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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 11, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3birth control plan hits Snag she was a he Denver apr embarrassed wildlife experts called off an attempt to reduce the Beaver population with the Long acting contraceptive norplant when they found out their first specimen was male. Television cameras rolled thursday to record the first operation to implant the birth control device in a Beaver. Beavers have become a nuisance in the wheat Ridge suburb of Denver by gnawing Trees and burrowing under paths. The Beaver had been anaesthetized before veterinarian David Robinson conducted a last minute examination and declared a a it a a  a the problem with Beaver is their sexual organs Are drawn Way up inside their bodies and they re darn hard to sex a Robinson said. Norplant which the food and drug administration approved for use by women in december 1990, consists of six matchstick sized capsules inserted into the Arm above the Elbow. It is effective for about five years. The plan was an attempt to limit the number of beavers without killing them said Nick Fisher of wheat ridges animal and Park enforcement department. It was put on hold until a female Beaver can be found. Russian says libyans courted nuclear experts by Knut Royce and Fred Bruning new Day confirming Western fears that the collapse of the soviet Union might prompt a new sort of nuclear proliferation an official in Moscow says Libya tried to hire two russian scientists to help Moa mar Qadhafi expand his atomic program. The two experts declined Qadhafi a a Job offers according to Vyacheslav Rozanov of the Kur Chatov Institute of atomic Energy but he warned that the scientists might reconsider if Libya sweetened the salary proposal. A a it a possible that they would agree to a higher paying Job said Rozanov Deputy chief of the institutes thermonuclear department. On Friday Libya denied that it had offered jobs to two russian nuclear experts. Jana the official libyan news Agency said Libya a had no direct or indirect interest in such matters As it had already reaffirmed on various occasions its Call for the need to eliminate All weapons of mass destruction and a ban on manufacturing stockpiling and using  Rozanov said that his Agency the country Stop nuclear research Center is urging staff members to decline offers from nations that might be interested in developing nuclear weapons. In this Case he acknowledged libyan officials ostensibly were recruiting personnel to work on peaceful projects but noted that even civilian tasks could have military applications. With rapidly changing developments in what once was the soviet Empire Western leaders have expressed fear that the formidable nuclear Arsenal put together by the former soviet Union might be sold like so much scrap Iron and that atomic scientists would peddle their expertise to the highest bidder. A the soviets already warned the United states that their unemployed nuclear scientists. Could be lured to third world countries by lucrative offers to work on nuclear programs there Quot said an official in the Bush administration. He said that the deteriorating Economy in the former soviet republics was putting a pressure on individuals and enterprises to sell or try to Trade anything they can and that the . Intelligence Community was a monitoring the situation  last october police in Italy seized a Small Quantity of contraband plutonium and a month later authorities in Switzerland grabbed a parcel of enriched uranium both potential components of nuclear weapons. While officials were not immediately Able to identify the source of the material specialists interviewed by new Day suggested it came from Eastern Europe or the soviet Union. New Day also reported that an angolan businessman had told a belgian company that he could Supply five boxes of enriched uranium at $100,000 each a further indication that there is an Active Market for nuclear contraband. The possibility that smaller nations arc scouting engineers further complicates the situation experts  republics Back pact to Cut weapons Brussels Belgium apr former soviet republics on Friday joined the nato allies in agreeing that a landmark treaty slashing tanks and other non nuclear weapons in Europe should remain unchanged even after the demise of the superpower. The nations meeting for the first time to discuss the Accord underscored their desire to implement the conventional forces in Europe agreement that was signed in november 1990. A the cafe treaty should enter into Force without renegotiation and be fully implemented As soon As possible a said a statement by the North Atlantic treaty organization after Daylong talks. A treaty obligations assumed by the former soviet Union should be wholly accounted for by All the newly Independent states in the treaty area a foreign ministry sources in Bonn Ger Many said the nation has asked nato to oversee the elimination of All tactical nuclear weapons. The sources demanding anonymity said there were  potential buyers from countries not now holding such arms wanted to buy them from the soviet Arsenal. No countries were identified. The demise of the soviet Union a a signatory to the arms treaty a raised concern in the West about whether the treaty provisions would be carried out by the republics in the new Commonwealth of Independent states. The Accord Calls for deep cuts in tanks artillery pieces and other conventional weapons in an area running from the Atlantic Ocean in Western Europe to the ural mountains. The reductions were designed to ease Western european fears that the soviet Union would launch a Surprise attack with its massive Arsenal of conventional  Money a muscovite holds his blood donors certificate blood donors receive 40 rubles the Day off from while a russian nurse removes his Tourniquet. Work and a certificate Good for buying  agent admits he met with Oswald Moscow up a a recently retired Kab agent has confirmed that he was one of the soviet officials who talked to Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City less than two months before president Kennedy was assassinated. However he refused to give details of the meeting. A what Oswald told us is a commercial secret a retired agent Oleg Nechiporenko said thursday explaining that he and two of his colleagues involved in the meeting Are working on a Book. Nechiporenko was speaking at a news conference called to deny assertions by another retired Kab official maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin that he interviewed american prisoners of War in Vietnam five years after All prisoners were supposedly freed. Kalugin also revealed that Nechiporenko was one of the soviet agents who talked with Oswald in Mexico City in september 1963. Nechiporenko a name was mentioned in a Book on the assassination in 1976. But for the first time he publicly confirmed on thursday that had he met with Oswald at the soviet embassy in Mexico on sept. 27-28, less than two months before the assassination in Dallas that Oswald is accused of  Jet fighter crashes into North sea killing Pilot the Hague Netherlands a a dutch air Force fighter Jet crashed into the North sea on Friday killing its Pilot the dutch defense ministry said. Rescue Crews found the pilots remains about three hours after the late morning crash defense ministry spokesman Ben Smit said. The cause of the crash was being investigated the air Force said. The one seat f-16 Jet was on a training flight Between the coastal islands of Vlieland and in ers Chelling  
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