European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 -. The stars and stripes sunday september 10,1995 a glance. French soldiers form a special de Tail at the Eiffel Tower recently in Paris after six bomb incidents in As Many weeks. Police in the Lyon re Gion detain 31 suspected Muslim militants two Days after the latest incident. See Story on Page 13. Packwood sets Date going but not yet gone sen. Bob Packwood will hold his seat in con Gress and cast votes for three More weeks before an oct. 1 departure forced by charges of sexual misconduct and abuse of Power. Page6 trial without end the Light at the end of the Tunnel goes out for . Simpson s jurors facing a lengthy prosecution rebuttal and other surprises after eight months of sequestration. J. Page Ruby Ridge errors while defending his beleaguered Agency before sceptical senators the head of the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms acknowledged an inexcusable action in the siege of White separatist Randy Weaver. _ page9 workers not indicted a grand jury refused to indict eight supermarket employees in the death of a suspected shoplifter who col lapsed during a scuffle Over a tooth Brush and a tube of toothpaste. Page 10 stocks and keyed up computer stocks continue their wild ride with roller coaster returns affected by news and rumours. Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 18 classifieds 26-31 commentary. 17 faces n places. -18 Horoscope. 27 letters. 16 Money matters. 20 Mut Ais. 21-25 to visit 8 sports 31-40 weather 19 cd e hey eyed n u c e d r a a Agoti i Washington a former de sense Secretary Dick Cheney directed Colin Powell then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to draw up plans for the use of nuclear weapons against Iraq in the Lead up to the persian Gulf War according to Powell s autobiography. Powell responded we re hot going to let that Genie but Cheney said he was curious to know what would be required according to excerpts of Powell s Book an american journey published in time Magazine. V the results unnerved me Powell wrote. To do serious damage to just one armoured division dispersed in the desert would require a considerable number of Small tactical nuclear weapons. I showed this analysis to Cheney and then had it destroyed a ,. No nuclear weapons were Ever employed. Instead president Bush launched an air War against Saddam Hussein in january 1991, followed by ground troops. When Iraq first invaded Kuwait in a gust 1990, Bush and his advisers Werd Lay ing plans to defend saudi Arabia against an invasion. I asked if it was Worth going to War to liberate Kuwait Powell wrote. I detected a chill in the the question was not answered and the meeting broke up. a later Cheney upbraided Powell for in truding into the diplomatic political realm. Stick to military matters Che Ney told him. But Powell said he Felt he was justified because he had to know Powell from Page 1. a. Society but devote Little thought to who will eventually a Bill despite his criticisms of the two parties Powell raised the Point in the time interview that if he were to run As a Republican he needs to meet deadlines in the next few months to get on primary ballots. He also discussed the financial and organizational difficulty of running As an Independent. A _ but in the Book he said americans distrust rigid ideology As much Ashe does. A the time May be at hand for a third major party to emerge to rep resent this sensible Center of the american political spectrum he said. Powell has kept counsel with a wide Circle of political advisers including Republican veterans of the Reagan and Bush administrations. Although he has not established exploratory of forts tie has done nothing to Stop in dependent citizen groups that have sprung up to urge his candidacy. Powell s autobiography chronicles his life As a son of jamaican Immi Grants growing up in new York a restless youth who worried his family because he never settled on anything until he joined the Reserve officer training corps and decided on a Mili tar career a " v. ,7 / the discipline the Structure the camaraderie the sense of belonging were what i craved. I became a Leader almost immediately Powell said in describing his a Etc experience As a student at City College of new York. He wrote also of his frustration As a military adviser in Vietnam and his leadership of the persian Gulf War under president Bush. What the military should expect. He also described Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf . Commander of the War As an Active once in a discussion about postponing the Date to begin the ground War the two ended up shouting at each other on the phone. Suddenly his tone shifted from anger to despair Powell wrote. " Colin i feel like my head s in a Vise. Maybe i m losing it. Maybe i m losing my objectivity " the last thing i needed was to push the commander in the Field Over the Edge of the eve of Battle Powell said. You re not losing it he told his general and reassured him that he had the full Confidence of his superiors in washing ton. --./.,.-. Powell also defended the decision to halt the War instead of pushing on to Baghdad for a full rout of Saddam s troops. A ". I stand by my role in the president s decision to end the War when and How he did. It is an accountability i carry with Pride and without apology he wrote. Nato from Page 1 russian id makers a Ernand key of Ficini s firing Over by snip four corpses several seriously wounded people and a damaged vehicle. A doctor on bosnian serbian television Miodrag Lazic claimed the Hospital was directly targeted and that there were no military objects nearby. But . Spokesmen said the shoulder launched missile fired by serbian forces at Low flying nato jets just after noon Friday was just hundreds of Yards from the Hospital. One or More of the 39 mortar or Artil Lery shells fired from British 105 my guns and 120 my French mortars May have overshot the target said . Spokesman it. Col. Chris Vernon. The . Rapid reaction Force made up of crack British French and dutch gunners has fired More than 1,200 shells at serbian guns around Sarajevo since airstrikes started. Nato has said the bombing will continue despite what was widely hailed As a breakthrough Accord by the warring sides in Geneva on Friday to formally preserve Bosnia As one country but effectively Divide it into Muslim croat and serbian entities. Bosnian serbs exulted Over the Long sought de Facto recognition of their self styled Republica bosnian government officials were More muted but apparently Hope peace will gain them territory. Having induced Bosnia Croatia and. Serbia to accept a framework for peace .-led negotiators now face an extraordinary array of obstacles including the drawing of a map that meets each party s minimal goals. Moscow a angered by their nation s declining clout russian lawmakers voted saturday to demand the firing of foreign minister Andrei Kozarev for the utter helplessness11 of russian diplomacy in the state Duma or lower House of parliament also urged in the nonbinding vote that Russia suspend its participation in nato s partnership for peace program in protest against Western airstrikes on bosnian serbs. Venting nationalist sentiments in a special session called by three opposition factions legislators called for president Boris Yeltsin to sign into Law legislation it passed last month to unilaterally lift sanctions against serb led Yugoslavia. Elsewhere in the former soviet Union. The Baltic countries issued a statement in support of the nato airstrikes while Ukraine s foreign ministry called for their halt. The Duma s Resolution which passed 258-2, carries no Force of Law. But the vote will be hard for Yeltsin to ignore with parliamentary and presidential elections drawing closer in december. A presidential hopeful retired Gen. Alexander Lebed said the bosnian crisis had revealed the real face of nato which he called a Spear pointed at rus Sia s Yeltsin himself lashed out at the for eign ministry at a Kremlin press Confer ence on Friday blaming it for diplomatic failures and warning there would be changes in personnel if the problems were not corrected. But it is unlikely he would immediately sack Kozarev in response to an advisory vote by a lame Duck parliament. Yeltsin threatened earlier in the week Tor reconsider Russia s relations with the West if nato attacks continue. Croatia sets limit for settlement Zagreb Croatia a Croatia on saturday renewed its threat to use Force to regain remaining rebel serbian hold Ings in the East unless a negotiated settlement is reached within three months. The foreign ministers of Croatia and Yugoslavia in Geneva for .-sponsored talks on a peaceful settlement of the conflicts in former Yugoslavia failed to agree Friday on key Points of a solution for Serbi an occupied easternmost Croatia. An armed clash Over the territory would undo any peace arrangements for neigh Boring Bosnia. Under Washington s proposed Balkan peace plan Croatia would accept a transitional period of serbian Rule in the ser Bian held land known As Eastern Slavo Nia. But the territory ultimately would revert to Zagreb s control. The Geneva talks marked a break through in 3 /2 years of War in Bosnia be cause Croatia and Serbia agreed to recognize Bosnia within its International Borders but internally divided Between a serbian and a Muslim croatian entity. The question of serbian held Eastern Croatia was not settled. Unless the problem is resolved within two or three months Croatia. Shall re sort to other Means to solve it Croatia s envoy to the peace talks Miomir Zuzul told croatian to
