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1UA Sun-Sentinel, Friday, July 26, 1991 DATELINE Gorbachev oeveils party charter Female names for bad weather draw protests estroika, on transforming the Soviet. Union into a democratic federation sovereign republics, on introducing market economy and on integrating the. country into the globai economy. Reaching to the very heart of the old, ideology, Gorbachev said: "In the past; the party recognized only Marxism-Le-j ninism as the source of its though the tenet was utterly distorted to suit the pragmatic needs of the day, be-" coming something of a collection of canonical texts." "Now it has become necessary to include in our arsenal of ideas all the riches of our own and the world's socialist and democratic thought," Gorbachev said. would "lose any claim to participate in political life if it stepped away from the course of reform," he called a full party congress in November, at which the new program and his leadership would be judged.

The unexpected move seemed to preempt an expected assault on Gorbachev from party hardliners, who have used past meetings to demand his resignation and criticize his policies. The proposed program also stood to bolster Gorbachev's credentials as a reformer before the visit to Moscow by President Bush next week. Western leaders stated a readiness last week to help the Soviet Union, but have been looking for concrete evidence of progress before committing substantial funds. Gorbachev said that previous programs "set goals not so much in accor-' dance with reality, but with the then-popular understanding of the communist ideal." The result was "raw ideology" irrelevant to the concerns of society, he said. He said that there have been proposals to drop the name "Communist Party" for renaming as a Socialist or Social Democratic party.

But he said any changes in the name should await the November congress. He said the new program based the party's goals on the experience of per- The New York Times MOSCOW President Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday proposed a new charter for the Communist Party that rejects some of its most hallowed principles, even the sanctity of Marxism-Leninism. Speaking at the opening of a two-day session of the party's Central Committee, Gorbachev, who is president of the Soviet Union and general secretary of the party, criticized fundamentalists in the party and threw his lot in with reformers seeking to replace the militant utopianism of old with a broad Social Democratic platform. Saying that th Communis. Party Iraq reneges on nuke sites, US.

declares 1 1 The Washington Post WASHINGTON The Bush administration and the International Atomic Energy Agency accused Iraq on Thursday of failing to fully disclose its nuclear weapons materials by the July 25 deadline set by the United Nations. Administration officials said that renewed U.S. military action against Iraq was not imminent. But they said that the treatment accorded a new IAEA inspection team arriving in Iraq on Saturday will determine the next U.S. move in the month-long cycle of threat and response with Iraq over its compliance with the U.N.

resolution requiring inspection and destruction of nuclear materials. "Hussein has not provided the information that's necessary under the U.N. resolution. I don't think it comes as a major surprise to a lot of people given his past track record. White House spokesman Roman Popadiuk By ROY GUTMAN Newsday BONN, Germany After a rainy June that saw a dozen storm systems come and go, each bearing a woman's name, Germans cheered the arrival three weeks ago of high-pressure zones dubbed "lovely Leopold," followed by "soaring Moritz." But the weather worsened, the gender changed, and it was back to "mean Irene." At government meteorological service offices around the country, the complaints poured in.

Last week, the order went out banning the use by branch offices of women's names for low-pressure systems and men's names for high-pressure systems. "One lady wrote and asked why do you give female names to bad weather, and, why "One lady wrote and asked why do you give female names to bad weather, and why, above all, is it 'mean' Irene?" Bernd Richter of the Hannover Meteorological Office above all, is it 'mean' Irene?" Bernd Richter of the Hannover Meteorological Office said. Another woman called the Hamburg office and complained of "unequal treatment" of the sexes. At the Essen office, it was a familiar story. "We are constantly answering letters to say we are not denigrating women by using their names to describe low-pressure zones," Helmut Klemmek said.

The U.S. Weather Service assigns names to hurricanes, but after protests years ago, decided to give men's and women's names alternately to the storms. Germany is unique in assigning a name to every high or low. The practice was begun by the meteorological institute of Berlin's Free University in 1954, using a list of names supplied by students. It was never approved by the weather service, but is deployed with great delight by the news media.

"Leopold caresses," said a headline in the newspaper Bild Zeitung this month. When "Leopold" departed, the headline said: "Now Moritz hugs and kisses, adieu The media are not about to give it up. Hours after the telex arrived in meteorological offices banning gender-based naming of high and low pressure systems, Deutsche-Presse Agentur, the German press agency, published the order as the lead of its weather story. Television joined the fray. Germany's ZDF channel announced a phone-in poll and said that of 40,000 responses, 72 percent favored keeping the names.

That gave the people running the weather service some pause. "Apparently it was too authoritarian to introduce a ban just like that," Klemmek said. He said that despite the ban he would continue to keep the list of names in his desk drawer. He also said an exception will be made for hurricanes that start in the Western Hemisphere and arrive in Europe as low-pressure systems. In Berlin, the Free University has every intent to keep on using "she" for every major storm.

In fact, it was a meteorologist named Carla Wege who came up with the naming system. So as the rains continued, the university issued a daily weather chart. The name of the storm was "Lulu." 7 I I jf i 1 i I i I L. White House spokesman Roman Popadiuk said that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had been "playing a shell game with their nuclear equipment," and others said Iraq had not revealed all the nuclear material U.S. intelligence indicates is in the country and being moved or hidden.

