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Show Sunday, December S, 1831 The Daiiy Herald Where's the beef? Angry Soviets wait hours - MOSCOW (AP) By 9 p.m., a long line had formed on the snowy sidewalk outside Meat Store No. Cuban cutbacks move into effect - MEXICO CITY (AP) The Cuban government drastically cut transportation on Saturday to conserve oil, and more reductions are likely in the coming months, Cuban officials announced. A report by the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, monitored in Mexico City, said the Transportation Ministry ordered a cut in services on urban buses, railroads and domestic airlines beginning Saturday. Transportation workers are also limited in their free use of public transit vehicles, a fringe benefit of their employment. Holiday travelers in the Caribbean nation will probably run into problems as a result of the cutbacks, a Transportation Ministry spokesman said. Already, services between the capital of Havana and the provinces has been reduced and domestic air routes canceled. : ' Ukraine to face 65, even though the shabby, smelly little shop was not scheduled to reopen for another 11 hours, at 8 a.m. on Saturday. By 2 p.m. the next day, when the store finally did open, 642 people had signed up to buy meat, which was lying frozen solid and unbutchered on the storeroom floor. An hour later, only about 50 people had managed to buy any. "Unfortunately we can't sell anymore because the meat is too frozen and store workers are unable to cut it," announced store director Georgy Petrosian, a heavy-sman in a thick sweatshirt. "We just don't have the machinery we need." A tall man near the front of the line grimaced, then, whipping off his fur coat, grabbed a cleaver and started hacking away at a carcass. The cleaver broke after several et minutes. Spitting on the floor in disgust, the man gathered his belongings and left. Others followed suit, loudly complaining about having to spend yet another day in line to buy the precious beef. Such scenes have become currency battle in- creasingly common in a city where KIEV, Ukraine (AP)-Ukr- aine has barely had time to savor its in line to no avail food is hard to find and inflation is turning the ruble into worthless paper. 1 Last week, Soviet President ' 'f--v Mikhail S. Gorbachev appealed to other Soviet cities and republics for help, warning of mass protests against democractic reforms in the capital unless the city received immediate food aid. . - . rSi 3e ' j it - There have been numerous press reports of unruly lines. Last month, the state news agency Tass reported that a woman had her nose bitten off by another irate shopper. In Moscow, a complicated -- tem involving lists of potential buyers and volunteer watchdogs has evolved to keep food lines hi 3 i Tt t "MPPv sys- ri ' ij calm. Forexample, at 9 p.m. Friday when the line was forming outside Meat Store No. 65, one shopper took over the task of writing a list of potential buyers' names in a small notebook. Arkady Krupnov signed up at 9:20 p.m., then left for home, promising to return before opening time at 8 a.m. If he didn't, he and would lose his place in line the chance to buy 4.4 pounds of scarce beef at state prices. At 8 a.m., roll call was taken outside No. 65, where more than AP Laserphoto Muscovites line up to buy meat on sale in Moscow Saturday. A lot of thft frozen meat was uncuttable, rs to go home empty handed. leaving hundreds of angry tine-stande- onto the floor in frozen-solistacks. Within half an hour 300 heavily bundled Muscovites had gathered. Those who didn't show up had their names crossed off the list. The meat was unloaded from d employees announced the store would close until 2 p.m. because the carcasses were too frozen to butcher. trucks and tossed dirty-looki- d white-smocke- ; newly proclaimed independence before being confronted with its first crisis: a looming "battle of currencies" with Russia. "Russia has a good government now and good economists, and it's going to be very difficult to fight them," Oleksander Savchenko, deputy director of the Ukrainian Central Bank, said on Saturday. The shot that could start the battle, according to Savchenko and others, is Russian President Boris Yeltsin's plan to free prices and double wages throughout the huge Russian Federation by Jan. 1. Unless Ukraine also sharply raises prices and wages, hordes of Russian shoppers could sweep across the border, their pockets bulging with newly minted rubles, to strip Ukrainian stores and warehouses. On Saturday, newly elected Ukrainian President Leonid Krav-chu- k flew to the Byelorussian capital of Minsk for talks with Yeltsin and Byelorussia's president. Shushkevich. Stan-isla- v Japan groups observe bombing's anniversary TOKYO (AP) A government official on Sunday voiced Japan's remorse for the attack on Pearl Harbor, but for most Japanese, the 5Cth anniversary of the onslaught was marked by television coverage of U.S. events. Foreign Minister Michio issued a statement early Sunday, a day after formal ceremonies in Hawaii commemorating the anniversary. Japan, he said, "should face Wa-tana- be two-paragra- squarely the historical fact that the Pacific War, which inflicted unbearable suffering and sorrow on many people ... was started 50 years ago today with Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. "Japan is deeply remorseful over these past actions, and I wish again to express my sincerest condolences to all those people of the countries concerned and Japan ' H who sacrificed their lives in the course of the war. "Japan renews its resolve never to repeat such an unfortunate history ... ,"he said. Watanabe and other high-levofficials the past week have been expressing remorse for the suffering caused by Japan, but the government held no official events to el commemorate the attack that brought the United States into the Pacific War. On Friday, a Parliamentary O" res- olution of remorse for Japan's World War II militarism was scrapped by conservatives who said apologies weren't needed. The bitter debate over its pasas well as over a separate sage resolution to send Japanese peacehas illuskeeping troops abroad trated me pain and controversy lingering in Japan from the war. ..SDOrtKadiais n J. rurcign maoc rasscngcr clT.- Bugging devices found at paper - - Pearl HarBERLIN (AP) bor pleased Adolf Hitler. Although the Japanese attack ran against the Nazi dictator's desire to keep the United States out of the war, he liked the element of surprise. as "One should strike and not hard as possible liar." The Financial Times, Britain's leading business daily, said police were investigating allegations that Maxwell bugged the offices of senior officials and a boardroom in the building. "Panels were yesterday re- moved from the former office of Mirror Group Newspapers', new chairman, Mr. Ernest Burrington, to reveal the listening devices," the paper said. "It is believed that the office of Mr. Lawrence Guest, the MGN finance director, was also tapped." 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