European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes world sunday april 24,1994 joint nato army corps the Hague Netherlands a the dutch and German defense ministers signed an Accord Friday to establish the 1st German dutch corps nato s Only binational army corps. The 50,000-Strong unit with equal numbers of dutch and German personnel will be under nato command and have joint training exercises and logistic operations. A-.-. The Accord goes further than other bilateral and multilateral military agreements Between nato Mem Bers by mixing dutch and German soldiers in operational units. The eur corps of French German and belgian troops set up last year provides for Only High level com Mand cooperation. Although the primary Mission of the 1st German Butch corps will be nato defense it can also be deployed for humanitarian Relief missions and International operations under in. Mandate. We Are not Only satisfied but proud that 50 years after the second world War dutch and Ger Man soldiers will work together under a single com Mand with an integrated staff and with a common mis Sion dutch defense minister aurelus Ter Beek said at the signing ceremony in the Hague with his German counterpart Volker Ruhe. Nothing i think illustrates More clearly the will of two nations to follow a common political course than cooperation in the sphere of defense and the integration of their armed forces Rohe said. The corps will begin operations next year under joint German dutch command with mixed units stationed across both countries and a joint Headquarters in Miinster Germany. The German and dutch defense ministers said participation by other nations would also be considered. Nato has been encouraging the establishment of multinational arid bilateral forces. More and More we realize that National defense is a phenomenon of the past. The International Dimen Sion of our defense efforts be it trans Atlantic or european will be predominant Ter Beek said. What we have achieved after world War ii in Europe with regards to integration is unheard of any where else in the world Rishe said. Our joint corps stands not Only for the close and excellent relations Between our two countries he also stands for the will of nato allies to permanently link their future development with one another As closely As deadly fire at construction site firefighters wind Down their efforts after a Large Blaz ravaged living quarters for employees constructing a medical facility in Erlanger Germany on hungarian workers were killed and 22 other employees were taken to a Hospital for treatment. Police said an electrical defect apparently started the pre Dawn fire but they Are also investigating whether Neo nazis were involved. Captured Hermit finds cold War Over Prague czech Republic a czech presiden Vaclav Havel has pardoned a Hermit who lived and stole in the forests for four years and had no idea the cold War had ended when captured by czech police in february. Havel pardoned Frantisek Dobaj after receiving Many Calls and letters from the Public presidential spokesman Ladislav Spacek told the czech news Agency ctr on Friday. Dobaj s Odyssey began upon his release from Pris on in August 1989. At that time the czech Republic and Slovakia were still unified As Czechoslovakia and communist leadership was still in Power. They split into two Independent nations on Jan. 1,1993. In his four years of seclusion in the forests along the czech slovak Border Dobaj ate berries and fruit hunted wild game and broke into country Homes for food and clothing. In All he is held responsible for 13 burglaries totalling $655 in damages. Havel s reprieve is conditional on Dobaj repaying the damages Spacek told ctr. Dobaj will be Able to cover the reimbursement with Money he received As compensation for time spent in jail under the communist regime. He had been imprisoned for attempting to leave Czechoslovakia illegally. At his trial he said he had obeyed an internal voice which invited me to seek other values in life. It Madame leave for he said he had spoken less than 20 words in his years of isolation. In 1992 he had listened to a radio but the information did t interest me and i did t pay any at i Don t know what kind of citizenship i have he said. I still feel like a upon his release he spoke of entering a monastery. Russian ukrainian talks on Black sea Fleet collapse from wire report Moscow president Boris Yeltsin blamed Ukraine on saturday for the breakdown of talks on dividing the former soviet Black sea Fleet. The talks collapsed Friday night after the Russia delegation walked out Over Ukraine s rejection of a russian proposal to keep the ukrainian portion of the Fleet out of Crimea a ukrainian province mainly populated by ethnic ukrainian defense ministry said the russian delegation s behaviour went against norms of International etiquette and was responsible for the failure of the a statement released by his office Yeltsin said Ukraine was losing control of the situation increasingly inconsistent and unpredictable both in its actions and to proposals by ukrainian officials that the United states at some Point be drawn into the negotiating process Yeltsin warned that Russia Wilnot tolerate any outside interference in the Leet division. The future of the Fleet the Crown jewel of the former soviet Navy has been the main Bone of Contention in relations Between the two countries since the soviet collapse in 1991. " ". Tomb returning to Turkey Athens Greece roman Era Tomb said Mohave been smuggled out of Turkey 10 years ago was due Back from the United states Over the weekend a tourism ministry official said last week. The four ton Marble Tomb was on display at the Brooklyn museum in the United states for three years before being donated to the american turkish society the official said. The society is now returning the Tomb to Turkey and a senior government official who flew to the United states to take delivery was expected to return to Istanbul either saturday or today he said. Two Yards Long and a Yard High the Tomb was scheduled to be flown Back to Turkey in one piece some 10 years after it is believed to have been smuggled out. 3 quit after allegations London three British foreign Exchange dealers resigned from their top investment Bank jobs at Goldman Sachs amid allegations by Secretary of sexual harassment news reports. Goldman Sachs in London confirmed Friday three dealers had resigned but it declined to discuss any details the Independent dealers who earned up to $1.5 million a year were forced to leave their jobs after a Secretary complained about their behaviour. The Secretary said the three traders had responded with a series of crude comments when she asked one of them How she could Advance he career. It was a joke that went too far a Goldman Sachs employee told the dealers allegedly sent obscene messages and recorded heavy breathing on the Bank s internal voice mail system to the Secretary. Peace talks supported phenom penh Cambodia Cambodia coalition government and the Khmer Rouge on saturday accepted King Norodom Sihanouk s Cal for peace talks scheduled for phenom penh from May 2-7.the 71-year-old Monarch Friday called on the warring parties to attend round table talks on peace and reconciliation before the fratricidal War completely destroys the country. Nuke Plant restoration Yerevan Armenia the government announced plans Friday to Complete restoration work on the country s mothballed nuclear Power station by the end of this year. Deputy prime minister Vigen Kite Chyan told a new conference that the Energy starved former soviet Republic is looking for up to $100 million to finance the work needed to restart the nuclear Plant. The armenian government has vowed to godhead with restoring the Plant despite concerns that it might be vulnerable to the kind of earthquake that devastated two armenian cities in 1988 and prompted the soviet authorities to close the of the plan say Armenia Energy poor and Cut off from outside supplies by the War i Azerbaijan and regional instability has no other sources of Power
