European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes world Kohl Yeltsin reach Accord on Early pullout of troops Moscow apr German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on his first visit to Post soviet Russia reached agreement tuesday with russian leaders to Speed up the withdrawal of former soviet troops from Germany officials said. Kohl and russian president Boris n. Yeltsin also were to discuss a financial and economic Aid package for Russia during talks at Yeltsin a country House about 86 Miles East of Moscow. Germany is russians largest creditor and main source of Aid. Kohl arrived for a two Day visit late monday just As Yeltsin was forced to replace his reformist prime minister Yegor t. Gaidar with a communist Cra Technocrat Vik Chernomyrdin Tor Chernomyrdin. The switch was made in time for Chernomyrdin to Greet Kohl at the Airport. Kohl became the first foreign Leader to meet the new prime minister who has vowed to slow but not reverse russian reforms. Quot i am becoming convinced once again that what we Tokyo up a More than a Hundred members of a . University marching band stole thousands of dollars of electronic equipment on a shoplifting spree in Tokyo police said tuesday. About 120 members of Texas Southern University a marching band made off last week with $21,800 in compact disc players Minitch visions watches and electric razors from 18 different shops before they were caught a police spokesman said. The students were in Japan from dec. 3 to dec. 7 to perform at the halftime show of a football game Between the University of Nebraska and Kansas state University. The students stopped in the Aki Habara electronic goods shopping District on their Way to the Airport to catch a flight to the United states. They were accompanied on the shopping trip by six school officials including the vice president of the Houston University. The police spokesman said the band members arrived in Aki Habara in three buses around 10 a.m., just after the shops opened. They scattered to a dozen shops and began pilfering electronic items from shelves and stuffing them into paper bags. Staff writer six americans and five germans were arrested by German police last week following investigations involving the trading of stolen  cigarettes for marijuana and hashish. German police also said the 11 Are responsible for Selling at least 55 pounds of hashish and 4�?~/j pounds of marijuana Over the past two years. The 11 were accused of trading 1,100 Cartons of stolen cigarettes from the . Army commissary at Leighton Barracks in Wurzburg for nearly 2 pounds of hashish and a Quarter Pound of marijuana. The stolen cigarettes Are valued at 33,000 Marks or about $21,600, on the Black Market according to the Wurzburg police department. Neither German nor american officials would release the suspects names. The americans and germans were released on their own recognizance and Are expected to be tried sometime next year according to a German police spokesman. Need is Normal joint work with Germany a Chernomyrdin later said. A in this Well have  Kohl had described his visit As an expression of support for Yeltsin a Reform drive. Although German officials had said More financial Aid was unlikely officials tuesday discussed increases in some Aid projects. Kohl was accompanied by finance minister Theodor Taigel Horst Kohler the top state Secretary in the finance ministry and foreign minister Klaus Kinkel. German government spokesman Dieter Vogel said the timetable for russian troop withdrawals was included in a package of documents that both sides largely agreed upon during talks tuesday. He said the last russian Soldier probably would leave former East Germany by june 30, 1994, a Hal year sooner than previously envisioned. Chances were Good Vogel said that the agreements could be signed today. The two sides he said were striving for a package solution that would include troop withdrawals along with economic matters. Vogel said the issues to be covered included the status of outstanding russian Ruble accounts in Germany the status of former soviet property and the construction of new housing in Russia for the returning soldiers. Clerks noticed them and chased the students who fled into their buses parked near the shops. One angry shopkeeper told the Kyodo news service a the students were videotaping our assistants As they chased them to their buses. They showed no repentance a they acted like it was some kind of  police officers arrived at the scene and persuaded the students to return the stolen items by telling them that the electronics a a done to function in the United states because of different  the students returned about $18,500 Worth of the goods but shopkeepers said they were still Short about $3,225, the police spokesman said. The japanese publicity agent who invited the band talked with