European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes saturday february 29, 1992 a amps Michael Abrams it Only hurts when you watch Brian Mccrea 7, can to Bear to watch during a recent Teeth of the second grader during children a dental dental exam. Or. It. Col Ken Eye checks out the health month at Izmir Turkey elementary school. Russia denies report it will sell Lenin s body to highest bidder Moscow apr the russian secret police said thursday that the government has no intention of Selling the body of Vladimir Lenin even though it has received offers of up to $27 million for his embalmed body. Responding to a prank article last november in for Besnyi that said Lenin a body was on the auction Block the head of the russian Security ministry a press office said that the spectre of Selling Lenin was a  a that Type of joke has made several Western businessmen excited a Andrei Chernenko told a news conference. A but we would like to officially inform you that no government organizations or institutions have discussed the possibility of Selling or moving  Chernenko who was speaking in the Headquarters of the former soviet Kab his ministry s predecessor said he had received offers ranging from $1,000 to $27 million from businessmen interested in buying the waxy figure. It has been tying in a Granite mausoleum on red Square since shortly after the soviet Leader died in 1924. Forbes Fri a quarterly supplement to the . Forbes business Magazine had reported that the soviet government was so desperate for foreign currency that London apr legislators fired Back at australian prime minister Paul Keating on thursday one calling him a Buffoon after he accused Britain of abandoning Australia in world War ii. Veterans of Britain a far East Campaign were outraged but prime minister John major said he would try to smooth things Over. Queen Elizabeth ii still titular head of state in Australia maintained her customary silence through the latest salvos in what is at the Core a prickly debate Over Australia s continuing ties with Britain. Some australians want to Cut the Royal link to Britain and become a Republic. Most of the former colonies that made up the British Empire recognize the Queen Only As head of the loosely associated 50-nation Commonwealth. Keating 48, attacked the British War record after opponents in australians parliament accused him of disrespect toward the Queen during a seven Day visit that ended wednesday. It had decided to auction off Lenin a body for a minimum of $15 million. The Story was repeated by at least four news organizations until editor Christopher Buckley revealed it As a hoax. A so Many extraordinary things have happened in the soviet Union that we thought it would be fun to test the limits of credulity a he said. The article said the Kremlin had received threats that Lenin a body would be dug up and desecrated if buried. It quoted a soviet Deputy Interior minister As saying that Lenin might be safer in the West. In recent months talk of taking Lenin on tour have been making the rounds in Moscow which is perhaps Why Chernenko chose now to respond to the Forbes Fri article. Stas Namin an armenian Rock a no Roll promoter was the first to publicly discuss making a profit off the body when he told the newspaper arguments and facts last month that taking Lenin on a 12 to 18-month a King Tut Quot tour could bring in $2 billion for needy russians. Public opinion Over the Fate of Lenin a body is mixed. Some have advocated that it be removed from the mausoleum and Given a proper burial arguing Lenin himself requested that in his will. Others believe it should stay where it is. Keating had referred to pro Republican sentiment and casually put his  on the Queens Back while his wife neglected to curtsy. A i Learned about self respect and self regard for Australia a a said Keating Leader of the australian labor party. A and not about some cultural cringe to a country which decided not to defend the malay Peninsula and not to worry about Singapore and not to give us our troops Back to keep ourselves free from japanese  More than 15,000 australian soldiers under British command were captured when Singapore fell exposing Australia to the threat of a japanese invasion. Other australian troops fought with British forces against the germans in North Africa. Viscount slim president of the Burma Star veterans association said Britain did no to desert Australia in 1941. A it was that the japanese gave us a not just the British and the australians who were with us but the United states As Well a a hell of a Licking a said slim. World time bomb explodes in Hamburg train station from wire reports Hamburg Germany a a time bomb blew up 50 lockers and shattered the Glass panelling of an overpass in the Hamburg Harburg train station thursday but caused no injuries police said. No passengers or employees were present at the time of detonation which police estimated at 2 55 . The train station closes nightly for three hours beginning at 1 . The bomb made out of a Large fire extinguisher and a timer hurled one locker door 80 Yards onto a Railroad track. It also shattered the storefront windows of several nearby shops. Leftists claim bombing Athens Greece a a leftist group on thursday claimed responsibility for a bombing that injured 11 riot squad members. The bomb in a garbage bin exploded Early wednesday As a bus carrying the police stopped at a traffic Light. A pedestrian also was Nurt. The revolutionary popular struggle accused riot police of terrorism in a letter it sent to the ethos newspaper..-soviet paper debuts Moscow a a new monthly newspaper to be published simultaneously in the United states and the former soviet Union is making its debut this week. . Ambassador Robert Strauss was presented on thursday with a souvenir copy of the first edition of we a joint venture by Hearst corp. And Izvestia the former soviet government newspaper. Initially 300,000 copies will be printed in russian and distributed through Newsstands in Moscow and later other cities. Up to 50,000 copies in English will be distributed in the United  offered fellowships Moscow a the . Embassy announced a $14 million Fellowship program wednesday to bring 160 russians to the United states for Post graduate study of business economics Law and Public administration. Separate programs will bring students from the Baltic and other former republics of the soviet Union to the United states for academic programs and internships beginning this fall. The a Benjamin Franklin fellowships Are designed a to support the economic and democratic development of the participating countries a a . Embassy announcement  expo set for 96 Budapest Hungary a the Paris based Bureau of International exhibitions has approved Hungary a plans to Host a world exhibition in Budapest in 1996, the state news Agency Mai reported thursday. The exhibition called a roads to the future a will be a scaled Down version of a joint Vienna Budapest world expo originally planned for 1995.russian troops in Cuba Cut Moscow a the number of former soviet army soldiers training in Cuba has been Cut from 2,800 to 2,150 men a news Agency reported thursday. The unilateral reduction of forces was made without an agreement with Havana the Independent inter fax news Agency reported quoting sources at the russian foreign  won t be banished Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a under International and Domestic pressure the government has dropped plans to banish aids victims and carriers of the his virus to an isolated settlement the county a a health minister said thursday. The government is now studying plans for a hospice a Center for terminally ill people including patients in advanced stages of aids. It would be on the outskirts of Kuala Bumpur said the minister Lee Ign  Stamps unveiled Kiev Ukraine a the first internationally accepted ukrainian postage Stamps were unveiled in Kiev on thursday. Two 15-Kopeck Stamps will go on Sale monday celebrating respectively 500 years of Cossack history and 100 years of ukrainian emigration to Canada. A third stamp valued at 20 Kopecky will be issued in May commemorating the 19th-Century ukrainian historian my Kola Kostomarow. Australia Britain in a Royal snit