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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday november 6, 1991 i world experts to donate skills to Reform soviet systems from wire report Moscow a the world Bank agreed tuesday to devote $30 million Worth of its expertise to help the soviet Union restructure its food banking business and social Security systems during its transition to a free Market system. Russ Cheetham director of the world Bank a soviet department said most of the assistance will be distributed through individual republics. The $30 million could last roughly two years he said depending on How Many experts come How Long they stay and what Matching funds Are available from other International donors. Negotiations with the european Community will begin immediately on coordinating use of a $500 million fund set aside for technical and development assistance to the soviet Union Cheetham said. Any of the 12 soviet republics can sign the technical cooperation agreement which provides diplomatic immunity for world Bank employees. Experts will help in Fields of local interest such As Energy in Kazakhstan or transportation in  trucks firebombed London a unknown saboteurs suspected of being animal rights militants on monday fire bombed a Fleet of refrigerated meat trucks parked in the Yard of a slaughterhouse in the British midlands town of Kenilworth police said re weight lorries were destroyed a said a spokeswoman for the Warwickshire constabulary. A it was established that the cause of the fires was incendiary devices placed in the cabs of 16 , 72, takes Over As Japan s prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa Center standing is applauded in the diet after being voted japanese prime minister. Tokyo apr Kiichi Miyazawa a Well travelled statesman and skilled negotiator became prime minister tuesday and assembled a Cabinet that features a hawkish foreign minister. Miyazawa reaching the Pinnacle of japanese politics after a 50-year career in government was named Toshiki Kaifus successor in a largely ceremonial vote in the diet Japan a parliament. The 72-year-old statesman had been elected president of the governing Liberal democratic party on oct. 27. The president serves As prime minister because of the party a majority in parliaments lower House. A former finance ministry bureaucrat with a reputation for brilliance Miyazawa is considered to be the right Man to guide a Japan that has been criticized for shirking International responsibilities. In his first policy speech scheduled for Friday he is expected to Call for Japan to incas its International role by revising Laws to allow its military to join . Peacekeeping efforts. At the same time Miyazawa is known As a Tough shrewd negotiator. He has indicated he intends to Deal with the United states As an equal partner and will not Back away from frankly expressing Japan a positions. Miyazawa smiling slightly stood and bowed deeply to acknowledge applause after the lower House speaker announced his selection. He immediately turned to naming his Cabinet which has taken shape during several weeks of backroom dealing reflecting the delicate Power balance among the party a five factions. The Cabinet includes Michio Watanabe Miyazawa a chief election rival and a Likely future prime minister. Watanabe a Blunt former finance minister known for his hawkish views on defense was named both Deputy prime minister and foreign minister. Miyazawa who has held nearly All major Cabinet posts began his government career As a bureaucrat with the powerful finance ministry during world War ii. Belgian troops cheer As they sail from Zaire Kinshasa Zaire a hundreds of belgian paratroopers boarded ferries and sailed away monday abandoning their riot torn former Colony a a nation gripped by a political deadlock As president Mobutu scuse seko clings to Power. Two barges crowded with 365 waving troops pulled away from a the port a As this Congo River Landing stage is called. Only a handful of zairian braved a drenching tropical downpour to return their Farewell salutes. Across the River in Brazzaville Congo the troops showed their Joy at leaving the troubled nation chanting songs throwing Caps into the air and jostling jovially As they boarded congolese army trucks. A few dozen who stayed behind to guard the belgian embassy removed the perimeter of barbed wire they had set up around the Mission and withdrew into the building leaving posts outside empty. The belgian defense ministry in Brussels said the last troops would be flown Home from Brazzaville today. Before they Leit some belgian soldiers drove to  National Institute for biomedical research and left boxes of breakfast Cereal for its chimpanzees. On the streets of Kinshasa zairian complained that they have been reduced to eating one meal a Day or less since looters emptied shops and food prices tripled. Commerce has come to a Stop Chevron Oil and other foreign companies pulled out last week when their equipment was destroyed by looters and there Are no buyers for mountains of looted goods from land cruisers to Champagne and microscopes. Belgium sent More than 1,000 paratroopers to Zaire when violence first erupted sept. 23. France sent about s00 soldiers who withdrew last week. ? opposition politicians have said they fear a Bloodbath by Mobutu s troops now that the foreign soldiers have withdrawn. A a Mobutu a soldiers will kill a lot of people Quot human rights Leader Blanc Kab we warned last week. Iraq claims discovery of More buried soldiers Nicosia Cyprus aim a Iraq has discovered the bodies of -10 More iraqi soldiers allegedly buried alive by . Forces during the persian met War. Baghdad radio reported monday. The corpses were found in an area 00 Miles North of the saudi Border. On oct. 20, Iraq discovered Graves at the Border containing the remains of 44 soldiers who it said suffocated in their bunkers after i a. Tanks slowed them under. The latest discovery was in the Chi oar area about 30 Miles South of an a sir Yah by the Highway leading to the Southern City of Basra the radio said. . Forces penetrated As far As the an Nasir Yah area in the land Campaign that drove the iraqi army from Kuwait. In september . Army officers said m1a1 tanks overran iraqi trenches. Tinkertoy skeletal arms lift the building blocks of the new terminal East at the Frankfurt Inte National Airport in Germany. The project is scheduled to be completed in late 1994  
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