European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8. B the stars and stripes thursday March 7, 1991 world Indian prime minister of Gandhi new Delhi India apr prime minister Chandra Shekhar resigned wednesday after less than four months in office accusing former Indi an Leader Rajiv Gandhi of sabotaging the minority coalition  Shekhar made the Surprise announcement in a speech to parliament after opposition members bitterly criticized him for running a a a puppet government controlled by a  Gandhi. Gandhi who Heads the country a 1 largest party has made a series of ill disguised Power plays in recent weeks. His Congress party boycotted parliament on tuesday and wednesday in a dispute Over alleged police surveillance of his official residence on the outskirts of the  said he asked president Ramaswamy Venkataraman to arrange for new elections instead of trying to Patch together another Coli a Tion. A a a a a a a a a a. Sudan bans Relief flights to drought stricken area Nairobi Kenya apr Sudan a government has grounded in. Flights to that country s drought stricken South hampering a Relief operation to help millions of people International Aid officials say. In Northern sections of Sudan where the gov can men has banned All major Overland and air Relief Aid workers fear Thini up to i million people could die by the end of the year. A drought of varying severity has affected almost All of Stidman threatening up to 11 million people according to Relief officials. Most victims Are in the North but Relief officials say up to 2 million people in the South Are also affected. The government refuses to acknowledge the a Amine which would necessitate an Appeal for help. , it Gen. Omar Hassan Elbashir appears ready to accept starvation among his people rather than ask outsiders to bail out his government. Troop withdrawal delayed by Poland soviet says Berlin apr Gen. Matvei Burlakov command or of soviet of Cess Germany on tuesday blamed the polish government for mounting delays in the withdrawal of soviet troops from Eastern Germany. Burlakov said Only 50 percent of the 27,000 soviet. Troops scheduled to depart. In january and february were Able to leave due to Poland a refusal to Grant the soviets transit Zeimis Sion. A unfortunately the polish government shut Down the Gates and now we must use air and sea transport. This is twice As Long and twice As expensive a Burlakov said. Poland is demanding a treaty to cover the details of the transit and com pens Ute for Wear and tear on rails and roads As a result of the withdrawal. Burlakov Burlakov said a meeting to resolve the issues would be held in Warsaw Poland soon. Burlakov also said bad weather in the soviet Union and inexperience in withdrawal led to delays. Troops Are being flown Home and military equipment shipped from the Eastern German port of Neu Ukran to the Baltic port of Klaipeda in Lithuania meanwhile the Bonn newspaper die Welt reported that soviet defense minister Dmitri Yazoo paid a Surprise visit to soviet troops in Eastern Germany Over the weekend without informing Germany the newspaper said the German military had Learned of a Azov a unannounced visit. Die Welt said it had been confirmed by the soviet embassy. Yazoo attended an awards ceremony at a soviet unit in the City of Jena die Welt said. Tensions have started to emerge Between the soviets and the germans Over the withdrawal of the 388,000 soldiers and 184,000 dependents that Burlakov said remain in Eastern Germany. The troops along with massive amounts of Materiel arc scheduled to be withdrawn completely by 1994, according to a withdrawal timetable outlined by Burlakov 150,000 soviet troops will depart this year. A bar Rakov said .2.5 million tons of munitions More than 5.000 tanks 1,700 anti missile systems 620 air planes and 790 helicopters have to be transported Back to the soviet Union. A. ,. The soviet parliament this week gave general approval to two treaties on the withdrawal but did not formally ratify them. Burlakov said further Wojt was needed to resolve the differences especially on finances. Germany has already Given the soviets a commitment of 29 billion Marks $19.5 billion from the government and German Banks aimed at covering the Cost of relocating the troops and support for establishing a Market Economy. He indicated that the soviet Union would like compensation for buildings that its army had constructed during its 40-year stay in former East Germany. Burlakov addressed journalists at a soviet officers club in the Karl Horst Section of Eastern Berlin where Many troops and their families Are stationed. He said that the military assessed the Worth of buildings made out of soviet construction materials at 10.5 billion Marks $7.25 billion. But the military has created a new department to As Sass the value of soviet built installations Burlakov implied that the soviets would seek compensation. Burlakov said that 19,000 More apartments Are needed in the soviet Union to House returning troops. German firms already Are going to build 36,000 apartments. A a a a a. A a a a a a a a a although the withdrawal is one of his main tasks Iakov pressed that the soviet troops would also keep training to maintain combat readiness. In the  Eastern germans have started resenting soviet training exercises that include Low level flights firing practice near a populated areas and tank practice that destroys forests. But Burlakov said the soviet military would comply with agreements with Germany governing training. Moscow up