European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday april 2, 1992 new Eastern democracies ignore Equality women say Poznan Poland apr the make believe Equality of women mandated by communism has not been replaced by True equal rights in newly democratic Eastern Europe delegates opening a Council of Europe conference said. Women Lack Legal Protection to face economic crisis in the evolving capitalist systems and men Are writing new constitutions in the Region without women a voices the delegates claimed tuesday. Representatives of 26 Eastern and Western european countries and the former soviet Union opened the three Day conference a Equality Between women and men in a changing Europe a with a Call for bringing More women into politics. Yet the women delegates at one Point found themselves listening to a male polish lawmaker Tell them they should aspire to be a wives and  a the situation of women under the communists was of Equality without democracy. After 1989, it seems to be democracy without Equality a said professor elea Nora Zielinska of Warsaw University. The conference was told that female representation in Eastern european parliaments dropped radically As communist quota systems were stripped away a from an average of 24.7 percent in 1988 to 8.1 percent in 1994. As countries restructure their political and economic systems the position and Equality of women seem to be of secondary importance a said Ivana Janu of Czechoslovakia. Yelena Kalinina of the technical University in St. Petersburg said Russia s new political leadership . Labor party ahead of tories in 3 opinion polls London apr the labor party surged ahead of the governing conservatives by four to seven Points in three opinion polls released tuesday marking its strongest showing yet in the British election Campaign. If translated into votes the polls by Harris ice and Market and opinion research International would mean outright defeat for prime minister John major in the april 9 election. A it is a breakthrough for labor a said Robert Worcester head of Mori. A if they re sustained for the next week then labor would form the  a a week is a Long time in politics in Britain a added Worcester one of Britain a most respected pollsters. In the previous two weeks of campaigning. Labor nudged ahead with an average one to two Point Lead a within the three Point margin of error of most opinion surveys. That indicated a stalemate giving no party Overall control of the 651-member House of commons. Labor Leader Neil Kinlock predicted his party would form the majority government. Major had no comment. Of London had Tabor at 42 percent the conservatives pc at 35 percent and the Liberal democrats at 19 percent. In the latest polls Morlos sounding for the times 1 Lai be. Mori interviewed 1,080 adults nationwide monday. An ice poll for the guardian had labor with 41 percent the conservatives at 37 percent and the Liberal democrats at 18 percent. Ice interviewed 1,126 adults tuesday nationwide. The Harris poll for Independent television news gave labor 41 percent the conservatives 35 percent and the Liberal democrats 19 percent. Women As a a outsiders and denies the existence of problems specific to women. Zofia Kurato ska the polish senator chairing the conference said the hardships of economic Reform Are not shared equally Between the sexes. A women pay a much higher Price a she said adding that women Are the first to be fired the last to be hired and suffer pay discrimination. Kurato ska said women a rights Are also threatened by resurgent conservative forces. A women Are deprived of the right to make decisions concerning their own lives not to mention governing she said. In Poland the predominantly roman Catholic country appears on the verge of outlawing abortion and a prominent political party Allied with the Church says it wants to keep women at Home. A we want women to regain their dignity a the traditional role of wife and Mother a parliament Deputy Marcin Libicki of the National Christian Union party told the conference. He also said that the right to abortion Legal in Poland since 1956, is a relic of the former system that needs to be abolished. He condemned it As part of the communist vision of a women soldiers and women on trucks and  the women listened silently but later one Delegate said Libicki a speech made her feel she was stepping Back in time. A who dictates what these roles Are is it men do women have a voice a asked Delegate Maria Regina Tavares a Silva of  fiend Little smoking fool a rubber doll used in antismoking campaigns in taiwanese schools takes a puff on a cigarette during a demonstration when squeezed the doll inhales cigarette smoke that Blacken its lungs which Are made from Cotton. World200 automatic weapons taken from swedish facility from wire reports Stockholm Sweden a militant officials discovered tuesday that More than 200 sub machine guns and automatic rifles had been stolen from an unguarded army storehouse. The theft May have taken place up to six months ago they said. It. Col. Claes Holmgren said the burglars had dug a Tunnel underneath the storage facility in Hud Dinge South of Stockholm and entered the Concrete building by blowing a Hole through the floor. Holmgren said that it was a an expert jobs and that the weapons probably were headed for the International Black  buildings bombed i Salonica Greece a four bombs went off tuesday in a regional Law court and a deserted nightclub causing damage but no injuries. An underground left Wing group claimed responsibility. A Man claiming to speak for the revolutionary popular struggle group called the local Bureau of Elefther Otylia newspaper in the Northern City of Salonica shortly before two bombs went off in the court  Jolt Mexico City Mexico City a an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale Shook Mexico City on tuesday although no injuries or damage were reported. The quake struck at 2 56 . And was one of four to nit Mexico City Over five  Block to. Leave Prague Czechoslovakia a . Ambassador Shirley Temple Black the former child actress confirmed tuesday that she expects to leave her Post soon. But before leaving she said she had offered her czechoslovak born dog to president Voclav Havel As a Symbol of her a affection and love for the country. Black who was known around the world for her tap dancing and singing on the Good ship Lollipop in the 1936 classic film Captain january said in a Telephone interview that site expected to leave Prague this year to help president Bush a re election  runs into horses Pescara Italy a about 20 horses stampeded on a superhighway after an Accident tuesday and the Driver of a car suffered serious injuries when he hit some of them police reported. Police said a trailer truck carrying the horses struck the Central Guardrail shortly after Dawn near Pescara a City on the Adriatic coast. The Impact caused the trailer door to burst  suspect flees Granada Spain a Fernando Silva suspected chief of a left Wing terrorist group escaped from prison in this Southern Spanish City by breaking a Hole in his cell Wall and climbing Over the jails roof the Warden said tuesday. Silva arrested in september is thought by police to be the Leader of the first of october anti fascist resistance group. It is known by its Spanish acronym Grapo. He is suspected of planning the kidnapping of a businessman in october 1990, according to efe the Spanish National news  of radioactive Gas Drift Over Sweden Stockholm Sweden a tiny amounts of radioactive Gas that leaked from a russian nuclear Plant Accident were detected Over Stockholm during the weekend scientists say. The traces of xenon-133 were discovered in air samples taken Friday saturday and sunday at a National defense research establishment monitoring station said senior researcher Ingemar Vin Ter sved. There had been no previous evidence of radiation Over Sweden from the March 24 fuel line Accident at the Sosnovy Bor Plant near St. Petersburg Russia. Finnish scientists said they detected radioactive iodine As Well As gases Over their Border areas up to five Days before the Accident. Estonians reported increased radiation after the Accident. Stockholm is 435 Miles West of St. Petersburg and not in the path of the wind currents that were blowing from Accident area last week. A this proves that you can have a fairly Small Accident in Western Russia or the Baltic and we would see radiation in Sweden even if the winds were blowing in the other direction a Vinter sved said. He said the air Sample contained 18 million Becquerel of xenon-133 per cubic meter of air. A a that a harmless a vinters Verd said noting that in some medical treatments up to 900 million Becquerel of xenon-133 can be administered to patients. Xenon-133 has a very Short half life of about five Days Vinter Sverd said. The half life is the period required for half of the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate xenon-133 was monitored Only because the National defense research establishment has super sensitive equipment in Northwest Stockholm to pick up traces of xenon. The monitoring station was built in 1990 to Monitor nuclear test ban treaty compliance because xenon always escapes into the atmosphere if an underground nuclear test is conducted