European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 29, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 soviet supplies pour into Kabul More envoys consider pullout Kabul Afghanistan a soviet planes flew in emergency food and fuel to the embattled capital of Kabul on saturday and More countries pondered whether to join the United states and close their embassies before the red army pulls out. The planes flew the supplies to Kabul Airport and convoys of at least 112 trucks hauled the food and fuel to silos and gasoline stations where Long lines began forming at Dawn. Some of the fuel trucks headed up the Salang High Way the Only land route open from Kabul to the soviet Union. The 250-mile Highway passes through territory controlled by moslem guerrillas who have been fight ing the soviet backed afghan government the past dec Ade. In Kabul a soviet Convoy of 12 trucks carrying sacks of flour halted in the Road. Three children ran up to the truck but fled when a soviet Soldier jumped out waving his Rifle. Shortages have eased since the soviet food Airlift began week before last. But afghans Many wearing Only Light Cotton clothing and sandals in the freezing weather stoically waited in lines for bread and Gaso line. Five hours after Sunrise they still had not received any supplies. Gasoline lines stretched for several Miles. The latest Airlift came a Day after several More non communist nations decided to close their embassies. The first country to close its Mission was West Ger Many a week ago but when the United states announced thursday that it would soon withdraw its diplomats Britain France and Japan followed suit. Italian diplomats said their government was consid ering similar action and non Western diplomats said soviet allies would probably leave As soon As the soviet troop withdrawal is completed. The afghan embassy in new Delhi India said aus Tria also had decided to close its Mission in Kabul. Workers erected steel planks around the iranian embassy on saturday but there was no immediate word whether the government planned to close the embassy s doors. Bush fatten up pork Rind soles Chicago a one of the largest processors of George Bush s favorite snack food is hop ing to catapult the product to National popularity with a new Brand presidential pork rinds. Ill be on the Street with them next week Bill Connor sales manager for Evans food products co., said Friday. The Brand is a Takeoff on the president s Predi Lection for the porcine product. A gift Jar of pork rinds replaced Ronald Reagan s Crystal Container of jellybeans on the table at Bush s first Cabinet meeting last  Bush has done wonders for pork rinds Here this year said Ai Rickard a spokesman forthe snack food association in Alexandria a. My View is skins Are in. Pork rinds in 89, said Connor who sent 3,000 pounds of the Crunchy puffed snack to Washington for the presidential inaugural Ball and in return got an invitation to the  rinds Are Fried pieces of hog skin cooked in hog fat stored in pellets for 30 Days and Fried again for 60 seconds in Oil heated to 400 degrees at which time they explode like Popcorn Connor  food products with a Plant on Chicago s South Side supplies pork Rind pellets to Dallas based frito Lay the largest . Marketer of pork rinds and other companies Connor  handles about 50 million pounds of pork skin  said pork rinds compare favourably with peanuts in fat Content and contain a High percent age of protein. Nutrition experts said however that the salted snack has enough calories fat an sodium to make it a poor food for All but the most physically Active people with the lowest cholesterol Levels. The snack food association said pork Rind sales totalled $195 million in 1987, a figure dwarfed by sales of potato chips which had $3.8billion in sales in the $8 billion Market for Salty snack foods. About 2 million afghan refugees live in iran which shelters and supports some of the guerrilla groups fighting the afghan government. An additional 3 Mil lion afghan refugees live in Pakistan where a separate Alliance of .-supported guerrilla groups is head quartered. The soviets have said they intend to keep their embassy open but it will operate with about 100 staff members one third of the staff it had before the withdrawal entered its final stage. Two soviet military transport planes left Kabul on saturday with soviet families. Armed military helicopters escorted planes Over the Hills ringing Kabul air port. The planes dropped flares designed to deflect heat seeking missiles fired by anti government guerrillas. Despite the impending closures of Western embassies the american club served California wine and cheeseburgers and showed movies Friday night to a dozen Western diplomats slated to leave soon. The american club a recreational Center operated by the . Embassy was scheduled to close saturday. The . State department has said its last embassy staff members would leave Kabul in a few Days. De Pendents and All but 11 diplomats and