European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 25, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 3 cabbies to join anti aids drive Copenhagen Denmark api taxi Drivers in the City of Viborg will be offering condoms to Christmas revellers As an aids pre caution a health official said monday. As pan of a drive to remind people of the aids threat cabbies will have condoms to Dis tribute free to their customers on request said los both Rasmussen a health department Consul Tant in Viborg county West Denmark. Most of the county s taxi companies have agreed to put stickers saying remember a con Dom Tor the Otic you love on their cabs Ras Mussun said in a Telephone interview Many pants leave their cars at Home and Lake a cab during the Christmas partying season. Rasmussen said Drivers were not being asked to foist condoms on their customers but to give them away to those who requested them. The condom Giveaway is part of a local aids awareness Campaign which also includes radio advertisements that will run through december. About 40,000 packets of a suite approved Brand of condom have been made available for the program which if successful could be extended beyond Yule tide. Sununu jewish leaders meet to put past behind us new York up jewish leaders met with new Hampshire gov. John Sununu and said they look for Ward 10 a Good working relationship with president elect George Bush s future chief of staff despite their past clashes with the lebanese american on Middle East policy following a wednesday conference in Manhattan with Sununu on . Policy in the Middle East Abra Ham Foxman executive director of the anti defamation league of r Nai b Rich announced the two men had had an honest and sensitive Exchange Sununu who is of lebanese descent has frequently held views on Middle East policy that have clashed with those of jewish organizations. We put the past behind us format said. We have an understanding of where he is coming from and he has an understanding of where we come from. He s proud of his heritage As we Are of  i think we look Forward to a Good working relation ship in the future. I feel comfortable that he will do his Job to the Best of his ability without Bias and without preconceived notions Foxman said. The hour Long meeting was attended by about 30 leaders representing a Range of jewish groups. A number of leaders had objected to Sununu s appointment to the powerful Post of chief of staff citing his refusal to sign a 1986 proclamation denouncing a . Resolution that equated zionism and racism. Sununu was the nation s Only governor who refused to sign the proclamation. Sununu reiterated he refused to sign the 1986 proclamation because he Felt it was improper for a Gover nor to intervene in foreign policy Foxman said. The meeting which look place at the Princeton club in Manhattan was arranged by Jacob Stein a former chairman of the conference of presidents of major american jewish organizations who also was presi Dent Reagan s Liason o the jewish Community Early in the Reagan administration. Theodore Ellen put president of the american jew ish committee said he fell confident Sununu and jew ish leaders would find a basis for agreement on future Middle East policy. He also strongly believes that peace must be Pur sued in the Middle East and in thai Pursuit of peace the Powers in that area must recognize explicitly the state of Israel and its need for Security As Well As free Dom from terrorism he said. Foxman said Sununu explained his views to the satisfaction of most of he  Iraq Iran begin exchanging ill prisoners of War Baghdad Iraq a Iraq and Iran exchanged 71 prisoners of War thursday the first Day of a red Cross sponsored operation to repatriate More than 1,500 sick and disabled prisoners from the persian Gulf War iraqi officials mid red Cross officials earlier had said 151 prisoners 110 iraqis and 41 Irani ans were to be freed. But Only 52 iraqi pos left Tehran Iran aboard a dc-9 Jet chartered by the International com Mittee for the red Cross. In response Iraq returned Only 19 iranians aboard  plane which is to shuttle Between the two capitals on a daily basis. Iran official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Nicosia Cyprus said fewer iraqis flew to Baghdad because some had asked for political Asylum. Others were no logger eligible for repatriation after red Cross doctors verified they had recovered from their ill Ness the news Agency said. Each departing prisoner was Given a copy of the Koran the holy Sook of islam and persian craftwork As gifts the news Agency said. The dc-9 was to Fly Between Tehran and4baghdad for the next 10 Days to re Patriate up to 1,1 is iraqis and 411 Irani ans All sick or wounded according to a memorandum of understanding signed by Iraq and Iran with he red Cross. The repatriation which is being paid for by an unidentified Western nation is the largest prisoner Exchange so far be tween the countries who agreed aug. 20 to a cease fire in their eight year War irn Asaid. The last pow Exchange of 25 iraqis and 25 iranians took place oct. 30, As a Mutual Goodwill gesture before .-me dated Iran Iraq peace talks resumed in Geneva. The talks have made no pro Cess. V a red Cross official in Baghdad. Paul Henri Morard said the plane would Fly the shortest route Between Tehran and Baghdad. Despite the Casc fire Many planes still avoid Hying directly Over the joint Border. The red Cross proposed to Start the Exchange nov. 20, but it was twice postponed because some prisoners on both sides were unwilling to return Home and sought to go elsewhere according to diplomatic sources in Baghdad. The sources speaking on condition of anonymity said a number of prisoners asked to leave for an unidentified West Ern country. In addition some iranian prisoners want to join the Mujahid can Knaly the Iraq based opposition group that seeks to overthrow the government of Ayal Ollan Ruhollah Khomeini the sources said. Morard said the red Cross has already registered 50,182 iraqi pos and 19,284 iranians but the total number of pos estimated by both countries is 100,000. He said the red Cross has repatriated 765 iraqi sick and wounded pos and 613 iranians since 1981. As signatories of the Geneva Conven Tion both sides arc pledged to repatriate All pos without delay after cessation of  the sick and wounded should have been returned while he lighting was still in Progress according to the Convent Ion. Smart pussycats in Rome Aren t fazed by the sudden plunge in temperature. With All thus cars crowding hot idea for Cool cats Italy s Busy capital it s easy for Nam inc cats to find warn hoods that Are almost As Good As Sunshine. Tanks soldiers guard armenians in Azerbaijan Moscow a army tanks and soldiers thurs. Day guarded armenian neighbourhoods in three azerbaijani cities shaken by the Southern soviet Union s bloodiest ethnic rioting since March officials said. Azerbaijani say the rioting was triggered by an armenian Campaign 10 Send settlers to a disputed Region of their adjacent Republic an 11 p m.-5 . Curfew was imposed in Azerbaijan s capital Baku and two other cities Nash Chevan and kirov bad where mobs killed three soldiers and injured at least 126 people tuesday said Musa mame Dov head of the Azerbaijan foreign ministry s information department. Frightened armenians Iri kirov bad about 50 Miles from the Republic of Armenia formed an emergency committee to evacuate women and children to arme Nia said Arp nay Lopoyan wife of armenian activist Rafael Lopoyan. She said rampaging azerbaijani in kirov bad destroyed 15 armenian Homes this week. The situation is sharply deteriorating in Azerbaijan she said from Yerevan Armenia s capital. Armenian activist Hovik Vassil Arr said by Tele phone wednesday night from Yerevan that kirov bad was surrounded by azerbaijani who were not letting armenians escape. " tensions have been running High  caucasus since february when armenians began agitating for the annexation of Magorno Karabash a predominantly armenian enclave in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani off coals and Kremlin leaders have rejected the demand