European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday april 2, 1990 news update afghan rebel claim Islamabad Pakistan up a  afghan guerrillas said saturday they destroyed a military transport plane in a rocket attack on the Airport in the Southern City of Kandahar. A statement by the rebels government in exile set up last year by afghan resistance leaders in Pakistan said guerrillas also attacked government positions last week around Kandahar 270 Miles Southwest of Kabul killing 21 militiamen and wounding 13. There was no word from the pro soviet government in Kabul on the reports which could not be independently confirmed. The guerrillas who Are based mostly in Pakistan and backed by the United states and some Middle East nations control about 90 percent of Afghanistan a  curfew lifted Panama City Panama apr the government on saturday lifted a curfew that has been in effect since the . Invasion dec. 20. Ricardo Arias Calderon vice president and Justice minister said in a statement that the curfew was being lifted in Panama City and part of Colon effective saturday night. During the invasion the curfew was imposed from dusk to Dawn nationwide. It was lifted in mid March in cities outside the capital and Colon on the Atlantic Side of the Panama canal. The United states invaded to remove dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega who now faces drug charges in Florida. Contras in Honduras disarming after signing of peace Accord Tegucigalpa Nicaragua up a the nicaraguan Contra rebels have started to peacefully disarm handing their weapons Over to the honduran armed forces a presidential spokesman said saturday. At least 80 of the rebels have turned in their arms to the honduran military in the presence of observers from the . Organization for Central America or Tonuca which is charged with overseeing Contra demobilization and disarmament said Gilberto Golstein private Secretary to honduran president Rafael Leonardo Callejas. A for the honduran government this is big news because the peaceful disarming of the armed nicaraguan resistance contras in our territory has definitively begun a Golstein said. Contra leaders and members of a delegation representing nicaraguan president elect Violeta Chamorro signed an agreement March 23. Under the agreement known As the to Contin declaration the rebels must disarm and demobilize before april 20. Chamorro presidential candidate of the  National opposition Union coalition or Uno won a Surprise Victory in feb. 25 elections Over nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. She is scheduled to take office april 25. Golstein said the contrast commander Isreal Galeano known As commandant Franklin had sent a letter to Callejas reaffirming the contrast readiness to comply with the Accord. A the nicaraguan resistance is Tak ing All of the leading Steps in to said Promise of the ton or the ration becomes a reality a or Ecla said in the letter which a Galeano saturday. Was closed Golstein said the honduran ment will Send to Chan pm 80vern-galeano�?Ts letter con to Contin Accord has been a a Ltd the the Contra leaders. Red to it is estimated that there Arp by about 5,000 contras in hondis"1 Story although this figure is suffer / confirmation a Golstein said. Is ports say there Are Between m non a 12,000 contras based Kwh Duras near the nicaraguan Border Mugabe ruling Zimbabwe party win in landslide but turnout is Low Harare Zimbabwe up a president Robert Mugabe and his ruling party scored an overwhelming Victory in election results announced sunday but a Low turnout put his plans for implementing a one party state in doubt. Mugabe 62, trounced bitter rival Edgar Tevere and his fledgling Zimbabwe Unity movement after the three Day election. The vote was the last under the British designed Constitution that guided former White ruled Rhodesia to guerrillas fired rockets at Israel Jordan says Independence 10 years ago. Although Mugabe a Victory would allow him to implement his socialist policies aides suggested privately that the Low voter turnout and ideological shifts in Eastern Europe would prompt him to reappraise his political and economic plans. Official figures released sunday gave Mugabe 2,026,976 votes in the presidential vote compared with just 413,080 for Tevere. In legislative elections the ruling Zimbabwe african National Union patriotic front captured 116 of the 119 contested seats. Tevere a a party captured two seats. A third went to the minority opposition party of Veteran nationalist Leader Ida Maningi Sithole who is in self imposed exile in the United states. Voting for the 120th seat in a newly created Assembly was cancelled because one candidates name was left off the ballot sheets. Amman Jordan apr a jordanian official said sunday that a fundamentalist islamic group fired two soviet made rockets at Israel last week from a Border area in Southern Jordan. The reported incident followed a Brief clash Between the jordanian army and infiltrators who crossed into Jordan from the