Security guards already have departed. In october the embassy had a staff of 21 . Citizens. A non Western Diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity called the . Decision to close the embassy All a part of Washington s mane vering trying to show to the world that this government is on the verge of  the United states has predicted that president a Jib s government will fall soon after the soviet withdrawal is completed. Moslem guerrillas who get sup port from the United states saudi Arabia and Pakistan have vowed to keep fighting until Najib i removed. Najib s government denounced the decisions to close embassies claiming it could provide necessary Security even after the soviets leave. Under an agreement brokered by the United nations the soviet Union is to Complete the withdrawal soviet sentries stand guard last week at Kabul Airport. By feb. 15, ending the Kremlin s military intervention that started in december 1979 to prop up its client regime in Kabul. An estimated 115,000 soviet troops were in Afghanistan when the withdrawal began May 15 and the last 50,000 Are to be gone by feb. 15. They leave behind a conscript afghan army plagued by desertion. Diplomats said the army has been driven to dragging teen agers from their Homes and pressing them into service. Opening of Omron boy s port to Oil notions being considered Washington a Vietnam is thinking of opening the sprawling soviet operated military port of Camanh Bay to All countries a senator in Contact with Hanoi diplomats says. Sen. Frank Murkowski a Alaska also told reporters after meeting Hanoi s . Ambassador that the envoy was very positive about the idea of establishing an unofficial american pres ence in Vietnam for humanitarian purposes Pri Marily help for amerasian children whose mothers were Viet namese and fathers were . Service members Dur ing the Vietnam War. Murkowski who plans another in a series of vis its to Vietnam in March talked to reporters Friday after meeting on Capitol. Hill with Vietnam s . Ambassador Trinh Xuan Lang. Lang was the first Hanoi official in Washington for official meetings since the Northern half of Viet Nam became Independent from France in 1954. I asked about the soviet presence at Camanh Bay Murkowski said referring to the giant port built by the United states during the Vietnam War and now the soviet Union s largest overseas military base. I was very pleased at the response that there is consideration Given to opening that port up to All the countries of the world he said. I said sure you d find the United states interested in occasionally calling in  soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev offered last september to dismantle the base at Camanh Bay in Exchange for the United states giving up its key bases in the Philippines. Washington reacted coolly and later agreed on terms with the Philippines for continued us of its installations until 1991. Lang at a meeting with officials of the state and de sense departments and National Security Council prom ised that the government would continue to cooperate Murkowski with the United states in efforts to account for about 1,700 american service members still missing from the Vietnam War the state department said Friday. The department relaxed rules restricting the . Envoy to the new York City area in order to enable him to attend a Washington reception. State department spokesman Charles Redman reiterated that normalization of . Relations with Hanoi depends on Complete withdrawal of vietnamese Mili tary forces from Cambodia. Lang said later he was very satisfied with his meetings which he said aimed at better understand ing and  .-Vietnam relations sooner or later will be normalized he told reporters on Capitol Hill. Murkowski urged the . Government to hasten the complicated procedure of finding and processing thou Sands of amerasian for entry into the United states. Amerasian and their families endure great hardship in Vietnam because they had american fathers or Ameri can connections during the War he said. Murkowski also said the ambassador told him that the Hanoi government was agreeable to allowing representatives of . Private voluntary organizations to establish a humanitarian presence for such purpose sin Saigon since renamed to Chi Minn City. The senator estimated that 12,000 amerasian Chil Dren now Young adults remain in Vietnam and that with family members a total of up to 36,000 people could be involved. Estimates of the number of Viet namese marked As . Sympathizers and subjected detention and re education after the War vary widely and have run As High As 500,000. Minibar firm lays off dozens of workers upper Saddle River . Up faced with lagging sales of its budget priced autos Yugo America inc. Has Laid off dozens of employees including some corporate executives company officials said. The problems faced by the distributor of minibars could Lead to a takeover by Zavodi Covena Zastava the manufacturer of the Yugo an Industry analyst said Friday