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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 22, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At a glance Mustafa Dirani a Muslim go Crylla Leader was abducted by israeli commandos who flew by helicopter deep into Lebanon. See Story on Page 12. Army eases rules the . Army Europe has loosened eligibility rules for civilian workers separation incentive pay but a new Taw tightens restrictions for those who later return to civil sen ice. A �?page4 Navy offering jobs the . Navy in Europe will invest about $300,000 to hire Young men and women for this year s summer hire program. A Page 5 slurs at Citadel alleged cadets at the Citadel were berated with racial slurs and for being Quot weak As a woman Quot a former Cadet testified in a trial testing the school s Alt male admissions policy. A a a a page7 no precise figures the Energy department says it s convinced none of the plutonium produced for . Nuclear weapons was stolen but acknowledged it does no to know How much of the radioactive material was produced. A Page 8 Yemen truce collapses Northern Yemen abandoned its cease fire just hours after it took effect. A. A a a a a a a Page 13 Back to work a judge in Philadelphia ordered striking Conrail employees Back to work 13 hours after they walked off the Job claiming lax safety standards put their lives in danger. A Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 16 classifieds. 24-28 commentary. 15 faces no places .16 Horoscope ______27 letters. 14 Money matters. 20 Mutual. 20-23 sports .29-36 weather. 17 lawmakers resist Calls for further defense cuts Washington a although the defense budget being debated in the House trims $1 billion from president Clinton s request lawmakers Are sending a Clear signal they want no deeper cuts. Attempts to scuttle two multimillion Dollar weapons systems were turned Back Friday As the House Defeated a bid to kill the Navy strident ii d-5 missile and a committee saved a plan to finance an aircraft Carrier. With president Clinton lobbying hard behind the scenes the House cast two Roll Call votes that spared the missile from cancellation and preserved a Navy plan to convert eight Trident nuclear missile submarines to carry the More Modem d-5. Meanwhile the House rules committee rejected an Effort to have the chamber consider a measure that would effectively Cut $3.7 billion for a nuclear powered aircraft Carrier when the House continues work next week on a $262.7 billion defense plan for 1995. A this is a pleasant Surprise Quot said rep. Herbert Bateman r-va., whose District is the main beneficiary from Carrier construction funds Quot i think we would have won on the floor but i am not disappointed that we done to have to do  the Carrier which carries a total Price tag of $4.5 billion would be built by Newport news shipbuilding amp dry Dock co. In political terms the actions showed the continued unwillingness of the House to Cut deeper into a defense budget that has declined steadily since 1985. Earlier in the week lawmakers refused to Cut further from the. Pentagon a ballistic missile defense program. Quot we still have a very dangerous world Quot said rep. Duncan Hunter a Calif. Quot we have one remaining Strong survivable part of the strategic triad and that a the undersea part. The d-5 missile is the Centrepiece Are. Ronald Dellums d-Calif., chairman of the House armed services committee and a frequent critic of Pentagon fat policies called the d-5 a relic and said lawmakers were refusing to recognize that the cold War was Over. Quot we now have a marvelous window of Opportunity that window of Opportunity is to Stop the old arms race Dellums said / a a \ a v in a 226-169 vote the House gave the Navy the option of fitting eight Trident nuclear missile submarines stationed in the Pacific with d-5 missiles that could Cost an estimated $3 billion later. The Pentagon which is reviewing its entire strategic Force May choose the less expensive option of upgrading older c-4 missiles already installed on those submarines. Arms nato Admiral urges by the new York times Washington a at a time when nato and the United nations Are at Odds Over the use of Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina the nato commander with responsibility for Bosnia is calling for a weapons free zone around the Northern City of Tula citing a massing of heavy weapons there. In a confidential letter thursday . Navy adm. Leighton  jr., com see related Story on Page 11 Mander of Allied forces Southern Europe recommended the move to Gen Bertrand de Lapresle the . Commander in the Balkans. Quot events of the recent past indicate considerable ground activity in the Tula area of operations a Smith wrote. In particular he referred to a concentration