European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes a saturday july 27,1991excavation proves Katyn massacre Warsaw Poland apr experts needed scarcely one Day to find conclusive proof that polish army officers ordered murdered by Josef statin Are buried in a mass grave in the Eastern Ukraine news reports said Friday. The excavation that began near Kharkov on thursday found Bones and buttons leather and bits of uniforms that showed the victims were polish prisoners killed at the beginning of world War ii the polish Pap news Agency said Friday. The site is believed to hold 4,000 bodies. Digging is to begin next month in another Forest in med Noye near the russian City of Tver where up to 6,500 More polish officers Are believed to have been buried. A third mass grave at Katyn in Western Russia was discovered by the germans in 1943 and is known to hold the bodies of 4,254 polish officers. The 15,000 officers the Best of Independent Poland a world last of Stalin aides Dies at 98 in Moscow from wire reports Moscow a the last surviving Henchman of Josef Stalin the dictators no. 2 Man and the head of the a collectivization Quot in the 1930s that killed millions has died at the age of 98. Lazar m. Kaganovich died thursday night in his Home not far from the Kremlin. The report was confirmed by a family Friend at the Home of his daughter Maria l. Kaganovich. Kaganovich joined Vladimir i. Lenin a bolshevik party six years before the 1917 revolution and Rose through its ranks to become the country a no. 2 Leader in the 1930s after Stalin. He was in charge of the forced nationalization of farms and Industry in which millions were killed by famine goods shortages and execution. He remained in Power under Nikita Khrushchev after Stalin a death in 1953. But in 1957 he was ejected from the party a ruling politburo after leading an abortive rebellion against Khrushchev who described him As Stalin so chained cur and  steals Cash Paris a police believe a stowaway thief hidden in a trunk stole nearly $1 million in Cash from the baggage compartment of a recent air France flight from Corsica to Paris. Investigators said thursday they were on the Trail of a Man who checked an oversized trunk on the july 17 flight from Bastia where a Security Force had loaded 5.7 million francs about $958,000 onto the plane in sealed Lead weighted pouches. When opened in Paris the following morning the pouches were filled with old cardboard boxes and newspaper. Debris scattered in the planets baggage compartment indicated the sacks had been opened during the flight. Bonn to destroy missiles Bonn Germany a Germany will destroy the 24 soviet mid Range ss-23 missiles it inherited from the East German military inventory the defense ministry said Friday. The missiles have neither warheads nor launchers the ministry said and they will be destroyed by 1994, the missiles supplied to East Germany As a Warsaw pact member Are of the same Type that Moscow was to destroy under terms of the 1987 . Treaty removing medium Range nuclear weapons from  ticks found London a the agent that causes Lyme disease has been detected in ticks in two South London Parks posing a potential threat to City dwellers a researcher reported in this weeks lancet. Two of 40 ticks collected in Richmond Park and three of 25 ticks from Bushey Park were infected with the organism said or. Edward Guy a researcher from Southampton general Hospital in Southern England. Army disappeared after being imprisoned by the soviets. After decades of denial and passing blame to the nazis the soviets acknowledged last year that the officers were murdered on Stalin a orders in 1940, when Germany and the soviet Union were Allied and each occupied half of Poland. The deaths known collectively As the Katyn massacre Are among the most emotionally searing symbols of soviet offences against Poland. Exhumations Are being carried out by a polish soviet team chosen after soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev agreed the truth should be disclosed. Poland a Deputy prosecutor general Stefan Sniezko said the initial findings thursday near Kharkov a confirmed beyond any doubt that polish officers were buried in the mass Graves in a Forest Pap said. Pap also carried an interview with an 89-year-old former soviet secret policeman describing details of the systematic execution of the 6,500 polish officers near Tver Northwest of Moscow. A one by one the polish prisoners. Were handcuffed led to a death cell covered with a soundproof material and killed with a shot to their head Quot Pap quoted retired a kid Security maj. Dmitri Tokarev As saying. He said about 250 were killed each night. Pap reported that Tokarev said in an interview that he Learned about the execution plans during a meeting in Moscow called by Bohdan Tabulov a Deputy to secret police chief Lavrenti Beria. Tokarev said he was Given to understand that the decision to kill the poles had been taken at the a highest level by the ruling politburo Pap said. A Kabul of stressed during the meeting that no witness could be left alive Quot Tokarev told Papas Moscow correspondent Zbigniew Raczynski. Adm. Larson fears n. Korea May obtain nuclear