European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world Friday june 17, 19942 reportedly die in crash of dutch air Force copter. From wire reports sleep Wink Netherlands a a dutch air Force helicopter crash landed in an Industrial area outside this Village thursday morning killing the two people on Board according to dutch television. Defense ministry spokesman Fer Logiste said the cause of the crash was not known. He declined to confirm the two deaths. The German made helicopter was on an exercise when it went Down at 10 . 31 Miles South of amsterdam.2 German sailors held Warsaw Poland a two Crew members of a German warship have been arrested for starting a Brawl in the Baltic port of Gdynia a prosecutor said wednesday. The arrest warrants were issued tuesday night following hours of interrogation Over the fight started by the germans on monday night at a local restaurant said Jozef Fedosiuk Deputy head of the regional prosecutors office. A waiter suffered knife injuries in the fight Fedosiuk said. The germans identified by first name and last initial Only Are Thomas t. Of Hariell Holmburg who is charged with using a knife in the fight and Hiko l. Of Magdeburg who is charged with causing material damage both Are Crew members on the German Navy destroyer Luitjens which moored in Gdynia following natos Baltic operations exercise �?T94 that also included polish vessels. The destroyer left for Germany on tuesday.2 British soldiers killed Suffield Alberta a a officials at Canadian forces base sufficed confirmed wednesday that two British soldiers were accidentally killed in a training exercise on the base tuesday. Base spokesman maj Andrew Taylor said the corporals of the Queens Royal lancers were crushed when a mortar Shell exploded and collapsed the Trench they were in. Yeltsin keeps pushing hard for slashing of army ranks Moscow apr president Boris Yeltsin is keeping up the pressure on his reluctant generals wednesday saying they should Cut russians army to 1.5 million men. After months of enjoying the presidents favor the military recently has been forced to accept a smaller budget than it had demanded and now is being told its forces should be smaller too. Defense minister Pavel Grachev said monday that cuts will reduce the army to 1.9 million by october. Russia has 2.2 million men ii its armed forces Grachev said although Yeltsin has. Said twice in the past week that the number is actually 3 million. The soviet army numbered about 4 million at the height of the cold War. Yeltsin a comments wednesday reported by the itar Tass news Agency came just Days after he criticized military leaders for being too slow to reduce their ranks. A the army should be More Active in cutting the number of servicemen a he said last Friday in a nationally televised Kremlin news conference. A i cannot understand their indecision. We cannot society cannot today maintain the 3-million-Strong army.�?�. Yeltsin a recent criticism of the military marked a major reversal of the pro military polity he had followed since the army helped him put Down an armed uprising last october. In the past eight months Yeltsin raised soldiers salaries and pensions exempted them from income taxes and pushed through a military doctrine a document Long sought by his generals to define the army a role in Post soviet Russia last december Grachev confidently announced that Yeltsin had even agreed to scrap plans to Cut the size of the army in half., a we Arentt going to make Sharp cuts we Arentt going to hurry a Grachev said then. Quot we will seek to preserve the number of 2.1  the russian Media have speculated in recent months that Grachev will be sacked. Yeltsin indicated in his recently published Book the struggle for Russia that he had trouble relying on Grachev arid the military during last october a violence. A i saw that the army despite All the assurances of the defense minister for some reason was not Able to come quickly to Moscow a defense and fight the rebels Quot Yeltsin wrote. Grachev last week complained of the military so a shoestring budget but said it now realizes that Russia cannot afford a soviet sized army. A we Are very Well aware that a Cut in military spending is a necessary measure for the country a he said a we Are looking for ways to save  sex communist Given Ukraine reins Kiev Ukraine apr a former top communist official was renamed prime minister thursday four years after he was dismissed for his outspoken support for the preservation of the soviet Union. Vitaly Masol 66, was confirmed by parliament on a vote of 199-24. President Leonid Kravchuk put him Forward to bolster his support among leftist and Eastern ukrainian voters who favor closer ties with Moscow. Kravchuk is facing a Tough Battle in the june 26 election especially against former prime minister Leonid Kuchma and former socialist Leader and present parliament speaker Oleksa Iader Moroz. 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Those products were still being distributed As late As 1987, according to documents. The inquiry headed by Justice Horace Krever of the Ontario court of Appeal is supposed to determine the safety of Canadas blood Supply and the problems in the 1980s when it became contaminated. More than 1,000 canadians the majority of them Haemophiliacs contracted the aids virus before the red Cross began screening in 1985. Others developed such blood borne diseases As hepatitis c. Inventory records for Factor 8 concentrate which controls bleeding in Haemophiliacs show that the Winnipeg red Cross received 645 vials that were disease free and heat treated from May to july in 1985. But Only 15 vials were distributed to  the same period the red Cross distributed 467 vials of Factor 8 that was not treated the records said. Marlis Schroeder medical director of the Manitoba red Cross told the inquiry during a hearing in Winnipeg Manitoba that blood products were distributed according to a priority list. Barbara Webster of the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Haemophilia society said the priority list had been drawn up on the understanding that there was a severe shortage of the heat treated product a but now we find out that untreated product was being used up when there was sufficient heat treated products for everyone. It looks like an economic decision a Webster said in an interview. Schroeder also testified the Manitoba red Cross continued to Send untested blood for the manufacture of blood concentrate after testing became mandatory in Canada. Cambodian peace talks collapse phenom penh Cambodia a a truce. The government offered a truce starting june 30, but the Khmer Rouge evidently wants to reach an agreement first on How much Power the group would get in the government if it Laid Down arms. Talks in phenom penh. We want a cease fire but we should a cease fire which cheats one  he said the talks failed to address the Khmer Rouge demand for a a minimum political