European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday november 3, 1991 . Plan to restore ties one sided Vietnam says Hanoi Vietnam apr Vietnam wants to renew diplomatic relations with the United states but a top Vietnam official said the . Plan to bring about that is cumbersome and one sided. A we Hope for the Best but at the same time we Are still very cautious because experience has shown us if we meet one condition the . Imposes another Quot be bang a foreign ministry official said in an interview. Expectations Crew when Washington announced it would begin High level normalization talks with Vietnam this month. Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii made the announcement in Paris on oct. 23 at the signing of a peace Accord intended to end nearly 13 years of War in Cambodia. The United states had refused to establish ties with Vietnam until that conflict Between .-backed guerrillas and the vietnamese installed government was resolved. The crippling . Trade embargo which has impeded official Aid from Europe Japan and world institutions would be lifted. Vietnam is among the poorest nations where annual per capita income is estimated at $200. Be Dang Doanh an architect of economic reforms in Vietnam said in an interview that the embargoes most damaging aspect was blockage of world Bank funds. A without a Green Light from the world Bank nobody is going to loan us anything Quot Doanh said. Along the Road map to normalization that Washington presented to Hanoi this year the United slates make russian Congress approves Yeltsin s Reform plans Moscow apr russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on saturday outlined the principles of a new Republic Constitution that would create a a presidential Republic Quot across the vast russian territory and restrict the rights of National groups to secede. Speaking to the russian parliament a Day after winning approval of his economic reforms Yeltsin urged the lawmakers to approve the draft Constitution that has gone through at least one year of arduous debate and repeated revisions. A we must not make any artificial delay in constitutional Reform a Yeltsin said. A we have no right to let go of this Opportunity to erect constitutional barriers to chaos and  a a Yeltsin appeared confident As he spoke a Day after persuading the Congress of russian Peoples deputies to approve his Reform plan to create a Market Economy free stale controlled prices and privatize industries. He also won Broad new Powers to implement the reforms and reorganize the government. The 60-Ycar-old president told the parliament that the Constitution would create new checks and balances in the russian government and would guarantee Freedom i association and speech to create a a civil society Quot however the document outlined by Yeltsin appeared to omit any provision for secession by any of the dozens of autonomous ethnic regions in the huge Republic which stretches from Poland to Japan. Yeltsin said the draft Constitution before parliament contained a firm Legal guarantees against totalitarianism ideological control and violence As a state policy and created the Legal basis for Reform. Yeltsin said the draft assumes the russian Republic to be a a United state a and he said he would like to see the various regions sign a federation treaty to lock them into a single unified system of government. Minor concessions while Vietnam must account for hundreds of american Las from the Vietnam War and help keep the peace in Cambodia until elections can be held. A we done twant to link the Cambodia peace agreement to our relationship with the United states. Cambodia is something out of our control now a said bang Deputy director of the ministry a North american department. The United states first demanded As a condition for normalizing relations the withdrawal of vietnamese troops who invaded Cambodia in late 1978. After their pullout in 1989, new conditions were Laid Down. The United states in effect has cast Vietnam As co guarantor of the fragile cambodian peace. Vietnamese officials also see a double Standard at work. A we know we Are a Small country and so always at a disadvantage when dealing with a big one a bang said. He said thousands of pro democracy demonstrators were killed in China a and the . Granted it most favored country status in trading. The ministry does not expect full scale relations until after the november presidential election in the United states next  Bush is Riding High in the polls and feels like a Strong Leader he May do something historic before the elections a bang said. �?o1 Hope he has the courage. A Bush said after the Gulf War that americans have gotten Over the Vietnam syndrome but it still lingers. Only by reconciliation will your people be Able to get Over the Vietnam syndrome and we our american  Lenin coming Down while streets Public squares and subway stops throughout Eastern Germany Are shedding