European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world thursday july 29,1993 Ruble policy reportedly reversed Moscow a russian lawmakers wednesday ordered the Central Bank to cancel its controversial decision to invalidate billions of old rubles news agencies reported. The inter fax and itar Tass news agencies said stores would be told to keep accepting pre-1993 Bank notes. The old notes would be gradually taken out of circulation and the Central Bank would replace them with new notes they said. Confirmation of the reports was not immediately possible and it was unclear whether the Central Bank could be forced to obey the order by the presidium of the supreme soviet legislature. The supreme soviet oversees the Central Bank. The Bank s decision announced saturday has provoked a nationwide currency panic and Given Momen Tum to president Boris n. Yeltsin s critics who have accused him of evading responsibility for the fiasco. . Bill looks beyond Castro Washington a the United states would provide economic Aid to a Post Castro Cuba under a Bill introduced in the House on tuesday. The free and Independent Cuba assistance act of 1993 also commits the . Government to renegotiating the status of or returning to Cuba the . Naval base in Guantanamo Bay Cuba and bringing Cuba into the carib bean Basin initiative economic plan once Havana moves to establish democracy. The United states must be prepared for a possible change of government in Cuba during the Clinton administration said rep. Robert Menendez d-n.j., a co sponsor of the Bill. The question is no longer will Cas Tro fall but rather How soon " the Bill states that the United states will provide financial educational and humanitarian support to a transition government that excludes Fidel and Raul Castro and their subordinates releases political prisoners and organizes elections under supervision of International observers. The new policy stunned russians out of their Politi Cal apathy but it remained unclear whether they would blame Yeltsin and if so whether it would threaten his free Market reforms. The order struck hardest at Ordinary people who prepaid in Cash and make most of their purchases in Cash. Many rushed out to spend their old Bank notes be fore stores stopped accepting them monday and Long lines formed at Banks throughout Russia As people tried to Exchange their old Bank notes. Central Bank and Cabinet officials have said the decision to revoke Cash printed before 1993 was aimed at fighting inflation and liquidating billions of old Ruble outside Russia s control in other former soviet republics. Russians have been told they can Exchange up to100,000 old rubles about $100 at Banks and Deposit the rest of their Money for a minimum of six months. Inter fax said the legislature s presidium voted in closed door session wednesday to remove All limits on the amount of old Bank notes that could be changed and to order All trading organizations to accept old Money. Inter fax quoted Vladimir Lisin a member of the presidium which consists of the legislative leadership and committee chairmen. A spokesman for Yeltsin said there would be no immediate comment on wednesday s reports. Lisin also told inter fax that the presidium would investigate and punish those responsible for the wildly unpopular decision to revoke old Bank notes. It specifically will target prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin Central Bank chairman Viktor Gerash Chenko and finance minister Boris Feodorov he said. A tourist watches As Bis wife is swamped by cuban children asking for Money and sweets monday at the Al Moro Castle in Havana. Haitian senator wounded in shooting port a Prince Haiti a a gunman in a passing car wounded a sen Ator at the Center of a dispute that threatens to stall the return of exiled president Jean Bertrand Aristide. No one claimed responsibility for the attack which took place in front of sen. Thomas Eddy Dupiton s port a Prince Home about 7 . Tuesday while he sat talking with a group of people the sen Ator said. He was shot in the Arm and taken to a nearby Hospital for treatment. Two youths near the Home were wounded he said. Interviewed from his Hospital bed by state run television Dupiton said he believed the shooting was politically motivated. We Are in a process of normalization now and i am under a lot of pressure to resign he said. Dupiton was elected Senate president in january by an anti Aristide bloc of legislators. The pro Aristide faction elected its own Senate leadership. Neither fac Tion recognizes the others elections. Pro Aristide forces have called on do Piton to step Down while opponents have resisted letting Aristide s backers gainful control of parliament. Aristide sup porters already Lead the House of deputies. Dupiton has agreed to step Down arsenate president if his counterpart in the pro Aristide Camp Firnin Jean Louis does likewise. Jean Louis has rejected the suggestion. The dispute could prevent consideration by parliament of Aristide s new Choice for prime minister Robert , exiled in the United states called on parliament to meet today an ratify Malval. The designation of a new prime min ister is envisioned in the  plan for restoring democracy. The Pla Calls for Aristide s return by oct. 30. It also requires the army commander  Cedras to resign before then. Ban of 9 his tests Sparks fear in France Paris a worried callers flooded aids hot lines wednesday after France already shaken by a blood scan dal ordered nine less effective tests for the infection pulled off the Market. Aids info service the main nation wide toll free line was often Busy and turning away Calls wednesday morning despite Fielding up to 400 inquiries an hour in the Paris Region alone. Some Are very worried and fearful said Bernadette Valentin Paris director of the government funded service. We re completely saturated a spokeswoman for another help line association aides said on condition of anonymity. Meanwhile the group act up demanded wednesday that the government launch an emergency Effort to test for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. The country s politicians and administrators seem to have Learned nothing from the contaminated blood scandal the group said in a statement referring to the deaths of hundreds of Haemophiliacs from aids tainted transfusions inthe mid-1980s. The group said authorities should launch now a Large multimedia Campaign calling for testing and press laboratories to destroy the banned testing materials. On tuesday the health ministry banned nine of 31 his tests used in France. The ministry said that the tests were less accurate than More modern meth ods. Sex employee of . Forces admits spying Berlin a a German who worked for . Forces in Ber Lin told a court wednesday that head spied for East Germany and the soviet Union reporting on movements of american troops in the City Hans Friedrich Handschuch 48,said in a confession read As his trial opened in criminal court that head been too Gullible in believing his East bloc contacts who told him his reports would protect peace in Germany. Handschuch could receive up to20 years in prison for spying. How Ever the prosecution does not accuse him of having passed on key information and he was Likely Roget off with a Light sentence. The prosecution said he receive about $14,500 for his spying which took place Between 1978 and 1992.handschuch had worked for the . Military Mission in West Ber Lin and for the . Diplomatic of fice in Eastern Berlin after German unification in 1990