European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes sunday March 15, 1992 . Protests halt of arms Transfer by the Washington Post Washington the Bush administration on Friday informed top russian and ukrainian officials of . Concern about a halt in shipments of tactical nuclear arms from Ukraine to Russia. The protests came a Day after ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk announced that the shipments had been interrupted and roughly a week after the . Intelligence Community noticed the first signs of the interruption officials said. Kravchuk said he was acting because Russia had failed to provide adequate assurances that it would follow through on a pledge to destroy the tactical arms after they were shipped from ukrainian territory to russian storage centers. He said Ukraine had sought such guarantees to ensure the arms would not be used to strengthen russians military. . Officials said Friday that they had no reason to believe russians pledge to destroy the arms would not be carried out. They said Kravchuk a action had created substantial alarm within the administration which has sought to encourage the withdrawal of All nuclear weapons from former republics of the soviet Union outside Russia. State department spokesman Richard Boucher said . Officials in Kiev had reminded top ukrainian officials of their own Promise last december to Complete the shipments of All tactical nuclear arms to Russia by july. Only 57 percent of the tactical weapons deployed on ukrainian territory by the former soviet military have been transferred ukrainian officials said. . Officials said they were concerned that Kravchuk a action would Lead to a substantial delay because no dismantling facility exists in Ukraine. Russia in contrast has several such facilities. Opposition to Ukraine a decision was also registered in Moscow by the senior military official in charge of the nuclear weapons shipments. He said it represents a a very serious violation a of the 1970 non proliferation treaty As Well As of agreements signed within the former soviet  to make a living two chinese men tie a stack of Hula hoops to the Back of one of their tricycles in Bering last week. Sales of the hoops have soared recently As the 1960s fad has finally reached China. The official chinese Media originally encouraged the use of the hoops As a Way to keep fit but some chinese Are apparently overdoing it. Reportedly one Beijing worker was recently hospitalized with what was called a twisted intestine.2 Korea agree to inspections on atomic arms Seoul South Korea a taking an in mordant step toward easing tensions rivals North and South Korea agreed saturday to hold joint inspections of each other s suspected nuclear weapons Sites by june. The agreement reached at Border talks sets the first timetable for inspections of North koreans suspected nuclear arms facilities. Such inspections would greatly help defuse tensions Over communist North koreans nuclear program. Pyongyang denies it is developing weapons but South Korea and the West charge it is nearly capable of producing atomic arms. The United states keeps about 43,000 troops in South Korea under a Mutual defense pact. The North South Border remains one of the most heavily fortified in the world. A by setting the Boundary of the schedule for the nuclear inspection. The Resolution of nuclear problems on the korean Peninsula is within sight a South koreans unification ministry said in a statement. The agreement Calls for the creation of a joint nuclear control commission which will first meet thursday to work out details for joint inspections the ministry said. In a joint statement the two sides agreed the first inspections would be held within 80 Days or by the first week of june. The statement issued after fridays talks at the Border Village of Panmunjom said the two sides agreed to work to adopt a plan a within two months after the first commission meeting and a begin inspections within 20 Days after the document is  officials cracking Down on mall vagrants Paris apr authorities have begun a crackdown on vagrants and drug addicts overrunning an underground shopping mall on the site of Les Hailes the vanished marketplace that Emile Zola described As a the belly of  the forum Des Hailes in the heart of Paris attracts 30 million people yearly to its 200 boutiques restaurants and movie Heaters. But by night it becomes a communal dormitory for runaway teens homeless people and drug users who sleep on sheets of cardboard. Deputy mayor Jean Tiberi said last week that the City was cracking Down on the squatters and studying plans to shut the forum Between 1 . And 5 . Metal barricades have been erected police surveillance has been stepped up and the homeless have taken to other shelters. Shop owners ranging from upscale women a fashion designers to trendy Jean and sweat shirt boutiques have Long grown tired of sweeping up used syringes and other refuse when Day Breaks. Some of their customers Are frightened away by a sense that the forum Isnit Safe. The mall is a four level mass of reflecting Glass and Metal Arches a Maze of corridors Lead to nearby underground parking garages and subway stations. The Challenge Tiberi told a news conference is figuring out How to Seal off the commercial sectors at night without infringing on Public  will surrender for trial in deaths of . Advisers san Salvador Al Salvador up a two former rebels accused of killing three . Military advisers when their helicopter was shot Down last year will surrender to salvadoran authorities to be tried rebel leaders said Friday. The Faramundo Marti National liberation front which has been de mobilizing since the end of the nations civil War this year did not give the names of the two. It also did not say when the two would turn themselves in. A the Feln wants to publicly express us support for the decision by the two former combatants accused of killing three . Military advisers to voluntarily present themselves to the salvadoran judicial sys tem Quot said a statement by the former rebel front. Peace accords signed Jan. 16 to end the Central american nations 12-year War made the surrender of the two possible the Feln said. Their trial is in the Best interests of National reconciliation it added. The killings which occurred Jan. 2,1991, outraged . Officials. The state department said two of the advisers were still alive after the helicopter crash and were killed on the ground by rebels known Only As Quot Dominguez and  at the time the Feln denied the allegations. The three slain . Advisers were identified As sgt. 1st class Earnest g. Dawson it. Col. David h. Pickett and warrant officer Daniel s.  German official s comment on bagpipes just a lot of hot air Bonn Germany up a British authorities Are seeking an explanation for a German official s claim that the bagpipes pipes originated in Germany a statement that has scots up in arms. A spokesman for the German labor ministry said Friday that he was stunned by reaction to what was meant to be a carnival joke. Responding to the German parliament a traditional a a silly question of carnival season labor minister nor Bert Liim had issued a statement Over the origins and the regulations governing the use of Quot Dudel sack a or bagpipes. The minister admitted that the instrument did not originate from a Eidelsheim Germany. But he said that Strong influences on the instrument from the Small town near Frankfurt were evident and that the pipes themselves came from the German state of Hessen. The labor ministry in Bonn promptly received a Call from a bemused German embassy official in London who said British authorities were seeking an explanation for the claim which had apparently angered scots who heard the comment reported on the radio