European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a the stars and stripes thursday december 27,1990 Ress gives Powers Moscow a the Congress of Peoples deputies approved Mikhail Gorbachev a sweeping reorganisation giving him wide Powers to exercise direct control Over the 15 republics and the National Economy. Final approval of the constitutional amendments came hours after Gorbachev announced that prime minister Nikolai 1. Ryzhkova had suffered a heart attack. Ryzhkova was stricken tuesday the same Day Congress voted to eliminate the the Council of ministers that he Heads and replace it with a new Cabinet under Gorbachev s direct control. Gorbachev said Ryzhkova his Friend and political supporter was resting in a Hospital and was out of immediate danger. With Ryzhkova a heart attack and the Surprise resign nation last week of foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze Gorbachev has lost a at least temporarily a two of his most trusted advisers and supporters. Shevardnadze said he was quitting to protest what he called the move toward a dictatorship Quot with the concentration of More Power in the hands of the president. He is continuing As. Foreign minister until a replacement is found. Gorbachev has held out Hope Shevardnadze will stay in the has not indicated whether Ryzhkova 61, would hold any Post in the new Cabinet. Ryzhkova has been a Stalwart opponent of a Quick transition to a Market driven Economy. Radical reformers have been agitating for his ouster for months but Gorbachev has so far stuck by the Man who became prime minister four months after his May 1985 Rise to Power. The 2,250-Mcmbcr Congress wednesday voted 1,555 to ii 1 with83abstentions to approve the entire package of constitutional amendments on president tial Power and put it into effect immediately. The deputies earlier in the morning and on tuesday approved specific amendments without putting them in effect. The Congress still must vote on a candidate for the new Post of vice president. Gorbachev is expected to nominate a candidate before the lawmaking body ends its session by Friday. Another Christmas without daddy Salome Anderson the 5yearold daughter of hostage Terry Anderson plays with the Telephone at her father sold associated press office in Beirut Lebanon. The Christmas eve visit was her first to the office where Anderson served As the Apps chief Middle East Ern correspondent. Salome was bom four months after Anderson was abducted on March 16,1985. Lie is the longest held american hostage in Beirut from staff and wire reports Rome the rear windows of the Rome Uso were a shattered Early Christmas morning by the explosion of a bomb that was apparently intended to damage Vatican property the usos director said wednesday Noone was injured in the blast officials said. A a we re Safe and sound Quot said the Uso director Gail Caillouet. A i feel secure that it w Asnat directed at the Uso or the the italian news Agency Ansa said late tuesday that it received a Telephone Call from a Man who said in italian a we Are the anarchists who exploded the bomb against Vatican the mail claimed Vatican radio was targeted because a they traffic in ideological drugs Quot an Ansa editor bomb was apparently thrown through the Metal grate of a Side Entrance of the. A Cadamia Nazionale Santa Cecilia Caillouet said. The auditorium belongs to the Vatican and the radio studios arc in a nearby building. -. employee of Vatican radio said the station suffered no damage. The explosion blew out the entrances Glass doors and windows As Well As shattering the a sgt a rear windows w hich Are nearby. The auditorium is about a Quarter mile from St. Peters Square where Midnight Christmas mass ended about 2 . Calio Uetz a assistant w to lives a Lew blocks from the Uso heard a loud explosion about 2 45 Caillouet said. Quot Ansa quoted bomb experts As saying the device appeared to have been made of Gunpowder wrapped in tire cracked paper. Some live squads of italian police and . Embassy Security of Brials investigated the explosion. Tucori eluded that it was not aimed at the Uso Caillouet said on april 14, 1988, the Uso in Naples was the intended target of another bomb the blast killed a Sailor assigned to Naples and four italians. Two Jana Nese terrorists have been indicted in that attack which came one Day before tire second anniversary of the 11 s a bombing of Libya. After the announcement about Ryzhkova the Congress returned to work and passed an amendment defining the duties of the revamped Cabinet. It voted 1,499-117, with 52 abstentions to approve draft that gave the body most control Over the National Economy including defense industries Energy communications transportation and financial and monetary policies. The Congress had voted tuesday to revamp the Cabinet which will be subordinate to the president rather than the National supreme soviet legislature As Ryzhkova a Council of ministers currently is. The Congress however failed to agree which officials would be members of the revamped Cabinet and finally agreed to turn the question Over to the supreme soviet which will meet again in january. The deputies also voted to let Gorbachev appoint a new National Security Council on his own authority agreeing that creation of the advisory body did not need a constitutional amendment. On tuesday the Congress had approved several specific amendments granting sweeping new Powers to the president. However the Congress Defeated his plan to create a supreme state inspectorate to oversee implementation of his presidential decrees. World today Mazda announces recall of 3,498 Luce autos Tokyo apr Mazda motor corp. Of Japan will recall 3,498 Luce Model passenger cars because of switch defects in their stoplights and cruise control mechanisms the automaker said tuesday. A. A transport ministry official meanwhile said the government told Mazda to pay More attention to the safety of its cars. Of the cars to be recalled 134 were exported to Middle Eastern countries said Mazda spokesman Pingio Okitsu. The others were sold in Japan. A a a a. A a because of the defective switches stoplights Navy not work even if the Driver hits the brakes and the cruise control May not turn off Okitsu said the governments warning came after the transport ministry investigated allegations that Mazda had been replacing defective parts during routine maintenance without recalling the cars or notifying the government said the ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Traffic accidents kill 117 in Spain Over Christmas Madrid Spain apr Spanish Highway accidents claimed 117 lives Over the five Day Christmas Holiday period the National traffic division said wednesday. A traffic official said icy Road conditions in parts of the country contributed to the death toll. She said most of the fatal accidents occurred when vehicles Slid off the roads or collided head on. V police reported 91 accidents in which at least one person was killed Between 3 . Friday and Midnight tuesday when Many spaniards took advantage of time off from work to visit family and friends. Aside from the 117 deaths those accidents left 103 people injured 58 of them seriously. Last year 97 people died in Highway accidents Over the three Day Christmas weekend. L the statistics count Only fatal accidents and Only those that occur outside City centers. They also fait to count those people who die More than 24 hours after being involved in an Accident fireworks stand explosion fatally injures girl 2 Madrid Spain apr a 2-year-old girl who was burned when her family a fireworks stand exploded Christmas eve died wednesday in a Madrid Hospital. I free of the seven family members injured in the blast remained hospitalized. Doctors at Gregorio Maranon Hospital said desire Castillo died of heart failure brought on by severe Burns suffered after Midnight monday when a spark set off the stand and adjacent trailer where the family slept both the stand and the trailer were packed w Ith fire works which the family sold to Holiday merry makers. Desires 3-month-old sister Estefania remained in. Critical condition at la Paz Hospital where doctors feared for her life. The girls father stand Owmer Silve no and their Mother Carmen Cebu Dura were a burned in the blast along with four cousins. Two of the cousins remained in the Hospital
