European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse I. Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday August 14,1994 at a glance eight pages of pictures depicting Michael Jackson and his Bride Lisa Marie appear in this week s National enquirer. See Story on Page 21. Guard pay delayed nearly 1,000 army National guard members owed benefits from As far Back As last fall will have to wait until autumn to get their Money. Page 6 . Coercive defense Secretary William Perry says the Clinton administration is applying coercive diplomacy to would be foes in Korea Bosnia and Haiti. Page 7 probe demanded a key senator called for a court re View of Whitewater Independent counsel Kenneth Starr s Republican political activities. Page 9 Neo nazis nabbed ten Neo nazis were arrested As German police sought to deter extremists from marking the anniversary of Rudolf hess1 death with a weekend of trouble. Page 10 fare War takes off several big airlines say they Are cutting fares by As much As 50 per cent on flights this fall. Page 13 Index Abby Ann Landers 21 classifieds 24-28 commentary 23 classified 24-29 faces n places 21 Horoscope 26 Jumble 26 letters. 22 Money matters. 12-13 Mutual. 13-17 sports. 30-36 weather. 20 to our readers beginning today the stars and stripes will run an expanded listing of weekly Mutual fund results. It gives the High Low and last net asset value for the week with the net change from the previous week s last net asset value. ., n. Korea agree to ease nuclear rift Geneva a breaking a months old deadlock the United states and North Korea agreed saturday on Steps to ease nuclear tensions and establish Diplo Matic relations. But they warned that Many differences need to be resolved. At the top of the list was the Issue of International inspections of North Korea s nuclear facilities. The North agreed in principle to Spe Cial inspections to confirm it has t extracted enough plutonium to develop a nuclear bomb but no timetable was set . Chief Delegate Robert Gallucci said. It s a first step he said. But we Hope from this first step we can take other Steps and there Are a Bunch of those to be the two sides said they would meet again sept. 23 in Geneva. In a joint statement the United states said it would help North Korea obtain a safer nuclear reactor that can less easily produce plutonium which can be used to produce nuclear weapons. North Korea said it will continue a freeze on nuclear activities won t repro Cess thousands of spent fuel rods that could produce enough plutonium for five atomic weapons and will remain part of the nuclear non proliferation treaty in tended to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The declaration said North Korea and the United states Are prepared to establish diplomatic representation in each other s capitals and to reduce barriers to Trade and investment As a. Move towards full normalization of political and eco nomic Gallucci said North Korea won t be Given a modern Light water reactor to re place its outdated Graphite reactor technology until it agrees to inspections. North Korea has blocked Access to two Sites the West suspects May contain Evi Dence the communist country extracted plutonium. North Korea says the Sites Are military and not subject to inspections by the International atomic Energy Agency the . Nuclear watchdog. North korean chief negotiator Kang Sok jul said the partiality of Iaea investigators would influence his country s attitude on inspections. North Korea has accused Iaea officials of being spies for the United states and South Korea. Kang also said North Korea won t Stop building Graphite reactors until it is assured it will get Light water reactors and other compensation from the West. Graphite moderated reactors can produce More plutonium than Light water ones. Ship released after suspect cargo cleared Rome a a ship bound for Croatia that was taken to an italian Harbor after nato monitors found suspicious cargo aboard was released officials said sat urday. The ship was stopped thursday in the Adriatic sea after the monitors found explosives and what appeared to be a rocket aboard nato officials officials in Brindisi a seaport in Southern Italy said the ship was released saturday evening with its cargo after italian officials determined the suspect cargo was actually anti Hail rockets. Air Force it. Col. Janis Witt a spokeswoman at nato s Southern command Headquarters in Naples said the Svetli Duje was stopped by nato forces enforcing a . Arms embargo against the former yugoslav republics. The ship s log indicated it had come from , Albania and was bound for Rijeka a port in Northern Croatia. Italian authorities after Check ing the cargo in Brindisi informed nato that the suspect cargo was for meteorological use Witt said. Approx. French Security zone new exodus to Zaire begins As French pullout Date n ears Goma Zaire a thousands of frightened refugees streamed into Zaire on saturday from southwestern Rwanda signalling what May be the Start of another exodus that could turn deadly. The refugees Are fleeing southwestern Rwanda before the scheduled pullout of about 2, soldiers aug. 22. The British Charity Oxnam appealed to the world to act quickly to Avert another human disaster similar to Goma. About 27,000 rwandans have died in squalid overcrowded refugee Camps near Goma where some 1 million people spilled Over the Border last month. Within a week another million could leave said Emery Brusset spokesman for the . Rwanda emergency office in Kigali the capital. He said tens of thousands of people were seen converging on Bukavu a Zairi an Border town 60 Miles South of Goma. At Bukavu Trevor Page of the . World food program said the first of an estimated 50,000 people seen heading for the Border had already crossed. Their expression when they come Over is one of Relief that they re out of Rwanda he said. The French set up a Safe zone in the Region in june to Stop massacres in which an estimated 350,000 to 500,000 Rwan dans died since Early april. Fight from Page 1 East West military tension. It was during his tenure that nato formed in september 1949 to thwart so Viet expansionist policies took its first offensive military action. Last february . Nato warplanes downed four bosnian serbian aircraft violating a . Flight ban Over Bosnia. Long before Worner had argued privately that the Alliance should use its Mil itary Power to help end the conflict. Worner. Became Secretary general july1, 1988, after a six year stint As German defense minister. He was the first Ger Man to hold nato s top Post. During his leadership a reunited Germany was firmly tied to the Western Alliance. He is survived by his second wife Elf Riede Reinsch. Cola from Page 1 initially expected to receive it. Senate committee members have expressed concern about the potential costs of the new allowance which was formally proposed by the House armed services committee earlier this year in its version of the defense authorization Bill. Lawmakers put a Price tag on the new allowance of slightly More than $20 Mil lion a year although a House staffer said that is just a rough estimate. The main thing was to get it on the books said the House committee staffer. Later on we can see How it s work ing and whether it needs to be adjusted in according to the language in the de sense authorization Bill the Pentagon can begin paying the allowance 90 Days after its report is delivered to Congress. A House armed services committee staffer said the allowance is expected to be up and running by next summer. In conference lawmakers made on significant change to the Structure of the new allowance As it was first proposed by the House armed services committee earlier this year. The House committee s original plan called for linking the allowance to Basic pay As recommended two years ago by the Pentagon s 7th quadrennial review of military compensation panel. Under that plan service members in High Cost areas would have received 1 percent of their Basic pay for each percentage Point above the 8 percent thresh old. For example if living expenses in a Given area averaged 12 percent above the i National average services Erners would receive 4 percent of their Basic pay in the form of the new allowance. In conference lawmakers modified that part of the program and decided in Stead to calculate the stateside allowance by Basing it on the same data from the average Market Basket Survey of . Goods and services used to figure the overseas cola. The Pentagon s per diem travel and transportation allowance committee tracks the costs of More than 160 items ranging from clothes and food to car re pair and entertainment in various . And overseas locations. The surveys Are done quarterly in the states and annually overseas. In addition a supplemental living pattern Survey of service members overseas is done every three years
