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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes monday january 16,1989 Bush goes Home but fish stays put _ _ _. No to Islamorada Fla. A presi Dent elect Bush got in half a Day of fish ing sunday but headed Home empty handed to work on his inaugural speech. An aide said Bush did t catch his prize Bonefish because the tide and winds were wrong. Bush flew Back to Washington on Sun Day after spending the morning out on the water. As he was leaving the Dock Bush turned aside a question about Miami s problems in handling an influx of nicaraguan refugees. On Friday he had blamed the Situa Tion on sandinista tyranny in the Cen trial american nation and said Texas and Florida communities overburdened with refugees needed help. The wily Bonefish that was the object of Bush s three Day fishing expedition to the Florida keys eluded the vice president on saturday As Well when brisk winds caused Choppy water and made it nearly impossible to stalk the hard fighting fish. The president elect did land a 13 Pound Bonefish Friday that was just 3 pounds under a world record catch said his guide George Hummel. On saturday during nearly 10 hours of fishing from a Skiff on the Bay Side of the keys Bush caught and threw Back about 25 fish including a 2-foot shark snapper lad fish Jack Perch Trout and Catfish. One of his fishing partners Fred Zeder a former ambassador to Micronesia in the Pacific snagged a Seagull while casting and had to reel the Bird in like a Kite to unhook it and let it Fly away. Bush said he planned to resume work sunday night on the inaugural address he will deliver Friday after taking the oath of office. On monday he will observe the birth Day of slain civil rights Leader Martin Luther King or. By speaking at a prayer breakfast held by the inaugural afro american committee. This was Bush s fifth trip to the keys As vice president. He stayed in a private condominium overlooking the Bay while his press and secret service entourage was housed at the nearby resort Chueca Lodge where the Ocean front Villas went for up to $275 a night. Bush disappointed local boosters Fri Day by announcing he had no plans to make this or anyplace else the Winter White House. But Bush did say he Hopes to come Back again As president if not this Winter. Shopkeepers had their Welcome or. President signs out for Miles along the keys. You Hook pm Well Cook pm said the billboard outside the fish House restau  dined privately saturday night on blackened grouper at a restaurant at Chueca Lodge with his friends including Treasury Secretary Nicholas f. Brady and sen. Alan Simpson a Wyo. Feuding shiite militias clash in Southern Beirut. A fit t to 1 _ a � Beirut Lebanon a feuding shiite moslem militias battled each other in Beirut s Southern slums sunday and the red Cross removed 20 decomposed corpses from the South Lebanon Battlefront after arranging a mercy  the syrian army meanwhile sent 50 troops close to Israel s self proclaimed Security zone in South Leb anon to prevent Intra shiite fighting from spreading East to Lebanon s Bekaan Valley police said. They said the syrians dismantled Street barricades and sandbag positions set up by fighters of the Mains Tream shiite amal militia and the fundamentalist Hezbollah in the southwestern Bekaan Village of Schmor. The syrian Force withdrew from Schmor at Day break sunday to its original positions in and around the town of Machara in the Foothills of mount her Mon police said. This was the first time syrian troops have entered Schmor since Israel s 1982 invasion of Lebanon said a police spokesman who cannot be identified according to standing regulations. The two Middle East Powers have been carefully avoiding any confrontation involving their armies on lebanese territory. The lebanese red Cross said its rescuers entered the embattled Village of Baa in South Lebanon s Apple province and removed the 20 corpses in six ambulances sunday afternoon. A red Cross spokesman said victims included 11 from amal and nine from Hezbollah All killed in fight ing in Baa Over the last five Days. He said three other amal victims were buried in Baa before the Convoy rolled out with the 20 corpses for burial at their native villages. Baa is the key to a nine Square mile enclave con trolled by about 500 Hezbollah fighters. An estimated 1,000 amal militiamen Are besieging the enclave vow ing to move in on their foes when their supplies run out. Hezbollah s chief spokesman Sheik Ibrahim Amin described amal chieftain Nabih Berri As a Bloodthirsty pharaoh and called for a six Point peace process with amal based on an immediate cease fire in South Beirut and South Lebanon. Evacuation of All wounded. An end to amal s food blockade on Hezbollah s enclave around Baa. Release of All prisoners taken in the latest amal Hezbollah confrontation the renunciation by amal of its avowed policy of uprooting Hezbollah from Lebanon. Serious dialogue Between amal and Hezbollah to Lay Down a political and Security formula for peaceful  was no immediate response from amal whose spokesmen had previously ruled out any truce and rejected iranian offers for fresh mediation to end the fighting. News briefs . Lawmakers discuss Middle East with saudis Riyadh saudi Arabia a a four Mem Ber delegation of the . House exchanged views with several saudi arabian ministers on developments in the Middle East and bilateral