European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 2 news updates state of Alert Belgrade Yugoslavia a the yugoslav armed Force have stepped up their stale of Alert in Kosovo As Par of the emergency measures introduced in inc restive Southern province last week Belgrade press re ported sunday. The papers 1 Quot no maj. Gen. Andrija Silic comma rider of the Provin Cial capital of Pri Ilina military corps As saying that a partial Call up of Mili Lary reservists has also been introduced in the area. Last monday emergency measures were introduced in Kosovo in an at tempt to prevent possible incr com. Munal clashes Between inc ethnic a1 big Tiari majority and the slav minority tin re. ". Cut in Oil exports Moscow am the soviet Union will Cut Oil exports by about 5 percent in hit first hair of this year Tass said. The move is part of an Effort by non spec producers to Shore up world Oil prices by culling or tree ing exports. The action was announced by Vladimir Arutyunyan chairman of the soyuz Neftci port Ait Union foreign Trade association which markets soviet pm tru Leum products abroad the official in vice news Agency said. Monday March 6,1989 Kennedy March set March 25 in Holland sittard null trends president Kennedy s remark in 1963 about the Lack of physical fitness in America prompted a dutch affair thai has been Mil annually end attracted nearly 6,000 entrant in 1988, i his Jear s Kennedy March a 50-mile walk will be held sat urday March is in Sillard. The event was started by four dutch High school students after Kennedy mid i think must Amer ican people Are so weak they can t even Fonlk 50 Miles ult Liln 20  that fret March in 1963 Drew ii in Lam the number increased to 42 the next year  so in the third year. In 1988, the Kennedy March attracted 5,9 41 people. Walkers will Start Between s . And 8 30 . From the spurt Park de Hiu Widert. Entrants Are permit Ted to Only walk March or Speed walk. No running is allowed. Hit paved and Flat route is marked by arrows and free apples and sandwiches Are available at rest areas. Fur him.1 who Register before March 12 b Pajins into account number 11.60.22,019 Al Rabo Bank at Galcen the fee is 12.50 guilders s6.  the Day Al the walk coils 20 Guilder $9.60. Walk imps to Complete the All for the first time will be then a Brunu pin. A Liber pin will Bea sled to those who Are Eom Ptel in the walk fur the second time. A medal will a Given id those taking pad Lia the third time i he lop three finishers in the 12 Timur Competition class reserved for those born before Jana Are 1969, it ill Cecelic medals. Mitre information is aia liable Frera  a Van Der Loo end to  s4, s683 Kkt Best Tele phone 04998-73937. Wrecked British rail cant lie on the tracks and Down an embankment near Homes in Purley. On the outskirts of Southern London. British rail Driver says his train went through red Light before fatal crash London a an injured Railroad Driver said sunday thai his train Wen through a red signal before it collided with another train on he outskirts of London killing five people a British rail official said. So far the Driver has Given no reason for not slopping said cordon Pellillo general manager of British rail s South Ern Region. Pullitt also said no sign of sabotage or defect has been found in signalling equip ment on the line near Purley where the collision occurred saturday afternoon. Ninety four people were Hurt in the crash. Authorities said the train bound from Harshani for London s Vicioria station was crossing from the slow to the fast track when Al was i from behind by Atrain originating in Lite Champion. Also bound for Victoria station. Pc title said David Morgan who was atthe controls of the Little Hampton train has told us thai the signal at the end of the. Platform Al Purley station was red yet he went through it. He has not been Able 10 offer any explanation for  the safety of our signalling system Doc obviously depend on Drivers stopping at red lights. It did not  pet Tiu added he said investigators had already Dis covered evidence that the Driver applied the brakes and had been unable to Stop before ramming the Horsham train pct lilt said that there had been no me. Hanicar failure Bur investigators were still looking for anything that might offer an explanation for the crash including an examination of he braking system. We have quite a lot of evidence thaia severe Brake application was made prior to the collision and Long before the signal pct itt said on whether Driver error was being looked at As the cause he said it is no uppermost in my and at the moment though it is obviously a main area of inquiry As is Trie signalling which we have though there is no evidence thai. The signalling was  Canadian Soldier faces military trial Over woman s murder in Hungary by Joseph Owen Lahr West Germany defense Law jars Hope this week to derail the Canadia Force first murder trial since 1970 by disputing military court jurisdiction Over a crime Cominitti d in  suspect army Cpl. Christian i t Pili 27. An infantryman assigned to St 13n. Royal 22nd regt at Canadian forces base Kiihr is charged with first of Fec murder and desertion. He is no Cusco of fatally stabbing a Canadian woman. Antoinette Charest 2 1 whose. Body was found june 3 in a hotel room in Vauro Nameny slim inn. About id n Milci from the soviet Border. The murder trial is to begin Al 9 30  monday in this forces Lahr up Nim a to Center converted temporarily into a courtroom to accommodate the Many interpreters news reporters and observers expected to attend. Arnty u. Col. Alain Menard the chief defense tauter said Pepin will enter no plea before questions arc resolved about jurisdiction and his four month imprison ment without charges. Those issues atone May Lake More than a week lie said Menard is challenging inc court s jurisdiction on to grounds. First he said Canadian Law should not apply in West Germany to crimes comr Lilied else where and second murder of a civilian in Hungary where Canada has no troops should be a civilian Case not a military one Nuvy Cape. Fred Blair the forces senior Legal adviser in Europe said Only civilian courts have authority to try four det manslaughter and sexual assault suspects in Canada but the fort s abroad have a Freer hand. Unlike their . Mulc parts Canadian military courts Alii May try forces members civilian de Pendents under the Canadian criminal , there is no doubt thai we can apply n outside Canada in someplace because we do in every week Here in Germany Blair said. To said the forces last murder trial occurred 19 years ago in puerto Rico and involved a Sailor assigned to a Canadian ship berthed there. The forces also prosecuted a member accused of killing his wife and two children in  West Germany in the mid-1960s. Blair declined to comment further on the Juri Dic Iiona dispute Menard said he also will Challenge the constitutionality of the National defense act a Titch permits the forces la hold arrested suspects for months without charging them and makes no provision for releasing suspects on bail. He said those practices run afoul of the charter of rights and freedoms enacted As part of the Canadian Constitution in 1982, native of Limo Lou Quebec Speaks Only French and has an ill Trade education. He joined the forces in 1981 and was assigned to Lahr in i9s4, said a forces spokesman army maj. John Paul Macdonald Charcel the daughter of a forces War rant optic or who served in Pipin  for he forces As a civilian Gate  was reported missing from his duty station May 30. On inc morning of june 3, employees Al the Creg hotel in Masaros Nacny discovered Charcot s body in one of their rooms. She had been stabbed 11  said Pepin and Charest both single had checked into the hotel together and Pepin private car was parked outside hungarian police arrested Pepin later at another hotel 30 Miles away in a Vic Gehaza which he had readied by hitch hiking. Hungary turned Pepin Over 10 the Canadian forces on aug. 10, and he hat been confined at the Lahr base prison since then. He was charged dec. 1,Macdonald said the Canadian military generally prohibits  from making private visits to Hungary and most Oiler communist countries. Menard declined to say Why Pepin went to Hungary but added that the reason for the visit May be irrelevant to the  Hau Given the defense a list of 25 witnesses who May be called including 21 hungarians the trial will proceed in French with some interpret ers translating the hungarian testimony into French and others translating the entire trial simultaneously into English