European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. February 12. 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 Yeltsin prepared to push Reform vote Moscow a russian presi Dent Boris n. Yeltsin said thursday that if he in t Able to work out a Power sharing agreement with his main Politi Cal opponents he will push ahead witha referendum on reforming the coun try s system.  to meet thursday evening with his political rival parliament speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov and chief Justice Valery Zorkin. They will try to resolve their feud Over separation of Powers that has embroiled Russia in a constitutional crisis. They will discuss cancelling the april 11 referendum that will ask voters whether the president or the parliament should have greater Power under a new Constitution. If the president the chairman of the supreme soviet Kha Bulatov and the chief Justice of the constitutional court meeting together tonight won t be Able to reach an agreement then the people should have the decisive word Yeltsin was quoted by the itar Tass news Agency As saying. Put i Hope that such an agreement will be found. I already have a package of proposals. And i m ready for a serious  if the Power struggle continues it could blow up the country the inter agnews Agency quoted Yeltsin As saying. Many of Yeltsin s reforms have Bee blocked by lawmakers in Russia con Gress of people s deputies or parliament and its smaller standing legis lature the supreme soviet. Many of the lawmakers were communists elected be fore the 1991 breakup of the soviet Union. V the crisis came to a head in Decem Ber when the Congress rejected Yeltsin s same old Story in Lebanon a villager on a Road in Safar trudges through Leth a plastic Container Lull of heating Oil the new storm Hasanon s sixth snowfall of the season wednesday carrying blocked most roads in the mountainous area. Russians reveal their vaults contain priceless Gold of Troy Berlin up the Gold of Troy a 4,000-year-old collection of priceless Art treasures that vanished during world War ii is being held in russian vaults German and russian officials say. The 8,000 Art objects found in the City that also waste setting of Homer s Iliad were unearthed in Turkey in 1873 by the German Heinrich Schliemann in one of the greatest archaeological finds in history. The Gold of Troy had been housed at Berlin s museum of pre and Early history. As soviet forces closed in on the nazi capital in 1945, Germany hid the collection in an anti aircraft Bunker near the Berlin zoo train  trove disappeared after Berlin fell to the red army there has since been speculation that either the soviets had stolen it or that the germans had hidden it  mystery was resolved in Dresden Germany on wednesday when German and russian Art official emerged from the first bilateral negotiations on the re turn of Art works stolen during the War. Berlin culture senator Ulrich Roloff Momm announced that the Gold of Troy had been stored in vaults outside mos co but it was unclear wednesday whether the Gold would be returned to Germany or whether Turkey would Lay claim to it. Carlos a. Picon curator of classic Art at the metro Politan museum of Art in new York described the col Lection As the most spectacular find of its kind Ever  Picon said it would be sensational to View the objects after so Many years. I certainly Hope for a constructive Resolution to this situation so that the Gold of Troy can go on exhibit again he said. Schliemann a Pioneer of modern archaeology found the treasure in 1873 during his excavation of the ancient City of ilium or Troy site of the storied Trojan War in what is now Northwestern Turkey according to the ancient greek epic poem the Iliad the War was started when the Trojan Prince Paris ran off with Helen the wife of Sparta s King Menelaus and took her Home to Troy. Alter a 10-year siege the impregnable City fell to a ruse devised by Odysseus the Trojan horse. Schliemann determined to establish a historical basis for Homer s work succeeded in finding Troy. But in his excavations he dug far too deep into the the sit and passed the stratum from about 1,000 . The Homeric Era destroying it in the process. But the treasures he brought out dated to the late third millennium ., Are priceless in terms of their aesthetic and historical value and have been Given a monetary value estimated at $1 billion. The most spectacular part of the 8,000 objects is a diadem made of 16,353 pieces of Gold. The collection also includes bracelets necklaces rings cups and jugs All made of pure Gold. Choice for prime minister reformist Yegor Gaidar. Instead the president was forced to accept a communist Era bureaucrat Viktor Chernomyrdin. During the Congress an angry Yeltsin called the referendum in Hopes of getting a vote of Confidence from the nation Al though he has won Little support for his position in the months since. Although Yeltsin enjoys More support than Kha Bulatov apathy is High in rus Sia. Polls indicate that not enough voters. Would cast ballots to validate a referendum presenting the potential for further chaos. Refuse Iraq to free britons seeks its funds by the new York times Baghdad Iraq Iraq refused wednesday Toffee two britons serving Long jail sentences for entering Iraq illegally unless London releases Frozen iraqi As sets the director general of the British red Cross said. After a meeting wednesday with Deputy prime min ister Tariq Aziz the red Cross official Michael Whit Lam said he was t prepared to listen to any Dis Cussion from me certainly not in the immediate future about releasing of the men so i think it looks very much As though we will be going  without  Whitlam accompanied the families of the two men Paul ride and Michael Wainwright. Daddy come daddy come ride s 23-month-Oldson, William said As he held his juice bottle during a news conference at the Al Rashid hotel where the families arc staying. The announcement by Aziz on the men s Fate came shortly  said recently Irani television interview broadcast in Britain if the British government shows sympathy toward the hardship of the iraqi people then of course it would be very natural that the iraqi government would show sympathy to the difficulties of two or three British citizens 1 his reference was to the release of iraqi assets. London has said repeatedly however that the funds will not be released until Iraq complies with All . , 33, a caterer from London who was working in Kuwait is serving a seven year sentence. He was seized in August after having gotten lost near the Border he , 42, a construction worker from West Yorkshire received a 10-year sentence after his arresting May crossing into Iraq from Turkey on a cycling trip to Australia lie said iraqi guards let him in. Ride s wife Julie and his son travelled with Wain Wright s Mother Iris and his sister Heather Home arrived monday by Road from  regard the handling of this Case As a test whether Iraq is sincere about improving relations wit the West. Honecker s cancer stable chilean medical tests show Santiago Chile a new tests show that former East German Leader Erich Honecker s liver cancer has not progressed in the last month and that he can Lead a fairly Normal life doctors reported wednesday. A Berlin court decided last month to release Honecker 80, from a trial on manslaughter charges on grounds that he would not live to see the verdict prompting an uproar in Germany. Honecker was charged in the deaths of people trying to escape from communist East Germany to the West but German doctors said he had three to six months to live. Chilean doctors confirm that Honecker has liver cancer but say it is impossible to determine his life expectancy. Honecker underwent new tests tuesday night at Las Condes clinic