Viikkosanomat, September 24, 1984

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Finns to run Moscow hotel
The Inter-Continent- al chain now the carrier will refurbish Some of the hotel staff vvill Inter-Continent- al hotel
vvill thanks to Finnair have a the new acquisition over the come from Finland The Helsinki Inter-Continent- al hotel listed also in Moscovv next three years to fulfil the hotel was purchased by
This is the first time a western norms of Inter-Continent- al The chief lawyer at Finnair Finnair a few years ago and the
hotel group will have a hotel in hotels Henrik Arle confirms that the airline made a franchising deal
the Soviet Union Moscovv Metropol vvill be in-clud- ed with the American hotel chain
Finnair recently took charge Finnair will also take over in the international re-servat- ion According to Arle it is too early
of the old hotel Metropol in the international marketing of system of Inter-Continent- al to discuss vvhether the Metro-
Moscovv The Finnish national the hotel They will train the hotels Although the pol vvill also have a similar
airline also owns the Inter-Continen- tal personnel and will be respon-sibl- e reservations will be made indi-rectl- y francising agreement in fu-tu- re in Helsinki and for hotel maintenance through the Helsinki
Plastic
fares
That all-power-ful
piece of plas-tic
just nevcr seems to stop
Eager to keep up with trends
Helsinki taxi drivers began
carlier this year to accept credit
cards as payment for their ser-vic- es
Some 20 per ccnt of the
capital's 1200 cars now take
Amex Diner's Visa and Mas-ter
Charge
What next? Bus drivers say-in- g
to you: "American Ex-press?
That's different Sir!"
Helsinki taxis:
plastic money
who
climate?
Welcoming
poisons
First lct us considcr the "evidence"
vvhich American officials referred
to Two so-call- ed "victims" of So-viet
chemical vveapons vvhen ques-tione- d
maintained that two vveeks
before they "had been affected by
chemicals" Hovvever the medical
investigation found that in reality
tney sunerea iroin a lunguua anui
disease vvhich had begun at least
three months before As for allega-tion- s
about "the poisoning of
vvater-suppl- y sources" the rcport
of UN experts stated that it vvas
caused by the natural penclration
of polluting substances into the
vvater In other vvords it is tan-tamou- nt
to blaming the Soviet
Union for the pollution of the
Great Lakes or the Rhinc
Yet there are victims nf chemical
vvarfare in the countries of Indo-chin- a
That very vvarfarc vvhich the
United States vvaged during a
vvhole dccade from 1961 to 1971
They used tremendoii amounts of
poisonous agents both againt na-tur- c
and people Thns closc to
100 thousand tons of poisonous
agents vvere dropped over 44 per
cent of forests and 43 per cent of
cultivated land in South Vietnam
For the first time in history nature
became the target of vvarfare Par-ticipan- ts
in the symposium vvhich
tooic place in January 1983 in the
city of Ho Chi Minh stressed that
many regions of Vietnam once
covered vvith evergreen trees and
bushes vvere transformed into a
savanna vvhere only grass can
grow In upper layers of soil
dioxin is preserved even nov
After a thorough years-lon- g re-sear- ch
scientists in various coun-trie- s
drew a conclusion that her-bicid- es
and defoliants used by the
US Army in Vietnam affect the
human genetic constilution In
particular in Vietnam the number
of stillbirths deformed babies and
cases of cancer has grovvn ten
times The extent and character of
damage to the genetic constitution
in the victims of the chemical
vvarfare in Vietnam resemble chro-mosom- e
and chromatid mutations
in the Japanese vvho survived the
aitomic bombardment of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
In an attempt to divert the atten-tio- n
of the vvorld publie from vic-tims
of the chemical vvarfare that
vvas vvaged by the US Army the
American officials for several
years have been making a lot of
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the international
noise about the mythical use ot
"Soviet chemical vveapons"
The Ukrainian bourgeois nationa-lisl- s
are also trying to make their
coiitnbution to the anti-Sovi- et
hyslerical campaign vvith regard
to the mythical use of chemical
vveapons by the Soviet Union and
other soeialist countries To please
their prcsent American masters
they parrot their allegations The
Ukruitiske Pravoslavne Slovo (Uk-rainian
Orthodox Word) maga-zine
— based in Bound Brook
NJ USA — for example claims
that the Soviet Union hai used
and is using chemical vveapons in
South Asia vvhich has resulted in
the dcalhs of thousands of people
ui particular in Vietnam Kampu-che- a
Afghanistan and other cou-ntries"
Similar slandcrons maleriaK 'mder
aimosi idcntical headings vvhich
indicates to the coordinatcd cha-racter
of this dirty campaign are
spread by the "secular" publica-tioii- b
too vvhich aie pui out by
various grroupings of Ukrainian
bourgeois nationalists
The objective of this campaign is
clear: to conceal the US prepara-Uon- s
for a large-scal- e chemical
vvarfare
That the USA is getting ready for
a "chemical holocaust" is borne
out by numerous documenls
Last year The New York Times
published the document prepared
by the Pentagon vvhich orientates
the US ground forccs to develop-in- g
"more sophisticated" chemical
agents and the Air Force — to
"creating chemical vvarheads and
developing means of their delivery"
Numerous statements by American
civilian and military leaders testify
to the course of the US Govern-ment
aimed at preparations for
chemical vvarfare
The new stagc of mass production
of binary toxic agents and chemi-cal
ammunition in the binary out-fi- t
admilted Deputy Undersecretary
of Defensc R Wagner in his
speech in the Senate Commission
on March 15 1982 is aimed at
improving the readiness of Ame-rican
troops to vvace protracted
chemical vvarfare and at achieving
a high combat effect
These are not mere vvords In
February 1984 the program of
n tiie
Punctuality has always been
one of the greatest virtues of
an airline — particularly so
