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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, December 28, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday december 28,1986 afghan Miles in Germany hold a protest outside the soviet embassy in Bonn saturday. World leaders Call on soviets to end Afghanistan intervention by the associated press on the seventh anniversary of soviet military intervention in Afghanistan world leaders saturday accused Moscow of committing human rights violations in the moslem country and demanded an immediate withdrawal of All red army troops. There can be no military solution said British foreign Secretary sir Geoffrey Howe. We the european Community and the rest of the world look to the soviet Union to agree to a rapid an Complete withdrawal of its forces. Only this not cos Metic gestures can bring the agony of the afghan nation to an end he said in a statement. Howe was joined by the leaders of China Japan. Germany and France. In the Netherlands a soviet embassy car was set afire Friday in apparent protest of the soviet intervention. Soviet forces poured into Afghanistan on dec. 27,1979. To protect its 20-month-old communist govern ment from moslem rebels. The Kremlin installed As Leader Bahriak Karmal. Who had been living in exile in Czechoslovakia. Former secret police chief Najibullah took Over from Karmal in May. In october the soviets pulled out  of the  soviet soldiers then estimated to be in Afghanistan. Soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev has hinted that he wants to bring the red army Home but also said there would he no pullout without guarantees tha Tolhur nations Stop what Moscow Calls interference in afghan affairs. China s foreign ministry issued a statement sat urday saying that the soviet presence was endangering Security and peace in the Region the key to the settlement of the question of Afghanistan lies in the Early withdrawal of All soviet troops from Afghanistan the ministry said. The statement said the situation in Afghanistan was one of three obstacles to normalizing relations with the soviet Union. The other two Are the soviet backed vietnamese occupation of Cambodia and the deploy ment of about 500,000 soviet soldiers along the is no soviet Border. In Bonn spokesmen for the three government Par tics called he soviet presence in Afghanistan Geno cide and demanded the immediate withdrawal of All troops. The Federal government supports the striving of the afghan people for peace Freedom scow Termi nation and genuine non aligned status said German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher. For us Afghanistan is the moral and political lit mus test by which we will measure the value of the new soviet government s proposals for cooperation be tween countries of differing social systems said bavarian minister president Franz Josef Strauss the japanese government called the situation in Afghanistan  chief government spokes Man Yoshio Hatano said Japan supports efforts by the United nations to negotiate a peace settlement. Afghanistan and Pakistan which houses millions of afghan refugees have been holding indirect  talks in an Effort to Settle the conflict. The main clicking Point is the withdrawal of soviet troops. The next round of talks is scheduled for february. The French foreign ministry called on the soviet Union to renounce the illusory temptation of Force and finally accept to engage itself on the Road to a negotiated  the ministry also said it planned to step up material and humanitarian Aid to afghan refugees. Howe accused the soviets of trying to keep the realities of this War a  they talk of withdrawal. Instead they and their client regime have Only intensify the War he said. Howe said the United nations has estimated that 49,000 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in the last iwo years. Large scale violations of human rights continue to cause massive suffering he said. Five million afghans have been forced to flee their  in the Hague Netherlands a soviet embassy car was set on fire. A Man was arrested on suspicion of arson and told police he was protesting the soviet Mili tary deployment in Afghanistan. Ponce said the car was heavily damaged but there were no injuries. World today soviet woman freed Early from soviet labor Camp Moscow up a member of Moscow s unofficial peace group who was sentenced to two years in a labor Camp for anti Ovici agitation in j Uty Lias been released from Camp. Larissa Chukar a resumed 10 Moscow thurs Day from mocha ask labor Camp said Alexander Zubchenko who also is a member of the grass roots group to establish Trust Between the . He said she was detained in May and in july was sentenced to iwo years in Camp for anti so Viet agitation and  was not Clear Why inc was released Early he said but her release follows a pattern established recently by soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to release the most Well known dissidents. Her husband Alexander Chukav remains in prison where he is serving the first year of a 10 year sentence on similar  said the court that sentenced Lari sea Chukar a gave custody of the couple s 3-year-old son Alexander to his father s parents. It was not Clear whether the child would be re turned to her 11 die in plane crash at Fiji s Nadi Airport Nadi Fiji a a Small plane crashed into a Grassy slope about 200 Yards from Fiji s Nadi International Airport saturday killing 11 peo ple including six americans. Three people were injured iwo critically. It was not immediately known How Many were aboard the four engined Heron aircraft or what caused it to  said six americans and one australian were among those killed in the Midas Lemoon crash. Further details were withheld pending notification of relatives. The plane operated by Fiji owned Sunflower airlines was on a Iso mile night to the Western fijian Island of Nadi from the South Pacific archipelago s Northern Island of Vanda Levu. Police impose curfew following slaying in India new Delhi India a police ordered a curfew in the old Section of Amritsar and sur rounding neighbourhoods saturday As tension Rose after the slaying of a local hindu politician by sikh  curfew was ordered for an indefinite period the United news of India  Kumar a local Leader of prime min ister Rajiv Gandhi s Congress party in an liar was shot to death by sign extremists earlier sat urday. On Friday four members of a family and a hindu doctor were killed elsewhere in Punjab stale by sikh gunmen. 31 injured As Cable car Falls at French ski resort Les Orres France  
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