European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b. The stars and stripes saturday july 6,1991 shaky truce seems to hold in breakaway Slovenia Belgrade Yugoslavia apr the breakaway Republic of Slovenia on Friday defied orders from Yugoslavia a collective presidency to withdraw forces from combat positions but did begin freeing the Federal soldiers it was holding. A truce appeared to remain in effect despite reports of some clashes. Prisoners boarded buses and trains to leave Slovenia and return to their army units Friday. The republics information minister Jelko Kacin said trucks were also taking Federal army Tanki Baek to bases. The International red Cross said the Republic holds More than 2,300 yugoslav soldiers who either surrendered deserted or were captured although militiamen refused to leave Battle posts the secessionist Republic said it complied with a Federal demand to lift blockades of yugoslav military bases. In neighbouring Croatia which also declared Independence from the six Republic yugoslav federation More clashes broke out Friday Between ethnic serbs and croatian militiamen the Tan Jug news Agency reported. There were no immediate reports on casualties. Also Friday the 12-Natipn european Community froze Arm sales and nearly $1 billion in economic Aid to Yugoslavia and said it would Send a Mission to organize the deployment of lease fire observers. The Federal presidency had ordered Slovenia to withdraw its troops from combat positions and free All Federal army prisoners by Midnight thursday lift the blockades at army bases Friday and turn Over control of its 27 International Border posts by sunday. Slovenian leaders said they will not relinquish Border posts on the italian austrian and hungarian frontiers that Are considered symbols of National sovereignty. Slovenia s takeover of Border posts last week sparked three Days of combat with government troops. The Issue of who controls Slovenia a Border posts on the republics Northern Frontier is the biggest obstacle to any peace Accord said , Kohl agree Aid needed Kiev . Apr pointing to the turmoil in Yugoslavia As a warning soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev said Friday he would never Bow to pressure to split up his country. In a news conference after five hours of talks with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl Gorbachev also stressed the need for Western help to carry out his economic reforms. Kohl expressed Hope that the soviet unions transition to a Market Economy would proceed peacefully and said he would push for Western support at the Summit of the group of seven most industrialized nations in London on july 15-17. More than 1,000 pro Independence ukrainians protested Gorbachev a visit at a rally on Independence Square in downtown Kiev capital of the Republic with 52 million people. Speakers denounced his proposed Union treaty to hold the republics together. Gorbachev said he told Kohl he would intensify his work on the treaty which the German government has said is a precondition for further credits to Aid the ailing soviet Economy. Gorbachev and Kohl met at Kiev a Boris pol Airport and drove to a former monastery at mesh Ivorye about 25 Miles outside the City. There they met Oberon one and with various advisers for More than five hours. Unlike past government ultimatums thursdays presidential demands carried no new threat of military action from the Federal army which has seemed to be operating independently of the weak and splintered Federal government. In one report of continued warfare in Slovenia Federal army commanders claimed Friday that Slovenia was violating the cease fire by firing on yugoslav troops at a military Barracks during the night  at least two soldiers. Slovenia denied breaking the ceasefire. One of the Federal commanders it. Gen. Marko Nesovanovic said Slovenia continued to blockade Many Federal Barracks and was mobilizing its forces near Slovenia a second largest City Maibor. The commander warned that the army would retaliate if attacked. A there is no doubt that Slovenia is not respecting the cease fire and the decisions of the Federal presidency a Nesovanovic told reporters in Belgrade. He claimed two soldiers and one officer were wounded in separate attacks on army facilities and warehouses in Slovenia and that four officers had been taken into custody by rebels at a isolated Border Post. A Federal army statement released by Tan Jug said a the continual armed provocations against the yugoslav Peoples army units again confirm the Lack of serious intention. Of the Republic of  non communist Croatia and Slovenia the two northernmost republics both declared Independence june 25. Croatia has been spared army attacks partly because it has be he far More cautious in carrying out Independence plans. Battles since june 27 Between the lightly armed slovenian militia and Federal troops backed by tanks and warplanes have left about 90 people dead and hundreds wounded the slovenians claim. A but ethnic fighting