European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 12,1993 world the stars and stripes b page9 Yeltsin rival in critical talk on Power sharing Moscow a if Boris n. Yeltsin is unable to work out a Power sharing agreement with his main opponent the russian president will pursue plans task the people to decide who should Rule the country Yeltsin said thursday. If the struggle continues it could blow up the country the inter fax news Agency quoted Yeltsin As saying. Yeltsin began a closed door meeting thursday in the grand Kremlin Palace with his rival parliament speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov and chief Justice Valery Zorkin. The meeting was aimed at resolving the feud that has embroiled Russia in a constitutional crisis. The men were to discuss cancelling an april 11 referendum that would ask Vot ers whether the president or the parliament should have greater Power under new Constitution. Well try to make up Yeltsin quipped before the session he said he wanted a moratorium on All fistfights in 1993. If thursday night s meeting yielded no agreement then the people should have the decisive word Yeltsin told reporters at the Kremlin according to the itar Tass news Agency. Kha Bulatov opposes a referendum. Yeltsin has been blocked in implementing Many of his reforms by lawmakers in Russia s Congress of people s deputies and its smaller standing legislature the supreme soviet. \ Many of the lawmakers arc former communists elected before the 1991 breakup of the soviet Union. The crisis came to a head in Decem Ber when the Congress rejected Yeltsin s Choice for prime minister reformist Yegor t. Gaidar. The president was forced to accept a communist Era bureaucrat Viktor Chernomyrdin. Yeltsin first called for the referendum then in Hopes of getting a vote of Confidence from the nation. But he has won Little support for his position in the months  Yeltsin enjoys More support than Kha Bulatov apathy is High in rus Sia and Public opinion polls indicate that not enough voters would cast ballots to validate a referendum deepening chaps in the country. On tuesday Yeltsin offered to cancel the referendum if a special reconciliation commission can forge a Power Shar ing agreement Between the legislative and executive branches. He wants to see the soviet Era Congress replaced by smaller Western Styli parliament. " it v pc v a same old Story in Lebanon a villager on a Road in Safar trudges through cd anon s sixth snowfall of the season wednesday carrying a plastic Container full of heating Oil. The new storm has 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 was the 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 station. The 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 again. The mystery was resolved in Dresden Germany on wednesday when German and russian Art officials emerged from the first bilateral negotiations on the re turn of Art works stolen during the War. Berlin culture senator Ulrich Roloff Momin announced that the Gold of Troy had been stored in vaults outside mos cow. 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 re  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 site 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  a diadem made of 16,353 pieces of Gold. The collection also includes bracelets necklaces rings cups and jugs All made of pure Gold. Arab american is released by israeli military Jerusalem up an israeli military court thursday freed Mohammed , one of three . Citizens arrested last month on suspicion of tunnelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Radical Muslim Hamas organization army officials said. But two Arab americans from Chicago still were being held in jail in the occupied West Dank for questioning. The israelis allege the two were trying to re build Hamas after much of its leadership was deported to Lebanon. Haja 34, is a palestinian who lived in the Arab Vil Lage of Bir Gaballah in Northern Jerusalem. He acquired his . Citizenship through marriage. Haja whose father is the Village mayor manages a family business that manufactures toilet articles. He has never resided in the United states but has travelled to new York several times for medical treatment and visited his wife s relatives in Petersburg va., his family said. Israel s Shin bet intelligence agents arrested Haja on Jan. 24, accusing him of being part of an Effort to fund Hamas guerrilla activities. No formal charges were brought and police apparently dropped the investigation Lor Lack of evidence. The other suspects Are Mohammed Salah 39, and Mohammed Jarad 36, both Chicago residents. The two were arrested trying to enter the occupied Gaza strip on Jan. 25. The army said the two men had spent More than $230,000 to buy weapons and support Hamas fight against Israel. Officials said Salah a used car dealer had transferred the Cash from a $650,000 Chicago Bank account to a West Bank Money changer. More than 60 other palestinians were arrested in connection with the investigation of foreign funding of Hamas an Arab acronym for the islamic resistance movement. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin later used the arrests As evidence to suggest Israel had dealt the islamic fundamentalist group a severe blow by expel Ling hundreds of its members dec. 17, an act condemned around the world. 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