European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 8 the stars and stripes sunday March 1,1992 = a president Boris n. Yeltsin left listens to a scientist during his visit to a nuclear weapons Center in Arzamas-16. Yeltsin predicts scientists won t sell out to third world countries Moscow apr president Boris n. Yeltsin on Friday visited a once secret nuclear weapons Center in Central Russia and predicted that mass emigration of former soviet nuclear scientists would not occur news reports said. To help ensure they stay the russian Leader promised higher wages and other benefits to the scientists. The scientists earn an average 1,400 rubles a month. That is about 50 percent More than the average russian wage but still amounts to poor pay in a country where meat Sells for 20 rubles a Pound. Yeltsin also signed a decree in the City of Arzamas-16 to bring the facilities there and at another City Chelyabinsk-70, under direct russian government control to ensure better treatment for workers itar Tass and the russian information Agency said. Western leaders have voiced fears that the former soviet unions worsening Economy mass conversion of defense plants and nuclear arms cuts could Force scientists to emigrate and perhaps help third world countries manufacture nuclear weapons. These concerns prompted Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii to visit Chelyabinsk-70 in the ural mountains last month. Baker suggested helping the scientists by establishing a Clearinghouse in Russia to find Money for peaceful projects. Bakery a interest in turn spurred Yeltsin strip to Arzamas-16. A the americans Are eager to come Here. Baker wanted to Fly in Here i could not but see it for myself a otherwise Baker would know More about this City its history and plants than myself Quot Yeltsin told russian Televik Belgrade Yugoslavia apr the scr dominated remnant of Yugoslavia a presidency on Friday announced that 30 top generals and admirals including the former defense minister and a number of non serbs had been retired. The list of names carried by the National Tan Jug news Agency appeared to confirm speculation that a purge of non serbs was under Way in the serb led armed forces fighting croatian troops alongside serb insurgents. Among those forced out was Veljko Kadijevic a serb and the former defense minister who lost that position last month amid growing criticism Over the Federal army s conduct of the croatian War. Kadijevic a replacement As defense minister was formally linked to the Downing of an european comm Sion. Yeltsin said he met with nuclear scientists Jan. 21 to discuss nuclear arms reduction conversion and the social welfare of the workers who once were the elite of soviet society. A we spoke about making All this Federal property creating a special Federal nuclear Center Here. I brought along a decree to this effect Yeltsin said. Asked whether he believed mass emigration of nuclear scientists was possible Yeltsin was quoted by itar Tass As saying a Only a few will leave. But these few cannot fully resolve the problem of creating nuclear weapons in some  a they Are greatly devoted to their cause they have always lived in closed cities and worked at closed factories. They must be defended a said Yeltsin. A they have earned that by Many decades of  Yeltsin said the scientists should help destroy the nuclear weapons because a those who created them Are the Best equipped to eliminate them a Ria reported. According to the newspaper Izvestia 40,000 people live in Arzamas-16, about 250 Miles East of Moscow. The City founded in 1946, is still surrounded by barbed wire and is closely guarded. Arzamas-16 once produced up to 30 nuclear weapons a month according to former weapons specialist Alexander Mineyev. He said Many weapons were made by hand and that some workers Are suffering from exposure to radiation. The late Andrei Sakharov the nuclear physicist and human rights Champion worked in Arzamas-16 for nearly 20 years and the City now has a Street named for him. Nity helicopter Jan. 7 by the Federal air Force. But the ousting of the 67-year-old general considered a moderate appeared clearly connected with mounting dissatisfaction within Serbia and among ethnic serbs in Croatia Over the stalemate in the War. Also retired were Kadijevic a Deputy adm. Stane Brovet a slovenian former air Force commander Gen. Zvonko Jurjevic a croatian and other senior commanders. The modern yugoslav army has traditionally been dominated by serb commanders. That serb preponderance both in the command and among the ranks has grown to become overwhelming. Non serbs have defected and All other four republics except Serbia and its tiny ally Montenegro have refused to Send recruits. A world new Bosses cancel Tours of old Kab Headquarters from wire reports Moscow a the government has closed the doors of the former Kab Headquarters and museum to tourists who had been willing to pay $35 to walk the Halls of the once feared Lubianka a spokesman said Friday. The three hour Tours had Given tourists a peek at the third floor Comer office used by secret police founder Felix Dze Rohinsky and former Kab chief and soviet Leader Yuri Andropov. Viktor Berino a duty officer at the Lubianka said the Tours had been discontinued because of a change in administration. A we have new Bosses and they Are making new decisions a he  defended Hamburg Germany a Mikhail s. Gorbachev says that Erich Honecker the 79-year-old fugitive East German Leader should be left alone a purely on humanitarian grounds a a newspaper reported saturday. A leave the old Man in peace a saturdays Bild newspaper quoted the former soviet president As saying. Honecker now in Moscow is wanted in Germany for manslaughter for ordering his troops to shoot at East germans trying to flee to the West. Two Hundred people were killed.800 pounds of pot seized Mexico City a mexican police seized More than 800 pounds of marijuana in a truck at a Gas station in Northern Mexico and arrested the Driver officials said Friday. Acting on a tip Federal police in the Northern state of Durango arrested Eleuterio Puerta Flores in the town of Al Casco when he stopped for Gas said a statement from the mexican attorney general a  says it planted bomb London a the Irish Republican army on saturday claimed responsibility for fridays bomb attack on a Busy London rail station that injured 28,people. The Ira in a statement issued in Dublin Ireland said it did not intend to injure civilians and blamed police for failing to Clear stations after a telephoned warning Friday morning waives extradition Toronto a Lawrencia a a Bambi Bembenek the former Playboy club waitress and Milwaukee police officer who fled the prison where she was serving a life sentence for murder gave up her fight against extradition Friday. Bembenek 33, escaped in july 1990 from the Taycheedah correction institution near fond do Lac wis. She was serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of her former husbands  oks Tough traffic Laws Rome a speeding motorists could be forced to pay fines of As much As $1,627 and lose their licenses under terms of a Tough new Highway code approved by the italian Cabinet on Friday. The new code which goes into Force next january will Fine Drivers Between 500,000 and 2 million lire $407 to $1,627 if they exceed the Speed limit by More than 40 Kilometres an hour 25 Man or More. Violators also can lose their  hit by drought Beijing a a severe drought has hit Large areas of China affecting millions of people and livestock and damaging countless acres of crops and unplanned Fields an official report said Friday. Ginsu and shaan i provinces in North Central China have been hardest nit. The peasants daily said it was the most severe drought to hit the provinces in 63  guilty of Selling plane a Jerusalem a an air Force Pilot has been convicted of stealing a Vintage Mustang fighter plane from an israeli museum and Selling it for $331,000 in Sweden news reports said Friday. Reserve maj. Israel Yitzhak 51, flew the world War ii plane to Sweden after taking it from the air Force museum under the pretext that it needed painting the item news Agency reported quoting a court decision handed Down thursday. 30 leading yugoslav officers retired