European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday january 25, 1994 russian Reform alive Talbott tells senators Washington a the administration s top Russia expert monday urged patience and steadiness in . Policies toward the troubled russian re form movement and rejected suggestions the russian Effort had broken Down. Many in the West Are concerned that what has sometimes been called the Sec Ond russian revolution has failed and that counterrevolution has set in said Strobe Talbott special adviser to the Secretary of state on the former soviet republics. That is not our View Talbott said. This is a Long term process and it will require patience and steadiness honour  Talbott and Brian j. Atwood adminis Trator for the Agency for International development testified before the Senate appropriations foreign operations sub committee on the state of russian re forms following the Strong showing of conservatives in parliamentary  also discussed the future of . Aid programs to Russia and the other former soviet republics. The forces of Reform Talbott said Are Down but not  he noted that one fourth of the labor Force is now employed in the private sector and More than three fourths of Small businesses and retail shops Are now privately owned. He said russian president Boris  in his meeting with president Clinton in Moscow two weeks ago vowed to keep Reform going full Speed  in Exchange Clinton promised the United states would push the g-7 group of Western nations to intensify multilateral support for russian Reform he added. Subcommittee chairman Patrick , do pointed put that the administration was just beginning to com Mit a major portion of the $2.5 billion in Aid to the former republics that was approved in the 1994 budget. According to Aid and Export import Bank officials last week Only about $42 million of that amount has been committed to contracts. Talbott said Many of the programs under the Aid package Are multiyear and resources will be disbursed Over the next few years. Leahy also warned against personalizing . Relations with Russia by reaching out Only to Yeltsin and not to other democratic forces. We must not have a Shah of Iran situation with a country with 20,000 nuclear  Talbott who has been nominated to be Deputy Secretary of state last month Indi sen. Patrick j. Leahy right gestures while talking to Strobe Talbott left Brian j. At Wood second from left and sen. Mitch Mcconnell r-ky., on monday in Washington before Senate subcommittee hearings. Rated a shift in . Policy when he suggested that too much Energy was being put into rapid Reform and not enough on guaranteeing the social Well being of russian citizens. Clinton and others have denied there is a shift in policy. Talbott said monday that since the de Cember elections in Russia the state department is putting greater emphasis on International programs that Wilt help re Gions of the russian federation put in place viable networks of social services. Warsaw Poland a Vladimir v. A Mirinovsky is being allowed to visit Poland this week but getting politicians to meet with the russian Ultra nationalist is another matter altogether. The Little known nationalist politician who invited him Janusz Bryczkowski complained at a news Confer ence monday that no prominent politician wants to meet a Mirinovsky. He called that a Lack of self preservation instinct in View of a Mirinovsky s growing promo agent defends tragic raid on cult compound san Antonio a a Federal agent testifying monday in the murder trial of 11 Branch davidians described How he climbed while wounded to the roof of the cult compound during a cease fire to retrieve bodies of slain col leagues. Agent Gerald Petrilli under Cross examination also defended the use of Doz ens of agents to raid the compound. Petrilli said that after a cease fire was reached with followers of David Koresh he told other officers As he walked away from the compound we need to Goback and get our  so Petrilli and other agents of the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms Ald the compound roof and found agent Conway Lebleu. I rolled him Over. He had a 12-Gaugeshotgun clutched in his hands. He was dead Petrilli testified. They also recovered the body of agent Todd Mckeehan Petrilli said. Under Cross examination Petrilli said no one fired at the agents during the cease fire. He defended the number of agents As signed to the raid As not being excessive and like some of nine previous agent who testified he said the element 01 sur prise had been lost. Seventy six officers poured out of cattle trailers that sunday morning. About two dozen More were in nearby undercover houses testimony has shown. Methodically prosecutors have Dis played the Cache of nearly 400 firearms Nence. It s hardly surprising that the russian legislator and nationalist Leader is scorned by most poles. He has said that Poland should come under russian Rule and that it should give away its northeastern territories to Germany. A Mirinovsky is expected to arrive in Warsaw on thursday. During a three Day visit Bryczkowski said he will travel to the Southern City of Krakow Auschwitz and a Battlefield in Grunwald where poles and lithuanians Defeated teutonic knights in 1410. Bryczkowski said a Mirinovsky s visit to the former death Camp in Auschwitz where the nazis murdered 1.5 million people mostly jews is not to pay tribute to their memory but out of  a Mirinovsky wanted to Lay a Wreath at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier in Warsaw but he scrapped those plans after Poland s rightist parties threatened demonstrations. New basis for pact reported in Israel s talks with Egypt Jerusalem a israeli an egyptian leaders voiced optimism Mon Day that obstacles blocking the Start of palestinian autonomy could be overcome within a few Days. The upbeat statements came As the Pace of israeli Arab talks picked up with Israel and Syria resuming peace negotiations in Washington on monday after months of suspension. Israeli Plo talks on Security set to re open today in the egyptian resort of Taba were postponed for a week Pend ing the outcome of discussions this sat urday in Switzerland Between israeli for eign minister Shimon Peres an Palestine liberation organization chair Man Yasser Arafat. After an hour Long meeting in Jerusa Lem on monday with his egyptian counterpart Peres said that a basis has been created for a possible agreement on overcoming obstacles to implementing the israeli Plo Accord. We Hope that the next few Days willbe fruitful in pushing Forward the work on the palestinian israeli track toward solution egyptian foreign minister Amr Moussa told reporters. Moussa flew in unexpectedly for a six hour visit with a message for Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin from egyptian president Hosni Mubarak who met sunday with Arafat. Branch Davidian Ruth Ottman Riddle the Only female defendant in the trial of 11 cultists is transported from the Feder Al courthouse wednesday in san Antonio. Recovered from Koresh s burned com Pound and have questioned at agents who were in the failed raid and gunboat thelast feb. 28. They Are expected to Call several More agents to the stand before introducing Kathryn Schroeder a Branch Davidia who  guilty to a lesser charge and agreed to testify for the government. Defense attorneys declare daily that their clients were acting in self defense. They have tried to Chip away at the government s Case by suggesting that Federal officers were in an assault Mode and that at supervisors bungled the raid. Reward offered in Karlsruhe killing Karlsruhe Germany is German police offered a 3,000-Mark about $1,765 Reward for information leading to an arrest in a slaying involving a body found near . Army facilities last week. A passer by discovered the remains of Giuseppe Marras 51, an italian employed As a City rubbish collector about 6. . On Jan. 17. The remains were found on a bicycle path on the southwestern Edge of the former . Airfield. The army returned 52 percent of the Airfield to the German government recently but kept a Grassy Buffer area near the military shopping Center said Harry Connors spokesman for the army s 291st base support in. The body a found on the land now under German control. The americans Are not investigating any further. It has nothing to do with us Connors said of the Case. Marras apparently was Riding his Vio let Black bicycle to work when attacked stabbed and beaten police said. Investigators Are seeking a Man seen in the area shortly before the killing. The Man is de scribed As being 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall age 25 to 30, and of Normal build with Light coloured hair. He carried a Long object and wore a jogging jacket that was dark Blue around the shoulders and Light Blue below. Police ask anyone with information about the incident to Call 0721-9395436 or 9395931 in Karlsruhe