European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 27, 1994 uranium Cache discovered by estonian police Tallinn Estonia a estonian authorities have seized nearly seven pounds of Industrial Grade uranium smuggled from Russia and said Friday that a wide network of people is probably involved. The 6.6 pounds of Low enriched uranium oxide were buried under a garage at a private Home in Polva a Small Rural town close to the russian Border 120 Miles Southeast of the capital Tallinn. ,.the uranium can be used to produce fuel for nuclear Power plants but not to produce weapons. Estonian police said Moscow authorities notified them that the uranium had been stolen from a russian military Plant and was bound for Estonia a former so Viet Republic. The uranium was discovered aug. 17, but estonian police released news of the seizure for the first time late thursday. Holger Piigert Deputy chief of the estonian defense police said Friday that the uranium was stored in 590 separate containers and apparently was to be smuggled into Western Europe. Estonia was clearly Only a transit Point Siiger said. The announcement of the uranium seizure in Esto Nia came amid heightened concerns about the smug gling of radioactive materials from Russia. German police have intercepted four shipments of radioactive material since May including Small amounts of weapons Grade uranium and plutonium. German officials believe the substances angina Ted in Russia. Russian authorities have admitted that Security at nuclear facilities is often lax but they deny that any weapons Grade material has been stolen. This week Russia and Germany agreed to cooperate to prevent nuclear smuggling. The Baltic news service reported thursday that two russian citizens brought the uranium bars into Estonia and that an estonian citizen had been arrested. No fur ther details were Given. Piigert declined to confirm any arrests but said Many people probably will be  there probably were officials bribed on the russian and estonian sides of the Border Piigert said. The stars and stripes Page 5 fleeing Hurricane John evacuees from Johnston atoll arrive at Hickam fab Hawaii on wednesday. Hurricane swipes atoll in Pacific Honolulu a Hurricane John lashed a  Island with 100 Mph winds and 20-foot Waves after army officials evacuated nearly 1,100 people and shut Down a chemical weapons incinerator. Officials planned to assess the damage Friday on Johnston atoll about 700 Miles Southwest of Honolulu. The storm described As the strongest Hurricane to Ever Cross the Central Pacific passed about 15 Miles North of the Island thursday evening. Its winds continued to weaken they had been clocked at 175 Mph on wednesday. The last 100 of nearly 1,100 military and civilian personnel were evacuated thursday. The Advance warning allowed us to do 100 percent of the things that needed to be done to secure the Island prior to total evacuation said air Force col. Kenneth Deprima the Island s commard 20" Johnston atoll . Honolulu  atoll was claimed by the United states in 1858. 17q" 16q� Hawaii aps a bosnian muslims surge at croatian outpost Turnaj Croatia a thousands of weary rain drenched bosnian refugees were crowded into a narrow strip of no Man s land Friday and . Officials feared a standoff with croatian police could spin out of control. Croatia already burdened with 400,000 refugees from the War in neighbouring bos Nia and Herzegovina and its own Battle for secession from Yugoslavia has said it could not accept them. But the bosnian refugees most of them Muslim poured into the overcrowded Cor Ridor separating serbian held land from croatian held land after the bosnian army routed forces Loyal to a renegade Muslim commander last weekend. The Muslim led bosnian government has promised there will be no reprisals if the refugees return to their Homes in velika Kladusan in the Bihac pocket of North Western Bosnia. . Officials who have visited velika Kladusan say the town is Safe and civilians there say they have not been mistreated. But the refugees in Turnaj 30 Miles from the croatian capital Zagreb believe the strident propaganda of the Defeated rebel Leader Fkret Abdich who says they face retaliation if they go Home. We shall never go Back Dzemal Haris 35, said. We would rather die  Abdich a wealthy local businessman declared the Bihac pocket s Independence from the Sarajevo government last fall and made his own peace with serbs who sur round the Muslim enclave. It is unclear Why Abdich whose whereabouts is unknown continues to warn Refu gees not to return Home. A . Aid official in Sarajevo Peter Kessler said the United nations fears that these people on the ground at Turnaj have no Freedom of Choice and that they Are sitting out in the rain perhaps due to the will exerted by Abdich  refugees were sleeping under trucks and buses or building tents of Wood and plastic sheeting. Others sought shelter from persistent rain in bombed out build Ings abandoned after Croatia s 1991 War with rebel serbs. Drinking water is scarce arid sanitation is poor.  1 . Officials said 10,000 to 14,000 peo ple were in the no Man s land but journalists there said the number appeared to be about 6,000. At least 16,000 More were at an abandoned Chicken farm in Bat Noga to the Southwest. The . Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith visited the area thursday to try to persuade the refugees to return Home with no visible results. Croatian authorities fortified the Turnaj crossing with armoured vehicles water can Nons and barbed wire to keep the refugees out. . Aid officials were negotiating with croatian authorities to accept at least some of the refugees and Kessler said the Zagreb government did not Rule out that possibility. German Neo Tymich Delfox Deutsche Presse Agenter Dusseldorf Germany Neo nazis Are using the Telephone to win friends and gain influence and German authorities Are unable to do much about it. All one has to do is Call an advertised number to hear a recorded message. Unwanted listeners Are hearby informed that this connection is Only for friends and is not Public the terse Young voice warns initially. Then recorded uncensored information on Radical right Wing activities marches and concerts is rattled out. Finally the Farewell comes Heil  one number for the nationalist info Telephone has been Active for i years. The voice of National resistance in nor Rhein westfalen has been trumpet ing recorded Neo nazi propaganda for several weeks. Phone this is the far right s Grapevine said Ernst Uhrlaub the commissioner of Hamburg state s political surveil Lance Agency the office for the Protection of the Constitution. The info telephones indicate How professional the Neo nazis Are getting.". Security officials who Monitor the Calls know of at least six numbers in Berlin Hamburg Nurnberg and other cities used to broadcast propaganda. The people who operate through these answering machines Are thought to be mostly activists of the inde pendent German workers party. Security authorities said they Don t take All the announcements at face value. The info Telephone May even be designed to divert police attention said Fritz Achim Baumann chief of the nor Rhein westfalen of fice for the Protection of the Constitution. Uhrlaub said he prefers not to overrate the Broad casts. The announcements do not always match what they get up to he said. The people who run the recorded messages Are concerned mainly with advertising themselves and do so with disturbing professionalism. They Are not a Bunch of inexperienced stupid people Baumann said. The right Wing extremists protect themselves adroitly against going too far in the comments. The Only pronouncements that we do not make Are the ones that Are punishable by Law says the announcement by. A National press group for the Rheinland "info-Tele-,phone." Uhrlaub confirmed this they Couch their propaganda in such a Way that it provides no Avenue for the police to Lay  distributed by Scripps Howard news service