European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 05, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday Mays 1989 winners of soviet lottery flush with Victory Moscow a a lottery in the ukrainian City of Stakh nov did t top the is 15 million Jackpot offered last week in Pennsylvania but the winners seemed Happy with their prizes Rolls of toilet paper. The newspaper literary Gazette on wednesday told the Story of Ira a girl who bought three tickets and walked away with several Rolls of toilet paper a Towel and a Small bowl. The lottery tickets Cost 50 Kopek about 8 cents More than the actual Price of Many of the prizes. Bui. Don t forget that there Are great  literary Gazette said. Inthe City of Stakh nov except for the lottery one cannot get these  soviet Consumers arc suffering through chronic shortages of Many household goods and food products. Store shelves in Moscow arc Barer than they have been in years and the Situa Tion in the provinces is worse. Thou Sands of people come to the capital every Day to shop in its stores. Other Lucky ticket holders in sakha nov won hens pigs goats detergent and Bath soap the newspaper said. It did not specify the Date of the drawing. One Winner could not bring to his House everything he won. In one hand he had a Hen in the other there w Cre four packets of laundry detergent the newspaper said. The Lucky people were bringing hard to get products from the Park it said. Seventy people won toilet paper and 50 of them boxes of  an old woman who had t read about the lottery in the local newspaper was dismayed As she watched the peo ple leaving with items that were not at the shops. My god where Are you getting this stuff?1 the newspaper quoted her As asking a Winner. Literary Gazette said she had no idea that in the pockets of other Happy people there were bars of  according to lottery results the organizers sold 20.000 tickets and pocketed about $3.890 by giving away prizes that Cost less than the tickets. The newspaper did Dot explain How the organizers obtained the goods that were Given away. The lottery was held in Honor of the 175th anniversary of Stakh nov a City of 112,000 people about 500 Miles South of Moscow. It was founded in the 19th Century As Kadi Evka but rename to Honor Coal Miner Alexei Stakh nov who was held up by dictator Josef Sta Lin As a Model worker for far exceeding average Coal yields. His feat in 1935 spawned a move ment of workers who strove to emulate him As Stalin led the soviet Union on a course of crash industrialization. Stak Hanoi is in the Eton Basin Coal mining Region of the Ukraine. Israel reveals new Chariot tank equipped with replaceable Armor Tel Aviv Israel a Israel s army on wednes Day unveiled a new tank that the in Ensor says will remain forever Young because of a unique Armor system that can be replaced even on the Battlefield. Army commanders said the thick skinned me Kava Mark 3 can survive anything an enemy infantryman can throw at it making the tank one of the toughest in the world. Me Kava Means Chariot in hebrew. This is the most protected tank against known anti tank  Brig. Gen. Yossi Ben Hanan head of the armoured corps told reporters during a visit to the production line at a military base near Tel Aviv. The Mark 3 is a step ahead of any tank deployed in the Middle East now he said adding it was on a Par with the new soviet t-80 and the . My Al. Israel Tal a retired major general who developed the tank and is now a defense ministry adviser said the revolutionary change in the tank was the construction of modular units and Bolt on Armor that can be removed to make Way for improvements. This Means the tank can get periodic face lifts to keep its skin As Tough As possible. This is especially important at a time when Armor technology is rapidly changing he said. This tank will remain forever Young. It will never be old. The Armor can be changed at any Lime even in he  said Tal. Who led the armoured column that seized the Suez canal from Egypt in the 1967 Middle East War. In addition to the replaceable Armor some parts of the vehicle such As the fireproof fuel tanks in the rear arc modular units that can be changed if upgraded parts arc developed. The army screened a film of the Low Slung tank tearing across the Rocky terrain of Northern Israel making about a 40-foot leap through the air from an earthen embankment while going full tilt. The Mark 3 s top Speed was not disclosed but it has a .