European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. January 17. 1991 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9lithuanians Bury 10 slain by troops Vilnius . Apr lithuanians  were burying 10 victims of a soviet military assault. But could not put to rest fears of a widening crackdown on the Baltic republics popularly elected secessionist governments. In the lithuanian capital of Vilnius Church Bells a pealed As thousands accompanied the Flag draped cof tins through the streets to the City a roman Catholic Cathedral. Meanwhile Tough rhetoric front some Moscow hardliners and pro Kremlin rallies in Baltic capitals had separatist supporters fortifying buildings and preparing for attack while much of the world was preoccupied by the persian Gulf crisis. A Lithuania is first then Estonia and Latvia and then the rest of that huge country a Lithuania a foreign minister Algirdas Saudargas said in London where he will form an exile government if the republics Independence movement is crushed. Some Baltic leaders however predicted Moscow would not try to repeat the tactics that left 14 people dead and 230 injured sunday in Lithuania Inga military of copter crash kills 2, hurts 2 Al 6 Pilot ejects Edwards fab Calif. A two Crew members were killed and two others injured when a helicopter crashed during a night training Mission the air Force said tuesday. In Florida an f-16 Jet crashed in the Everglades but the Pilot ejected safely said a spokesman at Homestead fab. The uh-1 helicopter with four men aboard went Down monday evening at Edwards Northern Section in the Mojave desert a base statement said. The Pilot capt. John Augustine and the flight Congi Neer staff sgt. Robert Lovell were killed. Maj. Alan Tresnicky a Pilot who was a passenger suffered a broken  and staff sgt. William Taylor the Crew chief suffered internal injuries. He was sent to Antelope Valley Hospital. In the Florida crash capt. Charles q. Brown took off from Homestead fab on tuesday on a routine training flight said sgt. Curt Libengood a base spokesman. The plane went Down about 18 Miles West of the base. Brown was not injured when he ejected from the plane the area had thunderstorms and Tornado warnings at the time but Libengood said he did no to know if weather was a Factor in the crash. Both crashes were under investigation. 2 men missing 5 escape in w. Virginia Coal mine fire Welch . Apr fire broke out wednesday at a Southern West Virginia Coal mine officials said. Two miners were missing. The Blaze was reported at the fire Creek no. I mine three Miles South of Welch in Mcdowell county said Bob Brunner spokesman for gov. Gaston Caperton. Sheriffs chief Deputy Barry Hale said seven men were in the mine and five escaped. Takeover of the Republic s broadcast Center. A the most dangerous moment is past a latvian prime minister Ivars god mams said  Vilnius hundreds of Young people Many of them schoolgirls carrying Flowers led the solent i procession from tire Palace of sports Arena where the bodies of nine men and one woman had been displayed in open caskets since monday. The other four victims Are being buried separately. The soviet military commandant for Vilnius apparently suspended the 10 p.m.-6 . Curfew tuesday and wednesday to accommodate the  Day before a line of mourners stretched nearly two Miles to View the dead. Some waited As Long As 12 hours. A a a a. A a a a a a a a a a a a makeshift shrines have sprung up where the dead fell. Near the Hilltop television transmitter stormed sunday mourners Knelt before the smashed fender of a car and adorned it with Flowers and candles. Down the Hill was a Stone covered with Flowers where laureate Alana Vicinte 25, was crushed by a soviet tank. A a a. A v. Is a. Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev ordered troops into Lithuania last week  enforce the military  declaring Independence in ,.Lithuania has increasingly challenged Kremlin author it. Gorbachev has said he did not order sunday s assault but has defended it As necessary to protect allegedly endangered anti secession activists.-. In i speech tuesday to the supreme soviet legit lature in  defended his decision to order troops into Lithuania and soundly criticized political rival Boris Yeltsin president of the russian Tepus. Lie. A a a a a a.  -. A a a a a a a. Yeltsin has attempted to  against the Kremlin a Strong  tactics in trying to retain the Leal tics which dictator Joset Stalin annexed m 1940. He has appealed to russian soldiers to disobey any orders to attack peaceful civilians and suggested that his Republic form its own police Force and army units. Gorbachev also clashed with military hard liners who demanded even harsher measures against the Baltic noting that Independence activists Are Well armed and that an army offensive could begin a a  cocaine lord in custody a a video broadcast on colombian television shows the no. 2 Man in the Medellin cocaine Cartel Jorge Luis Ochoa after his surrender tuesday the 41-year-old gave himself up in a Medellin suburb in Exchange for the governments pledge not to extradite him to the United states where he is wanted i drug  could face 30 years in prison but authorities have promised to be lenient with dealers who  balk at polish terms Warsaw Poland apr the Leader of the 50,000 soviet troops in Poland says his soldiers will leave when and How they decide unless polish officials show a Good  Gen. Viktor Dubynin also ruled out Poland a demand that the troops go Home this year saying the earliest they might go would be after the withdrawal from Germany planned to end by 1994. A the statement by the soviet commander in Poland came after the two countries finished a third round of talks thursday and Friday in Moscow on pulling soviet troops out of Poland and regulating the withdrawal of 350,000 troops from former East Germany across Poland. Polish officials say the treaty on leaving Poland is Complete except for the Date which the poles want by the end of 1991 but which the soviets want to be delayed in part because of Lack of housing for the troops at Home. Dubynin a remarks differ from the stance of soviet negotiators during the a a constructive talks in the soviet capital Deputy polish foreign minister Jerzy Makarczyk told the gazeta web orca daily. He said that although polish negotiators noticed differences Between soviet politicians and the military during the talks Poland expected the final decision to be made by the politicians. A pulling out soviet troops from the Republic of Poland is ruled out before the Complete withdrawal of the Western group of the soviet army from Germany a said Dubynin in an article tuesday in the internal soviet army newspaper published in Poland Zamia Obiedy. Excerpts were printed by several polish newspapers and the polish Pap. News Agency. A Dubynin accused poles of ingratitude for the soviets�?T45-year stay in the country and said they wished to impose humiliating conditions on the red army a departure., Poland a tries to present the soldiers As occupiers and International criminals a said Dubynin. A it wants them to withdraw from its territory like prisoners of War disarmed in closed and sealed cars with no military  a in this Way it would shame the army that in the years 1944-45 liberated the polish nation gave Poland in perpetuity formerly German Eastern Pomerania Eastern Prussia and Silesia and established Poland s Western Border on the Oder and Neisse Rivers a he said. Dubynin made no mention of an even larger expanse of polish lands absorbed by the soviet Union after the War. A we will be going Back Home re there is no other possibility a Dubynin said. A but we will Lead with Heads held High and banners spread satisfied that we have fulfilled an International duty with dignity and honor.�?�. Unless the polish Side shows a Good will and agrees to soviet terms for settling the various  Legal issues he said his army will a enter the territory of that great Power the soviet Union using our own plans and the routes  have  in that Case he said his troops would take no responsibility for the lives and health of poles