland this year. The invitation is part of a package of proposals Poland will present to nato when it signs on to the Alliance s partnership for peace program said the min ister Piotr Kolod Rejczyk. The czech re Public Hungary and possibly Slovakia would take part in the Maneu vers he said. Kolodziejczyk and Germany s defense chief Volker Rishe announced stepped up military cooperation after a morning meeting initiated by Rishe the strongest Backer in nato of Poland s bid for membership. Romania and Lithuania this week be came the first nations to enrol in the partnership program which nato Lead ers endorsed this month. Poland is expected to apply in the next few weeks. Polish leaders and Many germans Are deeply worried about resurgent expansionist tendencies in Russia. The situation is not healthy and we think it can develop in dangerous ways said Kolodziejczyk. His country is looking to get its 250,000-Strong military into the Western Alliance As soon As possible. Kolodziejczyk said Poland has t rushed into signing up for the partnership program because it wanted to first prepare a Gamut of proposals for co operation with nato. The bigger our engagement in partnership for peace the faster we will get into a european Security system he said. The partnership program offers nose purity guarantees but holds out the Prospect of eventual nato membership for countries that prove worthy. The polish minister expressed his Joy with Ruhe s initiatives for broadened co operation Between the neighbouring coun tries armed forces