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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday March 3,1988 world today dutch defense chief to tour persian Gulf the Hague. Netherlands a dutch defense minister Willicm Van Eck ten is to leave Lor inc persian Gulf later this week Tor in inspection of b dutch mine Hunting talk Torre and talks wish defense officials in the area. Van Eccl in is scheduled to leave saturday fur Ahu Dahabi in the United Arab emirates and is in visit the to do inti mine Hunters operating in the Gulf the next Day. Defense ministry spokesman Erik Ouwejan said wednesday. The mine Hunters which have been Active in .1 join dutch belgian task Force since late octo Ber arc based in the part of Al fun Zayrah on Hie Lulf of Oman about 100 Miles South of the Strait of Hormuz. After his visit to the dutch task Force Van eur Len will Hilel talks with defense officials in Buth the United Arab emirates and saudi Ara Hia. According to of Micjan. . Report accuses Chile of human rights violations Geneva up a run not by he . H Uman rights commission accused the chilean government wednesday of condoning inhuman acts and heinous behaviour by paramilitary gangs. The 62-Pnge report formed the basis of Dis ii Siun about Chile at the commission s current 198s session which ends March 11. . Officials said Here were no special resolutions concerning Chile and thai the report would be put to he 43-rnember commission for acceptance As it stands. It was written by a special reporter on Chile Ternando Velio Jimenez of Costa Rica. He paid a third visit to Chile Lail december and mid he was Given a hostile discourteous and uncooperative reception. It is incumbent on the government to put an end to unlawful coercion. Ind especially Tor Ture the report said. . Artist soviets agree on Art in space project embrace Switzerland a a . Art in says he has signed an agreement with the soviet Union to launch what could be the firs sculpture in space a 20-foot diameter ring with the word peace written on it in different languages. Arthur Woods said wednesday thai he signed an agreement last week with Dmitri pol Utayev. A representative of the soviet space Agency clan los mos. Id launch inc sculpture in 1990 or 1991. Woods said the sculpture would be trans parted on a Proton launch vehicle to the Mir space station from which it would be deployed. Woods will be responsible for financing the launch and sculpture at in estimated Cost of . Funding is to come from private contributions of at  $35 each said Woods. He Calls the project orbiting unification ring satellite or ours. Bricklayer is arrested in mafia linked killings Reggio do Calabria Italy a a bricklayer was arrested wednesday for investigation of a mafia Jin cd shooting that left Tyro men dead and two injured in a Coffee bar italian Media reported. Police said they weren t sure How Many at tackers Bun into the bar in a Centra Square on tuesday night and began shooting. Giuseppe Postorino a3, was one of the men fatally wounded in the attack the Ansa news Jency reported. Investigators speculated that the target was Postorino. Whom police linked id a Maju re Jated gang in Calabria. Police found a dozen Bullet from two differ ent pistols in the bar. The other dead nun wat identified in news reports is Fiance co pcs Cru 27. Riot police Advance to Clear debris placed by demonstrators attempting to Block the Street in Panama City Panama radio station raided sex presidential candidate seized i an am a City Panama api  Security agents  ransacked a radio station that defied censors by broadcasting news and hacking a strike and a  candidate was roughed up and arrested. The raid tuesday by a score of stale Security agents broke the uneasy Calm that had marked the general strike since it began monday. The protest is to demand i Cousler of Manama s military strongman Gen Manuel Antonio Noriega. The station was destroyed said the owner Carlos Ivan Zuniga to unsuccessfully ran for president in 1984, it will return to the air when there is democracy in Panama Zimiga was arrested along with his son car kit and two other people. Zuniga had managed to escape briefly when car blocked the path of the Security vehicle in which he was being driven away. He was captured and later released and he said he was roughed up but unhurt. The other three were kicked punched and beaten with truncheons. At least three people were wounded by Bird hot none seriously. Security agents confiscated the aimed film of several news photographers including that of the Tampa Tribune s Allyn i Vita. The Florida photographer had pistol add to his head until he surrendered hit film. Al a news conference following his release Zug Lea called the attack an act of official stale  he Esti mated damage to his nation radio Imam it s 100,000. The station is also known As radio 10-fm. Shortly before the attack Zuniga mid the station Broad cast an Appeal to residents of the capital to Donon Stihll peacefully against the government by Wing White hand kerchiefs hold in Thor car horns and hanging on poll and pans each Day at noon and 6 . That was in Defiance of government Canon orders that the station Only play music about 15 people were handing out anti government Leaf lets outside the station when the spirit agents arrived suddenly in four four wheel drive vehicles with dark tinted  agents leaped from the vehicles firing shotguns end revolvers in the air quickly dispersed the leaflet Dif Tribu tors and charged into the station smashing equipment  the station is Homod in the offices of Floc popular action party which Zuniga Heads and is in a Middle class neigh boyhood. Al the first Siatti of gunfire about 150 Neilia Bors poured into the Street Many of them waving while Bann Conand . Young men do rocks at the Security men and i up barricades of by train fish on the Street of nude the station and several Side streets. Order was not restored for iveral hours. As word of the attack on radio Mon dial spread Barri cads went up on it Yeti elsewhere in the City but then Wasno further violence. Leaders of the nth Boal Csc crusade a wide coalition of business Pray Nional labor and political group hit organized the nationwide Dike claimed tuesday night thai the action halted 5 percent of the country t economic activity. The Coxx did thai Annap rotation was Down by Jarl 10 percent but they said retail nattttnopp1ptiiaf Hippo it. Crusade Leaden deny their goal is to restore Erie Ranuro  be a stripped of flail Friday by flit National Wattem Blyford trying to fire Noriega. Houn Afler he Wei dismiss and do vac went Iota hiding he nil not been teen publicly Tince but be hat Brucd Tea Tonnu of Bini for an int emotional Trade Eban i to Slop the flow of Cash to Panama of so Occam Japan signs contract with . To pay More for defense costs Tokyo api Janan wednesday need an in Jinan once the no Loco ii . The Ernea Japa lipid agreement with the United Stales Hal require Tokyo to assume a larger share of the costs of running . Military bases in Japan foreign minister Sosuki Uno and acting . Embassy charge d affairs l. Desavi Anderson endow a protocol to replace a year old Accord and Boon Japan s share of allowances for japanese Bue workers from a Nuu Zmunt so percent to 100 percent by 1991, be us. Embassy said id a Stem enl. Under the new agreement Japan will a All Bene fits and allowances for the21,000 japanese base work ers including transportation housing and retirement expenses. The United states pay the salaries of the japanese Worken. Japan s financial contribution will account for about 40 percent of the annual Cost of maintaining . Bases i Japa protocol implemented embassy statement said. Tokyo and Washington signed an initial Accord in january 1987 requiring Japan to cover up to half he expenditures for japanese workers Al is. Dues. Wednesday s agreement amends that pact part of a five year status of Force agreement signed in january1986. Info Fol l�j7. Apuletide$12smillion too Fisel Cost for Kapanac employees at the ones. With Theyen s rite or about 100 percent against the Dollar Over the past three years however the Cost to the United Stales of maintaining the japanese base workers Haf skyrocketed. The new agreement follows a pledge by prime min ister Noboru to Okabata during a visit id Washl Jiaa in january to increase Alpar contribution toward maintaining . Farces in Japan  
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