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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, April 23, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday april 23,1991soviets stored nuclear arms in Budapest Hungary a soviet military bases in Hungary stored nuclear weapons for possible use in an attack on the West former communist party chief Karoly Grosz revealed monday. A when i became Premier in june 1987. I was notified officially by the soviet military leadership that nuclear charges Are stationed at abase in Hungary a Grosz told the hungarian daily  on monday. A it was not Long afterwards that i went to see. Mikhail a Gorbachev and asked the devices be removed from Hungary Quot Grosz said of the soviet Leader. A the promised to  the devices were then withdrawn Grosz said admitting that it took a perhaps a whole year for the soviets to keep that Promise. Grosz a comments amounted to the first proof that the soviets a who admitted Only to deploying nuclear weapons in former East Germany and Czechoslovakia a were Able to boost their military capability with a series of secret agreements with the East european states belonging to the Moscow led Warsaw pact Alliance. The pact is How effectively defunct following agreement to dissolve its military structures March 31. Although Long suspected in the West the first direct reference to nuclear weapons having been deployed in Hungary came last october. The soviet chief of staff Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev said then that nuclear weapons had been removed from Czechoslovakia Hungary and Poland. Moscow had Long admitted to stationing nuclear weapons in Czechoslovakia which unlike Hungary Borders nato territory in Germany. Following Moiseyev a revelation the hungarian chief of staff it. Gen. Laszlo borsits denied that nuclear weapons were stationed in Hungary saying Only the Means for their delivery were de two Days ago it. Gen. Antal annus state Secretary in the hungarian defense ministry told  that the soviets had both rockets and fighter bomb ers deployed in Hungary capable of delivering nuclear devices. He said that red army installations taken Over by the hungarian armed forces during the current withdrawal of soviet troops suggested a capacity to store nuclear weapons but he indicated there was no proof such weapons were stored. After he became Premier in june 1987, Grosz said he saw for the first time the agreement to deploy nuclear weapons on hungarian soil. It was signed by the late Janos Kadar Hungary a communist Leader for three decades after soviet tanks crushed the 1956 revolt against Kremlin Rule. ,. A Grosz said he did not know the kind of nuclear devices being stationed in Hungary or their number. He did not give a Date for the agreement.  .,� alleged German terrorist indicted Karlsruhe Germany apr an alleged Mem bar of the leftist red army faction terrorist group was indicted monday on murder charges and 30 counts of attempted murder including attacks on two . Gen craps Alexander Haig and Fri Crik Kroesen. Both Are now retired. A a a a. A a a Henning Beer 32, was accused of participating in an attack on Haig in june 1979 in Bourg Belgium. At the time Haig was commander of nato forces in Europe. A a a a a a a. A in september 1981, Beer allegedly helped terrorists in an attack on Kroesen then commander of . Forces in Europe. Neither general was seriously Hurt in the attacks. A a a a a a. A a Beer also allegedly aided a car bomb attack in August 1981 at Ramstein a Germany. Seventeen people were injured in the attack. Beer is accused of falsifying License plates for the vehicle used in the bombing. In november 1979, Beer allegedly shot and killed a woman and wounded a policeman in a Bank robbery in Zurich Switzerland that netted the gang $383,000. According to the Justice ministry Beer joined the red army faction in october 1978, he left the group in 1981 and went into hiding in the former East Germany. A the red army faction has claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks on military and Industrial targets in Germany the last two decades. Afghan prisoner lineup guerrillas line up some of the More than 5,000 Afghanistan army soldiers who surrendered when the town of Khost a also known As Matun was captured. Khost is Southeast of the capital City of Kabul near the Paki Stani Border. Jalaluddin Haquani a key commander in the Battle claimed most of the prisoners including High ranking officers have chosen not to rejoin the afghan army but will fight with the guerrillas  details soviet anti crisis economic plan Moscow up soviet Premier Valentin Pavlov whose resignation is being demanded by striking workers across the country presented his governments anti crisis economic plan to parliament monday. In the surreal atmosphere of perestroika politics the anti crisis plan includes a proposed ban on rallies and political strikes for the rest of the year even As the Colliers extended their work stoppage into its eighth week. The program was first presented to the Council of federation of the leaders of the soviet republics on april 9 and then worked on further by Pavlov a government. Pavlov whose mandated consumer Price rises on april 2 and removal of Large denomination Bills from circulation set off mass labor discontent said the plan would pull the country out of its economic crisis. Quot in what is Likely to be greeted with scepticism by the soviet press Pavlov said his plan which is at least the fourth government formula in two years represents a an accelerated Advance to the  As the supreme soviet convened soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was faced with the starkest Challenge to his Rule since he took Over six. Years ago promising a new Deal or perestroika to soviet citizens. A. On sunday conservative a a soyuz deputies resolved to seek a nationwide state of emergency and to Call an extraordinary Congress next month that could Force Gorbachev a ouster As president As the legislators met a nationwide Coal strike moved into its eighth week with the demand that Gorbachev resign. Labor leaders in byelorussian said they planned a general strike tuesday and ukrainian organizers also planned mass walkouts. The soyuz group ended a two Day Congress sunday by passing resolutions to gather signatures for a Congress of Peoples deputies in May and for Gorbachev to impose a six month state of  May Manila up a president Corazon Aquino left the door open sunday for a reconciliation with Imelda Marcos and her estranged Cousin Eduardo Cojuangco. But Aquino said in her weekly radio show any coming to terms with the widow of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Cojuangco should be a based on  a i guess we Are All christians and at a certain Point i suppose there will be reconciliation but again i would stress reconciliation would be based in Justice a Aquino said. The 58-year-old Aquino has banned Marcos from the country calling her a Security threat but she also has said she might allow the former first lady to return in december to face criminal charges she helped her husband loot the nations Treasury in 20 years of Power. In recent months Marcos 61, has mounted a Well publicized Campaign to Force Aquino to Grant her travel papers and return to Bury her husband who died in Hawaii in 1989,Cojuangco 55, who flew in the same plane Marcos used when he fled after his ouster in 1986, sneaked Back to the Philippines in november 1989 after the death of the dictator. Since his return Cojuangco has formed a political party to launch his bid for the philippine presidency in the 1992 elections. He is battling criminal and civil charges that he amassed considerable wealth during the Marcos years and is seeking to regain control of businesses the government has sequestered. During an interview on her radio show Aquino expressed disappointment with government efforts to recover upward of $ 10 billion Marcos and his associates allegedly took from the country while in Power. A of course i would like it to be faster but then i would like to remind and impress upon the filipino people we Are living under a democracy and that we have to go through due process and everybody is entitled to due process a she said  
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