European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 7, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11showdown is set overrule in Russia Moscow apr lawmakers voted Friday for an emergency session of Congress this week setting up a showdown with president Boris n. Yeltsin Over which Branch of government should hold supreme Power in Russia. The action came amid heightened political tensions in the russian capital with hard liners accusing Yeltsin of plotting a Quot fascist dictatorship by planning to introduce a state of emergency. Yeltsin s spokesmen denied the allegations. Legislators voted 138-31, with seven abstentions to Convene the communist dominated Congress of people s deputies on wednesday. Just a Day earlier they refused to Call the extraordinary session. On Friday Yeltsin s rival parliament speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov said lawmakers backtracked because they did t have the constitutional right to obstruct an emergency session demanded by regional officials across Russia. For months Yeltsin has been engaged in a bitter Power struggle with Kha Bulatov and has accused lawmakers of blocking his political and economic reforms. Yeltsin wanted the Congress to meet by wednesday to consider a proposed Power sharing Deal with Kha Bulatov. The timing is important because if Congress rejects the Deal Yeltsin would apparently go Forward with an april 11 referendum on who should Rule Russia the president or the parliament. By Law referendum questions must be drawn up 30 Days before the balloting. But the Congress whose members were elected before the soviet collapse is unpredictable. It could vote to cancel the referendum or try to erode Yeltsin a Power further. Recent polls indicate that if the balloting is held russians would vote for the president by a 2-to-l margin. But High inflation crime and unemployment Are eroding Yeltsin s popular support. Yeltsin proposed the referendum in december when the Congress forced him to replace his reformist prime minister with a soviet Cra bureaucrat. Hard Linen reacted angrily to Kha Bulatov s proposal to meet wednesday saying he was playing into Yeltsin s hands. They urged holding the session a week Latef. Russians Cany portraits and banners in Moscow to Mark the 40th anniversary Friday of soviet dictator Josef Stalin s death. Some russians Praise Days of Stalin Moscow a dozens of stalinist Laid Flowers at the dictator s grave along the Kremlin Wall Friday to Mark the 40th anniversary of his death. They later accused president Boris n. Yeltsin of plotting a new dictatorship. Quot people remember How Well we lived under Stalin. Everything was for the people. Now everything is for the Rich a said Olga Ivanova a pensioner who joined the demonstration of aging stalinist outside the Lenin museum. On a Clear Crisp Day about 80 people carrying red banners and portraits of Josef Stalin silently filed past the bust that Marks his grave and Laid red carnations and yellow tulips there Quot ours is the True cause. We shall win a read one sign quoting Stalin s words during world War u. Quot Stalin raised us for the Good of the nation Quot read another. Forty years after Stalin died of a brain Haemorrhage at age 73, the nation he forged through Force terror and mass deportations has split apart. Some russians bewildered by the changes and angered by their new found poverty Long for a Strong Leader in Stalin s Mold a someone to fix the Economy fight crime and Stop ethnic warfare. In the georgian town of Gori hundreds of people carrying wreaths and playing funeral music solemnly gathered outside the two room Brejc House where Stalin was born. They later marched to the town Square that still bears a statue of him a one of the few remaining in the former soviet Union. Quot the country needs a new Stalin a said one Marcher Josef Dezhi Shvili. Adriatic duty unchanged for Juk Crew by Gary Miller Mediterranean Bureau aboard the aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy operations have remained at routine Levels for the Crew aboard a . Aircraft Carrier in the Adriatic sea despite the Advent of . Air Force Airdrop. The aircraft Carrier John f. Kennedy re entered the Central Adriatic in late february the Carrier group commander said last week. The Carrier is conducting operations about 55 Miles off the coast of former Yugoslavia. The Navy is playing Only a minor role in the Airdrop operations that began last week by transport planes belonging to the . Air. Force. The Navy is launching patrol aircraft in support of the Airdrop. But the Only Navy involvement so far in support of american c-130 cargo planes dropping emergency supplies into Bosnia and Herzegovina Are the Carrier s e-2c Hawkeye Early detection aircraft. Quot each evening we do launch two e-2s that Are part of the monitoring of the Airdrop that Are going into Bosnia Herze Covina a said rear adm. James a. Lair. Quot out its the same Mission that we re performing with the United nations Relief flights that go into Sarajevo every  he described the Navy aircraft flights As Quot mini air traffic  although the full array of the Carrier s aircraft is in the air when the Hawk eyes Are launched Lair said the fighter and bombers flights Are Quot just a Normal  the Carrier s aircraft Are sometimes Only 150 Miles from the air Force s c-130s and would need Only a few minutes to reach them if ordered to do so. Lair new pact shuffles College offerings in Mediterranean by Marian Hamilton Mediterranean Bureau Naples Italy a a joint education contracting agreement Between the army Navy and air Force is affecting american military bases throughout the Mediterranean according to education officials from Lajes Field in the azores to Naples Italy. The agreement which takes effect aug. 1, consolidates educational services throughout Europe giving contracts Only to those institutions that can Promise to serve All european military bases. Under the new agreement the University of Maryland will handle most undergraduate Liberal arts courses and add postgraduate courses to its list of services. City colleges of Chicago will handle no classroom lower level College classes Central Texas College will offer vocational technical courses and Embry Riddle aeronautical University will continue to offer a full aeronautical program. The effect on students enrolled at other base colleges and universities will be varied the University of la Verne a Small private College based in la Verne calif., but with overseas offices in Naples and Gaeta Italy and in Nas Simonella Sicily will soon turn its College language classes Over to the University of Maryland. La Verne which opened its Naples office in 1976, will continue to offer noncredit language courses in Italy and Sicily and its european Headquarters in Athens will continue to offer a degree program. Naval station Rota Spain will lose some of the services previously offered by Troy state University and Rota Community College but will gain graduate and aeronautical courses at the University of Maryland lower level classes at Central Texas College and video classes sponsored by Embry Riddle. Troy state University will no longer service Lajes Field azores but University of Maryland graduate classes Are slated to begin there soon. Aviano a Italy and Iraklion a Crete report that no major changes Are expected to their educational programs. Students enrolled in programs with universities slated to shut Down or reduce operations in Europe have been promised a Chance to switch most of their class credits to the institutions holding the new contracts