European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Soviet coup Leader says he was drunk at the time Moscow apr Gennady i Kanayev one of the was drunk he denied that he was incapacitated leaders of the August 1991 Couo attempt. Said in an in Quot my in la u Ritoh two i Amain Cut might after drink. Moscow apr Gennady i Kanayev one of the leaders of the August 1991 coup attempt said in an interview published saturday that he was drunk when he signed a decree naming himself As head of the soviet Union. But Kanayev denied he had any prior knowledge of the attempt to overthrow Mikhail s. Gorbachev saying he had been drinking with a Friend the night before the failed Putsch. A had i planned to take part in the plot i would have abstained from alcohol done to you think so Kanayev told the newspaper novy veg Lead. Kanayev and 11 others Are to go on trial april 14 on charges of leading the coup attempt. They face a Maxi mum penalty of death russian Media had speculated on Kanayev a alleged heavy drinking during the abortive aug. 18-21 coup and some of the plotters claimed one of the reasons for its failure was his intoxication. Although Kanayev admitted in the interview that he was drunk he denied that he was incapacitated a my body is such that i remain sane even after drink ing ally buddies under the table a he said. A my face just gets red after a couple of glasses a nothing  Kanayev said he was summoned to the Kremlin in the evening aug/18 and asked to sign the decree that made him acting3 president. He had been vice president under Gorbachev. He said the decree was prepared in the Kab and that the current russian defense minister Pavel Grachev took part in drafting it. Grachev later played a double game providing rus Sian president Bons n. Yeltsin with information re lated to the emergency committee s actions and plans and continuing to collaborate with the plot leaders until the last Day Kanayev said. Although Gorbachev was restored to Power the coup attempt and Yeltsin a dramatic Defiance of the Eutsch fatally weakened his position and the soviet Inion was dissolved five months later. Sidewalk Appeal passers by in the Southern China City of Changsha Stop is suffering from Colon cancer and needs surgery. The to read an Appeal from a 16-Ycar-old girl whose Mother sign hanging from her neck requests donations. A a a. Saddam targets shiites report says London apr iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein has begun a new terror Campaign against the shiites of iraqis Southern marshes shelling their villages and Poi Sontag their water a newspaper said sunday. Hundreds of men women and children have been slaughtered since the Start of the year Many the victims of close Range artillery bombardment Quot wrote reporter shy am Bhatia of the observer in the first detailed Independent report from the area in months. The Southern marshes Are difficult to reach and foreign journalists Are barred except on government conducted Tours. Bhatia was smuggled into the fire by shiite resistance fighters and spent 10 Days with them. He wrote that a huge swathes of Reed Beds have been torched Black by the relentless  Baghdad has been pounding the marshes with artillery since it began a major offensive in april 1992, shiites had launched a rebellion after the Gulf War ended. An associated press reporter who last year travelled to the area with the rebels reported a constant artillery barrage from Saddam in a forces. British broadcasting corp. Television on saturday showed footage filmed by Bhatia of blackened Reed Beds and devastated deserted villages. It showed Young children wounded in what it said were regular artillery attacks. A artillery units Are steadily pushing further South in direct contravention of . Demands for Saddam to Stop massacring his own people Quot Bhatia wrote in the weekly newspaper. . Security Council resolutions on the Gulf War cease fire demanded that Iraq end repression of the shiites in the South and the kurd in the North. The United states and its allies have established a no Fly zones Over both areas to protect them from air attacks by Saddam s forces about 10,000 shiite rebels and hundreds of thousands of civilians live in the nearly inaccessible Southern marshes. About 55 percent of iraqis 17.5 million people Are shiites. Saddam and his ruling Circle Are sunni muslims. The Baghdad government last year inaugurated the a Saddam River a canal project to Drain the marshes. The government claims the canal is an irrigation project but the rebels and Western analysts say its aim is to make the Region More accessible to Saddam a armoured divisions and deprive shiite fishermen of their livelihood. Saddam planned a the widespread poisoning of the Waters by tipping tons of toxic chemicals into the tributaries and lakes that Are the Lifeblood of the Region a Bhatia wrote. Japanese protest visit by . Aircraft Carrier from wire reports a Tokyo a More than 400 people including some in boats protested sunday against a port Call in southwestern Japan by a . Aircraft earner they believed was headed for joint .-South korean military exercises the left Wing protesters also shouted slogans expressing suspicions that the 60,000-ton Carrier Independence was carrying nuclear weapons in violation of a paths Bah against any such arms in its territory.,. Communist North Korea has denounced the forthcoming .-South Korea a team spirit exercises calling the annual Maneu vers a rehearsal for a nuclear attack on the North. The United states and South Korea say the exercises Are purely defensive. Rocket mishap kills swede Stockholm Sweden a a rocket started up As its ignition was being tested saturday inside a space Center blowing into technicians on the site officials said. One technician died and three were injured. The 9-foot-Long rocket Lay on the floor of a building at the european sounding rocket Range said Jorge Hartner an official at the space Center. A something went wrong when they tested the ignition system a the rocket started a Hartner said according to the National news Agency to. The rocket then crashed through a Wall of the building slowed into another building 50 Yards away and exploded he said. A a swede died and two germans and a swede were injured police said. The rocket part of a German led project to study the Earth a Ozone layer had been scheduled for a sunday launch on an unmanned  cily smog Alert holds Mexico City a authorities kept an emergency Alert in place in greater Mexico City saturday As choking smog continued to Blanket the capital Region. T Ozone Levels hit a High of 235 Points on the contamination scale in the southwestern part of the City saturday afternoon or 2.35 times what is considered Safe. Ozone Levels have Bee More than 200 All week fridays High of 284 Points triggered the smog Alert. Under the Alert the City a environmental control commission ordered the City a 230 worst Industrial polluters to Cut output by 30 to 40 percent the commission also ordered that the use of government vehicles be Cut in half paving _ operations halted,.and school children be kept  seize Cache of Ltd Jerusalem a a uncool dudes a Bart Simpson might have told the two men charged with peddling Ltd wrapped in stickers depicting the popular television family the Simpsons. The two men were arrested in a police raid on a popular Central Jerusalem pub the Arizona Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben Ruby 6aid saturday. Ben Ruby said 400 Ltd tablets were seized in the arrests monday night. The two men who were also carrying Large Cash were still under investigation he said they planned to sell the drugs at Jerusalem High schools he said. A we pc had Asp wrapped in stickers in the past a Ben Ruby said. A but this is the first time in be seen the  shatter Kabul Lull Kabul Afghanistan a two rockets slammed 1? 2aickrded Roj place sunday in downtown Kabul killing and injuring dozens of people and shattering a two week Lull in the capital. Ministry said at least 50 people were 5 31witnesses put the death toll St 14, with 60 injured. The defense ministry blamed the assault on the dissident Hebe islami faction and shelled the rebels bases to Southern Kabul for two hours. Hebe islami Leader Gul Buddin Hematyar denied responsibility. The More Fonda mentalist r-3�1 App ses the islamic government that replaced communist rulers 10 months ago