European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 8 the stars and stripes tuesday april 7,1992legislators May curb Yeltsin s Powers Moscow a Boris n. Yeltsin lost a round monday in the opening session of the russian Congress which is threatening to strip him of his sweeping presidential Powers. Parliamentary speaker Ruslan Khas Bulatov Leader of the drive to curb Yeltsin a Powers opened the session of the Congress of Peoples deputies by warning that a social and political tensions prevailing in nearly the entire country threaten to bring us to a  a we can afford no unconstitutional methods. We need dialogue rather than monologue. We need a Compromise. The Peru s chief suspends Constitution Lima Peru apr troops roamed Lima a streets monday after president Alberto Fujimori dissolved Congress and suspended the Constitution accusing lawmakers of blocking his free Market reforms and weakening the War on leftist rebels. Fujimori announced the actions late sunday in a speech on National television that was later endorsed by the military. Radio reports said former president Alan Garcia the main opposition Leader and several leading legislators were under House arrest. Armoured personnel carriers surrounded Congress and other key buildings and took to the capitals main avenues. Police and army units were searching pedestrians downtown. Troops shut Down one radio station censored another a reports and were also deployed at the offices of other news organizations including the associated press. They did not interfere with a operations. In an Effort to strike Back at the presidential move members of Congress planned to meet monday to declare the presidency vacant and name the first vice president to the Post an opposition politician said. It was not known whether such a move would have any effect. A Fujimori is on the margin of Power a president needs it More than anyone else. The nation needs it a Kha Bulatov said. The 1,046-member Congress the highest legislative body in Russia was meeting for the first time since the collapse of the soviet Union last december. The Congress was elected in March 1990, and More than half its members Are former communists who have resisted Yeltsin a Reform efforts. In an Early indication of Yeltsin a weakness at the Congress lawmakers voted that Yeltsin must deliver the main report on the painful economic reforms he has introduced since Jan. 2. Yeltsin appealed the vote asking that Deputy prime minister Yegor Gaidar give the speech but the lawmakers turned him Down a second time 558 to 322, with 37 abstentions. Kha Bulatov who stood with Yeltsin against the failed August coup by hardliners wants to curb the extraordinary Powers that enable Yeltsin to appoint Cabinet members and Issue economic decrees without legislative approval. Kha Bulatov also backs a proposed Constitution that would Vest More Power in the Congress and the smaller supreme soviet legislature which meets More often. A tank keeps guard outside Peru a Congress after the legislature was dissolved. Said the politician Pedro Materiano. A a he a in the hands of the military. It s a total  other lawmakers agreed. A this is a coup d eat. The peruvian people will not stand for it Quot lawmaker Fernando olivers said. Quot Congress will try Fujimori for treason when this is All  soldiers hustled Olivera away when he tried to push past them into the Congress building. Before being taken away he said the presidents of both houses of Congress Are under House arrest. In addition to being beset by the hemispheres most violent insurgency Peru is mired in recession. Although generally endorsing Yeltsin a reforms Kha Bulatov wants wage and Price controls and More Aid to people hit hardest by the Price rises and shortages. Such a Retreat from Yeltsin a economic Reform program might alarm Western leaders who last week proposed a $24 billion russian Aid program. Yeltsin said sunday that he might a a corrects some parts of his reforms hinting at wage and Price controls but said it would be a a suicide to Transfer Power from the president to the parliament because it would slow . Unit set to dismantle iraqi Complex Manama Bahrain a a . Team of nuclear inspectors prepared monday to visit Iraq to set up the destruction of an iraqi Complex that is said to be the heart of a secret nuclear weapons program. The Mission to destroy the a1 atheer research Complex is considered the first real test of Baghdad a willingness to cooperate in eliminating weapons of mass destruction under terms of the persian Gulf War cease fire. Quot we Hope the iraqis will follow with deeds what they said in words a said team Leader Dimitri Perrico of the Vienna Austria based International atomic Energy Agency. His 26-member team was scheduled to arrive in Iraq today for an eight Day Mission. During the trip the team will discuss a timetable for the destruction and May supervise the initial demolition Quot it will be the real test so we will see a he said in Bahrain the regional base for . Inspectors. Last month Baghdad bowed to Security Council warnings about repeated attempts to Back out of cease fire demands and sent a delegation to the Iaea to discuss the a1 atheer  Joyce papers a treasure House Dublin Ireland apr 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 a papers. Leon died while being held a prisoner by the nazis Quot the papers. Are a treasure House of new Joyce material and a priceless addition to our knowledge Quot 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 s6an of fall amp in. Many other documents Are related to arrangements for the publication of Ulysses and Finnegan s 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 sch thuber 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 Schoenhuber the former is Soldier and Republican party a National Leader was greeted by cheers As he arrived at the state parliament in 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 Quot defeat for All democratic  some political leaders said the far right had gained on protest votes. A the people Are not Radical rightists they just voted that Way to protest a said Boom 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 s National parliament but four of Germany a 16 states have rightists in state parliaments