European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 07, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 1993 world the stars and strikes Page 11 Yeltsin says he wants to stay in office Moscow Upo president Boris n. Yeltsin said saturday that he was opposed to holding the presidential elections he had scheduled and that he wants to so rec out his full five year term before retiring. Yeltsin told a meeting of newspaper editors that he wants to stay in office until 1996, when his term As Russia s first elected president expires and not face Early presiden tial polls in june the Independent inter fax news Agency am against re election of the president in june 1994," Yeltsin said. I am in favor of using the president s Man Date fully until 19%." he said he did not intend to put himself up for re elec Tion if presidential polls Are held in 1996 because he could not Bear the thought of five More years of adversity As rus Sia s head of state. Everyone knows How Many blows of destiny i have suffered he said. It s too much for one Yeltsin who took Over As Russia s first elected president in jury 1991, said he intended to find and Groom a sue Cessor to run As the next head of state and do his Best to convince the russian Public to vote for that person. But he said any candidate would face a difficult Challenge getting elected hard line protests possible russian warns Moscow a Russia s Interior minister warned that communists and other hard liners might stage violent protests to Mark today s revolution Day and Moscow police held a special exercise to prepare for possible riots. We have information about possible attempts to destabilize the situation in Moscow and other Cit ies Viktor Erin told the itar Tass news Agency saturday. Erin said without elaboration that police will use adequate measures to contain any illegal demonstrations and protests threatening Public safety. The Moscow City government has banned re quests by several communist groups to celebrate sunday s 76th anniversary of the 1917 bolshevik revolution with rallies and mass gatherings. The russian communist party later said it would not violate the ban. But some hard line leaders said they would hold rallies regardless of the ban or that they could not be held responsible for their follow ers if these decide to demonstrate. The russian communist party was banned by president Boris n. Yeltsin along with several other hard line groups after the president used tanks on oct. 4 to crush his armed political opponents. The ban on the party was lifted soon after. Meanwhile hundreds of Moscow police officers Interior ministry troops and riot police squads known As omon practice riot dispersal near the City s Luz Oniki stadium on saturday. The officers were swinging their Batons attempt ing to Cut an imaginary crowd into Small groups and arrest instigators. Others were firing from tear Gas grenade launchers. Anyone who says How that he wants to become presi Dent is mistaken if he thinks it will be easy Yeltsin said. Yeltsin originally scheduled the june 12,1994, presiden tial elections in september in an Effort to defuse opposition by regional leaders to his decision to dissolve the rus Sian parliament. Until now he has said he would seek election in june. Re but since the crushing of a parliament led armed insurrection oct. 4, Yeltsin s dose allies have come out against Early presidential elections and said the president agree to them Only under duress. Russia needs several years of stability since it still Hasto go through a crisis period in the Economy and politics said Yeltsin s chief of staff Sergei himself made it Clear he does not intend to hold the june poll when Early last week he presented regional leaders with a draft Constitution that contained no refer ence to Early presidential Yeltsin s comments at the saturday gathering were the first direct statement he has made on the Issue. He did not say whether he would cancel the june poll himself or whether he would leave it to the new russian parliament which is to be elected dec. 12, to decide. Drivers seek their place in the Sun Sydney Australia a gentlemen Start your engines. Click. will be no throaty Roar today when 55 race cars take off on across continent competitors in the third world solar Challenge All plan to finish the 1,865-mile course from Darwin to Adelaide propelled by the blistering rays of the Outback Sun racing from 8 5 . Each Day. Vice president Al Gore dubbed the solar Challenge the most important event in the world in a conversation last june said the race s organizer Hans Tholstrup of California adopted Laws re Quiring that pollution free cars beg into take the Road by 1998, automakers have been scrambling to build work Able electric cars using solar race cars As their test models. I think you re seeing Here the ultimate test of electric technology in areal life situation. The big interest is in the californian legislation and what that will mean said Greg Gardner the coordinator of Toyota s team. This year s race is expected to be tight with Detroit s top engineers pit Ting their Best designs against solar car built by Japan s Honda. Toyota and Nis entries come from Australia Brazil me Fco Germany Russia Brit Fain. Switzerland new zealand Cana la Denmark South Korea and puerto the University of Michigan entry in the world solar Challenge through Australia takes a test run saturday in Darwin. The solar car race begins today. Rico All competing solely for a Tro Phy of a Globe topped with a Sun and for bragging rights of course. Race organizers Hope this year scars will be Able to average better than 43 Mph cruising on solar cells an sprint up to 87 Mph on their solar pow ered batteries. The race is held every three years covering a distance almost As far As los Angeles to Detroit. No one has beat the time set by the pm Sunray car in 1987, zipping from Darwin in the North to Adelaide in the South in 44.9 hours averaging nearly67 Mph. It reached Adelaide 2vi Days ahead of the runner up. The design of the Sunray cer commonly known As the flying cockroach for its sleek aerodynamic shape has been copied by Many others. The 1993 race is shaping up As a Bat the of aerodynamics is. New motor technology Tholstrup said. Relocation up births Down in Spain Survey says Madrid Spain up the traditional Structure of Spanish society has col lapsed As people move to the City and Stop having children according to government experts quoted in the press Friday. Experts in charge of a Survey carried out by the National statistics Institute in which 160,000 people were interviewed in 1991 said the results showed How radically the Spanish Way of life had changed. There has been a collapse in the Struc Ture of Spanish society As a result of the change in the social roles of the sexes one of the Survey s authors Jose Luis Zarraga told the daily Abc. Spain now has the world s second lowest birthrate. While in the 1940s Only 14 per cent of families had one child that figure has now risen to nearly 50 percent. The Survey also shows spaniards now move Homes easily with 8 million people living away from the place of their birth. The two regions that have received the most immigrants Are Madrid with 60 per cent of the population bom outside the re Gion and Catalonia in northeastern Spain with 42 percent immigrants. Protestant held in deaths of 7 in n. Ireland Belfast Northern Ireland a an alleged member of an outlawed protes Tant paramilitary group was charged Friday with the murders of seven people at a bar in Northern Ireland on halloween eve. Brian mcneil26, of Londonderry also was charged with illegal Possession of an As Sault Rifle a 9 my pistol a sawed off shot gun and ammunition and with belonging to the illegal Ulster defense association. He was the second person charged i connection with the oct. 30 shootings at the rising Sun bar in the mainly Catholic Village of Greys tee ,70 Miles West of Belfast. The Ulster defense association another extremist groups rooted in Northern Ireland s majority protestant Community stepped up attacks against the minority catholics after an Irish Republican army bomb killed nine protestants in Belfast last month. Twenty five people have been killed inthe last two weeks. Mcneill concealed under a Blanket an heavily guarded by Royal Ulster constabulary officers was brought into a court at Limavady 12 Miles East of Londonderry. University president who mooned hecklers in Colombia resigns Bogota Colombia a a univer sity president who mooned a group of Radical students because they interrupted his speech stepped Down Friday. A student had videotaped National University president Antanas Mokus dropping his pants and underwear at the opening of school Art show oct. 28. The tape was shown on National to and stills were splashed across the pages of newsmagazine setting off a National up Roar. While some people called for Mokus ouster others applauded him for challenging the Rowdy students. Mokus offered to step aside and colombian president g5sar Gaviria accepted the resignation Friday. Gaviria said he regretted that the controversy had made Mokus Job
