European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 b the stars and stripes saturday january 4, 1992 at a glance smoke rises from cars that were engulfed in flames during a pileup involving nearly 200 vehicles South of Milan Italy. Sec Story on Page h for details about the crashes. Threats reported Federal drug agents in the United states and Colombia have become the target of death threats Federal sources say. A Page 4 lottery Winner shares a lottery Winner from Erie pa., has donated $100,000 to help Russia saying he wanted to set an example for other baby Boomers who grew up hating the soviet Union. A Page 5 a gentle giant buried Walter Hudson once the world s heaviest Man at 1,400 pounds was buried thursday after he was eulogized As a Quot gentle  a Page 6 blood supplies drying up three open heart surgeries scheduled in Atlanta had to be postponed because the blood Supply in the Region a and the rest of the nation a has dwindled. A Page 7 productivity rate revised worker productivity Rose at a slight rate of 0.9 percent last summer a much weaker Advance than first believed the government reported Friday. A Page 15 a Index Abby Ann Landers .17 comics. 17-19 commentary. .14 crossword. .17 letters. .12 Money matters a .15 sports. 20-24 to listings. .23 weather. .11 opposition troops kill two at rally for georgian Leader Tbilisi Georgia a opposition gunmen Friday fired on a demonstration in support of besieged president Oviad Gamsa Hurdia killing at least two people and wounding 25, news reports and witnesses said. The attack came a Day after opposition leaders proclaimed a military Council to replace Gamsa Hurdia and declared a state of emergency ordering a curfew and Banning demonstrations in the capital. Gamsa Hurdia. Holed up in the parliament in downtown Tbilisi since dec. 22, on thursday called the new Council a a a Junta and appealed for civil disobedience and a general strike. Radio Russia reported. There was no indication he plans to surrender Power. Nearly two weeks of Street Battles have claimed at least 73 lives and left More than 400 wounded according to the georgian ministry of health. The unrest has left the former soviet Republic without any real government. Rebels accuse Gamsa Hurdia who is being defended by several thousand loyalists of trying to establish a dictatorship since his election in May. Fridays demonstration began at 2 . Near a railway station several Miles from the parliament. After about 15 minutes several cars pulled into the area carrying 10 to 15 gunmen some of them masked witnesses said. They fired automatic weapons into the air for about three minutes then hurled smoke bombs in front of the demonstrators the witnesses said. Prices from Page 1 Friday to keep russians from surging across its Borders in search of cheaper goods. Ukraine and Moldova took similar Steps thursday when Russia freed prices in state stores. Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan said they will boost prices starting monday and Uzbekistan said it will do the same next Friday. The other Central asian republics said they May take the same Steps sometime next week. The Price increases could Start a Trade Battle that would endanger the fragile Commonwealth already shaken by the failure of the leaders of 11 former soviet republics to agree on unified control of conventional armed forces. In a worst Case scenario the republics could try to one up each other raising prices and wages higher and higher in a destructive inflationary spiral. Russia by far the largest and most powerful member of the new common wealth. Set off the Price increases by freeing prices thursday in an Stfort to boost production. Supporters of president Boris n. Yeltsin s risky move say the drastic measure will give factories and Farmers an incentive to boost production. Critics however contend it is pointless to free prices when Basic industries remain government owned monopolies and agriculture is still dominated by inefficient collective farms. While state stores remained As under stocked As Ever the Price of bread roughly tripled Medicine quadrupled and gasoline Rose five times across Russia. Price regulations will remain on some Basic goods including sugar cooking Oil baby food and Vodka. Managers of slate stores now Are free to negotiate with their suppliers to  whatever is necessary to obtain other goods. In an interview with the weekly Moscow news Yeltsin adviser Konstantin Sagalovsky predicted that higher prices would fill the stores with goods in about one week. Then he said Competition will cause prices to subside. But in a Side by Side article a research Institute headed by economist Grigory Zavlinsky said that food would remain in Short Supply and that the rate of inflation would vastly exceed the russian government s predictions. When some of the Gamsa Hurdia supporters began running toward the gunmen with rocks they opened fire on the crowd witnesses said. The gunmen fled but at least two were