European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 22, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3gorbachev halts hard liners Power bid Moscow apr soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev deftly blocked an attempt by hardliners Friday to give Broad emergency Powers to prime minister Valentin Pavlov. Gorbachev told the supreme. Soviet legislature that Pavlov a request had a not been thought through a but denied there was any rift with his prime minister. He accused hard line lawmakers of trying to drive a wedge Between them. His assurances prompted parliamentary chairman Anatoly Lukyanov to strike the proposal from the Agenda. Lawmakers agreed verbally without a formal vote. The legislature met Friday to consider a written proposal submitted earlier this week that would have Given Pavlov authority to Issue emergency decrees without consulting Gorbachev or the legis lature. At the time Pavlov said Gorbachev was too Busy to handle Day to Day government affairs. On Friday however Pavlov gave a different account. A Why does the mass Tricia say the cab pet asked for extraordinary Powers that Issue was not put Forward a Pavlov told the legislature. The apparent contradiction was not immediately explained. The proposal to strengthen the prime ministers Powers reportedly was endorsed in a closed session tuesday afternoon by Kab chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov defense minister Dmitri Yazoo and Interior minister Boris Pugo who sat together throughout fridays tumultuous debate but did not speak. Reformist lawmakers and newspapers billed it As an attempt by Pavlov to seize Power from Gorbachev six months after being promoted from the finance ministers Job. A Gorbachev said Friday that the Cabinet of ministers headed by Pavlov has his a full support. There is no crisis in relations with  he singled out two hard liners by name for a trying to destabilize the cooperation Between the Cabinet of ministers and the  the legislature began to Buzz when Gorbachev identified the lawmakers As col. Viktor Alksnis and Yuri Blokhin of the hard line soyuz group. Both men had supported giving Pavlov emergency Powers. Alksnis is one of what soviet reformers Call the a Black colonels who since last fall have tried to curb economic and political reforms. Former foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze alluded to them when he resigned in december warning of a looming dictatorship. Gorbachev also defended his efforts to obtain Western economic Aid to support reforms and denied he was going with his hands stretched out to the group of seven at the leading Industrial nations economic Summit in London next month. Gorbachev has been weighing a gradual plan for Reform proposed by Pavlov and a More Radical plan developed by Reform economist Grigory Zavlinsky and a group of experts from Harvard University. Gorbachev a attack on communist party traditionalists reinforced remarks he made to a top european official thursday calling the hard liners a Jingo is tsp w to Are incapable of seeing  asks for investment not . Aid new York up a Boris Yeltsin the newly elected president of the russian Republic pledged Friday that a there will not be any turning Back from do mock Acyl and said the soviet unions largest Republic needed investment instead of Aid. A i am not Here to ask for Money but to make business leaders understand our reforms for a free Market Economy and privatization a Yeltsin told an audience of about 1,000 scholars and business students at new York University during a tour of the big Apple. A we must build a Russia that is not asking others for Money but where foreign investors would gladly go because it offers business opportunities a Yeltsin said. Yeltsin Scall for foreign investment contrasted sharply with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev a plea for a Multi billion Dollar Aid package from the West. Gorbachev will present his request to the leaders of the seven largest industrialized nations after the London economic Summit in mid july. While Gorbachev warned that failure by the soviet Union to make a successful transition to a Market Economy could throw the nation Back into totalitarianism Yeltsin reassuringly promised history would not repeat it self. A a a a there will not be any turning Back from democracy in Russia a Yeltsin said to a standing ovation. A we have witnessed the demise of what might have been the greatest utopian vision in Humankind but which led to enormous losses.�?�. Newly elected russian president Boris Yeltsin with president Bush and other officials thursday. The Bush administration while welcoming Yeltsin a aggressive Call for capitalist reforms has shown no intention of underlining Gorbachev a already troubled leadership by favouring his political rival. At the White House on thursday president Bush diplomatically reminded Yeltsin a that it was president Gorbachev a courageous policies. That were the Pivotal fac tors enabling us to end the cold War and make Europe whole and  Yeltsin was taken by limousine to the West sides Busy garment District where he met with members of the ladies garment workers Union. He was later taken to Wall Street where he was to meet with about 20 business and financial leaders at the Federal Reserve Bank of new York. To Settle their feud Belgrade Yugoslavia up Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii urged yugoslav leaders Friday to remain United in a search for a solution to their Battle Over the country a future. However the republics of Slovenia and Croatia reaffirmed their secession plans despite warnings they would not receive International recognition. Baker held Daylong talks with members of the country a divided political Hierarchy to stress concerns in Europe and North America that the breakup of the federation could ignite a civil War among Yugoslavia a rival ethnic groups. Western countries fear the Region will be destabilized undermining european integration. Asked during a break in his meetings if the United states would recognize an Independence declaration planned by the slovenian Republic wednesday Baker told reporters a no we would not and we would counsel against unilateral action being taken. A the United states is not alone a he added referring to a Resolution adopted at the meeting he attended in Berlin this week during the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe. The conference called for talks to Settle the dispute that has rekindled historic hatreds among its 23 million people. But even As Baker continued his meetings the slovenian government declared it would proceed with its Independence declaration and warned the yugoslav military against intervening. Slovenian president Milan Kucan speaking to reporters outlined his meeting with Baker. A fall the nations of Yugoslavia May live As they wish the same Way As other european nations a he said. Asked if that meant As an Independent state Kucan replied a yes As an Independent nation which out of its own will has ties to other  v the croatian government announced that it Woulf present the republics Assembly with proposed Independence decrees on tuesday. Alleged victim of rape traumatized doctor says West Palm Beach Fla. Apr the woman who says William Kennedy Smith raped her was suffering increased physical pain and a generalized anxiety a nearly a week after the alleged assault a newly released report from her doctor said. A apparently she was in Shock when initially seen at Humana Hospital on March 30, the Day of the alleged rape wrote or. Barry Lotman of the nearby town of Jupiter. A was the Shock began to Wear off she noted multiple  the 29-year-old Jupiter woman went to Lotman her personal physician on april 5. She reported pain in a number of areas and also suffered spasms in her neck and a a poorly controlled tremor in her right  Lotman wrote. There was no Bone damaged indicated by a rays but Lotman put the woman on Voltarez an anti pain Medicine and the anti anxiety drug Librium he wrote. He indicated the prescriptions were intended a to help her with generalized  Lotman a reports Weie among 2s9 pages of investigative files made Public thursday. They included an april 30 sworn statement by a Frieri of the alleged victim who came to the Kennedy family estate to pick her up after the alleged rape. The Friend Chuck Desiderio gave the statement after being assured by state attorney David Bludworth it  be used against him in any prosecution for taking an antique urn from the Kennedy estate the file shows. Desiderio said his Girlfriend Anne Mercer was called by the woman about 3 45 . On March 30. They went to the Kennedy family estate and found the woman a hysterical a he said a i would imagine it would be very difficult for a girl to act that Way unless she was an incredible actress a said Desiderio