European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 8 the stars and stripes world today female infanticide continuing in China report indicates peking up Many peasant of up a limited to having one child by China s birth control policy lire Abus ing abandoning or even drowning heir baby girls to try to have inns instead said an official press report reaching peking Friday. The report indicated that female infanticide is continuing in China despite government attempts to eradicate the brutal practice which stems from a traditional Bias for Bays hat is deeply rooted in China s patriarchal society. Electrons hitting gases May cause flashes of Light during quakes London up flashes of Light that often accompany earthquakes Are not caused by friction heating when rocks crack but most probably by electrons on the surfaces of newly tract Rcd Rock a i Luzern Iga inc reported thursday. Experiments at the . Bureau of mines Laboratory at Denver caused the of various Rock Core samples and the Light emitted was measured. Scientists from the Bureau of mines in an article in the latest edition of in lure said they were surprised to find that Light emitted during the fracture process contained none of the characteristics of the Rock materials them selves but Only at i he surrounding gases. The explanation they favor is that the flashes of Light Are caused by elec tron bombardment of surrounding gases. Heavy shelling kills at least 11 at cambodian refugee Camp Aranya Prather Thailand up the Hea Viest shelling in months hit a cambodian refugee Camp near the thai Border thursday killing at least ii people and wounding 30, the thai military and International re Lief agencies said. The thai supreme command said the shelling came from vietnamese troops. But International refugee work ers said they suspected the shouting was an internal fight among cambodian guerrillas. Twenty cambodians were killed when the shells hit the in supported Camp called site a 30 Miles South of Aranya Prathel a Large Border town 125 Miles East of Bangkok the supreme command said. . Border Relief workers said however that 11 refugees were killed including two children and to were injured. They declared a full slate of emergency at the Camp. Suicide among japanese youths jumped 34% in 1985, report says Tokyo a the number of japanese children who committed suicide last year increased 34 percent from 1984, a National police Agency report said thursday. The Kyodo news service quoted a police White paper As saying More than 40 percent of the suicides by youths in 198$ could be traced to school troubles. Nine of the youths left behind notes saying they could not stand being bullied by classmates. In past years Many suicides were attributed to school pres sures related to intense Competition on standardized tests that Are needed to enter prestigious High schools and colleges. Kyodo quoted the police White paper As saying suicides in Japan decreased 4,2 percent to 23,599 in 1985. The number of children 14 years old or younger who committed suicide last year was 33, an increase of 34 percent from the year before it said. Kyodo reported that illness related problems were cited As the motive in about 10,000 suicides last year. 40 from outlawed party arrested in Paraguay prisoner s wife says Asuncion Paraguay up police surrounded the Home of an opposition Leader thursday and arrested 40 members of the outlawed authentic Radical Liberal party the wife of one of the prisoners said. The woman told up that All but five of the captives party leaders were released after the raid in Yagu Aron 36 Miles from Asuncion. Four of the captives were taken to Asuncion police Headquarters. But one woman whose borne was raided was taken to a police station in Trinidad on the outskirts of the capital according to the wife of one of the prisoners. Others arrested were Nelson Garcia Juan Masi and Francisco do Vargas. Masi is u doctor. The other prisoners Are lawyers. The informant said the meeting was broken up by police apparently because the leadership did not get official per Mission to hold the gathering. The government of president Gen. Alfredo Strocs scr the ruler of Paraguay since 1954, has recently cracked Down on opposition groups after a wave of student and labor protest demonstrations. Saturday may31,1986 soil it dissident Belona borrow left and British prime minister Margaret Tail Cher Mett at no. 10 Downing so Bonner says soviets blackmailing West into silence about Sakharov London a Sclena Bonner accused the soviet Union Friday of trying to blackmail the West into keeping silent Over the condition of her husband exiled soviet dissident Andrei a Sakharov. Bonner 62, who has been in the West for six months for medical treatment met with prime minister Margaret Thatcher fora half hour and then spoke to reporters while Arm in Arm with the British prime minister. She was asked her reaction to British news reports from Moscow quoting Viktor Louis a soviet journalist who often relays information from the Kremlin As saying that Banner s remarks while in the West were jeopardizing Sakharov s chances of having his exile ended. The physicist Winner of the i97s Nobel peace prize was banished o internal exile in the closed City of Gorky. 250 Miles East of Moscow in january 1930 after he denounced the soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. Bonner was exiled to Gorky in 1984 after being convicted of Ami soviet slander. Louis was quoted As saying the soviets wished to give More Freedom to Sakharov but Banner was damaging soviet interests. The statements seem to me to be simply blackmail Bonner said Friday. It seems to me they wanted to scare Madame prime minister Thatcher by this statement and other Western political leaders into not meeting Thatcher also said the statement seemed aimed at stopping Western efforts on Sakharov s behalf. She said she had assured Bonner that Britain will keep Faith with or. Sakha on thursday Louis told the associated press in Moscow that Sakharov s chances of return ing to Moscow were unlikely because of mrs. Bonnet s behaviour but did not indicate Hal soviet authorities wanted to allow him More Freedom. He also said he had been giving his own opinion to British newspaper correspondents on wednesday but they had been misconstrued As some kind of official statement. Bonner refused to comment specifically on a new video tape of Sakharov that was first shown in the West on thursday. The videotape showed the exiled soviet scientist speaking to people on the Street in Corky and apparently talking to his wife on the Telephone. Bonner said she had not seen that particular tape obtained by the German Bild newspaper although she had seen other films of herself and Sakharov while she was in the West. I realize All of them were fabrications she said. All of them were violations of our privacy and i do not want to play the games that Are being forced on the entire world by the Kab Bonner spoke in russian and her comments were trans lated by her daughter Taliana Yankilevich who now lives in Newton mass. Bonner is on her Way Back to internal exile in the soviet Union which she left dec. 2, after undergoing heart by pass surgery in the United Stales and treatment for an Eye problem in Italy. I have a very strange Complex feeling about going Back she said. Want to Sec my husband very much.,. Very Little do i want to ice the soviet Union As such.". Asked again to comment on the accusations by Louis that her Public statements were hurting her husband Bon Ner said this is she continued i am ready to serve my exile in Gorky. Let him be Italy continues crackdown on libyans Rome a Italy has extended a crackdown in libyans living within its Borders to influential business men including the head of the Rome office of the state run airline and an official of the libyan company that holds a Large chunk of italian Aulo giant Fiat. Rome police spokesman Riccardo in Clisi said Friday that expulsion orders had been signed for 28 libyans designated As undesirable although 16 of that number had already left the country by the time the order came Down thursday. They apparently had an idea that the order was com ing he said of the departed libyans. The other 12 have been told to leave by june i or risk arrest he said. In Clisi refused to elaborate on Why authorities deemed them undesirable he said he could not comment on whether any of them were connected to ongoing anti terrorism investigations. The Rome daily ii mass Aggro said Friday that police sources bad described Ilic libyans named in the latest expulsion orders As spies or terrorists or somewhere in it said they had been defined As dangerous for Public order and National Italy has been clamping Down on suspect libyan activities since the european Community agreed last month to go along with a .-led Campaign against libyan sponsored International terrorism and reduce the number of libyan representatives
