European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday August 5, 1991 russian communists Moscow apr the huge russian Branch of the communist party splintered saturday when Reform minded communists defected to form a new party led by the republics vice president Alexander Rutski. The break expected for weeks was the most threatening yet for the beleaguered National party. It avoided a possible split last month Between reformers and hardliners. Rutski Hopes to supplant the russian communist party and receive the support of the National party As its official representative in the soviet unions largest Republic. The new party Branch intends to claim a share of the property controlled by the russian communist party Rutski said. But the National party scentral committee issued a sharply worded statement saturday denouncing Rusk Oil a action As an unlawful attempt to split the ruling organization by forming a a party within a  the new group promised to stick by National party chief and president Mikhail s. Gorbachev As Long As he holds to his Reform promises. Rutski said he would meet Gorbachev soon to seek recognition As the sole russian party Branch. If the National party does no to recognize it Rutski said his group would break away from the National party. A if they done to recognize us we Reserve the right to Issue our own party cards a Rutski told an organizing conference saturday according to the state news Agency Tass. The party Branch was founded out of Rusk Oil so communists for democracy faction which was instrumental in defeating a hard line move to oust Republic Leader Boris n. Yeltsin during a russian parliament session in March. That faction was formed in March. Yeltsin who quit the communist party last year chose Rutski to be his vice world president. The pair with Yeltsin running for president trounced communist opponents in june becoming the first elected leaders of Russia. Last month Rutski joined former foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze and other prominent reformers in founding a a democratic Reform movement that could become the National opposition to the communist party. Quot Rutski has claimed his a communists for democracy faction has about 4 million followers within Quot the russian communist party which itself comprises nearly half the 16.3-million-member National communist party. The claim could not be independently  Japan not Egypt a vacationer snaps a shot saturday amid egyptian High school students built their version of the Sphinx style attractions made from Sand in Kamakura Japan. And a 17-foot-High Pyramid for the City a Beach  korean defects after judo meet Seoul South Korea up1 a a North korean Athlee flew to Seoul on sunday after defecting to a Sou h korean diplomatic Mission in an undisclosed european country. I Chang us 24, a resident of Pyongyang North Korea arrived aboard a commercial flight saying he wanted to pursue his athletic career As a free Man. I was the first a path korean athlete to defect to South Korea through a third country i said he took part in the 78-kilogram 171-Pound class competitions of the 17th world judo championships held last month in Barcelona Spain and was on his Way Home when he deserted his two teammates and five team officials. �?o1 was on a train heading for Moscow from Paris and i abandoned the team when the train stopped at a Sta Tion a i said. He declined to give the name of the station. Government sources said i took his action after his travel companions fell asleep. The team officials were drunk at that time they said. Seoul officials said i came to a South korean Mission last thursday seeking Asylum. The government decided to Honor his wishes after South korean officials on the scene and authorities of the Host country ascertained his intentions they said. A Long before i came to Barcelona i made up my mind to defect a i said. A life is hard in North Korea. I hated its oppressive society which does not allow people to pursue what they Are Good  i said North Korea is experiencing an acute food shortage. .85 schoolchildren killed when bus overturns from wire reports Harare Zimbabwe a at least 85 schoolchildren were killed and 13 critically injured when their bus overturned As they returned Home police said sunday. The b and c co. Bus was travelling on a winding Road from a school sports Competition in the Eastern Zimbabwe town of rus ape when it flipped near the resort Village of Nyanga at 11 30 . Saturday police said. The Fate of the Driver was not immediately  Law officers honoured Vilnius . A Lithuania gave seven slain Law enforcement officers a heroes burial saturday and tens of thousands of people lined streets in the renegade Republic to watch the Flag draped coffins pass by. Investigators have not said whom they suspect in wednesdays attack at a Border Post. A Man who said he represented a pro russian vigilante group Security service said saturday that the previously unknown organization was responsible according to a lithuanian  considers race Rio de Janeiro Brazil a a african National Congress president Nelson Mandela travelled saturday to Salvador the Cradle of afro Brazil Ian culture and said he wants to be South africans president a if the people want  a if the people want me to serve in that capacity it would be a great Honor. But that is a matter to be decided by them a Mandela told reporters before departing Sao Paulo. During his first visit to Brazil the 73-year-old Leader has sought economic and political support for the Anc and has urged Brazil to maintain sanctions against South Africa until it abolishes apartheid the system of racial segregation. Mandela accompanied by his wife Winnie and a dozen Anc colleagues arrived saturday in Salvador a former slave entry port that evolved into the Center of afro brazilian culture and brazils third most populous  denies Selling Iraq uranium suitable for arms London apr a newspaper reported sunday that Britain had supplied Iraq with a substantial quantities of uranium Quot suitable for the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The government denied the report. The newspaper also quoted or. Hussein Shahrestani exiled former head of the iraqi atomic Energy commission As saying depleted uranium from Britain had been used in the bomb building program of iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The sunday times said customs records showed that Iraq paid nearly $1.69 million for three Large consignments or 9.46 tons of depleted uranium and other radioactive materials. They were shipped from Britain under government License Between 19s8 and 1990, the newspaper said. A spokesman for the department of Trade and Industry said a almost All of the shipments were actually tiny radioactive isotopes for medical use not depleted  he said that the weight of the isotopes reported by the newspaper was incorrect and that they were packed for shipment in substantial quantities of Lead and dry ice. A the packaging accounts for the weight a he said. A we told the sunday times  in response to first reports last week of British exports to Iraq Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley said his department had licensed a very Small quantities.�?�. The sunday times reported that Amersham International a commercial supplier of radioactive materials said saturday that it supplied about 220 pounds of depleted uranium to Iraq in 1988. It was part of a Batch of equipment for the Oil Industry the newspaper said. The newspaper quoted Hussein Shah Rastani As saying British shipments of depleted uranium to Iraq had been processed at the Tuaila nuclear research Center South of Baghdad. The sunday times quoted a senior British official As saying none of the uranium would have been licensed for Export if Britain had been aware of Saddam a capability for enrichment. On july 26, a government document was made Public saying Britain authorized exports of a Range of nuclear materials to Iraq during a 3vi-year period that ended last aug. 5, three Days after the iraqi invasion of Kuwait