European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday May 28,1989 news updates Irish election Dublin. Ireland a prime minister Charles haughty has called a snap general election for june 15 in a bid to win his firs outright parliamentary majority at the fifth attempt. His minority government elected 28 months ago by the Slimmest margin possible announced the election in what was seen As a attempt to capitalize on this Island Republic s economic revival. His Fidarma fail party which has governed Ireland for 44 of its 67 years As an Independent state will form the first single party majority government since 1977-81 if its 50 percent plus approval rating in recent opinion polls is reflected in the election. Prisoners release port a Prince. Haiti a Haiti s Justice minister has or dered the release of 82 prisoners who he said were denied due pro Cess during their detention according to a radio station. Yeltsin other avid reformers fail in supreme soviet 1 tempera tubes 1 May 26 Alfi any t an 84 78 95 66 70 4q m 39 65 65 91 73 76 67 90 74 70 39 74 57 66 40 95 72 b6 65 101 74 to 59 64 53 60 48 71 m 91 67 66 40 78 45 90 69 87 53 76 55 70 46 69 61ea is b5 73 69 40 50 46 9? 74 62 36 64 46 61 54 96 71 74 41 99 62 78 53 87 71 73 46 79 56 67 66 Junec kans  Moscow a communist Mav Erick Boris n. Yeltsin and other outspoken reformers lost their bids saturday for seats on a new standing legislature and one suggested they join forces to fight the communist party. Yeltsin and other reformers were elected in March to the 2.250-Mcmbcr Congress of people s deputies which in turn saturday chose the smaller full time supreme soviet and in doing so shut out Many progressive candidates. Many party chiefs and top bureaucrats also faced stiff opposition from fellow congressmen but were elected to the supreme soviet the revamped Law making body that replaces the rubber stamp predecessor of the same name. The deputies voted Friday night from a ballot of 600 candidates All Mem Bers of the Congress to fill the 542 member supreme soviet. In the Baltic delegations another hotbed of Reform deputies nominated Only As Many candidates As they had seats and succeeded in electing a number of Radical leaders to the supreme soviet. Yeltsin won a majority of the votes of his fellow deputies but ran last out of 12 candidates vying for 11 supreme soviets cats designated for the russian federation. Deputy Yuri a. Osipyan chair Man of the commission that counted the ballots overnight said Yeltsin got 1,185votes in the Congress of people s deputies with 964 members of the National Congress voting against him. Yeltsin said he was saddened and Upsel by the results but vowed to continue his crusade indicating he might seek the vice presidency which also will be voted on by the Congress. I must fight to the end he told re porters. He added that was his responsibility to the millions of muscovites who sent him to the Congress. I must fulfil their will and their  the anti establishment Yeltsin headed a list of vanquished Moscow based re formers and radicals including sociologist Tatyana Zaslavskaya economist european weather lol to sunday tar to partly to foully win Van of Mot wig too am Ati noon halt Soun a Guni wf1 Luigi Elf iat Snow i and Fonde Fittim Han Leffier am 65 70 pcs 5055 sri i son Oil 9 23 Suwim Mia 5 23 &j1 a w to non to cut1 t a fwd twi tofiq too and at of  re is a inf � and tar Witti will to on i Whf in ave soon win Kate de Uriv in i Hyim 71. Kiwi so 03 i i o i Cerf i p Tat t 60 63 f a of of i 1 h two a 1 up 64 77 Wii i t 1 4 73 mini pm in 1 52 57 a i t t l t 57 m Rife. � pc it it 13 a Rel riia. Tum i Joti  Caio t Divris Yeltsin at the Kre Mlin on Friday with one Ohhi clerical delegates. Gavril Popov advocate for the Handi capped Llya Zaslavsky historian Sergei Stankevicz and biologist Al Xci Yablokov. In a nationally televised session held in the or Mclim Palace of congresses Many deputies applauded in Delight As Osipyan announced in a droning voice the radicals defeat. Before the balloting some deputies complained the nominating procedure had been rigged to keep party and government officials in Power. We have formed a arc a nov Stalin supreme soviet said progressive Histo Rian Yuri Afana Sylv in dismay As elec Tion results were announced for the new 542-seat legislature. Popov one of the Defeated Moscow reformists declared the apparatus has undoubtedly won and called on progressive deputies from throughout the country 1� form an Independent deputies group to fight communist party and stale bureaucrats. The apparatus clearly wants to get retaliation clearly wants to impose it sown Way at the  Popov charged. He said deputies of a demo cratic orientation sought at first