European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday february 26,1989 chopping the Burger a a French Farmer representing an american Hor Mone treated hamburger kneels with his head in a mock Guillotine As an executioner prepares to drop the Blade in Beauvais 40 Miles North of Paris. Friday s make believe execution against importing the american meat is one of several protests banners have staged against problem they feel Are faced by French agriculture. Soviets begin to close armenian nuclear Plant Moscow a catching up to criticism first voiced in the 1960s and made More relevant by the dec. 7 earthquake soviet authorities on saturday began shutting Down Armenia s nuclear Power Plant. The shutdown of the Plant 19 Miles from the arme Nian capital of Yerevan will be the first time the soviet Union has stopped an operating and serviceable nuclear Power station. It is another example of the Krem Lin s More cautious approach to nuclear Power adopted after the april 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Cher Nobyl nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. The Acci Dent killed 31 people and sent a Cloud of radiation around the world. Tass the official soviet news Agency said technicians finished pulling the plug on one of the armenian Plant s two water cooled uranium powered reactor Early saturday afternoon. The second reactor is to be turned off March 18. An armenian Georgy Ter Stepanyan told the youth newspaper Komsomol Skaya pravda on saturday that he was among a group of scientists protesting the plans for the Plant in the late 1960s. That was during the Rule of Leonid i. Brezhnev when Public opinion was largely discounted and the government s stress was on building the country s Industry not protecting people or the environment. Ter Stepanyan said he and others pointed out that the station was planned for construction on the Ararat geological fault and was therefore susceptible to Earth quakes. In addition he told the newspaper any Radia Tion leak would contaminate the Republic s main water Supply. Greens criticize Bonn for of of phone taps by americans Bonn West Germany up the anti Nat Ogreen party has criticized the Bonn government for allowing . Secret services to tap Telephone conversations in West Germany a claim the governing party angrily rejected As anti american propaganda. Angelika Beer one of the greens 42 members of parliament Friday urged the government to put a Stop to the spying on German citizens by . Secret services particularly the National Security Agency. The intervention follows an article in this week Der Spiegel Magazine which claims that the . Intelligence Agency has a massive phone tapping operation in West Germany which can pick up about one in three phone Calls. The weekly claimed that the Agency employs a Many As 600 people in West Berlin alone and has a major communications Center in a downtown Frank Furt office that goes by the name of Headquarters for special data  the sniffing around by German and . Secret services is unbearable Beer told parliament on Fri Day. Another parliamentarian social Democrat Hans de with cautiously criticized the government As owing the Public an explanation. It has nothing to do with animosity toward the United states. The United states too must have an interest in having this matter explained he said. But members of Chancellor Helmut Kohl s govern ing Christian democratic Union angrily rejected the claims. Cd parliamentarian Rolf Olderog called the Spiegel article an anti american horror  another cd member Karl Lamers said there Isno evidence to Back up the claims and dismissed the debate saying that there Are god knows More important foreign policy  government officials have in the past weeks been angered by widespread Media reports of a Cooling of re actions Between Bonn and Washington. The reports thl was Ontl so of Bonn s handling of claim that West German firms helped build an alleged chem ical weapons Plant in Libya. The West German government first rejected the claims but later admitted that its own secret service had similar information. . Embassy officials in Bonn could not be reached for comment saturday. Brother s confession found in Cambodia Bangkok Thailand a american Karl deeds did not find his brother s remains in a former Khmer Rouge extermination Center in Cambodia but he said saturday that he retrieved the 20-Page Confes Sion his brother made under torture. Deeds said that he hired people to dig in the tool Slang compound in the capital phenom penh but Michael Scott deeds remains were not among the five sets of skulls Teeth and other Bones they found. Officials at tool Slang now a museum of Geno cide allowed him to make a copy of his brother s confession in which he described How he joined the Central intelligence Agency. The names of Michael and his family were written in English on the first Page of the cambodian language document kept in the compound s archives. The Khmer Rouge commonly accused suspected enemies of being Cia agents. Torturers took photo graphs and exacted confessions before killing their Vic Tims. Karl deeds said Vann Nath a survivor of tool Slang pointed out where to dig. Vann Nath now a police officer said he was allowed to live because the Khmer Rouge used him to paint portraits of their Infa Mous Leader pol pot. Vann Nath remembered my brother saw him being taken by the guards to be tortured and interrogated deeds said. Michael deeds was one of the last to die under the communist Khmer Rouge regime. It killed hundreds of thousands of people from 1975 until a vietnamese invasion ousted the regime in Early 1979 and installed the current cambodian government. The government says 20,000 people died at tool Slang including 11 foreigners most of them captured offshore. They included six americans three French people and two australians. Michael deeds then 29, and another american Cal stopper Edward Delance were seized while sailing Oil Cambodia s Southern coast in late 1978. They were executed at tool Slang on Jan 5 1979two Days later vietnamese forces captured the capital and found unburned corpses and bloodstained instruments of torture at the compound authorities ignored the warnings and went ahead with construction. The armenian Plant designed to operate for 30 years began supplying electricity to republics in the soviet caucasus Region in 1976, Tass said. In May 1986, a month after the chernobyl disaster and a year after Mikhail s. Gorbachev took Power authorities began reconsidering. The dec. 7 Earth quake that devastated Northwestern Armenia and killed 25,000 people but did not damage the Power Plant focused new attention on the dangers. Premier Nikolai i. Ryzhkova told reporters dec. 12 that the Plant would be shut Down in two years because of the earthquake danger. But experts sent to the Plant after the dec. 7 Earth quake concluded that unless the Plant were strength ened its reactors should be shut Down immediately in january the government chose the shutdown option out of concern for the safety of armenian Popula Tion Tass said. More than 1 million people live in Yerevan. The 407,500-kilowatt Plant generates More than one third of Armenia s electricity and authorities have called for residents to conserve Power to avoid Short Ages. It is to be turned into a Thermal Plant probably using natural Gas As a fuel in a project expected to take three or four years Tass reported. In december soviet officials announced that six nuclear Power projects had been scrapped because of earthquake danger or tougher standards imposed be cause of chernobyl. World today israeli women protest Long army Reserve duty Jerusalem a a group of israeli women has banded together to protest what it considers excessive periods of army Reserve duty exacted from their husbands because of the palestinian uprising. The group s formation in a country where military service is considered a revered Patri Otic duty Points to the tremendous Strain the Arab revolt has placed not Only on the israeli army and Economy but also on the families of soldiers. All israeli men Are subject to annual Reserve duty. Last year the duty was raised from 40 to 62 Days because of the Arab uprising but this year it has been reduced to 42 Days. The 10 wives in the group headed by Sari Reches said their husbands have already served the full two month period of duty required for the past year which ends april 1. Nonetheless Reches said the men have been called up to report to their units on March 15 for 23-Day stint of duty. 3,851 centenarians live in China Survey shows Beijing a China has 3,851 Centenari ans with the harsh lands of the far West provid ing the Best environment for reaching the Cen Tury Mark. A Survey sponsored by the China National committee on aging found that 70 percent or 2,761, of those 100 years and older Are women and most live in Rural areas of North West and Southwest China the official peo ple s daily said. It said nearly a fourth of the total 865 peo ple come from the Xin Jiang uighur autonomous Region the rugged sparsely populated desert area of Western China that is Home to China s Central Asiatic moslem minorities. The uighur a moslem minority of about 6 million led with 802 centenarians half the total from the minority groups. Tibetans were second with 134