European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page so the stars and stripes sunday november 27,1968 soviet panel rejects move by Estonia to review Laws Moscow a the soviet Union s highest executive body on saturday found Estonia s Effort to declare greater autonomy from Moscow unconstitutional the official Media said. The presidium of the supreme soviet convened by president Mikhail s. Gorbachev considered Estonia s Challenge during a meeting to review constitutional amendments that will be presented to the supreme soviet or parliament this week a week ago commissions of the supreme soviet found Estonia s constitutional amendment reserving the right to review soviet Law at Odds with the Constitution. Baltic activists who Are pushing for greater autonomy under Gorbachev s reforms say he constitutional amendments would reduce their Power. The Kremlin has expressed some willingness to Compromise. In the Southern part of the soviet Union violence . Sold ices shot to death three azerbaijani for Violat ing a curfew in the City of kirov bad raising the death toll from ethnic violence in the City last week to sin an official said saturday. Changiz Sadykhov officer in charge of the azerbaijani City s communist party Headquarters said the three were shot Friday for violating an overnight cur few imposed to quell disturbances Between azerbaijani and armenians. Soldiers in tanks and personnel carriers continued to patrol the streets even though there had been no protests for the past two Days he said. Three soldiers were killed in kirov bad on tuesday after being called in to protect the City s armenian population from mobs of azerbaijanis. The defense ministry newspaper Krasnaya zvezda reported saturday that they were killed by a grenade thrown from a crowd. Sadykhov said about 120 people had been injured protests ground to a halt saturday in Yerevan the capital of Armenia under a ban imposed by soldiers who were reported to be breaking up gatherings of even two or three people the latest fighting Between armenians and azerbaijani has challenged Gorbachev s Reform efforts animosity Between armenians who arc mostly Chris Tian and Aherb Ijams mostly moslem Dales Back hundreds of years in the caucasus Region that now forms part of the soviet Border with Turkey and Iran the conflict escalated in february during a dispute Over Magorno Karabash a territory with a predominantly armenian population that has been part of Azerbaijan since 1923. Gorbachev said soviet Leaden would meet soon with delegations of armenians and azerbaijanis seek ing a solution to the dispute. So fes Holt fire after syrian warning Beirut Lebanon up rival shiite moslem militiamen locked in a five Day War narc d on yet another cease fire in As Many Days the agreement came after Syria warned both sides saturday to Slop the Bloodbath and withdraw from the streets of Beirut and its sprawling Southern suburbs police sources said. Hours before the latest cease fire the rival syrian backed and pro iranian shiite groups battled fiercely in West Beirut. Nine people were reported killed saturday including two amal Security officials raising to at least 16 the number of dead since the clashes erupted tuesday in Beirut s Southern suburbs. More than 50 people were wounded in the violence which switched to mos Lem West Beirut Friday. The syrian backed and More secular amal Defeated the Iran leaning Hezbollah in South Lebanon last april after a four Day Battle in which 62 people were killed and 150 others were wounded. The pro iranian moslem fundamentalists retaliated one month later and after three weeks of fighting captured most of Beirut s Southern suburbs at least 300 people were killed and 1,000 others were wounded in the Buttles that ended with a syrian deployment there. Hews briefs higher Oil prices follow tentative open Accord Vienna Austria a Oil prices soared More than 10 percent As open ministers awaited word from Iran on whether it would ratify a pro posed six month Oil reduction Accord. The ministers of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries planned to return saturday night to Vienna to resume their Winter conference in Hopes or formally approving a pact to slash the Cartel s Oil production from mom than 22 million barrels a Day to 18,s million barrels daily. In response to the tentative Accord the Price Tor january delivery of Brent the Benchmark North sea crude jumped $1.65 a barrel to $14.42 Friday in London trading. . Petroleum exchanges have been closed since wednesday Tor the four Day thanksgiving Holiday but analysis