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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes saturday october 22,1994 at a glance rescuers Scurry to Aid people who were injured when a Large Section of a Bridge collapsed during the morning Rush hour Friday in Seoul South Korea. Sec Story on Page 12. Changes coming new Dodds director Lillian gon Zalez outlines her goals for the school year. Page 3 Syria trip planned president Clinton said Friday he would go to. Damascus Syria next week to try to accelerate negotiations with Israel for a peace treaty. Page 5 Homework protested a school Board official in California is ready to do away with Homework. Page 6 Wilder seeks Aid former Virginia gov. L Douglas Wilder has asked for help in paying off Campaign debts if he supports his longtime antagonist . Sen. Charles s. Robb sources say. Page 7 euthanasia televised in the first televised mercy killing dutch viewers watched a week chair bound Man die by lethal injection. Page 11 business booming major . Corporations piled up earnings Over the summer offering a Glimmer of Hope for Job seekers. Page 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 25 classifieds. 28-32 comics. A. 25-27 commentary. 17 crossword. 25 faces n places. 24 focus. 19-23 Horoscope. 31 Jumble 31 letters. 16 Money matters. 18 sports. 32-40 to listings. 39 weather 15 judge Agio i a  " to Sel Recti d n of s in pop h As j u by los Angeles a the . Simp son trial judge reopened jury selection to the Media Friday after defense attorneys changed their minds and said reporters would t keep prospective jurors from Einfrank we were mistaken defense attorney Robert Shapiro said. We Are candid enough to admit that. Superior court judge Lance Ito allowed three reporters to listen Friday As he and attorneys questioned prospective jurors about whether publicity in the double Mur Der Case has hampered their ability to be fair. -.  " -. Also. Friday transcripts of a closed meet ing this week with the judge were released and showed that Shapiro threatened to quit if Simpson continued talking about the Day he fled in his friends Ford Bronco. Ito said the Media could not report the badge numbers of the potential jurors As they Are quizzed one on one by the judge and attorneys. On thursday Ito suggested the defense and prosecution make a motion to kick re porters out of his courtroom for the Public Ity portion of questioning. He then parred the Media from a Day of private question ing. ,. " � but Friday morning Shapiro said he and other defense attorneys had become so caught up in protecting Simpson from publicity in Trie Case that their request had gone too far. They asked the judge to reverse his  Shapiro said lawyers found that Poten tial jurors questioned thursday in private were More candid because they were being questioned individually and not because reporters were shut out. / it was Only because we were so concerned with . S right to a fair trial that we agreed to such an extreme measure Shapiro told reporters As he walked into court. We reflected upon it we discussed it and we want to return to the same proce dures that we followed in the past and have the press and Public hear everything that takes place Simpson is accused of killing his second sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. The newly released transcripts revealed that during the closed meeting wednesday defense attorney Johnnie Cochran or. Asked Ito to  speak briefly about whether he could get a fair trial. But Simpson apparently started talking about the june 17 Chase. Mrs Clark is. Clark said i was trying to run Simpson told the judge re Ferring to prosecutor Marcia Clark. Everyone knows that i called my father in Law. I was not in a Frame of mind. I admit that i was not in the right Frame of mind at the time i was try ing to get my  \ at that Point Shapiro interrupted and said your Honor excuse  but Simpson continued talking. I was headed Back Home he said. Or. Simpson Shapiro said. I am Tell ing you that i will not allow you to speak and i will resign As your lawyer if you continue to do  Simpson then said thank you and stopped talking. From Page 1 two suspect Sites though inspection will be delayed for several years. It also agrees to dismantle its existing nuclear reactor As Well As two reactors under construction and to shut Down its nuclear facility for extracting plutonium from re actor fuel rods. In return the United states and a consortium of other countries including South Korea and Japan will provide the North with two modern nuclear Power plants that produce less of the bomb making ingredient plutonium. The United states also would provide the North with Oil for its Energy needs while two new reactors Are being built. The two countries will set up diplomatic Liaison office san each other s capitals. Gallucci said tuesday that the delay in inspections of the two suspect Sites was Thebes Deal negotiable. The Sites must be opened up for