European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 24, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9 Yeltsin s air plane nearly crashed twice paper says from wire reports Moscow president Boris n. Yeltsin Sailplane has been on the verge of an Accident at least twice because its Pilot brought the aircraft Down too far from the proper Landing spot a russian newspaper said saturday. On june 18, the 11-62 air plane with Yeltsin aboard touched ground at Moscow s Vnukovo-2 Airport about 4,400 feet away from the require spot the weekly argument i fatty said. On aug. 24, when Yeltsin was returning from Poland the Pilot of the Ilyushin plane overshot the Landing spot by 4,600 feet the newspaper said. The runway at Vnukpvo-2 is about 10,000 fee Long. A proper Landing requires an 11-62 to cover about 8,800 feet on the runway it said. Were it not for Good weather conditions the president s air plane would have ended by  s soil the newspaper said in a front Page report titled soft Landing or. President communists Honor Lenin Moscow thousands of die hard communists honoured Lenin s memory saturday 70 years after his death proclaiming a resurgence of communism and predicting the imminent return of the soviet  wary authorities prevented them from undertaking a mass March retracing the route of his funeral procession to red  surrounded the Square at the pave Letsky train station where a special train arrived with Vladimir Silvich Lenin s body following his death Jan. 21,1924, at his country Home near Moscow. Some of the estimated 3,000 demonstrators held red soviet flags and portraits of the founder of the soviet state bearing Black bands of mourning. Speakers hailed the communists Success unparliamentary elections last month and urged a return to the soviet system. 0hristopher roots traced Oslo Norway Secretary of state Warre Christopher found his roots Over the weekend thanks to a Little digging by the . Embassy an norwegian government. Christopher had always wanted to research his norwegian heritage but had Little information according to his spokesman Mike Mccurry. When Christopher arrived in Oslo for the funeral saturday of foreign minister Johan Jorgen hoist he found that the embassy and norwegian government had traced Christopher s family Back to 1747. -.,  They Learned that Christopher s great Grandfather Jens Christopherson had immigrate to the american Midwest in 1853, from a town called Vang about 60 Miles from  the time the Secretary s Grandfather came on the scene the family name had been shortened. 24 die in Argentine fire Buenos Aires Argentina at least 24people, Many of them teen agers training to be firefighters died saturday after they were trapped in a Brush fire in Southern Argentina authorities said. Two people were missing. The group was caught in High grass by rapidly shifting winds in. A sparsely populated area Inch but province regional fire official Antonio Arce  had lost radio Contact with them Arce said. The last thing we heard from them was we re surrounded by fire when we finally went in we found the  . Commission to probe rightist attacks i n Germany Berlin a Germany is being summoned forthe first time before the . Human rights commis Sion and the chief complaint against it centers on anti foreigner attacks by rightist extremists. It is highly unusual for a major Industrial democracy such As Germany to be asked to appear before the commission. But member countries have expressed concern that Germany is not doing enough to halt Neo nazi attacks. A foreign ministry spokeswoman in Bonn confirmed saturday that complaints against Germany will be heard shortly by a 10\ver-level committee of the 53-member International body in Geneva. She said it was very unlikely that foreign minister Klaus Kinkel would appear personally before the full commission to answer the charges As suggested by the newsmagazine Der Spiegel in a report saturday. That s Complete speculation said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. In a report issued in Advance of publication today Der Spiegel said that Kinkel was concerned about potential political damage. The spokeswoman said the complaints being heard Arafat meets with Mubarak on peace delay Cairo Egypt a Plo Leader Yasser Arafat held talks sunday with egyptian president Hosni Mubarak on ways to Speed up the Middle East peace process. After the session chief Plo negotiator Nabil Shaath said his team would meet again tuesday with israeli delegates on the key issues that Are delaying Israel s withdrawal from the Gaza strip and the West Bank town of Jericho. Arafat was accompanied to the Mubarak meeting by several Palestine liberation organization negotiators including Shaath and Ahmed Quria a who also hailed talks with the israelis. Later sunday Arafat left for saudi Arabia on his first visit to the kingdom since relations were ruptured three years ago Over his pro iraqi policies. He was to make a Stopover in Damascus to offer condolences to president Hafez Assad on the death of the syrian Leader s son Basil in a car crash last week. Shaath said the talks on Sticky issues such As who would guard Borders to Jor Dan and Egypt would resume tuesday in the egyptian resort of Taba. Separate talks on civilian issues would Start today he said. Arafat and israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres held an apparently unsuccessful meeting saturday in Oslo nor Way where both men attended the Fune ral of norwegian foreign minister Johan Jorgen hoist. Hoist was behind secret meetings that led to the historic israeli Plo Accord signed sept. 13 in washing ton. In Geneva were filed by individuals not states and added that it was not Clear if they would even be heard by the full commission which convenes Jan. 31. She had no details on their contents. It was not Clear if the anti foreigner complaint has any connection to the commission s appointment last March of a special investigator Robert Dossou of Benin to examine racism in leading industrialized countries. Although no country was specified by name when Dossou was appointed diplomats said Germany would be a leading object of scrutiny. ,. Turkey had proposed the investigator. At least 30 people have been killed by rightist extremists in Germany since unification in 1990, a third of them turks. Police in five German states seized piles of propaganda and in some cases weapons in raids on Neo nazi targets thursday. Although the Neo nazi scene is splintered police investigators say they see signs that it is trying to form a United front. No time to be scared you never know what might be lurking under a freeway Bridge. But these children appear unfazed saturday by an ominous looking Fel Low who apparently wants time to stand still. The 13.2-foot-Tallgiant is just a plastic Gorilla installed to enliven the area under an overpass at Kawaguchi on the outskirts of Tokyo. Poison packets keep dutch wary of opening beaches Den Helder Netherlands a dutch authorities said saturday that they do not know when the All Clear will be Given in the nation s worst Poison scare which has forced most of the nether lands beaches to close. By the weekend 140,000 packets of the poisonous fungicide apron sods had washed up along the dutch coastline and another 100,000 were believed still floating in the North sea from a Decem Ber shipping mishap. Environmental experts said it is impossible to say How Many More of the cigarette pack sized packages will Wash ashore farther North on the dutch coast and the beaches of Germany and Den Mark. In the latest find saturday thousands of packets of the agricultural fungicide were found on a Sand Bank Between the Island of Texel and Den Helder on the Mainland. Hundreds More were found on the Beach at Den Helder. The fungicide can kill if eaten and is an irritant to skin and eyes. It was in three containers washed off the French ship she Bro in december off the French coast. The packets already have been found along the French and belgian coasts and Are apparently being carried steadily northward by the current. The beaches will stay sealed off at least until the end of the weekend said Waterways ministry spokesman Yves Van Erp. It is very Uncertain to guess when and where the packets Are going to show up he said. Cleanup teams in protective clothing have been combing beaches along most of the Netherlands coast since wednes Day night after the first packets of fungicide were spotted. Last month vast stretches of Atlantic coast beaches in France were closed to the Public because dangerous detonators washed ashore after falling off a cypriot freighter. More than 180 Miles of Beach were closed for nearly a week