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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday february 4,1994 at a glance Willie Harris a building caretaker looks Over an apartment where Chicago police found 19 children living in tilth and competing with a dog for food. See Story on Page 9. Fishermen rampage about 1,200 fishermen Tore apart France s largest wholesale food mar Ket thursday to protest cheap in.  colonel protests an air Force colonel has told a congressional committee that he was dismissed from a prominent Job because he opposed a $27 billion military satellite program. /. Page 6 tourists told to flee a Radical islamic group has advised All foreigners to leave Egypt for their own safety. Page 10 Disney targets nyc Walt Disney co. Is moving into the Sleazy District of 42nd Street in new York. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21classifieds. .24-27. Comics. 21-23 commentary. 13 crossword. 21 faces a places. 20 focus. 15-19 Horoscope. 26 Jumble. 26 letters. 12 Money matters. 14 sports. 28-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 correction because of a reporting error in thurs Day s Story about medical care in Vicenza Italy army maj. Gen. Michael  or s name was misspelled. Scribbles found in trash bin May support Gillooly claim Portland Ore. A the Fri i examining scraps of paper found in a restaurant trash bin that could Back Jeff Gil lowly s claim that sex wife Tonya Hardin took part in the plot to hobble rival skater Nancy Kerrigan. The new York daily news mean while quoted a Law enforcement source thursday As saying that Harding will be charged next week with hindering prosecution and probably conspiracy. Restaurateur Kathy Peterson turned Over to the Fri an envelope addressed to Gillooly and notepaper scribbled with doodles and the words tune Camarena Cape cod on one Tony Kent Arena Cape Coder. Peterson said the scraps came from the trash outside her Portland restaurant. Gillooly has told investigators that Harding made Telephone Calls to pin Down Kerrigan s practice schedule Antony Kent Arena in Massachusetts where an earlier attempt to attack Kerri Gan was aborted. Gillooly said Hardin had trouble understanding the name of the rink in a message left by a free Lance reporter on her answering machine. Fri spokesman Bart Gori told new York new Day that investigators were examining Peterson s find. She gave the associated press copies of the notes Page Andon Aneth wednesday. Harding has not been charged and has denied having any Advance knowledge of the Jan. 6 attack in which Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee at a rink in Detroit. Harding has said that she Learned Days afterwards that people close to her May have been involved. But she said she did not immediately come Forward. According to a statement released by the Fri Harding admitted that she had not been totally honest with the Fri about Calls made from her Home to Ker Rigan s practice rink. She has admitted to hindering the prosecution and that is a crime the daily news quoted an unidentified Law enforcement official As saying. Harding however has insisted that staying silent after learning people close to her were implicated in the assault was t in itself a crime. Although my lawyers Tell me that my failure to immediately report this information is not a crime i know i have let you Down and have also let myself Down Harding said in her apology last week. Gillooly pleaded guilty tuesday to racketeering and agreed to testify that his former wife gave the of for the attack. He spent two hours with the Fri on wednesday. In a statement Gillooly gave to the Fri he said Harding called a free Lance skating reporter in Pennsylvania to learn Kerrigan s Home address and practice schedule before aft attempt to assault Herin Massachusetts where she was practice ing at the Tony Kent Arena on Cape cod. Gillooly said the reporter left a Mes Sage on their answering machine but they could t understand it. It sounded something like Toby can " Gillooly said. Soon after Gillooly said he heard Harding on the phone with the reporter saying spell it out and watched he write Tony Kent  meanwhile the . Figure skating association announced wednesday that Michelle Kwan will travel to Norway later this month to train in Case she is needed to compete in the olympic win Ter games. Kwan 13, finished second at the  last month but the Ussa replaced her As olympic team mate of Kerrigan after the latter was at tacked and unable to compete in that event Vietnam from Page t Ese Market. European and Rich asian nations already have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the country and secured development contracts. Veterans organizations and family groups have opposed lifting the Trade pm Argo saying Vietnam in t doing enough to help resolve the cases of