inspection before the key components of the new modern nuclear plants Are installed which will take about five years he said. He said the Carrot of improved economic political and diplomatic relations with the United states and the West will ensure Tenort keeps its promises. But the . Concession attracted criticism. /. ,. At the . S International atomic Energy Agency spokesman David  said thursday that his Agency had a responsibility to do our Job briskly and  but we Are now faced with the prospector not being Able to Complete our inspections in North Korea for five years or More he said. Even with the modern nuclear technology promised by the United states and its Al lies North Korea would still accumulate relatively Large amounts of plutonium that could be used to make nuclear bombs said David Albright president of the Institute for science and International Security i Washington. There is also a possibility that North Korea has hidden other facilities that could be used to make nuclear weapons under ground he warned. Warned from Page 1 Western allies. The Retreat came after the United states began deploying an Armada of troops and aircraft to deter an iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As has been expected for Days the Clinton administration marked the iraqi withdrawal by cancelling scheduled deployment of 23,000 . Ground troops including 18,000 marines from the 1st Marine expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton Calif. . Officials said about 13,000 Ameri can combat troops in the Kuwait area or on their Way would stay in the Region for exercises probably lasting several weeks. If the situation remains quiet they will be brought Home. Military officials said that at the height of the recent crisis Iraq had amassed be tween 70,000 and 75,000 troops Between thc.32hd parallel and the kuwaiti Border including two divisions of Republican guards 1,090 tanks 970 armoured Lehi Cleland 670 artillery pieces. Although the United states moved quickly to Send ships planes and troops into the area there was a critical win Dow oct. 9-10 when the iraqis could have invaded and Allied resistance would not have been enough to deter them the officials said. Air Force it. Gen Howell m. Estes Iii the new operations director for the joint chiefs of staff told reporters that based on the intelligence we Are seeing now in Iraq we obviously can see that the threat  receding. But clearly it is not totally  As a result officials said Washington would continue to keep troops in the area and use the Opportunity to test a new Quick deployment procedure under which combat units sent from the United states would be paired with weapons and equipment kept permanently at sea incur gossips. The United states also has deployed 274 aircraft about half of them fighters or bombers to the Region As Well As an aircraft Carrier five missile carrying warships and an amphibious ready group that houses the marines. Thursday s order also cancels deploy ments of the 101st airborne div air As Sault of fort Campbell ky., and the 1st cavalry at fort Riley kan., As Well As six b-52 bombers and a Squadron of radar evading f-117a stealth fighters. In All the Pentagon had earmarked 155,000 troops and 600 aircraft for deployment. Iraqis from Page 1 wait government which has pledged to pay half of the $500 million to $1 billion Cost of the . Emergency deployment is feeling the Strain of defense spending. The parliament proposed tuesday thai All citizens and foreign workers earning More than about $1,050 per month must pay a temporary 10.percent income tax to cover the expense of the american deployment. Other persian Gulf nations have agreed to pay the rest of the costs. While politicians Ponder the Issue sol Diers Are bracing themselves. For the possibility of spending Christmas in the  goes to. Show that when you do a Job and Don t do it right you be got to do it again " said a tank platoon sergeant who fought in the persian Gulf War 315 years. I honestly Hope it does t last As Lone he said. But i think i la be Here another 1 thanksgiving another  one Tanker who definitely won t be spending his holidays in the desert is spec Bradford Fletcher whose enlistment con tract ends in a month. He was told hell re turn to the United states next week so that he can Settle his paperwork. I just can t believe i m Back Over in this place said Fletcher who spent two months in Kuwait this summer before his unit was hastily sent Back for the Borde emergency. I be spent four years in these1 big beasts the 24-year-old tank Driver said. Four years of being stuck in that Little Hole looking at the world through an 8 Inch or 9-Fnch window. Not for me any More. Fletcher who s from Cranston r.i., talked awhile longer about All the things hell do once he leaves the army. Then he looked up at the Behemoth lab rams tank and added that s one of the things Iii miss most is driving these   
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