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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, July 1, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c. The stars and stripes monday july 1, 1991 v a v a a a a a a soviets probing perestroika pioneers the Washington Post. Moscow a the soviet communist party has begun investigations of two leading politicians who helped president Mikhail s. Gorbachev launch the a a perestroika economic Reform program and Are now helping organize a breakaway democratic party. Eduard Shevardnadze the former foreign minister and Alexander Yakovlev a leading Kremlin adviser known As the architect of perestroika have infuriated party leaders with their support of a new social democratic party to Challenge the communist party. The communists disciplinary control commission was to question Shevardnadze on monday television reports said. Yakovlev told two leading newspapers saturday that he too is under investigation. Party rules aimed at achieving a democratic centralism a outlaw All other factions. The commission which led party purges for decades can still censure and recommend expulsion of party members. _ _ _ the party which is dominated by orthodox communists who feel threatened by the growing support for private property and Western style democratic institutions is on the verge of disintegration As a ruling institution. After seven decades As the unchallenged Monolith controlling the country the party has in recent months been splintering into various factions. A there Are blatant attempts to discredit Alexander Yakovlev me and other supporters of forming a new party a Shevardnadze told the inter fax news Agency Friday. Yakovlev said he was tied of the a ongoing organized persecution against him in conservative papers and defied the control commission to act against him. A let them try it a he said in a statement. Yakovlev even hinted he might soon quit the party. The   that the party also is investigating internal factions such As communists for democracy led by the russian republics vice president Alexander Rutski. At the last session of the Central committee in april even Gorbachev the party a general Secretary was forced to Battle for his position he add fitted that the party had really become a three or four  a at the next Central committee plenum in late july the most Reform minded Mern Bers May walk out and a fairly Sharp break with the party by its reformist leaders is possible a the daily Komsomol Skaya pravda said quoting party sources. In a try to Stem new defections the communist party this week published a new draft charter repudiating the need to a create a socialist  a a marching Homes amps Gus Schuettler members of the Parma sons Community in Germany lined the towns streets on saturday to Welcome Home crisply saluting veterans of the persian Gulf War. Also joining in the Parade were members of Pir Masens Fasching clubs the German  and the . Army sold guard Fife amp drum corps from Washington . World chinese waste food after All from wire reports Beijing apr for everyone who was told to clean his or her plate because of the starving children in China an official newspaper has offered an interesting statistic a chinese waste enough food to feed 100 million people for a year. On saturday the official China daily newspaper listed the statistic in an article on flagrant food waste at schools restaurants an hotels. Soviet miners killed Moscow a thirty two miners were killed when a fire at a Coal mine in the Donass Region of the Ukraine released toxic Gas a soviet journalist said sunday. There was no immediate confirmation from officials. Dmitry Dobrovolsky of the Komsomol Skoye Namya newspaper said the fire started saturday afternoon at the Yuzhnaya Don Barskaya 1 Coal mine. The fire began on one of the rubber conveyor belts that Are used to transport Coal to the surface Dobrovolsky said. The miners died from inhaling toxic Coal Gas Dobrovolsky said., two miners managed to save themselves by using a Respirator and Are now in the Hospital be  some britons could be enticed by Scot free murder London apr eleven percent of men and 3 percent of women would commit murder to become millionaires if they were assured of getting away with the crime according to a British Public opinion Survey. And Many More would cheat on taxes lie about sexual affairs or deny running Over a neighbors dog the poll claimed. A an astonishing proportion of britons Are prepared to put morality to one Side if they think it Worth their while a said the sunday express which commissioned the Survey on sex crime and honesty from Market and opinion research International. The group said it questioned 1,112 adults on june 21. The Survey gave no margin of error but British opinion polls usually have a 5 percent margin of error. In addition to asking whether they would kill for the equivalent of $1.6 million the Survey found 25 percent of respondents would lie to their partners about affairs with the opposite sex and More than half answered they would cheat the Taxman out of $80,000 if they  be caught. Sub activity report to be expanded London is amps fishermen plying the Waters off the coast of Western Scotland will be notified of submarine activity covering a larger area than in past according to information from the ministry of defense. Starting today the fishermen will receive Advance notice of dived submarine movements which cover the entire Clyde submarine area. Previously the notice Only covered the Firth of Clyde. A the operation of the scheme has been monitored closely since its introduction a Archie Hamilton minister for the armed forces said in a news release. A i believe it is working Well and has achieved a worthwhile improvement in fishing vessel and submarine safety in the areas  he added a the scheme will be expanded to cover All Clyde submarine exercise areas lying either wholly or partly within the . 12-mile limit. The ranges at Rona and Ramsay Are also to be included in the notification  a spokeswoman for the . Navy at the submarine base in holy Loch said that they will cooperate with the British in the program. A the . Navy has and will continue to comply with the ministry of defense requirements to announce submarine operations in designated . Exercise areas a she said. The Firth of Clyde in Northwestern Scotland is Home to the Royal Navy a main submarine base at Aslane and the  Navy submarine so 14 in the holy Loch North of Glasgow. A Firth is a narrow Ocean Inlet or Estuary. The Clyde is one of the worlds busiest submarine Waterways and a prime commercial fishing area. In recent years attention has been focused on the waterway and the adjoining Irish sea because of a num unexplained accidents and disappearances of con Mann a Atsik a government has paid $900,000 in claims Oyer the last 11 years from fishermen whose rigs have been snagged by submarines. A amps Susan Harris  
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