European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes sunday february 23, 1992 Cash Short Ukraine seeks buyer for aircraft Carrier by the los Angeles times Kiev Ukraine a one of the two largest aircraft carriers Ever designed by the mighty soviet military is being put on the auction Block. For a Mere $100 million Down a the balance is negotiable a an aspiring naval Power can buy the Varyat which is now under construction. It is a ship that the Pentagon has described As Quot a dramatic leap Forward in technical Fleet air defense  the giant Carrier is being built in Ukraine whose government has decided that the Only Way it can fund the ships completion is to sell it in Advance said Victor Antonov Ukraine a minister of defense conversion. The Price does not include All the extras that the ship was built to carry a dozens of Jet fighters and an array of missiles and guns. The vary age a recently commissioned sister ship the Admiral Kuznetsov has been the Pride of the former soviet Fleet. Both ships names reflect political changes the Kuznetsov named after the world War ii commander of the soviet Navy was originally the Tbilisi which is the capital of now Independent Georgia. The projected Varyat named after scandinavian seafarers who established a presence in ninth Century Russia was to have been called the Riga for the capital of now Independent Latvia. The names were changed in 1990 because the soviet Navy was unhappy about ships being named after cities of dissident republics. The Varyat is about two thirds built when finished it will be longer than three football Fields and will weigh 65,000 tons. A we done to want to sell arms a said Antonov who also Heads the commission on military exports. Quot but we be been driven into a dead end. We have no  until Ukraine finds a buyer construction on the ship has been halted. Work on the Ulyanovsk an even larger aircraft Carrier that is less than one fifth built has been scrapped. Parts from 2,500 russian suppliers Are needed for the Varyat and Antonov charged that russian president Boris n. Yeltsin a has ordered them to Stop supplying  the crisis at Nikolayev shipyard on the Black sea where the Varyat is being built is representative of the situation facing All 700 defense enterprises in Ukraine one third of Ukraine a 2.5 million Strong defense labor Force is Likely to be Laid off in the next few weeks because of a drop in orders and the failure of manufacturers in other republics to Honor Supply agreements. Threatened with closure the plants Are looking for any Way to stay afloat. Selling their military products abroad seems like the Only Short term solution because converting their factories to produce civilian goods is in most cases expensive and tune consuming. While the Varyat is the first product of Ukraine a vast military Industrial Complex to hit the auction Block it is not Likely to be the last product of the soviet military machine that the ukrainians put on the Market. The Sale of arms is necessary not Only to keep the plants going and their staffs employed but also to help Ukraine make the difficult transition from being a soviet Republic that had a command Economy to a Sovereign country that has a Market based Economy. Al Salvador declares 3 Days of mourning for late rightist san Salvador Al Salvador Spiel Salvador declared three Days of National mourning Friday to Honor the late Roberto Daubuisson a rightist politician who was alleged to have masterminded the country a death squads. The major As Daubuisson was affectionately know to supporters died of a heart attack thursday afternoon As a complication of his yearlong Battle with terminal Throat cancer. He was 48. Daubuisson continued to generate controversy after his death As opposition legislators refused to support a motion to declare three Days of National mourning. The motion was presented late thursday in the National Assembly by do a Buissono a nationalist Republican Alliance party or Arena. It fell just Short of the majority needed for approval with moderate Christian democrats and leftist legislators voting against or abstaining. Within an hour however president Alfredo Cristiani announced that he was overriding the congressional decision with an executive decree for the three Days of mourning. Daubuisson earned the nickname a Blowtorch bobs for his alleged torture methods when questioning sus i acted leftists As head of intelligence for Al Salvador seared National guard. Daubuisson shrugging off his reputation As a torturer and organizer of right Wing death squads founded and built up what is now the country a most powerful political party. Cristiani was elected after Daubuisson chose him As Arenas candidate for the 1989 presidential elections. After announcing the decree Cristiani told reporters Quot major Daubuisson