European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday August 4, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11 governors investments Moscow a an association of . State governors announced the opening monday of a tiny Trad office to drum up investment opportunities in Russia s provinces. The National governors association which until new operated Only inside the United states Hopes to help promote investment in the United states Colora do gov. Roy Romer told a news conference. Romer a Democrat and chairman of the association said the office will search out investment opportunities across Russia and provide that information to businesses. The office will have just one director and two assist ants to Deal with As Many As 66 regions. It has been Given a one time annual Grant of $300,000, mostly fro the . Agency for International development officials said. This is a Experiment said Ted Boimov the rus Sian born . Citizen who will run the office. This office May be shut Down after one year if there Are no foreign companies in Moscow have said it takes Sev eral years of work and investment before meaningful results can been achieved mainly because of political uncertainty layers of bureaucracy and Ever changing Laws. The Trade office is the association s first foray into foreign country although some . States already have their own missions in Russia. Rushing to put out Blaze a water carrying plane takes off monday from the Harbortt Palma de Mallorca to help extinguish a 2-Day-old fire on the Spanish Island of Majorca. The fire which was put out late monday destroyed about 750 acres of Wood land on the popular Mediterranean Holiday Island. It raged in mountains nine Miles West of Palma. Russians Vladikavkaz Russia a at least five guerrilla groups Are potential suspects in the assassination of the Mili tary governor and commanding general of Russia s volatile caucasus mountains according to reports tuesday. Senior russian officials and special police investigators flew immediately to the ing assassinations in tense Region in Southern Russia where thousands of russian troops have been deployed since last november to separate feuding Inrush muslims and Christian ossetian. President Boris n. Yeltsin s hand picked governor Viktor pol Yanichko 54, was killed sunday by gunmen on horse Back on a forested Road near Vladikavkaz the regional capital. Gen. Anatoly Korotsky the military commander for the Region and a body guard also died in the ambush of the governor s motorcade. Three other body guards were wounded. None of the gunmen was caught. Yeltsin expressed his condolences in telegrams to the victims families. These treacherous acts of banditry will not shake my determination to establish peace and quiet to Block the at tempts to drag russians into the feud the telegrams said according to the itar Tass news Agency. Iran denies it ordered guerrillas to halt rocket attacks on Israel Nicosia Cyprus a Iran broadcast a denial tuesday of reports that it ordered shiite Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon to halt rocket attacks on Israel As part of a Deal ending last week s hostilities. Lebanese government sources said monday that Tehran ordered iranian funded Hezbollah guerrillas i Lebanon to Stop the rocket firings. The sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Syria Iran s staunchest ally in the Arab world had called on Tehran to Contra the guerrillas. Israeli leaders have praised Syria for its part in end ing the fighting. Iranian radio in a broadcast monitored in Nicosia quoted a foreign ministry spokesman As saying reports of an alleged Deal were meant to cover up Tel Aviv failure to realize its objectives in the recent Iran s foreign minister a Akbar Velamati met be Hind closed doors in Damascus Syria on saturday hours before a .-Brokcred cease fire was announced. The Leader of Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah was also in Damascus. Syria with 40,000 troops in neighbouring Lebanon is the largest Power broker there. Israel on saturday stopped a we Klong Blitz against Lebanon that killed 147 people devastated 80 Village Sand displaced nearly a half million people. At the same time iranian backed guerrillas of Hezbollah or party of god stopped rocket attacks on Northern Israel that had killed two civilians and injured 24. Hezbollah has said it stopped the rocket attacks be cause Israel halted its air naval and artillery bombard ment of Southern Lebanon. But the guerrilla group said attacks would continue on israeli troops in their self declared Security zone in Southern Lebanon. Ural Plant spews radioactivity again a bouquet for Baudouin a boy brings a Bunch of Flowers to the Brussels Royal Palace monday in tribute to belgian King Baudouin who died of heart failure saturday night. Baudouin s younger brother 59-year-old Albert was named to the throne after the vacationing Monarch s unexpected death in Spain. It was announced tuesday in London that Queen Elizabeth ii and her husband Prince Philip will attend Baudouin s funeral saturday. Moscow a radioactive waste spilled from a Leaky pipe at a nuclear weapons Plant in the ural mountains the second Accident in less than a the secret facility officials said tuesday the itar Tass news Agency said the Accident lat monday caused no serious harm to workers at the mayak Plant near Chelyabinsk about 930 Miles East of Moscow. Itar Tass quoted specialists As saying the doses of radiation received by the workers were within accept Able limits. The atomic Energy ministry said a Pine carrying a radioactive waste solution de pressurized and leaked about 70 cubic feet of radioactive the Accident contaminated about 120 Square Yards of the factory s grounds with three tenths of a Curie the unit used to measure radiation the ministry said. By comparison Trie 1986 chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine released about 50 million curies spewing radiation Over several european nations. The earlier Accident at the mayak Plant occurred july 17, when a chemical explosion reportedly occurred in the sorption column which extracts plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. The explosion spewed radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere
