European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 11, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 13 ,.  " a photos . Soldier left in hard hat takes a break from construction work and jokes with a colombian Soldier wednesday in Juan Chaco. Other . Troops right build the Wall of a school. Colombia chief rejects ruling on . Troops. By Andrew Selsky the associated press Bogota Colombia a political fight Over the presence of . Soldiers burst wide open wednesday when president Cesar Gaviria Trujillo angrily rejected a commission s finding that inviting the troops was unconstitutional. The normally Placid Gaviria his voice trembling said on National radio that he would ignore tuesday night s verdict by the Council of state which said the approximately 250 . Soldiers were in Colombia Ille Gally. The Council is Colombia s highest authority on government administration but has no Power to enforce its decisions. It forwarded its decision to a congressional commit tee and the attorney general s office for possible action. Gaviria s Liberal party has a majority in Congress and he is Likely to win a Battle there if one develops. Attorney general Carlos Gustavo Arrieta told reporters that he would independently investigate the Case. About 130 soldiers mostly combat engineers from fort Rucker ala., Are in Juan Chaco on Colombia s Pacific coast on what has been billed As a humanitarian Mission to improve a Road and to build a school and Russia to trim tax on Vodka Moscow a the government has decided to reduce slightly its hefty Vodka tax in Hopes of helping russian distillers compete with foreign brands. Economics minister Alexander Shakhin told reporters wednesday that the Cabinet had agreed to Cut the excise tax on Vodka to 80 per cent from 90 percent. That would mean the Price of Domestic Vodka would dip about 5 percent. Russian Vodka distillers have been under siege on both ends of the Market. Foreign producers including some in former soviet republics have been flooding the Market with cheap Vodka that can undercut the Price of Domestic bottles because they Are not subject to the excise tax. At the High end of the Market foreign vodkas such As swedish made absolute and .-made Smirnoff Are attracting russian drinkers who can afford to pay More for High Quality and the pres Tige of an exotic Label. Kristall distillers the maker of Stolichnaya put 900 workers on unpaid leave this month be cause of falling sales. Stolichnaya now Sells for about $2.50 a half liter about a Pinta substantial sum in a coun try where the average monthly income is $91. Reducing the excise tax to 80 percent would bring the Cost for such a bottle Down to around $2.35. Shakhin said he believed the excise duty might have to be reduced to 75 percent to correspond with similar rates in other former soviet republics. Clinic. The Mission raised suspicions because it is in Anarea where drug traffickers and rebels operate. Juan Chaco is about 45 Miles West of Cali Home of the world s biggest cocaine Cartel. Other . Soldiers Are in other regions of Colombia maintaining a .-built radar system that has netted drug trafficking flights building a military base an training colombian soldiers to better fight drug traffickers and guerrillas. The soldiers presence has prompted wide complaints that Colombia s sovereignty was being Vio lated. Gaviria said Colombia needed air the help it could get to fight its powerful cocaine traffickers. He accused opponents of wrapping themselves in the Colombia Flag and displaying false nationalism. Sovereignty is in greater danger when a nation i handed Over to criminals and drug traffickers and the state does not have the capacity to respond Gaviri told reporters at the presidential Palace. Gaviria responding to a question said his statement did not imply that the Mission in Juan Chaco was any thing More than humanitarian. The Council of state held that Gaviria violated the Constitution and National sovereignty by inviting the american troops without its authorization or Senate permission. Gaviria said he deduced from the Council s vague and Brief finding that he would have to expel every military attache serving with the dozens of embassies in Colombia a move that he called  Gaviria ascended to the presidency after the Candi Date he served As Campaign manager was killed by the Medellin n cocaine Cartel. He now is confronting the Cal Cartel / Security forces killed Medellin n Cartel Leader Pabl Escobar on dec. 2, and that Cartel is far less powerful now. The Cali Cartel with billions of dollars and an Intelli gence network said to surpass the government s,.may.be More difficult to break. Our enemies Are powerful Gaviria said. To de feat them our technology is not enough. Even with our abilities and sacrifices we need  agents of the . Drug enforcement administration Are training a colombian police team that is going after the Cali Cartel using radio tracking equipment and phone bugs Al Timpo newspaper has reported italians press charges in 43 Slaughter Caserta Italy a a court indicted a former German army officer wednesday on charges of leading a massacre of italian civilians during world War ii. The action clears the Way for another Chance to con vict Wolfgang Lehnigk Emden who was freed last month after German prosecutors said too much time had passed to try the Case. The chief prosecutor in Koblenz Germany is appealing the decision saying the Case should fall under a 1979 Law that abolished the 30-year statute of limitation for murder. Lehnigk Emden 71, was charged with ordering and taking part in the killing of 15 people mostly women and children in a Village near Naples in october 1943 after some residents tried to signal approaching Allied troops. He has denied any role in the slayings which were carried out with guns grenades and bayonets. Magistrate Maria Musella ordered the trial to begin april 7. Lehnigk Emden can be tried in absent a it was not immediately known if Lehnigk Emden would fight extradition. German state turns Down us. Wolves Potsdam Germany a the Brandenburg state government on wednesday politely turned Down an alaskan offer to Send its excess wolves Here but said it would Welcome the animal s making a natural return. Wolves disappeared in Germany 150 years ago hunted to extinction. They Are increasingly being sighted again in the East and last year Brandenburg state decided to place them under Protection Alaska then offered to Send the state some of its excess wolves alaskan attorney general Bruce Botilho said wednesday that it was a Good Opportunity to help some of the 150 wolves targeted in its Wolf killing program. But environment minister Matthias Platock said Brandenburg state is interested Only in wolves that have been migrating from Poland noting that wolves from Central Europe Are smaller and weaker than their alaskan cousins. Last year Alaska announced a program to kill or trap 150 wolves South of Fairbanks to increase its big game population and attract More Hunters Alaska has 5,000 to 7,000 wolves. Germany arrests 8 rightists in attacks Berlin up German police have arrested gang of eight rightists suspected of attacks on a bar and a disco in Eastern Germany last year. The male suspects aged 16 to 24, were taken int custody wednesday following pre Dawn raids on 10 houses in the Eastern German state of Brandenburg police said. A police spokesman in the Eastern City of Potsdam said baseball bats and Samurai swords were seized in the raids. An official of the Potsdam state prosecutor s office said the men were known members of the rightist scene and were suspected of beating up guests at a disco and at a bar in the City of Gross Koseris in october. The official said the eight will be charged with Caus ing grievous bodily harm and disturbing the peace. In another development the trial of a suspected Neo nazi began wednesday in the Western City of Karlsruhe. Hermann Huck 29, is charged with inciting racial hatred