European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 4. 1991the stars and stripes Page 7bottle-Short Moscow ratio is Vodka a Happy muscovite displays his monthly limit of one bottle of Vodka. Moscow apr a muscovites grumbled and cursed but lined up peacefully for Vodka saturday a a a Day after the capital bowed to bottle shortages and heavy demand and began rationing the. Soviet Union so . According to the new rules citizens Over 21 will be allowed to buy one bottle a month although special occasions such As weddings and wakes will Merit up to 10 bottles. A most citizens interviewed outside liquor and food stores were angry although some found a Silver lining in the decree. Quot rationing is unfortunate of course a said Yevgeny Ryabov 52, outside a Central Moscow food  at least it should guarantee us a bottle a month without a big  under the plan approved wednesday by the Moscow City Council. Muscovites must buy a monthly ration card for about 16 cents that entitles the bearer to a half liter of Vodka at the state Price labout $ 16. The rules also require buyers to return an empty bottle for a Purchase of a full one. During president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a Campaign against drunkenness in 1986-87, bottle production was Cut by almost half to compensate for a similar cutback in output of Vodka wine and Brandy. Gorbachev has since acknowledged that the Campaign which caused a Boom in Moonshine was a mistake and production of alcohol has bounced Back. But production of bottles remains slow. Moscow is one of the last major cities in the country to begin rationing Vodka. Leningrad Kiev and other Industrial centers imposed limits last year. In the capital rationing Coupon were not available yet but customers were maintaining their usual vigils outside liquor stores in Hopes of buying Vodka any Way they could. Quot Quot a a at a state owned liquor store on tevet Noi Boulevard a surly crowd waiting in line in the cold hissed and swore Amoc communist party when asked about the rationing. Waltamar a 50-year-old worker who declined to give his last name said a Hal Fliter. About two pints was not enough. A suppose you want to have guests Over one bottle is nothing a he said. Ryabov said  no other Way to distribute Vodka fairly. Without rationing Ordinary muscovites either had to Waif in Long lines for liquor or pay Black Market prices of up to $55 a bottle Het said Ryabov an Engineer predicted rationing would not reduce the Black Market for alcohol and might Well increase it. Quot it la be Only a matter of Days before people Start Selling ration  he predicted. Quot but. Olga slav Utina 37. Saul she was sceptical that there would he enough Vodka for the City a 9 million residents even with rationing. Quot we have experience a she said. A in the fall we got ration coupons for sugar but there was no sugar available. It was the same Story with cigarettes. We had coupons but they were worthless Quot muscovites w How ant More than one bottle of Vodka per month can buy it on the Black Market or from cooperative restaurants that charge three to five times the state Price. .-2 guilty of killing . Officer in Philippines Manila Philippines up a a criminal court has convicted two alleged communist guerrillas in the 1989 gun slaying of . Army col. Janies Quot Nick Rowe and sentenced them to life imprisonment. Juanito Itaas 27, and Donato Continente 29, also were sentenced to 17 years in jail for the wounding of a rowers Driver Joaquin Benjuya in the attack on april 21, 1989. Rowe a heavily decorated Vietnam War Veteran and former prisoner of War was being driven to his office at the joint . Military advisory group in suburban Quezon City when gunmen Riding in a car fired at him. The new Peoples army the armed Wing of the out ariane rocket launches to weather satellites Kourou French Guiana up an ariane 4 rocket hurled a european a weather satellite and a television relay station into orbit saturday in the 42nd flight of the French built Booster. The 192-foot three stage rocket swiftly climbed away from its launch pad at the european space Agency a Jungle space Complex on the Northern coast of South America. Liftoff came 24 hours late because of trouble Friday with ground a equipment. A. Quot mounted inside at protective nose Cone were two european satellites a astraib a communications satellite built by general electric Astro space division of Princeton . A mop-2, a weather satellite built by Aero spatial of Cannes France. A Small on Board rockets were scheduled to fire later to propel the satellites toward their final Altitude of 22,300 Miles Over the Equator. ,. The ariane 4 is the most powerful rocket in the ariane family