European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes world 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 arc designed to revive Public interest in the flagging crusade for european Unity with Quot big bang infrastructure projects that would provide tangible benefits for the Public. The plans arc 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. Quot we need a change in spirit a european commission president Jacques Delors said in an interview. Quot 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. Delors and his advisers say that while most dec governments arc financially hard pressed because of the global recession and Bur Kussian president Boris n. Yeltsin left shakes hands wednesday with South korean prime minister Lylyun Soong Jong upon his arrival in Seoul for a three Day visit Yeltsin was expected to sign a Basic treaty Outlin 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 21 million men by 1995 and 1.5 million by 2000. Gennady Ivanov head of the defense ministry is 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. Leoning 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 Delors advisers say they believe Germany a reluctance will be overcome because much of the 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 Delors 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. Ing closer political economic and military ties 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 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 bad. A thursday november 19, 1992honecker aide Mielke ruled unfit to stand trial from wire reports Berlin a a Berlin court on tuesday halted the prosecution of another co defendant in the trial of former communist East German Leader Erich Honecker. Honecker and the remaining three co dec dams will continue to stand trial in the killings of people trying to flee the country. The court ruled that 84-year-old Erich Mielke a former Scercy Golice chief was medically unable to stand trial Beau she is already under stress by an unrelated court proceeding. Technically the halt in the 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 rule.4 climbers die on Peak Mexico City a four climbers including a . Tourist have died in an Avalanche on Mexico a highest Peak survivors and Rescue workers said wednesday. Eight others including six . Travellers survived mondays disaster on the 18,965-foot Pico de Orizaba Volcano. Rescue workers were still searching the mountains Snow covered North face wednesday for the bodies. The Avalanche hit the climbers just before they reached the rim of the Volcano located 155 Miles East of Mexico City on the Border of Puebla and Veracruz 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 shot and killed a Soldier and later apparently turned the gun on himself after his attempt to steal arms from German army Barracks failed a police spokesman said wednesday the spokesman said the Man entered Barracks of the bund Estehr 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 Himsl London faces subway strike London a 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 u.000 London underground members of the rail maritime and transport Union voted tuesday night to strike in protest at the most Radical plan in 40 years to shake up pay and conditions on London underground according to the financial times. Under the proposed subway reforms the workforce would be reduced by 5,000 to 15,000 Over the next three years and the number of employment grades Cut from 200 to 70 to improve flexibility. A visit to South Korea russian troop cuts reach 780,000
