Russians favorable of Clinton
MOSCOW (Al*) Ordi
nary Russians grilled Bill
Clinton's victory with opti
mism Wednesday, while law
makers gave the American
proaident-eieet mason to t»e rosy atxiut t > kus
sian ties by approving a nudoar arms reduction
treaty.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin said hr* hoped
tho United States and Russia would be able to
forge a stronger partnership. Many Russians, ac
customed to viewing older leaders with suspi
cion, hailed Clinton's youth
Alexei Ulyukavev, a top economic advisor to
Yeltsin, said he once suspected a Clinton victory
would lead to isolationism, but now believes "the
Democrats will be able to act more freely in inter
national areas than the Republicans ."
Speaking to The Associated Press in Berlin,
Ulukayov pointed to Russia's need for U S help
in postponing payments on its $71 billion foreign
debt, but said Russian manufacturers' access to
American markets was "much more important for
us.”
Russia's Supreme Soviet voted 157-1 to ratify
tho Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which was
signed by President Bush and former Soviet Presi
dent Mikhail Corbachev in 1991. Hard-liners said
iht> volt; was an unwarranted gift to Clinton
"Some people want to present it on a silver
platter to the ll.S president-elect." legislator Vi
taly Sevastyanov said
Generally, howomr, people interviewed in con
tral Moscow wore glad that a younger man would
bo at the helm of Russia's former nemesis Clinton
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"It's the time of young people, said army Col
Mikhail Re/.nikov, who was shopping for food
with a fellow officer, "because they are much
more flexible They Itxik at all things Without
doubt, it's much, much better."
Gorbachev called Glinton a "natural leader,
bom after World War II. and he represents the
new. younger people."
In ihe Ukrainian capital of Kiev, historian
Danyl Yonovsky welcomed the election of a
"Beetles epoch" lender Ukrainian Prime Minister
Leonid Kuchma also praised Clinton s youth and
made u swipe at Bush
"I hope that we will have more fruitful rela
tions with the USA as, so far, apart from advice,
we have not had anything." Kuchma said
Ukrainian opposition activist Serldy Odarlch
confessed to "a gut reaction against old politi
cians" because of the succession of geriatric gen
eral secretaries who had led tin? Soviet Union
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German Nazi group
planned for revolution
BL'KUN (Al'l A federal prosecutor said Wednesday that
an armed group called the Werewolf Hunting Unit hud a bur
led cache of weapon* and envisioned itself as an elite tnxip
of a future Na/t regime
Federal Attorney General Alexander von Stahl, responsible
for terrorist and spying cases in Germany, took over the case
from stale authorities because of the suspicion of terrorism
involving to alleged members of the group who have been
under arrest since late October.
Two of the Werewolf group members am also accused of
killing a man last December In a highway robbery anil burn
ing his Ixxly In his cur.
ft was Stahl's first action related to the rise of rightist vio
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agency hud done little to stamp out sources of troubles that
have brought Germany under intense international scrutiny.
The federal prosecutor ts handling two related cases from
western Germany, one involving 20 people on charges stem
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the Ku Klux Klun Thev are accused of inciting racial hatred,
illegal use of Na/i emblems and weapons violations.
Described by inn If I Id
am Sonntafi newspaper as
thn "killer troop of neo
Nazis,” thn Werewolf
group reportedly operates
in a mllitary-llko fashion
Its members oven have
documents llko soldior's
paybooks, tho prosecutor's
office said in Its most do
tailed statement on thn
case.
If a Nazi revolution oc
curred. "the 'defense-sport
if a Nazi revolution
occurred, the
udefense-sport
group" would take
part as an "elite
troop,"*
Alexander von Stahl,
German attorney generaI
group would wise pari as an row iroop, mo prosecutor
said in a statement. The group staged realistic exorcises to
practice for its role, the statement said
The numo Werewolf that the group took comes from the
Werewolf guerrillas who tried to fight on after the Allies
crushed Nazism in World War II.
Authorities found more than 150 hand grenades, three sub
machine guns, rifles, handguns and ammunition
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