European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 7,1992yeltsin under attack As session opens Moscow apr the chairman of the russian parliament opened a key session monday by warning that the country was collapsing and challenging Boris n. Yeltsin a efforts to keep his vast presidential Powers. Yeltsin s supporters launched a Swift counterattack on the chairman Ruslan Kha Bulatov accusing him of trying to become a a dictator a but failing in a bid to oust him through a non Confidence vote. Lawmakers also refused to consider a no Confidence vote on Yeltsin. Yeltsin is under intense political pressure from both hard liners and reformers at the Congress of Peoples deputies meeting for the first time since the soviet unions dissolution in december. The main Challenge is a proposed Constitution that would repeal Yeltsin a extraordinary Powers to unilaterally appoint Cabinet members and Rule by decree Yeltsin a chief Legal adviser Sergei Shakh Rai said the Yeltsin Camp would propose several major changes to the draft Constitution to guarantee a Strong presidency. He said Yeltsin would seek a National referendum if parliament failed to pass a Constitution creating a presidential style Republic. A dual Power will end at this Congress. Either a presidential Republic or chaos will Triumph a Shokrai said. That concept is opposed by Kha Bulatov who leads a group of lawmakers who want to strengthen the legislative Branch and weaken the presidency. His supporters began the session with a demand for a no Confidence vote in Yeltsin a government but they failed by a narrow vote to get it on the Agenda. A motion to remove Kha Bulatov also failed to make it onto the order of business. Kha Bulatov and his supporters Are demanding wage and Price controls and More Money for people hit hardest by the Price rises and shortages plus subsidies to businesses and state owned farms and factories. Such a move would Likely alarm the West which last week proposed a $24 billion Aid program to help Yeltsin a reforms. The 1,046-member Congress is russians highest lawmaking body and must approve All constitutional changes. It elects the smaller standing legislature the supreme soviet which meets More often. Violence protest continue in Bosnia Sarajevo Yugoslavia apr explosions and shelling rocked the capital of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina on monday As the european Community gathered in Luxembourg to decide whether to recognize the volatile ethnic Patchwork. But at least 40,000 people risked the dangerous streets of Sarajevo to protest the violence that threatened to plunge the republics slavic muslims serbs and croats into civil War. Media reported a mayhem of explosions shelling and More death overnight in the City where world War i was ignited with the assassination of austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914, a a one cannot with certainty say who is shooting at whom or indicate the location of warring parties who Are intermingled Quot the Belgrade based Tan Jug news Agency said. Occasional shots and shelling could be heard at midday from surrounding Hills and the direction of Pale a serbian area on the outskirts of the City. Leaders of Bosnia a three ethnic groups slavic muslims serbs and croats appealed for a total cease fire sunday. The republics president Muslim Alisa ize Begovic blamed the fighting on serbs who oppose Independence. Muslims who make up More than 40 percent of Bosnia a population and croats who make up about 17 percent favor Independence. Serbs about a third of Bosnia a 4.4 million people oppose it. Foreign ministers of the dec which already has recognized two yugoslav republics Slovenia and Croatia were gathering in Luxembourg to decide whether to recognize Bosnia As Well As Macedo Nia. The violence in which up to 100 people have been killed in the past week cast doubt on recognition for Bosnia which Only a week ago had appeared to be virtually assured. Tan Jug reported monday that seven people were killed overnight and 40 were wounded in Sarajevo. Two new deaths were reported monday. Belgrade a Politika television said two police officers had been killed at the Airport which was reported to have come under shelling from an unknown source. Two big explosions and fighting were reported in Sarajevo s old town. But tens of thousands of people gathered in front of parliament to demand peace. Long lines of buses arrived filled with people who were joining the rally. Snipers had fired on thousands of peace demonstrators in Sarajevo late peace marchers scramble for cover As snipers open fire in Sarajevo on sunday. Sunday. Sarajevo television showed people scattering in front of parliament As snipers opened fire from the nearby Holiday inn hotel used As a command Center by serbian militants. Leaders of the three ethnic groups met the commander of the . Peacekeeping Force Indian Gen. Satish Nambiar on sunday. The 14,000 peacekeepers to be fully deployed by april 25, Are to separate warring sides in neighbouring Croatia but have their Headquarters in Sarajevo. Nambiar appealed on television to All parties to a sit and talk and to Lay Down.  Joyce papers a treasure House Dublin Ireland a letters and other papers of writer James Joyce saved by a Friend who retrieved them in German occupied Paris became publicly available sunday. But recently released diplomatic papers reported in the Irish times indicate that Ireland did nothing to try to save Paul Leon the russian jew who saved Joyce s papers. Leon died while being held a prisoner by the nazis. A a the papers. Are a treasure House of new Joyce material and a priceless addition to our knowledge a prime minister Albert Reynolds said. Reynolds said the documents include correspondence with the poets . Eliot and Ezra Pound the Painter Henri Matisse and Irish author san of Fallain. Many other documents Are related to arrangements for the publication of Ulysses and Finnegan a Wake. The documents were retrieved from Joyce a apartment by Leon who returned to Paris after the German occupation in september 1940. Leon a former russian officer who was exiled after the russian revolution met Joyce in 1928 and became part of the authors Circle. Leon gave the papers to the Irish embassy in Paris for the National Library on the condition that they not be opened for 50 years after Joyce a death. Joyce died in january 1941. Gains by extreme right parties sound alarms in German politics Stuttgart Germany a mainstream political parties have been shocked by the gains of two far right parties a one of them led by a former nazi is Soldier a in two state elections. The anti immigration Republican party won 11 percent of sundays vote for Baden Wurttemberge a state parliament giving it 15 of the body a 146 seats a two More seats than the environmentalist Green party. Four years ago the republicans won just 1 percent of the vote in Baden Wiir Temberg. In Schleswig Holstein the More extreme German Peoples Union won 6 percent of the vote gaining six seats in the 89-seat state parliament. The right Wing parties finished third in both Schoenhuber states Well behind Chancellor Helmut Kohls conservative Christian democrats and the left leaning social democrats. But their gains rang alarms in German politics. Many people who voted against the two mainstream parties sunday were protesting the High Cost of unification and expressing displeasure at the troubles that have accompanied the opening of Germany a Borders with Eastern Europe. People Are angry about inflation joblessness crime housing shortages and the influx of foreigners. Franz sch amp Huber the former is Soldier and Republican party a National Leader was greeted by cheers As he arrived at the state parliament m Stuttgart capital of Baden Wurttemberge after the results were announced. Other people booed As he and three top aides walked from one Media interview to another. Baden Wurttemberge gov. Erwin Teufel whose Christian democrats lost the majority they held for two decades said the result was a a defeat for All democratic  some political leaders said the far right had gamed on protest votes. A the people Are not Radical rightists they just voted that Way to protest Quot said Bjorn Engholm National Leader of the social democrats. In Schleswig Holstein near the danish Border the German Peoples Union had not been on the ballot in 1988. After the far right had some political Success in the 1960s, the republicans and others slumped to the fringe and were categorized As Neo nazis. But in recent years the republicans got into two state parliaments Berlin and Bremen by winning the required 5 percent minimum share of the vote. The far right has no seats in Germany a National parliament but four of Germany a 16 states have rightists in state parliaments