captured by the crowd and severely beaten. At least two demonstrators were killed Bush from Page 1 trip in Australia becomes the first . President to visit Singapore a Republic of 3 million people crammed into the smallest nation in Southeast Asia. Bush will meet today with prime minister Goh Chok Tong and president wee Kim wee As Well As Lee Kuan Yew who ruled the Island Republic for 31 years before stepping Down in november 1990. On his final Day in Australia Bush vowed to resist protectionist pressures even As he sought to defend . Wheat subsidies that have Hurt australian Farmers. Bush said the protectionist pressures at Home arc mounting in this election year. A none of us Are pure a he reiterated. A not one country can say a we done to protect in some was or another Quot but he pledged that As Long As he remains president a we arc not going to go. Down the Protection  Bush was accompanied to Singapore by . Corporate executives he brought along mostly to press the Case for removal of Trade barriers in South Korea and Japan the next stops on his journey. Unlike those countries Singapore poses no contentious Trade issues. Singapore and the United states share what Washington describes As a a excellent economic relations with part of the islands Prosperity due to $3 billion in . Business investment. The United states and Singapore enjoy a growing $21 billion bilateral Trade. More than 800 . Companies operate in Singapore. Singapore has a spotty human rights performance but officials said Bush did not intend to make a Public Issue of that during his visit. And at least 25 were wounded the Georgia health ministry said. In London Independent television news reported from Tbilisi that about 2,000 Gamsa Hurdia supporters were at the demonstration and at least three people died in the gunfire. Digital glitch sours Salute Canberra Australia a president Bush gave the a for Victory sign As he drove in his armoured limousine past some demonstrators in australians capital. A Friendly gesture not Down under. In Australia holding up two fingers to form a a  has the same meaning As a Middle Finger Salute in the United states. Its not Clear if Bush had been apprised of the local customs before his passing encounter on thursday. On wednesday he boasted about the warmth of the reception crowds in Sydney gave him. Quot i m a Man that knows every hand gesture you be Ever seen a and i Haven to Learned a new one since in be been Here a he said. Pos correction because of a reporting error the name of Della air lines official Helmut Maas san was misspelled in fridays editions. T a spokeswoman clarified a Story in Friday s newspaper about the Fate of a division that will formally depart Germany on Jan. 17. Although it will soon have no people the 3rd army div will remain on Active status. Its flags will be sent to the states where the division is scheduled to be reconstituted later said Millie Waters a spokeswoman at the army a european Headquarters in Heidelberg. Germany. From Page 1 than a half dozen people who have seen the affidavit said thursday that min rein s assertions Are generally supported by affidavits submitted to the panel by one of his superiors at the Asa. The Asa the largest . Intelligence Agency intercepts and interprets Many forms of communication. Minaret in Salfi Kalugin Davit gives precise numbers of pos allegedly held in some prison Camps. In a Telephone interview thursday Minarcin said much of the information had come from intercepted communications from prison guards. He said they often would complain on radio or Telephone. A Why Are we Here a Minarcin said the vietnamese guards would grouse a the 19 or other precise number pos should have been shot years  As a crypt linguist his Job was decoding or translating intercepted communications. A Pentagon spokeswoman. Air Force Apt. Susan St Mednansky said the department of defense Hud found a no intelligence to support Quot Minarciny a claims. In the interview Minarcin who now lives in Tacoma wash., said he was a not surprised Quot by the Pentagon s claim that it did not have the intelligence that Minarcin said was prepared by the Asa. He said that the Asa limited distribution of the intercepted communications and that he had never seen the defense intelligence Agency a special office on pos included in the distribution list. Both the Asa and d1a Are run by the Pentagon. Minarciny a affidavit said that Between 200 and 300 american pos were transferred in the Spring of 1983 from Vietnam to the then soviet Union As a slave  at the Lime he said he was a communications specialist on intelligence aircraft flying Over the Region. He said that before flying on the missions his Crew would be briefed to a  considerable attention to communications from the pow Camps because the soviets a had requested pos to be sent to the soviet  he said that members of his flight Crew confirmed that As Many As 25,000 former South vietnamese troops were also sent to the soviet Union