European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 3, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 people throughout the world have their own Way of celebrating the new year. For some it Means All night parties for others it Means a quiet time with family. However some prefer to Start the new year off Wither a ringing in the new year chills and thrills. At left a Man in Bering makes Waves with his own kind of Celebration As he takes a dip in an icy Lake while bundled up spectators watch from the Frozen perimeter. At right Aldo Corrieri 35, dives from Margherita Bridge right into the new year and a Chilly tiber River in Rome on wednesday. Other citizens who opted for a More casual Way to bring in 1992, ply the River in their boats 61 plan shows allies ready to defend Berlin London a the United states Britain and France were ready to defend West Berlin a at the risk of War if necessary when East Germany built the Berlin Wall in 1961, according to a top secret plan made Public. The plan was released wednesday under British regulations allowing disclosure of secret documents after 30 years As Long As it is not considered a National Security threat. The documents show that at a British chiefs of staff committee meeting on aug. 24, 1961, a week after the Wall went up the commanders considered a paper titled a Oberlin contingency  the paper outlined the collective approach of the governments of Britain France and the United states in consultation with the Federal Republic of Germany then West Germany. The paper marked a top secret said the countries a essential requirements were to maintain the presence and Security of their forces in West Berlin the Freedom and viability of the City and physical Access to  the paper added a although every reasonable Effort will be made to arrive at a peaceful settlement of the Berlin question with the soviet government pending such a settlement they will take All necessary and appropriate Steps to demonstrate their determination to secure their requirements at the risk of War if  the View of then prime minister Harold Macmillan a Cabinet toward the paper was not revealed among wednesdays disclosures. Government ministers discussed the Issue at a meeting on sept. 5, 1961, but the meetings minutes were not  answer is hard to land by Charles r. Babcock the Washington Post Washington a the air Force press office can cite flying hour costs for any plane in its inventory a any plane except air Force one that is. During the controversy last Spring Over then White House chief of staff Jonn h. Sununu a use of military aircraft for personal and political travel several news organizations asked the Pentagon for the flying hour costs of air Force one. The answer most frequently supplied was a a we re working on it a or a a you la have to Check with the White House on  last week the air Force still did no to have a figure for Public release. But Pete Williams assistant Secretary of defense for Public affairs did. He said it Cost $33.5 million to operate and maintain the two new specially configured 747s that served As air Force ones for fiscal 1991. The planes Are programmed to Fly 800 hours a year which works out to a flying hour Cost of $41,875. Because of lower than expected maintenance costs Williams said the air Force one budget for the 1992 fiscal year will be less $20.6 million. Bob Hall another Pentagon spokesman said the Cost for maintaining the 747s does not include the salaries of the Crews who Are attached to the vip 89th military Airlift Wing or the $410 million Purchase Price of the two planes or the special hangar that houses them at Andrews fab in Maryland. . Pos in Vietnam quizzed in 1978, sex soviet general says new York a a retired Kab general says the soviet intelligence Agency interrogated american prisoners of War in Vietnam in 1978 a five years after Vietnam claimed to have returned every living pow the daily news said thursday. Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin who headed soviet counterintelligence at the time told the paper that agents questioned at least three americans in or near Hanoi. Kalugin could not identify the men but recalled that one was a Cia agent one a ranking Navy officer and one a ranking air Force officer. The news said Senate investigators and state department officials were to meet thursday to discuss Kalugina a assertions and related matters. A a we re pursuing this very aggressively a an unidentified staffer at the Senate select committee on pow Mia affairs was quoted As saying. Kalugin is expected to arrive in Washington As Early As this weekend to meet with Senate investigators the staff member said. In committee hearings in november Bui Fin a High ranking North vietnamese defector testified that soviet agents interrogated american pos but Only during the War. He said he did not believe that any american pos remained in Vietnam after 1973. Direct . Involvement in Vietnam ended in 1973 the War ended in 1975 with a North vietnamese Victory there have been scattered reports of american prisoners sighted in Southeast Asia since the War ended. More than 2, my americans Are still listed As missing in Vietnam Cambodia and Laos. Vietnamese officials at their . Mission in new York could not be reached for comment on Kalugina a assertions the newspaper said. Kalugin was forced to retire from the Kab in 1990 after criticizing some Agency practices. He was later elected to the now disbanded soviet parliament. Iraq blames ., others for car bombing Nicosia Cyprus apr a state run iraqi newspaper thursday accused agents for the United states Egypt Israel and other unidentified nations of planting a car bomb that exploded in front of a Baghdad hotel earlier this week. A those who were behind the explosion have their contacts beyond the Eastern and Western Borders of our country and in Egypt and across the oceans where Columbus landed a wrote the daily Al thaw a. The newspaper a 1st blamed mondays explosion on Quot zionists and reactionaries in Arab  a it seems zionists might be arabs and this movement can no longer be Seeh As a monopoly of Che jews Only Quot it said. The iraqi government for years has routinely blamed virtually All sabotage activity on what it Calls agents of zionism the movement that led to the creation of Israel As a jewish state