European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes world wednesday october 28, 1992 . Consulate in Russia receives bomb threat from wire reports Vladivostok Russia police on tuesday arrested a Man who had threatened to blow up the . Consulate in this Pacific port officials said. On thursday a Man who called the consulate said a bomb had been planted and he demanded $30,000 not to set it off police sources said. The consulate was evacuated but no bomb was found according to the itar Tass news Agency. A police spokesman declined to give the suspect name or How he was traced from the Telephone Call. Czechs slovaks of pact Prague Czechoslovakia the governments of the czech and slovak republics agreed monday to a customs Union Between them when Czechoslovakia splits apart Jan. 1. The Accord reached at a meeting of czech an slovak leaders in the Javorina resort town in the slovak High Tara mountains is seen As a key element in future Good relations Between the two republics. The customs Union provides for the duty free Exchange of goods and deals with other issues Suchias agriculture and foreign currencies. British police Hunt rapist London police searched tuesday for rapist who attacked a salvation army officer As she walked in a quiet Bedfordshire Village police said. The woman in her 40s, was wearing full salvation army uniform and Bonnet when she was attacked As she walked past a Church in the Small Village of Spondon 50 Miles Northwest of London at 10 30 . Sunday a Bedfordshire police spokesman said. German supports Rushdie Bonn Germany Salman Rushdie won support monday from a top German politician for an initiative to remove the death sentence imposed by Iran on the author of satanic verses. Bjorn Engholm chairman of the opposition social democratic party promised that he would write to . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali and ask his personal intervention in the Case. In a meeting with Rushdie in Bonn Engholm also promised that Germany would bring his Case to the attention of the . Commission on human rights according to a statement by the London based Rushdie defense committee. Rushdie arrived in Bonn on sunday to urge support from top German politicians for his Case. Queen attends spectacular c London Queen Elizabeth ii who this years celebrating the 40th anniversary of her accession attended a gala show monday night dedicated to British successes in entertainment sport and Industry since she came to the throne in 1952. The show organized by a body called the Royal anniversary Trust As a Salute to the Monarch was supposed to last 90 minutes but overran by 75minutes. London s Earls court exhibition Center was transformed into a giant stage As the Queen and her family watched from the Royal Box. Rift appears widening Between croats muslims Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a the disputed croatian Conquest of a town West of Sarajevo and a reported serbian croatian regional cease fire left Bosnia s Muslim led government forces increasingly isolated tuesday. The report that Bosnia s serbs and croats had agreed to a cease fire and prisoner Exchange in Western Herzegovina cast further doubt on the prospects that government troops and croatian militia would renew their anti serbian Alliance. The Belgrade based Tan Jug news Agency said the ser Bian croatian agreement reached monday also included an Exchange of All prisoners captured in fighting in the re Gion of Western Herzegovina since the War started last Winter. The Swap was set for nov. 1, Tan Jug said. Muharem Savic commander of Muslim led govern ment forces in Prozor said croatian militia members razed the town about 30 Miles West of Sarajevo forcing evacuation of its 3,000 inhabitants. Croatian militia officials denied taking the town. Butsavich declared Prozor does t exist  croats and government troops met briefly in prozorov monday to try to Patch up differences unravelling their troubled anti serbian front. But Savic was quo Tedas saying that meeting broke up without results. A new meeting was planned tuesday but bosnian army officials declined to discuss Points on the Agenda. They sought to downplay Muslim croatian tension saying the Muslim croatian Alliance was holding on other fronts. In Sarajevo fighting eased Between troops Loyal to Bosnia s Muslim led government and serbs besieging the capital. After sporadic shelling and sniper fire . Prepared to accept 1,000 bosnian refugees Washington up up to 1,000 bosnian scheduled to be released from serbian detention Camps will be resettled in the United states the Bush administration said monday. State department spokesman Richard Boucher who said numerous times during the growing crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina that the United states was not pre pared to resettle a Large group of refugees denied that the latest announcement represented a change in policy More than 1,500 former prisoners of detention Camps Are in Croatia and the International committee of the red Cross is working to win the release of an additional 10,000. Throughout the Day monday residents enjoyed one of the quietest nights in recent weeks. Bosnia s War began when serbs rebelled against the majority muslims and croats who voted for secession from Yugoslavia on feb. 29. More than 14,000 people have died in the fighting. Croats and muslims were Allied initially but have be come divided As croats have increasingly sided with the serbs in pushing for the ethnic partitioning of Bosnia. Striking out a Man sits on his Luggage at a Paris train station tues protest european Community plans to make rail Day. French railway workers staged a one Day strike to More competitive possibly through privatization. Traffic iraqi kurd reportedly capture turkish rebel base by the new York times Salahuddin Iraq a senior kurdish official said monday that iraqi kurd had captured the main base of turkish kurdish separatists in Iraq after fighting for three weeks to oust them from strongholds along Iraq s Border with Turkey. We received a Telegram this afternoon saying their resistance has col lapsed in the Khz Akturk Valley said Hishyar Zebari spokesman for one of the iraqi kurd two main parties the democratic party of Kurdistan. The Val Ley is in Iraq s mountainous northeastern Corner near Iran and Turkey. Their main base has fallen which Means they have been broken he said of the situation adding that the Telegram had been signed by the two top iraqi kurdish commanders. Confirmation of the base s capture was not immediately available from the Turk ish kurdish rebels who have been waging violent separatist Campaign in South Eastern Turkey from Mountain bases i Northern Iraq. The guerrillas belong to the turkish Kurdistan workers party. Turkish government jets have retaliated for the separatists attacks in re cent years with Cross Border bombing raids that sometimes missed their targets. Complaining that innocent iraqi kurd were being killed the iraqi kurd opened a drive this month to oust the turkish guerrillas from Iraq. Despite the base s capture Zebari said some of the turkish kurdish separatists remained in Iraq s northeastern Corner and others were also still holding out in strongholds to the West. Zebari said he had no details on the captured base s exact location or on casualties. But earlier monday Salam Khan a member of the kurdish regional parliament and a son of a tribal Leader Karim Khan reported that iraqi kurd had captured virtually All of the turkish kurdish party s last stronghold in the Northeast in a Cluster of Mountain Peak three to five Miles Northeast of Sid akan. Karim Khan s forces make up a third of the 6,000 iraqi kurdish fighters battling the turkish kurd in the Northeast. Various estimates have placed from 1,500to 3,000 turkish rebels in the area. Although no Complete toll of casualties was available Khan said that about five iraqi kurd and at least 20 turkish kurd ish fighters had been killed in the latest offensive