when IATA rules restricted
most other forrns of competi-tio- n
European airlines keep
constant vvatch over who's
late and who lands right on
the dot
As the latest figures
emerged recently Finnair was
quick to send out leaflets with
their name in the top spot
Finnair's figure for right-on-tim- e
take-off- s was 956 per
cent SAS took second place
with 941 per cent Bronze
medal went to Austrian Air-lines
Competition was
among 13 airlines
"chemical rearming" of the United
States vvhich envisages the produc-tion
of the up-to-the-min-ule
binary
ammunition was approved
The adventurist course of the US
leaders aimed at arming the US
Army vvith new types of chemical
vveapons is opposed even by soine
members of the Presidenfs party
Congressman G Leech (Republi-ca- n
from Iovva) said that the
United States novv possesses the
stock of chemical weapons suffi-cie- nt
for exterminating everything
alive on the planet
Fully realizing this danger the
Soviet Union and other Warsavv
Treaty countries have proposed to
conclude a treaty banning ali
chemical vveapons removing them
from Europe and eliminaling the
existing stockpilcs under strict
verification and international Con-trol
If accepted this initiative
could lead to the chemical-vveapon-fre- e
vvorld an objective of the
vvhole of humanily
The road to banning chemical
vveapons is open hovvever not
everybody is interested in follovv-in- g
it Spcaking for a "global
chemical vveapons ban" the United
States at the same time puts
obstacles by deliberately bringing
forvvard unacceptable conduions
Among them is first of ali the
question of control Thus a vvidely-advertise- d US "new initiative"
set forth by Vice President George
Bush in April 19S4 in Geneva
contains an utterly inequitable
approach to this matter vvhose
purpose is to keep the activities
of the large corporations of the
USA and other NATO states pro-ducin- g
chemical vveapons out of
control
Vhat the USA is motivated by is
not the interests of vvorld sccurity
but ils striving for gaining mi-litary
superiority at any cost In
the given case — at the cost of
10 billion dollars invested in the
Reagan-sponsorc- d program of "the
USA's chemical rearmament" If
the American stand on the question
of banning chemical vveapons did
change it has not changed for the
better
Thirty Years
After
OLEH VOVK
When at the tender age
of three months Briton
David Carver vvas operat-e- d
upon for harelip says
the Spanish nevvspaper El
Pais his parents vvere told
he vvould need a second
intefs
big one
With 555 rooms the Helsinki
Inter-Continent- al can now
boast to be the largest hotel in
Scandinavia The number one
spot was gained by an exten-sio- n
completed at the begin-nin- g
of August
The extension is particulafly
friendly tovvards non-smoki- ng
and visitors from the Far East
as one floor has been designed
for cach of these groups
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He Knows
Too Much
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vä! rfeä?
The trial of major inter-national
crook Michele
Sindona's gang has at last
ended in Milan The verdict
was returned on the very
day that Judge Giorgio
Ambrosoli— vvho detected
many of Sindona's crimes
and vvho named his patrons
both in Italy and in the
USA — vvas slain five years
ago Sindona removed
himself to the USA before
he could be arrested and ali
Italian extradition requests
have remained unansvvered
The Italian news media
believe US authorities
prefer to have this dan-gero- us
criminal near at
hand as he knovvs too
much of the sordid doings
of US special services
Million
in Bribes
Greek arms dealer Basil
Tsakos is in a huff He has
good reason He says he
spent around a million dol-lars
to get Washington in-fluent- ials
back his project
for an oil pipeline from
Saudi Arabia to the
Atlantic via Africa But no
support has been forthcom-in- g
as yet More specifical-l- y
though Tsakos gave Joe
Rosenbaum a crony of
CIA director William Casey
a $25000 cheque the guy
didn't lift a finger On the
other hand he asked for
more money to bribe of-ficials
Tsakos thought that
a bit too much and has novv
sued Rosenbaum
operation Recently they
vvere notified that his turn
had now come to undergo
this second operation
although the "boy" is today
on the shady side of 30
Winning
sausage tender
The Perusyhtymä Group vvill
supply a sausage factory to Le-ningrad
The Building project
is valued at Fmk 60 million
($10 m) The factory vvill be a
completely computercon-trolle- d
highly automated pro-duction
unit Perusyhtymä vvill
also be responsible for the
starting-u- p of the factory as
well as the training of the per-sonnel
Perusyhtymä had already
obtained a Fmk 40 million
contract from the Soviet Uni-on
in the summer for the con-structi- on of a vvarehouse for
sanitary supplies in Kondrovo
It has also been conducting ne-gotiati- ons
on the delivery of a
second sausage factory to Es-tonia
Finnish building contractors
are expecting some large pro-jec- ts
to be open to tender in the
autumn The first is a pulpmill
in Vyborg vvhich should be de-cid- ed
in September The total
value of this project is in the
region of three billion Finn-mar- ks
($500 m) vvith the
builder's share close on half of
this sum
Lotfario Sept 3
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vvon $15637310 Any five
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the bonus number vvon $18169-0- 0
Any five regular numbers
won $72520 Any four regular
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regular numbers vvon $5 Early
bird numbers vvere 1 8 35 37
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purchased by Wednesday vvon
$21550
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The vvinning number for
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digits vvon $25000 the first 5 or
last 5 digits vvon $5000 the
first 4 or last 4 digits vvon $100
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$100000 vvere: E032264
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$125000 vvas 425255 Winning
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