European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes thursday May 28, 1992 world Moscow to eliminate most of its Lenin statues from wire reports Moscow a Moscow a City Council has decided to tear Down All but eight of the capitals 69 monuments to Vladimir i. Lenin and will erect a Large Cross where a statue of secret police founder Feliks Dze Rohinsky once stood russian Media reported tuesday. The most prominent statue of Lenin a towering Bronze on october Square at one of the City a busiest intersections will remain. But less artistic statues of the bolshevik revolutionary will be removed the Independent inter fax news a Agency 6 crashes in Canada Goose Bay Newfoundland a a dutch f-16 fighter Jet crashed in Labrador on tuesday morning but the Pilot ejected and was not seriously injured. It. . Pittman spokesman of Canadian forces base Goose Bay said the single seater crashed about 120 Miles South of the base at about 10 10 die in Tomb Beijing a hour men who hoped to make a Fortune robbing artefacts from a 185-year-old burial site broke into the grave Only to die of Carbon monoxide poisoning an official newspaper said wednesday. The workers daily said five men from shaan i province in Northern China used explosives to blow open the site at hot line Ankara Turkey a prime minister Suleyman Demirel returned tuesday from a visit to Russia and said a hot line would be set up Between the two countries. Demirel who made the two Day official visit at the invitation of president Boris n. Yeltsin said in an arrival statement that topics discussed included bilateral ties Trade relations and developments in the fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Between Azerbaijan and in Switzerland Geneva a the number of foreigners living in Switzerland went up 5.5 percent in the year ending april 1992, the Swiss government announced tuesday. The 1,182,489 foreigners holding residence permits represent 17.3 percent of the total population up from 16.6 percent a year ago the Federal Justice department said adding it was the highest percentage Ever rival succumbs Moscow a Viktor v. Grishin who headed the communist party in Moscow for nearly two decades and was among Mikhail s. Gorbachev a main rivals has died of a heart attack. He was 77. He died monday at a welfare office in Moscow where he had come to Register for an increase in. His state pension Moskovskaya pravda reported journalist Dies Moscow a Edmund Stevens a journalist who covered the soviet Union from the purges to perestroika has died at the age of 81. The Dean of the Moscow press corps who won a pulitzer prize for International reporting in 1950, died sunday after suffering a stroke said his wife press promoted Zurich Switzerland a the . Foundation Freedom forum has opened an office in this Swiss City to promote a free press in the formerly communist nations of Eastern Europe. The Zurich operation is the first foreign office for the Arlington organization which last year changed its name from the Gannett foundation..-led counterfeit scheme reportedly undermining Iraq. No or the last few months the by Youssef m. Ibrahim the new York times Amman Jordan iraqis Economy is the target of an american led destabilization Campaign to pour vast amounts of counterfeit currency into the country Arab and Western officials Here say. The fake Dinar notes Are being smuggled across the jordanian saudi turkish and iranian Borders in an Effort to undermine the iraqi Economy said the officials who closely Monitor the situation inside Iraq. Those officials said counterfeit dollars Are being smuggled into Iraq in smaller quantities to further confound the banking system. The officials who insisted on not being identified said the countries behind the separate counterfeiting operations included Western nations saudi Arabia Iran and Israel. The fake currency is openly discussed in the press and by the people in Iraq. The counterfeiting problem has become serious enough to be loudly denounced by the government which is taking measures to curb it. Those include instituting life sentences for cooperating in circulating counterfeit dollars or dinars and death sentences for those smuggling them into the country. The fake currency has contributed to iraqis severe inflation problem. This is aggravated by the fact that the iraqi government is printing Money at uncontrolled Speed to pay inflated salaries and cover the costs of re construction. Over the last few months the destabilization efforts seem to have shifted into High gear officials in Amman say particularly after the United states was reported in february to have authorized full fledged Covert operations against Iraq. In Washington Mark Mansfield a spokesman for the Cia declined to discuss the dumping of fake currency into Iraq. A was a matter of policy we done to comment on such allegations he said along with International economic sanctions against Iraq those measures have had mixed results since the persian Gulf War ended in february 1991. They have clearly helped weaken the Economy to the Point where the local currency could become worthless. And they have loosened president Saddam Hussein a grip on the people and forced his government to respond with an intensified reconstruction program to curtail shortages and restore Basic services. On the other hand the measures buttressed the assertion shared by a rising dumber of iraqi nationalists including sunni muslims and christians that the West and its allies will not be Content with the removal of Saddam but Only with partitioning and destroying the country. Further weakening the Economy is the fact that legitimate iraqi currency is not backed by any Gold or hard currency a those Are needed to import forces Batter kurd officials say Ankara Turkey up a turkish Security forces engaged kurdish separatist rebels in heavy clashes near the iraqi Border tuesday inflicting heavy casualties officials said. Definite figures were not immediately available but the sem official Anatolian news Agency quoted Celalettin Sevin the governor of Hakkari province As saying a we have inflicted the worst blow so far on the separatist an official at the governors office in Diyarbakir where the War against the rebels is coordinated said a statement would be issued later wednesday giving the casualty figures. The clashes in Southeastern Turkey began when a Large group of guerrillas affiliated with the kurdish workers party or pkg attacked Border checkpoints at Cuk Urca and us Ulii in Southeastern Turkey using rocket launchers and automatic weapons. Troops sent in by helicopter to assist Security forces engaged the guerrillas and inflicted what the reportedly heavy casualties. The fighting was still going on when the latest reports arrived. In three Days of fighting in mid May More than 100 Pajk guerrillas were killed after some 600 rebels crossed into Turkey from bases inside Iraq. The official claims that the blows delivered to the guerrillas in the ongoing clashes were a the worst so far indicated that More than 100 rebels May have died observers theorized. Beach builders Catherine Colvin of san Diego Caref Tilly crafts part of a Sand Castle touted As the largest to be built in Europe. Colvin who works for Sand sculptors is helping build the Castle at Schev Ningen Beach , Osaka rank As costliest for foreigners Geneva apr Tokyo and Osaka in Japan remained the most expensive cities for foreign residents said a Survey published wednesday. With new York As a base of 100, Tokyo had an Index of 174 and Osaka 162. The libyan capital Tripoli followed with 146. Harare Zimbabwe rated 62, was the least costly major City for foreigners. The Survey of 98 cities is published twice a year by corporate resources group a Geneva based consulting firm. It is based on the costs of 151 products and services including food clothing and transport. Accommodations Are not included in the Survey. The Index was based on mid March Exchange rates. Stockholm Sweden the fourth most expensive Cit had an Index of 136. The norwegian capital Oslo k Lowed with 135. Buenos Aires Argentina was the most expense place in the Western hemisphere with a rating of 11 Lima Peru had an Index of 109. All other cities in North and South America we cheaper than new York with Quito Ecuador the to est at 64. In Asia the taiwanese capital Taipei had a rank of 129. Beijing followed with 117
