European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stabs and stripes world tuesday november 10,1992iraq withholds list of arms suppliers Baghdad Iraq a iraqi nuclear experts refused sunday to release a list of foreign companies that helped build Saddam Hussein a nuclear weapons program a , official said. A they Are trying to hide the information Quot Dimitri Perrico Leader of the United nations 32-member team said after meeting with iraqi officials. The . Team which arrived sunday in Baghdad is part of an Effort to destroy Iraq s weapons of mass destruction under the . Cease fire that ended the 1991 persian Gulf War. The . Officials had no formal reception when they arrived in Baghdad and no protests were staged by iraqis who have been increasingly hostile to the . Teams because of worsening hardships caused by . Sanctions. The sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Iraqi soldiers guarded the team s bus As the inspectors carried their baggage into the hotel overlooking the Tigris River. The team is made up of experts from 18 nations and includes 15 americans. One of the team s primary missions is to get Iraq to release the list of companies that helped Saddam build his nuclear weapons program. Quot they indicated that for reasons of moral obligation they Are not willing to disclose both the procurement network and also the people who have Given them technical know How Quot said Perrico a greek nuclear expert. He said he did not expect the iraqi government to cooperate and compared the inspection process to putting a Puzzle together. The International atomic Energy Agency a . Agency says Iraq must provide a list of All weapons related imports and foreign suppliers. The data would allow inspectors to double Check what the iraqis have already disclosed. Weapons investigators already know some of the Western companies that aided Saddam. But Iraq has refused to provide a detailed breakdown of its foreign links claiming that the information is confidential. A favourable report from the nuclear team the 15th to visit Iraq since the cease fire is crucial for Baghdad to persuade the . Security Council to lift the Trade embargo. Previous . Teams have unearthed much of Iraq s nuclear program. They also have destroyed chemical weapons research centers factories and 151 ballistic missiles. But . Officials believe the iraqis Are still concealing a wealth of information and possibly equipment and weapons including As Many As 200 scud missiles the Type of missile used during the Gulf War. The nuclear inspectors also will Check Western Media reports that Iraq still has some nuclear , Russia Patch old rifts in new treaty London up a Russia and Britain on monday signed their first Friendship treaty in 226 years and British prime minister John major pledged More help for russians crippled Economy. A there was not one single Point on which we differed a russian president Boris n. Yeltsin declared. With major at his Side at a joint London news conference Yeltsin said russians first year of economic reforms has been painful that production continues to fall and that problems remain but he declared that a today the greatest difficulties arc already behind  Yeltsin a mood must have been boosted by Britain a pledge to help in wide ranging accords that seemed to touch virtually every aspect of life in Yeltsin a troubled country. Not since King George Iii and Empress Catherine the great signed a Friendship treaty in 1766 have British and russian leaders sat Down to pledge cooperation on such a wide array of subjects and renew their old ruptured Friendship. The russian leaders invitation to speak today to both houses of parliament and to a Buckingham Palace lunch with Queen Elizabeth ii were further efforts to Cement the Friendship. Major announced credit guarantees Worth nearly a half billion dollars promotion of russian european Trade help in developing Russia s infant financial infrastructure and private sector and backing for developmental projects ranging from Gas and chemical projects to a new Airport terminal to establishment of a hot line Between the Kremlin and no. 10 Down no  up on Christmas Christmas is still More than a month away but you would never know it by looking Over the works of this German woman. In her workshop in Euskirchen Palmersheim near Bonn she is turning out co Norftil statues of Santa Claus Mary and Joseph among others for the rapidly approaching yuletide  kill 6, injure 3 at posh mexican disco Mexico City up gunmen opened fired at a packed disco in the popular Pacific resort of puerto vallarta killing six people and injuring three others government and radio reports said monday radio red reported that some 35 heavily armed men burst into the posh Christine disco Early sunday morning and began firing. The nationalities of the six who died and the three wounded were not available. Radio red said at least two of the dead were mexicans. The mayor of puerto vallarta Rodolfo Gonzalez Macias told the official news Agency no Timex that the incident was apparently a shootout Between alleged drug traffickers. Radio red quoted witnesses As saying however that some of the gunmen identified themselves As members of the drug fighting judicial police. The radio network also said that one of the victims was carrying a card identifying him As a judicial police agent from the Border state of Baja California. Gonzalez Macias said the gunmen carried some Type of police credentials but said he did not know what Type no Timex reported. Police agents in Mexico Are often arrested and convicted for protecting drug traffickers. The state of Jalisco where puerto vallarta is located is a bastion of drug trafficking activity. About 300 people were in the club part of the Krystal hotel Chain when the shooting took place radio red said. Puerto Val Larata popular with . Tourists is 385 Miles Northwest of Mexico City. An eyewitness told the radio network that the gunmen came into the disco at 2 30 sunday morning and took weapons from their Coats and shot out lights leaving the scene in darkness. Some of the six victims who were killed were wearing bulletproof vests radio red reported indicating the victims might have been police or drug traffickers or  City elects foe of housing for . Sailors sushi Japan apr Mitsuyo Sawa an Independent who is seeking to Stop a japanese government housing project for . Military personnel and their families Here was elected mayor of the City sunday. Sawa 51, a former sushi municipal Assembly member becomes the second female mayor in Japan. The other serves in Ashiya a City in Western Japan. Sawa Drew 11,942 votes compared with 7,810 for Yoshio Hirai. The 56-year-old former municipal Assembly chief favored the japanese governments plan to build housing for . Navy personnel based at Yokosuka Home port of the . 7th Fleet. Sushi near Yokosuka is 30 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. Sawa will succeed Kiichiro Tomino who resigned after serving two four year terms. Tomino also opposed the project. The other four mayoral candidates All favored the project. Akira Odani 56, a company president had 4,549 votes Wataru Yabe 53, a credit Bank chairman 2,948 Tadashi Igarashi 60, a former municipal clerk 1,998 and Hideki Usami 51, a priest 125. Sawa favors using All possible Means to Stop the housing project. Hirai and othe. Candidates emphasized other concerns in the Campaign saying the housing Issue was Over. The housing for . Navy families is being built by the japanese defense Agency under the Japan-. Security agreement. The Agency plans to Start in january building 112 houses with work on 208 additional units to begin later. Environmentalists and local citizens trying to protect the native vegetation in the housing area site had pressed the City to defy the Central governments plan