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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday september 1,1994 Ata glance cuban refugees Are hauled aboard coast guard Cutter tuesday As the United states and other coun tries try to Cope with the outpouring of people. See stories on Page 5. Family changing the american family has under gone dramatic changes Over the past three decades the . Census Bureau reports. Pages prosecutors quitting key prosecutors in the Whitewater investigation have told Independent counsel Kenneth w. Starr that they will leave. Page 7 Challenge discussed the talk among some democrats is turning to whether president Clin Jon will face a democratic primary Challenge in 1996.  compensation sought families of 1 1 israeli athletes Mas sacred at the 1972 Munich olympics Are demanding compensation from Germany. Page 10 japanese plan fund Japan will set up a $1 billion fund to help atone for world War ii wrong doings the government says. Page 12f workers wondering the $10 billion merger to create the largest . Military contractor Means lots of questions for lock heed and Martin Marietta workers. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 24-28 comics 21-23 commentary. .17 crossword 21 faces n places 20 Horoscope 27 Jumble 7 letters. 16 Money matters. 14 sports. 28.36 to listings 35 weather 15 nto review detectives files los Angeles a the judge in the . Simpson Case wednesday rejected a defense request to review police personnel files on detectives who investigated the celebrity double murder Case. I did not find any reports incident re ports any information that was pertinent to the issues in this Case Superior Courti judge Lance Ito said. The defense had sought the files of four Lead detectives but Ito said he saw cause to review Only two those of detectives Mark fun Hornan and Philip Van Natter. " Fuhrman is a key witness because he said he found a bloody Glove behind Simpson s estate that matched one at the murder scene Ito issued his ruling at the beginning of a pretrial hearing covering a proposed gag order evidence sharing and other subjects.  .".". The two sides clashed on the question of evidence sharing with prosecutor Wil Liam Hodgman accusing the defense 6t absolute sandbagging and defense Law yers also expressing frustration. Also possibly on the Agenda late wednesday was discussion of the so called mystery envelope produced ear Lier by the defense containing unknown evidence. Although the District attorney s office said it would announce by the end of a gust wednesday whether it would seek the death penalty against Simpson spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said a Deci Sion had been put off until next week at the  Simpson 47, has pleaded innocent to murdering sex wife Nicole Brown Simp son and her Friend Ronald Goldman. Jury selection is to begin sept. 19./. On tuesday Ito also turned Down de sense efforts to see Fuhrman s military records. Ito said Fuhrman s Marine corps records were irrelevant to defens suggestions that the detective was a racist and a liar. /. -. Having heard the argument t. Alleg ing racial animus and propensity to fabricate the court reviewed the military file and found no reports or other information relevant to the issues in Thi Scase Ito said in his written order tues Day a Rev -. Anon Nous defense sources have said they Are considering a trial strategy that portrays Fuhrman. Who is White As a racist who could have planted evidence to incriminate Simpson who is Black. -. According to documents from Fuhr Man s 1983 lawsuit setting a police disability pension from the i he told a psychiatrist that he left the marines in 1975 and joined the police Force because he got tired of having a Bunch of mexicans and niggers that should be in prison Tell ing me they weren t going to do some 1 troops fro Page 1 to the top of the mausoleum s Steps where Kohl and Yeltsin bowed their Heads in silence. Inside a memorial room atop the mausoleum a rueful Lopkin Yeltsin offered his hand to Kohl. The elite russian soldiers then belted out a rousing Farewell song. Germany we give you our hand and return to our fatherland Sang the troops first in russian and then in Ger Man swinging their Aims and clamping their boots As they marched in place. In speeches Yeltsin praised the red army forces that pushed German invaders out of the soviet Union and All the Way Back to Berlin during world War ii it was the russians not the Western allies who captured Berlin and the More than 20,000 soviet soldiers who Fellin the Battle for Berlin deserve to be thanked Yeltsin said. The poisonous roots of an unparalleled evil were ripped out Here in Ber Lin and the ashes of Hitler s monstrous plans were thrown into the wind Yeltsin said in the