European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. November 14, 1993 world the stars and stripes Poland to get offers Paga 13 Warsaw Poland a spurned in i their efforts to join nato Poland and other Central and East european countries were told Friday that they would be offered associate status in the Western european Union. The announcement was made in a join declaration following two Days of talks Between the polish German and French foreign ministers. The statement said All Central euro Pean countries wishing to join the 12 country european Community trading bloc should be Given associate status in the Western european Union. The we was formed in 1954 As a Security Alliance. But its role has been superseded by  Atlantic treat organization which commits the United states to european Security. Under the treaty on european Union which went into effect nov. 1, the 10-na Tion we eventually is to become thee s defense Arm. Denmark and Neutral Ireland Are the Only dec members that do not belong to the Union. France and Germany said they would move officially to offer Poland associate status in the defense group at a nov. 22 meeting of the Union ministers in Luxem Bourg. Associate status Means Poland will Beable to participate widely in the unions activities the declaration  the meeting Andrzej Ole Chowski of Poland Klaus Kinkel of Ger Many and Alain Marie Juppe of franc discussed closer ties Between the dec and the new democracies in Central and East Ern Europe and stability and Security in Europe. Olschowski assured his German an French counterparts that polish foreign policy and Market reforms would be con group tinted by the new leftist government of prime minister Waldemar Pawlak. We will not change our. Attitude to Ward our neighbors Olechowski said. The ministers met Friday with polish president Lech Walesa and with Pawlak. Poland has received Only a lukewarm response to its Hopes for full membership innate. Russia after first appearing to endorse Poland s bid to join nato later reversed its stance and voiced opposition to the move reportedly because it sees nato expansion As a threat to its Security. Fleeing muslims accuse serbs of massacres Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a mus Lim refugees fleeing to a battered bosnian town reported massacres rapes and mass detentions by Serbia forces who allegedly looted and burned their villages a . Official said saturday. Many refugees wept As they recounted their suffering to Field workers of the . High commissioner for refugees who reached the town of Kolovo in Centra Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday said spokesman Ray Wilkinson. Kolovo about 20 Miles Northeast of Sarajevo is on the front line dividing territory of bosnian serbian nationalists and the Muslim led bosnian government. It has been bombarded for months and the . Relief Agency has been unable to deliver food there for two months Wilkinson said. Bosnian radio said serbian forces shelled Kolovo Allday Friday. It said they resumed shelling saturday and mounted infantry attacks. Wilkinson said Kolovo s prewar population of about5,000 had dropped to fewer than 1,000. But he said 300 refugees had arrived in the past few Days fleeing near by villages attacked by serbs. They told of rape looting and extreme hostility by serb forces Wilkinson said. They repeatedly broke Down in  he said that the United nations had no Independent verification of the allegations but that the refugees accounts were similar and  bosnian army officers told Unher Field worker that massacres and rapes had occurred during the ser Bian attack and that the villages of Erna Rijeka Ravn and Zubreta were abandoned and burned Wilkinson a resident of Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina lugs branches through the relatively quiet streets of the capital. Said. Army officers reported Large scale detentions fable bodied men he said. People in Kolovo face extremely harsh conditions and Are Likely to flee soon to the Southwest because of Lack of food Wilkinson said. Cmdr. Ides Bald Van Biesbroeck a spokesman . Peacekeepers reported heavy troop movements by the bosnian croatian militia near Fornica Northwest of Sarajevo on the front line Between croatian and bosnian army  said there had been no further shelling near a mental Hospital where . Peacekeepers and medicare helping care for More than 300 patients. Local Shel Ling thursday prompted staff members to flee but the have since returned. Croatian and government forces were Allied at the Start of the War which started when the former Republic s serbs rebelled Over Bosnia s Independence from Yugoslavia. Their Alliance has collapsed. Nations ban nuke dumping at sea London a the United states and 36 other nations voted Friday to bar the dumping of nuclear waste at sea permanently but four major atomic pow ers abstained and it was unclear if they would observe the  ban covers the 71 countries that signed the 1972 London convention which regulates the dumping of nuclear waste and other substances in the Ocean. Each of the nations has 100 Days to opt  the uncertainty Clifton Curtis an adviser to the environmental group Greenpeace International called the vote a major step Forward by the world Community in making a commitment to protect the world s  the ban replaces a voluntary moratorium on the dumping of Low level nuclear waste that has been in effect since 1983. The delegates also decided that within 25 years a study will be made to review radioactive waste dumping at sea. Dick Trump of the Netherlands chairman of the meeting said the vote culminated a 10-year Effort to Institute a global ban and was important even if the result was not unanimous. Japan and Ukraine joined the United states i adopting the ban and there were no votes against it. Belgium and the four other nuclear Powers Britain France Russia and China abstained. There was no immediate indication whether the abstainers would opt out. Concrete a is to have Yabba Dabba Doo ambience Oranje Netherlands a a local amusement Park is building 300 underground Holiday Villas aimed at offering vacationers a Fred Flintstone Atmo  originality is what we re after said Oranje amusement Park spokeswoman har Mieke Paters on  mostly attract families with children and every one will have a boat which the kids will  50,000-Guilder $26,000 Concrete bungalows on a canal Complex will be completely underground except for single picture windows facing out onto Small private beaches. The Complex is on the Bank of the Oranje canal a Man made waterway about 100 mile Northeast of Amsterdam. I think calling them bunkers is too  re real Cave dwellings said Paters. Park owner Kenny Van Der most wants to create a Fred Flintstone atmosphere the spokeswoman added referring to the Lead character in the animate television series the Flintstones a Tongue in Cheek look at prehistoric life. Sri lankan troops Battle separatists Colombo sri Lanka a hundreds of soldiers made an amphibious Landing saturday near a base overrun by tamil separatists fighting to reach 900 troops besieged in trenches and buildings. It was the closest that reinforcements have come to the Poon Eryn base in Northern sri Lanka since tamil rebels overran it thursday killing at least 300 soldiers. Military intelligence quoting intercepted radio messages from rebels said 450guerrillas were killed. The number could not be confirmed. The seizure of the base 185 Miles North of co Lombo was the biggest Victory in several Yean for tamil rebels fighting for Independence from sri Lanka s sinhalese majority. The soldiers sought to link up with 900 soldiers holed up in trenches and buildings on the South Ern part of the base. Those soldiers Many of them wounded fought Back rebel attacks Friday night and earlier saturday a military official said