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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a the stars and stripes monday. June 11, 1990news updates missing boys death Clovis . A it a the death of a 6-year-old boy whose disappearance spurred a citywide search has been ailed an Accident. Matthew Roberts suffocated after he locked himself in the storage compartment of a station Wagon officials said. Matthew disappeared from his Home May s. His body was found May 25 when someone noticed a Strong odor coming from the station Wagon parked in the family a drive was. Quot we accept the results from the medical examiners office Quot Geoff Roberts. Matthew s father old a we know our Little boy just fell asleep without suffering. It does t bring him Back but it eases our  Hinde in . Charleston. S c. Apr the Golden Hinde its cannons booming and belching White smoke toward the Battery sailed into Charleston Harbor on its six year Odyssey from Western Canada to the great lakes. The vessel a full size reproduction of the 16th-Century warship in which sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the Globe will remain in Charleston for three weeks before heading North. Shamire a party approves pact to form new israeli government Jerusalem up a acting prime minister Yitzhak Shamire a liked party overwhelmingly approved a coalition pact sunday with right Wing and religious parties to form Israel s next government Shamir planned to present the seven party coalition one of the most right Wing in Israel s history to the parliament monday for a vote of Confidence. In his speech to the Central committee meeting in Tel Aviv Shamir said the Center left labor  had made it impossible to form another Quot National Unity government by choosing its party interests Over the National interest Quot we choose another Way this time to form a government whose parliamentary base is More narrow. But there is More Unity and closeness in it he said. Quot the government we will present tomorrow in the Knesset represents most of the populations of the state including  several Hundred female liked members. Wearing White shirts demonstrated during the meeting to demand a greater role for women in the new government. The liked Central committee approved the coalition agreement in a voice vote with Only a few members opposing it. It was still not Clear whether three members of the liked bloc who Are demanding Cabinet posts would support the coalition. In his speech Shamir appeared to Rule out any additional appointments to the Cabinet the threats by the three not to support the coalition highlighted its fragility. The coalition is based on a majority of Only 62 seats in the 120-member Knesset israelis parliament. In editorials on sunday several israeli newspapers were pessimistic about the new government s future and expressed Hope that it would Lead to electoral Reform. The mass circulation daily Dediot a Ronot and the prestigious has Aretz both warned of increasing confrontation with the United states and the soviet Union because of the hard line policies of the right Wing parties and Quot constraints ministers within liked. Quot what sort of attitude can we expect toward a government based on right Wing and a constraints ministers who reject outright Shamire a 1989 peace initiative a Dediot Ahrnot asked. On Friday Shamir concluded his coalition negotiations and informed president Chaim Herzog that he had enough hit Dachau survivors recall Camp horrors Joy of their liberation by . Troops b i \ a lag Aillard. France apr a about 300 survivors of the nazi con Centra non Camp at Dachau reunited saturday remembering the Joy of liberation but . Troops 45 years ago and the horrors that went before. Participants said the gathering in this South Central town was the largest such reunion Ever and the firs to which Eastern europeans were free to attend. Quot if we must Force ourselves to forgave we do not have the right to forget or to let others  said retired Gen. Andre de Peciu 65. A French resistance tighter tortured by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to Dachau five Miles North of Munich. West Germany.  Long As there Are living witnesses they have the duty to testify so future generations will know. That a Why we re  he said during the reunion at the Edmond Michelet Center. The Center is a resistance museum named after a Dachau survivor and resistance Leader who had lived m this town 300 Miles Southwest of Paris. Jacques Songy. 66, recalled the Day the Campos 50x00 prisoners were freed by voting. Hearty american soldiers on april .9. 1945. Tens of thousands of other prisoners did not live to see the Day. The troops wept and vomited As they discovered naked corpses piled 10 feet High the stench of burning bodies skeletal survivors ravaged by hunger disease and nazi doctors sadistic experiments. Soggy said. Quot i was Able to make my Way out of the infirmary when suddenly i saw a Soldier take off his helmet a there was this Beautiful head of Long blonde hair. It was such a Shock to see a  he said. Songy later Learned the woman was american  Margaret Bourke White whose pictures of Dachau were seen around the world. �?