to work with fellow parliamentarians but that from the beginning our work has met with disbelief and  consequence a group of deputies considers it necessary to withdraw from the Moscow delegation the economist announced. We arc going to form. An Independent deputies group and invite All deputies to join  reformers unite it would be the first opposition faction in the Congress where for decades the Kremlin leadership has imposed its will unimpeded by opposition. The deputies elected some More Mains Tream figures who proclaim support for Gorbachev s program of per Stroika or re slur curing. But who refrained Al inc con Gress from fiery rhetoric. They included agriculture Reform advocate  Izvestia editor Ivan Laptev soviet Academy of sciences vice president Yevgeny pc Likhon and Independent Histo Rian Roy Cdv Cdv. Disgruntled citizens defy meeting ban Moscow a several Hundred soviets defied a ban on unauthorized meetings Friday and gathered in a Down town Square to criticize their new parliament hours after it Defeated reformers attempts to Sanction their gathering. Police used megaphones to urge the crowd to disperse or go to an approved meeting place in a giant parking lot away from the City Center but Only a relative handful showed up at the officially approved meeting place authorities took no immediate action to break up the gathering in Moscow s Pushkin Square a frequent gathering spot for political discussions and protests. The apparatus is still controlling every  said one Man who identified him self Only As a taxi Driver As he discussed the Day old Congress of people s deputies. Ever thing is the same As  you can compare the Congress to an old cake chimed in another Man. They Sprinkle some chocolate on the top some democracy but at the Bottom it s  the Only Victory was that they Man aged to have some  said Al expander Khaytov Iii a typical comment about reformers at the Congress of peo ple s deputies convened on thursday. A Anonymous leaflet being distributed in the Square said. A few deputies truly elected by the people Are trying to defend what has been promised. But everything is being done according to a previously worked out scenario just As it always was. What arc we the people doing at this moment which could become the turning Point in our history of slavery we the people arc doing what we be been doing since 1917. We re looking for food and now soap As  Friday s meeting followed police action to break up a similar gathering called late thursday by the democratic Union a so lev styled opposition political party. Faa affirms policy against older pilots correction an article in saturday s editions gave an incorrect Date for the Start of a $20 million electronics Sale being held by the army and air Force Exchange service. The Sale begins wednesday May 31, and runs through sunday june 4. Washington a the Federal aviation administration on Friday de Nied a petition from a group of older pilots to be allowed to Fly airliners after age 60, saying older pilots arc More Likely to be involved in accidents. The Agency announced however that in would fund a detailed study of Pilot age and Accident rates and indicated it might be willing to certify individual pilots Over 60 if a Way could to found to determine their abilities. What is needed and what the a Eli toners have failed to show the Faa said is a Way to discriminate Between those who contribute to the advers trend of increasing accidents involving older pilots and those who do  the Faa said it is willing to look at any scientific evidence that will help in setting criteria for selecting older pilots who have a Low Accident risk. The Issue has simmered since the 1950s when the Faa first ordered that airline pilots and co pilots must retire at 60. It attracted renewed interest after feb. 24 when 59-year-old United air lines Pilot David Cronin guided a Boeing 747 to a Safe Landing in Honolulu after a Section of its fuselage blew off sending nine passengers to their deaths. Cronin was hailed As a hero for his second to last commercial flight before retirement. Pilots have for years been saying the Faa Rule needlessly discriminates on the basis of  latest denial came in a petition for exemption from the retirement Rule filed by a group of pilots in May 1986. Thefan rejected it 16 months later. The pilots then went to court and the  of appeals in Chicago required the Faa to take another look Al the  Faa has Long contended that pilots past the age of 60 Are More Likely to suffer performance degradation and that there is no Way to accurately predict its Onset the Faa said. It said there is Evi Dence that older pilots skills deteriorate and that they Are More Likely to be involved in accidents