European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 19,1993 world the stars and stripes Page .13u.s., Bonn vow togetherness on Russia Ogger sheim Germany a the United Stales and Germany pledged close cooperation saturday to help president Boris n. Yeltsin through russians political and economic crises but reported no Progress on a Clinton administration Effort to free  Western Aid for Moscow. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said vice president Al Gore raised the latter Issue during a two hour meeting at Kohls residence near Ludwigshafen. But Kohl did not answer directly when asked if Germany would join the United states in trying to relax standards for International monetary fund and other Aid to Russia. Although Short on specifics Kohl and Gore said the two nations would work to assess what Steps the West should take in response to russians parliamentary elections which gave Reform opponents considerable Success. A we agreed to continue consulting with experts blame Vlad the hypnotist Moscow a there have been Many explanations offered for the election Success of a far Rig Hrcan dilate but a group of Moscow pay Nyp nol one Friday mass hypnosis. Cho Logiste and hypnotists added a new according to the inter fax news Agency the group of prominent doctors issued a statement saying Vladimir a a Mirinovsky a used techniques of psychological influence on especially susceptible groups of people in television Campaign ads. One of the most prominent members of a Mirinovsky s racist and Ultra nationalist Liberal democratic party is Anatoly Kas Pirovsky a television Faith healer. Kas Pirovsky became famous in 1989 for mass television stances in which he claimed to heal thousands of viewers. The doctors said  a parly used Kash Pirovsky a techniques inter fax said. One another very closely As we continue to strategy comes in the Wake of the Success support the process of Reform and democratization that president Yeltsin is pursuing in Russia a Gore said after the meeting. The reassessment of the Western Aid of Ultra nationalist Vladimir a a Mirinovsky and his Liberal democratic party in russians parliamentary elections last week.  a emergence As a Yeltsin critic has alarmed the West particularly Germany because of his expansionist views and nuclear  Gore nor Kohl made any direct reference to a Mirinovsky but it was Clear Kohl had him in mind when he stressed the importance of the West a speaking with one voice when it comes to Russia. A it cannot be said often enough that the True Success of the Reform movement in Russia is our Success a Kohl said. A and this is particularly True and particularly important in View of the somewhat strident remarks made by those who Are opposed to the forces of  a senior administration official Sug ested that the election results might ave made Germany More interested in speeding up its Aid delivery.  a party has ties to the rightist German Peoples Union and among other alarming statements has said that if elected president he would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if Germany meddled in russians affairs. I former italian Leader denies accepting bribes by the new York times Rome a in an unscheduled and sometimes dramatic courtroom appearance Friday former prime minister bet Tino Praxi strongly denied accusations of personal corruption in Italy a huge bribery scandal but he acknowledged that he had known of widespread illicit political financing a since i was in Short  Praxi was appearing at the first major trial to emerge from the scandal in which financier Sergio Cusani is accused of managing some $94 million in bribes paid to politicians by Ferruzzi the company he worked for. The food and chemicals Empire ranked As Italy a second richest private corporation before a huge debt crisis earlier this year. Or Axil a unexpected appearance in the Milan courtroom was big news in Italy because the disgraced socialist Leader has become virtually an Emblem of everything that happened in the country a freewheeling 1980s, when politicians and business leaders were linked in an Ever widening Trade of bribes for government contracts. More than 3,000 people have been implicated in the scandal since 1992. It was Praxi s first testimony before the court. His appearance was All the More tantalizing because the prosecutor Antonio Dipetro was the magistrate who has stolen headlines As the spearhead of investigations into Praxi s dealings. Praxi was not the Only former Leader to come under scrutiny last week. In Rome former Christian democratic prime minister Giulio Andreotti has again publicly rebutted charges of associating with the mafia. Newspapers have reported the existence of a photograph showing him shaking hands with a gang Boss in Sicily. Andreotti has called the accusations a fabrication to discredit him. Praxi under Cross examination Friday said big companies accused of giving him bribes never a gave me personally one single  by contrast he asserted that the former communist party of Italy which has escaped major implication in the corruption scandal had constructed a the most powerful and organized communist party in the West with financing that in Large part was illegal a some of it from the former soviet Union. The former communists now known As the democratic party of the left have denied such allegations. Irish support peace poll shows Dublin Ireland up a Public opinion poll published saturday gave a solid boost to the Anglo Irish peace initiative for Northern Ireland showing 97 percent of the Irish people want a halt to the 25-year-old Ira Campaign to end British Rule in the province. The poll of 1,000 people was the first to be conducted in the Irish Republic since prime minister Albert Reynolds and British prime minister John major signed a joint declaration wednesday aimed at encouraging the Irish Republican army to end its armed struggle. The joint declaration said the iras political Wing sinn fein could join Al party talks on Northern Ireland in Exchange for an Ira pledge to renounce violence. Sinn fein said it would consider the proposal in depth. Stumped an unidentified visitor views an upside Down Christmas tree with its exposed roots covered in Gold Leaf on display at the Tate gallery in London on Friday. Iranian sculptor Shira Zeh Housel any who was invited to create the Art gallery s annual Christmas tree decided to focus on the natural qualities of the tree by hanging it with the roots free. She described the display As a taking Earth Back to  strapped Germany makes initial trims in welfare programs Berlin apr Germany on Friday Cut the first in holes in the country a postwar social welfare net and the government says More Are coming. After world War a Western germans steadily built o Cradle to grave protections within their capitalist Stem. Despite protests from the left part of that will ass into history in two weeks. Chancellor Helmut Kohls government is struggling Ith a worrisome budget deficit and a sluggish Economy that May not completely recover from recession until 1995. The Ripper House of parliament in Bonn called the bundesrat trimmed unemployment benefits child support payments and Job retraining programs. The package also will phase out compensation to construction workers temporarily not working because of bad weather. Kohls government Hopes that those and other measures approved during a nationally televised debate will trim Between 20 billion Marks $12 billion and 21 billion Marks $12.6 billion from next years Fede ral budget deficit. The package already approved by the lower House of parliament will take effect Jan. 1 and also will boost gasoline taxes. The Gas lax increases will raise the Price of unleaded regular from about 1.30 Marks a liter or about $3.10 a gallon to about 1.46 Marks a liter or about $3.50 a gallon. That will give Germany some of the highest gasoline costs in Europe