European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world thursday november 19, 1992 dec plan would link Europe with new roads rails wires by William Drozdiak the Washington Post Brussels Belgium a the european Community is preparing a massive Public investment package of roads rail lines and communications networks that could provide a burst of economic growth and transform the continents landscape by bringing East and West closer together. The ambitious plans Are designed to revive Public interest in the flagging crusade for european Unity with a big bang Quot infrastructure projects that would provide tangible benefits for the Public. The plans Are being put together by the european commission the eco a executive body and will be presented to leaders of the 12 member nations who will be asked to provide the funding at a meeting next month in Edinburgh Scotland. A we need a change in spirit a european commission president Jacques Clors said in an interview. A a stimulus package is necessary to give new momentum to the Economy and the european idea. We Are in a crisis now but i prefer crisis to  the infrastructure plan is comparable to what . President elect Clinton a advisers have proposed to recharge the american Economy. Clors and his advisers say that while most dec governments Dre financially hard pressed because of the global recession and burgeoning deficits an dec wide plan with monetary contributions from each member nation could add up to a significant multimillion Dollar package of investments. Though there has been a palpable shift toward growth oriented strategy in Britain and France Germany remains wary about government intervention projects of such size. But a Clorse advisers say they believe Germany a reluctance will be overcome because much of the infrastructure package will be aimed at tying Eastern Europe More closely with the West through new highways High Speed train lines and modern communications networks. The dec then would seek to expand cooperation with the United states and Japan by embarking on global projects that would Deal with such Broad areas As nuclear safety and the environment Clors said. The dec has fallen into despair Only weeks before its scheduled arrival at a key Milestone creation of a single Continental Market with unrestricted flow of goods services people and capital at the end of the year. Voters across Europe have started to Challenge the ambitions of creating a single currency and moving toward common foreign and Security policies by the end of the decade. The maastricht treaty delineating those goals was rejected in Denmark barely was approved in France and faces a struggle for acceptance by the British parliament. Visit to South Korea a russian president Boris n. Yeltsin left shakes hands wednesday with South korean prime minister Hyun Soong Jong upon his arrival in Seoul for a three Day visit Yeltsin was expected to sign a Basic treaty Outlin ing closer political economic and military tics Between the two nations. Officials said he also would discuss nuclear weapons and the 1983 Downing of a South korean Airliner by the former soviet Union. Russian troop cuts reach 780,000 Moscow apr Russia has removed 180,000 men from its armed forces so far this year and plans to Cut an additional 20,000 by years end a top military official said tuesday. Russia inherited the bulk of the former soviet armed forces last year. It has announced that the number of military personnel will shrink from 2.8 million to 2.1 million men by 1995 and 1.5 million by 2000. Gennady Ivanov head of the defense ministry a military Structure department also told reporters that 100,000 soldiers More than 2,000 tanks 1,500 artillery pieces and nearly 1 million tons of Materiel had been transferred to Russia from other former soviet republics so far this year. In remarks carried by the itar Tass news Agency he said the defense ministry has Cut its own Moscow staff by More than 6,000, or about 30 percent of its work Force and retired 140 generals. Russians army which is now composed of draftees will begin phasing in volunteers dec. 1 and Hopes they will make up 10 percent of the total number of service members next year Ivanov said. Officials plan to increase the number of professional soldiers to 35 percent by 1995 and to 50 percent by 2000. Draft evasion has been rising in Russia because Young men fear being sent to areas of ethnic unrest. In addition Many conscripts suffer brutal hazing by older soldiers housing is in Short Supply pay is Low and military food is notoriously  aide Mielke ruled unfit to stand trial from wire reports Berlin a a Berlin court on tuesday halted the prosecution of another co defend Aru in the trial of former communist East German Leader Erich Honecker. Honecker and the remaining three co defendants will continue to stand trial in the killings of people trying to flee the country. The court ruled that 84-year-old Erich Mill pc a former secret police chief was medically unable to stand trial because he is already under stress by an unrelated court proceeding. Technically Trie halt in inc prosecution of Mielke is temporary although it is questionable whether he would recover sufficiently to endure the Rigours of a trial predicted to last two years.26 greek youths arrested Athens Greece a police arrested 26 masked youths in Street Battles tuesday during a March commemorating the anniversary of a student uprising that helped bring Down the 1967-74 military Junta. About 10,000 people took part in the March from the Athens polytechnic to the . Embassy in an annual ritual commemorating nov. 17,1973. On that Day the right Wing dictatorship used tanks and troops to crush a student uprising at the polytechnic killing at least 20 people and arousing widespread revulsion against the Junta. The . Government was widely seen by greeks As having aided the Junta during its  trapped on Peak Mexico City a a group of . Climbers were trapped on Mexico a highest Peak tuesday after an Avalanche swept Down the Pico de Orizaba Volcano radio reports said. Radio station radio red said the group which was led by a mexican guide was stranded when mondays Avalanche struck the 18,965 foot High Peak located on the Border of the Eastern states of Puebla and Veracruz. Two  limbers arc believed to have escaped to raise the alarm but the total number of those still trapped was not Given. Vandals defile begin grave Jerusalem a vandals poured Black paint and scrawled a Swastika on the Hillside grave of the late israeli Leader Menachem begin on tuesday police said. Begin was buried in the ancient jewish cemetery on the mount of olives on March 9, the cemetery is in the part of Jerusalem that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East War and annexed. Israelis seventh prime minister begin signed a historic peace treaty with Egypt in 1979 and ordered the 1982 Lebanon invasion that became israelis most divisive war.2 dead in robbery attempt Bonn Germany a an unidentified gunman snot and killed a Soldier and later apparently turned the gun on himself after his attempt to steal arms trom German army Barracks failed a police spokesman said wednesday. The spokesman said the Man entered Barracks of the bund Sychr the German armed forces in the Western German City of Giessen before Dawn wednesday apparently to steal arms from a depot. He said the Man shot and killed a Soldier who apparently had raised the alarm. Another Soldier was seriously wounded by the shots. The spokesman said the police later found another unidentified body thought to be that of the attacker who apparently turned his gun on himself. London faces subway strike London hundreds of thousands of London subway commuters face chaos next week unless a threatened indefinite rail Union walkout next monday is averted. Fifty five percent of the 11,000 London , in embers of the rail it maritime and not Pijo re .vn,0n voted 1 be Day night to strike in protest at the most Radical plan in 40 years to shake up Page and conditions on London underground according to i he f financial times. We Jet the a pm sed subway it reforms the inc my a Hwy c reduced by 5,000 to 15,000 Over Erid a 5 a Quot a he number of employment grades Cut from 200 to 70 to improve flexibility