European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 4, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 bellowing a Mirinovsky makes his  f. Or Budapest Hungary a airlines Are used to All kinds of irate passengers but not necessarily those who arrive two minutes before departure and threaten an International incident if they miss the flight. But then russian extremist Vladimir v. Zhirik Nevsky is not just any passenger. A Mirinovsky ended his foreign travels Early thurs Day in the spirit of bluster and commotion that Fol Lowed him through Slovenia and Yugoslavia during the past week. Airport Security found a gun in the hand Luggage of one of a Mirinovsky s aides As the russian hurried through the Budapest Airport Hungary s Mai news Agency said. Col. Jozsef Balogh police director at the Airport said the gun was taken away and Given to the Pilot for safekeeping. Hungarian air lines Malev flight 100 to Moscow was delayed 15 minutes for a Mirinovsky who arrived at the Airport from Belgrade Yugoslavia two min utes before departure in a Mercedes Benz with ser Bian License plates. I am a Deputy of the russian parliament. Hold the plane he shouted while Yelling at his assistants to hurry. When told it was impossible he pushed his face close to a Malev official and yelled what do you mean impossible you la learn what is impossible when 1 become president who do you hungarians think you Are a Mirinovsky was allowed to Board the plane. For hungarians who lived under soviet Domina Tion for decades veiled threats from a russian extremist Are not to be taken lightly if this Man gets to be president we re All in Trou ble said one Malev staff member who refused to give her name. This is a whorehouse Here. Imbeciles Zhi Rinous by berated the airline staff if anything is lost or broken i la have your head he screamed when told he would not be allowed to take his Luggage into the first class compartment. A Mirinovsky was travelling with three men and nine Strong cardboard boxes five suitcases and three items that looked like paintings. French wreck Market to protest fish imports French fishermen go on a rampage through the fish Section of the food Market in the Paris suburb of Rungis. Paris a swinging a handles and Iron bars 1,200 fishermen broke through police lines and sacked France s largest wholesale food Market thursday to protest cheap imports. The fishermen fired flare pistols into the Shields of helmeted riot police who replied with club swinging charges and volleys of tear Gas. At least 18 officers and three fishermen were injured police said. Protest leaders said one Fisherman suffered a fractured Skull and another lost an Eye. Doz ens of tons of fish were destroyed. The fishermen Are demanding that Paris and the 12 nation european Union take measures to set minimum prices and prevent cheaper non eur fish imports from flooding the Market. They complain that they can t compete with cheap imports and Are being driven into bankruptcy. Bowing to pressure the French government thurs Day ordered tightened customs controls to verify the Quality of imported fish. It also said the eur would de cide Early next week on minimum prices for some types Offish. The clash came hours after the French government pledged $50 million in Aid to the fishing Industry. But unions said most of the Aid was bound for big business rather than struggling individual operators. The fishermen arrived at the Rungis Market outside Paris about 3 . On buses from the Brittany Region where the fishing Industry is badly depressed because of falling prices and increased Competition from Africa Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The fishermen emptied trucks carrying Frozen fish and overturned containers and displays seeking out imports. Tons of fish were scattered across warehouse floors and the facilities were damaged. There was no immediate financial estimate of losses. New nato partner tells Russia to leave Brussels Belgium a Estonia on thurs Day enrolled in nato s new partnership program and immediately called on Russia to withdraw it remaining troops from the Baltic nation. You cannot be a completely free and inde pendent country with alien troops on your territory this is a fact said foreign affairs min ister Juri Luik. During a visit to the North Atlantic treaty organization Headquarters in Brussels Luik signed up for the partnership for peace program which was approved by president Clinton and other Al Liance leaders at a Summit last month. The program is designed to draw the Alliance s former Warsaw pact foes closer but without granting them full membership and the Security guarantees that would go with it Luik though left no doubt that Estonia like other East european nations wants More. Today my country is taking the first step to Ward full nato membership he said in speech to ambassadors of the 16 Allied nations. The allies have refused for now to Grant membership to their one time adversaries because of fears that such a move would create new Divi Sions in Europe and isolate and upset Russia. Shuttle roars to space on time Cape canaveral Fla. A discovery blasted off at Dawn thursday with the first russian to Fly on a . Shuttle opening a space age free of cold War rivalry. The shuttle roared away on the eight Day science Mission at 7 10 . Est. The spaceship Rose into a Clear sky the rising Sun gave the huge Clouds of Vapo left in its Wake a Pale Orange glow. It quickly settled into a 218-mile orbit joining the five americans on Board is cosmonaut Sergei Kri Kalev who wore a russian Flag on the Shoul Der of his Orange flight suit. Just before liftoff the head of Russia s space program Yuri Koptev wished Krika lev Good Luck and a Safe return Home. It s the first .-russian manned Mission since the1975 Apollo soyuz Docking and the first time Ever that astronauts and cosmonauts have been launched in the same  russians were treated to a rare trouble free launch on time and with perfect weather. Nasa had worried All week that the temperature might be too Low. For a Safe liftoff but it turned out to be 46, a Little warmer than  is remarkable that this launch has been on sched ule and everything is Well going All right Koptev told the Nasa launch team in russian. I Hope that in our future cooperative projects everything will be going As Well or right on  United states and its former space race rival expect discovery s voyage to Lead to More joint missions and by 2001, a shared space station. Up to 10 shuttle dockings Are planned with Russia s Mir space station starting next year. Today was the Start of a whole new Era said Nasa s administrator Daniel Goldin. Instead of spending another 10 years of frustration making a lot of drawings and not getting anywhere by the end of this Century we re going to have an 800,000-Pound station with humans always in space from All Over the world that we can take Pride in. When the Economy of our country and Russia Straightens out it s on to  Russia sent its finest to Fly on the shuttle. A Mir Veteran Kri Kalev already has spent 463 Days in space. By contrast the american Crew members had logged a combined total of 52 space Days going into this flight. They Are shuttle commander Charles Bolden jr., Pilot Kenneth Reightler jr., Franklin Chang Diaz Jan Davis and Ronald Sega. On saturday the Crew is to release a flying Saucer like satellite. It will be used to grow thin High Quality semiconductor films in the ultrapure vacuum it creates As it hurtles through space. The $13.5 million satellite a steel disc 12 feet in diameter will be retrieved with the shuttle s robot  two Days later. Scientists believe the film samples could surpass those grown on Earth. But Loren Pfiffer a physicist at at Tbell laboratories in Murray Hill n.j., said Sim Ilar results eventually could be obtained on Earth. Discovery is also carrying space Hab a commercial Laboratory in the shuttle s cargo Bay. It contains 12 Nasa sponsored experiments but has no commercial customers