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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday february 17,1967 food trucks allowed into 2 Camps Beirut. Lebanon a Stii Ilc moslem Mili Tiamen besieging palestinian refugee Camps for More than tour months on monday allowed food convoys to enter to Camps rear the Southern port City of Tyre. The United nations said trucks unloaded 47 tons of flour 90,000 tins of sardines and 564 canisters of skimmed milk in the Camps of Buss and Bour cd Sha Mali. The artial militia also allowed thousands of pales Tinian women and children from the Ras Hidiyeh Camp to travel to Miles to Tyre to buy food a police source in Tyre said amal militiamen Al Lowed he Convoy 1o enter the two smaller Camps Only after they confiscated one third of he flour. Amal militiamen have blockaded the three Camps so Miles South of Beirut since oct. 1. There were no indications that the shiite blockade of Beirut s larger Bour a Baraj Nch and shatilla Campi would be lifted. They have been under siege since nov. 24. In Beirut a spokeswoman Tor the . Relief and works Agency said amal officials have refused to allow More food into the two Camps. The syrian backed amal militia has been fighting the palestinians intermittently since May 1985, with the declared objective of preventing Yasser Arafat s Palestine liberation organization from regaining the Power base lost in Israel s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Palestinian officials said about 90 women and Chil Dren were allowed to leave Bour Al Bara Neh on Mon Day for the smaller mar Eltas Camp which is projected by druse militiamen who have stayed Neutral in the War. Amal militiamen have allowed about 500 palestini ans to leave Bour Al Bara Neh in the past two weeks. They also permitted a . Convoy carrying food sup plies to enter Bour Al Baraj Nch last saturday but Only after an equal amount of food was delivered to the surrounding shiite slums. Italian military transport planes landed in Warnaca Cyprus during the weekend carrying More than 100 tons of supplies for the palestinians. The supplies were loaded onto a Lebanon bound ferry monday and included Medicine flour Rice biscuits and blankets. News briefs Shamir arrives in . For talks new York a israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir arrived monday to begin a 10-Day visit n the United Stales. After Courtesy Cults in manhat Tan with mayor Edward Koch and new Jersey crop. Thomas Kean Shamir was to Fly 10 Washington,. On tuesday for talks with president Reagan Secretary of de sense Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of state George Shutlz. Record Snow hits Newfoundland Toronto a with Snowbank up Over the roofs income places. Newfoundland is enduring one of its fiercest Winters including a record weekend Snow fall of is a inches weather officials in Toronto reported. St. John s has been blitzed by i a feet of Snow this Winter wit no thaws in Between exhausting snowplou1 Crews and forcing some people to come 10 the assistance of snowed in neighbors by digging tunnels to their front doors. Schools were closed in St. John s on monday Many Rural communities were isolated be cause of impassable roads. Central and Eastern Canada were gripped by temperatures near Zero on monday. Israelis break up palestinian protest Gaza City occupied Gaza strip a israeli troops fired scores of warning shots monday to Scalier hundreds of jeering palestinians who were pelting the main police station with stones. Two israeli Border police punched kicked and slapped three detained palestinians in View of the crowd moments before the Stone throwing began. Later five palestinian activists browbeat local shopkeepers into closing redirected traffic in Defi Ance of israeli orders and hurled stones at israeli motorists. Authorities and activists kept photographers from taking Pic lures. The violence in Gaza City Home of about 200,000 palestini ans was among about a dozen clashes monday in the israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza  began eight Days ago m protest Over the siege of palestini an refugee Camps in Lebanon by Shi Ilc moslem. Shiite group denies it holds Waite Beirut Lebanon a the Irani an backed shiite moslem faction Hezbollah on monday denied allegations that it holds anglican Church hostage negotiator Terry Waile who dropped from sight nearly a month ago. Walid Jumblatt Leader of the druse militia responsible for Waite s Security had accused the militant group of taking Waile captive. American moslem . Mehdi visit ing Lebanon to seek the release of hos tages called for a .