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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes world thursday february 13, 1992 officer puts $6 billion Price on Cis areas in German 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 ambassador s 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 Quot seemed  Irish Leader approved Dublin Ireland a parliament confirmed Albert Reynolds a prime minister on tuesday and he swiftly purged his Cabinet of ministers closely identified with Nis 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 Deil the lower House of parliament voted 84 to 78 to approve president Mary Robinson s nomination of Reynolds. Haughey resigned last week As Leader of Ireland s dominant political party fianna fail 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 got 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. Bonn Germany apr 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 Stem 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 work. Questioned about widespread environmental damage at the former soviet bases the general said the Sites would be cleaned up and returned 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 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 s six annual tournaments. Atisanoe says he will seek japanese  key to Europe s Security Worner says by Rosemary Sawyer Brussels Bureau Brussels Belgium a guaranteed Security and stability in Europe can Only be obtained through cooperation Between three key institutional players nato Secretary general Manfred Werner said wednesday. Quot the whole of the euro Atlantic Region is too diverse dynamic and Complex to have All its Security concerns handled by one organization a Worner said at a conference sponsored by the North Atlantic Assembly natos parliamentary Arm. Quot the european Security architecture should thus remain based on several complimentary  the nato Leader acknowledged however that the european Community the North Atlantic Alliance and the conference on Security and cooperation in Europe Csc have a Long Way to go in developing their relationship and figuring out just How they should work together. Quot these organizations have to be Able to cooperate in a Way which allows them to compensate for one another a deficiencies and draw on one another a assets a he said. The Csc is expected to play a Central role because of its pan european makeup made especially important by the end of the cold War. Werner s vision As outlined at the conference would have the Csc eventually filling a peacekeeping role especially in ethnic disputes such As the one in Yugoslavia which could prove a threat to inter National Borders. The Alliance he said would continue to provide Security for its members As agreed upon by provisions of its treaty. A the Csc cannot guarantee Security As it lacks these Means of enforcement a Worner said. In addition the size of its membership As Well As diverse social systems and values will make agreement difficult thereby limiting the organizations effectiveness he said. Even though there will be some overlap Between nato and Csc roles Werner explained that the two will nevertheless differ in Many ways. A whereas nato also has the hardware to protect Security is Cen a function is rather creating the software to develop Security a he told the conference which focused on Csc matters. Csc foreign ministers meeting in Prague last month strengthened political mechanisms for crisis management and peaceful settlement of disputes. But More needs to be done w6mer said. A those rules and mechanisms will in some critical cases have Only authority to the extent that they Are backed with real military capabilities of peace enforcement and peacekeeping Quot he said. So far however the is Cen a member countries whose previous membership of 38 grew to 48 with the admittance of 10 former soviet states at the Prague meeting have failed to agree on assuming a peacekeeping role  
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