European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 world the stabs and stripes wednesday november 6,1991experts to donate skills to Reform soviet systems from wire reports 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 Chetham director of the world Bank a soviet department said most of the assistance will be distributed through individual republics. A 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 Chee Tham said. Any of the 12 soviet republics can sign the technical cooperation agreement which provides diplomatic immunity for world Bank employees. A 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. A 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 f publisher found dead after disappearing at sea London apr flamboyant billionaire Robert Maxwell disappeared tuesday from his yacht off the Canary islands and his body was found in the Atlantic Ocean hours later. He was 68. Maxwell had been reported missing Early tuesday from his luxury yacht the lady Ghislaine. Officials said he apparently fell overboard but they did not know How it happened. An autopsy was being performed. A spokesman for maxwells Mirror group newspapers said there had been no suggestion of foul play in maxwells disappearance. He added a we can Only assume that or. Maxwell slipped and fell in the Waters off the Canary islands tugboats and helicopters combed the area before the body was finally sighted said which Fernando Cano spokesman at the Rescue Center in Madrid. Rescue officials in Madrid said the body was Bein taken by helicopter to the Gando air base on the Islan of Tenerife where a Coroner would conduct an autopsy and give the cause of death. Cano said maxwells son Phillip arrived to identify the body. Javier Herce of the Spanish merchant Marine citing police who questioned the Captain Gus Rankin said the Captain reported Maxwell missing several hours after he was last seen at 4 45 . Several More hours elapsed before the announcement in London that Max Fth map ill canaries. During his visit he went to the Casino in Funchal and sailed twice to the uninhabited deserts islands to View a Colony of rare seals. After Max Prell disappeared the 180-foot yacht docked at los Cristiano a resort town on the southwestern tip of Tenerife. A Crew member aboard the yacht said he was not authorized to say anything about the incident. Born lab i Hoch the son of czech orthodox jewish peasants who were killed by the nazis during world War ii Maxwell had a childhood he described As dickensian in its poverty and hardship. He emigrated to Britain As a teen Ager in 1940, penniless and speaking no English. He joined the Maxwell British army became a Captain and won the prestigious military Cross for bravery before embarking on the colourful career that made him a Rich and powerful Media magnate. J Well was missing. Weather officials said the skies were Clear in the area at the time of maxwells disappearance and the seas Calm. Maxwell had been due to deliver a speech to the annual dinner of the Anglo Israel association at a London hotel on monday night but organizers were told about 30 minutes before the event began that he had been taken ill. His son Ian delivered the speech instead. The official portuguese news Agency Lusa reported from Funchal the capital of the portuguese Island of Madeira that Maxwell left Madeira saturday for the maxwells holdings ranged from several British Tab Jug _ be the daily news in March loads to new Yorkus daily news to the european a new English language weekly in Europe. He acquired ily a a a after a bitter strike nearly closed the paper. The boards of maxwells companies quickly named maxwells son Kevin 32, As acting chairman of Maxwell communication and his son Ian 35, As acting chairman of the Mirror group of newspaper. The sons have Long worked in the family business. In the United states Maxwell also operated Macmillan publishing House and the racing times a daily horse racing digest. 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 Csc 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 leavin posts outside empty. The belgian defense ministry in Brussels said the last troops would be flown Home from Brazzaville today. Before they left some belgian soldiers drove to the 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 800 soldiers who withdrew last week. Opposition politicians have said they fear a Bloodbath by Mobutu a troops now that the foreign soldiers have withdrawn. A a Mobutu a soldiers will kill a lot of people a human rights Leader Duane Kab we warned last week. Iraq claims discovery of More buried soldiers Nicosia Cyprus a Iraq has discovered the bodies of 40 More iraqi soldiers allegedly buried alive by . Forces during the persian Gulf War Baghdad radio reported monday. The corpses were found in an area 90 Miles North of the saudi Border. On oct. 29, Iraq discovered Graves at the Border containing the remains of 44 soldiers who it said suffocated in their bunkers after . Tanks slowed them under. The latest discovery was in the Chi car 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 Kun it. In september . Army officers said m1a1 tanks overran iraqi Sis Jim of Tim skeletal arms lift the building blocks of the new terminal East at the Frankfurt International Airport in Germany. The project is scheduled to be completed in late 1994