-lcd embargo on arms sales to the Middle East 05 a Means of helping to end Lebanon s 11-year-old civil War and kidnappings of foreigners. Twenty six foreigners Are missing in Leb anon including eight americans. Jumblatt said sunday i strongly be Lieve Ibal Waite is with Hezbollah. Some of the kidnappers thought that it was possible to squeeze some Money out of his  Watte has been missing since the eve Ning of Jan. 20, when be left his hotel to negotiate with shiites holding Terry an Derson chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press and Thomas Sutherland acting Dean of agriculture at the american University of Beirut. Mehdi head of the new York based National Council for islamic affairs said his proposal for tin arms ban was. Based on the Assumption that terrorism is War and War is  an arms embargo would eliminate the causes of War and hostage taking he said. He urged kidnappers to release All hostages. To spoof of Khomeini angers Iran Frankfurt a a nationally to devised comedy skit using film tricks to make exultant women appear to throw their underwear at the feet of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini mushroomed into a diplomatic Row Between Iran and Ger Many on monday. The iranian state airline Iran air delayed by f i hours a flight from Frank Furt to Tehran to show displeasure Over the show while uie iranian embassy in Bonn protested to the German foreign ministry. The 14-second spoof came in prime time sunday evening during Rudi car Rell s comedy show on the National Ard network. It is one of the most popular programs in Germany. The show used original footage of recent celebrations in Tehran marking the eighth anniversary of Khomeini s ascent to Power. It combined the clip with slapstick close  of women Tak ing off their underwear and tossing it the photo montage gave the illusion that the women were in front of Khomeini and throwing their underwear a his feet. The Bonn foreign ministry in statement monday said it regretted that the show made fun of Iran s revolution Ary Leader but stressed that press and artistic Freedom arc guaranteed in Ger Many. The iranian ambassador to Germany Mohammad Djavad Salari made the protest sunday evening and threatened unspecified consequences because the show insulted the entire people  in november Iran expelled three italian diplomats and recalled its ambassador to Italy temporarily to pro test a spoof of Khomeini by a Comedi an on a variety show on the state run Rai to. Carrell a dutch born comedian who has been based in Germany for 23 years frequently uses photo montage tricks to poke fun at Germany s Lead ing politicians including Chancellor Helmut Kohl and prominent foreign leaders. In one recent show Carrel showed the clip of a grinning Kohl immediately after playing the shot of two women dressed As prostitutes cooing Helmut  following the show the Ard net work received a letter from Kohl pro testing the sketch. Carrell said in a re cent interview with Der Spiegel newsmagazine that the Ard chief warned him to be More careful in choosing his subjects. 2,000 . Sa/7ors visit Alexandria Alexandria. Egypt a at least 2,000 american sailors toured this Mediterranean port sunday onshore leave from the aircraft Carrier Nimitz and two accompanying ships . Consulate official said. The official said the nuclear pow ered Nimit the nuclear powered guided missile Cruiser South Carolina and the fast frigate Trippe docked out Side Alexandria Harbor Al 8 . Sat urday the Carrier John f. Kennedy last week ended a six Day port Call in Israel and returned to station off Lebanon the consulate official who demanded anonymity under . Govern ment guidelines said the Nimitz car Ries a Crew of 5,600 and the other ships in its flotilla carry around 1,400. At any time there arc around 2,000 men on leave the official said some of them Are in Alexandria and usually they take trips  egyptian sources said the Nii Nitt was scheduled to end its port Call wednesday morning. In Washington informed sources Al the Pentagon said the Carrier Kitty Hawk now on patrol in the Indian Ocean will move to the Mediterranean through the Suez canal next month to relieve the Kennedy. The Kilty Hawk s deployment is in line with a decision by president Rea Gan to keep two Carrier groups in the Mediterranean full time the sources said. The libyan news Agency Jana Laid sunday that Libya had protested to the Arab league Egypt s decision to allow port Calls of the . Ships. Arctic cold stops pole to pole fliers Philadelphia a Raj Pilot who logged More than 27,000 Miles trying to Orele the world via the poles in a single engine plane is Back Home because the Arctic chill Cut Short the flight. Richard Norton and German flier Calin Roselli were 3,000 mites Short in their attempt to set world air records. They called a postponement Friday Al Mould Bay on Canada s Prince Patrick Island. Tic two had landed their s35d.ooo Piper Malibu the Arctic Tern near a Remote weather station after hearing blocking sounds on the left Wing. Then they discovered the plane would t re Start. The temperature of 50 degrees below Zero had made the engine bases As Brittle As twigs. It was nature that won out Norton Laid at a news conference sunday night. The conditions in the Arctic and the Antarctic Are truly  Norton 48, a trans world airlines Pilot who also teaches science part time at the Institute for the achieve ment of human potential said he was not distressed the flight had come up Short. We wanted to demonstrate particularly to the children of the world that there will always be challenges for them he said. We achieved that  Norton said he and Roselli who re turned to i Home base in Paris Are looking Forward to returning to Prince Patrick Island in the Spring and flying to Paris  
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