Eastern Border of Syria on March 21. Army officials said they seized drugs and soviet made weapons but the infiltrators escaped. The jordanian official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the thursday incident took place at Dawn when guerrillas fired a Katusha rocket from the Southern desert like area of Wadi Araba. The rocket fell into the dead sea. A second rocket he said was fired from the same area and fell inside the israeli occupied West Bank. No casualties or damage have been reported. The official said the guerrillas escaped before the army searched the area but a authorities believe that the perpetrators were members of the islamic jihad  he did not elaborate. The Leader of the Amman based movement denied government accusations saturday. A i am not aware of any attack against Israel was launched by my group this week a Assad Baywood Tamimi said. A we Are not involved in any  the group has no official links with the Beirut based organization of the same name which holds Western hostages. Jordan stepped up efforts to prevent guerrilla attacks from its territory against neighbouring Israel after a spate of infiltrations and attacks across the normally quiet jordanian israeli Border. There have been repeated syrian assurances to Jordan that no guerrillas will be allowed to infiltrate into Jordan from the syrian Borders. But palestinian guerrillas including the syrian based marxist popular front for the liberation of Palestine have in recent months infiltrated from Syria to attack the israelis occupying the West Bank of the Jordan River. 40 million year old Skull of Many a ancestor found Washington up a the oldest known Skull in the line of Monkey like creatures that eventually led to humans has been uncovered in an egyptian Quarry a Fossil expert has reported. The tiny Skull just a Little smaller than that of a Squirrel Monkey is estimated to be about 40 million years old a about 8 million years older than oldest previously known fossils of the anthropoid line from which modern Man emerged about 500,000 years ago said Elwyn Simons of Duke University. . City pounds prohibit adoption of pit bulldogs by the los Angeles times. Los Angeles a in a move that will mean death for thousands of stray pit bulls the los Angeles department of animal regulation has outlawed adoption of the controversial dogs and related Breeds from City pounds. The directive believed to represent one of the toughest anti pit Bull regulations in the United states is designed to Stem the flow of the Burly animals into the Community where they have attacked numerous people in recent years. The City a first fatal attack occurred last january when a 70-year-old grandmother was mauled by her grandsons two pit Bull mongrels. The departmental decree obtained by the los Angeles times last week states that City animal shelters a shall not sell any pit Bull Type dog to any person  previously unclaimed pit bulls like other impounded strays could be adopted if they were not considered violent. Animal regulation chief Robert i Rush said that the new policy was prompted by increasing concerns Over Public safety. He said that people who adopt pit bulls put a a potentially dangerous situation right into their household. They Call them pit bulls for a  pit bulls Stocky Low Slung dogs known for their powerful jaws have become popular mascots for gang members and drug dealers in recent years. Animal experts say that the dogs can be quite gentle if handled properly from birth. But they can be trained for violence. The policy covers All dogs with put Bull characteristics including american pit Bull terriers Staffordshire terriers Staffordshire Bull terriers and american Staffordshire terriers. Rush said that complaints against the Breeds Are increasing. They accounted for 43 percent of All dangerous animal complaints heard by the department in 1989, compared with 33 percent in 1988. Pilot rescued after crashing into med Aftab nth no Iouin Cir i a t. Aboard the Dwight d. Eisenhower a a Navy Pilot was rescued by helicopter Only 10 minutes after his Fa-18 Hornet crashed in the Mediterranean on saturday a 6th Fleet spokesman said sunday. A the Pilot was conducting a routine operation when his aircraft went into the water about 28 Miles from the  Dwight d. Eisenhower aircraft Carrier a said it. Jim fallin a 6th Fleet spokesman. A sh-3 sea King helicopter operating in the area recovered the Pilot and returned him to the ship a he said. The fighter Jet hit the water at 4 10 . And the Pilot was rescued 10 minutes later fallin said. The name of the pu0l was the aircraft was attached to fighter the cause of the crash is under i Vestiga attack so 136, headquartered at Nas Tion fallin said. Cecil Field Fla. The helicopter is attached to Helo anti submarine by. Headquartered at Nas Jacksonville Ria. Both squadrons fallin said Are currently assigned to the aircraft Cameira Benhower which is operating with 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean sea. The name of the Pilot was withheld