said us markets would match the european gains if the open minister signed a Fina Accord Over the weekend. Arafat s request for visa denied by state dept. Washington a the United states has rejected Palestine liberation organization chairman Yasser Arafat s application for a visa to visit the United states to address the United nations the stale department announced saturday. Secretary of stale George Shuttz revealed his decision in a statement issued to reporters. The Flo applied for a visa so Arafat could travel to new York to address the general Assembly on dec. 1. Shutlz said he could not recommend Grant ing the visa to Arafat because of the Plo positions the . Government has convincing Evi Dence that Plo elements have engaged in terrorism against americans and others the statement said. Moreover Arafat As Plo chairman knows of condones and lends support to such acts and is an accessory to such  Swiss staffers � w i a a a i x4 i f xxx i to 0pi m " m pm of red Gross quake leaving Lebanon Beirut Lebanon a the International committee of the red Cross began withdrawing its Swiss staff from Lebanon on saturday 10 Days after a Delegate was kidnapped in South Lebanon sources at the arc in Beirut request ing anonymity said the organization will shut Down the All Swiss organization s operation throughout Lebanon if a tar Winkler was not released by next saturday dcc.3.three staffers left saturday for Geneva leaving about 2b in the country. The three had worked in i crts office in Sidon which was closed Down wednesday to pro test Winker s abduction there. The Sidon office helped the War disabled and visited detainees held by Israel. The 1crc staffers Are the Only group of foreigners that has stayed on in moslem West Beirut and South Lebanon despite the Waves of kidnappings that Breed All for Eigners out of the country in the last four years ,. A,-." Winkler 32, was kidnapped by three unidentified gunmen nov. 17. No group has claimed responsibility. Police have theorized that Winkler was kidnapped fora Liady off with Hussein a. Riri a lebanese shiite moslem air plane Hijacker held in Switzerland. / Hariri 22, a member of the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god commandeered an air Frique jetliner on a night from Rome to Paris and forced it to land in Geneva j uly 24,1987. He killed a French passenger before he was overpowered and arrested. Hariri s trial set for this fall at the Swiss supreme court has been postponed until feb. 20. From Page 1" " controlled and no injuries were reported. V Quebec City chief Engineer Claude Vincent said the quake caused a few cracks in the Walls of buildings there. The geological Survey of Canada which measures earthquakes first re ported the quake at 6,4 on the Richler scale but said saturday thai it was Actu ally 6. -.". Quakes measuring at least 6,0 can cause severe damage in populated areas. But no such damage was reported in Eastern Canada or the United slates and there were no reports of serious injuries or Anne Stevens seismologist for the geological Survey said there was Only minimal damage because of the depth of the quake size of quake and Quality of building  Bui Stevens said in could Lake Days to determine whether there was any weakening of buildings she. Also said there had been More than half a dozen aftershocks some registering As High As 4.3. Janet Drysdale another seismologist with the Survey said the aftershocks could continue for two years. We would expect at least one with a magnitude of  on the Richter scale a couple of 4.0s, two 3.0s and numerous 1 title. Wee ones Drysdale said. Scientists Are still recording aftershocks from a 1982 earthquake that hit the cast coast province of new Bruns Wick. That quake measured 5,7 on the Richler scale. Drysdale said her Agency expected a major temblor after monitoring a prelim Inary Shock wednesday in Chicoutimi North of baie Saint Paul thai measured 4.8 on the Richler scale. Seismographs and other instruments placed after the up restock will allow scientists to determine Why Friday s quake happened. Although earthquakes Are routine and Well Analysed on Canada s West coast Drysdale said Little is known about the origin of quakes in Eastern Canada. The last in the Region struck Tirol skating Quebec in 1933 and measured 6.2, officials said. Or. Goiz Buchbinder another Survey seismologist said earthquakes in Eastern Canada arc believed to be caused by old faults reactivated when the North Ameri can plate one of about 20 rigid plates that makes up the Earth s surface moves Westward toward the Pacific plate