European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes saturday october 19, 1991soviets create new economic Union Moscow a Mikhail Gorbachev and the presidents of eight soviet republics signed a landmark treaty Friday to create a new economic Union in place of the old Kremlin ruled system. Azerbaijan and the Ukraine however backed out of the Accord at the last minute. The refusal by Azerbaijan and the Ukraine to join the new economic Union seriously weakens the soviet presidents efforts to Ward off economic disintegration of the soviet Union. Their refusal Likely makes the country less attractive to foreigners whose capital is needed to prop up the crumbling soviet Economy. The presidents meeting in Marble walled St. Georges Hall in the Kremlin signed the treaty in alphabetical order. Russian president Boris Yeltsin flashed a Broad Grin to reporters before putting his name on the document. The pact had not been published in Advance but its Basic outline is known. It would create a a single economic zone encompassing most of the former soviet Union a minus the three newly Independent Baltic states Georgia Moldavia and now the Ukraine and Azerbaijan. Earlier spokesman Vladimir Tumarkin gave reporters no reason Why azerbaijani leaders would not sign the document. The Independent news Agency aze inform said without elaborating that the republics parliament voted a a overwhelmingly Friday not to sign the agreement. The pact could help Stem the country a breakup into hostile economic units with High tariffs and Export restrictions. Already some republics have forbidden the shipment of scarce food and consumer products outside their territory. The Ukraine said thursday it would not sign but did not Rule out signing the treaty later. A we do not intend to sign an agreement we have not seen a ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk told a meet ing of Trade unionists according to a Tass news Agency report Friday. Kravchuk said the Ukraine favors developing Trade ties with other republics. The Ukraine is an Industrial and agricultural powerhouse of s3 million people. Azerbaijan Borders the Caspian sea has 7 million residents most of them muslims and an important Oil Center in its capital Baku. Since defeating a hard line communist coup attempt in August Gorbachev put most other government business on a Back Burner to concentrate on winning the agreement to preserve economic links Between the republics. American says philippine official hired him to kill renegade officer Manila Philippines apr an american mercenary says the philippine foreign Secretary hired him last year to assassinate a rebel officer who has played a key role in attempts to overthrow president Corazon Aquino. The official Raul Mang Lapus on Friday issued a Strong denial of the allegation first reported wednesday by Abc news. The american mercenary Jack Terrell said Mang Lapus paid him $30,000 in May 1990 to arrange the death of it. Col. Gregorio a a Gringo Hona san and other leaders of the Reform the armed forces movement. Onasan was involved in at least three Terrell attempts to topple the Aquino government the most recent one in december of 1989. Neither Aquino nor her office would comment on the allegations but Abc quoted a previous Aquino statement As saving a we doubt there was any such conspiracy involving Secretary  an opposition senator Juan Ponce Enrile said there May be a some truth to the allegation and demanded that Mang Lapus resign if it proved True. The mercenary a report adds to the problems facing the Aquino administration in its final year in office. In september the philippine Senate rejected an agreement a negotiated by Mang Lapus and backed by Aquino a to maintain american military bases in the Philippines. Mang Lapus on Friday acknowledged knowing Terrell. But he said the voice on a tape Terrell said he secretly made during a meeting with Mang Lapus May have been someone imitating him a or that the tape was doctored. Terrell a former mercenary with the Contra rebels in Nicaragua said he had backed out of the plot when pressured to add other possible rivals of Aquino to the hit list. Onasan remains at Large. A it was a business Deal that went sour As far As in a concerned because i Wasny to willing to assassinate civilians a Terrell told Abc. Terrell said he decided to go Public with the Story because he thought it eventually would surface and he wanted to Tell his version. He said he believed Mang Lapus was merely the messenger for someone higher in the philippine government that originated the plot. Terrell said he asked Mang Lapus a How High does this go a and Mang Lapus answered that Aquino knew about it but  have anything to do with a the operations aspect of  arrested in slayings of eight girls Matamoros Mexico apr a couple robbed and killed eight girls and Young women