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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 23,1988 flying pastor does it again at 75 l abbe Simon a Catholic priest from Besancon France High diving Board into the doughs River at i filers be Lac. Shore in a rubber boat Simon is known As the flying58-foot alright Ier the eyes of to cameras he is brought to pastor because of his Dong Hobby. Royal baby named Beatrice Elizabeth Mary London a the Duke and Duchess of York named their 2-week-old daughter Beatrice Elizabeth Mary Buck Ingham Palace announced monday. The baby who is fifth in line to the throne will be known As her Royal highness the Princess Beatrice of York the Palace said. She is the first child of the former Sarah Ferguson and her husband Prince Andrew the second son of Queen Eliza Beth ii. Britain s newest Princess is now at Balmoral Castle the Queen s summer Home in Scotland with her parents and grandparents. She was born aug. 8 at 8 18 p.m., considered one of the Luckiest moments of the Century by chinese astrologers and was flown to Scotland hours after leaving Portland Hospital in London with her parents on aug. 12. The name Beatrice which Means bringer of Joy has Royal roots. The youngest of Queen Virtona s nine Chil Dren was named Princess Beatrice. While the Duke and Duchess were deciding on a name British gamblers also had a few ideas. But their top favourites Charlotte Victoria Annabel and Eliza Beth All turned out to be losers. The tabloid Sun Britain s largest circulation paper hit the Mark last Friday with a front Page Banner headline reveal ing All three of the baby s names Correct  paper said Annabel was Andrew and Sarah s first Choice but the name was rejected by the Queen As too yup  it said the Queen suggested the name Beatrice during a family gathering at Balmoral. It was agreed to be the perfect com Promise unusual enough to please Fergie but Royal enough to please the Queen the Sun said. Beatrice s second name Elizabeth is after her grandmother the Queen anther great grandmother Queen Mother Elizabeth who just celebrated her 88th birthday. The baby s third name Mary is the Middle name of the Duchess Mother Susan Barrantes wife of Argentine Polo player Hector ban Antes. It is also the name of Andrew s great grandmother Queen Mary wife of King George v. Taking two weeks to choose a name is not unusual in the Royal family. The Queen s daughter Princess Anne and her husband Mark Phillips took More than three weeks to name their son Peter and almost four weeks to name their daughter Zara. Prince Charles and his wife Dian were comparatively Quick to name their children. Prince William who is seconding line to the throne behind his father was named eight Days after his birth and his younger brother Prince Harry who is third in line was named after 24  Charles himself was referred to As the infant son for about a month after he was born on nov. 14, 1948. His name was announced the Day before his christening on dec. 14 of that year. World today soviet moslem celebrate with Moscow s Blessing Manama Bahrain up Iran said Sun Day Moscow has allowed soviet moslem for the first time since Tehran s 1979 islamic revolution to stage ceremonies to Mark the anniversary of the death of a shiite religious Leader. Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency said Moscow allowed soviet moslem living near the iranian Border to hold mourning Cere monies on the occasion of the month of Mohar ram the anniversary of the martyrdom of Spiri Tual Leader Imam  yugoslav workers strike demanding higher wages Belgrade Yugoslavia a some 5,000workers of a textile Plant in the macedonian town of slip Are on strike demanding higher wages a newspaper reported sunday. The Belgrade daily Politika said the strike began Friday afternoon when one of the three shifts of the Makedonka factory stopped work. The Industrial action spread to the other two shifts later on Friday and on saturday. The workers demand 30 percent increases for june and july wages and a 50 percent increase for August. Their current average monthly pay ranges Between 200.000 and 250,000 dinars $70487politika said. South Korea deports 2 . Activists Seoul South Korea up two american political activists were arrested and ordered deported after they joined Radical students at a rally denouncing  forces in South Korea a . Embassy official said  Bailey and Charles Scheiner were ordered de ported sunday night after spending about 32 hours in police custody the embassy said. Embassy spokesman Jack Sears said the activists were at Kimpo International Airport monday arranging to  and Scheiner made High profile appearances at an aug. 15 rally of anti government students where they denounced the presence of . Troops in South Korea. Witnesses said 10 to 20 plainclothes police detained them saturday and held them incommunicado until they were taken to the Airport. Bailey and Scheiner apparently went on a hunger strike while in detention according to witnesses who spoke to them As they were being taken to the Airport. Park Young Sook of the Korea peace research Institute said plainclothes police arrested the pair sat urday singling them out of a group of five foreigners As they left a Seoul apartment. S. Africa bans group against draft Johannesburg South Africa a the government monday banned a nationwide organization opposed to conscription Laws requiring White men to serve in the armed forces. Law and order minister Adriaan Vlok acting under state of emergency regulations said the end conscription Campaign was banned from carrying out any activities. Action against the organization was expected since143 Young White men in the broadest Challenge Ever to the conscription system announced aug. 3 that the would refuse to perform mandatory military service. Most of the men face six year jail terms. Leaders of the end conscription Campaign denied involvement in organizing the mass resistance but de sense minister Magnus Malan said he held the group responsible for the subversive  the organization appealed unsuccessfully for a sys tem of alternative non military service for men Politi Cally or morally opposed to joining the army. It has argued that no one should be forced to serve involuntarily in army units that patrol Black townships or in forces combating pro Independence guerrillas in South West Africa also known As Namibia. Vlok in a statement said the end conscription Campaign s primary purpose was to undermine Public support for the armed forces. The Etc attempts to create an impression of Polit ical neutrality Vlok said. But it is not difficult to see the organization s role in the revolutionary onslaught against South  the end conscription Campaign was formed in 1983, and Many of its members have been detained or restricted since a National state of emergency was declared in june 1986  
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