relations official sources said. The delegation included two republicans f. James Sensenbrenner or. Of Wisconsin and James v. Hansen of Utah and two democrats Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio and Charles Wilson of Texas. Rooming House Blaze kills 7 in Yonkers . Yonkers . A a fire in a three Story Rooming House sunday morning killed seven people and injured at least eight others authorities said. Five of those Hurt were firefighters whose injuries were described As not serious. A woman was in guarded condition at St. Joseph s Hospi Tal said a nursing supervisor who refused to give her name. It was not immediately known whether the six victims were residents or visitors to the building said Eugene Marron a fire department Dis Patcher. The cause of the fire was being investigated. Prague from Page 1 Slovakia became one of 35 nations agreeing to a land Mark human rights Accord at the Helsinki review con Ference in Vienna. Police had been guarding Wenceslas Square since Early saturday to prevent people from attending the rally for 20-year-old Jan Palach who set himself afire in the Square Jan. 16, 1969. Soviet led Warsaw pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to crush the communist led re forms known As the Prague Spring. Police and militia units kept crowds moving on Wenceslas Square for at least an hour before the rally was scheduled to begin. A crowd of 800 to 1,000 moved toward the Center of the Square about 1 45 p.m., shouting Freedom free Dom they Sang the czechoslovak National Anthem. Riot police carrying Batons immediately moved in from Side streets and started pushing the crowd Back beating several people. Police beat two people trying to help an elderly woman who fell in the Melee. Demonstrators surrounded some police officers Yelling for an ambulance for a person they said was badly injured. At the Bottom of the Square a half mile Long Boule Vard in Central Prague police guards kept about 1,000 other people behind Metal barricades. About 10 minutes later three water cannons started spraying that crowd pushing the people Down Side streets. Police with dogs and Batons had the top of the Square cleared within about 20 minutes. A police Van circled the area advising people to Clear it and announcing this is an unlawful  communist authorities on Jan. 6 refused to Grant permission for the rally intended by dissidents to be a simple and Brief commemorative  the charter 77 human rights movement and four other Independent groups said they would go ahead with it  s self immolation stunned czechoslovak and prompted thousands to turn out for his funeral. Although his body was secretly exhumed in 1973 from Prague s Olvany cemetery and reburied in his Home Village people still visit the site of the Prague  sunday dozens of people stopped at the grave site and left Flowers or stuck candles into the soil which was streaked with coloured  epitaph scrawled on the Back of the Gravestone was smeared out and Only the words we shall remain faithful remained  is one of our most important symbols one woman at the grave site said. Serbian court denies Appeal by Tito s widow Belgrade Yugoslavia a the widow of president Josip Broz Tito has lost an Appeal for the revision of a court ruling Over her inheritance a press report said  Belgrade daily be Cernie no Vosti said the supreme court of the Republic of Serbia rejected her demand for the revision of the 1986 Belgrade court ruling which said All of Tito s estate was state prop  died in 1980. Mrs. Broz Tito filed suit in 1985 to gain from Tito s estate what she claimed were her personal belongings such As paintings books furs jewelry and furniture. Pact from Page 1 Powers Canada and All european nations except Albania gave Moscow the recognition it Long sought on the Post 1945 division of Europe. But it also put human rights firmly on the East West Agenda where it has played an increasingly important role. West and East bloc diplomats were unanimous that soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev s reforms and willingness to disarm c9ntributed to the advances made at Vienna. One of the biggest sticking Points of the 27-month conference was a human rights conference in Moscow scheduled for 1991. The release of More than 600 political prisoners reunification of More than 100 divided families and a nine year High in the rate of jewish emigration finally persuaded the United states and Britain to agree to go to Moscow. But they insisted that soviet reforms must continue and be written into Law. The Vienna Accord also stipulates an end to torture and psychiatric abuse of prisoners and Calls for several follow up conferences including a forum on freely available information in London this Spring and a 35-nation conference on the environment in Sofia Bulgaria this year. The Sofia meeting Drew More dissent from Turkey which said its government would find it difficult to attend if Bulgaria continued to oppress its turkish minority. Bulgaria responded that it has no such minority. Since 1984, bulgarian turks have been forced to change their names to bulgarian sounding names. The final document provides for the Protection of minority rights but human rights groups such As the International Helsinki federation have noted that the text provides a loophole because states May simply deny the existence of such minorities  
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