European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes monday february 1989 soviet pullout nears end officials Arm Kabul groups termed soviet Union up a unit of the last soviet troops to leave Afghanistan pushed up to the soviet Border sunday As some soldiers Sang to celebrate the end of the nine year conflict. The bulk of soviet forces in Afghanistan had been air lifted out of Kabul leaving Only a Token Force of about 500 crack troops to guard the City s Airport. Meanwhile the official soviet news Agency Tass said Kabul is under martial Law. The dispatch quoted Daud Raymar the City s party chief As saying we have distributed weapons among party organizations in Kabul so that every one of us could defend the cause for which the afghan people suffered so Many  president Sayid Mohammad Najibullah told a Kabul rally sunday that his government would survive after the last soviet soldiers had returned Home and he declared that the afghan government s army could defend Afghani Stan against the moslem rebels. God is with us. The people Are with us. We will win the War Najibullah told about 10,000 members of the peo ple s democratic party of Afghanistan. As the pullout progressed about 65 soviet military vehicles including armoured personnel carriers and Light tanks carrying some 250 soldiers marched to the Border near hair Aton to await a Celebration monday that will officially Mark their passage into the soviet Union. The column met no enemy fire during the twisting 310 mile trek from Kabul to termed in the soviet Republic of uzbek. But it had to Brave Snow ice and avalanches while going through Salang pass in the hindu Kush mountains that stretch across Afghanistan. I have been dreaming of this Day for 18 months said Alex Kol Korotkov a 20-year-old from Moscow. The arrival of the Convoy at Friendship Bridge the Gateway into the soviet Union leaves Only several thou Sand soviet troops in the country where 104,000 had been stationed before the withdrawal began under the Accord signed last april in Geneva. Soviet forces went into Afghanistan in december 1979 in an attempt to bolster the marxist government. The action plunged the soviets into a grinding guerrilla War that has Cost them 13,410 dead. Two teen age girls wearing uniforms and carrying As Sault rifles Anarch in a Kabul rally on sunday. News update soviet girl accepted Phoenix a a 17-year-old soviet girl from the Ukraine has been found to fit the medical criteria for a heart lung trans Plant officials said. Oksanna Kje Kyna s name will be placed on a waiting list for donor organs at Phoe Nix s Arizona heart Institute officials said. She arrived several weeks ago to see if american doctors could repair her heart which has been defective since birth. Doctors at the Institute said the Cham Bers of her heart were malformed and that Only a heart lung transplant could save her life. Doctors said her lungs had been irreparably damaged by years of extremely High blood pressure. Or. Edward Dietrich and Humana hos Pital Phoenix have agreed to donate the surgery. We Iii la Livia ii ivs Plugin  Wai Obj T. The. Sault Niles March in a Kabul rally on sunday. Aquino refuses to talk with Laurel get confidential Marcos message Manila up president Corazon with her a year ago and that his 19-hour said Marcos message was a Privit Aquino again spurned vice president trip to Honolulu was his own affair communication and Laurel could Salvador Laurel on sunday refusing to macaraig said. Break the confidentiality by Makine t Swiss drought t t see him and discuss his visit with exiled former ruler Ferdinand Marcos saying the vice president should instead make Public the results of his trip. President Aquino Felt that there should be nothing secret in what or. Marcos sought to convey to her said Aquino s Secretary Catalino macaraig. In a statement released by the presidential Palace Aquino repeated her position that Laurel has become the Leader of the political opposition since he broke Wjt Tri macaraig macaraig s comment came minutes before Laurel made yet another plea by letter sunday for an audience with Aqui no to relay personally a highly confidential message from former  i Hope you will find time soon to listen to his comment considering their serious import and far reaching consequences upon your administration and the nation As a whole Laurel said. Laurel s spokesman Ike Gutierrez Locarno Switzerland a town officials in southernmost Switzerland considered the rationing of drinking water Sun Day As meteorologists reported a record 62-Day dry spell in the Region. A meteorologist at Locarno s Observatory predicted no major weather changes Over the next 10 Days for the Southern tip of Ticino Canton or state which Borders Italy. The dry spell is the longest in the Observatory s 125-year records he said. Several towns prohibited the use of Auto Matic car washes last week. Boeing loses lawsuit Seattle a a King county Supe rior court jury has ordered the Boeing co. To pay $1.5 million in damages to the family of an italian Man and his son who were among the 520 people killed in the 1985 crash of a Japan air lines Boeing 747 i Japan. Attorneys for the italian widow Heidi Moroni 48, from Milan and her 18-year old son Alessandro had sought $6.5 Mil lion in damages from the air plane company. Her husband Giancarlo Moroni and a second son Andrea Moroni died in the crash. Heidi Moroni said the award did not adequately address her loss. There were two human lives which had to die in this Accident because the air plane was not fixed As Well As it should have been she said. I think you know two human lives should be Worth  correction Calm after coup a Soldier stands guard at a military Rodriguez led the uprising that ousted Headquarters in Asuncion Paraguay the nation s ruler Alfredo Stroessner. As peace returns to the nation after a on sunday Stroessner was flown to bloody coup. Forces of Gen. Andres exile in Brazil. London team refuses Wii bomb the series on military wives that was to begin today has been rescheduled. Part i on officers wives will appear in the daily Magazine on feb. 21 and 22. London a experts on sat urday safely disposed of a 2,000-Pound bomb that had lain buried since the world War ii Blitz in the capital s Eastend. Several Hundred people were evacuated from their Homes Friday night after construction workers unearthed the bomb. Army bomb disposal officers were called to the scene and worked through the night. Because the bomb was considered too dangerous to try to transport out of the area the army experts steamed the explosives out of the Shell and conducted a controlled explosion of the Detonator police and the defense ministry said. At least 20 roads in the area were closed to traffic. The bomb was found 15 feet below ground in Whitechapel an area most famous for the unsolved Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Sai s a privileged communication and Laurel could not breath confidentiality by g their conversation Public. Meanwhile some 200 Marcos sup porters staged a two hour rally at a downtown Square demanding the return of the former president carrying por traits of Marcos and his wife Imelda and shouting slogans denouncing Aquino and the . Government. Laurel said on his return saturday from Honolulu he agreed with medical reports that the 71-year-old Marcos was near death and should be allowed to re turn to his Homeland. N. Korea denies reports on Trade with South Korea Tokyo a North Korea accused South Korea on sunday of fabricating reports that the two sides had. Opened Trade and conducted talks on a joint Ven Ture fur company. The official workers party newspaper Rodfong Shimun said such reports were false and meant to win Public favor and thereby defuse the crisis of South korean leaders dictatorial Rule which has now reached a serious  Pyongyang s korean Central news Agency monitored in Tokyo carried excerpts of the newspaper commentary. The paper denied that there had been any talks with Jindo corp. Of South Korea the world s largest producer of fur goods about a plan to construct a joint venture fur Plant in North Korea. Last month Jindo s executive director Kim Jin Young said in Seoul that his company was gathering information about the North korean proposal. The North korean commentary came two Days after officials in the South korean port of Inchon reported the arrival of the first direct shipment of Merchan Dise from North Korea since the Start of the three year korean War in 1950. The shipment contained 20,900 tons of Coal. Also last week South korean tycoon Chung jul Yung returned from a 10-Day trip to North Korea and said he had agreed in principle with North Korea on projects to jointly develop a tourist re sort shipyard and rail Plant there