European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A it \ Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday jute 1, 1994ailing Worner won t attend nato meeting in Turkey from wire report Brussels Belgium a nato Secretary it general Manfred Worner who has been battling cancer said tuesday that he Vytill not attend the alliances Spring meeting of foreign ministers next week in Istanbul Turkey. A my doctors advise me that i risk delaying further my return to full time duty if i go to Istanbul a he said in a letter to ambassadors of the 16 Allied nations. ,. He said a i shall return by the end of the summer holidays to resume my full responsibilities As the Secretary general of  astronaut to Fly Berlin a a German who has flown twice in . Space shuttles will go into space this autumn with two russian cosmonauts it was announced monday. Ulf Merboldt was named by the european space Agency to the Crew of the soyuz spacecraft with the Pilot Alexander Victorenko and Engineer Elena Kondakova Vladimirova. The three on a Mission called euro Mir 94 that is a cooperative venture Between the russian tend european space agencies will Fly to the Mir space station and spend 30 Days there doing experiments. Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque who like me bold has been training in Russia since last August will be the backup for the flight. The announcement was made at the International aerospace exhibition which is being held through sunday at Schonefeld Airport in Eastern  Navy lays mines Moscow a the russian Navy has started to mine the land and sea approaches to some of its arms depots in the far East to prevent the theft of weapons a news Agency reported tuesday. The ministry of defense ordered Nava authorities in the far Eastern port of Petropavlovsk a Schatski on the Kamchatka Peninsula 5,000 Miles East of Moscow to Plant the mines the itar Tass news Agency said. More than 10 attempts were thwarted in 1993 to steal weapons from one base under the command of the russian Navy on Kamchatka. Half the failed robberies were made by adolescents the Agency said. A accused mass killer held Sydney Australia a the biggest manhunt in Australia s history came to a Climax tuesday when police charged a Man with murdering seven backpackers and burying their bodies in a Patch of Forest called a a executioner a  Ivan Robert Milat a 49-Ycar-old Road worker from suburban Eagle Vale was arrested at his Home May 22 by police investigating the serial killing of seven Young tourists a two britons three germans and two australians. Their remains were found in shallow Graves near fire trails in Batanglo state Forest in Southern new South Wales from september 1992 to november 1993. Topographical maps identify the Region As a a executioner a  All had been stabbed. One woman had been decapitated and her male companion shot nine times in the head. Criminologists said the positioning of the bodies a All were face Down with their wrists crossed behind their backs a showed a Strong Streak of ritualism. Small crowd shows up for Honecker s funeral Santiago Chile apr Erich Honecker a remains were cremated monday at a ceremony marked by revolutionary Fervour and Praise for the East German ruler who built the Berlin Wall. A Small crowd waved red flags and chanted communist slogans during funeral ceremonies at Santiago a cemetery general. Many were chileans who lived in political exile in the former East Germany during Chile s right Wing military dictatorship under Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Honecker 81, died of cancer sunday in Santiago. His wife Margot daughter Sonja and three grandchildren live in Santiago. He came to Chile in january 1993 after a Berlin court dropped manslaughter charges against him in the deaths of East germans who were shot while trying to flee his brutal regime. Honecker was considered architect of the Berlin Wall where Many died. At the trial doctors confirmed that Honecker had liver cancer the reason the charges were dropped. Speakers paid tribute to Honecker on monday for helping Quot chilean exiles and praised him for adhering to communism. A the was a communist in his childhood and remained one until his death a said Volodia Teitelbom Secretary general of Chile a communist party former chilean ambassador Clodomiro Almeyda who sheltered Honecker at the Moscow embassy for seven months said a Erich remained faithful until his death to the principles he embraced As a Young  the crowd applauded and chanted a Erich our Friend the people Are with  Jovino Novoa president of the right Wing Independent democratic Union was not among those at the funeral. A it was not an Honor for Chile that the Man who. Built the Berlin Wall one of the last stalinist dictators has died in our country a he said. Government officials also stayed away. A . Military vehicle Rolls off a Barge upon arrival monday Ota Rawak Cay near Nassau Bahamas. Military denies exercise linked to Haiti Nassau Bahamas apr a Barg Cload of . Military vehicles was unloaded near Nassau on monday but . Officials insisted the equipment was not being positioned for an invasion of Haiti. At least 29 pieces of equipment including jeeps Light transport trucks a fuel trailer excavation equipment and two ambulances were brought ashore of arawak Cay a Man made Island near the bahamian capital the Nassau Tribune reported. A let me make it very very Clear a said maj. Matthew Smith of the . Atlantic come based in Norfolk a. A this is not a pre staging Point for an invasion of Haiti. We Are carrying no weapons. This was planned Well Over a year  there is mixed sentiment on Capitol Hill for military intervention in Haiti but president Clinton has not ruled out the use of Force to compel Haiti a military rulers to reinstate the ousted elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. It. Cmdr. Douglas Bird naval Liaison officer at the . Embassy in Nassau said the vehicles will be used in a two month training exercise for members of the . Marine corps 8th engr support in based at Camp Lejeune . Earlier news reports have said . Forces used a . Government facility on the bahamian Island of great Ingua for an exercise that appeared to be a mock invasion of Haiti. Military exercises in the Caribbean Are fairly routine but the Boston Globe quoted military sources saying the timing and size of the operation on great Ingua indicated it might be a trial run for an invasion of Haiti. About 130 service members will participate in the arawak Cay exercise. They will refurbish a couple of buildings at the Bahamas defense forces Coral Harbour base Bird said. They will also build an addition hat will nearly double the size of a health clinic. The ambulances he said will be used for emergency training of personnel at a Nassau Hospital he said. German move beefs up debate on . Imports Bonn Germany up the agriculture ministry of a German state announced monday a Complete ban on British beef imports in a move aimed at mad cow disease. The announcement by nor Rhein westfalen comes As european Union agriculture ministers Are meeting in Brussels Belgium to debate an Eli wide ban on the Trade in British beef with a history j f mad cow disease. The european debate Over the ailment has been forced by German health minister Horst Seehofer who two weeks ago threatened that Germany would slap a nationwide ban on British beef imports unless the eur introduced stricter Laws to control exports of British beef within Europe. The eur currently prohibits the Export from Britain of live cows older than six months. Seehofer wants the restrictions to be extended to include a ban of British beef and veal exports from livestock Over. 3 years old and to Block the import of meat from herds not certified to have been free of mad cow disease. But nor Rhein westfalen a agriculture minister Klaus Matthiesen imposed a ban monday on All British beef for his state following the discovery last week of three cases of mad cov4 disease in neighbouring Niedersachsen state Matthiesen told a news conference in Dusseldorf that the ban was necessary because scientists have not been Ible to exclude the possibility that mad cow disease a Bovine Spongin Tom encephalopathy or be a can be contracted by humans. Matthiesen has instructed butchers and meat dealers in nor Rhein westfalen to seek binding guarantees from suppliers that All beef purchased is not British. A Consumers should ask about the origin of the beef they buy Matthiesen said adding there was currently no better method of control the proposed unilateral action by Germany has caused anger in the eur and Brussels has warned that such action would result in european court of Justice action against Germany. Both the eur and the British government stress there is no scientific evidence that the mad cow disease can be contracted by people. From the scientific viewpoint British cows were infected from fodder that included carcasses of sheep that had a viral infection and almost 122,000 cows have died a painful death from the disease. Similar symptoms have been observed in humans afflicted by the rare Creutzfeldt Jakob disease with symptoms that include dementia and sometimes wasting of the Muscles