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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes saturday june 30,1990 Ltd m a a Prince Charles injured playing Polo a Britain s Prince Charles lies on the thursday in Cirencester England the Friday following a 45-minute operation to her 29th birthday on so Xiv spent nearly ground with a broken Arm after calling 41-year-old Prince an arid Polo player for set two Breaks above the Elbow of his three boors at the Hospital Fedaj Moni from his horse during a Polo Marrh 25 years was reported in a High spirits right Arm. Princess Diana who celebrates my visiting her husband. World today millions watch on to As son of japanese emperor weds bargain Tokyo apartments i Tokyo apr a record 8,265 people a thousands seek to buy Tokyo apr sipping sacred Rice wine in a shrine to the Sun goddess emperor Akihito a youngest son and his College sweetheart were wed Friday As millions of japanese watched on television. Flanked by Imperial Ritualist Prince Aya 24. And Kiko Kawashima 23, Knelt together in the Imperial Palace shrine to the goddess Amaterasu. From whom legend says the Royal family is descended. Kawashima a graduate student is the second commoner to marry into the Royal family and the marriage was seen As another step in bringing the Imperial Palace and Japan s people closer together. The ceremony also was being hailed As the Public a first taste of the new Imperial Era called Heisei or a achieving peace Quot which began with the death of emperor Hirohito on Jan. 7, 1989. The new emperor Akihito has been credited with Irving to create a More open softer image for Japan a often Distant and mysterious Imperial family. Still much of fridays wedding ceremony was in line with japanese traditions going Back More than 1,000  Prince speaking the classical japanese used by priests of Japan a indigenous shinto religion recited vows to the Sun goddess. The couple sealed their nuptial Bonds by sipping Rice wine from a White Ceramic cup. A police say that because of threats from leftist radicals. 9, xxx officers were assigned to guard the wedding activities though most were being held at either the Imperial Palace which is surrounded by a Moat and forbidding Stone Walls or the Akasaka Palace the Well secured residence of the emperor and Empress. The wedding was the first for an Imperial family member in six years and the first in three decades for a Prince of ayah a rank. Aya is second in line to the chrysanthemum throne after his elder brother Crown Prince Haruhito 30, who has yet to marry. Prince Aya and Kiko Kawashima posed for this official wedding photo prior to their marriage Friday. Tokyo apr a record 8,265 people have applied to buy bargain priced apartments put on the Market this month by a government owned corporation an official said. A lottery will decide the matter said the official of the housing and Urban development corp., who asked for anonymity. The lottery Winner also can decide among units ranging in Price from 46.4 million yen to 60 million yen $310,000 to $400,00025 percent to 30 percent cheaper than comparable apartments in the neighbourhood officials said. The apartments have a living room dining room Kitchen and two or three additional rooms. They Are Between 613 and 829 Square feet in size depending on the Price. The corporation official attributed the record number of applications to the apartments location. The apartments Are one minutes walk from a railway station within 30 minutes of Central  legislators of ban on tobacco liquor ads Paris apr the National Assembly has approved a ban on All tobacco advertising and most liquor advertising starting in 1993. The Law approved on a 315-149 vote forbids All direct or indirect advertising for tobacco products including sponsorships of sports and cultural events. Legislators from wine growing regions succeeded in excluding most wines from the ban on liquor advertising. All 270 Assembly members of the governing socialist party backed the Bill As did 45 independents and centrists. The two main Center right parties adopted different tactics a most members of the Union for French democracy voted against the Bill while most members of the rally for the Republic  found in sea Cave n i 1,1 f a a. A a i a Dones Louna in we Iob Bones brought by refugees weren t Mas no prehistoric of thought Kuala Bumpur Malaysia apr human Bones brought by vietnamese refugees Early in june were not those of . Servicemen missing in action the . Embassy said Friday. The refugees had said the remains were those of american mias. Embassy press officer Meg Gilroy said the 32 sets of remains had been examined by a forensic team from the army scentral identification Laboratory in  they did not find the remains of any americans a she said. On june 12, nine vietnamese refugees landed on Tan Jung sedilia Beach 150 Miles Southeast of Kuala Bumpur with seven barrels stuffed with Bones. They claimed the Bones were those of soldiers killed in Vietnam. The skeletons had dog tags on them. But Gilroy said the names on the dog tags were not those of americans missing in action in the Vietnam War which ended with the communist Victory in 1975. The United states now lists 2,303 americans As missing in the Indochina War. These include 1,678 in Vietnam. Suva Fiji apr Bones found last month in an undersea Cave Are just whale remains and not prehistoric creatures As originally thought the Fiji times newspaper quoted diver Kevin Deacon who photographed and filmed the site As saying experts at the australian National museum in Canberra and the museum of National history in los Angeles positively identified the Bones As coming from Pilot whales. The remains of the four creatures were found by a group of divers in the Cave 50 Yards underwater and 20 Miles off Matagi Island about 125 Miles North of the capital Suva  
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