capability Singapore up adm. Charles r. Larson commander of the . Pacific come said Friday he fears North Korea May acquire nuclear capabilities by the Middle of the 1990s. On his first visit to Singapore since his appointment in March Larson told a news conference a my greatest Security concern is the threat posed by North koreans nuclear weapons  he said he was hopeful International diplomacy would ease his concerns. Larson said he came to Singapore to review the Progress of the governments of Singapore and the United states in implementing the memorandum of understanding providing for increased use of Singapore a military facilities. The visit comes amid concern Over the . Withdrawal from Clark a devastated by a volcanic eruption in the Philippines. Larson stressed the reduction in forces does not mean a reduction in . Commitment to the Asia Pacific Region. Although there Are plans to Cut military forces by 25 percent worldwide Larson said the reductions in Asia will be less dramatic. Under the .-Singapore military facilities agreement signed nov. 13, 1990, in Tokyo by former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and vice president Dan Quayle the . Air Force and Navy have been increasing their use of facilities at Paya Lebar Airport and Semb Awang port. The Navy recently opened a new command office in Singapore to coordinate and service its ships. The agreement enabled the air Force to Send aircraft to Singapore several times a year for training deployments lasting several weeks. Singapore a offer to Host some . Military facilities was initially made Public in 1989 to help ease the Burden on the Philippines. The announcement sparked protests in Malaysia and Indonesia that the proposal would invite a permanent foreign base in Singapore. Indonesia Singapore and Malaysia All belong to the association of Southeast asian nations which ultimately envisions a zone of peace Freedom and Neu-. Soldiers to end roles As korean Border guards Washington a the last american combat troops guarding the Border Between the two Korea will turn Over their posts to South korean soldiers in october the Pentagon said thursday. The . Pullback from two patrol positions near the truce Village of Panmunjom will mean that for the Erst time since the end of the korean War in 1953 no american forces Wilu get at guard posts along the 150-mile Long demilitarized zone said col. Miguel Monteverde a defense department spokesman in Washington. South korean military officials had said wednesday that a redeployment of american troops in the demilitarized zone would be completed by 1992. Monteverde said the withdrawal from the guard posts will be finished in october. In addition to turning Over the guard posts to korean forces the United states in late 1992 will reduce from 200 to 100 the number of its service members inside the joint Security area which surrounds Panmunjom Monteverde said. The entire Force in the Security area will still be commanded by a . Army lieutenant colonel. The . Soldiers at guard posts along the demilitarized zone Are members of the 2nd inf div based at Camp Casey South Korea. Trility in the Region. The juror died Down when Singapore assured neighbouring countries that the offer Only covered berthing ship repair facilities and the use of the air base and was not an initial step toward setting up a base. Thousands flee Volcano mudflows Monsoon rain Manila Philippines up a spawned floods and volcanic mudflows Friday forcing t. T Lou Sands of villagers to flee their Homes and pushing be number of refugees from a soldering Volcano to More than 1.2 million. In the town of Mexico near the mount Pinatubo Volcano 50 Miles North of Manila mayor Fernando me Ness said 15 villages had been swamped by torrents of mudflows a Ash Sand and boulders unleashed by rain since thursday night. Meneses said 308 houses were buried and some 10,000 people were forced to flee to safer ground. In the Liberty City of Olon Gapo next to the . Subic Bay naval facilities mayor Richard Gordon said 300 people left their Homes under Waist deep water. In the capital flooding swept through Low lying areas causing massive traffic jams. Schools and government offices shut Down. Philippine airlines cancelled five Domestic flights but International operations at the Manila Airport remained Normal. An earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter Seal hit metropolitan Manila at 2 56 p.m., sending Soffio workers from High rises scampering into streets but apparently causing no injuries. The military office of civil defense said sine mount Pinatubo Volcano erupted june 9 after a 60c year slumber 1.2 million people in 213,409 families have either lost their Homes or livelihood in the prov inces of Zambales Tarlac Sampanga and Bataan. It said nearly 100,000 houses were crushed or Bude by volcanic debris and damage to property was Esti mated at $317 million. The eruption severely damaged Subic and forced the closure of Clark a thursday philippine foreign Secretary Raul Mang Lapus rejected demands by philippine senators to renegotiate an agreement reached last week in which wast in ton will give up Clark in one year and retain Subi for 10 years