European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 5, 1993 Clinton Washington a president Clinton is extending Quot a hand of possible cooperation to North Korea after talks in new York that officials said achieved some Progress on the nuclear inspection Issue. White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said there was a modest Progress in talks with North Korea at the United nations on Friday. Reports quoting other officials cited a substantial Progress and said the North had agreed to allow wider Access to its nuclear facilities. A the Cia believes North Korea of tiny have enough nuclear material for one or two weapons. The North denies having a nuclear weapons program but has barred full inspection by the International atomic Energy Agency. Clinton in interviews with radio stations in Albuquerque n.m., and Denver offered new Hope that the deadlock Over Western demands might ease. Us a the stars and stripes Pago 5 a we tried to be very firm but also hold out the hand of possible cooperation a Clinton said. A they need to come join the rest of us. They need to reconcile with the South and 1 want to help  Clinton last week appealed to the North to permit outside inspections of its nuclear program and to resume dialogue with the South holding out the possibility of broadly beneficial relations with the West. State department spokeswoman Christine Shelly said the North a formal response was presented at the meeting but she did not say what it was. However both the new York times and the Washington Post reported saturday that North Korea had loosened its position. A a they re willing to allow greater Access than their previous proposal. It is a significant step a the times quoted an unnamed official As saying. There was no immediate word on the inspection Issue from North Korea but there was softening on an other front. North Korea privately told . Officials that the expected successor to Leader Kim 11 Sung has ordered More korean War remains of americans returned by Christmas As a gesture to Case tension. Nonetheless the North kept up its hard Public line Friday calling . Officials Quot trigger Happy for talking about adding american forces in South Korea a a move it. Said would push the North South military standoff a to the Brink of  mirroring Clinton a efforts to scale Down the rhetorical fire the head of the . Air Force Gen. Merrill a. Mcpeake said he saw no reason to increase . Air Power in South Korea now or to put . Forces there on higher Alert. Quot we have not sent additional forces and we Are not preparing to Send additional forces a the general said in an interview Friday. A a what a there now on the ground in peacetime i consider  a Ivan Ivanovich Lefta cosmonaut mannequin that took a Jaunt into space in 1961, and a prototype spacesuit for use on the Moon Are among items from the russian space program that will be up for auction at soothe by a in new York. Stars of space history for Sale rotheby s to auction off cosmonaut Memorabilia new York a Many of the objects on display this weekend at soothe by a auction House have been out of this world a literally a at one time or another. More than 200 items detailing the history of the russian space program were to go on View saturday. They include two space capsules charred by reentry and spacesuits such As the training suit for the first spacewalk in 1965. One item still is out of this world the Lunokhod-1 lunar surface Rover which is on the Moon. A just think for the first time a private person can own something on another planet. That a really an extraordinary concept a said soothe by a Davit Redden. He said bidding on the Rover would Start at about $5,000 when the collection goes on the Block next saturday. The Memorabilia were declassified Only recently As a result of the breakup of the soviet Union in 1991. The auction comes after three years of negotiating first with the soviets and More recently with the russian government. Redden said soothe by a approached the soviets about Selling pieces of their space history after the soviets unsuccessfully tried to Market space services. The russians Wanned up to the idea in june 1992 and have enthusiastically supplied All of the items including pages of Handwritten anecdotal material by people involved in various missions. About two dozen key participants in the soviet space program including for anything. Will go to the astronauts their families or the industries that designed the equipment. The item expected to fetch the highest Price a $3 million to $5 million a is the soyuz tm-10 capsule which was docked at the Mir space station for four months in 1990 and carried the first journalist Ever in space. The autographs of three space travellers Are scrawled on the blackened skin of the massive Bell shaped capsule. Its Parachute Hatch contains instructions in both English and russian the soviets apparently having prepared Aleksei a. Leonov the first Man to Vald Quot soothe by a David walk in space will be on Hants to answer questions during the exhibit and auction. A never before has a private citizen had a Chance to Purchase such important pieces of space history a Redden said. All the Money from the Sale a minus the auction Nousen a commission a Man inside help a it says. A open the Hatch. Take the key. Put into the Hole a the soyuz capsule and conical Mer Kur capsule flown in 1983, Are too big to fit inside the auction House so they will be on a covered loading . In All the auction is expected to bring in More than $7 million. Nasa official in hot water Over vouchers Orlando  Nasa official a High at the Kennedy space Center has been accused a Federal officials of submitting false travel vouchers. A civil complaint filed in Orlando on Friday in . District court seeks $405,620 in compensation and penalties from Paul Buchanan of Titusville director of nasal a biomedical operations and research office at the Kennedy space Center. Federal Law allows recovery of triple damages and up to a $10,000 civil penalty for each false claim. Buchanan who oversees All health facilities at the space Center is accused of submitting the vouchers claiming lodging expenses for time spent in Washington d.c., while on temporary duty for Nasa. Officials from the Justice department say he stayed at a friends Home during the trips which occurred Between Jan. 23,1991, and july 20,1993. Buchanan had been told by a Nasa financial official in january 1991 that lodging expenses were reimbursable Only if he stayed at a commercial establishment according to the . Attorneys office in Orlando however Buchanan a attorney Jack Kirschenbaum said his client had asked about reimbursement before submitting the vouchers and had been told they were acceptable. The civil complaint coincides with the Justice departments investigation of possible fraud and corruption at Johnson space Center in Houston. Johnson spokeswoman Barbara Schwartz said that space Center officials were aware of the complaint but that it Jand the Johnson investigation Are Quot two separate issues  Vienna bomb under scrutiny Vienna Austria a authorities were examining an unexploded letter bomb discovered at a Charity Headquarters saturday the Day after similar devices injured a priest involved i. Refugee affairs and a journalist the latest letter bomb had been sent to the office of Helmut Schueller president of the humanitarian Relief Agency Caritas said Interior minister Frank a Duchnak. The Austria press Agency said the letter bomb was being examined by police technicians in an Effort to determine its origin