European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday december 29,1988 anniversary rally May be the last for afghan rebels Peshawar Pakistan a thousands of Lur Hii cd afghans piled into buses in this Frontier City at inc foot of khyber pass and drove to a protest rally tuesday on the ninth anniversary of soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. This year Only one of seven top afghan guerrilla leaders based in Pakistan spoke at hat May be the last such rally after u decade of War. The rally coincided with increased soviet Diplo Matic efforts to Scute the conflict politically. Gul Baddin Hack Magyar the most Radical rebel chief addressed inc rally at a big refugee Camp on i to outskirts of Peshawar 30 Miles from the afghan Border Ami Marx in rebels have demonstrated each year on dec. 27, the die in 1979 when the red army marched into Afghanistan at inc invitation of the communist government. M Kabul. More than j million afghan War refugees live in Pakistan and up to 2 million arc in Iran. Burhanuddin Rabbani chairman of the seven party afghan guerrilla Alliance supported by Washington and based in Pakistan met tuesday in inc iranian capital Tehran with government officials and afghan rebels the guerrillas known As Mujahideen or holy warriors arc f Pill into two coalitions the Iran based shiite moslem Alliance and Rabbani s larger sunni moslem Alliance bused in Pakistan. On tuesday Iran s official islamic Republic news Agency quoted the Tehran times newspaper As reporting that soviet Deputy foreign minister Yuli Vorontsov will Fly to Tehran soon to meet shiite resistance leaders. It would be the first direct Contact Between Moscow and inc Irwin based Mujahi Deji since the 1979 soviet intervention. Rahbani was in Iran to ensure that both coalitions a men a United from to Moscow. Also tuesday radio Kabul said in a broadcast monitored in Pakistan that 28 people had died in guerrilla Ruc lift Ull Ottis on afghan cities the previous two Dilys. The stale run radio said Herat in Western Afghanistan was hardest hit with 20 people killed and four injured. There was no Independent confirmation. At the Pakistan rally Hematyar directed his rhetoric at his american backers As Well As the soviet Union. Although pakistani and Western sources say he is one of the largest recipients of . Military Aid to afghan rebels a Esmatyar refused to acknowledge military assistance from Washington. He said his weapons were captured in Battle a con Tention other guerrilla leaders deny. The hard liner also declared it seems that Moscow is reaching an understanding with he West on one hand in a bid to prevent a Mujahideen government in  his speech was punctuated with audience shouts of death to Russia and death to America " Many demonstrators belonged to Hematyar s fundamentalist Herb a Slami group. A sprinkling of representatives from other Mujahideen groups attended. In april Moscow agreed to pull More than 100,000 soldiers from Afghanistan by feb. 15 next year. Half left by August. The United nations negotiated la agreement in Geneva. Ii was signed by Afghanistan and Pakistan Wilh the soviet Union and the United Stales acting As co guarantors. The Mujahideen were not party to the Accord and the soviets suspended their withdrawal in the face of continuing rebel attacks. At the beginning of december Vorontsov met Rab Bani in Taj saudi Arabia for negotiations Rabbani said Vorontsov hinted that Afghanistan s marxist president Najib who uses Only one name and his people s democratic party would be sacrificed for a political settlement of the War. Hack Magyar has greeted the talks with scepticism saying tuesday although these talks arc a great Polit ical Victory Tor the Mujahideen great Hopes should not be pinned on such talks,1 frosty of the desert two Young dry dwellers on wednesday fashion their own Union of frosty Hie snowman m Hun Jordan Gat an unexpected Holiday gift a Surprise snowstorm hat dumped some 4 inches of Snow on the capital of Amman. The Early Snow doubled the Normal seasonal world today verbal offence prisoners cleared from yugoslav jails Belgrade Yugoslavia a the Coll Clive mate presidency on tuesday ordered inc release of inc last 25 prisoners serving icbms for so called verbal offences state run television reported yugoslav human rights activists and others have appealed to authorities for years to abolish article 133 of country s penal code. The article allows people to be