their communist names a statue or Vladimir Lenin in Berlin has become a focus of debate. The statue will be dismantled tuesday but Many germans say it should be preserved As a part of history. The Monument to the russian revolutionary May become part of a permanent exhibition. World Navy marines begin 9-Day readiness exercise from wire reports Seoul South Korea a . Navy and Marine corps units started a nine Day routine amphibious readiness exercise Friday in the Japan sea and along Korea s Eastern coast. The exercise a valiant Blitz a is designed to enhance the operational readiness of participating univ it will include air and surface amphibious assault landings and anti surface and ant air training. Nine Navy ships Are taking part including a command and control ship one aircraft Carrier with an embarked air Wing two cruisers two guided missile frigates one amphibious transport Dock ship an amphibious cargo ship and one Oiler. Also participating in the exercise lasting until nov. 9 Are various sea and land base naval patrols tactical and logistical , not victim in casket Vancouver British Columbia a relatives of a murder victim were horrified when they filed past his open casket to see the body of his killer. The Corpse was even dressed in a suit bought by the victims family. Bovey Sheng Chang 38, was one of four people found shot to death at a Vancouver Home oct. 20, changes wife Lee 33, and their sons to Chang 7, and Tommy Chang 16 months were also  said the gunman was Lee changes a Boyfriend. He committed suicide after killing the family police said. When relatives filed past the casket at Bovey Chang s memorial service wednesday they saw the killer s body in his place. Ray Loewen whose Loewn group owns the Vancouver crematorium said the mix up occurred because the morgue at Vancouver general Hospital released the wrong Many a body. A a we re very sorry this happened and we re in the process of getting to the Bottom of what happened Quot Loewen said. A a it a very  fire on police Athens Greece a an anti tank missile fired by terrorists hit a parked police Van saturday injuring six riot police officers inside. Police said two missiles were fired from a nearby building to the Van parked in a vacant lot in Central Athens. One missile hit the vehicle and the other smashed into a Wall. Police said about 20 members of the riot squad were inside the Van. No one claimed responsibility for the attack but police sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the weapons used suggested it was carried out by the november 17 terrorist organization. The leftist Urban guerrilla group which often targets police and foreign dignitaries and businesses has used anti tank missiles in the past. November 17 is named after the Date in 1973 when the military dictatorship then ruling Greece sent tanks into the polytechnic to put Down a student uprising. The group has claimed responsibility for the slayings of 16 people including four americans since 1975. In us most recent attack members of the group shot and killed the press attache of the i turkish embassy on oct. 7. Firefighters put out 2nd Blaze at chernobyl Plant Moscow f apr i a a fire Honl p Jodii in u i it  i Moscow apr fire broke out in a Cne Rator room at the troubled Cherno it Al nuclear Plant in the Ukraine on Friday the second Blaze in three weeks the Tass news Agency reported. The fire which occurred in the Generator room for shutdown reactor no. I was extinguished and caused no release of radiation the news Agency said. A Cable that supplies electricity to the generators auxiliary equipment and a machine room caught fire about 1 29 p.m., Tass said. No cause for the Blaze was Given and the news Agency did not report How much damage occurred. Soviet television reported that moisture from putting out an oct. I i fire at reactor no. 2 played a role in fridays Blaze. Reactor no. 1 was shut Down oct. Is for scheduled repairs Tass said. The ukrainian parliament on tuesday ordered the chernobyl facility a the site of the world s worst nuclear Power Acci Dent in 1986 a to be closed entirely he 1993. 3 the Plant had been scheduled to be closed by 1995, but the oct. 11 fire caused the ukrainian parliament to move up the Date. That Blaze struck an electrical Generator for reactor no. 7 and caused extensive damage but no release of radiation. The april 26, 1986, explosion and fire in the no. 4 reactor sent a radioactive Cloud around the world contaminating huge areas in the Ukraine and neighbor ing byelorussian. Soviet authorities have said 32 people died As a Knect result of the explosion at the Plant 80 Miles North of Kiev. Other officials have estimated that the disaster claimed thousands of lives and have accused Moscow of covering up the True effects of the Accident. The other three reactors at chernobyl continued operating after the disaster although some have been shut Down intermittently for maintenance or minor breakdowns