European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 1993 the stars and stripes Pago 9 led iraqi Plant London up Britain exported millions of pounds Worth of machine tools for use in an iraqi chemical weapons factory in Clear breach of an International agreement the observer newspaper said sunday. A civil servant s notes obtained by the newspaper showed that the government gave permission in March 1989 for the $6 million Export Deal with full knowledge of where the tools were going it said. The Deal allowed by a government department answerable to prune minister John major who was a Treasury minister at the time would breach a 1925 Geneva Accord Banning the use and propagation of chemical weapons the newspaper said. The observer said the tools were exported by matrix Churchill which was involved in a court Case that collapsed last year amid conflicting evidence from a former defense minister. The collapse of the Case brought wide spread claims of a cover up and led to an inquiry into whether ministers misled lawmakers Over Britain s arms Trade with Iraq before the persian Gulf War. The Handwritten minutes obtained by the observer dated aug. 24, 1989, insured the matrix Churchill Deal and noted goods were destined for Iraq to be incorporated into a chemical weapons factory it said. The paper said it would pass the min  to the judicial inquiry led by lord Justice Scott. It added that there was no evidence that matrix Churchill knew that the end buyer of its tools was an iraqi arms factory. The Treasury minister responsible for the Export credits guarantee depart mint which granted the permission was the Mayon Volcano steams in the background saturday while a tic Load of residents is evacuated to safer areas in the Philippines. Grieving filipinos spared new eruption Legazpi Philippines a Filipi nos buried their dead saturday from a Volcano that continued to spew lava and Force More evacuations. But a volatile period for the Volcano when High tides coincided with a full Moon apparently passed Early sunday without setting off a second major erupt  philippine Institute of volcanology and seismology had said a More pow Erful eruption could occur sunday be cause of the effect of the Moon and High tides on Earth s Gravity. Institute director Raymundo Punongbayan said the Mayon Volcano has erupted three times during similar circumstances. Only Small amounts of lava however were seeping from the Crater which was enveloped in Clouds Early sunday. Mayon erupted last week killing it least 68 people and injuring 118. On saturday trucks cruised roads to pick up people fleeing the area. Many refugees were Laden with belongings wrapped in bundles. Some said relatives were staying behind in threatened areas to protect their Homes from possible loot ing. Nearly 30,000 people who fled their Homes along the Volcano s slopes Are crammed into the Region s 35 refugee centers. A funeral was held saturday in the Vil Lage of Uiga for 30 of the Volcano s Vic Tims. Relatives wept uncontrollably some clinging to the caskets accept what has happened to the Vic Tims of me Volcano Legapi Bishop Lucilo Quimbo urged the mourners. Bodies that could not be identified were buried in a mass grave. President Lidel Ramos visited legs i 10 Miles South of the Volcano and urged people to be Calm. Legazpi is 200 Miles Southeast of Manila. Major then chief Secretary to the Treasury. Opposition labor Trade spokesman told the observer this discovery is dra Matic revealing an appalling example of government hypocrisy these documents prove that the government not Only knew that the machine were Poi Rig Tole iraqi military machine but that they were being used for the worst weapons of All the Scott inquiry must consider this evidence. The government ought nowt change its pleas from Don t know to guilty 7 " swedes Russia still at Odds on submarines Moscow up the Kremlin con ceded that swedish evidence of foreign submarine incursions into Sweden s territorial Waters is indisputable but would not say whether the subs were russian swedish prime minister Carl Bildt re ported after talks last week with presi Dent Boris . Bildt told a news conference that rus Sian naval experts had agreed that swed ish evidence such As data on acoustic soundings proved that foreign submarines had made incursions into swedish maritime zones. He said the evidence was provided to Russia in the course of talks Over the past  have agreed that this technical evidence shows the presence of foreign submarines we have established there is a problem said Bildt who was in Russia primarily to discuss Trade. But the russian Side did not say whether the submarines were russian or who else might own them. Bildt said the talks had not produced definitive conclusions in All  Yeltsin seemed to say the submarines were not russian. We want scientists and military experts to jointly work out methods to find put whose submarines violate swedish Territo rial Waters Yeltsin said in comment quoted by the russian news Agency inter fax following meetings with Bildt thursday. The prime minister and i have decided to continue our dialogue on this mat Ter until we get Down to the truth Yeltsin  noted that the incursions had declined in recent years and said he was satisfied that Yeltsin was acting in Good Faith to shed Light on the Issue. President Yeltsin is determined to seek the truth whatever that truth might be Bildt said. He said he Hud never or dered russian submarines into swedish Waters and 1 believe  on a separate Issue Bildt denounced As u criminal act Estonia s recent Export Ofa consignment of heating Oil which Sweden had donated to Tallinn the capital of the Baltic state the Oil was supposed to be distributed to elderly estonians too poor to pay their heating Bills. 103 cuban refugees reach Cayman bound for Miami san Juan puerto Rico a the Captain of the cuban boat that arrived on grand Cayman Island carrying 103 Refu gees said saturday that Miami is the destiny and the Fate of All who at tempted the treacherous voyage. Angel Garcia Haro 27, who captained the the 55-foot lobster boat said the group left bataban6, on Cuba s Southern coast tuesday in a mad Rush for our  the cubans including 30 children arrived on grand Cayman Island on thurs Day after the vessel developed steering problems 15 Miles North of the Island. Haro in a Telephone interview with the associated press said the trip was originally planned for March but we Felt it a too risky i mean waiting All that time. So we just packed up and  and to think that the boat belonged to papa Fidel Castro Haro said. The government used it for lobster fishing. Now Well use it to get to Miami Haro said he and the refugee group will continue on to Miami within the next two weeks. No one s going to Stop us now he said. The Cayman islands government is paying for repairs to the boat. The government said two weeks ago that it would allow cubans who landed on the Cayman to rebuild their Craft and set out again presumably toward . Shores. But the arrival of the cubans has caused concern among Cayman islanders who Are apprehensive that their islands could be swamped by refugees fleeing the communist bastion. More than 2,500 cubans fled their Homeland by sea toward . Shores last year most from Cuba s Northern coast. The number was the highest since the 1980 Mariel boat lift and reflects the most severe economic crisis in Cuba since Fidel Castro Carne to Power in 1959. The . Coast guard reported that 179, .-bound cubans have been intercepted this year including 21 Friday from a Motorboat off Miami. Haro who is accompanied by his wife Maria Dia 32, and their 4-year-old son said he has family somewhere in  " Cayman ans have treated us very Well but we can t wait to get to Miami he said. Ill work As a plumber an electrician whatever. But i la be