European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 5, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3marcos Gold claim called fairy tale Manila up a the government dismissed As an a old fairy tales claims by former first lady Imelda Marcos that her late husbands wealth came from his discovery of Gold treasures buried by the japanese forces during world War ii. The widow said at a news conference monday that former dictator Ferdinand Marcos found the legendary treasure reportedly amassed by japanese Imperial army general Tomoyuki Yamashita and traded the Gold to build his riches. She said her husband who is accused of plundering his nations Treasury of up to $5 billion during his 20-year regime was already a Rich Man when they got married before he was elected president. A Well i think this is an old fairy tale so let us leave it at that finding the Yamashita treasure a said president co Razdan Aquino a chief aide executive Secretary Franklin Drilon. A it is an old fairy tale that they have been trying to sell to the filipino Public for the last decade a Drilon said. The Marc oses were ousted in 1986 in a popular army uprising that swept Aquino to Power. Ferdinand Marcos died in exile in Hawaii in 19s9. A i understand there was some Yamashita Gold. That is True Quot said Imelda Marcos who faces an array of criminal charges relating to her role in the alleged plunder of the Economy. She returned from . Exile in november to face the charges and also entered her name As a candidate for the philippine presidency in the May elections. The former first lady said she had kept quiet about the treasure find because a the amounts were so astronomical in proportions that it would be embarrassing at that Point to even say anything about  Marcos said that one time she saw the bars lying in a Corner of their suburban Home and threw them in the Garden a not knowing that these were  she said her husband who was a guerrilla during world War ii traded the precious metals and was Able to build a Fortune. The treasure was believed part of the loot amassed by Yamashita during his Conquest of Southeast Asia and which he buried in the  by Kab sparked Putsch investigator says Moscow apr the former Kab systematically misinformed former president Mikhail s. Gorbachev tapped russian president Boris n. Yeltsin a telephones and played a major role in planning last Augustus coup a russian parliament investigator said tuesday. Sergei Stepahin head of a state commission investigating the former secret police organization told parliament that a theoretical preparations for the Putsch began As Early As the fall of 1990. He said the Kab flooded Gorbachev with a hundreds of documents mis informing the former Leader and trying to persuade him to impose martial Law which the Kab claimed was the Only Way to restore order in the country. Stepahin said All the main documents and orders for the hard line attempt to oust Gorbachev a such As the declaration of a state of emergency a had been prepared by the Kab by aug. 4, 1991, two weeks before the coup began. After the coup was Defeated and the communist party dissolved the Kab was broken up into separate organizations one for internal Security and another for foreign intelligence. Its staff has been drastically reduced and its Power and prestige have fallen sharply. One of the mysteries of the coup is Why its leaders who called themselves the state committee for the state of emergency did not also arrest Yeltsin. Stepahin said three alternative plans for Yeltsin a arrest had been readied by the plotters and the pkg by a anti terrorist Alpha commando unit was supposed to take the russian president into custody along with approximately 40 other political leaders. But the Kab leadership never gave the unit the final order for Yeltsin a detention the investigator said. Is \ \ v Xiv xxx "5 _ a Quot -1 j  Sasa look out below a Aaron Duncan takes a bumpy ride Down a Hill near the Hoodoo ski bowl at Santiamo pass in Oregon scentral Cascade mountains. The 14-year-old from Albany Ore. Enjoyed some Sun and fresh Snow left by the weekend storms throughout the Northwest. For More about the weather Sec Page 11.Arizona firm set to peddle prefabs to Cis military by Joseph Albright Cox news service Washington military team from the russian led Commonwealth of Independent states was to arrive in Arizona today to negotiate the Purchase of up to 50,000 prefabricated housing units for russian officers made homeless by the shrinking of forces from the old soviet Empire. This unusual Quot peace dividend for the Sun Belt is the brainchild of a Mesa ariz., businessman who came up with a Way for russians to pay for prefabs Worth hundreds of millions of dollars even when the Ruble is almost worthless. The russians have come prepared to barter some of their immense Timber reserves along with scrap Metal in Exchange for the Arizona made prefab units the chief of the delegation air Force maj. Gen. Nikolai Stolyarov told a Washington news conference monday. Stolyarov said the one time soviet armed forces urgently need at least 100,000 Homes for officers being ordered Back to Russia from Eastern Germany and the newly Independent Baltic nations. Stolyarov credited Bennett b. Mccutcheon jr., president of a tiny Mesa trading company called rus sport Arizona inc., with the a a steadfastness needed to penetrate the old soviet unions pervasive bureaucracy and create the possibility for making the Deal. A the was Able to break through the bureaucratic Structure and interest us Quot Stolyarov said. Mccutcheon later said a barter arrangement is a being seriously negotiated a but stressed that nothing is binding unless a contract is signed. A i done to want to Box anyone in either myself or him Stolyarov a Mccutcheon said stressing that crucial details of a Deal including prices and quantities remain to be  $3.75 million Fine slapped on waste dumper West Palm Beach Fla. A a ederal judge on monday approved the lations largest hazardous waste Fine a 3.75 million a against . Sugar co. Or dumping solvents. A the Fine is painful very painful a said. Nelson Fairbanks president of the Lewiston  sugar giant. A a it a lard Medicine but i believe Well be a letter company for taking the  the Fine approved by . District Ludge James Paine was the nations largest Ever for hazardous waste crimes sur passing the $3 million paid last May by United technologies corp., said Diane Cossin a . Attorneys office spokeswoman. . Sugar pleaded guilty to improperly disposing of Lead residue waste lacking a Federal hazardous waste permit and shipping dirty motor Oil and a flammable solvent to a recycler without required documentation. The violations occurred from 1986 to 1989, and . Sugar has since taken corrective Steps Fairbanks said. Museum for Black heritage endorsed by smithsonian Washington a regents for the smithsonian institution have endorsed proposed legislation to establish a museum dedicated to the heritage and Art of Black americans an aide to Seri. Paul Simon d-ill., who is sponsoring the measure with rep. John Lewis d-ga., said the Bill should move quickly through Congress following mondays action by the smithsonian a Board of re gents. Proponents Hope the Washington museum will open by 1996. The collections the smithsonian Hopes to obtain and display Range from buttons and posters from the civil rights movement to Folk and Fine Art from the Caribbean and South America. The new museum would be housed in the arts and industries building