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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes saturday March 14, 1992 Pravdo suspends paper s publication cites Yeltsin s Reform e a and circulation to 2.5 million Moscow a the former com Power. Pravda a Presto pm a Monist party newspaper pravda an a began to drop. It Plung bounced Friday it was suspending Public last year then 1.5 million year. A ii. _ of d. Vav taif after inst Allf Fust s ice Loco i cation the first major publication to shut Down because of Market reforms that have sent newsprint and distribution costs soaring. Pravda a editors accused the russian government of subsidizing newspapers that support president Boris n. Yeltsin and of trying to gag pravda before a major hard line rally next week. A a we be become one of the victims of the current Reform which turned out to be nothing More than enormous outrageous Price increases a Deputy editor Victor Linik told the associated press. Linik said pravda was negotiating for Bank Loans to cover its debts and he expressed Confidence that the newspaper eventually would resume publication but after last Augustus failed hard line coup Yeltsin suspended the publication of pravda along with five other newspapers. Pravda resumed publishing a week Fater and became an Independent no party daily owned by its 120 reporters and editors. In november the party a printing presses and other publishing facilities were taken Over by the russian ministry of press and information. A a it a like a wife throwing her husband out of the House in his undershirts a that a about what happened to our newspaper a Deputy editor in chief Alexander Ilin said in a Telephone interview Friday. After Yeltsin freed prices on most Viii taut a goods and services Jan. 2, the Cost of he said the negotiations were difficult newsprint and distribution skyrocketed and the suspension was for a an indefinite pravda and Many other newspapers were squeezed because they had already sold i a period.�?�,. ,. The final Issue will appear today in a Lim subscriptions at last year s prices item edition of about 100,000 copies Avail to Cut costs pravda began publishing Able Only in the Moscow area Linik said. Only three times a week instead of six. Sev the suspension is the culmination of eral other newspapers such As Yelskaya pravda a rapid slide from financial priv Zhzn Rural life and the former comm Liege and a leading place in soviet Jour nist youth league paper Komsomol Skaya nazism to a political pariah and virtual pravda made similar cutbacks bankruptcy. Pravda editors complained Friday that founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1912, it the russian government has subsidized was Onee the soviet unions most author some papers particularly Rossinskaya a Stative newspaper the mouthpiece of the Zeta russian Gazette that support All powerful communist party. Yeltsin editorially. In the 1970s and Early 1980s, it had a Ilin charged that the russian govern circulation of 13 million and Cost just 3 ment which controls the printing presses Kopecky less than a tenth of 1 Penny at halted pravda a publication this week by current Exchange rates because its demanding payment of two months pub paper Ink fuel distribution and other Lishing costs in Advance costs were subsidized by the state. A they done to want us to publish on the two years ago amid former president eve of the March 17 rally in Moscow. For l we or wait Al juy 011iiu iv/1iuw1 j  we we a j ror Mcra a a a Iraq gets Short delay in . Showdown by the new York times United nations a the Security Council rejected iraqis assertion that it is cooperating with the persian Gulf cease fire on thursday telling Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz that he must comply a fully and unconditionally with its orders. Nevertheless president Saddam Hussein of Iraq appeared to have won a Brief delay of the new confrontation looming Between Baghdad and the Security Council. Whether Baghdad is really changing its position May be revealed at talks Aziz and a team of 14 experts will hold with the United nations this weekend on its plans for eliminating iraqis weapons of mass destruction. Another test could come next week when the special commission charged with eliminating these weapons plans to Send a new inspection team to Baghdad. It May seek to destroy scud missile manufacturing equipment Iraq wants to save and convert to civilian use. Iraqis refusal to destroy this equipment has already provoked a quarrel with the Council. On thursday Rolf ekes the commissions swedish head said he remained determined to see it All destroyed adding a the iraqis will find a dual use for  the Security Council is seeking to obtain iraqis compliance with a series of orders it Drew up at the end of the persian Gulf War that would strip Baghdad of its most dangerous weapons tie up its Oil revenues for years in compensation payments for the invasion of Kuwait and subject its military industries to Long term International monitoring. The United states great Britain and France have said that unless Iraq starts complying with the orders they cannot Rule out a resumption of military action including possible airstrikes against banned weapons plants and secret nuclear  Dweller spent time hiking dreaming of food Montpellier France a after 113 Days without Sunshine companionship or a sense of time a 26-year-old adventurer emerged Friday from a vast Cave in Southern France. Pascal Barrier entered the Cave nov. 22, and for the first 100 Days avoided even voice Contact with other humans. Since then he conversed occasionally Over a Telephone line set up for use in emergencies. He was living in the Cave to test his response to total deprivation of human Contact and communication. Barriers main pastime was walking a he said he covered More than 620 Miles during daily hikes through the co Caliere Cavern. Thin and unshaven he emerged with a smile and departed by helicopter for an examination at a Hospital in nearby Montpellier. A it was rather hard because when 1 woke up it was always dark and i did no to know if i had taken a two hour Nap or a 12-hour sleep a he said. A i did no to know if 1 should have breakfast or  he read science fiction books and wrote a journal on a word processes that was his Only source of Light. He ate preserved food and said he had dreams of French Fries and fresh  officers demoted for making troops eat Worms Berlin up two German army officers who forced subordinates to eat earthworms were demoted according to a judgment published thursday. Describing the Case a spokesman for a Berlin court said that during Field exercises a first lieutenant had ordered soldiers to prepare and eat earthworms. The court said the officer insisted that the order be carried out even though one Soldier vomited and another a Iran around in circles choking on a  the commander of the company refused to intervene saying he too had once eaten an earthworm the spokesman said. The court said the incident was a violation of the a life in the Fields chapter of the code of conduct for the bund Estehr a the German armed forces. Such conduct a severely undermines troop morale a the court said. The officers were both demoted by one rank  
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