European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday june 15, 1991yeltsin savors Victory at Home supporters credit election successes to Unity a Moscow apr while russians president elect Boris Yeltsin remained quietly at Home Friday Radical reformers celebrated their victories Over communist opponents by announcing plans to j transform their election coalition into a True alternative to the communist party. Yeltsin running again five opponents was elected the first president of the russian Republic with 60 percent of the vote election officials said thursday. Russia is the largest of the 15 soviet republics with half the 289 million soviet  the 60-year-old Yeltsin who remained at Home Friday has not yet commented on the election results. Mis office said he might hold a news conference on monday when election officials were to Tor a Mally release their preliminary results. In Paris both Premier Edith Cresson and former president Valery Giscard Deestaing said Friday they had sent congratulatory telegrams to Yeltsin. The White House responded to Yeltsin a Victory by inviting him to meet next thursday with . President George Bush whose spokesman said the republics first presidential election was a a Good sign for Reform and democracy. Conservative newspapers made Little attempt to hide their dismay Friday. The conservative Sovic Skaya Rossiya newspaper complained that Many voters unaccustomed to popular democracy did no to understand How to cast ballots. Yeltsin a allies Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak were elected mayors of Moscow and Leningrad respectively each with 65 percent of the vote against communist opponents. And in Leningrad voters backed dropping the name of soviet founder and communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in favor of the City s czarist name of St. Petersburg. The victories Al backed by the democratic Russia coalition showed the Power of the anti communists now that they have finally United Popov told a news conference thursday evening. The fact that diverse Reform groups a came together around a constructive program. Has great meaning for the Fate of our country and of the formation of a Strong party that could become an alternative to the communist party a Popov  soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze a communist who resigned in december warning of the Dan Ger of impending dictatorship this week gave his support to the creation of an alternative party uniting All democratic forces. A we should have created am opposition a few years ago. There can be no state of Law without a solid serious constructive opposition a Shevardnadze said in an interview in Vienna Austria. Yeltsin a Victory gives him a stronger mandate to push soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a who has never stood for a popular election a toward More Radical economic and political reforms that he has been resisting. These include allowing privately owned farms legalizing business practices still banned by the communist dominated state and increasing Republic Powers at the expense of the National government. Panama shuts High schools amid protests Panama City Panama up1 a Panama City High schools were ordered closed thursday to quell ongoing student protests that president Guillermo Enda. A linked to followers of former dictator Antonio Man be Noriega. Endara at the end of the fourth Day of protests told reporters that a displaced leftists from the Noriega regime were conspiring against him. A i  say its a coup but there s definitely a conspiracy movement a he said. A they Are looking for a Way to return to the past. We panamanians Are not going to permit a return to the  Endara did not identify any Noriega followers in the so called conspiracy movement. Rock wielding students began protesting monday in Panama City against government austerity measures that include a recent 15 percent meat Price increase and the governments refusal to pay Christmas bonuses to state workers. 1 the education ministry late thursday ordered pub lie High schools in the City closed for an indefinite Peri-1 of. Police also surrounded the National Assembly w hich was vandalized in rioting monday. Endara named a special commission to investigate the protests and the students grievances. Riot police used tear Gas and shotguns to Battle High school students and hoodlums hoping to take advantage of the disorder by looting stores. Students blockaded major thoroughfares marched on the National Assembly and fought police with stones. No one has been killed in the protests which have spread to nine schools including one in the Atlantic port City of Colon but Many students teachers and journalists have been injured. Police said 80 people were arrested thursday including 40 students. The protests were dispersed by late afternoon. Most store owners in Panama City decided to close their doors amid fears of widespread looting. Police arrested scores of non students for looting and businessmen said the disturbances were costing them millions of dollars in lost sales Berlin Wall hits the Road workers crush Concrete segments of the Berlin Wall projects. The Concrete segments Are being stored at a into gravel thursday for later use in Road construction site in the Berlin District of Pankow. In Paris up a information was a scarce commodity in the French capital Friday As strikes halted distribution of most newspapers and forced cancellation of television news on two of the four major networks. Compounding the problem technicians at Agency France Presse the nations largest news service joined the strike preventing the Agency from transmitting news dispatches. Members of the communist party led general confederation of labor stopped work for 24 hours at French newspapers protesting new production techniques that threaten to eliminate Many jobs. No French newspapers were available at Paris Newsstands. Most papers were distributed outside the capital according to radio France. In an unrelated Job action journalists and other employees at the two state owned television networks an Tenne 2 and fr3, stopped work for 24 hours to protest a government plan to merge some functions of the two networks. Both networks cancelled their midday and evening news reports. .2 British naval officers reprimanded for misconduct Plymouth England a a British Navy officer and one of the first women to serve aboard a British warship were fined and reprimanded thursday after being caught together while naked in Defiance of an order that they not see each other. It. Mark Davies a 29-year-old Lynx helicopter observer and the sub it. Jacqueline Ramsay 25, admitted to a military court to a conduct to the prejudice of Good order and naval discipline a and disobeying their commander. Each was fined 750 pounds $1,240 and reprimanded by the court. They were charged under the naval discipline act. The incident occurred a few months after women were allowed to serve at sea for the first time. Twenty women were among the 250-person Crew serving on the frigate Brilliant the Royal Navy a first mixed sex warship. The pair had been ordered not to visit each others Cabins after admitting to meeting in Davies room Early in april said prosecutor it. Commander Richard Hawke. On May 6, when the ship was offshore Bahrain Ramsay was reported missing by her Cabin mate. Two ships officers and the master at arms went to Davies Cabin at 1 52 . When they knocked on the door and opened it they found the pair naked and kneeling at opposite ends of the bunk Hawke said. Ramsay and Davies were flown Home after the incident. 1 but the couple were not having an affair said it. Cmdr. Penny Melville Brown who helped defend the couple in court. A sexual Intercourse did not occur a she said. A they were not even touching. They had already realized the foolishness of their