IAEA Director General Hans Blix said at the agency's headquarters in Vienna that three inspection teams had visited more than 30 sites in Iraq and had taken more than 300 samples of nuclear and other material, but "there are many more things to answer." The fourth inspection, by a 15-member team that left Vienna on Thursday, will focus on determining the extent of a uranium enrichment program using sophisticated centrifuge technology to complement an antiquated electromagnetic technique. Enriched uranium is a vital ingredient of nuclear weapons. "In our mind this is something that may still have depths that we have not touched yet," said Dimitri Perricos, the IAEA official who headed the third mission that returned last week. He said that while Iraq has cooperated with inspectors in practical terms, "there was not the so-called complete openness. You had to pry a lot to get some of the issues out." "What has been given to us is just a partial picture of the centrifuge program and we would like to know more," said Maurizio Zifferero, another IAEA expert.

At the White House, Popadiuk said Hussein "has not fully complied" with the U.N. requirements, "has not provided the information that's necessary under the U.N. resolution. I don't think it comes as a major surprise to a lot of people given his past track record." The White House had described the July 25 deadline as one for provision of information, and not a military deadline despite thinly disguised threats to resume military action against Iraq if Baghdad fails to comply with the U.N. resolutions ending the war.

Popadiuk described the deadline as "a U.N. marker to judge whether the Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein are operating in good faith." A senior administration official said that Iraq's response to the new IAEA team will determine whether Hussein had broken the cycle of responding in the face of verbal threats. If Hussein will not budge this time, "he will be required to comply," the official said. Reuters photo A woman prays for peace in the main Thursday during a demonstration against square of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, on war in Yugoslavia. Fighting flares in Croatia The army fought bitterly with Slovenia's militia after the declaration of independence, but a ceasefire has been holding for three weeks and the army is withdrawing from that northern republic.

An army decision on Wednesday to allow Slovenian recruits and officers to leave army ranks by Aug. 15 was the latest indication federal authorities may allow Slovenia to leave the federation. The worst fighting in Croatia on Thursday occurred near Erdut, a village in eastern Croatia about 60 miles northwest of Belgrade. At least 15 Croatian militiamen were killed and 27 wounded in the fighting, which began before dawn, Croatia's Defense Ministry said. An army statement said federal troops suffered no casualties in the battle near a bridge over the Danube River, Croatia's eastern border with Serbia.

The Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Croats battled federal troops in areas bordering Serbia on Thursday, escalating fears that the secession crisis was heading toward all-out war. At least 18 militiamen, a federal army sergeant and a civilian were reported killed. A session of Yugoslavia's federal collective presidency was called for today to discuss the fighting in Croatia, which declared its independence on June 25 along with Slovenia. Combat in Croatia in recent months has been mainly between Croatian militiamen and Serbs. The Serb-dominated army said it was trying to separate the warring parties, but federal troops increasingly have become engaged in clashes with Croatian forces.

Israel speeds up settlement DIGEST Sun-Sentinel wire services Four die in Contra attack MANAGUA, Nicaragua Former Contras seized control of a town in northern Nicaragua on Thursday in a battle that left two police officers and two rebels dead. Six police officers were wounded, the Interior i Ministry said. Army Lt. Col. Ricardo Wheelock said about 80 rebels attacked Quilali, a town of about 10,000 people 185 miles north of Managua, the capital, with rifle fire and mortars.

Army and police reinforcements drove out the attackers after a six-hour battle, Deputy Interior Minister Jose Pallais said. Mandela arrives in Cuba HAVANA Nelson Mandela began a three-day tour of Cuba on Thursday with a warm personal welcome from President Fidel Castro. It was the first meeting between the African National Congress president and the Cuban leader, who has been a staunch supporter of the congress' fight for a non-racial, democratic South Africa. The Cuban leader embraced him warmly. Mandela was accompanied by his wife, Winnie, and senior congress officials.

Lung cancer on the rise OTTAWA Lung cancer is increasing among Canada's women and Indians, the government said on Thursday. The number of cases among women has tripled since 1970, making lung cancer the fastest growing type of cancer for women, Satistics Canada reported. The agency said an estimated 109,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in Canada in 1991, up from 104,000 in 1989 and 94,700 in 1987. of Arab lands tii- 7rrt group says an obstacle to peace. Last week Israel rejected a call from the Group of Seven industrialized nations to halt the settlement construction in return for an end to a 43-year Arab economic boycott.

Peace Now said Sharon was also spending millions of dollars on roads to speed the 100,000 settlers to their homes bypassing the towns, villages and refugee camps of the 1.75 million Palestinians who have been waging a revolt against Israeli rule for more than three years. The Housing Ministry said it had no comment on the Peace Now accusations. It said it planned to build 13,000 housing units in the occupied territories by 1992. Reuters JERUSALEM Israel is hurrying Jewish settlement of occupied Arab lands, which the United States says is hindering its Middle East peace efforts, an Israeli peace group said on Thursday. Peace Now said it had obtained government documents that showed Housing Minister Ariel Sharon planned to put up thousands of prefabicrated houses on the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

"This government is constructing as much as it can, while trying to conceal the amount it actually builds," Peace Now spokesman Eran Hayet said. Washington, trying to coax Israel, its Arab foes and Palestinians to the negotiating table, has called the settlements AP photo Construction workers prepare to pour the foundation for a Jewish housing project on the West Bank, east of Jerusalem, on Thursday..