�1 was so ashamed to be seen in such a state of physical  said Songy who at the time was 23 and had shrivelled to 65 pounds. _ built in March 1933, Dachau was the first of hundreds of nazi concentration Camps that housed Quot racial enemies of the  inmates at Dachau included jews communists clergymen and other opponents of the nazi regime. Nazi records say nearly 32,000 prisoners died there but thousands of other deaths were not registered. The records say that altogether 206,000 prisoners were kept at Dachau although the actual number is believed to be much higher. Although Dachau had showers equipped As Gas Chambers historians say it was not the site of mass extermination like Auschwitz and Treblinka. An estimated 6 million jews were murdered by the nazis. Many prisoners at Dachau worked until they died from exhaustion a nourishment beatings torture and harassment disease and cold. Pierre a Cafillio a at 13 the youngest French prisoner at Dachau a remembers his father urging fellow inmates not to exert themselves even if meant an extra ration of dry bread. Quot so Many did no to listen to him. They lost their strength and  Schillio 60. Said in an emotional interview. Escape was virtually impossible. Dachau was surrounded by thick Concrete Walls electrified barbed wire and deep Moats watchtowers were manned round the clock. Those caught were hanged. The highlight of the weekend reunion was an exhibition of Memorabilia from Dachau including documents and photographs Many never before displayed in France. Die show has drawn More than 2,000 visitors mostly Young people since it opened 10 Days ago. Quot no matter How much you read about the Camps there a a Shock when Vou see the pictures a said Natalie a 15-Vear-old girl from the town. Quot you can to believe human beings could do this to other human  several Eastern europeans enjoying free travel allowed by their reformed governments attended the conference for the first time since Dachau survivors in France formed an association in 1946. L amicable Des ancient de Dachau held yearly reunions but none As big As the one held Over the weekend. Many survivors said they looked Forward to the annual meetings. Support to form a new Golem Mai announcement which ends a i. Month government crisis came a a Days of political bargaining by Shamil the platform of the coalition gives settling of soviet jews the Highlen to. It rejects direct or indirect 5ite the Palestine liberation on amp the creation of a palestinian stat it also Calls for advancing the mss process through the Camp David ar2 and Shamire a peace initiative which s3 at ?,,0m few Hainan Shimon pern told israeli radio he was not read comment on the forming of another a him tonal Unity government if the Nev a fell apart c Quot it is a government that does no to make possible any Steps toward peace Quot pc said 1 m the government crisis came to a head on March 13 when the liked labor pm. Lotion government collapsed because d i Kudo a refusal to approve a . No for palestinian israeli talks. Two Daw later the labor party engineered a Volt of no Confidence that brought Down tit  can to be beat in Battle Creek Battle Creek. Mich. Apr in saturdays Competition the contestants were better off without fire in the belly. The contestants Battle Creek and Springfield. Mass. The weapons flapjacks Cereal doughnut holes pop tans Coffee milk and Orange drink. The final score Battle Creek 38,753, Springfield 3t3s0. It was Sweet revenge for the Quot Cereal City Quot which reclaimed ils Crown saturday after coming up empty in last years annual breakfast Battle. The Victory was especially impressive since Springfield s population of 150,000 is almost three times Battle Creek s. Quot it was a fantastic Day it was great a said organizer Rick Royal after 500 volunteers dished out 38,753 portions. The food was served for 3 Fra hours from a 2,500-foot table. Battle Creek lost its title for lie first time last year when Snag Field fed pancakes to 33,869 hungry residents outdoing Battle Creek by 1,013 breakfasts. Battle Creek is the Home to Cere Al plants for Kellogg co. Post and Ralston Purina. The Cuy held its first free Cereal breakfast in 1950 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kellogg s  korean students threaten . Envoy Seoul Ltd a Radical students said they have organized a Quot death squad to capture . Ambassador Donald Gregg when he visits the Soui hem City of Kwangju next week a news report said saturday. The Domestic Yoo Hap news Agency said aim-america.-. Students in Kwangju. 170 Miles South of the capital accused Gregg of having represented the Cia in Korea during the 9t0s and announced at a rally they had formed a Quot death squad to capture the . Diplomat. Yon Hap did not elaborate. The report could not be independently confirmed. But was apparently being taken seriously by . Officials. A the los. Embassy is aware of the reports and has Coor i Kwangju Gregg is scheduled to inaugurate a new . Cultural Center tuesday in Kwangju an opposition stronghold. Yoo Hap said about 300 youths held a Campus rally in Kwangju saturday and issued an anti american proclamation saving they would oppose the cultural centers opening. The students charged Gregg with orchestral recent merger of conservative pol Max enhanced the Power of president Roi Tae woo also accused Gregg of heading the Cia in Bouton during the 1970s, j in Seoul saturday hundreds o Street Battles with riot squads after to re massive anti gov emment  800 youths hurled firebombs and a it police about 5 30 . And continued scatters k tests at several key Sites in of downtown Seoul  
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