European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 ex-1eader of Geo re a reportedly i i is be if Tbilisi Georgia a former georgian presi Dent Oviad Gamsa Hurdia committed suicide dec. 31 after being surrounded by enemies in Western Georgia russian news agencies quoted his wife As saying wednesday. The reports by the inter fax and itar Tass new agencies could not be immediately confirmed. Manana Gamsa Hurdia told inter fax that her Hus band shot himself after he and a group of followers were surrounded by fighters from the pro government paramilitary group Khe Vrioni. With the death of this Man the National democratic movement has died in Georgia which will always re main enslaved she was quoted As  quoted Manana Gamsa Hurdia As saying georgian authorities were aware of her husband s death but had been thoroughly concealing it and continue to do so until the present. She said she had Learned of his death Only wednes Day. David mum adze an aide to the georgian Security minister said he had heard reports of Gamsa Hurdia s death but could not say whether he had been killed or committed Sui cide. According to some in formation Gamsa Hurdia has indeed died. Inane Case we do not be Lieve the version of Sui cide because we know Oviad Gamsa Hurdia he said. Mum adze suggested that Gamsa Hurdia 54, could have been killed by his own people to turn Tamsa Hurdia him into a Martyr. The aide also said there were reports that Gamsa Hurdia had had a serious disagreement with his former chief commander Loty  georgian Security ministry sources who demanded anonymity denied that Gamsa Hurdia killed himself. They said he was wounded in a gunfight with his own supporters dec. 30 and died wednesday. Gamsa Hurdia who was ousted in a civil War in Jan uary 1992, had been leading a rebellion in Western Georgia against his successor former soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze. However Shevardnadze s forces had gained the upper hand in the Battle in recent months and Accord ing to some reports Gamsa Hurdia s position had be come desperate. His death would be a major Boon to Shevardnadze and Likely threaten the rebellion Gam Sak Hurdia had led. The former president had returned to Western Georgia last fall after leaving his Refuge in the breakaway russian Republic of chechen where his wife a family Are still staying.  chief in Bosnia quits out from wire report United nations frustrated by what he has called a fantastic Gap be tween rhetoric and action in Bosnia the commander of . Forces in tha former yugoslav Republic has resigned after Only six months an asked to be redeployed in his Nativ Belgium diplomats said tuesday. Following an ear Lier confirmation by the belgian de sense ministry the United nations said tuesday that it. Gen. Francis Bri que Mont who com mands 12,000 multinational troops under the . Flag in ethnically splintered Bosnia and Herzegovina had asked to leave two weeks ago. But a spokesman for . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali said Brique Mont cited Only personal reasons for his decision to quit. Diplomatic sources said tuesday that the United nations plans to name i Brique Mont Chael Rose a lieutenant general in the British army who was knighted monday by Queen Elizabeth ii to replace Brique Mont. Brique Mont s one year tour would have ended in july. But like French Gen. Phil Ippe Morillon before him he grew frustrated by an assignment that includes watching serbs shelling muslims croat destroying Muslim villages and Muslim forces mostly trying to fend off both some times adopting their enemies tactics. Brique Mont recently criticized the .Security Council for passing truckloads of resolutions that it never seriously tried to enforce. Meanwhile a statement in Vienna Austria said wednesday that the presi dents of Bosnia and Croatia will meet in Bonn Germany on saturday to try touring peace to Central Bosnia. The agreement coincided with a warn ing from the . Ambassador to the United nations Madeleine k. Albright that Croatia could face International sanctions for its involvement in Bosnia. She said she would raise this with croatian president Franjo Tadjman in a meet ing in Zagreb today. . To review ban on use of pot for medical purposes Washington a the Clinton administration is reconsidering the ban on the medical use of marijuana the Public health service confirmed wednesday. It is something everyone is anxious to get resolved said Rayford Kytle spokesman for the service. There is a considerable amount of interest from Public inquiries and members of con  starting in 1976, the government Al Lowed people suffering from painful often terminal diseases who had not found Relief in traditional medications to apply to the food and drug administration for permission to use marijuana. Advocates contend the illegal drug eases nausea promotes appetite in peo ple suffering from aids or cancer and can relieve pain. But the Bush administration in 1992 ended the program Banning the medical testing or use of marijuana. Officials said marijuana could be harmful instead of helpful to these patients. The 15 people who were then receiving the drug were allowed to continue but their doctors were supposed to look into other therapies. Or. Philip Lee head of the Public health service said tuesday that review of the policy had been slowed by the controversy generated by surgeon general Joycelyn elders remarks last month that legalizing drugs might deserve study. Los Aspin talks on the hot line to Pavel s. Grachev his counterpart in Moscow. New partnership hot line to Moscow opened by Aspin Washington a defens Secretary Les Aspin inaugurated a new defense hot line to Moscow on wednesday telling russian defense minister Pavel s. Grachev that the should use the direct line to talk More often. The connection Here is very Good Aspin said after a couple of shouted hellos to open the  partnership line is a direct dial line running through commercial circuits with scramblers inserted in the phones to make them secure. The caller pays Normal International direct dial  differs from the Washington Moscow hot line set up in 1963 to re Duce the risk of a nuclear confrontation. That line allows Only for printed messages not phone conversations. Aspin and Grachev agreed to set up the line in september when the two met in Washington to sign a memo of understanding on improving military relations. Pentagon experts installed the cd rom devices that make the phones  spokeswoman Kathleen Dulaski said the need for the direct line became evident when Aspin was unable to reach Grachev during the uprising last september when anti Yeltsin forces occupied the parliament building. Aspin spoke of joint exercise planned for american and russian divisions this summer and said the phone was the latest example of an extensive program of. Contacts be tween our two  Aspin is stepping Down As Pentagon chief and will leave office in two weeks. Firm fired women instead of building new toilet suit says Dallas up the equal employment Opportunity commission has filed a lawsuit alleging that a fort Worth area company cited for not having enough toilets fired 30 women rather than build another restroom. The Agency said in a lawsuit filed tuesday that pro line Cap co. Of White settlement discriminated against the women by firing them because of their sex. The company began firing the women in August 1992 after the occupational safety and health administration cited the company for having insufficient toilet facilities. Leoc regional attorney Jeffrey Bannon in dal Las said Osha said they needed More restrooms for the women so rather than building a new restroom they fired the  Franklin Sears a fort Worth lawyer representing pro line denied that the firm discriminated against the women. Sears said the company did the Only thing it could to comply with Osha Lay the people  the Plant had one restroom and 60 to 70 employees at the time that the women were fired Sears said. He noted that the company employed Only six male workers