European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday december 29,1994 bomb raids on Chechnya Grozny Russia a russian warplanes wednesday resumed the bombing of Grozny and other targets in Chechnya in attacks that defy president Boris Yeltsin s pledge a Day earlier to halt Aerial bombard ments of the capital. Chechen officials claimed at least 200 people were killed in raids on the capital and Many others else-where.,. V j a v a. ". The russian president s Promise to Stop bombing turned out to be a Mere hypocrisy Ruslan Chikayev Chechnya s Deputy foreign minister said in Moscow. Immediately after Yeltsin s speech they started especially cruel and brutal  an orphanage in the chechen capital was reportedly destroyed in one raid. The russians despite Independent confirmation of the bombing denied they had bombed Grozny. Heavy fighting was reported on the outskirts of Grozny. The russian military confirmed it was delivering artillery missile and bomb blows on chechen positions in the suburbs. Eyewitnesses said hundreds of armoured vehicles were advancing on the capital from three directions Al though both russian and chechen officials said the and Vance was halted late wednesday Chikayev claimed the russians also had bombed scores of Mountain villages in which there Are no Mili Tants killing hundreds of  was no Way to independently confirm the claims and both sides have been accused of distorting their casualty counts. Russian warplanes destroyed an orphanage in Down russian troops jump from an armoured personnel Carrier wednesday after patrolling an area West of Grozny. A town Grozny in a Dawn raid but the children were hid ing in the basement when the bomb fell and there were no casualties associated press television  children were playing when they started the bombing at Dawn said Nadezhda Medved the director of children s Home no. 1. Thank god none of the kids were outside when it happened she told Apt. The attacks appeared to indicate that Yeltsin in tended to keep using Force against Chechnya which declared Independence from Russia in 1991. In his nationwide to speech tuesday Yeltsin said he had ordered a halt to airstrikes that cause civilian casualties in Grozny. However Yeltsin made it Clear russian forces would spare no Effort to end the outrage of gangsterism i Chechnya. The new attacks came after Chechnya s rebel govern ment its forces badly outnumbered refused to Compro Mise or surrender in response to what turned out to be a temporary bombing halt. Turkey extends Proy Ankara Turkey a parliament on wednes Day extended the mandate for the  Western air Force protecting iraqi kurd for another six months. The Force of 78  British and French aircraft is based at in Ciurlik a Turkey. They make daily recon Naissance flights in the no Fly zone North of the 36th parallel to deter any iraqi attack on a de Facto kurdish state which was set up by Iraq s 3.5 million kurd with Western support after the persian Gulf War. The 450-member legislature voted 202 to 160 to sup port the Bill presented by Premier Tansu Ciller s coalition government. Others were either absent or abstained. Debate was heated. Earthquake kills at least two in Japan Tokyo a a violent earthquakes Hook Northern Japan on wednesday night killing at least two people and in Juring 130. The 7.5 magnitude quake entered inthe Pacific about 390 Miles Northeast of Tokyo triggered Waves of up to 22 Inch son snore but warnings of dangerous Waves were lifted 2v4 hours after the  people were killed and eight injured when the second floor of a Pachin to or pinball game parlor collapsed in Hach Nohe a Pacific coast City of about240,000 people 95 Miles West of the Epi Center. A 75-year-old woman there died after falling into Shock the Public Nhok television network reported. At least 130 people were injured non seriously authorities said including 96 people with cuts to their hands and fee from broken Glass. The Central meteorological Agency reported a preliminary magnitude of 7.5. The uses National earthquake information service in Golden colo., measured the quake at a preliminary Magni the Issue is sensitive because Turkey is fighting its own kurdish guerrilla insurrection. The parliament vote also came at a time of strained relations with Washington and other Western capitals Over Turkey s human rights record. Opponents of the Allied Force known by the name provide Comfort argued that Turkey s kurdish rebels were operating freely in Northern Iraq. They also oppose iraqi kurdish aspirations for a fed eral state fearing that might encourage Turkey s kurd ish minority. But foreign minister Murat Kar Yalcin told parliament that provide Comfort eased the turkish army s operations in Northern Iraq against kurdish rebels. The turkish army launches Cross Border air raids or land operations in Northern Iraq to crack Down on kurdish guerrilla activities. The  planes in provide Comfort pro vide the turkish army with crucial intelligence about the movements of the turkish kurdish guerrillas i Northern Iraq. The government also favored the mandate s Exten Sion to prevent further problems in its relations with the West. Turkey faces Western criticism for its armed Campaign to Clamp Down on kurdish guerrillas. Site of earthquake Pacific Ocean 200 pm. 35 wandering $6.5 million in Boston a thirty five wan Dering patients got themselves admitted to veterans hospitals 2,268 times in five years and ran up Bills totalling $6.5 Mil lion. The 35 habitual patients most of them alcoholic or mentally ill were the most frequent visitors found in a stud that looked for people who moved from Hospital to Hospital in the veterans affairs health system. The researchers noted that a doctors cannot easily Tell when patients  from Hospital to Hospital since the centers patients run up Bills at a Sites do not share a single computer system.  cause diagnostic confusion and receive uncoordinated care the study concluded. The a system provides free care to about 1.6 million veterans annually at its159 hospitals and frequent abusers appear to be rare. The study turned up 1,013 people who were admitted to at least four different a hospitals in 1988. By 1992, this had fallen to 729. Among these were 35 who showed up on the list each of the five years of the study. Player charged in teammate slaying a Wax a re to  tudeof7.4. In Hach Nohe streets were cracked a railway track was damaged windows were broken furniture was toppled and shattered bottles littered floors. At least three houses were damaged and two landslides were reported police said. The quake was Felt in Tokyo As a Long slow rumbling. Panama City Beach Fla. A a High school football player shot a teammate to death and then burned his body because he wanted to steal his mus Cle building steroids authorities said. Thomas Robert Mcgill 17 will be charged with first degree murder in thed Foj h of7� Keg. 18, Bay county Sher Iff Guy Tunnell said tuesday. The youth was in juvenile detention while prosecutors decide whether to charge him As a adult. Mcgill confessed to the slaying and deputies found five vials of anabolic Ster oids Worth an estimated $1,500 in his truck authorities said. Steroids Are Legal Only with a doctor s prescription. Mcgill told a relative what had happened and the relative contacted Mcgill s father who later called police