will live  Arena legislator Gloria Salgueroa Gross upset by the Legislatures refusal to Honor Daubuisson called opposition congressmen a a miserable and  Salgueroa Gross highlighted do a Buissono a important involvement in the negotiated settlement to Al Salvador a 12-year civil War which ended feb. 1 with a  cease fire. She said Arena would continue to support the peace pro Cess in Daubuisson s a Daubuisson sence. A there will be peace in this country even if there Are bad and perverse people like the opposition legislators Gross said d Dubuisson was president of the National Assembly in 1990 when an Arena majority voted Down three Days of National mourning for the late former president jos6 Napoleon Duarte. A local radio commentator reporting live from the Assembly thursday night summed up the emotional confrontation by saying a what goes around comes  up history a sculptor Faith Winter puts the finishing touches on her controversial statue of sir Arthur a a bomber Harris Britain a air War commander in chief in world War ii. The statue unveiled in London on Friday is 9 feet tall and cast in half a ton of  holds exercises with United Arab emirates from wire reports Abu Dahabi a France and the United Arab emirates on saturday began their first joint defense exercise involving both countries air sea and ground forces. The 1,000 French military personnel will be joined by the same number of use air ground and Navy forces in use Mirage 2000 jets and patrol boats for the eight Day exercise called Quot Little  France is flying in up to four French Jaguar fighter jets. Armoured vehicles French ground forces and four amphibious warships will take part in the exercise. Use patrol boats will coordinate escort Protection with French ships during the exercise. Jaguar and Mirage jets will take part in targeting exercises and provide air support to each others ground troops a French Navy Captain said earlier this  malfunctions Moscow a a malfunction in a spacesuit Cooling system forced a russian cosmonaut to Cut Short a walk in space but he suffered no ill effects an official said Friday. Cosmonauts Alexander Volkov and Sergei Kri Kalev left the space station Mir on thursday to clean video cameras and perform routine maintenance the itar Tass news Agency reported. The Cooling system in Volkovs suit broke Down causing overheating and fogging in his helmet said Yuri Serebrennikov a flight controller for russians Mission control Center. Bandits preying on tourists in Kenya sources say Nairobi Kenya apr armed purity in the Reserve which is owned and 604-Square-mile Region u a bandits have terrorized and robbed tour maintain pro he the Intai name , a. In we at appears to be the most ser Nairobi Kenya apr armed bandits have terrorized and robbed tourists and in one Case raped a German woman in a series of attacks recently in a popular game Reserve sources Saia Friday. The attacks in the vast Masai Mara Reserve in kenyans Southwest have worried foreign diplomatic missions particularly the americans and germans. American and German diplomats and tourism officials spoke about the attacks on condition of anonymity. German officials have protested to the kenyan government about inadequate Security in the Reserve which is owned and maintained by the local Narok county Council and is not part of the Kenya wildlife service. They received no reply the sources said. The . Embassy has expressed concern to kenyans government and has urged the . State department to Issue an advisory warning to american tourists the sources said. The Kenya wildlife service under or. Richard Leakey has proposed that it assume management of the Masai Mara Reserve and reinvest revenues into increased Security and rehabilitation of the 604-Square-mile Region. The government apparently is considering the proposal. Masai Mara is the Northern tip of the Serengeti Plain and lies alone the Edge of the Border with Tanzania where most of the attacks have occurred. About 250,000 tourists visit the Reserve annually. Many in the tourism Industry blame tanzanian bandits working either alone or m collaboration with kenyan employees of tourist lodges in the Masai Mara. American and German tourists have been terrorized and robbed in several incidents in recent months the sources said. In what appears to be the most serious attack a Van carrying two German couples was stopped by bandits last Christmas. The attackers dragged the tourists from the Van forced them to undress stole their valuables and repeatedly raped a 23-year-old woman according to the German embassy in Nairobi. German ambassador bed Mutzel Burg protested the incident to Katana Ngala kenyans minister of tourism and wildlife and said the embassy was advising German tourists to avoid the Northwestern part of the Masai Mara until Security was guaranteed