European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday March 17, 1992canadian officials gag Crew in film Deal of Arctic crash Toronto apr the harrowing tale of a plane crash in the High Arctic and the efforts of the survivors to stay alive in the worlds harshest climate has All the makings of great movie fare. The Canadian military however will not allow the three surviving air Force crewmen to profit from their Brief moment of celebrity by Selling their personal stories to a film company. Instead the defense department is backing another film and another company while putting a gag on the Crew. The drama of the 17 passengers and crewmen aboard the c-130 transport that went Down oct. 31 about 12 Miles from Alert at the Northern tip of Elle Semere Island was headline news around the world. Five people died. For 34 hours the survivors struggled to keep warm and alive As a blizzard prevented rescuers from parachuting in or reaching the site Overland from the top secret base at Alert 560 Miles from the North pole. Everyone testified to the heroism of the Pilot capt. John Couch who worked selflessly even going so far As to give his jacket to an injured survivor. Couch finally froze to death. The crewmen have been prevented from having fur ther dealings with Sunrise films ltd., a Toronto production company with which they signed a Deal. They also have been ordered not to speak to the press. Quot they Are telling him that he is not allowed to say anything a said Susan West wife of sgt. Paul West the flight Engineer. A it s his personal life experience. It has nothing to do with military  capt. John Blakeley a defense department spokesman said signing a movie Deal would violate regulations prohibiting personnel from using information gained from Public office for personal Benefit. Quot if its the Money Fine give the Money Back and let them put their Story out there a West a wife said in a Telephone interview. She would not say How much Money had been received from Sunrise. Quot we re not going to be millionaires a she said. Steven Levitan president of Sunrise films refused to talk about the status of the film or the contract which West described As a letter of intent. Blakeley said that immediately after the crash the military was besieged with proposals from filmmakers evaluated them and chose that of Civ Canadas private television  St. Patrick s Day Parade floats Down Street in Moscow Des Boland plays the bagpipes in front of russians who dressed As cossacks during Moscow a Parade. Moscow apr muscovites got a taste of Ireland on sunday As Green Beer flowed from the taps at the Shamrock bar in Moscow a first St. Patrick a Day. City officials sealed off a main Street leading to the Kremlin to make Way for a Parade of More than 20 floats and marchers who were preceded by a marching band and majorettes. The Parade organized by a russian Irish joint venture appeared to eaten onlookers off guard while they were making their customary sunday shopping rounds. A this is amazing a said pensioner Alexander Chertov. A i just came out to buy bread. I never expected a  Moscow a tribute to the 15th-Century Irish Saint lacked Many of the traditional trappings found in St. Patrick a Day parades in Irish communities around the world such As mounted police. Quot its grand a said Des Boland the parades one Kilt wearing bagpipe player. A a it a unlike any St. Patrick a Day Parade in be seen  instead of mounted police Boland was accompanied by six russians on horseback dressed in the traditional Cossack uniform and waving the red Blue and White russian Flag. Workers from the Irish store the joint venture that organized the Parade darted among muscovites on the sidewalk smudging dyed Green shamrocks on the Cheeks of youngsters and spraying Green Dye into the hair of adults. Alexei Golov a Soldier in Moscow on a sunday pass said the Parade took him by Surprise. A i was totally unprepared for something like this. Its not that often we get to see such a  from the grandstand Irish ambassador Patrick Mccabe tried to Tell How St. Patrick expelled the snakes from Ireland and used the three leafed Shamrock to explain the Trinity. He presented Moscow City officials with a Shamrock in a Crystal bowl. A i Hope this will become an annual event bigger and better each year a Mccabe said. The St. Patrick a Observance was held two Days Early in an attempt to draw a larger crowd. World jamaican Leader Manley to step Down March 28 from wire reports port of Spain Trinidad a jamaican prime minister Michael Manley announced sunday that he will resign As head of the government of that Caribbean. 1. Island on March 28. The ailing 67-year-old Manley also said in a statement monitored in port of Spain that he i l step Down As political Leader of the ruling Peoples National party pop when the party elects his successor. Manley blamed poor health for his decision to quit. He Manley has undergone five operations for prostate cancer. Sources said Percival Patterson was Likely to succeed Manley As prime minister and party  Disney to revamp Paris a the Walt Disney co. Is planning to consolidate All of its european units near Paris on the site of euro Disneyland officials at euro Disney sea said monday. The officials who did no to want to be named said commercial and film units in Britain Germany and Italy most Likely would move in 1994 or 1995, during the second phase of the theme Parks , 4 children die Wurzburg Germany a a couple and their four children were found dead in their apartment sunday and police said they died of Carbon monoxide poisoning. Police ruled out foul play and suspected the poisonous Gas came from a Coal powered Heater. The Man and the woman were both 26 years old. Their children were 7, 3,2 and 1, police  declared Bucharest a a state of emergency was declared monday by the communist leadership of the breakaway Dniester Region in Eastern Moldova after a week of fighting left at least 21 dead reports from the Region said. Radio Bucharest and the russian state news Agency itar Tass reported the regions hard line communist Leader Igor Smirnov had ordered the state of emergency including restrictions on the Media and permission for Dniester guards to conduct spot searches of any person in the  Heads to . London a former hostage Terry Waite flew to new York on monday to be interviewed on americans Abc network by Barbara Walters. Waite said he would also meet close friends but had no plans to see Terry Anderson or Tom Sutherland the americans with whom he was held for part of his five year Captivity. He was released in Beirut in november. A i know Terry Anderson is on Holiday and i believe the others Are taking things easy while they re adjust a said Waite. Bonn denies report that it covets nuclear arms Bonn Germany apr refuting a reported Pentagon study which hypothesizes that Germany could become an atomic threat Chancellor Helmut Kohls government said monday it has no intention of acquiring nuclear arms. The statement followed a report by Der Spiegel Magazine that Kohls government was angered by the study which was revealed a week ago by the new York times because it suggests Germany could become an unreliable ally. Dieter Vogel Kohls spokesman sought to give the impression the Ger Man government is not troubled by the study. Vogel said a this paper is apparently a formulation within the Pentagon which does not have approval of the . Defense Secretary or of the american president. Therefore the Federal German government need not Deal with this working  he also pointed out that German for swearing of atomic weapons is written in a 1990 treaty with the United states Britain France and the soviet Union that enabled the two German nations to unite. A the idea that Germany could some Day find itself in attempts to deploy its own atomic nuclear weapons is absolutely unjustified. This is not an Issue for us Quot Vogel told reporters. According to the new York times the Pentagon document states the primary cold War Mission of the United states should be to ensure that its world Primacy is not challenged. The document also suggests that the United states a seek to prevent the emergence of european Only Security arrange ments which would undermine nato and hypothesizes that Germany Japan and Otner wealthy nations could be tempted to acquire atomic weapons the new York times reported. Despite the German government s seeming indifference to the study Der Spiegel asserts in its latest edition that Bonn has lodged a complaint with the Pentagon. Spiegel said Winfried Dunkel German military attache in Washington told the Pentagon that a the germans Are not