of rockets capable of boosting 10,000-Pound satellites into geosynchronous orbit and Cor Para ble to the . Titan class rockets used to launch heavy military spy satellites. Flawed communist party of the Philippines claimed responsibility for the slaying. The 17,000-member spa which has been battling the Manila government for 22 years accused Rowe of Mcallen Texas of being a Quot direct participant Quot in counterinsurgency. Itaas was described As an spa Assassin. He was arrested in the Southern port City of Davao in August 1989. Continente a messenger Lor the student weekly newspaper of the state owned University of the Philippines was arrested two months after the attack. Judge Tirso Velasco found the two guilty of the slaying on the basis of Quot extra judicial confessions by the two arid the testimony of a key witness. The witness Meriam Zulueta testified during the trial she saw Itaas approach a Owen a car after the ambush. Zulueta also identified Continente As one of those who conducted surveillance on Rowe. Velasco said although Continente did not participate in the slaying he convicted the messenger As a . Two other suspects were arrested in january and Are under pre trial investigation. They were identified As Thaddeus Abulencia who allegedly was involved in surveillance of Rowe and Virgilio Delfin alleged head of the spa squad that carried out the cml Rush of the . Officer. A a a potential 1961 espionage coup reportedly fumbled by canadians i. The new York times Toronto a a soviet military intelligence officer who passed missile secrets to Washington during the Kennedy and ministration was rebuffed by Canadian diplomats when he first offered to spy Lor the West newly released Canadian intelligence documents disclose. For canadians the disclosure that col. Oleg v. Penkovsky was turned away and had to wait three months before a new Canadian ambassador to Moscow recognized his importance has uncomfortable echoes of another famous espionage bungle. In september 1945, Igor. Guzenko a code clerk at the soviet embassy in Ottawa was rebuffed by the Royal Canadian mounted police before he finally succeeded in defecting with secrets that helped pinpoint several top spies including Donald Maclean of Britain who tied to Moscow in 1951. Citing documents released under Canadas Access to information act the Canadian press reported that Penkovsky w to reportedly was later executed by soviet authorities. Approached a Canadian Diplomat in Moscow on Jan. 9, 1961, handing him a sealed envelope containing w hat the soviet official claimed were documents and diagrams about soviet  Canadian Trade official had contacts with Penkovsky because the soviet official was working undercover As a Liaison officer at the soviet state committee Tor science and technology, said. R Penkovsky asked that the material be passed to a . Diplomat whom he had met while posted at the soviet embassy in Turkey in the 1950s. Lie  Canadian that he had tried for six months to Contact . Officials but had been unable to because of the constant soviet police presence outside the . Embassy. Two Days later the documents said the Canadian Diplomat William Van Vliet re a turned the envelope to Penkovsky unopened without having contacted its. Officials. According to Van Vliets account include. De in the documents Penkovsky said of the envelope returned to him that Quot in addition to a document on ballistic missiles it contained his personal letters to president ids e n h o w e r a n d p r e s i d e n t e i e c i k e n n e d a the Canadian Diplomat added. Quot he said he had hoped to pass on More documents. Thereupon taking out of his pocket a Large thickly packed  =. But the Canadian again rebuffed the soviet official. The documents of Fer no explanation of Why the Canadian rebuffed Penkovsky. I n a p r 11 1961, t h e Ca n a d i a n c h a re d a it f Faires who approved the decision not  pursue contacts with Penkovsky Blair Seaborn was overruled by a new Canadian ambassador Arnold Smith. According to the. Canadian documents Smith realized that to mistake had been made and arranged for Penkovsky to be put in touch wit officials of Britain s secret intelligence service mi6. After that in a joint operation that involved the British and the Cha Penkovsky handed Over almost 5,51 0 photographs of top secret soviet documents including information detailing soviet strategic missile capabilities that was crucial in shaping president Kennedy a handling of the cuban missile crisis in october 1962. But by then Penkovsky had been arrested in Moscow. According to official soviet accounts he was tried for treason avoid. Shot. Other accounts have said that he committed suicide in a Sov Iet labor Camp