European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 20, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9hawke ousted As Australia s Leader Sydney Australia apr prime minister Bob Hawke his popularity plummeting after eight years in Power amid the worst unemployment since world War a was deposed thursday by his former Treasury minister in a party vote. Paul Keating s Victory was the culmination of two years of bitter rivalry Between Australia s most powerful and charismatic politicians. Hawke challenged before by Keating had called a special meeting of the labor party s to member parliamentary caucus to decide the leadership Issue a which has split the party and divided the nation. Hawke then resigned and offered himself for re election in a secret ballot. Keating who quit As Treasury minister when he failed in his first Challenge june 3, won the vote 56-51. A i will need the help of the australian people their patience their understanding a Keating told a news conference. �?o1 want to go Back to what we do Best and that a creating  Keating 47, is not expected to change relations with Washington Australia the Region s most faithful . Ally allows nuclear armed american warships in its ports. Calls for More forceful leadership had become increasingly strident As the Economy wallows in recession. Figures re leased last week showed unemployment climbed to 10.5 percent in november the highest rate since world War ii. A recent poll showed Hawke trailing John hew Hawke son of the opposition Liberal party in popularity for the first time. The Man who once boasted a 75 percent approval rating has seen it plunge to around 25 percent. Hawke 62, the labor party s longest serving prime minister scored his fourth election Victory in March 1990. His popularity has been Hurt by political scandals such As a probe of alleged wrongdoing in Western Australia state. Hawke was forced to admit this year that he misled parliament on the timing of a decision on whether to revoke the Gold Industry s tax exempt status. Then came Keating s Challenge when Keating disclosed that Hawke had reneged on a november 1988 agreement to step Down if be won  in 1990. Under the agreement Keating was to take Over with enough time to Settle in before the next election. Hawke had been credited with Reform that had roots More in the conservative Side of politics than labor a deregulation of the finance and banking system revamped Public health care and a wage Accord with unions. But Australia is staggering under one of its worst recessions. After Large surpluses in recent years the 1991-92 budget forecasts a $3.9 billion deficit. Two of the economic mainstays Wool and wheat have been hit hard by worldwide downturns and drought threatens Large areas of the nation s  of Iraq super gun was incomplete United nations a Iraq did not properly destroy All the barrel sections of its massive a a super gun capable of raining shells on Israel or saudi Arabia United nations inspectors reported. However the inspectors said the remaining parts were not enough to build a working sup run and they believed the problem was simply due to Sloppy demolition work by iraqi workers and not an attempt at deception. The sixth . Ballistic inspection team just Back from Iraq told their superiors wednesday that 22 sections of a super gun a barrel and some Hydraulic buffers were not properly destroyed As ordered by a previous inspection visit. The team supervised the Complete destruction of the barrel segments and other parts by iraqi officials and also verified iraqi missile launch Sites in the Western desert near Jordan and Israel on its visit from dec. 1-9. The barrel sections for a 1000mm-bore, 165-Yard-Long Cannon that inspectors believe could have had a Range up to 1,000 Miles were at a site South of Baghdad. Iraq had actually built a smaller super gun 110 Miles North of Baghdad in the Jabal Hamrin mountains. The iraqis had assembled and test fired the smaller gun which was about 55 Yards Long and had a bore of 350mm, to a Range of about 160 Miles. Thai gun was demolished during a previous inspection visit. The largest artillery piece used by Germany in world War 1 to Shell Paris the big Bertha Cannon could hit a target about 76 Miles away. The latest . Inspection team used . Helicopters to spot Cheek 17 ballistic missile Sites. The Security Council s april 3 Resolution that officially ended the Gulf War requires the destruction of All iraqi ballistic missiles with a Range of More than 150 Kilometres and its super guns. The . Special commission is also overseeing the dismantling of Iraq s nuclear chemical and biological weapons  sought on Libya for link to bombings by the new York times Washington the United states Britain and France have agreed to begin a Campaign to win International support for sanctions against Libya for the part they say it played in Airliner bombings. The explosion of a pan american world airways plane Over Lockerbie Scotland and the bombing of a French Airliner in Africa killing a total of 440 people were linked to Libya officials of the three countries said wednesday. The three countries Are considering a Security Council Resolution that would at a minimum ban All International flights in and out of Libya the Sale of commercial planes and spare parts and the delivery of any airline related services. But the countries Are also discussing More stringent sanctions ranging from a ban on military equipment and civilian technology sales that could have military uses to one on libyan Oil exports. The sanctions intention would be to Force libyan Leader Moa mar Gud Hafi to comply with demands made by the three countries officials said. The demands include an american and British request for extradition of two libyan intelligence agents indicted in connection with the bombing of pan am s flight 1 13 three years ago saturday. Libya has been the target of a variety of . And european c Community sanctions for years and it is doubtful that new economic sanctions would change Gad Hafi s behaviour. Officials of the three governments said that while they have not ruled out military action against Libya As a last resort their current strategy does not include any attempt to gain International support for a possible military  on the High seas the russian factory vessel Kart i drifts among High seas thursday following a vicious storm wednesday that resulted in the deaths of four Crew members and injuries to 15 others. Two of the Crew died when Waves broke through the vessels wheelhouse. The wave knocked out the ships engine and electricity leaving it Drifting in rough seas whipped by 55 Mph winds Oft the West coast of  woman convicted of spying Munich Germany apr a woman who spied for the love of an last German Agoni while rising to a High rank in the West German intelligence service was convicted of espionage and sentenced to six years and nine months in prison thursday. Guthrie Lac gust 48, was Deputy director of the soviet desk in the Federal intelligence service when she was arrested three Days before last and West Germany United in october 1990. With the code name Quot Gisela a she was reported to be one of the most useful agents for the last German spy chief Markus Wolf who also faces an espionage trial in United Germany. Wolf has argued that it is illegal for courts in United Germany to try him and other last German intelligence agents. However several agents had already been convicted and sentenced to prison before Gast went on trial. She was tried in the higher regional court in Munich along with her longtime last German Lover Karlheinz Schneider 56, who was sentenced to 18 months probation. Gast who could have received a maximum sentence of 10 years was ordered to spend six years and nine months in , 3 children slain Bonn Germany up a police on thursday were investigating the brutal killing of a romanian woman and three Small children at a Hostel for Asylum seekers near Bonn a spokesman said. The spokesman said the 21-year-old woman and the children aged two four and six were clubbed to death with an Iron bar