European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars Ano stripes thursday december 19,1991honecker not on Board Jet to n. Korea Moscow apr an air plane standing by to take Erich Honecker to North Korea has left without him dragging out the dispute Over the Fate of the former East German Leader a North korean Diplomat said wednesday. Nyong Jin Yun spokesman for the North korean embassy said the korean airways Jet left for Pyongyang on tuesday night. The next North korean plane that could take Honecker was not expected in Moscow until thursday. Ironically the flight originates in Berlin from where Honecker was spirited away by the soviet military nine months ago. North Korea offered to accept Honecker for medical treatment after Russia last week abruptly ordered the 79-year-old Stalwart communist to leave the country. The russian government now appears unsure How to handle its unwelcome guest. Honecker is wanted in Germany on charges of manslaughter connected with the killing of people who tried to flee to the West from East Germany during his years in Power. The North korean Diplomat said wednesday that his government was awaiting an answer to its offer. A the russian foreign ministry has told us this matter is under serious consideration a he said adding he did not know when North Korea could expect an answer. There appears to be division within the russian government Over How to Deal with Honecker. Ruslan Kha Bulatov chairman of the russian parliament has said the government should never have gotten involved in Honecker a Fate because Russia faced bigger issues such As hunger and economic collapse. Deputy prime minister Sergei Shiakh Rai a close adviser to russian president Boris Yeltsin told reporters tuesday that Russia most Likely would not allow Hon Ecker to travel to a third country but would not use Force to expel him the russian information Agency reported. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev on tuesday urged All sides to take their time in deciding Honecker a Fate. Honecker and his wife Margot remained guests of their old Friend chilean ambassador Clodomiro Almeyda for the eighth straight Day. According to a Berlin newspaper Honecker reportedly has told his daughter Erika that he was a a sceptical Quot about going to North Korea one of the worlds last hard line communist states. Fun turns to calamity firemen at Blackpool England took at the scene of a tuesday night fire that gutted the resort City a 50 year old fun Honse. In background is the worlds fastest and longest roller coaster due to open in 1994.. Seeks More hostage releases world United nations apr Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar said tuesday he has sent hostage negotiator Giandomenico Picco Back to the Middle East to try to wrap up the problem of missing and detained persons. A the is always where i need him a p6rez de Cuellar said As he entered . Headquarters. He nodded when asked whether Picco was currently a needed Quot in the Middle East. Perez de Cuellar has said he is trying to win Freedom for two German hostages remaining in Lebanon and 300 arabs held by Israel while resolving the Fate of three missing israeli airmen. One of those airmen is believed to be alive. He also has promised to try to learn the Fate of five missing iranians and to recover the bodies of three hostages who were slain or died in Captivity. They Are William Buckley believed to have been the Cia station chief in Beirut Marine it. Col. William Higgins a member of the . Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon and Alec Collett a British born journalist. German Relief workers Thomas Kemptner and Heinrich Striebig Are believed held by the group Hezbollah or party of fires up 1st nuke Power Plant Beijing up a China reported wednesday the Start up of its first nuclear Power station a Plant near Shanghai designed and built domestically but whose Progress to operational status had been delayed for More than a year by technical problems. The Yinshan nuclear station in East coastal Zhenjiang province is seen As the real beginning of the country a Effort to ease chronic Energy shortages and decrease its Reliance on Coal. The official Xinhua news Agency said the Yinshan stations reactor with a 300-megawatt capacity became operational sunday morning at the site in coastal Haiyan South of Shanghai. Although China has smaller nuclear reactors for research Yinshan is the first to be used to generate com Mercial Power. Several others Are under construction including a Large reactor in South China. The Yinshan station although based on Western reactor and Plant design was planned and built by chinese technicians. The Plant was initially approved in the mid-1970s and construction began in 1983. Officials said in 1990 that the Plant was to go on line by the end of that year. They postponed the Start up to mid-1991, then delayed it again. The government never fully explained the reasons for the previous delays. Xinhua said the Yinshan station would provide Power for three Eastern provinces As Well As Shanghai. China now relies on Coal for 70 percent of its Energy needs. The country produces More than 1 billion tons of Coal philharmonic s plans to play Wagner protested from wire reports Jerusalem a officials of israelis holocaust memorial asked the Israel philharmonic to cancel plans to play music by German composer Richard Wagner a spokeswoman said tuesday. The controversy is Over the orchestras decision to break a 50-year taboo at a dec. 27 concert by playing works by Wagner. Although Wagner lived in the 19th Century his anti semitic views endeared him to Adolf Hitler who ordered Wagner a music played at nazi party rallies. During the nazi Era six million jews were executed. Yitzhak Arad director of the had Washem holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem wrote a letter monday asking the orchestra to reverse its decision said museum spokeswoman Ruth Levy. A your request has nothing to do with the cultural value of the works Quot the letter said. A but. Many holocaust survivors living in Israel regard such a concert especially by israelis official orchestra As removed from ferry Saofaga Egypt a divers began removing bodies from a submerged ferry tuesday and police tightened Security in this red sea port to prevent unrest among angry relatives and friends of victims. Divers said most lifeboats were still attached to the sunken ferry. More than 460 passengers and Crew members of the ferry Salem express Are missing and feared dead from the tragedy saturday night. The boat hit Coral reefs which Tore a Hole in its port Side. It flipped and Sank within 15 minutes six Miles off Saofaga. Officials say 180 passengers and Crew members action halted Wellington new zealand a the government wednesday halted court action against three frenchmen allegedly involved in the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior ending a Long Legal Wrangle. The three a alleged French secret service agents Gerald Andries Jean Michel Bartelo and Roland verge a had been wanted on charges related to the bombing in Auckland Harbor which killed a Greenpeace photographer. The ship was on its Way to protest Frances testing of nuclear weapons on Mocoroa atoll. Attorney general Paul East a intervention wednesday followed tuesdays announcement by Justice minister Doug Graham that new zealand would not extradite Andries. Andries was arrested in Switzerland on nov. 23 after authorities there found he was the subject of an Interpol honors inventions Mexico City a cuban president Fidel Castro handed out honors for inventions making better use of meager resources and told cubans they should Brace for even tougher times the news Agency Prensa Latina said tuesday. The 65-year-old Leader who seems to grow More strident As cubans political isolation deepens swept like a whirlwind into a convention in Havana on monday night peppering inventors with questions the official cuban news Agency said. The convention brought together 1,200 participants ranging from Cuba s most distinguished scientists to a Havana housewife who knitted a Gasket for heavy vehicle motors Prensa Latina said
