European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 16, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Edward Claria a Navy chief Petty officer and Parade Volunteer puts finishing touches on the american float. Paumbo by sue Palumbo Mediterranean Bureau la Maddalena Sardinia a a a it a kind of like halloween Only its for grown  a said Ashley Kel Licker As she Shook confetti from her hair. Kellicker was one of several Hundred americans who turned out for la Maddalenax a Canevah festivities which began Friday. The last of the three parades was set for tuesday but was rescheduled for sunday because of bad weather. A  hundreds of red devils clowns animal impostors fairy princesses and boys dressed As girls and girls dressed As boys crowded the streets. Excited onlookers and pranksters armed with bags of confetti and fireworks were everywhere. A Disney theme permeated this year s Celebration As evidenced by Snow White and the seven dwarfs Aladdin and his Genie and Cinderella. Base volunteers put together the Cinderella float. A we Are part of the local Community so any time there is a Community event then the americans get involved a said Mafalda Trova who is in charge of base Community relations. Local americans take their involvement in the frivolities very seriously. Despite rain 45-Mph winds and roaming barn animals the americans entered their float in the parades. But it Wasny to without some heartache. Because of the weather Cinderella not Only lost her Slipper but half the clock and the top of her Carriage on the Way to fridays Parade. Volunteers later pieced the float together. Last year part of Peter pants never never land ended up As a meal for two hungry horses. The animals ate the Mountain on the float Days before the event. This year volunteers opted not to build their float at a amps sue Palumbo one Bunny was among those hopping into the Tun the local horse farm. Dozens of american children wearing specially designed Carnevale to shirts and Mickey mouse ears threw confetti and danced in the Parade. The children also helped paint several backdrops of popular Disney characters for the town stage. A the whole thing is a blast a said Edward Claria a chief Petty officer and Parade Volunteer. A it took us about 300 Man hours to put the Cinderella float together. This year we used a kit from a Catalon. It looks better than the homemade one the horses ate last  North Korea bends allows atomic Survey Vienna Austria apr bowing to International pressure and possible . Sanctions,1. North Korea agreed tuesday to open part of its nuclear program to inspection. News of the Surprise about face was revealed by the International atomic Energy Agency a week before its Board of governors was to Convene. That meeting had been expected to advise the . Security Council to invoke sanctions on the recalcitrant communist nation. The move also eases a dispute that some feared could renew armed conflict Between North and South Korea with . Troops on the Side of the South. Hans Meyer spokesman for the Vienna based or a a the. A Natation said the Agency trying since december to arrange for the inspections was contacted a out of the  a team of inspectors will depart a was soon As the next plane goes to North Korea a in the next few Days he added. North korean authorities now a accept the inspection activities which have been requested of the Iaea in the seven declared nuclear facilities Quot an Agency statement said. Those Agency requests include verification that nuclear material has not been diverted since the last inspection in feb. 5, 1993, and the reloading of monitoring cameras to help future inspections. The Agency is in charge of supervising nuclear facilities of member countries to prevent secret diversion of fissionable materials into the manufacture of nuclear arms. North Korea one of the worlds last nations led by hard line communists has denied . And other Western accusations that it is secretly building nuclear weapons. Of indecent acts Kaiserslautern Germany a amps a Soldier has been convicted of indecent acts and adultery but acquitted of rape a 21st theater army area come spokeswoman said monday pfc. Victor m. Reed was convicted and sentenced thursday to a reduction in Grade to private one year confinement and Abad conduct discharge said sgt. 1st class Debra Arden a spokeswoman for the command. Reed was a truck Driver assigned to the 89th trans co at Kleber Cavern in Kaiserslautern. Reed had pleaded innocent at his general court martial to one charge of rape two of indecent assault and one of adultery Arden said. The 28-Ycar-old Soldier admitted to some sexual activity last summer with two women but claimed there was consent the spokeswoman said. However the women who arc married to soldiers in Reed s company maintained that the sexual Contact with Reed was not consensual. The judge found Reed innocent of rape but guilty of indecent acts on two occasions and of adultery Arden said. Reed is being held at the . Army confinement facility in Mannheim. Reed came on Active duty in 1990 and served in the persian Gulf War. He is married and has two children. Dies while under care Camp Darby Italy a amps a a 47-year-old civilian employee of the . Army at Camp Darby died unexpectedly monday in a Hospital in nearby Pisa. Artemio Tim Balantac chief of the Stock fund division of the army a 201st Materiel management Center at Camp Darby died of heart failure said 1st it. Michael Tropea a Camp Darby spokesman. Balantac born in Bayo Mbong Philippines retired from the army in 1984 As a master sergeant Tropea said tuesday. A resident of Cenaida Italy Balantac is survived by his wife Veronica and 2year-old son Jessie. A memorial mass is to be held at 4 . Today in the Camp Darby Chapel. Funeral arrangements Are incomplete