European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page % r the stars and stripes monday May 33, 1994 la at a glance j Pope John Paumi appeared at his Hospital room window for the Public a first glimpse of him since he was admitted for hip surgery in late april. See Story on Page 8.commuters miffed police in Illinois snarled Rush hour traffic for hours when they surrounded a greyhound bus with sharpshooters evacuated and frisked passengers and fired tear Gas to ferret out a murder suspect who was actually Miles away. A a a a a a a a a Page 5gloomy gathering the largest annual convention in the world tourism Industry is going on in Miami but the spate of crimes against tourists in Florida has clouded the gathering and raised fears among some booking agents. A Page 6on the Road again Chevy has brought Back the Impala name unused since 1985, and the is designation which Means Quot super sport Quot and has t appeared on a Chevy since 1969. A Page 10another try . And japanese Trade negotiators agreed to extend efforts to break a three month deadlock. A Page 14love at first sight when a 13-year-old boy told classmates that supermodel Cindy Crawford was in love with him they did t believe it a that is until Crawford said on nationwide to it was  Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 automotive. 10 classifieds. 22-25 comics. 18-19,21 commentary. 13 crossword. 21 i i i t 1 faces n places 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. 24 Jumble. Letters ����.���12 Money matters. 14 sports. 26-32 to listings. 31 weather. 11 Italy reassuring . On fascism up Lio m2 Rome up italian foreign min Istir Antonio Martino travelled sunday to Washington for talks with Secretary of state Warren Christopher in an Effort to reassure the United states that Italy a new right Wing government has no links with fascism. \. Martino will highlight Italy a continuing partnership with the United states in foreign policy following the election Victory of prime mister Silvio Burlus Conj a Freedom Alliance m March. Critics fear the right Wing coalition could cause Italy to withdraw from a unified Europe and damage Italy a standing with the United states. . Diplomatic sources already have relayed the official position of the White House on the new italian government saying the . Administration was Happy with the election results. President Clinton made Contact with Berlusconi a week ago through Reginald Bartholomew the . Ambassador in in his message Clinton outlined three areas that he wanted to see strengthened in relations Between the United states and Italy the enlargement of the democratic Community of nations the enhancement of economic growth and the promotion of collective Security. Clinton is scheduled to visit Rome from june 2 to 3 for world War ii anniversary commemorations and again from Rome. The president said he was looking july 8 to 10 for the group of seven sum Forward to developing a deeper Cooper Mit of the world s top industrialized nation Between the United states and Italy. Tons in  from Page 1 Over its suspected nuclear arms program says it bought the russian submarines for scrap. But Sharpe said that some of the submarines bought by North Korea the Golf class were capable of firing ballistic missiles and were decommissioned Only four years ago. Quot it is therefore possible that the missile tubes May be adaptable for other weapons a the editor wrote. Another Likely development is that spare parts from russian Romeo class submarines sold to North Korea in the same Deal will be used to refit North koreans own obsolete Romeo class submarines he said. Golf and Romeo Are nato Alliance terms used to designate various types of submarines. But Sharpe said the strength of the North korean Navy remains its ability to carry out Clandestine inshore operations with midget submarines and Low profile attack Craft. Optical electronic detection tech nolo. By helps counter this Type of threat a but the potential effectiveness of this Force should not be underestimated a Sharpe  the build up of maritime forces in Southeast Asia is accelerating and matches the economic growth of the countries of the Region a Sharpe reported. Turning to the United states Sharpe said a the decline on numbers of operational warships continues in most Western navies but is most marked in the United states and the United  / he said that in february the . Navy reported it had 184 vessels including five carriers and 35 submarines deployed worldwide. They represented 42 percent of the total . Naval Force of some 438 vessels then available. Quot this is a powerful example of the Pax americana at sea and an unambiguous revelation of the United states super Power status which has been used Sosic Cess fully to maintain the Security of International Waters and shipping routes a Sharpe said. But he said next year the effect of the current draw Down to a . Fleet of 373 Battle Force ships will be starkly revealed. . Navy personnel numbers Are scheduled to drop below 500,000 by the end of the year for the first time since 1951, and the present medium term aim is for a naval strength of 394,000 by the end of the decade he said. A before reducing your naval services too far you had better be sure that an inability to control or influence what happens at sea is not going to threaten your military or economic survival for the foreseeable future a he  sea borne Trade is currently running at Over 4,000 million tons a year some 12 times greater than in 1950, and is still rising. The ships that carry it Are increasingly vulnerable. For maritime nations upon the safety of that Trade does the Well being of the slate  from Page 1 foreign journalists in the Border town of Malpasse to leave after about half an hour. Haiti and the dominican Republic share the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola and the embattled dominican administration of Joaquin Balagur has failed to Stop widespread embargo violations along the Overland Border. The embargo was imposed to Force Haiti a army to return Power to the country a first freely elected government ousted in a 1991 coup. Gas that Sells for $1.60 a gallon in the dominican Republic goes for $8 a gallon in port a Prince with the dominican and haitian Milit Aries pocketing much of the difference. In the Northern dominican Border town of Rajab in motorcyclists carrying jugs of All sizes filled up with Gas saturday just hours ahead of the broadened embargo a to conduct smuggling across the Border. Vehicles get past checkpoints on the Road and Riverside patrols by bribing Low ranking dominican soldiers whose pay is about $64 a month he said. The Clinton administration and . Officials had expressed Hope that the Blind 87-year-Ola Balaguer would Honor his pledges to maintain the toughened embargo which took effect at 11 59 . Edt saturday. But the shipments Sun child run outside St. Josephus hospice in port a Prince wait for their plastic bags to be filled with food saturday hours before stronger sanctions against Haiti took effect. Sister Ann Weller of St. Josephus said the food the hospice provides is bought on the Black Market at inflated prices. Day showed that the dominican government had not kept its Promise. The United states has not ruled out military intervention to restore democracy. Limited economic sanctions against the haitian military began weeks after soldiers ousted elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide and forced him into exile in september 1991. A worldwide Oil embargo began last october vice president Al Gore appearing on no cd a meet the press sunday said the new sanctions being imposed on Haiti were a very Tough and the world Community is United in its demand for the restoration of  from Page 1 genuine disagreements. Its a complicated subject. But we can surmount these obstacles Quot he said. A we can get it done this  in a Republican response to the radio address sen. Malcolm Wallop a Wyo asserted that a the Public does not agree with the presidents direction from health care to foreign  Quot despite nonstop campaigning support for his health care plan slips by the week Quot Wallop said. He cited a enormous costs hooked to the Clinton  Clinton told the Mcclellan fab audience that Congress should be Able to make a the same Tough decisions Quot on health care Reform that leaders of the armed forces face when called upon to make military decisions. The speech was the first in a scribe so tanks Clinton was to make to Honor world War ii veterans and to focus on the role of the military in the present. He will elaborate on the theme further wednesday when he addresses graduation ceremonies at the . Naval Academy in Annapolis md., aides said