European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday August 13, 1993 t. World the stars and stripes Pago 9 Yeltsin set to break Law by scheduling elections Moscow tap a president Boris a Yeltsin said thursday that be will Call elections this autumn to end Russia s political paralysis if the hard line Congress does not set a Date. Yeltsin a statement broadcast on nationwide television amounted to a threat to step outside the Law. Under the Constitution the russian president does not have Power to Call parliamentary elections. A a elections must take place in the fall of this year a Yeltsin told a conference of journalists in Moscow. Of the parliament itself does not take this decision then the president will take the decision for Yeltsin a opponents condemned the threat. A the country is in a condition of a Semi coup today when the president is not complying with the Constitution the Laws a said lawmaker Vladimir Isakov one of the leaders of the. Hard line National salvation front. Yeltsin repeatedly has said elections should be held in the fall to allow the voters to break the political deadlock Between his administration and the con of Peoples deputies. Parliamentary leaders including Yeltsin a archrival Congress speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov have agreed in principle to Early elections. But they want new presidential elections at the same time and they have suggested that both ballots be held in 1994. Thursdays address was the first time that Yeltsin has publicly threatened to impose elections Over the con egress Gresso objections if necessary. The 1,000-Odd member Congress dominated by former communists elected before the soviet Union collapsed in 1991, has tried to hold Back Yeltsin s free Market reforms. Russians smaller standing legislature the supreme soviet is elected by the Congress from its members. It too has set numerous roadblocks in Yeltsin a path. Yeltsin Hopes that new elections will produce a More moderate Congress and supreme soviet that would allow his administration to carry out reforms. The lawmakers current terms expire in 1995. Yeltsin a term As president ends in 1996, and he has said he would not run again. He predicted that the Quot decisive political Battle in Russia will come in september. Meanwhile the remainder of August will be used for a artillery preparation a he said. Although most russians do not want Quot to take part in the political confrontation. For either Side a Yeltsin added Quot they Are being drawn purposefully and skilfully into the political he complained about attempts by his opponents to discredit his administration with allegations of corruption to suspend his program of Selling state owned fac tones to private owners and to push through a bloated budget that would fuel inflation. Aftershock of violence a woman cries wednesday As her Shack Burns Down in the troubled Toloza township near Johannesburg South Africa. The Shack was set on lire in renewed clashes in which scores of Blacks have been killed this month. Elsewhere in the nation nine people died in Battles involving police and Hostel residents and mourners buried victims of a recent township massacre. Most of the violence is linked to a Power struggle Between the anti apartheid african National Congress and the rival inkatha Freedom scientist honoured for work on Patriot missile from wire reports Warsaw Poland Zdzistaw Julian Starostecki a polish National living in the United states who built the warhead for the Patriot missile has been decorated with a polish combat award the polish news Agency Pap said. Starostecki on wednesday was awarded a combat Cross of the polish armed forces in the West at the initiative of president Lech Walesa the news Agency reported. He also met the polish army general staff and described the work on the warhead that tie conducted since 1966.Georgia official suspended Tbilisi Georgia a three people have been picked up for questioning in the slaying of a reported Cia agent and the head of Security for Georgia a Leader was suspended wednesday pending the outcome of the investigation. The Security chief Eldar Gogol adze was driving the car in which Fred Woodruff 45, was killed sunday night. His suspension was reported by an official of the ministry of information and intelligence where Gogol adze works. Officials in Washington said Woodruff was a Diplomat but news reports have identified him As a Veteran Cia operative. On tuesday Cia director r. James Wooi Scy or. Flew to the Tbilisi the. Georgian capital to bring Woodruff body to be armed Belfast Northern Ireland a policewomen in Northern Ireland will be allowed to carry pistols and machine guns like their male colleagues for the first time. The Royal Ulster constabulary said wednesday that All female officers in the British ruled province should be armed with at least a pistol by april 1, after training and distribution of Call their victim Coventry England thieves wait for their victim to discover they a swiped his valuables packed car from outside his Home so they called the victim on his own Mobile phone. Businessman Jim Brown told reporters that he answered his bedside Telephone at 4 . Wednesday and a voice inquired Quot do you own a land Rover discovery a thinking it was the police Brown drowsily told the Man he did. I Quot not anymore you done to we be just nicked it a a snickering Crook replied then Hung kills 11 miners Moscow a eleven miners were killed wednesday when a huge explosive charge blew up prematurely at an Iron Ore Quarry in Central Russia. At least 308 tons of explosives placed to smash a Boulder went off before All the miners had reached shelters said Arkady Friedman spokesman for a state committee overseeing mining safety. The Accident occurred near Gubkin a town 250 Miles South of Moscow Britain May be tired of being behind the times London up the British government is considering joining its european Community allies on Central european time abandoning the More than 100-year-old Greenwich mean time system that is the basis for the world Start Dard officials say. A Home office spokeswoman said thursday that the european commission was assessing the Issue of time zones in the Community and that a number of people in Britain favored the switch to european time. Home Secretary a Michael Howard is said to be among those supporting the idea which would set clocks in Britain two hours ahead of Greenwich mean time during the summer and one hour ahead of it during the Winter. The plan is opposed by Farmers in Northern England and Scotland because the Sun would Rise later in the Day and set later in the evening throwing off the balance Between Man and animals whose natural patterns follow the Sun and Moon rather than the clock. Quot i think it s rather silly a said or. Kristen Lippincott curator of astronomy for the National maritime museum. A the problem is that bureaucrats refuse to recognize that we live on a rotating planet. And because we live on a rotating planet it s going to be noon at different times on that the museum is in charge of the old Royal Greenwich Observatory where Greenwich mean time originated in 1884. She warned that changing the time to match the rest of Western Europe would disrupt the natural Harmony Between banners and their livestock with banners having to milk cows at a later time and roosters crowing at a later Dawn. She said the natural rhythms of City dwellers also would be disrupted. And she compared the Rush to change the clock with the earlier Rush to industrialize when businessmen gave Little thought to damage inflicted to the environment. Officials said any changes would have to be approved by legislation with lawmakers from Scotland and Northern England Likely to oppose the time switch. Alterations from the current system would not be Likely before 1996 or 1997. Greenwich mean time came about As a result of the growth of railway systems in Britain the United states and Canada in the late 1800s. With towns and villages each operating on their own time railroads needed a Standard for their timetables so people would know when the trains were arriving. The system was named for the Greenwich suburb of London Home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory which helped to map out a system dividing the Earth into Points of Longitude and latitude. The prime Meridian a or Zero Long Ude a passes through the Observatory and in 1884 became the basis for dividing the world into 24 one hour time zones each 15 degrees a part on the Earth a sphere. M
