European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday february 19,1986 politburo retires Grishin 71, sex party Leader of Moscow world today Moscow a politburo member Viktor Grishin who in december was removed As Moscow City party Leader was retired from the ruling body tuesday in one of three major personnel changes announced at a Central committee  n. Yeltsin 55, Grishin s successor As Moscow party chief was named an alternate member of the Polit  v. Rusakov 76, was retired As Central committee Secretary in charge of Liaison with communist parties in the communist bloc. The changes were announced by the official news Agency Tass in a Brief report on a plenary meeting of the 300 plus Central , 71, had been on the politburo for 24 years and was one of the last holdovers from the Era of Leonid , the party Leader who died in 1982. He had been Moscow s party Leader since 1967, and his removal two months ago came after months of rumours that he would be replaced because of allegations of poor parly administration of the capital City. Grishin s removal brings the number of full politburo members to ii. Yeltsin s addition increases the alternate or non voting membership to  Mikhail s. Gorbachev became party Leader last March three full politburo members have been removed and four new appointments announced. No replacement was announced for Rusakov. Tass said he retired for health reasons at the plenum which pre cedes the opening of the 27th communist party co Gresson feb. 25. The Congress will formally approve the new membership of the Central committee which is expected to change by More than 50 percent. About 320 committee members the total number in the Central committee were elected at the last Congress in 1981. At the plenum the Central committee heard reports by Gorbachev and Premier Nikolai i. Ryzhkova and approved the Congress Agenda and the parly report to be delivered by Gorbachev at the gathering. The members also approved economic guidelines for Theresa of the Century and a new edition of the party program and rules to be adopted formally by the 5,000 delegates tothe Congress. Rusakov was considered a confidant of Brezhnev an served As one of his personal aides in 1972-77. He ran the Central committee s department for Liaison with communist and workers parties of communist coun tries from 1968 to 1972 and again from 1977, when hews promoted to a Central committee Secretary. In his party Post Rusakov was considered a prime influence Over soviet policy toward China during a period of increasing tensions Between the two communist giants. Gorbachev has said he wants to improve relations wit the chinese As part of his administration s apparent emphasis on asian policy. Grishin elected a candidate politburo member in 1961and a full member in 1971, was the body s longest serving  members of the so called old guard who Are still full members of the politburo include soviet presi Dent Andrei a. Gromyko 76, a former Long time foreign minister and 74-year-old Dinu Muhamed a. Yunaev and68-year-old Vladimir v. Shcher Bitsky. Old guard Candi Date members Are Boris n. Ponomarev 81, Vasily , 81, and Pyotr n. Demichel 68. Yunaev and Shcher Bitsky have recently been re ele Tedas Heads of the party organizations in Kazakhstan and the Ukraine respectively. Crash pad uniter Sily student Wendy Wickham narrowly escape injury in Edmonton Alberta when a car skidded out or control at an icy intersection and Slid to a Stop in her bedroom As she was preparing for a mid afternoon  of the vehicle were not injured but Wickham was left wondering where she would sleep. Britain to sell saudi Arabia military planes Worth $7 billion Abu Dahabi up the saudi arabian defens minister has signed a $7 billion contract for the Purchase of 132 mihary8 aircraft in the Gulf Arab state s biggest Ever arms Deal with Britain the state run saudi press a8tlievgiein0crydmcnilored in Abu Dahabi said the planes 72 Tornado Jet fighters and 60 Trainer aircraft will arrive in the Oil Rich kingdom in the near future. They will join the squadrons of the Royal saudi air Force to take part in the holy duty of defending the a the a Crecy said the Deal was signed by minister princ Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz who is also aviation chief and British representative Colin Chandler who was not fur ther identified. Russian asks government to let wife go to . For treatment Moscow a Nahum Meiman a former Leader of the inactive Helsinki watch group said his wife s can cer has worsened sharply and he renewed his plea that Shebe allowed to go for treatment in the United states. Meiman who was a spokesman for the unofficial group that monitored the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords spoke at a news conference in his Moscow apartment. He said he hoped publicity would draw soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s personal  Appeal to people of Good will everywhere to express their outrage and protest against what amounts to human sacrifice with my wife Inna Kitro Skaya 53, slated As the victim Meiman said. British biscuit company makes record takeover bid for firm London a United biscuits the world s largest biscuit maker outside the United states has launched a record breaking takeover a for Imperial group which produces Beer cigarettes and snack foods. The $3.6 billion takeover bid by United biscuits was announced at the same time As another British conglomerate Hanson Trust made a s3.2 billion hostile bid for  Friday Imperial and United biscuits dropped their si.8 billion plan to merge after the government referred the proposed Deal to the monopolies and mergers commission. Owner of radio station critical of Libya Iran wounded in hip Rome up gunmen wounded the egyptian born owner of a private arabic language radio station which is critical of Libya and Iran in an ambush outside his apart ment House police said. The gunmen believed to be Arab terrorists fled when Mahmud Reda 50, returned fire police said. Redo shot in the right hip was reported in Good condition in the Umberto i polyclinic Hospital. . Navy transport plane used to take elephant to sri Lanka Bangkok Thailand up a . Navy trans port plane airlifted a nearly 4,000-Pound elephant from Thailand to sri Lanka ending a huge four year transportation problem. The male elephant weighing 3,977 pounds was give by Thailand to sri Lanka As a gift four years ago to Mark their historical and religious links but the pachyderm created a transportation Nightmare. Veterinarians refused to authorize sea travel and no cargo plane was big enough to carry the elephant. The transport plane was scheduled to make a regular flight from the Philippines to sri Lanka via Thailand. After arriving in Bangkok the aircraft made a Detour to Chiangtai province about 360 Miles North of Bangkok to pick up the elephant before proceeding to sri Lanka. Soviet spy satellite expected to crash paper says Bonn up a wayward soviet spy satellite is expected to crash Back into Earth s atmosphere sometime this Spring after slipping hopelessly out of its intended orbit a German newspaper said monday. Die Welt in its Early edition for tues Day said the errant satellite was launched last dec. 20 for Gru the military Intelli gence service of the soviet general staff. The newspaper said the satellite is about the size of a bus and contains Modem surveillance equipment that would mainly have served to detect submarines cruising in Northern hemisphere  spy satellite was supposed to have started orbiting at an Altitude of about500 Miles but the last stage of its delivery rocket failed. Die Welt said citing information from Nasa and other ground monitoring  slipping trajectory of the satellite is now strictly governed by the Laws of physics and technology apparently no longer can influence it the newspaper quote Horst Hewel a Berlin telecommunications Engineer As  Welt reported Hewel said the doomed satellite has picked up Speed in the past few Days so that observers now believe it will re enter the atmosphere in Spring rather than summer. Whether the object will Burn up harm Lessly in the atmosphere or Send Large pieces hurtling to Earth remains unknown die Welt said. A soviet satellite with an atomic reactor aboard went haywire and crashed into Ca Nadian wilderness in january 1978, spread ing radioactivity