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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes saturday March 21,1992 Cis delays settling issues of debts. Black sea Fleet Kiev Ukraine apr Commonwealth leaders on Friday ratified a foreign debt repayment plan and discussed a joint peacekeeping Force but postponed the 1 most pressing economic and military issues. A the people Are now demanding to know what we have done a ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk said in the gloomy keynote speech of the fourth Summit of the struggling Commonwealth of Independent states. A not one major military question has been resolved within the framework of the  the leaders meeting Kravchuk for one Day in the ukrainian capital reached agreement on some minor military issues and ratified an Accord reached last week among Commonwealth prime ministers on joint responsibility on the external debt of the former soviet Union estimated at $89 billion despite grave questions about who will control the military the leaders said they needed a joint peacekeeping Force to help enforce cease fires in trouble spots such As Magorno Karabash in the caucasus Region. However Ukraine and Azerbaijan later withheld their approval of the tentative agreement saying their Legislatures would have to consider the agreement according to a kazakh presidential spokesman Seit Kazi Katayev More pressing problems facing the former soviet Union a including weapons disputes the assets and debts of the soviet state Bank and the division of state property a were not addressed. President Boris n. Yeltsin of Russia rebuffed Ukraine a efforts to discuss the holdings of the state Bank and the division of property such As factories and plants said a Commonwealth spokesman Ivan Ulashkevich. The leaders also put off discussion on dividing the Black sea Fleet which is claimed by both Ukraine Ana Russia. On another crucial military dispute ukrainian defense minister Konstantin Morozov reiterated to reporters that Ukraine would keep control of its nuclear warheads instead of shipping them to Russia for destruction. Last week Kravchuk said Ukraine would dismantle the tactical nuclear weapons itself by july As promised. Unconfirmed ukrainian news reports said Ukraine had sent about half of its estimated 4,100 warheads to Russia. A the missiles deployed on ukrainian territory will be destroyed. This will depend on How a mechanism of International Commonwealth supervision will be implemented a Morozov said. Kravchuk faces growing pressure to sever ties with the Commonwealth or any governing Structure that his people View As being under russian control. Some in Ukraine see the Commonwealth As Only a temporary association. During the meeting at least 700 demonstrators gathered outside the austere Gray building that formerly housed Kiev a communist party Headquarters. My of the protesters demanded that Ukraine leave the Commonwealth. All 11 members of the Commonwealth sent representatives. Georgia which is not a member sent an observer. Amp sex Stasi workers find new life in growing private Eye Industry Berlin apr Jorg Behm is an East German private Eye a Gumshoe making a Buck in the Post communist world. Like a lot of his ilk he once worked for the old secret police. Shame regrets sorry pal. Wrong address. A i was a handwriting expert. That Sall a says Behm 35, slight of build and edgy As a pit Bull at supper time. Private investigators Are a new concept a and a burgeoning Industry a in former East Germany where poking around was strictly a government function. The old ministry for state Security a the reviled Stasi a was a sprawling bureaucracy of eavesdroppers analysts agents and inquisitors who did nothing but intimidate infiltrate and calculate. They lost their jobs with the fall of communism. But some have re emerged in their chosen professions born again capitalists with cold War skills. Behm spent 10 years with the Stasi. Today he works out of an office in a seedy townhouse in East Berlin. He takes All kinds of cases from setting up video surveillance at a car lot to tracking a wayward spouse. He charges 70 Marks $44 an hour plus expenses. A in the old Days we were part of the Law he says. A now its business. In a fairly  the Federal association of German detectives requires a complicated two year process of screening training and probation before someone can join said association spokesman Lothar Wenzel. He said hundreds of East germans have applied most of them former Stasi or police employees but Only 18 so far have reached the probationary stage. A Stasi past is no obstacle to membership Wenzel said. The Stasi was pretty Good at what it did. But Wenzel is unimpressed by the ability of former Stasi agents to handle Western style cases. A a lot of their skills Are outmoded especially for economic crimes a he said. A a it a not like  but Behm said he got his degree in criminology from Humboldt University