prosecuted for hostile propaganda or verbal of lenses such As insulting the country s leaders. Tuesday s move did not abolish inc article but the to report said no More prisoners were serving icbms for such offences. Many convictions were based in comments made privately or in articles in foreign publications. Some people were sentenced for publicly singing songs the authorities disapproved of. Iran signs Trade treaty with Strait neighbor Oman Nicosia Cyprus a Oman signed a Trade Accord with Iran on wednesday and agreed to set up a joint cooperation commission to boost economic links the islamic Republic news Agency reported. The official iranian Agency monitored in Nicosia said inc agreement was signed by Oman s Commerce and Industry minister Salem bin Abdullah Al Ghazali and Iran s heavy industries minister Behzad Nabavi in Tehran. The agreement came amid iranian moves to improve relations with its Arab neighbors after the aug. 20 cease fire was reached in its 8-year-old War with Iraq Oman shares control of the strategic Strait of Hor Muz Gateway to the persian Gulf with Iran. It maintained relations with Tehran throughout the conflict along with the United Arab emirates a major iranian trading partner Oman remained Neutral in the conflict and frequently sought to mediate an end to the War underground nuclear test carried out by soviets Moscow a the soviet Union exploded on wednesday an underground nuclear device at its Semipalatinsk Range in Central Asia the official Tass news Agency said.". Tass said the test blast had a yield of up to 20 Icil tons the same yield As the atomic bomb dropped aug. A 1945, on Hiroshima Japan. The test was conducted to Check he results of the research into the physics of nuclear explosions it said. The radiation situation in and outside the test area is normal.". 3 customs men suspended after bomb hoax incident Heerlen Netherlands a three dutch Cus Toms officers have been suspended after calling their colleagues at a dutch West German Border Post and saying they were Irish Republican army terrorists who had planted a bomb the finance ministry said wednesday,1 no bomb was found but because of the officers hoax til traffic on a major Highway linking inc West German cily of Aachen with this Southern dutch City. Had to be rerouted for several hours according to ministry spokeswoman Jose Van do wow she added the three had made the Call to the Border Post on the a76 Highway after returning from an eve Ning s drinking Early dec. 11 v police immediately closed the Border crossing As army explosives experts searched the area she said. If ultimately convicted of making the bomb threat the three customs men could face a two year prison term -. / -. -. High flying Mother Preno London a p a woman gave birth two months prematurely aboard a jumbo Jet flying at 39,000 feel from bar Bados to Britai nand her husband was too shocked to do anything but hold her hand a newspaper reported wednesday. Catherine Faye Capaldi was born on monday the Day after Christmas while the British airways Boeing 747 was Over the Atlantic the times of London said. The aircraft was diverted 10 Shannon Airport in Ireland after the baby was bom. An ambulance rushed the baby and her Mother 31-year-old Maureen Capal i of london1 lost. Munchin s maternity Hospital at Limerick i said the baby weighed 3 pounds ii ounces at birth and Mother and daughter were reported doing Well the paper said. Capaldi 31 weeks into her pregnancy was within one week of the recommended limit for pregnant air travellers and went into labor three hours after inc plane look off it said. V the paper quoted the plane s co Pilot Nick Eads As saying it was getting a bit Panicky and i went to the passenger Section o give reassurance convinced that the birth was not going to Lake place. Bui by the time i got there it was All happening. /.,- the head was already out. When the contractions stopped inc baby was there. It was really a do it yourself  Eads was quoted As saying it was 30 minutes before the baby breathed in  thought the Little mite was t going to live he told the paper. A stewardess got a suction line from the medical kit while i tried artificial respiration. We decided to leave Well enough alone and not Cut the umbilical Cord. "1 then rushed Back to the night deck to help to land the air plane mrs Ca Paldi was very Calm throughout. But her husband Franco Capaldi was Loo shocked to do anything except hold his wife s