European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday october 5, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9 soviet republics guard units not a threat Mcpeak says world japanese Leader Kaifu won t seek second term from wire reports Tokyo a prime minister Toshiki Kaifu announced Friday that he will not seek a second term As head of the ruling party and the premiership accompanying the Post. Kaifu said he would not seek the Oost because he was responsible for the failure of parliament to pass his electoral Reform package into Law. The embattled it Gifu also said pfc was responsible for the inability of the ruling Liberal democratic party and three main opposition parties to agree an inter party panel charged with resolving the debate on political Reform. Despite incredible personal popularity that some political analysts regarded As enough to spiral him into a second term the sharpest attacks on Kaifus ineffectiveness came from members of his own party determined to halt a reelection bid. Kaifu earlier told former prime minister no Boru Takeshita and former Deputy prime minister Shin Kanemaru the co leaders of the largest lip faction that he would step Leader in Sweden Stockholm Sweden a parliament confirmed conservative Carl Bildt As prime minister thursday placing Sweden under non socialist leadership for Only the second time in 60 years. The Riksdag Sweden a legislature voted 163 to 147 for Bildt. There were 23 deputies who abstained 16 were absent. Bildt 42, was to name a Cabinet on Friday and announce government policies for the next three years. The government was expected to include four parties Bildt a own moderates the Liberal party Center party and Christian democrats. Together they have 170 seats in the 349-member Riksdag five Short of a majority. To pass legislation the government will have to depend on the newly formed new democracy nurses rally Paris a several thousand nurses from across France rallied near the health ministry on thursday to demand better working conditions. Organizers estimated the turnout at More than 5,000, while police said it was 3,000. No disturbances were reported. A nurses a an endangered species a said one of the displayed placards. Representatives of the protesters met with health minister Bruno Durieux and later said they were disappointed by the talks. He proposed forming a commission to study problems facing the nursing profession. The nurses demands include higher pay larger nursing staffs and efforts to improve physical conditions in Public display Bellinzona Switzerland a in a country known for secret Bank accounts Early morning strollers received a very Public display of Cash when a bag containing 1 million Swiss francs about $670,000 fell from a postal train. The sack of Money destined for Banks in this Southern Swiss town was apparently sucked out of an open door thursday As the train left a Tunnel officials said. Gianfelice Colombo Bellinzona a postal director said the loss was discovered about 2vi hours later after several trains had driven Over the bag and scattered its contents. Colombo said by late afternoon Only one fifth of the Cash had been recovered. Police were investigating reports of passers by gathering up the stray banknotes he lady a lord London sex prime minister Margaret Thatcher will be offered the title of countess and Given a seat in the House of lords after the general election the times reported thursday. The newspaper citing unnamed government sources said the convention of offering a hereditary earldom to a retiring prime minister would continue. Thatcher who resigned under pressure fro her colleagues last november has said she will accept the Honor if offered. _ Moscow apr the soviet republics can form separate armies and air forces without threatening the United states As Long As nuclear weapons remain centrally controlled the . Air Force chief of staff said Friday. Gen. Merrill a. Mcpeak who has been meeting with soviet defense officials this week also said the soviet it military is concerned about the Pace of change since the failed hard line coup. A they wish that things would Settle Down a Little bit a Mcpeak told a news conference. Asked about the potential for military instability he said a i think there is a danger there always is. Events Are moving at kaleidoscopic Speed. The senior military people in be met seem relatively Cool headed about it. But events sometimes have a Way of getting out of one of them air Force chief of staff Yevgeny Shaposhnikov was named the new defense minister and quickly endorsed sweeping troop reductions the removal of communist party cells from the army and a transition to a better paid mostly Volunteer Force. Mcpeak believes there would be no cause for alarm if the increasing sovereignty of the 12 remaining soviet republics leads to separate armies and air forces. A we have army and air National guard units in the states a he said. Quot we feel they Are no threat. So there a no reason that the republics of the former soviet Union Hamburg Germany apr the wave of anti foreigner violence continued into Friday after the attacks overshadowed reunited Germany a first anniversary party the Day before. Speakers at the country a main National Celebration had drawn parallels with nazi terror As they sought an end to the rash of firebombing and Stone throwing by right Wing extremist thugs. In Central Germany radicals set fire to the Home of a turkish family in the town of Seesen Early Friday after shouting a out with foreigners and a smash the police said two adults and three children were suffering from smoke inhalation authorities said about 15 assailants stormed into a shelter for romanian refugees in the Eastern German town of Gate Sleben. The attackers nearly destroyed one room but no injuries were reported. Attackers also threw firebombs at a refugee shelter in the bavarian town of Piele Hofen but none of the each have some sort of Security Russia and at least nine other republics have already started forming their own National guards and Shaposhnikov has said he will tolerate them and possibly use them As a Reserve Force in the event of War. He has repeatedly said nuclear weapons will remain under Central control. In one sign of the republics new assertiveness russian federation vice president Alexander Rutski met with a nato delegation thursday and proposed a a United armies of Natow that would include the soviet Union once the reason for the existence of the Atlantic Alliance. Rutski proposed soviet membership or a disbanding of the organization wrought by the cold War according to the russian governments information Agen 8. He said an expanded North Atlantic treaty i animation could create a super Alliance that could police such conflicts As in Yugoslavia. Mcpeak said soviet generals were a a delighted with president Bush a announcement last week that the United states would unilaterally a eliminate its ground launched Short Range nuclear missiles. A withdraw All tactical nuclear arms from . Ships. A take strategic bombers off Alert. A cancel the Mobile my missile system. Indians and pakistanis inside was injured. In Berlin police said they arrested 59 militant leftists who rampaged after marching in a pro foreigner rally. Leftists also clashed with police the Day before in Hamburg. German president Richard von Weizsacker visited three Homes for Asylum seekers on Friday in what amounts to a show of Solidarity with the foreigners. On thursday alone German police reported 14 injuries nationwide in attacks in 16 towns and cities. The most serious left two lebanese girls aged 6 and 8, in critical condition after a firebomb was thrown into a shelter for Asylum seekers in Hixine a suburb of Disseldorf in Western Germany. Four suspects were arrested and face charges of attempted murder in the Hixine attack police said. Witnesses said the attackers were a skinheads a youths favouring shaved hair heavy boots and bomber jackets. Police officers Scurry for shelter in Berlin on thursday night alter a clash broke out at the end of a demonstration. Violence against foreigners continues across Germany
