European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 23, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9rocket launch called part of civilian tests Moscow apr officials acknowledged tuesday that an ss-19 intercontinental ballistic missile was launched in Kazakhstan last month but the new commonwealths defense officials characterized the launch As routine. A separate statement by Kazakhstan president Nur Sultan Nazar Baev denied that the missile which was fired at the Bai Konur cosm drome in Kazakhstan had been launched for military purposes. The ss-19 is capable of carrying four to six nuclear warheads according to Jane a weapon systems. Jane a said that in 1986 there were an estimated 360 such missiles in the then soviet Arsenal. Control of the former soviet unions nuclear Arsenal has been a major concern of Western nations several of which have tied Aid to the new commonwealths adherence to International weapons accords. The leaders of the new Commonwealth of Independent states have pledged to keep nuclear weapons under a single command and Honor the agreements. The statements came As a top state department official Reginald Bartholomew arrived tuesday in Alma Ata the capital of Kazakhstan for talks on the control of strategic and nuclear arms russian television reported. No details were Given. The news Agency Tass quoting a defense ministry statement in Moscow re ported that experimental launching of Booster rockets As part of a disarmament plan had been conducted since november. The ministry described the dec. 20 launching of the ss-19 As a a routine launching of a converted intercontinental ballistic missile by Means of which civilian payloads Are to be launched into space a according to Tass. It did not elaborate. The ministry also said the launch did not violate the  strategic arms reduction treaty. Nazar Baeva a statement said that a any dramatization around a test Blastoff is unwarranted a Tass reported. A information about a ballistic missile test for military purposes is not consistent with reality a the statement said. Kazakhstan is one of four former soviet republics that Are known to have nuclear weapons based on their territory. The others arc Ukraine Belarus and Russia. The Bai Konur space facility once belonged to the soviet Union but has been taken Over by Kazakhstan. Also on tuesday russian president Boris n. Yeltsin discussed possible ways to establish a system of worldwide control Over the production storage and destruction of nuclear materials during five hours of talks with nuclear scientists from his country Moscow radio and Tass  s anniversary draws crowd of faithful Moscow apr undaunted by bitter cold and Public disdain about 200 dedicated communists marched to Vladimir Lenin a Tomb tuesday to defend his legacy and his mummified body on the 68th anniversary of his death. A i have All the works of Lenin in my soul a exclaimed 49-year-old Carpenter Valentin Kondratow. A i am a worker. In be lived it. Its in my soul and in my body from life a not from Lenin a books a but from my  7 carrying portraits of Lenin the protesters lashed out at reformers the Commonwealth of Independent states and the collapse of communism. Lenin a body encased in Glass on red Square is one of his Only legacies that is still intact. A Lenin is More alive than any living person a one Banner said taking a line from communist poet Vladimir Mazakovsky. A peace for people factories for workers land for peasants a read another quoting Lenin. The anniversary rally was called by communist groups to reject suggestions that the body be removed and buried. The turnout was lower than regular weekend protests that have drawn several thousand people angry Over Price increases. Waving soviet flags against the biting wind the protesters trudged across the Snow covered cobblestones toward the red and Black Granite mausoleum trailed by nearly As Many onlookers and journalists. They chanted an old stalinist March Litany a Lenin is living Lenin is always with  their voices echoed past the Kremlin where a russian Flag now flies in place of the soviet Flag. The March stopped Short of the mausoleum while three soldiers finished the ceremonial changing of the guard. Then protesters fanned out in front of the Tomb forming a human barricade in symbolic defense of Lenin. A a we la stand at the mausoleum until death to defend it like i stood and fought for Leningrad during world War ii said 72-year-old Konstantin Feodorov before the rally. Conservative newspapers lashed out at suggestions that the body be buried in a cemetery in St. Petersburg formerly Leningrad. The City a mayor Anatoly Sobchak has cited a line in lemnos will requesting burial with his family. But Lenin a great Niece has said he never made a will and has urged a referendum to decide the Issue. A demonstrator holds a photo of Vladimir Lenin during a rally tuesday outside Lenin a mausoleum in Moscow. A fall civilized humanity is laughing at the unprecedented scope of discrediting Lenin in his native land a the hard line newspaper Sovie Skaya Rossiya commented. The. Anxiety reached a new pitch monday night when russian television quoted the sensationalist newspaper top secret As saying the body would be removed from the Tomb that night to be buried. Western journalists rushed to red Square to watch in vain. The Kremlin commandant Mikhail Barsukov said tuesday that the Rumor was planted a with no Good intention on the eve of the  residents and journalists took it seriously in St. Petersburg where Lenin smother and two Sisters Are buried at Volkov cemetery. The Tass news Agency said a crowd waited most of the night at the cemetery for Lenin a body to appear. Lenin died of a stroke on Jan. 21, 1924. His successors bickered for a month while the body Lay in state preserved by the bitter cold. The body then was mummified and entombed in a wooden mausoleum on red Square. It was moved six years later to the present Tomb. The body was moved in 1941 to the ural mountains to keep it from the invading germans. It was brought Back in 1945.russians renaming Tass news Agency Rita Moscow apr Tass the state news Agency that carried reports of soviet officialdom for decades said wednesday that its name will become a a Rita under a reorganization ordered by russian president Boris n. Yeltsin. The russian information minister Mikhail Polt Aranin told the parliaments Media committee that the news Agency a russian information Telegraph Agency a will be merged partially with the old an Agency. Rita a initials in russian Are the same As in English. Tass in russian stood for Telegraph Agency of the soviet Union. Since the August coup attempt Russia has taken Over most functions of the collapsed soviet government and closed or transferred the rest. Tass which dutifully reported the orders of coup plotters like other Media was among the last soviet institutions to be reorganized by Yeltsin. Polt Aranin said Rita will continue to use the Tass logo on Domestic wires but switch to Rita on International lines. The news Agency will be subordinate to Yeltsin and the russian government he said. It will take Over some of the facilities of the former an news Agency which had been Given to the russian information Agency that was formed by Yeltsin last year As an alternative to the Krem links Tass wire. Ria will remain a separate news service pol Tararin said. He did not say when the Tass name change would take effect. Tass had been the official voice of the soviet government since 1925, although it began exercising More Freedom under former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a glasnost reforms. Asked whether Rita would be the official russian news service a Tass Deputy director Boris Tumanov said a we should probably forget the word a official  it will be More like an official source. They wont be Able to order us to do anything but Well transmit reports of their  Tumanov said that Tass bureaus in the former soviet republics were being handed Over to local authorities but that they would Swap reports and keep Rita As the umbrella news service for the new Commonwealth of Independent states. A there will be an Exchange of information. They for example will cover their areas while we cover Russia a Tumanov said. A everything will be done on the basis of Exchange although Rita will have a monopoly on International reports because they done to have foreign