European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 27, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 Warsa Iwanusz Onysz thursday pcs the retire scheme of for swede to succeed Indian As head of . Forces from wire reports Zagreb Croatia Indian it. Gen. Satish Nambiar will turn Over command of the . Protection Force in the former Yugoslavia next Gen. Lars Eric a Vahlgren the uni Rotor head office said thursday. Nambiar a one year term As up Rotor commander expired in february but the in. Security Council last week extended his mandate until March 31. Wahlgren who has served with various .missions Over the past five years will take the Post of up Rotor commander tuesday said . Officials in the croatian capital Zagreb. Poland sacks 14 generals Poland a polish defense minister Ftp pensioned off 14 army generals the fact that the army is 142 Short it took place under an Exchange or communist generals that has been under Way since the collapse of communism in 1989. The news Agency Pap said that including the 14 generals pensioned off thursday 119 generals have been sacked in the past three years. Poland has 78 generals and has 142 additional vacant positions. The polish army has been reduced from 350,000 to 270,000 troops in the last two years. Sex King cleared to return Athens Greece a former King Constantine in self imposed exile for 25 years can come Home whenever he chooses the government said thursday. Constantine 52, has been free to return at any a time As a private citizen. But this was the first time since the monarchy was abolished in 1974 that the government explicitly stated he could come Back. The former Monarch is Back in the news after saying this week that he had not renounced his claim to the throne. A any citizen can Cross the Border whenever he wants a government spokesman Vasilis Magginas said. A the is a greek citizen nothing  he and his family fled Greece in december 1967 after lie led a failed coup against the military Junta that seized Power in april that year. The Junta collapsed in july 1974, and the 142-Ycar-old monarchy was abolished in a referendum later that year. New office proposed Madrid Spain a a Spanish firm is proposing a 3,281-foot High skyscraper As the new Headquarters for the european Community in Brussels the architects said thursday. The a Tower of Europe would be the worlds tallest building visible from 75 Miles and would House up to 20,000 workers architect Juan Fernando de Mendoza of the l35 firm in Barcelona says. The $ 1.3-billion Pyramid shaped building would stand on the spot now occupied by the eco sold Ber Laymond Headquarters m Brussels. Russia seeks suspects Stockholm Sweden a the russian embassy has asked that Tamerlane Musayev 27, and his wife Marina Musayeva 26 a charged with hijacking a russian Airliner a be extradited to Russia swedish officials said. The russian request came thursday. The two were arraigned in Stockholm on sunday one Day after the Aeroflot Jet was hijacked from Siberia to Estonia and then to Stockholm. The couple have an 8-month-old daughter who was with them during the hijacking. Fake dollars seized Hong Kong a local officials and the . Secret service have smashed a counterfeiting ring producing fake american currency and arrested 18 people authorities said Friday. A police spokesman said $7 million in counterfeit  currency was seized in a raid on the fake banknote factory where plates to produce the Money were found. Authorities estimated the counterfeiting ring had produced $20 million to $30 million in fake . Money during the past two years primarily for circulation in China Taiwan and the United states. Russian sub collisions partial meltdowns cited by William j. Broad the new York times Moscow a nuclear powered submarines have collided with foreign subs at least eight times Over the decades and so Para Cly suffered at least four partial meltdowns of reactors said a report released thursday. The report also said that one reactor on a soviet sub exploded in 19s5 while being serviced at a shipyard. That mishap killed 10 people and released Clouds of radioactive material that irradiated workers and caused at least one Case of severe radiation sickness. The four partial meltdowns of reactors occurred at sea. The crippled subs were Able to return to port although in two instances Many seamen died of radiation poisoning the report said. A seven of the eight undersea collisions were apparently with . Submarines the report said the most recent one being last february in the Barents sea. The eighth was with a British sub. The report by Greenpeace was based on a four month trip the environmental group took last year to Moscow and Northern and Eastern russian. During the trip the group conducted dozens of interviews with russian and former soviet officials including a number of Navy officers. Since the collapse of the soviet Union the russian military has described a number of accidents involving