European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday january 9,1989 report links Siemens to nuclear exports Bonn West Germany a the giant Siemens electronics conglomerate sold nuclear reactor equipment to Paki Stan and India a Magazine reported sat urday. The Hamburg based Magazine Der Spiegel said the sales involved equip ment necessary to keep two nuclear plants running following . And Ca Nadian Boycotts of such technological exports. The report follows charges that a West German company was involved in the building of an alleged chemical weapons Plant in Libya and that other West Ger Man firms May have illegally supplied nuclear technology to Pakistan. Der Spiegel said Siemens sister com Pany Kraft Werk Union also trained pakistani engineers. The Magazine said Kraft Werk Union had become the repair service for the Indian and pakistani reactors. Neither country has signed the non proliferation of nuclear weapons treaty and . Officials have expressed con Cern that the technology could be used for military purposes. Meanwhile a Hamburg based newspaper said saturday the West German government is considering strict new controls for the Export of nuclear and chemical technology. The Bild am sonntag newspaper said the government is considering a package of new controls including Tough new penalties for violating Export rules on such technology. The newspaper said the new rules would be discussed at a Cabinet meeting scheduled for tuesday in Bonn. The paper said the proposals also Cal for better coordination among govern ment agencies and the compilation of master list of companies capable of producing and exporting nuclear and Sensi Tive chemical Bild am sonntag said the proposals drawn up by the economics ministry also Call for tougher rules on exporting technology to Pakistan India and the Middle East. American officials say they have Evi Dence that a West German company was involved in the construction of what the United states believes is a chemical weapons Plant in Libya. West Germany has insisted there is no hard evidence of German involvement in the project at rata 60 Miles South West of Tripoli. West German officials also bitterly complained about a Campaign in the . Media against West Germany. West German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher said saturday that officials would look closely at whether Export Laws need to be tightened. If there is a need to increase or change such Laws then this will be done Genscher said in a radio inter View before leaving for a chemical weapons conference in France. Last month West German prosecutors said they had evidence two West Ger Man companies Many have illegally sold Pakistan equipment and material that can be used in producing atomic weapons. A . Navy f-14 tomcat Jet fighter undergoes routine maintenance aboard its Home base the aircraft Carrier John port Call in Israel f. Kennedy during a scheduled port Call saturday in Israel s Haifa Harbor. The two f-14 jets that shot Down two libyan Mig-23s last wednesday Dur ing a dogfight Over the Eastern Mediterranean sea were from the Kennedy. News updates spill theory offered St. Louis a Shell Oil co. Officials have said a pipeline rupture that sent 840,000 Gallons of Oil into the Gas Conade River last month May have been caused by a malfunction at an Illinois refinery that temporarily increased pres sure in the line. Shell spokesman Tony Canino said that pressure increased in the pipeline Laid in 1948 while valves at a refinery in Wood River 111., 170 Miles East of the spill site in Central Missouri were switching some crude Oil from the Shell pipeline into another line operated by Marathon Oil co. Canino said company officials have not determined what caused the Mal function. Viet withdrawal Beijing up China has welcomed the announcement of a speedier timetable for withdrawal of vietnamese troops from Cambodia calling it a step Forward toward reaching agreement on the occupied nation s political future. President Heng Samrin of the Viet namese installed cambodian govern ment announced Friday vietnamese troops could be completely out of his country by september if a political settlement is reached. Gorbachev says military budget not sacrosanct Moscow up the soviet Union must tighten its Belt militarily to counter the costly aftermath of the chernobyl disaster the armenian Earth quake and the worldwide drop in Oil prices president Mikhail Gorbachev said in a speech published sunday. In a meeting Friday with the leaders of the soviet government Gorbachev criticized those who want to return to the policies of the past. Gorbachev said the leaders of the past such As Leonid Brezhnev and Josef Stalin had left the nation s Economy in chaos. The gravest heritage which we received from the past is the deficit of Testate budget which had been carefully concealed from the Public but in actual fact existed he said in the length speech printed in full sunday in the country s major newspapers. Long lines for few goods Are part of that heritage he said. This problem of an unbalanced Bud get was not brought about in a hurry the soviet Leader said. As it turns out there is More of everything now than be but he said the budget deficit was hampering his efforts to ease shortages and bring new affluence to the country. The situation is being aggravated. Itis connected with the falling prices of Oil the gravest heritage which we received from the past is the deficit of the state Mikhail Gorbachev on the world markets he said. As a result we fell Short 37 billio rubles $59.2 billion Between 1985 and 1988," he said referring to the years he has been at the head of the communist party. Gorbachev said his program to Cut alcoholism by slashing production of state produced alcoholic beverage had a severe economic Side effect. There was a Sharp Cut in Revenue from our cutback in alcoholic drinks which during that same period Cost us 49billion rubles $78.4 billion he said. Then he said we have to take int account accidents at chernobyl and in Armenia. And we should not hide it behave great expenses in connection with the situation in the april 1986 explosion and Radia Tion leak from the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant Cost an estimated 12 billion rubles $19.2 billion in damages and los production. The dec. 7 earthquake will Cost the country an estimated 13 billion rubles $20.8 billion. To compensate for the deficit budget Gorbachev said strict Belt tightening measures were needed. To put it in a practical manner the most urgent and critical task of the Cen trial government is to provide a balanced budget Gorbachev said. This is an Issue so critical that Weill have to consider our expenditure on defense he said. Preliminary studies show that we can Cut them without Low ering the level of Security and the defensive ability of the soviet statistics show defense spend ing at 20.2 billion Ruble $32.3 billion but Western analysts say that in reality itis roughly 100 billion rubles $162 Bil lion with the real costs hidden elsewhere in the Call for cuts in defense spending follows the announcement by Gorbachev in december that he was unilaterally Cut Ting Back the red army by 500,000 Menand withdrawing 50,000 soldiers 5,000 tanks and 8,000 artillery pieces from Warsaw pact nations. Gorbachev castigated people who wanted to turn the clock people feel nostalgic for the Good old times and one can hear peo ple say that the country needs a firm hand referring to the Iron listed Rule of said attempts Are being made under the Guise of glasnost open Ness to attack the communist party which has worked out and proposed perestroika the process of restructuring the views from the viewpoint of the cps Central committee Are basically wrong and run counter to people s interests he said. Actually they Are aimed against perestroika it is those who want to thwart perestroika that attack the said i am confident that we have planned and Are implementing perestroika in a Correct Way and this is not Only my said we can by no Means step off this Road. We should not be overjoyed by successes but there Are no grounds for putting our Choice to
