European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. February 3, 1993 world the stars and stripes b Page 9 Clinton major set to meet feb. 24 for working visit from wire report London British prime minister John major will meet president Clinton in Washington on feb.24, officials announced tuesday. A the visit follows speculation in London that the relationship has gotten off to an uneasy Start. Major s Downing Street office said the conservative prime minister who so far has Only spoken by Telephone to Clinton will be the first european Leader to meet the new president. Clinton spokesman George Stephanopouo confirmed the meeting was set for feb. 24 and said it would be a working visit with further detail released later. Major and his predecessor Margaret Thatcher maintained warm relations with the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Volcanic Ash kills 2 Manila Philippines hot Ash spewing from Volcano Southeast of Manila killed at least two people and injured 30 others tuesday. The blast dieted warnings of a possible eruption. Hundreds of residents near the Mayon Volcano about 200 Miles Southeast of Manila fled their Homes after the Ash shot nearly three Miles into Theair tuesday afternoon. Authorities in Legazpi near where the Volcano dislocated in Albay province said the hot Ash mixed with rain and fell on residential areas As far As 6.5miles away from the Volcano. Rivals threaten Escobar Medellin Colombia members of a gang challenging the Medellin cocaine Cartel run by Pablo Escobar claimed responsibility monday for bombing Homes owned by the fugitive drug lord s Mother sister and  group identified itself in a letter to the news Media As the pursued by Pablo Escobar group. I said the bombings sunday in Colombia s second largest City were meant to warn Escobar that he would see his own Brand of violence turned against his family if he persisted in trying to crush the gang believed to be a splinter faction of his Cartel. Police said they think gunmen hired by Escoba detonated a car bomb saturday on a Busy Street in Bogota killing 20 people and wounding 68 others apart of a War on the government. Elephant kill planned Harare Zimbabwe state game rangers planto Slaughter 5,000 of Zimbabwe s 80,000 elephants to curb overpopulation the government Sai monday. But they first need to raise $2 million for the  Martin of the National Parks and wildlife Agency said Zimbabwe has to reduce its elephant population or risk having its Woodlands destroyed and the ecosystems in National Parks disturbed. Right hand drive banned Moscow the russian government has banned the registration of cars with a right hand drive As of next july reports said  government Resolution said the measure was taken to increase traffic  minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has also banned the use of right hand drive vehicles i Russia As of jan.-1,1995, the inter fax and itar Tass news agencies  ban will not apply to vehicles involved in International traffic such As tourist freight or transit and those brought to the country for less than six months inter fax said. Rehnquist visits Egypt Cairo Egypt William h. Rehnquist the chief Justice Rotthe . Supreme court is making a seven Day visit to Egypt a statement by the . Embassy in Cairo said monday. Other than saying the visit came at the invitation of egyptian minister of Justice Farouk Seif Al Nasr the statement did not give any further details on the itinerary or the purpose of the visit. Rehnquist has been on the supreme court since 1972 and was named chief Justice in 1986. Red army Veteran Maxim Kosik left exchanges War stories with former German Soldier Gerhard Dengler. Aging German sex soviet vets recall fierce Battle of Stalingrad by Deborah Seward the associated press Volgograd Russia Yacov Kiselev who was wounded four times during the Battle of Stalingrad spends his Days on a cot in a dim corridor crowded with 10 other  and the other impoverished veterans were too sick to join the former soviet and German soldiers who embraced and traded stories monday to Mark the 50th anniversary of Stalingrad perhaps the decisive Battle of world War ii. The rundown Volgograd retirement Home where Kiselev 80, has lived the past eight years underlined the fact that Germany which lost the Battle and the War is i everybody has hugged  has cursed us for being germans. It s unforgettable Gerhard Dengler a professor of International relations prosperous while the victorious former soviets often live in misery. Kiselev s eyes brimmed with tears when the other old veterans congratulated him on the anniversary. They wept and Sang patriotic russian songs. The Battle of Stalingrad ended feb. 2,1943, with the surrender of German Field marshal Friedrich von Pau Lus to soviet forces. The defeat crushed Hitler s Hopes of isolating the soviet heartland from the Southern Oil Fields. More than 1 million soviet soldiers and civilians perished in the fight for Stalingrad renamed Volgograd after soviet ruler Josef Stalin died in 1953. Hundreds of thousands of germans also perished. On monday russian president Doris n. Yeltsin use the anniversary to rally russians who Are enduring eco nomic  is a convincing testament that however difficult it might be our people can find the strength and the Resolution to overcome harsh ordeals together Yeltsin said in a statement. He also sought to dissolve lingering hatred of Ger mans. Former enemies have become partners he  arc brought together to the people of Germany by Basic democratic and moral values by a common striving for peace and stability in Europe and the whole  russian flags flew overhead but the ceremonies a Volgograd were characterized by the same soviet style pomp of years past. Real emotion surfaced when German and former so Viet veterans their chests covered with medals met informally at the opening of an exhibit at the museum of the Battle of Stalingrad. Everybody has hugged me. Nobody has cursed us for being germans. It s unforgettable said Gerhard Dengler a professor of International relations from Berlin. Dengler 70, was an artillery Captain during the Bat the which began with the German Advance on the Volga River City in the summer of 1942. He was one of 91,000 germans left alive when thelast German unit surrendered. Only 6,000 German survivors from Stalingrad made it Home after the War Many after spending years in soviet prison Camps. Of those about 1,000 Are still alive. I never experienced hate from the russians. The had a lot of understanding for us said or. Fritz pin Del a doctor from Coburg who still Speaks Russia from his years in a soviet prison Camp. Victory at Stalingrad was used by the communist party As a Symbol of soviet superiority. Despite the col lapse of the soviet Union Many veterans remain fiercely patriotic. We defended our Homeland. Whether it s Russia Orthe soviet Union it s All the same to us said Veteran Ivan Zharkov speaking in a telethon to raise Money for russians who suffered during world War ii. Musin Galiro Novice 72, lost a leg at Stalingrad an has been on crutches for half a Century. But the ethnic tatar came hundreds of Miles from his Home in the Central russian City of Kazan to participate in the Cere monies. We fought her. We lost our blood and our Bones. We can never forget this place he said. Vasily Demidov brought his grandson and a photo graph of Stalin to a ceremony renaming a Volgograd Square in Honor of Stalingrad. People have started to forget about Stalin. We can not allow that. Stalin saved the whole world Demidov said