European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                World defense Secretary Ramos joins key philippine party. From wire reports Binan Philippines defense Secretary Fidel Ramos said Friday that he has joined the nations largest political party. Ramos who is expected to run for the philippine presidency in May 1992, announced his decision a Day after tie met with Jose Cojuangco president Corazon Aquino solder brother and the influential Secretary general of the ruling fight of the democratic filipino party or lip. The popular defense chief who co led the 1986 civilian backed army revolt that ousted the late president Ferdinand Marcos and swept Aquino to Power said he will formally take his oath As a party member on april 27. Ramos 63, a West Point trained general will run against House of representatives speaker Ramon Mitra for the party nomination. The party will select its official candidate on May 25 at the meeting of its National Council composed of town mayors and provincial governors. Ramos who has crushed seven right Wing military rebellions against Aquino is seeking the support of the 58-year-old president who has said she will not seek re election at the end of her term in june 1992 kayaks capsize 5 killed Paris a a kayak instructor and four of his pupils drowned Friday when their boats capsized in the rough Waters of a River in Western France. Authorities said two students managed to pad die their kayaks to Shore and summon help but Rescue Crews were too late to save the others. The victims were identified As Gaille Gauv Rit 22, Estelle Chatain 19, Veronique Grenon 18, Roger Rogado 21, and instructor Alain Brenon 20. All were in one person kayaks. The lessons were being conducted at a recreation Center in Argentos chateau in the department of Deus Sevres about 250 Miles Southwest of Paris. The students were All from Deus Sev res. A dog survives 9-Day ordeal Oslo Norway a a a dog named Bonzo leapt a farm Fence caught his foot and dangled upside Down for nine Days living on Snow while he awaited Rescue a newspaper reported Friday. �?o1 had Given up Hope a Bonzon a owner Torstein Ner Braaten told the Dag bladet newspaper after the Border Collie was rescued near nor Aurdal in midwestern Norway. The 49-year-old Farmer said he searched and advertised in the local newspaper in Hopes of finding Bonzo. The 7-year-old dog was discovered hidden in a Thicket near the farm when his soft whine alerted a passer by. Bonzo was hanging upside Down with his head in the Snow. A i was unbelievably Happy a said Ner Braaten. But not More than a thin limping Bonzo. A when i managed to free him he immediately licked me All Over. 1 have never in my life seen such a Happy dog a said the Farmer. Fire extinguished on ship Las Palmas Canary islands a a fire started before Dawn saturday on a finnish cruise ship with More than 300 passengers off the Canary islands but the Crew managed to extinguish the Blaze a Spanish Navy spokesman said. No injuries were reported in the fire aboard the euro Sun said the spokesman who was not identified in keeping Wath Navy custom. No permanent structural damage was believed to have occurred but a solarium on the ship s upper deck May have been damaged he said. The cause of the Blaze was not immediately known the spokesman said adding that the ship later entered the port of Las Palmas on its own Power. Sunday March 24, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 7 spat Over soviet miners startles . Ambassador Moscow apr the usually cautious . Ambassador to Moscow has become embroiled in a verbal Battle with Kremlin controlled Media Over american support for striking soviet miners the debate was reminiscent of the cold War when the. Soviets often accused the United states of meddling in Domestic politics and asked How Washington would like it if the reverse occurred. The dispute began a week ago when Dmitri Biryukov a hard line commentator on state television s nightly news program a Tvr Cmya a suggested that the Al Cio was interfering in internal soviet affairs. He said the american labor organization was offering financial support to miners striking for higher wages and president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a resignation. Biryukov also said that . Embassy officials had attended meetings of the striking workers and that the embassy helped decide which miners representatives could visit the United states. Quot us. Ambassador Jack Matlock said he was a a startled by the to commentary because american unions and miners were merely establishing Quot natural contacts with their soviet counterparts not interfering. A is no to the slogan a workers of the world United on pravda a front Page a Matlock told soviet reporters on thursday. A for does this slogan not imply help or perhaps a or Emyan commentators simply Don to read pravda a a on Friday the official news Agency Tass fired Back at Matlock accusing him of hypocrisy and of overreacting to the a Tvr Emyan commentary. It was an atypical situation for the Low key Matlock. The ambassador who has been in Moscow since 1987, had developed a Good relationship with the soviet Media. Fluent in russian he has appeared in taped reports on a Tvr Emyan and other soviet to programs and holds regular briefings for soviet journalists. At one of these briefings Matlock said the a vre in Yak commentary was not the opinion of one journalist French actor denies time s rape comment Paris apr French actor Gerard Depardieu on saturday denied a recent Magazine report that he took part in rapes saying he a respects women too  the French superstar made the denial in the saturday edition of the newspaper be Monde which suggested Depardieu might Boycott the Academy awards ceremonies in los Angeles on monday. Depardieu who starred in a Cyrano de Bergerac which has been nominated for five oscars including Best foreign film was quoted in the feb. 25 Issue of time Magazine As saying he had taken part in Many rapes the first when he was 9 years old. A it was All absolutely Normal in those circumstances a he was quoted by the Magazine As saying. A that All makes me laugh. That was part of my  v but Depardieu who is one of Frances most successful actors and consid Depardieu a ered by Many its Best told be Monde a i categorically deny the comment attributed to me in time Magazine concerning a rape that i committed when i was 9. Its outrageous at 9 years old or at any age. Yes one can say i had sexual experiences when i was very Young but a rape never i respect women too much.�?�. Women a groups in the United states have expressed in Ignance at his remarks in the Magazine and have called for a Boycott of his films. Depardieu told be Monde. A i am deeply Hurt by what has happened.�?�. Earlier this month Depardieu won a Cesar the French equivalent of the Oscar As Best actor for his title role in  he also recently starred in Peter weirs a Green card a an american comedy about a French musician who arranges a bogus marriage to an american so he can obtain residency in the United states. 3fns> Isnit the slogan a workers of the world United on pravda a front Page a a . Ambassador Jack Matlock but of the state broadcasting monopoly. State run television was a trying to distort the natural facts in order to prove something else Quot Matlock told the soviet journalists according to a tape recording of his briefing.  and labor unions do not say soviet miners should strike or not a Matlock said. A there Are contacts and of course we Are interested in the opinions of miners and others in the country a he said. A that does no to mean that we try to persuade them to do one thing or another a on the  he reaffirmed that the United states would like to see Gorbachev a reforms succeed and said blaming foreign countries for soviet problems hinders their Solu a. Tion. A a / Quot a a a. A a a a a a. A a a. Matlock suggested . Contacts with soviet miners May have been Over dramatized. In fridays Tass commentary analysts Albert Balabanov and Sergei Kolesnikov said that Quot Matlock nevertheless dramatized it  the Tass commentators wrote that the . Envoy was repeating allegations that some soviet leaders sought a a return to old thinking and dogmatic rebukes which Matlock claimed became evident in the soviet Union from  of last  a taxing matter Sharon Hannan a shift supervisor with the London Borough Council of Southwark poses with obsolete poll tax forms. Hannan works in the information technology services which now faces the task of destroying the forms after the British government scrapped the poll tax last week