European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 13, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 Viets offer use of base if . Lifts Trade embargo Bangkok Thailand apr Vietnam has offered to allow the United states to use a former . Naval base if Washington lifts a 26ryear-old Trade embargo the official Vietnam news Agency reported sunday. The offer by communist party chief Nguyen Van Linh also applies to Japan which follows the Boycott said the Agency monitored in Bangkok. The Agency report was based on an interview Given by Linh to Japan Suhk television company. The former . Base at Cam Ranh Bay about 175 Miles Northeast of to Chi Minh City formerly Saigon has been a soviet military site since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. The soviet Union has said it maintains no More than a Token presence at Cam Ranh Bay and intends to withdraw completely. Vietnam a foreign minister Nguyen co Thach has said the withdrawal would be completed by 1992. The Trade embargo was imposed on communist North Vietnam in 1964 and was extended to the entire country following the fall of the .-backed Saigon government in 1975. Washington has had no diplomatic relations with Vietnam since the War ended. Secretary of state James Baker and Thach met in october. Linh said he Hopes relations with Japan would improve if ties with Washington were normalized. A i know that Japan wants to cooperate and do business with Vietnam but it is tied to the . Policy of embargo. I believe Japan will be More resolved to do business with Vietnam a he said. Linh also told the japanese network that Vietnam would permit . And japanese investment around the country the Agency reported. _ a if you want to do business you May invest not Only in Cam Ranh but in other ports As Well a Linh was quoted As saying. In the news Agency report Linh appeared to confirm reports that he took part in a three member delegation that visited Beijing in september. The reported meeting with chinese Premier i Peng would have been the highest level Contact Between the countries since their Border War in 1979 following Vietnam a invasion of Cambodia. But Linh said Cambodia was just one of the obstacles to normalization of relations with China. A there has been misunderstanding. On the cambodian Issue As Well As on bilateral relations. This misunderstanding is being removed gradually. The two countries have stopped firing at each other and Are conducting Cross Border Trade a he said. Soviets were ready to attack Sweden Over sub officer says Stockholm Sweden apr the soviet Union was prepared to use military Force if the swedish military tried to seize a submarine that ran aground in swedish Waters nine years ago a soviet officer said in an article published sunday. Vasily Besedina then the political officer aboard the submarine u137, said soviet warships were waiting in International Waters off the swedish coast. The soviet submarine ran aground on the Doorstep of a major naval base in the Karl Krona archipelago oct. 27, 1981. Sweden waited seven Days before returning the vessel. Meanwhile the whiskey class submarine remained stuck on a Rock for All to see thus becoming known As a whiskey on the the incident soured relations Between Sweden and the soviet Union for years. A they were assigned to Force their Way through and bring Home the submarine if attempts were made by the swedish authorities to seize it a Besedina told the Dagens Nyseter newspaper. His account of the incident was published earlier in a soviet newspaper. But swedish Navy capt. Karl Andersson told the National news Agency to a the soviet Fleet that was there would not have had enough strength for the Andersson one of the officers who interrogated the soviet Crew added a also the political Price for an attack against Sweden would have been too in the article Besedina echoed the soviet unions official excuse that the u137 mis navigated. He said navigation standards aboard the sub were Low and the Crew had no idea of where it was when the vessel ran aground. A one single degree to port and we would have sailed straight into Karl Krona naval Harbor. How would we now be Able to prove that we were not spies but simple Lubbers a he said. Dagens Nyseter said Besedina lost his apartment his savings and his wife after the incident and was forced to take a Job working on a Road gang when he returned to the soviet Union. He was allowed Back in military service after a few months and is now a political officer at a coastal unit. Soviet citizens May have millions of illegal weapons Moscow apr Law enforcement authorities estimate that soviets have 3.6 million illegal guns in their hands leaving the increasingly restive population a armed to the Teeth a a newspaper reported sunday. The article in Komsomol Skaya pravda was the latest in a series of reports