they lured to their Rural Home with the Promise of work authorities said thursday. During a two month period the pair brought the victims to their Home on a nearby communal farm promising to give them Money and jobs. They killed them Medicine blamed for Mozart s death London apr Wolfgang amadeus Mozart was poisoned not by a jealous rival but inadvertently by his own doctors a physician has concluded. Mozart a death has Long been the subject of speculation and romanticizing and poisoning has been at the Center of some theories. Ian James a physician and pharmacologist at London a Royal free Hospital believes Mozart was poisoned by Antimony and possibly Mercury a two toxic metals used As medicines in 18th-Century Vienna Austria. He presented his findings at a conference of the British association for performing arts Medicine. But or. Peter j. Davies an australian physician who has written extensively about Mozart a ailments and death said the Antimony theory is a not new and not  Davies a gastroenterologist and author of the Book Mozart in person his character and health believes the composer died from complications of a streptococcal infection. He will be republishing his own theory in the december Issue of the journal of the Royal society of Medicine. Mozart died in Vienna in 1791 at the age of 35. Speculation about the cause of his death has been kept alive by several factors a his Young age the fact that he was at work on a requiem in his last Days and rumours that he was poisoned perhaps by his jealous rival Antonio Valieri. The poisoning rumours were rejected Early on by Edu Ard Vincent Goldener von lobes a court councilor who was consulted during Mozart a last illness. After taking what Little Money they had said watch commander Eloy Trevino of the Gracia state judicial police. The suspects were identified As Rodolfo Infante 28, formerly of san Benito Texas and Ana Maria Ruiz Villeda 20. They were arrested wednesday night by judicial state police in this town across the Rio Grande from Brownsville Texas. Trevino said the couple confessed to All eight killings. However in a Jailhouse interview both of the suspects denied the confession and blamed each other for the murders. A a it a mostly her fault. She a the one who Sas map lured these girls to where i lived a Infante told reporters. He said he killed three of the victims and Ruiz killed the others. Ruiz told reporters she saw the girls killed but did no to commit any of the murders herself. A i  kill them he killed them a she said. Police have recovered seven bodies and said the eighth victim is believed to have been dumped in the Rio Grande. The victims ranged in age from 14 to 20. Most were from Rural Mexico and came to Matamoros looking for work. The couple picked them up downtown authorities said. The investigation was prompted when Josefina Torres 15. Reported to police wednesday that her Friend Marina Hernandez Lopez 14, was missing. Both were hired to work at Al Banito the communal farm. Once there the couple left with Marina leaving the other girl behind police  fighting rages on despite new Accord Belgrade Yugoslavia a fierce fighting raged throughout Croatia Friday despite a new agreement by Yugoslavia a rival leaders for a truce. The cease fire was the 10th since Croatia declared Independence june 25th. None has held and with Serbia rejecting a european plan to bring peace to Yugoslavia the latest one also appeared doomed to failure. A dutch foreign ministry source said residents Franjo Tadjman of Croatia and Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia issued cease fire orders after meeting with mediators at the Hague during an dec sponsored peace conference. But Milosevic later rejected a plan fur reworking the embattled yugoslav federation into a Loose association with guarantees for minorities even As slovenian officials said the other five yugoslav republics had agreed to further discussion. A in its form we cannot accept the proposed paper a said Milosevic in a speech prepared for delivery at the Hague. The speech cited a Many contradictions and  the plan put Forward by Britain a lord Carrington chairman of the conference had been accepted a was a basis for future discussions by the other five yugoslav republics slovenian foreign minister Dimitri Rupel told reporters. Belgrade radio quoted Milosevic As rejecting Carrington a plan chiefly because it a annuls Yugoslavia As a country and rejects the change of internal yugoslav Borders which he said a Are administrative and not definite. The european plans ban on Border changes conflicts with Milosevic a apparent aim to expand Serbia a Borders at the expense of Croatia. A there is no just solution of the yugoslav crisis without securing the Protection of the personal and National survival of the serbian people a Milosevic warned in his Hattie speech