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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes thursday february 13, 1992 world peruvian bomb kills two at . Envoy s residence from wire reports Lima Peru a a car bomb Shook the . Ambassadors residence tuesday night killing two peruvian police guards outside and badly wounding two others. Later at least five Banks and a movie theater in Lima were bombed. There were no immediate reports of injuries or claims of responsibility. The blast at the ambassadors residence Tore a Hole 20 feet Long in a 10-foot-High protecting Wall and knocked out Power lines. . Ambassador Anthony Quainton was not Home at the time and no one inside the residence was Hurt an embassy spokesman  Burns euro Disney hotel Marne la Valle France a firefighters on tuesday battled a Blaze on the roof of a hotel under construction at the euro Disney theme Park West of Paris. The fire apparently caused by a Short circuit broke out tuesday morning at the Sequoia lodges a 40-room Annex to the Sequoia hotel. About a dozen rooms were damaged before the Blaze was brought under control a fire official said. Adjoining buildings and the main hotel Complex were not affected said a fire department official speaking on condition of anonymity. No damage estimate was immediately available although a spokesman for euro Disney said it a seemed  Irish Leader approved Dublin Ireland a parliament confirmed Albert Reynolds As prime minister on tuesday and he swiftly a a can a a i urged his Cabinet of ministers closely identified wit predecessor Charles j. Haughey. In All Reynolds dismissed eight of the 15 Cabinet members. He named David Andrews to replace Gerry Collins As foreign affairs minister and Padraig Flynn to replace Ray Burke As Justice minister. Collins and Burke were deeply involved in Irish policy toward Britain and Northern Ireland. Members of the Dail the lower House of parliament voted 84 to 78 to approve president Mary Robinsons nomination of Reynolds. Haughey resigned last week As Leader of Ireland a dominant political party fianna of fill following allegations that he knew about a decade old wiretapping  shoots waiter Moscow a a Vodka drinking policeman travelling by train to pick up prisoners from a siberian jail found himself behind bars tuesday after shooting a waiter who refused to give him More Vodka. The attack was described by the official russian state news Agency itar Tass. Police sergeants Vyacheslav Tabakov and Alexander Bylenok were part of a russian police team travelling by train to escort prisoners from the siberian City of Tomsk to Kovoros sysk in Southeastern Russia. Late at night the two officers finished off what Vodka they had and went to the trains restaurant car to get More. But the waiter denied the Tipsy officers any More Vodka the news Agency reported. The officers started a fight and according to the russian report Tabakov started shooting killing one waiter and badly wounding another waiter. Tabakov was arrested and his supervisor lost his Job. Officer puts $6 billion Price on Cis areas in Germany Bonn Germany a the commander of former soviet troops in Eastern Germany was quoted tuesday As saying the German government should pay 10.5 billion Marks $6.7 billion for military real estate. Gen. Matvei Burlakov in an interview with Stern news Magazine said the departing army of the Commonwealth of Independent states was leaving behind a lot of valuable property including buildings at Barracks Sites. But he said the Bonn finance ministry appeared uninterested in them adding a i think that this ministry is badly organizing its  questioned about widespread environmental damage at the former soviet bases the general said the Sites would be cleaned up and returned a in Good  he figured cleanup costs at $1.6 billion and suggested they could be subtracted from the value of the property left behind the Hamburg based Magazine said. A we Are working As fast As possible and the russian Side knows that a said foreign ministry spokesman Christian Kastrup. A i done to know Why or. Burlakov made this proposal because he knows the  Kastrup said negotiations Between the germans and russians based on a 1989 treaty that helped Clear the Way for unification were continuing on the questions of environmental cleanup costs and property values. Under the treaty Germany will turn Over proceeds from the Sale of the property after subtracting cleanup costs. A a it a very difficult because they have very High expectations about the Money they could get out of this Deal a Kastrup said. But without specifying a figure he said that cleanup costs would be exorbitant that the property was in bad condition and that he did no to think there a be much Money left Over. A first Market offers indicate that interest for those properties is very Low and the Market Price will be very Low in connection with that a Kastrup added. Germany has already pledged about $8.3 billion in credits and a housing program for returning soldiers in connection with the pullout. Burlakov said the withdrawal was on schedule. As of the end of 1991, he said 165,000 people including 110,000 soldiers had been withdrawn to the Cis. Before the collapse of East Germany there were approximately 380,000 soviet troops stationed there. Under pre unification agreements they Are to be gone by the end of 1994. Sumo sized wedding cake sumo wrestling Champion Salevasa Atisanoe and former Model Sumika Shioda prepare to Cut a Gigantic cake after their televised wedding tuesday in Tokyo. The wrestler who comes from Hawaii weighs More than 500 pounds. He is the first foreigner to reach sumo a second highest rank in Japan and the Only foreigner to have won two of Japan a six annual tournaments. Atisanoe says he will seek japanese  seeks to strengthen Iran s military Nicosia Cyprus apr Iran is pursuing a major arms buildup to become the Paramount military Power in the persian Gulf and Central Asia a move that could signal turbulence in those regions. President Hashemi a Sfanjani recently told military commanders that a strengthening the islamic republics defense Ca liabilities is one of the major tasks we Ace in the reconstruction period following the 1980-88 War with Iraq. Iran sold foe has been deranged a for the time being at least a but no one is ruling out an iraqi comeback. Saudi Arabia and the other Arab slates which began upgrading their arsenals after iraqis invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War also Are wary of Tehran a intentions even though it is talking of improving relations. A a there a no doubt Iran a aggressively seeking to rearm. The difficulty is in interpreting its purpose a said Anthony Cordesman a Middle East specialist and former defense department analyst. He said there is no evidence Iran will try to dominate its neighbors. A but neither is there any near term Prospect that either Iran or Iraq will be stabilizing influences a he said. There Are suspicions in the West that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons which a Sfanjani denied monday. He said Iran was interested Only in peaceful uses of nuclear Energy. American officials say Tehran has acquired significant numbers of combat aircraft and major weapons such As tanks artillery and missiles since 1988, mainly from the former soviet Union China and North Korea. Iranian rearmament got a big boost when the soviet Union fell apart and financially strapped Eastern european nations put their arsenals on Sale. But in the Long run military cooperation Between Tehran and Russia might be difficult to sustain if Moscow found its interests threatened by iranian inroads in the neighbouring Muslim republics of former soviet Central Asia. Don Kerr an Independent Security consultant formerly with the International Institute for strategic studies in London said a Iran has a pressing a and genuine need to rebuild its defensive  he noted relations Are still tense with Iraq and said the islamic resurgence in the nations of former soviet Central Asia could produce instability. Iran a air Force commander Brig. Gen. Mansour Sattari disclosed feb. 5 that Iran now has soviet made Mig-29 interceptors and Su-24 fighter bombers Ana chinese f-7 fighters. He also said Many of Iran a .-built planes grounded during the War with Iraq by parts shortages have been made  gave no totals. But the Iraq Basea Muia Hedeen Khaliq the main iranian opposition movement says Tehran Nas bought or rehabilitated 350 combat aircraft the past two years increasing its air strength sixfold. _ Cordesman and Kerr said that Figur was probably fairly accurate and presumably includes some of the 115 combat be flown by iraqi pilots to Iran during t Gulf War and impounded  
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