European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 2, 1993 world the stars and stripes a Page 8 Iran urges West to show Good will release assets Tehran. Iran a Cetino Ferrion fun orters the .  in Tehran in november 19, a meeting foreign reporter for the first tire in two years president Hashemi Raf Zanjani said the West especially the United states will have to show Good will if it wants to improve relations. -.-, a Sfanjani urged the West to give priority to releasing assets Frozen by the United states in 1979 and lift ing the . Embargo on arms sales to Bosnia and her a Cgonina a Muslim led government his statements came As the nation prepared to mar the 14th anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution which brought the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Power. There will be 10 Days of celebrations culminating feb. 11. A Sfanjani hinted during sunday s news conference that he would run for re election in june but he did not flatly say he  faces rising discontent among the population Over economic problems including a shortage of for eign Exchange and pressure from hard line islamic clerics who shun relations with the  observers had expected the news conference would be a bid to reach out to the West including to newly elected president Clinton. Instead a Sfanjani used the conference to underscore Iran s isolationist policies. They Western nations will have to show some Sig Nal of Good will in practice and not in theory Rassan Jani  seemed especially pessimistic about relations with  the present juncture we Are still witnessing the animosity of the United states toward our country and therefore 1 Sec no new avenues to explore for cooperation he said. Washington severed diplomatic relations with the islamic state after iranian militants seized 52 hostages in the. Embassy 1979 handheld them for 444 Days. Still outstanding is Iran s $11 billion claim for Ameri can military equipment ordered by the late Shah Mohammed Racza Pahlavi before the  said Iran was concerned about the plight of Bosnia s muslims who remain under Segic by serbian irregulars in the former yugoslav Republic. If Justice is served therms embargo should be removed because this Isan unequal War Rassan Jani  president would not comment on the arrest of an american travel agent in Tehran Long term resident Milton Meier saying it was Plora Sfanjani the judiciary to decide the Case. Iran has accused the 58-year-old american of links with foreign intelligence  on other topics a Sfanjani said a German convicted of spying for Iraq Dieter Fresch had one step left in his trial before the supreme court decided whether to implement the death penalty. The death order issued feb. 14,1989, by Khomeini against British writer Salman Rushdie remains in effect. Iran accuses the writer of blaspheming islam in his Book satanic verses. Open should try to achieve its target Price of $21 per barrel through production cuts. Iran is anticipating Oil revenues of about $17 billion next year. Any drop in Price could Hurt its development plans. Russians admit radiation leaks contaminated 450,000 in urals by Richard Boudreau los Angeles times Moscow , disclosing new de tails about a series of Nik car disasters in the ural mountains have admitted a that 450,000 people were contaminated by radiation Iturri the giant mayak atomic Plant Between 1948 and 1967. They also said the sit remains a potential Hazard. / the disclosures accompanied a $20 million govern ment allocation sent Friday to the supreme soviet to provide compensation and health services to victim Sand to improve waste management at the Plant near Chelyabinsk which made weapons Grade plutonium for nuclear warheads. Vasily Voznyak head of a government commission on the consequences of nuclear accidents told report ers that some of the Plant s radioactive wastes were still stored in unsafe conditions. Of course not All of this can explode at once Tomor Row but there Are still some containers of the kind which leaked in 1957, and therefore potentially the danger exists he said. If there were a major Accident the radioactive dumps on the territory of the Plant Are still capable of producing much More pollution than the 1986 Accident at  chernobyl site of the world s worst nuclear disaster in Ukraine sent radioactive Clouds Over much of Europe and halted the development of nuclear Energy throughout the soviet  safety of waste dumps at mayak is a critical environmental Issue in Russia because the government no plans to resume construction of atomic Power plants. Officials at the atomic Energy ministry told reporter two weeks ago that Russia s Power plants were As Safe As any in  oppose the program arguing that Russia s waste storage plans Are inadequate and under financed. According to Voznyak s account the most detailed Ever by a russian official the mayak Plant damaged the surrounding environment in three stages after its construction in 1948. For the first seven years As the soviets raced the americans to make atomic bombs the Plant dumped radioactive waste into the local River poisoning the drinking and irrigation water of 124,000 people he said. The most serious radiation in 1957, resulted from an explosion of nuclear wastes that caused thousands of casualties