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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday August 15.1936 we irid today Zaire Diplomat in Vatican Falls Breaks Collarbone Vatican City up monsignor Emery a Bongo a Vatican Diplomat from Zaire who serves As a Secretary to pops John Paul ii fell and broke his Collarbone while bicycling on the grounds of inc Pope s summer residence it was announced wednesday. Nabongo. 42. Was treated for the broken Collarbone Ai the Gemelli polyclinic Hospital in Rome and admitted for observation doctors said he May also have suffered a concussion. The Accident happened on an Avenue inside the papal Villa at Cassel Gan Lutfu the town in the Alban Hills 15 Miles South of Rome where John Paul is vacationing. Envoy chosen to Lead counter terrorism Battle Washington president Reagan wednesday announced he is nominating l Paul Bremer the ambassador to the Netherlands to head the stale department s  office. Bremer 45. Will have the rank of ambassador Al Large and will replace Robert Oakley As the top Couit Toner Roriie official in the diplomatic corps. Bremer entered the foreign service in 1966 and has served in Afghanistan Malawi and Norway As Well As in several slate department posts. He Spca i French dutch norwegian Spanish. German and persian. Moslem buying boosts sacrificial Goat prices Jakarta up prices for sacrificial goals have skyrocketed this week in a buying frenzy by devout moslem preparing for a religious Holiday news re ports said wednesday. Thousands of doomed goats and lambs nibbled shrubbery along Jakarta s streets As herdsmen bargained with customers planning to kill the animal saturday meriting the Jakarta Post said the capital has been inundated with goals from pastures in Central and Eastern Java but demand has pushed up prices 20 percent since last  average Price tuesday for a medium size goal was Between $50 and s65, Thatcher s popularity hits lowest level in 3 years London up prime minister Margaret Thatcher s popularity is at its lowest level in three years and the opposition labor party maintains Clear Lead in the opinion polls according to two sur Veys published thursday. Only is percent of voters were satisfied with Thatcher s leadership according to a Gallup poll for the daily Telegraph. It was her lowest rating since gaining re election in 1�83. Political com n1 Auto essay the prime minister s popularity May have been Hurt by her Tough stand against economic sanctions on South Africa and rumours of a rift with Queen Elizabeth ii. Vote paves Way for India to curb travel of sikhs new Delhi India up the upper House of parliament wednesday approved a landmark Resolution paving the Way for the creation of an army patrolled Secu Rity Bell along the indo Pakistan Border to prevent sikh separatists from crossing into Punjab stale the Resolution was passed 172-48 by the 244-member Raja Sabha or upper House of parliament. It activated Artick 249 of the Constitution giving the Central govern ment the Power to overrule states on Law and order Mal in. Normally the prerogative Oflahe stairs. The Vole marked the first time since India gained Independence from Britain in 1947 that new Delhi has been granted the authority conferred by article 249. At least 19 die in China after eating mushrooms peking up at least 19 people who were among thousands who flocked to Eastern anti prov Ince last month to pick wild mushrooms died after eating a poisonous variety said reports reaching peking on wednesday. The Shanghai based Xinmin evening news reported that provincial authorities dispatched medical teams Toa Hui s Tai i District following reports that Many people in the area had been poisoned by mushrooms. The newspaper said some 13,000 peasants in Tai i bad flocked to the Hills in mid july to gather the fungi. Apr fahd Serpent makes pm recoil a traffic officer winces at the big bus strand coming i 1 sch cent re Ham Midi in Impre Wim  a find pay thrown aug. 22 it Solh by i made for Siulc exhibition Hitke British opium from the Serpent played by Andrew Van de Beckon London Street. The ominous looting instrument sri lankan refugees in Canada May have come from Germany Hamburg a police Are investigating whether 151 sri lankan refugees rescued off the coast of Newfoundland came from a town near Here a spokes Man said thursday. Police in Stade eight Miles from Hamburg Are checking the residences of All registered refugees from sri Lanka after a German state legislator said a group of sri lankan had left the area last month we Are checking who is still there who is gone and where did they go Are they in Canada or just visiting Friend said police spokesman Hans Juergen get cos a German stale legislator Rudolf Fischer said wednesday a group of sri lankan tamils left the Hamburg area july 21 bound for France where they were to Board a freighter for Canada. Officials in Canada have been trying to determine where the 1s2 tamil refugees rescued off newfound land on monday began their journey. The refugees who were in open lifeboats say they boarded a freighter in India but German documents and Money were found on some of them. In Bonn a spokesman for the Interior ministry said the government needs More information about the tamils including their identities before it can determine whether they lived in Germany. A foreign ministry spokesman. Hans Schumacher said 37,000 sri lankan have sought political Asylum in West Germany since 1980 and mat most have been turned Down. A Newfoundland fishermen involved in toe Rescue had said some of the tamils were wearing life jackets with Chapag Lloyd written on them. Chapag Loyd is a major shipping line based in Ham Burg whose Container ships make regular Calk in Hali fax Nova Scotia and new York City. But a Chapag Loyd spokesman told the associated press it was unlikely that 152 people could be smuggled onto one of the company s Container ships. Tamils a mostly hindu minority on sri Lanka complain they Are persecuted by that country s Buddhist sinhalese majority. Tamils Are fighting a War for Independence in Northern sri Lanka. Hess says he s in remarkably Good health Munich up Rudolf Hess the former Deputy of Adolf Hitler in a letter sen to his family from four Power Spandau prison said he is in remarkably Good condition for 92, but has Many ailments a German Magazine reported thursday. The illustrated Magazine Quick published a letter Hess wrote 10 his wife use and his son Wolf Ruediger Hess a week after his july 14 return to the prison in West Berlin s Spandau District from the nearby British military Hospital. He spent a week in the Hospital undergoing routine tests. He told his family he was glad to be Back in the prison where he is serving a life sentence imposed in 1946 by the International military tribunal at Nuernberg As Well As i was treated in the Hospital. 1 missed very much the walks in the fresh air and the Green he was quoted As saying in a reference to his walk in the prison Garden. Hess reported that the British army doctors said he not Only was in remarkably Good health for a 92-year old but also for someone much  but he said he listed All his ailments so people would not get the impression he is healthy As a  the Magazine published the Teller in an apparent attempt to create sympathy for Hess whom it de scribed As a credulous idealist Chancellor Helmut Kohl but month appealed to the United slates soviet Union Britain and France Ibe four world War ii victors who run the prison to Grant Hess amnesty on humanitarian grounds. Hess said he is completely Blind in one Eye and a Only partial sight in the other hat circulatory an breathing trouble swollen legs and stomach and Abdo Minal cramps  
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