European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday september 30,1994 nato agrees to expand airstrikes Seville Spain a prodded by the United states nato allies took a tougher stance thursday in the Bosnia crisis by offering intensified retaliatory air strikes.-. Under the new plan nato could respond promptly and without warning to bosnian serbian violations an provocations and attack multiple targets instead of a handful of tanks. We re not launching All out air War said one senior . Official familiar with the closed door ministers meeting. But it s going to be More than the cur rent tit for Tat  British defense Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said there will be no More pin  even As the 16 nato defense ministers agreed on the plan officials acknowledged that unless  actually Call in air Power Little will change in the War torn Balkans. Nato has been threatening airstrikes in Bosnia an Herzegovina since june 1993, but its warplanes have struck targets Only four times. The ministers accepted the Basic elements of . De sense Secretary William Perry s proposal to step up pres sure on bosnian serbian forces by punishing their violations of cease fire and Safe Haven agreements in Bosnia. Up to now limited nato airstrikes have had Little Impact on the bosnian serbs the largely symbolic airstrikes have not sufficiently deterred bosnian serbs French defense minister Francois Leotard said. The nato meeting is the first attended by France since the country dropped out of nato s integrate military command in 1966. France a North Atlantic treaty organization member is not taking part in the Alliance s military command Structure but it has 5,761troops in Bosnia under . Command. Nato s search for a tougher stance in Bosnia asked deep divisions about How to bring about a peace Accord. Countries such As France Britain and Claes new Secretary Genera of Alliance new York a foreign minister Willy Claes of Belgium was chosen thursday to head nato. He predicted the Western Alliance would face challenges from Bosnia and the emerging Post cold War order in Europe. Claes was unanimously confirmed As nato s new Secretary general by the North Atlantic Council composed of nato s 16 foreign ministers. I will do All that is possible in order to consolidate and to strengthen nato because wended the trans Atlantic Solidarity Claes 55, told the gathering after his selection for a four year term. \. We Are facing new challenges Bosnia Central and Eastern Europe peacekeeping and even som new risks in the South he said. The top civilian position in the North Atlantic treaty organization fell vacant aug. 13 when Manfred Worner a former  defense minister died of can cer. In announcing Claes appointment,. Secretary of state Warren Christopher said we stand at critical moment in the life of nato the transformation of i nato reaching outto the East considering expansion taking on exceedingly difficult i problems such As bos Claes  during a lifetime in Belgium s often turbulent poli tics Claes has built a reputation As a Tough neg Tia Tor and a shrewd consensus builder Spain with thousands of . Peacekeepers in Bosnia Are reluctant to increase the violence for fear of endangering their lightly armed troops. At the same time the allies Are concerned that nato s limited response in Bosnia undercuts the credibility of the Alliance. Aggravating matters is a directive by the . Con Gress that could Force president Clinton to unilaterally defy a 1991 arms ban on the Muslim led government i Sarajevo. Although lifting the embargo might Blunt the military advantage enjoyed by the bosnian serbs it could Force the United nations to withdraw its peace keeping contingent. Congress has set oct. 15 As a deadline for bosnian serbs to sign an International peace Deal for Bosnia. After that Date Clinton must seek . Support for exempting the bosnian government from the arms embargo imposed on All of former Yugoslavia. And by nov. 15, if the United nations takes no action the United states would Cut off funding for enforcement of the embargo. So great is the uncertainty Over Bosnia that the 16 ministers decided thursday that the word coercive was too Strong a description of the intensified air Campaign. They backed off from saying that a goal of the Campaign was to Force the bosnian serbs to accept a peace Accord. As Germany be Ebra fes dead weight airboat operator John Wells left hoists a 13-foot, 460-Pound Alligator from a flatbed trailer for weighing in Hawthorne Fla., on tuesday. Wells assisted Alligator trapper Den this Gagnon right in killing the animal in Newman s Lake just outside of Gainesville on monday night. The head is to be kept As a trophy arid the hide will be sold. Berlin a four years ago the word reunification was not politically Correct in Germany. Unification was Fine but talk of reunification made germans wary. They Wor ried it could signify � yearning for former German lands now behind the polish order and that use of the word emphasized a Germany of 80 million people that might make european neighbor nervous. Those worries seemed to have evaporated since the merger of oct. 3, 1990. Now the word reunification is Fine. More than that the National Holiday that started out rather modestly to Mark oct. 3 As the Day of German Unity explodes this year. A convenient weekend makes it a three Day Germany fest Start ing saturday. There s to be for the first time a big Parade in Berlin with marchers from each of the 16 states showing local color and marching to the Brandenburg Gate. A giant Rock concert with Elton John Chuck Berry the Gipsy Kings and other International stars will take place on the Square just East of the Gate. Crowds of 100,000 or More Are expected. Speaker of parliament Rita Sussmuth head of the festival said this year s Cele bration should develop a joint tradition for the Day of German  Holiday with its message of peace Ful patriotism and Unity comes in the Home stretch of a quarrelsome Campaign for National elections oct. 16. Chancellor Helmut Kohl is favored in the polls to win the most votes with his Center right allies but not a majority. Heis pounding hard on the reformed communists in Eastern Germany whose part is now called the party of democratic so  Calls them red painted fascists and a danger to democracy. Though the main opposition social democrats Are Loath to consider an Alliance with them Kohl is trying hard to link the two parties in his Campaign  former communists Are respond ing with a Clever Campaign that gave them unexpected strength in recent East Ern state elections. One of their new posters shows a Cou ple at the breakfast table their eyes Bulg ing in terror at a giant shark outside their window. No text is necessary for former East germans who feel victimized by hard West German business practices hounding them out of Home and  importance of the former East German communists though they get no More than 4 percent in National polls shows How reunification has changed the German political scene. Coroner did t lie about Elvis officials say Memphis Tenn. A a state re View of Elvis Presley s medical records found no evidence that the Coroner lied when he said the Singer died of heart Dis ease officials said thursday. There has Long been speculation that Presley s death was caused or at least hastened by drug abuse. Thursday s state health department statement based on a new review of Presley s death records contained no mention of drugs. Presley died in Memphis in 1977 at age 42. The new review was ordered at the re quest of the Shelby county commission the county lawmaking Board in Memphis. There is no basis to conclude that any person wilfully and knowingly made false statements on the death certificate of Elvis Presley the health department said. The lv6-Page statement did not Indi Cate whether heart disease was the Best diagnosis just that there was no evidence that Memphis medical examiner Jerry Francisco had lied in his findings. The new review was conducted by Joseph Davis chief medical examiner forbade county Fla. Davis who refused to discuss his find Ings focused on medical records Avail Able at the time of Presley s autopsy to see if the cause of death was accurately reported. Vasco Smith a longtime member of the commission who recently retired pressed for the review saying he suspected that Francisco wrongly listed a cause of death on Presley s death certificate