-made 1,200 horsepower engine. It also has a larger gun 120mm instead of the 105mm Cannon on earlier models. In chemical nuclear or biological warfare the tank can be scaled shut and the Crew can operate in an air conditioned environment without Gas masks or cumbersome suits Tal said. The atmosphere in the Cabin is  so that air leaks out rather than Poi son seeping in he said. Other unique features of the me Kava include a capt. Ornit checks out Israel s new Mark 3 tank. Back door that allows the Lank to unload an infantry squad during a Battle and a front mounted engine that doubles As additional Armor to pro decl the Crew. The new Lank costs $2.3 million per unil to develop compared with $1.8 million for the Mark 1, first introduced in 1979 and Battle tested against Syria s soviet made t-62 tanks in the 1982 Lebanon War. Tal said the Advent of the Mark 3 Means Israel now is in a position to sell its Mark i and 2 tanks to foreign countries. He also said special features of the tank such As the Bolt on Armor could be sold separately to upgrade existing tanks and other armoured vehicles. Despite some contentions that tanks Are no longer the dominant Force in land Battles Tal contends they will remain a key element of warfare. Tanks arc considered by both East and West As the Backbone of warfare on land. This did t change yet and the Assumption is that it won t change until the end of the. Century he said. World today inquiry urged into report of 50 gypsies being slain Belgrade Yugoslavia a the world Gypsy Congress thursday said it had unconfirmed reports that about 50 romanian gypsies were killed by romanian Border guards after they tried to escape to Hungary. The incident purportedly took place a month ago. The Secretary of the Gypsy Congress Rajko Djuric said the claims prompted Gypsy leaders to launch an International Campaign to investigate the report. They came to the hungarian Border at night and crossed it illegally. But since they were Anthrop logically easily recognizable for their Darker complexion the hungarians turned them Back Djuric said. Once Back on the romanian Side of the Border they were mowed Down by romanian armed Border  Leader of Liberal party in Canada decides to quit Ottawa a Liberal Leader John Turner said wednesday that he is resigning after five troubled years As head of the party. With his family looking on he announced he will quit after the National party executive selects a Dale for a leadership convention. Turner 59, a Toronto lawyer was prime minister briefly then Rock ily steered the party through More than four years in opposition. Turner whose party lost an election last year to the progressive conservative party of prime minister Brian Mulroney said he will hand to his successor a Lively vigorous caucus of 83 members and a party much More open to the new  . Marine chopper forced to land in Okinawa Field Tokyo a a . Marine helicopter made an emergency Landing wednesday in a farm Field just out Side a residential area of Okinawa Island japanese police said. No injuries were reported. The ch-53 helicopter was on a routine flight with two crewmen when it developed a Hydraulic problem said master sgt. Jake Rodrigues spokesman for the . Military Liaison office. An Okinawa police official said the helicopter car ried a Crew of five and had an engine problem. After repairs the helicopter returned to its base at futenma Marine air station in Okinawa 1,000 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. Quayle. Talks to cambodians at refugee Camp site b refugee Camp Thailand a vice president Dan Quayle toured a Remote refugee Camp for cambodians on thursday and told thousands of people pleading for return to their Homeland that their plight is a tragedy a human  Quayle and his wife Marilyn travelled More than 2 / hours by plane and helicopter carrying a message that you have not been forgotten to the Camp known As site b deep in the Brush six Miles from the thai cambodian Border. Caring the end of a four nation 12-Day trip through the Pacific and Asia Quayle held Small children and spoke to thousands who have fled the vietnamese occupation of Cambodia. Today is to Call the attention of the world to what is going on. These poor kids Here the sick some of them born Here want to return to their Home he told reporters outside a Cluster of thatched houses. And yet they can t because of the illegal occupation by vietnamese troops. Secret service agents armed with assault rifles guarded the Quayle party As the vice president and his wife Shook hands and touched some of the tens of thousands of people who turned out to cheer them in the burning heat. Quayle originally was scheduled to visit site 2, an other major refugee Camp South of site a but sporadic shellings of site 2 Over the past two weeks prompted officials to cancel that trip. The visit to the refugee Camp was the last major event on Quayle s trip and it underscored his promo Tion of . Efforts toward settling the decade old cambodian War. The United Stales is supporting non communist guerrillas led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk and by son Sann. Al a departure news conference in Bangkok later Quayle said the United Stales May Supply weapons to those resistance groups in order to give them More leverage with Botn the vietnamese backed government in Cambodia and its powerful ally the Khmer Rouge. Vietnam has promised to pull ils forces out of Cam Bodia ibis fall