theater. Kohl told Yeltsin we Bow in respect before the millions of your countrymen who lost their lives in this dreadful  but Kohl said Russia must never forget the 1948-49 soviet blockade of West Ber Lin the Berlin Wall and other heinous cold War episodes. We should not try to erase these events from our memories or to set the against each other Kohl said. The remnants of a soviet occupation Force that moved into the Baltic in 1940 also pulled out wednesday from Latvia and Estonia the russian defense ministry said. Russia completed its withdraw Al from Lithuania last year. Yeltsin s presence Drew attention away from troops leaving the Baltic and onto those troops leaving Eastern  troops have been leaving during the past four years under a treaty that enabled East Germany and West Germany to reunite in 1990, and by wednesday numbered fewer than 3,000. Although the West group was formally dissolved wednesday some of its soldiers will remain for a few weeks to oversee closing Down the bases. The Send off was less than what Yeltsin had hoped for. % Germany turned Down Yeltsin s re quest that russian troops be included in ceremonies for troops from the United states Britain and France the three other world War ii Allied victors that Are leaving  since the soviet troops in Eastern Europe were seen As unwanted occupiers and the Western allies As friends it did not seem proper to allow the russians full participation German officials said Hofei French president Francois Mitterrand and British prime minister John major will see off troops of the Western allies in Berlin on sept. 8. Ira fro Page 1 intended to be a permanent renunciation of violence that is to say for  the Ira s statement did not explicitly mention its goal of uniting Northern ire land with the Republic of Ireland but reaffirmed our commitment to our re publican  in december when Britain and ire land set the terms for negotiations they pledged there would be no change in Northern Ireland s status without the consent of a majority of its people. Brit ish officials have said in recent Days that there were no secret deals with the Ira. The Ira announcement capped a Long and mostly secret process of negotiations Between Catholic leaders and the British and Irish governments and Between Brit Ain and the Ira itself. The Clinton administration tried to encourage a cease fire by granting Adams a visa in february. And this week it Al Lowed Ira Leader Joe Cahill to visit sup porters in the United states presumably to seek backing for the cease fire. The Ira which has tried to bomb and bleed the British out of Northern ire land has not called an extended claw fire since 1975. That nine month pause ended in Mutual recriminations. There also was an extended Ira cease fire in 1972, and there have been three Day truces at Christmas since 1990 and a three Day cease fire last easter. John Hume the Catholic political Leader whose talks with Adams paved the Way for the cease fire said now we face the primary Challenge which is to reach agreement among our divided peo  _ the Ira s announcement Drew a cautious Welcome front James Molyneaux Leader of the Ulster unionist party the largest protestant party in Northern ire land. I Hope the authors of the statement mean what they say that it Isa permanent total Complete cessation of terrorism he said. Molyneaux s tacit support of British overtures to the Ira has helped Calm protestant fears and he will Pfay a Crit ical role in any negotiations. But other protestant loyalists re acted so optically. The Rev. Ian Paisley who in the past has rallied protestant opposition to com Promise said the Ira.9 announcement of a Complete cessation of violence did not commit the group to a permanent truce. They have had a change. They Are sorry for what they have done that they Are deeply and bitterly sorry for the mayhem Tucey have caused Paisle said. Orndorf support group gets new Leader Birndorf Germany is col. Fredrick c. Perkins took command of the 7th corps support group on tuesday in a ceremony at Birndorf s finder Barracks. He follows col. Charles a. Seland who had commanded the unit since june 1992 when it was located in Crail sheim. Seland s new assignment is with the . Army Europe Headquarters in Heidel Berg. Perkins v graduate of Washington state University in Pullman and the Flor Ida Institute of technology in Mel Bourne has served on Active duty since july 21,1970. He has served previously in several army communities in Germany along with the 82nd airborne div at fort Bragg . His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star the department of de sense meritorious service medal and the army commendation medal. He is married to the former Hannelore Bauer of Wiir Burg  
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