European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday january 28, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 St. Petersburg Russia apr president Boris n. Yeltsin brushed away tears thursday As soldiers Laid a Wreath to War victims on the 50th anniversary of the end of the 900-Day nazi siege of this City then called Leningrad. Hundreds of thousands possibly millions of people died of hunger and cold during the siege after German troops encircled Russia s second largest City Yeltsin mayor Anatoly Sobchak and other dignitaries went to the  memorial cemetery where 500,000 victims Are buried the Federal and state governments reportedly spent $3 million on the anniversary Celebration. Yeltsin called thursday a a Holiday with tears a a i  fail to be with Lenin graders today a the president said on arriving at pulk ovo Airport. A no other City has gone through what Leningrad and Lenin graders suffered. / glory to the veterans who new Brussels Belgium apr Lithuania signed up for natos partnership plan thursday becoming the first former soviet Republic to embrace a Deal that offers cooperation to former foes while denying them full membership. The signing came one Day after Romania became the first nation to join the partnership for peace program. On thursday lithuanian president Al girds Brazauskas told ambassadors of the 16 nato nations that his country eventually plans to join the North . That aim could upset Russia Lithuania a neighbor and former ruler. Moscow opposes any eastward expansion of the Western military Alliance and reacted with alarm this month when Lithuania became the first of its former Warsaw pact satellites to apply formally for nato membership. A president Boris n. Yeltsin a spokesman Vyacheslav Kostikova warned then that Lithuania a move could provoke a a negative reaction in russian Public opinion and play into the hands of the country a extreme nationalists. Poland and Estonia Are expected to join the program next week followed by other East european nations. The program proposed by the United states allows East european nations to join nato in military exercises peacekeeping operations and other activities. But it does not Grant them membership or Security guarantees particularly Tjit an attack against one member is considered an attack against All. The program was designed to balance russians worries about the enlargement of nato with the desires of the new democracies in Centra and Eastern Europe for closer ties. Brazauskas sought to allay russian fears. A a Lithuania a position regarding nato membership is not directed against any neighbouring or other european states a he said in the speech at nato  for Leningrad dead won this Victory and eternal memory to those who were  the anniversary dominated front pages of newspapers across Russia and some criticized the government for doing too Little for siege survivors Many of whom Are struggling to get by on Small pensions. A veterans of the Battle of Leningrad and Lenin graders who lived through the siege do not look to our great shame like victors decorated with laurels a wrote the military newspaper Krasnaya zvezda or red Star. A the state and society Are not very lavish with signs of attention to  there Are an estimated 400,000 siege survivors in St. Petersburg now a City of 5 million people. The City took Back its czarist name in 1991. The government gave the survivors Small Cash awards to Mark the anniversary. Yeltsin said the government also was trying to improve the survivors living standards. A we have Given them a Complex of social benefits and guaranteed them social Protection equal to War veterans a he said. Yeltsin used the occasion to announce that an equestrian statue of marshal Georgy Zhukov who led the soviet armed forces in world War ii would be built on red so arc in Moscow. Zhukov who lifted the siege of Leningrad later became a member of the ruling politburo and helped Nikita s. Khrushchev take Power after dictator Josef Stalin died in 1953. Fearing. Zhukov a popularity Khrushchev later dismissed him while Zhukov was travelling abroad. Zhukov died in 1974. Yeltsin also visited the Village of Marzino 25 Miles North of St. Petersburg where the red army first broke the siege. On a tiny Bridgehead across the Neva River More than 150,000 soviet soldiers were killed in a week of fighting. Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo a Northern front line came under serbian artillery fire thursday the second Day of shelling after a Brief Lull. State run bosnian radio said the chief targets were in the area of vog Osca and Zug North of Sarajevo and the jewish cemetery near the confrontation line in the Southern part of the City. The radio said Sarajevo was on general Alert a warning for people to stay indoors. Shelling Nad eased for several Days before wednesday when 350 rounds hit the Sarajevo area said . Spokes 1� Man Mai. Id Bald Van Biesbroeck. He said 60 percent of the shells landed on Zug Hill and 30 percent in Dobrija and Mormilo two government held suburbs. The remaining 10 percent was fired by government forces into the serbian held District of Grba Vica South of the City Center. Eight people were wounded on the bosnian Side and one on the serbian Side Van Biesbroeck said. Bosnian radio also reported heavy serbian shelling of the besieged Muslim enclaves of Baglaj and Desanj in Northern Bosnia where there were reports last week that Muslim led government forces had broken through siege lines. / there have been signs of intensified efforts by bosnian serbian forces to reverse recent military gains by the government the biggest Overall loser in Bosnia a three Way War. Units of the regular yugoslav army a special forces reportedly have been operating inside Bosnia to bolster bos Nian serbian forces in their offensives against the strategic town of Kolovo North of Sarajevo and Sarajevo suburbs they were sent to the Region after attacks by bosnian serbian units in december failed to dislodge the lightly armed bosnian defenders around olo Vok said a bosnian serbian official who demanded anonymity. Yugoslavia now made up Only of Serbia and Montenegro pulled its army out of Bosnia in 1992. But it left behind considerable heavy weaponry that helped Bosnia a serbian minority capture 70 percent of the Republic. Yugoslavia remains under Tough . Economic sanctions for its role in the War in which at least 200,000 people Are believed to be dead or missing. 3�? a bosnian Soldier helps a girl run across the Street in Sara Jovo on wednesday to avoid sniper fire by serbian  View on Bosnia War strange . Says by the Washington Post Washington a in a sign of further .-european differences on the bosnian civil War the state department said wednesday that French foreign minister Alain Juppe used a a strange moral calculus in warning that . Policy could cause a catastrophe. A it is hard to understand his logic a department spokesman Michael Mccurry said in reference to Juppe a statement to the new York times on monday. Juppe said the United states was making a mistake by refusing to pressure Bosnia a Muslim led government to accept a european peace plan that would Divide Bosnia among its Muslim serbian and croatian factions. Juppe a remarks came after Secretary of state Warren Christopher rejected the proposal during a Stop in Paris. Christopher told his French counterpart that the bosnian muslims Are the victims of serbian aggression. He said the United states believes the serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina should make greater territorial concessions As part of a peace agreement among the ethnic groups. On wednesday the Clinton administration fired Back by expressing annoyance at Juppe a making the disagreement Public after Christopher had treated the Paris discussions As a private matter. In addition administration policy makers Are angry because France Over . Misgivings forced nato leaders at their Jan. 10 Summit in Brussels Belgium to consider Bosnia and reissue a threat to use airstrikes against the serbs if they persist in aggressive actions. The nato consensus collapsed almost immediately and talk of airstrikes has ceased. A the Secretary made very Clear to Juppe that going to the aggrieved party which has been the victim of aggression by bosnian serbs and in a sense forcing a settlement on that aggrieved party requires a very strange moral calculus a Mccurry said. He said the United states believes such a course a would require a massive intervention of ground troops by the West to Force a settlement upon unwilling  a that just does no to logically make sense to the United states at this Point a Mccurry said. French diplomatic sources said Juppe had spoken out because the French government believes Christopher misunderstood its initiative. They said Juppe had not asked for intervention of american ground troops. Instead they said he advocated that the United states join Western european governments and Russia in putting pressure on All three bosnian factions to make concessions. But president Clinton has told the europeans repeatedly that the United states does not believe the International Community can impose a solution in Bosnia against the will of the people there. The cleavage Between Washington and Europe has persisted since last Spring when the United states failed to win support for combining Allied airstrikes with lifting the arms embargo on the bosnian muslims