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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Papa 8 the stars and stripes thursday May 26.1988 troops Lack discipline soviet official says Moscow Al t s Vici soldiers deployed in Easl Cie Many late ditch Tinc Ond an acceptable slate of Battle readiness. Defense minister Dmitri  was quoted wednesday As saying. The ministry Dejl Krasnaya zvezda red Star reported wednesday thai Valov addressed a special meeting of is nine army Efti cars from the East Ger Man detachment Asti mined by Western sources to number Anui  soldiers in preparation for Ocul month s communist party conference. He pressed fur Reform of military unit stationed in the Allied country and championed soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gor Barhev building of the approx build a better fighting f Azov. Who a cram head of he Kremlin s armed forces a year ago. Appeared to be stumping for the Leader s policies in Advance Gor Barhev s policy of per Stroika or re appropriate foundation on which to buil Force. Pics of what he considers poor performance by troops crying in Easl Germany but delivered a largely  on their military preparedness according to inc newspaper. Yazoo blamed the substandard conditions within inc military units on stagnant tendencies Low Al lentil chess and  the communist party of the soviet Union the soviet people demand ofus that we liquidate these negative tendencies in he army which Are harming military  Yazoo told the officers. 1 was not Clear How Many were present for his scolding but the newspaper said the meeting was attended by seven generals Ond Slaff members of the soviet military Council and the soviet ambassador to Easl Germany. Many of the party organizations of the a Sig die group of soviet soldiers in Germany have yet to show themselves to be generators of acres troika Yazoo  of the conference that i expected to be a Falcoff Between Reform advocates and conservatives. To a. ,. _. The newspaper said he brought up problems of pc new Sam did of z wtor91"1 be a provi Equality of Milita prep Rednek and Wittl a news paper did not say when or m what Eily inc an constructive recommend Dainov of 0r Thanet Yazoo met with hit american counterpart. De sense Secretary Frank Carlucci in Switzerland in Yin of told the meeting that pan of he problem is adherence to the admin Islrea Sivc command form of management a phrase that Bas come to refer to the leadership style of the late dictator Josef statin. The Gap Between commanders and loaders and their subordinates must be narrowed and inc needs concerns and interests of the soldiers taken into consideration in All decision making the newspaper quoted Yazoo As saying. Yarov was named to succeed marshal Sergei l. Sokolov on May 30, 1987, two Days after West Ger Man teen age Pilot Malhias rust slipped past the soviet air defense forces in the Baltic. Rust Fiew his single engine plane Over More than 00 Miles of so Viet territory before Landing in red Square. Yazoo was named it candidate or  member of the ruling politburo a month later and has called for Reform of the military service in the few speeches he has Given and in article he has gathering look place. The defense minister provided no specific exam  recommendations for change. Krasnaya zvezda did not report Yazoo s suggestions. March. World today flights cancelled merged after workers walk out London api British airways cancel two lights to Europe and merged others wednesday because of a walkout by  maintenance workers at Heathrow Airport the workers who maintain and repair British airways  air planes walked off the Jub monday to prompt the firing of a Union official. The a in Kors members of he Amaha Amalid engineering Union arc culling for the reinstate ment of shop Steward Griham Murwill. Murwill was fired for failing to inform some Union Mem Bers that a walkout Over a pay dispute in february had been cancelled. Both the Union and the airline said no talks arc planned to resolve 11 if unofficial walkout. Soviet attache sought High tech secrets Swiss say Bern Swit Artand a Switzerland has expelled a soviet embassy attache who built up a spy network aimed at scouring Western High technology the Federal prosecutor s office said wednesday. The Swiss government protested to the soviet ambassador in Hern Over inc official s misuse of his diplomatic Slaius. A prosecutor s  said the Diplomat a member of the soviet state committee for science and technology built up contacts Over several years and concentrated his activity on secret military and space technology the office said. He also gathered military and political intelligence it said. He is the second soviet embassy official ordered to leave Switzerland for spying within a year. The soviet official left Switzerland several Days ago inc prosecutor s office said. Thieves hit Holland museum in week s second robbery the Hague Netherlands of thieves smashed a Glass showcase and stole two jewelry it is in the Netherlands second museum the/1 in a week s time the museum s director Dis closed wednesday the Friday in Chi of a Cameo brooch and a Gold edged medallion from the dutch literary museum came on the same Day that thieves broke into Amsterdam s municipal museum and stole three paintings estimated at up to 100 million guilders about s52.6 million the jewels though to be Worth a few thou Sand guilders apparently re stolen during opening hours. The stolen item were part of the legacy of Marcellus emants a Lurn of the Century poet and novelist. Friday s predawn burglary at the municipal museum marked the Netherlands biggest a theft. Toss joins forces with . Firm to make souvenirs of 88 Summit  some so Tenin in already being sold Inch As these t shirts to Moscow s Inglema Lloil Trade Center. Moscow a Here s the latest bulletin from Tass the a Flicia soviet news Agency is going into the souvenir to shirt Button record and cassette Busill Csc just in time for the Summit. Tass announced tuesday night that it has entered into an agreement with a Washington firm to design produce and distribute souvenir of the May 29-june 2 meetings Here Between Mikhail Gorbachev and presi Dent Reagan. Central planning in the soviet Union has prevented Mosi industries from capitalizing on Shori Ienn Busi Ness prospects such As souvenir sales during events like the Summit. But economic reforms introduced by Gorbachev have allowed More flexibility by individual enterprises and agencies and the Tass project in an outgrowth of those reforms. Toss director general Sergei Losev said that his Agency is venturing into the souvenir Market for the first time and that it makes Good sense for american companies and soviet organizations la work together especially during the planning for such an important event As the  the . Partner in the business was identified ask Vutich International inc. Tass said that company s chairman Johns Kavulich is praised the joint souvenir operation and said it demonstrates the desire of the soviet Union to learn More about Western marketing methods the to shirts to be produced have a four color design on the front which Tao did not describe and a Tass top 20" logo on the Back to promote a new music rating program that the news Agency plans. The souvenirs will be sold at Moscow hotels and at selected stores within inc United slates Tass said. Buttons audio cassettes and record albums also will be produced Tass raid without providing details. Pregnant women to get aids tests London a Britain Plain to screen up to 90,000 pregnant women for aids to track inc spread of the disease health officials said tuesday. Sir Donald Acheson Tai government s  officer said the voluntary program would begin this summer and last one year. Pregnant women unending prenatal clinics in three regions will be asked to submit to blood tests for aids. Acheson said. Officials Hope to screen Between 60,000 and 90.000 women he added. He said that Only women who give consent will be screened. However. Health minister Tony Newton said that if the program fails to attract enough volunteers it might be necessary to carry out Anonymous tests without specific  in View of., the difficult ethical and Legal issues associated with such testing we consider it right that the Issue should be the subject of further and wider Public debate Newton did. Blood tests can select the presence of antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus or his which causes aids. A positive result indicates exposure to the virus by docs not necessarily mean a person will develop aids. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroys the body s natural immunity to infections and certain can cers and is invariably fatal to Western Europe and the United states male homosexuals and intravenous drug abusers Are most Al risk. Aids is transmitted by sexual Contact and through the cd hang of blood including that which can occur m Needle sharing among drug addicts. 1 also can be passed from a woman to her baby before or Al child birth. Acheson said in a television interview that the gov a Mem Hopes Large scale screening of pregnant women will Jug Jevc a belter indication of the spread of aids in Britain and might be advantageous to the women themselves  
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