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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday january 29,1987 world today Newborn found in Home Mother died in childbirth Brisbane Australia a a baby boy found in an apartment three Days after his Mother died giving Binh to him was progressing satisfactorily in a Hospital wednesday authorities said. The unnamed 6.g-Pond baby was found monday in a bedroom in his Mother s apartment in Kingston. His 4-year-old brother Andrew also was found next to he body of he Mother Christine Clements 36, police said. A postmortem yesterday found the Mother died of natural causes from a severe Haemorrhage after giving Binh authorities said. The baby who was bom three weeks prematurely was jaundiced and dehydrated when round. Police said a neighbor toss Harris had gone into the apartment after becoming concerned when she noticed Andrew wandering around the building. Use of nuke Energy grew in 86, . Agency says Vienna Austria a the worldwide use of nuclear Power grew last year despite concern caused by the reactor Accident at chernobyl the International atomic Energy Agency said tues Day. The Vienna based organization monitors and promotes the peaceful uses of nuclear Energy. It said i1 new reactors were put into operation last year bringing in worldwide total of Active nuclear plants to 394. The steady growth of nuclear Power in the world has continued in 1986," the Agency said. While the chernobyl Accident has increased the attention in the world Tor safety measures in no country has it led to a Stop in the construction or putting into operation of a nuclear Power Plant the 113-nation . Agency said. Amnesty giving aliens Chance to stay in Italy Rome a foreigners who were deemed illegal aliens in Italy have begun to apply for Legal residence status under a stale amnesty police officials reported tuesday. About 130 foreigners presented their applications at the Rome police Headquarters. In All about 120,000 foreigners were considered to be living illegally in Italy according to government figures. On dec. 30, the government issued a decree giving them until april 27 to apply for the status of Legal resident. Under the decree those doing so by the deadline would not be punished for having spent time in the country illegally. Applicants without a regular Job will be Given a one year permit and placed on unemployment lists. Vatican takes last step for beatification of nun Vatican City a the Vatican on tuesday look the last official step for the beatification of a jewish woman who became a Catho Lic nun and died in Auschwitz. The Vatican s congregation for the cause of saints promulgated the martyrdom and the he Roic virtue of Teresa Benedelto Della Croce who was born Edith Stein. Vatican officials said she will be beatified by Pope John Paul ii during his trip to Germany in May. Beatification is a first step toward possible sainthood. The nun bom in Breslau Germany now wroclaw Poland in 1891, converted to catholicism in the 1920s and joined the carmelite order in 1933. At the beginning of world War ii she was transferred to a dutch Convent to escape nazi persecution. She was arrested by the German Gestapo in 1942 and died in a Gas chamber at thu Auschwitz concentration Camp in Poland on aug. 9, 1942. Youths place barriers in Madrid Street during a student demonstration protesting Nult Ertly idol Mon Polliet. Youth carrying gasoline bomb arrested in Madrid protest Madrid Spain a police arrested a youth with a gasoline bomb As High school students protested University admission policies. Madrid government spokesman Carlos Briones said the youth was one of about 300 rowdies who broke windows in the regional government Headquarters and several shops in the Purta Del sol Plaza in the heart of the City tuesday. He estimated 2,000 students demonstrated tuesday. Reporters estimated the crowd at 4.000. Students at Public High schools have been boycotting classes for two weeks and demonstrating for University admissions free Choice of studies lower tuition and increased government spending for education. Law enforcement official and student Leaden said the bands of youths who rampaged through the City Center were members of soccer Tan club Ana had Noth ing to do with the students complaints. Briones said police remained on the sidelines until the last minute tuesday because they had received orders not of intervene. The orders came following the violence last Friday when a policeman tired his re Volver into a crowd wounding a 14-year-old girl. During tuesday s demonstration students called for the resignations of education minister Jose Maria Mara Ariand Interior minister Jose Barrionuevo in charge of All police units. Official furious Over damage to 144,000 Canada vets records Ottawa a confidential records on do to 144,000 veterans of the Canadian armed forces have been damaged and in some cases lost in the mail. Veterans affairs minister George Here told parliament on tues Day. I was furious when i Learned about this incident Heck said he said two boxes containing microfiche plastic cards with details on veterans and their pensions were damaged when mailed from a veterans a fairs office in Charlottetown Prince Edward Island earlier this month. Some of the records disappeared. Police were called in to investigate but concluded that no deliberate illegality was involved. Hees said. He said that in the future records will be transferred by computer link or Tele instead of through the mail. It was the fifth time confidential material has been lost by the government in recent months. Income tax records on All 16 million Canadian taxpayers were stolen from Canada s Toronto tax office late last year. They were later turned Over to police on behalf of an employee who Alleg edly took them to Start up a business tracking Down the owners of dormant Bank accounts. In december a television station and newspaper in Saskatoon received letters containing confidential documents listing Farmers who received Federal tax re Bates. Earlier ibis month the Post office lost and later recovered a shipment of passports. The Royal Ca Nadian mint changed the design on a proposed $1 Coin from Voyageur Canoe explorers to a Loon when the original Dies for the Coin were lost in transit to a Winnipeg production Plant. China to launch satellite for . Firm peking up a contract for China s first com Mercial satellite launch was signed wednesday with a new York based company that had planned to use the . Space shuttle before it was grounded the official Xinhua news Agency said. Xinhua said the contract was signed by we Keli vice president of the China great Wall Industrial corp., and Henry Schwartz chairman of the Board of Teresa inc. Of the United states. It said Teresa s Wester vis satellite would be launched aboard a chinese made Long March 3 car Rier Rock in the first half of 198s from the Remote Yichang space Center in Centra Sichuan province. A chinese official said this is the first contract the chinese satellite launcher has obtained so tar since it decided to provide launching services on the International Market in 1989, Xinhua said. It said the chinese company initiated a launch contract with a swedish firm a few Days ago but it gave no further details. China announced in Early 1986 it was involved in preliminary negotiations Wilh the swedish space corp. For the launch of a satellite. Preliminary agreements also have been signed with at least three other companies including Western Union of the United states and a company in Iran. Xinhua did not say what the new contract with the new York based Teresa was Worth but Western diplomats believe China is asking Between j4 million and so million fora launch. The Mcslar vis satellite weighing i.j2s kilograms 2,921 Pound was scheduled Tor a space shuttle launch in june last year Xinhua said. But that launch was postponed indefinitely following the lot of the challenger spacecraft in january i 8. China has launched 19 of in own satellite lines 1970. The latest on oct. 6 1986  
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