European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 25, 1992 world the stars and stripes b Page 9141 killed in China airline crash Beijing up a chinese Boeing 737 Airliner slowed into a Mountain in Good weather tuesday killing All 141 people on Board airline officials said. It was the fifth Accident involving chinese airlines in recent months and pushed the number of people killed on chinese airliners this year to 313. The China Southern airlines plane crashed on approach to Guilin a popular tourist destination in Southern China they said. The plane was carrying 131 passengers and 10 Crew members. Officials said most of those on Board were chinese including Hong Kong Macao and Taiwan nationals. Ten foreigners including two spaniards also were on Board. Local government airline and Public Security officials rushed to the scene in Yang i a township 10 Miles from Guilin to search for survivors officials said. They could not say whether people on the ground also were injured in the crash. The twin engine 737, flight number cz3943, was flying from Canton near Hong Kong. It was an extra flight provided to serve the huge demand for seats to Guilin officials said. They said the Boeing was a 737-300 Model delivered to the civil aviation administration of China just is months . Aircraft aiding Atlantic search for Yachtsman by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau three american surveillance planes a two coast guard c-130s and a Navy p-3 Orion a were flying missions tuesday out of Shannon Ireland in the International search for round the world Yachtsman Mike Plant. The wreckage of plants 60-foot Sailboat Coyote was found overturned sunday about 450 nautical Miles North of the azores a mid Atlantic archipelago. Plant 42, of Jamestown r.i., has sailed alone around the world three times. There is speculation that he might be adrift in a life raft or holed up in the capsized Hull. The Coyote has been sighted several times by passing merchant vessels and military search and Rescue aircraft. A there is no sign of Hull damage and no sign of life aboard the Coyote a said chief Petty officer Alan Burd a coast guard spokesman based at governors Island . A the French oceangoing tug Malabar is expected to arrive at the coyotes location sometime wednesday morning a Burd said tuesday by Telephone. A the tug has divers aboard capable of inspecting the Interior of the Coyote. The . Navy Salvage ship grapple also is expected to arrive there saturday  Plant has been missing for nearly a month. He was on his Way to Les Sables do of Lonny France for the Start of the Vendee Globe Challenge a 24,000-Milc, nonstop Solo race around the world. A searches for Plant have been hampered by 30 to 40-knot winds and 15 to 20-foot seas in the area. Conditions have been like that for Days a Burd said adding that visibility in the area was reported at 10 Miles tuesday. The Coyote has been closely observed by several merchant ships and their Crews could Sec As the Sailboat rolled in the heavy seas that its rigging and sails Are intact. One Tanker noted that the Sailboat looked As if it had a full set of sails Burd said. A the ballast bulb is missing from the keel a Burd said. The bulb a heavy Lead Cylinder is designed to keep a Sailboat upright against the counterforce of wind on its sails. Without ballast the Coyote would flip immediately and could not right itself. Burd said the Crews of the merchant vessels have been unable to determine whether the coyotes inflatable life raft is still attached to the Sailboat. Plant left new York City on oct. 16, planning to arrive in Les Sables a of Lonny by the end of october. The Sailor radioed a few Days after leaving new York that his on Board electrical system was failing. Except for a Brief radio signal oct. 27 from his emergency radio Beacon Plant has not been heard from since. A six Day Aerial search by the Canadian and . Coast guards covering a 1,200-Square-mile area of the Atlantic failed to find him and was called off nov. 18. The search for Plant resumed saturday after the coast guard came under pressure from Plant s family and friends plus the International sailing Community. The Coyote was found by a passing ship sunday the same Day the Navy p-3 was routed from Nas Kcf Lavik Iceland to Shannon to take part in the search. The p-3, belonging to patrol so 5, had been on a Normal deployment to Kcf Lavik from its Home base at Jacksonville fla., it. Joe Quimby a Navy spokesman at Kcf Lavik said tuesday. Quimby said the p-3 also has been operating with a British Nimrod aircraft and was scheduled to Fly with a French surveillance plane  says he s born again Christian Tbilisi Georgia apr Eduard a. Shevardnadze the georgian Leader and former soviet foreign minister has announced that he has become a born again Christian. Shevardnadze 60, told georgian state radio monday that he was baptized recently at a georgian orthodox Cathedral. He said his new Christian name was Georgy although he will continue to use the name Eduard for most purposes. For More than two decades Shevardnadze was a professed atheist. He headed Georgia a communist party before 1985, when former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev came to Power and brought him to Moscow As foreign minister. A i have an icon in my office now though there was a time when i had Sta links portrait on the Wall a he said referring to former soviet dictator Josef Stalin who also was a georgian. As soviet foreign minister Shevardnadze helped end the cold War. After the soviet Union collapsed he returned to his native Georgia to head an interim state Council that replaced Oviad Gani Sak Hurdia who was ousted As Georgia a president in a Brief civil War in january. Shevardnadze was elected last month As the sole candidate for the new Post of parliament chairman which replaces the presidency. Georgia adopted christianity in . 341. The georgian orthodox Church has been a growing Force in Georgia since Gorbachev a reforms ended religious oppression and especially since Georgia gained Independence last year. No budget Cut Yeltsin promises uneasy military by Serge Schmemann the new York times Moscow a president Boris n. Yeltsin told russian military leaders monday that he would keep the military budget at last years level but increase spending on arms and equipment by 10 percent. That plan presumably offered some reassurance to the armed forces which have been disoriented and demoralized by the collapse of the soviet Union and a significant decline in military spending. But Yeltsin also assailed the generals and admirals for moving too slowly to reorganize and reduce the vast soviet military and he demanded that they crack Down on arms pilferage and corruption. Yeltsin was flanked at the meeting of the collegium of the defense ministry the Council of senior commanders by vice president Alexander v. Rutski an air Force general Ruslan i. Kha Bulatov the speaker of parliament and Cabinet members. The show of Unity among political leaders who Are More often mired in Power struggles appeared intended to show the military that the civilian leaders were behind Yeltsin As president and commander in chief. Off to a merry Start two Santa clauses dressed for the Job  be doing at the opening of berlins Christmas fair. Organizers until Jan. 3, go for a spin on a merry go round monday predict the fair will attract More than 5 million visitors