american sol Diers still unaccounted for from the War. State department spokesman Michael d. Mccurry said normalizing relations with Hanoi was out of the question future questions about normalizing relations or moving to some different configurations for offices is something i just Don t think they re at a Point where they re considering those issues yet he said. Washington imposed an embargo against North Vietnam in 1964. It extended the embargo to cover the whole country after South Vietnam fell to communist North Vietnam in 1975. Assistant Secretary of state Winston lord made a mid december visit to Viet Nam returning with a favourable report on Hanoi s cooperation in determining the fates of 2,200 . Servicemen missing from the Vietnam War. There have been varying views among Clinton s aides on the potential benefits to the United states of lifting the embargo. One of the officials said there had been considerable Progress on the pow Mia Issue Over the past year and that improving relations with Vietnam would help that process. The decision is sure to please Ameri can businesses hungry to enter the grow ing vietnamese Market. Perry from Page 1 night but that depends on cooperation from All senators and is not  All senators would have to agree to unanimous consent to waive the Standard 48-hour waiting period after a committee recommendation on a nomination. The panel s republicans had consid ered placing a hold on the Perry Nomi nation because of their disenchantment with the Pentagon s regulations on homosexuals serving in the military said sen. Dan Coats  the gop lawmakers received assurances from Perry late wednesday that he would address their concerns coat said. Testifying on wednesday during his confirmation hearing Perry said .forces Are ready to respond in Korea Bosnia and Herzegovina and elsewhere despite defense cuts. Perry told the committee that the administration prefers diplomacy to Force in world hot spots. He said the readiness of the armed forces to respond to crises would serve to deter emerging enemies. Many argued that with the end of the soviet Empire there would be Little Nee for military forces Perry said. History continues to be made every Day in the Hills of Bosnia the Dusty streets of Soma Lia and in the underground bunkers of North  Perry promised that his first responsibility would be to support commanders in the Field. The remark recalled Aspin s failure to Send armoured vehicles to Soma Lia after the commanding general there requested them a subsequent firefighting Somalia that claimed 18 lives was an ingredient in Aspin s decision to resign. But Perry did not attempt to Tell the committee that All is Well with the nation s defences. He said he will need to address poor Quality of intelligence from North Korea. I am very much concerned with our ability to assess what is happen ing in North Korea with respect to nuclear weapons and whatever military intentions they  a bomber Fleet declining to about 100 a is and b-2s and 40 to 70 aging b 52s by the end of the Century a Force Perry said would be thin in a conventional War. Nunn urged Perry to consider requesting More b-2s. A $20 billion budget Gap Over the next five years. Unless inflation halts or purchasing Reform realizes savings Perry said the administration would have to in crease defense spending. Cuts in equipment modernization spending to pay Tor Force readiness. A policy planning office that Perry termed an inefficient organization indeed of overhaul. Perry also faces the withdrawal of . Forces from Somalia by March 31 and the question of How to protect american diplomats left behind. . Soldiers clash with Macedonia police Skopje Macedonia a seven . Soldiers on peacekeeping duty in Macedonia were involved in a Brawl with local police last week a macedonian newspaper reported thursday. The incident occurred Jan. 28, when the soldiers part of a . Peacekeeping Force in the former yugoslav Republic got into a dispute with several Plain clothes police officers the daily vecer re ported. A . Official in Skopje speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed the incident. He said an Exchange of abusive language Between the two groups apparently led to the fistfight macedonian authorities and . Com Manders apparently hoped to avoid publicity about the incident but ordered a investigation. One of the police officers reportedly fired a gunshot that smashed the wind shield of a . Vehicle used by the sol Diers. No one was in the car and no serious injuries were reported in the fight there Are about 300 . Soldiers among 1,000 . Peacekeepers based i Macedonia to try to prevent any spillover of warfare from other former yugoslav republics. Macedonia is the Only former Republic to have seceded from Yugoslavia without bloodshed  
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