nuclear submarines. The report quoted Navy officials As saying that submarine failures were decreasing but that a danger of collision persisted. It added that the russian officers wanted to Start East West talks aimed at reducing such risks. Private experts say rival submariners often engage in games of underwater cat and mouse a charge submariners deny. Some close tracking is apparently done As practice for attacks that would take place if War broke out. While sonic of the collisions and meltdowns have been disclosed before partly in the russian press the new report is by far the most detailed and Complete listing of such problems to Date. Greenpeace in recent years has gained a reputation for thorough research on undersea matters. �?o1 take this very seriously a Murray Fishbach co author of the Book eco cide in the .s.r. And a research professor at Georgetown University in Washington d.c., said in an interview. A a we re learning much More and its much worse than we Ever knew before. Its a very , for them and for us. Its one horror after  the reports author Joshua handler said that the risk of submarine disasters could be rising because of a the bad times the russian Navy  a Pentagon spokesman said the . Navy had suffered no reactor meltdowns on submarines but declined to discuss collisions. The United states has Long maintained tight secrecy about All movements of its nuclear submarines and Basing of missiles at sea. Last year after the Baton Rouge a los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine collided with a russian sub in Arctic Waters Pentagon officials said they were unsurprised by such incidents and suggested there would be no policy change. Memories of War still Sharp for . Troops in Kuwait a by Neil Mcfarquhar the associated press Kuwait staff sgt. Tony Cespedes carries a souvenir from the liberation of Kuwait two years ago a scar on his stomach from an anti tank mines shrapnel. �?o1 was one of the Guys who almost did not make it Back a said Cespedes 31, of san Juan puerto Rico. Cespedes who was wounded when a five ton truck he was Riding in hit the mine is among about 1,100 . Troops from the 1st Cav div dispatched from fort Hood Texas to Shore up Kuwait a defences after iraqi Border incursions in mid january. Several Hundred other soldiers arc stationed permanently in Kuwait to look after military equipment. Cespedes and his buddies came off their desert exercises about two weeks ago and Are hoping for orders to return Home any Day. Most did not expect or especially want to come Back to Kuwait. The second anniversary of Kuwait a liberation from Iraq will be a Day like any other for them. There Are no exact figures on How Many of the men were in Kuwait for the liberation and no ceremonies were planned. Mostly they will work on the vehicles they used during the exercises. Their equipment a enough for a battalion sized Force a is stored in neat rows at Camp Doha just North of Kuwait City. The thoughts of Many veterans of the persian Gulf War turn to absent colleagues and what a different kind of Day it was two years ago. On feb. 26,1991, kuwaiti fighters declared Kuwait City freed. The next Day president Bush declared Kuwait liberated and halted Allied operations. Liberation Day was raining cold everything you would want to Call miserable with the Sun blotted out by the fires of hundreds of Oil Wells ignited by the retreating iraqis. The last fire was extinguished nov. 6,1991. During the War 148 . Troops were killed including21 by Friendly fire and 458 others were wounded. Others in the coalition lost 66 men. Iraq put its losses at 7.5,000 to 100,000 soldiers killed in action and 35,000 to 45,000 civilians killed in Allied bombing. A it brings Back a lot of memories. Some Good some scary some rewarding. Its an experience i Don t wish on Kuwait City youths Spray shaving Cream thursday celebrating their nations 1961 Independence from Britain and 1991 liberation from Iraq. Anyone a said 1st sgt. Marco Pena 36, of Mission Texas. He recently went Back to Mulla Ridge known As the Highway of death for the fierce attack on retreating iraqi forces to visit the spot of the company a last firelight. A a it a one of those things that you want to see but you done to want to see a Pena said. Hie Ridge has been cleared of most War debris. The Job of Clearing the desert has been undertaken by private firms and army units from the United states Britain France Egypt Pakistan and Bangladesh it is expected to last through the end of this year. Some soldiers feel that the order to Stop fighting came too soon a before iraqi president Saddam Hussein was toppled. Sgt. Ariel Salas 27, of la Feria Texas was just South of Basra Iraq two years ago with the 24th inf div much out of fort Stewart  we were All anticipating making a left turn and heading toward the big City of Baghdad. But then we heard it was a cease fire a Salas said. A a it a still dangerous out there. Its not fun a he said