about rising lawlessness in the country and appeared less than a week after a gunman opened fire in red Square while president Mikhail Gorbachev and other leaders were reviewing revolution Day festivities. Four months ago Gorbachev ordered illegal firearms to be turned in but the newspaper reported widespread disobedience of the decree with the Interior ministry saying that individuals surrendered Only 20,100 guns 700,000 rounds of ammunition and 3 tons of explosives. Of the 3.6 million illegal firearms in circulation 25000 Are rifles the Interior ministry said. The article was a follow up to a report in Komsomol Skaya pravda last week m which the newspaper offered to buy firearms from Black marketeers while keeping their names confidential. Since the communist youth league newspaper began its offer in late october it reported it has been offered a whole arsenals of various types of Modem weapons a including heavy machine guns hand Gre Nabos grenade launchers portable anti tank launchers and a railway car full of a a your impression is the country is armed to the Teeth a correspondent d. Muratov wrote. The newspaper said it had turned its investigation Over to Gorbachev who has deemed it a very important a and forwarded it to defense minister Dmitri Yazoo Interior minister Vadim Baratin and other officials. Weapons Are stolen not Only from arsenals but also from armament factories assembled or in pieces the newspaper reported. In addition weapons that Are deemed obsolete or irreparable Are intercepted by Black marketeers before they can be destroyed it said. In a separate report sunday the communist party newspaper pravda said police captured three servicemen who had deserted from an Interior ministry unit in Omsk with three sub machine guns five revolvers and a Large amount of ammunition that May have been headed for the Black Market. Gorbachev a order on surrendering illegal weapons appeared to be aimed at armed volunteers in such ethnic trouble spots As Armenia and Azerbaijan. During last months election Campaign in Georgia politician Gia Chan Turia was wounded by gunmen who fired four shots from a speeding car. In the most visible sign of the increasing gun culture two shots were fired on red Square about 80 Yards from Gorbachev during the Celebration of the 73rd anniversary of the bolshevik revolution. Mark Kominkiewicz delivering milk in Chicago. Milkmen finding Public has taste for Home delivery Chicago apr two entrepreneurs Hope to make their Mark in the future with a business from the past. Mark Kominkiewicz and Paul Yeh have left behind their jobs in the world of computers to become milkmen. This week their Lincoln Park Dairy service began making deliveries in a Square mile area with about 46,000 apartments and condos near the affluent Lincoln Park neighbourhood. They be signed up More than 50 customers to Start. A the decade of the 90s is a service oriented Era a Kominkiewicz said. A and we thought that this was a Market that definitely could be tapped. A people like things delivered to their doors a he added. A you got diapers you got pizza you got groceries and now we re bringing Back Kominkiewicz 25, an account manager at a computer firm and Yeh 26, a financial analyst there quit their jobs and formed the company two months ago. They began deliveries before Dawn monday. Kominkiewicz workday now will Start at 2 30 ., when he picks up the milk. Deliveries Are Between 4 and 7 The company also carries juice and other Dairy products. Kominkiewicz said people who responded to their newspaper ads and fliers were lured by nostalgia or concern for the environment. A people remember How much better milk tastes from a Glass bottle a he said. A they done to get that cardboard or plastic taste. They also done to have to worry about what to do with the Glass containers because we collect them when they re empty and Recycle the Era of Home milk delivery gradually began to end More than two decades ago said Bob Garfield director of technical services for the Washington based International Dairy foods association. Customers found it cheaper and just As convenient to buy milk at grocery stores and now less than 1 percent of milk sales Are from Home deliveries Garfield said by Telephone. A but there is a Small Niche of customers who can afford to pay More and like the idea of buying milk in Glass reusable bottles a he said. Kominkiewicz expects his business to expand quickly and Branch out to More Chicago neighbourhoods. A a it a not like you re dealing with a Small town or suburb that Only has 10 houses on the Block a he said. By the end of 1991 he and Yeh Hope to have 1,600 customers. A these people will come to rely on me As their Milkman Kominkiewicz said. A see the same face at the door every Day. It wont be like it is at the supermarket where they re Only dealing with a name
