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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 05, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday september 5, 1985 bomb explodes outside algerian embassy Beirut a a bomb exploded out Side the algerian embassy wednesday and a radio station said an Anonymous Tele phone caller claimed a pro iranian shiite moslem group set it to warn Algeria against helping the dominant shiite amal militia. A cease fire halted fighting Between amal militiamen and palestinian guerrillas tha two acc said killed five people and to cd 20 on tuesday. A bomb which police said contained  than 10 pounds of explosives punched i 3-foot Hole in a Side Wall of the the acc Story embassy Early wednesday. No casualties were reported. The Christian voice of Lebanon radio wid it received a Telephone Call from a Man who claimed responsibility for the bomb on behalf of islamic amal a pro iranian shiite extremist faction. The claim could not be independently confirmed. The radio quoted the caller As saying the bombing was a warning to Algeria to Stop aiding amal Lebanon s dominant shiite militia led by Justice minister Nabih Bern. Amal is at Odds with More Radical shiite factions. Recent news reports have said Algeria is giving amal military assistance Ana medi Cal supplies. Islamic amal is headed by Hussein Mou Savi a militant shiite with Strong tics with Iran. Mousavi split with Herri after Israel s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Police said tuesday s Battle at the Bour Al Bara Neh refugee Camp in Beirut s South Ern outskirts was the most serious violation of a 10-week-old cease fire negotiated by Syria to halt a month of fighting Between amal and palestinians. Five civilians were killed by machine guns and rocket propelled grenades police said. The fighting tapered off before Dawn when a new cease fire was arranged by a Security committee overseeing the truce. M an while the Economy minister Victor Kamstr said two ships were being loaded in Christian East Beirut with 2,000 tons of flour to transport to the Western moslem sector. The army has closed the Crossings be tween Christian and moslem sectors of Bei rut through which such supplies normally Are sent in an Effort to Stop a spate of kidnappings. At least 60 people have disappeared in recent weeks. Central Bank employees on tuesday called for a Bank strike thursday to protest the kidnapping of six Central Bank employ res All christians grabbed by moslem militiamen on their Way to work in West Bei rut. The Bank association said All Banks would close. The closure of the Crossings has halted most shipments of flour gasoline and other essential supplies into the West sector which despite Lebanon s 10-year civil War depends on supplies from the East Side. Moslem newspapers warned wednesday that druse and shiite militias will Shell Gas Oline storage tanks flour Mills and store houses in East Beirut unless Mboi they termed the Christian initiated starvation War against West Beirut is called off. Much of West Beirut s flour comes from storehouse in the Christian sector and the largest gasoline refineries and storage Tanya Are in or around East Beirut. Chickens and eggs Are also in Short Supply in West Beirut the shortages have triggered she Touti Between the shiite moslem Ama and druse militias. Tie two factions have clashed almost daily Over gasoline in the past two weeks. Militiamen now control Many Gai stations and have begun seizing bakeries. On the Christian East Side gasoline and other goods Are readily available. The voice of Lebanon radio said drug militiamen wednesday freed 45 Christian villagers they rounded up in raids tuesday in Lebanon s Central mountains. Troops arrest i Black student in Soweto tuesday the anniversary of year of widespread unrest in South Africa s. African Rand plunges 5 cents Johannesburg South Africa a South Africa s currency made a frightening plunge of nearly 5 cents against the Dollar in the first 20 minutes of trading wednesday two Days after the government ended a five Day suspension of trading. Meanwhile a Gold mine that dismissed 5,000 Black miners who participated in a strike for higher wages said the workers streamed Back to their jobs wednes Day after their Union called off the walkout. Rioting broke out overnight around Johannesburg and Cape town and police said a Black Man was found burned to death near grahams own. A mixed race legislator s Home also was burned police said. The government was faced with a renewed run on the Rand As it fell to 37 cents against the Dollar. It had closed tuesday at 41.5 cents. The Reserve Bank intervened As the currency s value neared the record Low of 34.8 cents it hit a week ago. The Rand recovered to 38.8 cents after the Reserve Bank sold some of its scarce dollars. The euphoric situation which developed on Mon Day when the Rand strengthened has evaporated totally said a foreign Exchange dealer. Bankers said traders feared for the stability of the country s third largest Bank no Bank which last week closed its foreign branches rather than face demands from foreign creditors for loan repayments. Gold Fields of South Africa which fired 5,000 of 7,000 striking workers had said tuesday that it was processing them out of its Dee Kraal mine. The Black National Union of mineworkers called off the strike saying it was seeking a court injunction to Stop management from sending dismissed miners Backoo their impoverished homelands. 3 sikhs gun Down new Delhi official new Delhi a three sikhs who Are terrorist suspects attacked a prominent City Council member from prime minister Rajiv Gandhi s governing Congress party at his office wednesday killing the official and his body guard police said. Police also said seven people were wounded in the machine gun attack on Arjun Dass. 45, a member of the metropolitan Council. A spokesman for the All India Institute of medical sciences said Dass was pronounced dead at the Hospital of multiple gunshot wounds and that his Bod guard Bijender Singh also had been slain. Dass was slain about m hours after other suspected sikh terrorists in Punjab killed five hindus and wounded 15 people in seven attacks near Amritsar Hoshiar Pui and Gurd Spur police said. Six men have been detained for interrogation in the Gurd Spur attacks police said. Police reported tuesday that three people were killed and nine were wounded in attacks by suspected sikh terrorists in Punjab and reported wednesday that two More people had been Kirec Landrix More had been wounded. T the jv.? Edn new of India said a � assailants shouted we won t allow elections to be held an Warnar " Fern a elections called in Punjab by Gandng Forsett. 25. Sikh militants Are boycotting the elections. It also said they shouted slogans supporting a separate sikh nation in Punjab where sikhs forma majority police cordoned off the neighbourhood where Dass was killed in an Effort to track Down the assailants. Wold today woman ordered to pay Fine after removing rambo poster London a a Petite woman was ordered to pay is pounds $21 saturday for launching an unarmed at tack on Hollywood Tough Guy rambo. Mary Ozanne became so incensed by the gun toting image of actor Sylvester Stallone that advertise the film rambo first blood part ii at a subway station that she ripped the poster Down policewoman Beverley eaten Thomas told Marlborough Street magistrates court. Ozanne later told police i m really sorry but i find those posters offensive violent and intimidating the policewoman said. The 28-year-old education welfare officer admitted Chri Nal damage at the Oxford circus underground station and was conditionally discharged for a year on payment of the is pounds in compensation to London transport. Peking jitterbugs get warning Stop it or face punishment peking a littering in peking will be a null Able offence beginning sept. 10, China s official Xun Hunes Agency has reported. The peking municipal office announced that no of will be allowed to leave refuse in Public places such u schools shops railway stations and tourism resorts. Sanitary supervisors will tour the City to ensure that no Oneis littering and violators will be fined from one half to of Yuan si.45 to $2.90 after Clearing up the mess the report number of employed women in Japan surpasses non working Tokyo a for the first time in history the number of working women surpassed the number of nor working but salaries for women remain much lower than those of their male counterparts according to a labor ministry Survey reported by the japanese Media. The ministry s 1985 White paper on female labor Aid there were 15.81 million women workers in 1984, up 2j percent from the previous year and comprising 35.6 per cent of employed workers the nationwide daily Asahl Shimun and Kyodo news service reported. Roughly 4.52 million women held jobs in the Jervee Industry 4.23 million in manufacturing and 4.03 in wrote sate and retail combining to represent about 84 percent of female workers the Survey said. 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