European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9 politburo headgear had Metal lining paper says from wire reports Moscow it turns out that soviet Leader were even More hardheaded than the world thought. Their big fur hats were lined with  soviet holidays members of the ruling politburo used to stand rigidly on Lenin s Tomb inbred Square watching tanks and missiles Stream by in military parades. Maybe they looked so stiff because of their armoured headgear a russian newspaper suggested Friday. The special hats were custom made on order from the Central committee of the communist party by a defense factory that also manufacture Standard Issue army helmets the daily Segodnia reported. The hats called Shapkin russian usually were made from the prize fur of baby lambs siberian muskrats or Young Reindeer. Metal plates hidden under the fur were meant to protect the communist bigwigs from assassination. Segodnia said the helmet factory now is offering similar hats to russian entrepreneurs who fear attacks from gangsters last year about 100moscow businessmen were killed in mafia hits according to the business newspaper Kommer Sant. German official resigns Bonn Germany education minister Raine Ortleb one of the few Eastern germans in Chancellor Helmut Kohl s Cabinet resigned thursday at his doctor s advice his party said. Ortleb 49, had spent most of the time since november on sick leave. He is a member of the free democratic party the Junior partner in Kohl s  spokesman Dieter Vogel told reporters that the Chancellor had accepted the resignation with full  Man posts bail in attack Sydney Australia a student accused offering Blanks at Prince Charles last week was granted bail Friday on condition that he seek treatment at a psychiatric Hospital. The new South Wales state supreme court earlier declined a request by David Kang 23, for bail. However it was granted several hours later after defense lawyers outlined a program for psychiatric care in a Sydney Hospital. Police and doctors have claimed that Kang is  was released of $3,500 bail. He had been held in a psychiatric Ward of a prison Hospital since Jan 26, when thousands of people saw a Man fire a starters pistol at the Prince at an outdoor Celebration. The Prince was not Hurt. God Hoff closes the books on pan am bombing London a repeating his con Tention that Libya had no part in the pan am bombing that killed 270 people five years ago col. Moa mar Qadhafi said he was closing the file on the Case. Libya is not paying the Price of the Lockerbie incident because no verdict has been passed saying that it should the libyan Leader said in a speech Broad cast thursday by the country s television. We declare that we have nothing to do with Lockerbie and we have no inter est in this Issue. We Are not looking at this file and we Are closing  pan am flight 103 blew up Over Scot land on dec. 21, 1988, killing All 259 on Board and 11 people in the town of lock Erbie. The United nations imposed air arms and diplomatic sanctions against Libya in april 1992 to try to Force the North Afri can country into extraditing two bombing suspects to Britain or the United states for trial. Libya has refused. The broadcast was monitored by the British broadcasting corp. Ukrainian parliament a i is a t n us i ear curb Kiev Ukraine a Ukraine s parliament re-.,fused thursday to join the nuclear nonproliferation treaty despite impassioned pleas by president Leonid. Kravchuk to make the country nuclear free. The rejection came As part of efforts by ukrainian nationalists to preserve some of the country s nuclear weapons. But parliament did vote 260-3 to remove conditions it had imposed for approving the Start i treaty requiring Ukraine to surrender its nuclear warheads. And lawmakers also % passed the related Lisbon protocol on hand ing Over the weapons. But nationalists argue those accords do not cover 460 of Ukraine s1,800 warheads a claim rejected by the  the nonproliferation treaty would remove any doubt. Lawmakers said mos Kravchuk of their concerns on Start i had been addressed last month when Kravchuk president Clinton and Russia president Boris n. Yeltsin signed another agreement. This agreement Calls for Ukraine to give up All of it about 1,800 nuclear warheads. In Exchange it receives Security and financial guarantees from the unite states and cheap Oil and Gas from Russia. The treaty does not need parliamentary ratification. In first approving Start i last november lawmakers had imposed conditions demanding International Security guarantees and compensation for the  had been widely expected that the nationalist ukrainian parliament would reject the nonproliferation treaty legislators say the treaty would deprive Ukraine of nuclear weapons and of valuable nuclear technology turning it into a second rate country. For that reason parliament speaker Ivan Plusch suggested earlier this week that the government postpone the treaty vote until after parliamentary elections next month. But Kravchuk made a Strong Pica to lawmakers to approve the Accord. If you know the state of our nuclear Arsenal you simply can t insist on keeping it he told the parliament in his strongest anti nuclear speech yet. The nuclear Button the entire command infrastructure Are in Moscow. No one will Ever let us take control. That would Only provoke a dangerous Accident he said. Most of the aging missiles need servicing and their safety cannot be guaranteed after 1995, Kravchuk said. Kravchuk told legislators that he received a letter thursday from Clinton promising to double economic Aid to Ukraine help dismantle missiles and assist work ers who would lose their jobs if Kiev gave up the Wear ons.-. Aid vowed As fishermen riot Rennes France a riot police battled with angry fishermen Friday As about 4,000 protesters tried to confront the French Premier in Brittany Cen Ter of a violent Campaign de manding cuts in fish imports. Premier edouard Balladur anxious to placate the fishermen after two Days of rampages promised that his government would move on its own to protect the French fishing Industry if the 12-nation european Union did not act swiftly. He spoke after a 20-minute meeting with a delegation of fishermen at a regional govern ment building in Rennes. About 200 Yards away More than 600 riot officers and police used tear Gas to keep Back fish Ermen and other protesters try ing to break through barricades. Protesters hurled eggs empty Beer cans and paving stones. Four police officers were injured including a riot officer seriously wounded in the leg by a shot from a flare pistol. The fishermen Are demand ing that Paris and the eur take measures to set minimum prices and prevent cheaper non eur fish imports from flooding the Market. 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