of serbian heavy weapons near the Airfield where . Planes land. Quot of particular concern a he continued a is the shelling yesterday whereby a catastrophe at the Airport was avoided simply due to the inept gunnery of the bosnian serbs. He said he had a visions of news film being shown worldwide of a transport aircraft a furiously burning on the ramp or another Sarajevo marketplace  the request a and the fact that it was leaked in Advance of Aspres Lcy a reply a puts the United nations in a difficult position at a time when nato favors More military action against the serbs and the United nations is opposed to More action. Serbian forces wednesday fired seven tank rounds at the Airport when a . Ilyushin 11-76 transport carrying a .-made anti mortar radar unit and jordanian soldiers landed on the Airfield. The plane stopped unloading and took off immediately. But the . Command rejected a request for nato airstrikes. Illustrating the mounting tension Between nato and the United nations it. Col. Lars Moller of Denmark the Deputy commander of the . Battalion in Tula accused the . Command of endanger  troops lives. Lapresle As the . Force commander must approve the request for a weapons free zone. But senior Clinton admin Istrati oif officials said they doubt that he will. Despite the shelling the position of the United nations has been that Tula is not under siege and that there Are no preparations by the bosnian serbian. Forces for a major offensive. The . Joint chiefs of staff began analysing the implications of Smiths request Friday senior officials said. Although As a nato commander he has the authority to make such a request on his own it is extremely unlikely that he would do so without the knowledge and approval of the Pentagon. Under an april 22 decision nato empowered the , commander in Bosnia to create an Quot exclusion zone Quot within 20 Kilometres or about 12 Miles of any .-designated Safe zone if the serbs attack or amass heavy weapons there. Arson suspected at kindergarten Bonn Germany up a a fire that gutted a German turkish kindergarten near Bonn on saturday was probably caused by arson police said. A police spokesman said arsonists had previously set fires near the kindergarten which opened last week for 40 German and turkish children in the town of Sieburg. V. He said fire officials had hot determined the exact cause of the Blaze but that arson was suspected. Firefighters said no one was injured in the Blaze which caused damage of More than 1 million German Marks Mone. Than $610,000. Graves vandalized in Wurzburg area Berlin up a rightists Are suspected of smashing gravestones in a jewish cemetery near the bavarian City of Wurzburg police said saturday the third such attack in Germany this month. A police spokesman said there were no leads to who carried out the attack in which 13 gravestones in the Hochberg Village cemetery were damaged or destroyed. In recent weeks jewish cemeteries in Dresden and bad Kissinger have been vandalized and painted with nazi swastikas. Korea from Page 1 has brushed off a number of questions on North Korea. Senior National Security advisers met in the White House on Friday and decided that it was time to resume talks with North Korea that were broken off by the United states late last year. An administration official said no Date has been set for the new round of talks. A Well continue to have the same basis for dialogue with North Korea in the new round. That Hasni to changed a the official said. Those conditions include that North Korea open its nuclear Sites to International inspection work to keep the korean Peninsula nuclear free and engage in talks with South Korea on nuclear issues. White. House press Secretary Dee Dee Meyers travelling with the president in California said reports that North Korea had stored the removed fuel rods in water rather than reprocessing them were encouraging. She said the administration was weighing a formal reaction to that information. The latest problem arose when North Korea removed spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor before the arrival of . Nuclear inspectors. That brought Stem new warnings from the Clinton administration that Pyongyang must safeguard the spent fuel rods for future inspection. The breach in the nuclear safeguards agreement could have resulted in . Sanctions against North Korea. . Officials say it appears that All of the fuel rods Are accounted for and that none was diverted to a bomb making program. The Iaea said earlier saturday that North Korea had sent it a telex expressing Quot readiness to receive an Agency consultation  a team of Quot senior safeguards officials is expected to arrive tuesday in North Korea for the talks the Iaea said  
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