European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday november 18, 1991 decrees give Yeltsin control Over soviet currency Trade Moscow apr russian Republic president Boris n. Yeltsin in a sweeping set of decrees released saturday claimed control Over the soviet Money Supply and Trade in Oil Gold diamonds and foreign currency. The 10 presidential decrees and government resolutions would effectively Transfer responsibility for the Economy from soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev scentral government to Yeltsin a russian Republic the largest in the country. The decrees fit Yeltsin a plan to move Russia toward a free Market with the kind of a Shock therapy used in Poland. He has promised to remove Price controls before the end of the year on All products excluding a few Staples such As bread milk and Vodka. The decrees also make significant Steps toward allowing the Ruble to be traded freely on International markets. Western leaders have said a freely convertible Ruble is a prerequisite for Large scale foreign investment in the soviet Economy. Salaries also will Rise under the decrees and Yeltsin has said he will remove controls on them after Jan. 1. Hyperinflation is widely expected to follow the free ing up of wages and prices. Food prices already have skyrocketed 50 percent to 100 percent in Farmers markets during the past month. The decrees were a result of the new Union treaty tentatively reached thursday by Gorbachev Yeltsin and the leaders of six other soviet republics. The treaty holds the country together but strips the Central government of Many Powers limiting its Purview mainly to foreign policy and defense. The decrees were worked out by Yeltsin and his top advisers Friday and portions were announced that Day. The full texts were released late saturday night by Tass the soviet news Agency. In a separate move Russia and three other republics a byelorussian Kazakhstan and the Ukraine a declared saturday they would not be bound by future loan agreements reached without their participation by the Central government. The republics confirmed they will share responsibility for paying Back the soviet unions existing $81 billion foreign debt. View from the top the ski season got into swing saturday on the Zug Spitz slopes High above Garmisch Germany. The Snow was about 29 inches deep on the country a highest Mountain and two lifts were in operation. 2 hostages to be freed paper says London up a two Western hostages an american and a briton with soon be freed from Captivity in Lebanon the Tehran times said sunday. The English language iranian paper did not specify when the hostages will be released. Four . Citizens arc still being held hostage in Lebanon by shiite Muslim fundamentalist groups linked to Iran. The Only briton still being held is Terry Waite the archbishop of Canterbury a special envoy. The newspaper is said to be close to moderates in the iranian leadership and has proved fairly reliable in predicting hostage releases in the past. The report added that the kidnappers a would most probably give priority to a British  Waite 52, disappeared in january 1987 while trying to negotiate the release of Western hostages. Four americans Are still being held captive. They Are Terry Anderson Thomas Sutherland Joseph Cicippio and Alann Steen. The report also said that United nations envoy Giandomenico Picco has arrived in Syria on a Mission to secure the release of All hostages in Lebanon. World hoaxer claims key role in giving data to Hersh from wire reports London a a known hoaxer claimed he fooled investigative journalist Seymour Hersh into believing phony a new evidence that publisher Robert Maxwell had close links to israeli leaders newspapers said sunday. Joe Flynn told the sunday times the sunday express and news of the world that he provided the false information and was paid $2,230 by Hershy a publisher Faber and Faber. A i accept it was this Man Flynn we were dealing with and that he is a con Man a the pulitzer prize winning journalist told the sunday times. A the must be Brilliant. Some of the things he told me checked  Flynn is the author of numerous ruses against British newspapers and has served two prison terms for fraud. His most celebrated hoax involved bilking publisher Rupert Murdoch of $44,250 for a pair of shoes he claimed belonged to Jimmy Hoffa. Storm strikes Philippines Manila Philippines a the third tropical storm to strike the country in a month roared toward Manila on sunday with rain and winds gust ing up to 60 Mph. There were no reports of casualties from tropical storm Wilda which roared ashore late saturday in the Biol Peninsula of Southeastern Luzon and then weakened As it slowed across mountainous Quezon province. Powell begins Japan visit Tokyo a Gen. Colin l. Powell arrived in Japan on sunday for three Days of meetings with military and political leaders. A plane carrying the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff touched Down at Yokota a 20 Miles South East of Tokyo. Powell was schedule to meet with his military counterpart As Well As prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa and other political leaders today. On tuesday he will inspect Kadena a in Okinawa and then depart for South Korea. 17 Hurt in bus Accident Cairns Australia a seventeen people were injured three seriously when a bus carrying Swiss and German tourists crashed sunday near the township of Mission Beach in North Queensland state. All 17 on Board the Sun state Tours bus were taken to a Hospital in the nearby town of Tully a spokesman for the Queensland fire service said. Acting District fire services commander Bob Long said the cause of the crash was unknown but said no other vehicle was involved. The bus ended up in a storm Drain. Khmer Rouge return phenom penh Cambodia the Khmer Rouge returned to the capital sunday nearly 13 years after being driven out at the end of a reign of terror that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Son sen among the most ruthless of the Khmer Rouge leaders and nine other officials arrived at Poch Entong International Airport from Bangkok. The Khmer Rouge military commander and onetime secret police chief is one of two members of the guerrilla group to sit on a National reconciliation Council charged with implementing a  peace  deports american who disclaims holocaust London apr a Massachusetts Man who claims no mass extermination took place in nazi concentration Camps has been deported from Britain the Home office said sunday. Fred Beuchler or. Was sent Back to the United states on saturday night aboard a British airways flight to new York said a spokesman for the Home office the government department responsible for a and order issues. The spokesman said Leuchter 49, is p h barred from Britain by an exclusion order on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the Public Good. Home Secretary Kenneth Baker enacted the order in the beginning of october when it became known that Leuchter planned to visit Britain the spokesman said. A spokeswoman at Scotland Yard said Leuchter was arrested during a West London meeting Friday night on suspicion of being an illegal immigrant. The spokeswoman said Leuchter was held in custody until he was deported. The sunday Telegraph reported that police interrupted Leuchter during a speech and spirited him out a Side Entrance of the old Chelsea town Hall away from the 150 people in the audience who had gathered in the foyer and were chanting a Freedom of  the paper said the meeting was organized by British historian David Irving who claims Hitler was unaware of the holocaust and that the nazis had no policy of systematic extermination. The sunday Telegraph said Leuchter had slipped into Britain on a ferry Between Calais France and Dover. Leuchter who describes himself As a scientist relies on his experience As a manufacturer of electric chairs and other execution devices to bolster his widely publicized claim that holocaust survivors exaggerated the number of people executed in nazi Gas Chambers during world War ii