ten years later Lake Karachi dried up and radioactive wastes dumped there were scattered by the winds Over populated areas. Soviet authorities kept the incidents secret. They were first reported in 1976 by Zhoris Medvedev a so Viet dissident scientist and finally acknowledged by the government More than a decade later under president Mikhail s. Gorbachev. His haitians protest at Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay Cuba a haitian Refu gees stranded at the . Navy base Here because they tested positive for the aids virus have gone on a Hun Ger strike their attorney said sunday the haitians 231 with the virus and 41 of their de Pendents also have refused to return to their wooden Barracks and Are camping out at a nearby football Field on the base said Michael Ratner an attorney for the new York based Center for constitutional rights. The major demand is not that they get out but that they get a Date on when they Are getting out said Ratner. He said some of the haitians have been held at the Camp for More than a year. The car an affiliate of the Yale Law school says the medical facilities at Guantanamo arc not adequate to care for the haitians and has sued to have the haitians brought to the United states. The haitians tested positive for the human immune def ency virus that causes aids. Ratner who talked by Telephone sunday with one of the haitians at the Camp said about 100 began refusing food thursday and the remainder joined in Friday. He said they apparently have refused to return to their Barracks since Friday and one woman was hospitalized after fainting. Officials at the Guantanamo base and with the fed eral immigration and naturalization service in Washington did not immediately return Telephone Calls. New chinese destroyer reportedly passes sea trials from wire report Beijing a new Model chinese missile destroyer has passed sea trials the official Xinhua news Agency said sunday. The report is seen a another indication of China s determination to strengthen its Navy Long the weakest Branch of its military to defend it claims to Taiwan and disputed islands in the South China sea Xinhua said the destroyer named the Zhenjiang was entirely designed and built by chinese using modern technology. It is especially accurate in night firing it said. The Brief report did not say How Many of the new Model destroyers were being built. " o avalanches kill dozens Moscow avalanches that hit the Russia Northern caucasus have killed at least 50 people officials said  Tavas Icv chief of the search and Rescue service in the province of North Ossetia told the inter fax news Agency that 35 bodies were recovered and that Rescue teams evacuated eight injured. People from the disaster area. He said a total of 50 people by very Humble estimates have died in avalanches that buried part of the trans caucasian Highway in North Ossetia on wednesday about 30 Miles Southwest of the Region s capital . No bomb just Money Manila Philippines police acting on a Anonymous tip rigged an electronic Detonator on a suspicious looking Jug on Claro Recto Avenue Handset it off. It rained  and police scampered to scoop up the Money. What police had feared was a bomb found Early sunday was actually a Jug filled with one peso 25-cent  was not known what the Jug of coins was doing on the Street. Israeli soldiers kill 2 Jerusalem israeli soldiers  on Acar that failed to Stop at in army Roadblock killing two palestinians officials said  the car approached the Roadblock sunday night near Jan in the israeli occupied West Bank,4hc Driver made a a turn to avoid being stopped. Soldiers called on the Driver to halt then opened fire an army spokesman said. The Driver escaped but two passengers identified As Nasser Marousi and Mohammad Abousif both 22, were killed. The army said the car had been stole last week from the israeli City of Nytanya and that the two had been involved in other car thefts. .1 Access denied report says Seoul South Korea North Korea has reportedly barred . Inspectors from a site that . Satellite pictures indicated was probably a nuclear waste Plant. The United states suspects North Korea is developing a nuclear Arsenal and has demanded More inspections. North Korea denies it is seeking to build nuclear bombs. The newspaper Cho Ngang Lobo quoting an unidentified South korean official said sunday that the North rejected a proposal by the Vienna Austria based International atomic Energy Agency last week to inspect a site at Yon Byon North of Pyongyang. The North said the site was not included in inspection lists the report said. The Agency has no enforcement Power but could turn to the . Security Council to apply pressure on North Korea. Helmet Law takes effect Bangkok Thailand ignoring protests and threats of violence authorities monday began enforcing a new Law that requires Bangkok s More than 800,000 motorcyclists to Wear crash helmets. The City s traffic congestion was worse than usual monday As bikers lined up at stores to buy helmet to avoid the $4 to $20 Fine. Some streets were littered with discarded helmet boxes. Police said some motorcyclists were stopped for failing to Wear the headgear but most appeared Tobe obeying the Law. The helmet Law applies Only to motorcyclists using major roads in the capital