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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, January 30, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday january 30,1987 Brezhnev Era party Leader removed from politburo Moscow a the communist party thursday removed Tinmu Khamch a. Kunack the ousted Leader of the Kazakhstan party apparatus and one or the last of the  Cra old guard i rom the ruling politburo the action came on the second Day of the communist party Central committee meeting and followed a Call by Kremlin Lender Mikhail s. Gorbachev for re placement of aging parly leaders. The removal of the 74-year-old Yunaev was widely predicted following his ouster Dee. 16 at party chief in he Republic of Kazakhstan. He was replaced by an ethnic russian Gennady Kolbin sparking nationalist student riots in the Kazakhstan capital Alma Ata. Yunaev was no replaced reducing the full voting membership of the politburo to ii. However he Kremlin s propaganda chief Alexander n. Yakovlev was elevated to non voting membership in the ruling body. The official news Agency Tass in its report on the Centra committee meeting said Yunaev retired. The Agency said 72-year-old Mikhail a Zim Yanin another Holdover from the Brezhnev Era retired from the party s secretarial for health reasons Tass said two new secretaries were named alter Nate politburo member Nikolai n. Sly nov and anal oly i. Lukyanov head of the Central committee s Gen eral department. Both sly nov and Lukyanov arc Gorbachev appointees. Sly nov joined the alternate politburo membership at the 27th party Congress in March and also is first Secretary of the parly apparatus in Belo Russia on tuesday Gorbachev called for changes in the Way some senior puny officials Are elected and suggested creation of .1 mechanism for replacing aging members of the politburo secretariat and Central committee the Centra committee which has More than 300 members represents the top leadership of the party in Moscow and the 15 soviet republics. It meets about every tin months. While the politburo runs the country Day to Day the ruling body needs the backing of the powerful committee members to carry out major political or eco nomic programs. In his speech Gorba Chev lashed out at what he called the conceit and complacency of Yunaev officials who oppose his program of Reform aimed at modernizing soviet Industry rejuvenating the bureaucracy and casing some of the traditional restrictions on arts and letters. Gorbachev proposed multiple candidate elections for party secretaries from the factory level to the Cen trial committees of the nation s republics. He also said the party needs a Way o bring new blood into the politburo and secretariat without the damaging Power struggles that have accompanied such changes in the past. Under the late Leonid i. Brezhnev politburo and secretariat posts became virtual lifetime sinecure. Talks have failed to ease Access to japanese markets officials say Tokyo up a High level . Trade Mission has failed to win new concessions from Japan on de mands for Freer Access to its computer memory Chip supercomputer and construction markets . An japanese officials said thursday. But Japan s transport ministry announced separately that an american company had won the first major construction contract awarded to a foreign firm in a 16.5 billion Airport project in the Western City of Osaka apparently the product of earlier to rfcs results have been mixed said Bruce smart he . Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade in lunch remarks at the Japan National press club. Smart and Deputy . Trade representative Michael Smith headed the delegation in talks this week with japanese Trade and foreign ministry officials on com Puter construction and other issues. The officials Laid the United Stales had set a Lime limit no later than March 31, for increase in sales of semiconductors to Japan under a .-Japan Chip agreement last summer but possible retaliation had no yet been decided. Japan also bad agreed to Stop dumping chips or Selling below a fair Market value set by Che . Com Merce department in the United states but european and asian nations claim the pact has pushed the Japa Nese to dump on their markets. During the talks Smith presented what he called fully Analysed evidence that four japanese makers were dumping in third country markets. The for eign ministry official however said the japanese found no  Smith said there also was no common ground Over demands that american makers of supercomputers gain greater sales Access to japanese universities and other Public institutions. Only a half dozen .-made supercomputers have been sold in Japan. Because the High Speed machines Are used almost exclusively for High tech research an military applications the United states has expressed concern about Japan s expanding world Market share. They said american companies were not Likely to be competitive smart said the officials said no new promises were obtained on demands that . Construction firms be allowed to compete freely in the Kansas Airport project in Osaka. However after months of talks Between . And japanese officials the transport ministry said  Caterpillar corp. Was awarded an $84 Mil lion contract for supplying construction machines the ministry said two other . Companies also were awarded contracts totalling si.3 million. Accused terrorist to stand trial in Paris Paris a a Paris court wednesday ordered Georges Ibrahim Abdallah to stand trial in the killings of a is. Military attache and an israeli Diplomat tn1982. No trial Dale was set but court sources said it could begin in about a month. The order for a trial Wai made by the chamber of accusation of the Paris court of appeals which heard arguments in the Case Jan. 20. Five terrorist bombings in september that were claimed by a group calling itself the committee of Solidarity with Arab and Middle East political prison in were aimed at forcing Abdullah s release. Ten peo ple were killed and 16.1 injured. Abdallah presumed Leader of the lebanese armed revolutionary factions is serving � four year term in Lyon on a conviction for Possession of arms explosives and false documents. He was arrested in october 19s4 in Lyon in the present Case. Abdallah is charged with complicity and attempted murder by instigation Aid and assistance in the slayings of it. Col. Charles Robert Ray the military attache at the . Embassy in Paris on Jan. 18, 1982, and israeli Diplomat Valcov Barsi Ronlov on april 3, 1982. He also is charged with the attempted murder of Robert Onan homme the american Consul in Stras Bourg on March 26,1984. Another lebanese. Jacqueline Esber who is at Large also was ordered tried for murder attempted murder and complicity in the Barrio Izotov and homme cases. Abdallah will be tried by a special court created to Deal with terrorism cases and made up of seven Magis trates. Canadian first Appleg col. Sheila Heui Lrafb 52, no appointed Cana i s first woman Geue rtt on to titty. A rely Era administrator la charge of women per Simid Hellstrom joined the Royal cuu Lwi air Force in 1954. The new brigadier general John the ranks of Tome 115 male Centra Commodore and idol nos in the Canadian forces which by some 7,400 women Unyong 84,000 regular. World today British government to help sea Homes against radon London a the government said it would help needy homeowners Seal their houses against radon a radioactive Gas thai seeps from the round a natural deposits of Ara Mun decay. The government Laid about 20,000 Homes mostly la the Southwest counties of Devon and Cornwall tie seriously at risk from radon. The National radiological Protection Board estimates 800 to 900 people die annually from radon in Britain. Radon is found particularly in Granite Are the Gas decays into minute solid panicles which if inhaled cud of deposited in the lungs. Environment minister William Waldegrave old parliament the National radiological Protection Board would conduct a Survey to identity houses most at risk. The Board says the Cost of protecting existing houses from radon ranges from $130 to Seal floor crack to $ 15,000 for floor replacement. Author s Collie called As witness in court Southampton. England a Richard Adams author of water Shin Down the Best Selling novel about rabbits called his dog As a witness in a Industrial tribunal Case involving two gamekeeper. Adams was appearing us a witness tuesday on behalf of David Claridge a gamekeeper who claimed he was forced to resign Hij Job with Andrew wills because he a alarmed by the angry out Umi of hit Ferow gamekeeper David Hunt. Adams in supporting testimony about Hunt tem per said Hunt swore at him while be Wai out walking on a Public Footpath near the wills estate. Hunt threat ened to shoot the writer s Collie dog unless the animal was put on a Leash Adams said. The Industrial tribunal then allowed the author to Callis Collie As a witness 10 show the animal s Becu  Collie bounded into the tribunal room but my instantly when commanded by Adams. Hunt testified that the author s dog bad scattered his pheasants. Claridge later withdrew his Case after agreeing to accept a$3,000 settlement from wills  
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