a police used tear Gas a to Calm Down women shopping in the siberian City of Tomsk and in Pertak ers in the town of Nezhny Novgorod issued fake death certificates so they could get extra Vodka and food the official government newspaper said tuesday. T in other signs of the country a political and economic crisis miners remained on strike for higher wages in the Ukraine s Donass coat Field and the armenian parliament voted to ask its citizens whether they want to remain part of the soviet Union in a forthcoming nationwide referendum. Nearly 14,000 soviet army troops Hereof joint patrol with local police in 488 cities across the nation under the purported anti crime program initiated feb. 1, the official soviet news Agency Tass reported. A. A a a a Yevgeny Makhov chairman of the a communist party scentral control commission said 1.8 million have left the party in the , a sign of its sinking prestige among Many soviet citizens. The 1.8 million figure cited by Makhov was far higher than any number previously cited by other communist officials and represents a tenth of the party a entire membership a year ago. The Izvestia newspaper said that police in , a  475,000 in Western Siberia recently used tear Gas against women waiting in a Long line outside a store Selling imported a clothes. V a. A a. 7. A a a a a a in order to Calm Down the Consumers and at the request of shop assistants the militia of the sovetsky District used tear Gas a Izvestia  got to the counter in tears.�?�. It Deputy police chief Vladimir Marchenko told the newspaper that the use of tear Gas a was necessitated by the situation and that there was a no abuse of.  in a separate report Izvestia described corruption by morticians in Nezhny Novgorod a Volga River City of 1.4 million called Gorky before local officials re stored its pre communist name Las year a an unusual method of getting Vodka and various foodstuffs was revealed at a cemetery in. Nezhny Novgorod a the newspaper said. A it appears that for a Long time false death certificates were written with fictitious names Ages and causes of death.�?�. V a a. In accordance with russian tradition when soviets marry or when their relatives die they receive coupons entitling them to delicacies for receiving guests. Nezhny Novgorod  Gennady Yakushev told Izvestia that local undertakers wrote themselves. Fake death certificates and then used the papers to obtain liquor and other goods. A about 10 1 such fake certificates were discovered a he said. A they were used to b by . A n d Bra n by s Ugar a n d of he r foodstuffs in special shops meant for supplying deficit food for funerals. Morticians got about 5,000 bottles of Vodka and Brandy and 600 kilograms 275 pounds of sugar. I cannot imagine anything Mure  authorities began Legal proceedings against the cemetery a director Vladimir Yarmo Szehuk and other workers Izvestia said. / a t a a Tass. Said 12 Coal mines were shut Down by walkouts at the nation s largest Coal Field the Donass Coal Field in Ukraine a Donetsk Basin. A a the Independent inter fax news service said 2,300 miners were on strike in the Lugansk area 60 Mijes Northeast of the regional capital of Donetsk. The labor protest which began Friday has Cost the soviet Economy 122,000 tons in lost Coal production Tass said. About 400 miners demonstrated in the. Nearby City of Pervo mask demanding wage hikes of up 150 percent inter fax said. A a. Inter fax also reported continuing ethnic unrest in the autonomous georgian Region of South Ossetia beset by clashes since december and along the Border Between Armenia and. Azerbaijan which have battled Over the disputed Magorno Karabash Region for three years. Arms los Angeles up Libya is building a Large underground storage Complex to protect its arse Al of chemical weapons from the kind of Aerial attack the allies inflicted on Iraq the los Angeles times reported wednesday. The newspaper quoting unidentified . Officials and congressional sources said libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi was building a network of tunnels and bunkers with the assistance of German companies. The existence of the underground Complex was disclosed last month in reports Over German television station zd1\ the station said German Compa ivies were providing laser technology and sophisticated pleasuring instruments. Those reports also said the underground Arsenal was intended to store both chemical and nuclear weapons but . Sources told the times the Complex would be used primarily for chemical weapons the libyan news Agency Jana denied the report about the underground facility calling it a completely untrue a . Otti vials would not say. Where the underground Complex is located but a a times source with Access to intelligence i Coits indicated it was near a chemical weapons production Plant a rata Libya. A that above ground factory which was built with the help of a German chemical company was reported to have been destroyed in a fire a year ago but . Offi Ciulis have said the Plant is still operating and that the fire reports were a hoax one . Analyst said air attacks of iraqi military installations during opera Tion desert storm prompted Qadhafi u avoid provoking the United states and let stash his chemical weapons underground the times said. What he saw during the first to it weeks of the War scared the Dejesus of of him a the analyst said. He honestly believes that when wet it done with Iraq the american Fleet Wil make a left turn at Libya and rid our selves of another terrorist