in Croatia has killed at least 43 since May 3, and More violence was reported Friday. About ii percent of Croatia a 5 million people Are serbian Many of whom seek Unity with the hard line com a Mandela elected Anc president Durban South Africa apr Nelso Iyman Dela was elected Friday As president of the african National Congress a position that should give him greater authority to negotiate with the White led government. Mandela was the Only candidate for president As More than 2,000 Anc delegates voted for the organizations leadership at a National conference in Durban. A a Mandela 73, has been Leader of the country a main Black opposition group in everything but title since his release from Federal prison in february 1990. He had been jailed for treason for 27 years. The outgoing president Oliver Tambo has been in poor health since suffering a stroke two years ago and has been nominated for the largely honorary Post of Anc National Secretary. Mandela a Charisma Good relationship with president . De Klerk and wide support among both older moderates and Young militants made him the obvious Choice for the Anc presidency. Walter Sisulu a close Mandela ally easily beat out Harry gala a hard line communist party member and militant Anc member for the no. 2 Post of Deputy president. Gala has opposed the Ancus decision in August to suspend its armed struggle. A slovenian Soldier relaxes atop a captured Federal tank near the yugoslav austrian Border Friday. Monist Republic of Serbia. In the Netherlands the dec announced it would halt ajl arms sales to Yugoslavia in addition to freezing the Aid. A we feel arms sales can Only add to the tension a dutch foreign minister Van Den Broek said. An dec delegation was expected to leave for Yugoslavia later Friday or saturday to broker details of a cease fire Mission by observers from the Allied 35-nation conference on Security and cooperation in  gives up base to lebanese troops Sidon Lebanon apr army troops eased a siege of palestinian refugee Camps Friday after the Defeated guerrillas agreed to surrender their heavy weapons virtually dismantling the plots last major base for attacks on Israel. Trucks loaded with vegetables fruit flour and meat rolled into the Ein Al Hilweh and Mich Mich shantytowns. These were the first supplies to enter the Camp since monday when an army deployment  touched off gun Battles with palestinian guerrillas trying to hold on to their last Middle East Power base. Forty six people were killed and 173 wounded before government representatives worked out an Accord with representatives of Yasser Arafat a Palestine liberation organization. Under the Accord the Plo guerrillas would restrict them presence to the Camps remove heavy weapons from the shantytowns and cooperate with the estimated 10,000 soldiers trying to restore government control to unruly Southern Lebanon for the first time in 16 years. Without a single shot fired guerrillas Friday surrendered defense positions and retreated into their Camps. Army units backed by tanks and armoured personnel carriers moved into the vacated positions. From his Headquarters in Tunis Tunisia Arafat has declared his full backing of the Accord his representatives worked out with the lebanese government. Sex nazi denies he was involved in Camp atrocities ct1 intr. A Dan a not run. Stuttgart Germany apr Josef Schwammberge accused of nazi War crimes on Friday denied involvement in More than 3,000 murders in Poland during world War ii. Schwamm Berger a trial could be the last major War crimes trial in Germany and it involves allegations of some of the most brutal atrocities in the nazi holocaust. Survivors of concentration Camps that Schwammberge commanded have described him setting his dog on inmates pulling out their Gold Teeth with pliers and robbing his victims of Gold and jewelry before killing them. Schwammberge who lived for 40 years in Argentina is accused of helping to murder 3,374 people at least 43 by his own hand. Most of them were jews. If convicted the 79-year-old Schwa my Herger could be sentenced to life in prison. During the third Day of his trial the former nazi is lieutenant denied All involvement in what he called Quot the jewish things at the Camps he commanded from 1942 to 1945. Schwammberge claimed he knew of Only one shooting order by the Gestapo at a concentration Camp in Przemysla Poland. The judge questioned Schwammberge about a confession he signed while he was a prisoner in the French occupied zone of Austria where he was captured in 1945. Schwammberge testified his captors forced him to sign one statement. When the judge showed him three other statements including one confessing he killed 35 jews Schwammberge said he recognized his signature. He claimed he was unable to say How his signature got on the confession. A Schwammberge escaped from Austria in 1948 and surfaced in Argentina a year later. Schwammberge was arrested in november 1987 and extradited to Germany in May 1990. The trial against him began on june 20. 6