European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thes Fis vol. 50, no. 264 350 saturday. January 4,1992 d 8693 Abush in Singapore to press for expanded military ties Singapore apr president Bush arrived in Singapore on Friday to push arrangements to boost the . Military presence in that Island state As the Pentagon goes packing from the Philippines. Bush began the second leg of his four nation trip to the far East after assuring australian business leaders that the United states would not abandon its a special responsibility for stability in the Region. The United states is looking to Singapore to help fill the Gap left by the . Pullout from Subic Bay naval facilities and Clark a in the Philippines the traditional . Stronghold in the Pacific. The Bush administration wants to shift some Security resources to bases and ports in this tiny tropical City state on the Southern tip of the malay Peninsula . Officials said. That would Likely include the . Command structures currently based at Subic Bay As Well As expanded rights to use Singapore bases and make ports of Call said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity. A november 1990 agreement signed by vice president Dan Quayle and then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew already provides . Warships and planes wider use of the City state s bases. Bush Hopes to expand on that arrangement. Bush also was expected to announce in Singapore that he will lift the . Trade embargo against cambo georgian violence claims 2 lives supporters of georgian president Oviad cams thur Friday in Tbilisi. At least two people were killed and 25 Dia try to escape from the gunfire aimed at the crowd were wounded. See Story on Page 2. Dia where warring factions signed a peace treaty two months ago . Officials said. The embargo dates to april 1975, when Khmer Rouge rebels forced the pro Western government from Power. The proposed expansion of military lies would include a shift Here from Subic Bay of the logistical Headquarters staff of the . Navy s 7th Fleet bringing in pm to 200 additional Navy personnel. A the signs Are Good Quot a senior administration official said lie said talks also were tinder Way with Malaysia and Thailand to take Over some of Subic Bay a operations. Bush after spending the first three Days of his 12-Day see Bush on Page 2states follow Russia s Lead hike prices Moscow apr pressured by Russia s Mammoth Price increases other members of the new Commonwealth of Independent states said Friday that they will follow suit sending an inflationary shudder across the former soviet Union. But vendors in at least one private Farmers Market said they were lowering prices slightly or considering the move in the face of a Price War with the state stores that May become More competitive. A a we re Selling them at a Price depending on the number of customers we get. And today there were no customers so we decided on a lower Price said a private Moscow Chicken merchant who refused to give her name. Many Cash poor shoppers appeared to he waiting for such a move. Meanwhile the Bush administration said Friday it wants Russia and the live other former soviet slates with which the United states is establishing diplomatic relations to get Quick membership in the International monetary fund and world Bank. Membership in the two organizations which Are owned by 15b governments could provide the former soviet states with billions of dollars in Loans to ease their transition from communism to capitalism. Belarus raised its prices an average of 300 percent see prices on Page 2 were pos in Vietnam in 84? sex intelligence officer says there were 436 by knit Royce new Day Washington a retired intelligence officer who monitored intercepted communications trom Vietnam for the National Security Agency claims that he knows of More than 400 american prisoners who were being held there in 1984. Retired air Force tech. Sgt. Terrell a. Minarcin also asserts in an affidavit to Congress that Between 200 and 300 american prisoners of War were shipped to the soviet Union in 1983. Minarcin was a crypt linguist and communications specialist for Asa until july 1984. The assertions follow those made by retired maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin a Lormer senior Kab official. Kalugin says his espionage Agency interrogated three american pos in 1978, five years after both Hanoi and the . Government claimed that All living . Prisoners had Heen repatriated. About 2,000 americans Are still listed As missing in action. Kalugin who was the Gus counterintelligence Chiet said that those questioned by his Agency included a Cia agent a Navy officer and an air Force Pilot. He is scheduled to give a deposition next week to a Senate select commit tee on pos. Before leaving Moscow Kalugin told the associated press on thursday that the three a were the remnants a several a dozen or so a who stayed in Vietnam Long after the War was Over. Why the vietnamese kept them. I Don t  but Minarcin who also is scheduled to give a deposition to the committee next week said in his november 1991 Atli Davit that from january 19k3 until july 19s4, i found 436 live american  a congressional source one of pc Sci see pos on Page 2 assignment red sea 8-Page special Section