the Best school in former East Germany while the average West German detective a could have started As a taxi  he a reluctant to discuss his background but acknowledged that his training works to Nis advantage. A a we re not popular with the people but Western firms pay for our  some sex Stasi agents work As subcontractors to West and East German detective agencies said Ronald Patzold one of three detectives who opened an East Berlin Agency in july 1990. A we use Stasi experts a said Patzold 32. A they Are very  Behm one convicted in Uso attack Naples Italy apr a fugitive described As a Leader of the japanese red army terrorist gang was convicted Friday for the 1988 bombing of a Uso club that killed five people italian news agencies reported. The italian court sentenced Junzo Okudara who is also suspected in other terrorist attacks to life imprisonment the agencies reported. Fusako Shigenobu reportedly Oku Dairal a sister in Law was acquitted the reports said. Both were tried in absent a for the car bombing on april 14, 1988, that killed an american servicewomen and four italians. The attack coincided with the second anniversary of the . Bombing of Libya. The . Government said the Mil itary strike was to retaliate for what it called libyans support of International terrorism. The two japanese were indicted in november 1990, and the trial began last week. The two in their 40s, have been fugitives for a number of years. Okudara is also suspected in a terrorist attack on the . Embassy in Rome in 1987 that did not injure anyone. Officials in the Naples courthouse were not in their offices when telephoned by the associated press for further details. . Military officials in Italy could not be reached by the stars and stripes for comment Friday. Worl Argentine police Hunt alleged red army member from wire reports Buenos Aires. Argentina a uruguayan and Argentine authorities searched Friday for a suspected member of Germany a red army faction terrorist group in the israeli embassy bombing in Buenos Aires. Comm Saiy Aldo Iamarino head of the Titer Gol International Section in Buenos Aires said the Argentine office was following up other leads As Well to who May have been behind the bomb. Tuesdays blast ripped through the diplomatic Headquarters killing at least 28 people and injuring at least 235 people. According to uruguayan Interpol sources quoted in the newspaper Al pais Andrea Klump is sought by Chimp German and Spanish authorities for her suspected participation in several bombings in Spain. 1 Klump 32, is thought to have slipped into Argentina from Uruguay just Days before tuesdays bombing. Islamic jihad a shiite Muslim extremist group that is pro iranian has claimed responsibility for the bombing. It said the attack was revenge for israelis attack last month that killed a shiite Leader and his  May buy hornets Bern Switzerland a Switzerland a parliamentary upper House has approved controversial plans to spend $2 billion to modernize the air Force with american built Jet fighters. The upper House on thursday voted by 33-8 in favor of government proposals to buy 34 Fa-18 Hornet jets produced by Mcdonnell Douglas corp. The lower House is expected to vote on the Issue later this  to leave Mir Moscow a a russian German Crew docked with the Mir space station on thursday and will relieve a russian cosmonaut who has been orbiting while his nation went through drastic political changes below. The itar Tass news Agency reported that the tm-14 capsule docked on schedule. Cmdr. Alexander Victorenko and flight Engineer Alexander Kaveri will replace cosmonauts Sergei Kri Kalev and Alexander Volkov who Are scheduled to return to Earth on wednesday along with a German crewman. Kri Kalev has been in orbit for 10 months through All the political upheaval in his Homeland. Volkov went aboard the space station in october bombs explode in Athens Athens Greece a two bombs exploded in Athens Early Friday causing slight damage to an apartment Block and an automobile police said. An Anonymous caller warned a local newspaper shortly before the 2 40 , explosions a police spokesman said. The leftist underground popular revolutionary struggle sent a letter to the daily Elefther Oty Pia claiming responsibility for the  government formed san Marino a politicians in the worlds oldest Republic tiny san Marino on thursday formed a new government made up of socialists and Christian democrats. It succeeds a 5w-year-old coalition of Christian democrats and the former communist party that collapsed feb. 24 after the Christian democrats pulled  Burns Shantytown Rangoon Burma a a fire that broke out in a Kitchen swept through a Northern Rangoon slum destroying about 2,000 shanties and leaving 20,000 people homeless reports said Friday. Authorities set up Relief Camps and distributed food to survivors who were Given shelter in schools closed for vacation  
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