European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday january 30,1989soviets reaffirm support for afghan head soviet civilians saturday Board a military transport plane bound for Home. Kabul Afghanistan up two senior soviet envoys flew in sunday from Moscow to assure continued economic Pidto president Sayid Mohammad Najibullah whose regime harassed by guerrillas is the target of psychological warfare Accord ing to an afghan official. A soviet source said a 500-truck afghan Convoy was scheduled to arrive Sunda from the soviet Union bringing supplies required in Kabul a City beset by shortages of fuel and Basic commodities. The main route from the soviet Union has Bee blocked by Snow and attacks by . Backed guerrillas. Soviet finance minister Boris Gost Evand Yuri Maslikov Moscow s first Deputy prime minister and chief of the state plan Ning committee arrived Early sunday Justine Day after a Brief visit by soviet defense minister Dmitry Yazoo the source said. During their two Day visit in Kabul Bot officials will discuss prolonging cooperation in the economic Field with Najibullah prime minister Mohammad Hassan share and other senior afghan officials headed the Kremlin s gestures of reassurance come 16 Days before it is scheduled to Complete the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan. It leaves to an Uncertain future the government the soviets sought to pre serve nine years ago by invading the country a to assist in crushing a nationwide insurrection by moslem tribes. A soviet source said the Kremlin had delivered about 150,000 tons of goods to hair Aton on the soviet afghan Border but great difficulties remained in ship Ping the commodities from the military Post to Kabul 250 Miles Down the a Lang Highway. Guerrillas frequently ambush trucks hoping to inflame anti regime sentiment among Kabul residents. The announced arrival of the Large Convoy indicates thata Large soviet afghan military operation last week stymied resistance fighters deployed along the Road. Soviet officials have acknowledge that hundreds of civilians died around a 19 Miles stretch of the Highway during the four Day action that they said razed about 40 villages and dealt a severe blotto the forces of the local rebel commander Ahmad Shah Masood. The area is now very quiet a soviet embassy official said. However tension was evident among the crowds jostling outside the India embassy for visas or queuing for bread and fuel. Most Kabul residents do not expect hostilities to diminish after the soviets leave. Everyone is running for cover Saida taxi Driver. There will be More blood shed but i do not know How bloody. Lethe russians leave and then we will see. I Shallah god willing Ira rebuked by own party s chief for be Greffan a killing of civilians Dublin Ireland a the Leader of the Iris Republican army s Legal political Wing said the Ira killed an exceptional and regrettable number of civilians last year. But Gerry Adams president of sinn fein told 600delegates to the party s annual convention that his rebuke did not mean he was condemning the outlawed Ira and its armed struggle to end British Rule in Northern Ireland. Sinn fein supports the mainly roman Catholic Ira fight to unite the province with the Republic. But even some Ira supporters have criticized the group for blunders that killed at least 20 civilians in the past 14 months. Earlier this year Adams told the Ira to get its House in order after one of its bombs killed two of his roman Catholic constituents in West Belfast. Since the last convention there has been an exceptional and regrettable level of civilian casualties papcum Reou faults wife for delay in divorce plans Athens Greece a Premier Andreas Papandreou has broken his Long silence Over his highly publicized private life blaming his american born wife Margaret forgot arranging the time to discuss their divorce. In a statement published saturday in the left win daily newspaper Elefther Otylia free press Papandreou 69, was quoted As saying Long ago i requested meeting with mrs. Papandreou to proceed with the mutually acceptable divorce. But she has t arrange the time for it to take  the socialist party Leader who is living with his 34 year old Girlfriend Dimitra Liani announced his in Tention to dissolve his marriage of 37 years shortly before undergoing heart surgery in London three months ago. Mrs. Papandreou 66, had originally requested meeting with her husband to talk about divorce plans in december. The meeting was reportedly postponed on doctors orders because of Papandreou s frail health. The newspaper also quoted mrs. Papandreou As de Nying that she had Ever cancelled any meetings with her husband. I Don t know where All these false facts come from she said. According to the report the women s Union of Greece the country s biggest feminist organization and fatalities arising from Ira operations Adam said in a keynote speech at Dublin s mansion House. Our dismay our regret and our sympathy with the plight of families bereaved by the Ira is genuine he said. The convention was to end sunday. Sinn fein commands about a third of Northern ire land s Catholic vote and won seats on 17 of the coun try s 26 local bodies in the last elections in 1985. Meanwhile a police officer was killed saturday an two others injured in a bombing attack in Sion Mills a Village in West Northern Ireland near the Irish Republic Border. A police spokesman in Belfast said the three police men were driving Down the Village s main Street when someone standing in a pub doorway signalled for the to Stop. When one officer got out to investigate an assailant threw a bomb at the  the roof of nearby building police said. A file greek Premier Andreas Papandreou and his live in Girlfriend Dimitra Liani. Which headed is by mrs. Papandreou held an Emer gency meeting to discuss the divorce Case. Mrs. Papandreou the former Margaret chant of Elm Hurst 111., married Papandreou in 1951 when he was an economics professor at the University of Minnesota. Both had been married before. They have three so Sand a daughter As Well As two grandchildren. World today locusts invading Large area of United Arab emirates Abu Dahabi United Arab emirates a the armed forces of this persian Gulf Sheik Domere ordered on a standby Alert sunday to assist in combating a Locust invasion. Locust swarms infiltrating from the rub Alkali empty Quarter desert of saudi Ara Bia crossed into the use a week ago at a Point near the Border with Qatar. The locusts Are affecting an area 187 to 250 Miles West of the capital Abu Dahabi. The invasion has been de scribed As the worst in 28 years. Crown Prince Khalifa bin Zayed who is also Deputy supreme commander of the armed forces ordered the army to stand by in readiness for joining the anti Locust operation. It is being waged by use agriculture department and Abud Habi officials. Industrialist american kidnapped in Colombia Medellin Colombia a a heavily armed group has kidnapped an american psychologist and colombian industrialist in Medel Lin Colombia s second largest City police said saturday. Michael Ray 36, of Philadelphia and nor Man Echavarria who manufactures construction materials were driving Friday when their car was stopped by the group in several vehicles police said. Police believe Ray s abduction was accidental because the group s apparent objective was to obtain a Ransom for , tibetan religious Leader the Panchen Lama Dies Beijing a the Panchen Lama Tibet s second highest religious Leader and the Moun Tain Region s leading spokesman with the chinese government died saturday night of Aheart attack an official report said. He was 50. The state run Xinhua news Agency said Sun Day that the Buddhist priest died at the tibetan town of a gaze where he was attending ceremonies Tor the opening of a new stupa a Tower like shrine containing the remains of past Panchen lamas. The Panchen Lama who chose to stay an support the chinese when the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising was also a vice chairman of the National people s con Gress China s parliament