police and agreed to compensate the shops if the police allowed the band members to catch their scheduled 3 30 flight he said. Hideaki Niwa spokesman for coca cola Japan co., the football games sponsor said he was a very disappointed a Niwa said he first heard of the incident tuesday More than a week after the students allegedly lifted the goods. Warren Field spokesman for the . Military Community in Wurzburg said the Case began earlier this year when military police started investigating the theft of cigarettes which Likely came from the commissary. German investigators said they found evidence linking the cigarette and drug deals to a total of 20 americans and 33 germans. Of those americans 19 Are family members and one is u civilian most of whom live in the Wurzburg area. German police in Wurzburg began their investigation in april based on a tip. Wurzburg police and the  criminal investigation come later joined efforts on the Case. German police have charged seven people with theft fencing stolen goods tax evasion and other charges based on their investigation. It was unclear whether the seven include any americans or were among those arrested last week. The cigarettes were used in Exchange for the marijuana and hashish according to a German police news release. Contributing to this report stall writers Joseph Owen and de Flears wednesday december 16, 1992muslim extremists threaten to attack tourists in Cairo from wire reports syut Egypt a Muslim extremists say they will attack foreign tourists and embassies in Cairo unless the government Calls off its crackdown on fundamentalists police said monday. Leaflets distributed by extremists threatened to bring the attacks into the capital unless the crackdown ends said a police official who spoke on condition of  copter shot Down Moscow a Twenty of the 39 people killed when a russian military helicopter crashed in Georgia were children officials said tuesday. The helicopter was hit by a surface to air missile monday while evacuating refugees from Georgia a breakaway Abkhazia Region. It was carrying 20 children Ages 3 to 11, along with 16 women and three Crew members the abkhazian defense ministry said.2 killed by pirates Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a a British Captain and his filipino first mate were killed in a pirate attack on their freighter off Indonesia shipping officials said monday. Still sketchy reports said the pirates first encountered and shot capt. John Bashforth 50. They then killed Teodolfo Pere a in his Cabin before fleeing apparently without stealing  billionaire Dies Saint John new Brunswick a Kenneth Colin  Irving one of the worlds richest men died sunday of unspecified causes. He was 93. In 1988, Forbes Magazine identified the Ultra secretive Canadian As the worlds third richest Man estimating his assets at Between $3 billion and $7 billion. This year Forbes called the irvings the 18th-richest family in the world. The Irving Industrial group run in recent years by Irving a three sons represents North americans biggest private  bombs kill seven Bogota Colombia a car bombs exploded in Medellin and Opal on monday night killing seven people and wounding 11, the run radio network said. A taxi rigged with 220 pounds of dynamite exploded in Oil Rich Opal 120 Miles Northeast of Bogota an  report said. It said the taxis three occupants were killed As Well As the Driver of a passing car and a pedestrian. At least eight people were reported wounded. At least two people were killed and three wounded when another car bomb exploded in a residential Section of Medellin 120 Miles Northwest of Bogota run reported. The bomb was evident ally intended for a police patrol but killed civilians instead the report said. Did not say who was responsible for the Medellin blast. But in recent months the Medellin cocaine Cartel led by fugitive drug Boss Pablo Escobar is said to have ordered inc killings of More than 50 police officers in the  civil servants strike Madrid Spain a More than 1.5 million civil servants began a 24-hour nationwide strike tuesday in a wage dispute a Union spokeswoman said. It was the second massive walkout in less than a month. The strike affected ministries City councils hospitals postal services and schools said a general workers Union spokeswoman who declined to be identified. Between 75 percent and 80 percent of 5pain s estimated 2 million civil servants participated she said. A similar strike was called by the general orders Union and two other unions nov. 26 to protest government proposals to freeze civil servants wages in 1993. 1 he socialist government of prime minister a clips Gonzalez Marquez has offered a non negotiable 3.vpercent raise which has been rejected by unions. Japanese say american band stole More than the show germans arrest 11 in Trade of stolen cigarettes for drugs by Craig Martin