European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday december 18,1994 at a glance a member of the 82nd airborne div takes cover in Panama City during the 1989 . Invasion of that nation. Panama s president declare dec. 20 a National Day of mourning marking the invasion to oust dicta Tor Manuel Antonio Noriega. See Story on Page 10. Cartel crashed Law enforcement agents said they successfully penetrated Money Laun Dering operations of Colombia s Call narcotics Cartel. Trial takes break the . Simpson trial broke for the holidays just As tempers frayed.-, page9 German history a National museum on 600 years of Germany s history has opened in Berlin. " Page 11 something computes computer stocks have added a bit of Luster this year to an otherwise Dull Market x  v Page 13 Index Abby Ann Landers classifieds. Commentary. Faces n places. Horoscope. A letters. Money matters. Mutual. Sports. Weather. .20 24-29 .232025 .22 12-13 13-17 29-36 .21 to our readers to provide the latest information an graphics the stars and stripes is de laying its two part report on the Friendly fire Accident that took 26 lives Over Iraq. Watch for the series coming this week. Correction a Story saturday incorrectly spelled bandleader Glenn Miller s Legal firs name. It was Alton. Chechnya Given deadline Grozny Russia a the Krem Lin threatened to launch a missile strike on the capital of Grozny unless forces in breakaway Republic of Chechnya Dis armed by Midnight. Deputy prime minister Nikolai Yegorov issued a statement saying Russia would fire missiles at strategic targets if adequate measures for disarming illegal armed groups on the territory of the chechen re Public Are not taken by  he repeated the threat on his return from talks in Moscow to the russian head quarters in Mondok in North Ossetia on the chechen Border. If he chechen pres ident a Khokhar Dunayev does not Cometo his senses after the strike the groups will be destroyed he told the itar Tass news shooting from Page 1 Agency. The threat was the most serious Chal Lenge yet by Moscow to Dunayev s regime. Russian troops however appeared reluctant saturday to obey attack orders. About 30 Miles West of Grozny an a Mored column dug in near the Village of Davidenko had withdrawn a half mile from where it was halted by peaceful demonstrators earlier last week. Maj. Gen. Ivan Babichev the column commander said Friday that his tanks would not Advance on Grozny even if or dered to by president Boris Yeltsin. There was a Lull in fighting saturday As Yeltsin met in Moscow with his hawkish Security Council. But As evening fell sporadic shelling could be heard on the out skirts of Grozny. The panel sent a Telegram to Dunayev inviting him to last minute talks but he declined chechen spokesman mov Ladi you dugo said. The russian foreign ministry later is sued a statement that said Dunayev had missed his last Chance to Settle the crisis peacefully. It said that As soon As the deadline passed army and Interior ministry troops would have to take decisive measures using All available Means in order to re store constitutional legality Law and order on the territory of the chechen Republic. Illegal bands will be disarmed and in the event of resistance  Clinton were asleep in the upstairs living quarters of the White House and were not immediately disturbed agents said. They were never in any danger secret service spokesman Eric Harnisch Fege said. White House spokesman Arthur Jones said the president subsequently had been informed of the incident but could pro vide no details on who spoke with him or the president s  president went ahead with plans to travel to the Virginia suburbs saturday morning to deliver his weekly radio address from a Community College but his motorcade left from the front drive rather than the rear As is customary. As he left he declined to answer reporters questions about whether he had hear the gunshots and whether he Felt Safe. Yellow police tape was Strung around the White House rear grounds and the adjacent Ellipse Park area blocking a Cess to the annual pageant of peace display featuring the National Christmas tree at the Center. Mounted police Cladin Orange rain slickers cordoned off the Park area but White House Tours Wen ahead As usual. The secret service was trying to get description of the assailant from wit Nesses but so far descriptions Are so varied it s nothing workable Meyer said.  /.,. Agents began a crime scene search at first Light to look for additional bullets and to determine if any could have struck the White House. Fri agents were an officers at the Ellipse in Washington on saturday seek clues to the shooting incident Al zing the rounds that were recovered. Agents declined to comment on the extraordinary nature of two shootings at the White House within months but said there was no immediate indication that the events were related. It s too preliminary right now to make any judgment Calls said Dave Adams another secret service spokesman. We re just trying to determine who the people were who shot at the White House he said. The secret service sealed off streets immediately around the White House for a time but later reopened Pennsylvania Avenue to traffic. Saturday s shooting was the third major White House Security threat in re cent months. In september a Small plane crash4anded on the South grounds of the White House and its Pilot was killed. A review of White House Security procedures was ordered after the plane crash and expanded after the first shoot ing. A report is due in january. Korea from Page 1 were undertaking a routine training mis Sion at the time of the incident which it said happened at 11 03 . Saturday korean timer 9 03 . Friday est. Perry said rep. Bill Richardson d-n.m., who by coincidence arrived saturday in North Korea on an unrelated visit spoke by phone with Secretary of state Warren Christopher after having discussed the helicopter incident with North korean officials the congressman reported that his North korean hosts described the incident As unfortunate and said that it was under investigation the Pentagon said. At the request of Secretary Christo Pher or. Richardson will continue to press the North koreans for further information for Access to the Crew and for their prompt return the statement added. The state department also contacted the North korean Mission at the United nations in new York to insist on the urgency of information on the incident Aswell As for prompt Access to the Crew Perry said. The defense Secretary said the Pentagon had received conflicting information about the incident and thus could not provide full explanation of it. Other . Defense officials speaking on condition of anonymity said one of the two fliers is experienced at flying in the Vicinity of the demilitarized zone which is a 2.5 mile wide strip of land separating North and South Korea. The other Pilot was newcomer and was on the flight to become familiar with the mountainous terrain. Weather was not a Factor in the incident one Pentagon official said. . Helicopters routinely Fly in the Vicin Ity of the demilitarized zone but do no Tenter it on the North korean Side. The air Craft involved in this incident was an Armyoh-58c reconnaissance aircraft. Earlier this year the United states and North Korea moved toward confrontation Over Pyongyang s secretive nuclear pro Gram which . Officials said had Proba Bly produced nuclear weapons. North Korea s refusal to allow International inspectors Complete Access to its nuclear Sites Only made matters worse and the United states threatened to push for . Sanctions if the inspections were no permitted. Pyongyang called sanctions an act of War and North and South Korea both put their forces on Alert. But the situation was de fused in june when former president car Ter travelled to North Korea to meet with president Kim ii Sung and gained Assur ances that led to reopening talks in Geneva.  ,. Those talks yielded Art agreement in october under which North Korea promised to freeze its nuclear program eventually dismantle its reactor and allow inspections of nuclear Sites. North Korea and the United states reestablishing Low level diplomatic ties with plans to open Liaison offices soon. However the Clinton administration has said the United states would not agree to full Diplo Matic relations until North Korea promises to Stop exporting ballistic missiles and reduces the number of troops it has stationed near the demilitarized zone. Military incidents in recent years have become rare along the 155-mile Doz. Nevertheless some 2 million troops Are stationed along the line. Some 37,000 . Military personnel largely army troops Are stationed in South Korea a legacy of the 1950-53 korean War in which More than 50,000 american died