European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday april s. 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 other soviets join miners in protests Moscow apr striking Coal miners ignoring an agreement reached with the Kremlin stayed off the Job Friday As employees in other industries joined their month old walkout to protest government Price increases. In Minsk the capital of byelorussian nearly 10,000 people walked off the Job thursday and demonstrated against world tuesdays Price increases for food and consumer goods the official soviet news Agency Tass reported. Meanwhile mine strikes continued even though soviet prime minister Valentin Pavlov and president Mikhail s. Gorbachev met with representatives and initiated an agreement Tass said. The labor newspaper trud said the protesters demanded the resignation of Gorbachev and his Cabinet abolition of a new sales tax and improved living conditions. Strike committees were being organized by Minsk Trade unions and in factories. A a a the workers said if their demands arc not met by wednesday they Avill urge All workers in byelorussian to strike the inde pendent news Agency inter fax said. Oil workers in the Tyumen area of Western Siberia also expressed discontent and demanded their companies he allowed to keep 20 percent of their production instead of rubles. Since the Ruble is virtually worthless Oil and Gas arc valuable for bartering for everything from spare pipes to food.10 firebombs explode in British shopping Plaza from wire reports London a ten incendiary bombs exploded in a Manchester shopping Center Early Friday setting fires in several shops but causing no casualties bbl radio reported. Police closed off a Large portion of the City and searched for additional devices two Days after authorities found a Cache of firebombs in a locker at Preston station about 30 Miles outside Manchester. A a police spokesman said three Small fires started in the British Home stores in the Arn Dale shopping Center shortly after a Midnight. Then other devices began igniting in other clothing shops. Several of the fires were extinguished by automatic sprinkler systems he said. No group claimed responsibility for the  to get . Aid la Paz Bolivia a Bolivia a Congress has approved a Resolution that will allow the use of nearly 600 . Military advisers in the Battle against narcotics trafficking. Within hours of the vote approved by a show of hands at4 20 . Thursday a giant . Military Galaxy transport plane arrived at Al Alto Airport outside la Paz carrying equipment for thud program . Diplomats said a report from radio pan americana said that 73 soldiers arrived with the Galaxy plane. Bruce Warhol a spokesman for the  embassy in la Pazjk denied the report but said an Advance few of a dozen advisers could arrive at any moment a a today  _ he did not give a Date for the arrival of the full contingent. Tardy trains worry Swiss Bern Switzerland a the Swiss Federal railways worried their proverbial punctuality is fading said Friday they will offer bonuses to employees who make trains run on time More often. A passengers Are not Happy if they arrive late a railways spokesman Christian Kraeuchi said linking the problem to an increase in service instituted in 1987. Swiss trains still seem remarkably punctual by most standards. But an a action program has been launched since on time performance slipped to 92 percent last year from 93 percent in the previous three years Kraeuchi said. Trains running More than six minutes behind schedule Are considered late. Starting this year on time performance is to be reviewed Region by Region once or twice annually. Employees in the area showing the most improvement Over the previous year will get a Bonus of 30 Swiss francs equivalent to $21, Kraeuchi said. Finnish strike resolved Helsinki Finland a a week Long  50,000 hotel and restaurant workers ended Friday after employers accepted a wage proposal by the state mediator. T the agreement will increase wages by an average 3.9 percent by february 1992, according to a National radio report said. Quot last week hotel and restaurant employers rejected a similar wage proposal by mediator Jorma rein triggering a simultaneous strike and lockout during the Busy easter holidays. There was no explanation Why the employers accepted the proposal. They could have been under pressure to reach an agreement although most hotels and restaurants remained open with managers and nonunion personnel. World War ii legacy a Frankfurt Germany firefighter takes a photo of a world War ii bomb found in the City a Sachsenhause District on thursday. About 600 residents were evacuated while the bomb was defused. Vote gives Yeltsin new Powers Moscow apr the russian federation parliament Friday gave final approval to new Powers that boost russian Leader Boris Yeltsin a leverage in his standoff with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. The 1,063-member russian Congress of Peoples deputies approved the new Powers 607-228, with 100 abstentions after defeating two dozen amendments pushed by hard line communists. The final vote on the Resolution came thursday and broke an impasse at the nine Day special session initially called by hard liners intending to topple Yeltsin As Congress chairman. A reformers capitalized Friday on their momentum and broadened Yeltsin a Powers further in the final draft of the Resolution. They stipulated that his Powers would expire when a new russian president is elected putting additional pressure on orthodox communists to approve the proposed executive position. The Resolution temporarily Grants Yeltsin the authority to Issue a a directives in Russia the biggest and richest soviet Republic. It also transfers Many Powers from russians fractious parliament to its smaller legislature the supreme soviet which has been More cooperative with Yeltsin. The approval was a Clear Victory for Yeltsin. It gives the 60-year-old Leader the Means to try in of code opposition in his own Republic and face the soviet president on a More equal footing. But Yeltsin was Given no enforcement Powers such As a Long discussed russian army and there was no As Suranee local officials would obey his decrees. The Powe r s a Iso pose a Risko r Yeltsin who could be blamed More harshly for the republics Complex economic and ethnic problems. A if he cannot prove he is capable now of solving russians problem this surely will mean his political death a said fridays editions of the reformist daily Komsomol Skaya pravda. 1 a _ Gorbachev has made no Public response to the russian lawmakers Vole. A a 6 killed in wilderness plane crash Smithers . Apr six people were killed thursday when a dc-3 crash landed on a Frozen Lake in Northern British Columbia police said. Authorities said seven people were aboard the plane and one  plane went Down on thu tade Lake about 250 Miles Northwest of  Canadian mounted police Cpl. J. Hess said the survivor was taken to Bulkley Valley District Hospital in Smithers. A Hospital spokeswoman refused to discuss the Case. A the injured survivor was in satisfactory condition the Canadian press reported. Identities of those aboard were not immediately available but Peter Byrnes marketing director for Central Mountain air said four were passengers and three were Crew members. He said the survivor was a passenger but had no other  plane owned by Central Mountain air of Smith Erst a had been flying from Sturdee Valley to Smithers and was reported overdue thursday afternoon. Two commercial planes and two military aircraft began a search and found it on the Lake said Peter Byrnes of Central Mountain air. A it was found on the ice at the Lake a Byrnes said. A we sent out a medevac team from Smithers. A this is a. Remote location. We do not have radio Contact. Information lakes awhile to get Back  Smithers is about 12 1 Miles from the alaskan Border and 400 Miles Northwest of Vancouver