European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 31, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 9 Baker assures asian nations . Commitment not waning Singapore up v an ailing Secretary of state James Baker assured Tufik developing asian nations monday they will not Benner looked in the Zeal to invest in the rapidly opening markets of Eastern Europe. \ Baker also urged leaders of thei2 countries forming the Asia Pacific economic cooperation forum known As spec to develop ways of overcoming barriers to the More efficient flow of capital Trad and technology. A i know that Many of you Are conc Emell about the amount of attention that Central and Eastern Europe and the soviet Union have received in the la year a Baker who fell ill during the Day said in a Speed read by Secreta of Commerce Robert Mosbacher. A your diplomatic focus has been heavily con rated on that Region but the Pace and scope of even have demanded that a Baker said. The United states remains a firmly committed to the Asia Pacific Region a he said. A cooperation will grow As we strengthen our bilateral ties and multilateral  Baker had a fever and spent most of monday a Reading and resting in his hotel room a senior state department spokesman said. Baker on the second leg of % 12-Day trip was see ii by a physician following a bilateral meeting with Taro Nakayama Japan a minister for foreign affairs. No other details of his illness were released. The spokesman said Baker would resume his schedule tuesday with no changes. The 12 member nations of the forum in a statement sought by Baker expressed concern monday Over the stalled Uruguay round of Trade talks and urged attempts to make Progress As the negotiations move into the final six months. In a joint communique the spec foreign and economic ministers agreed that a successful conclusion to the Uruguay round of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade a is the single most important Issue on the International  a the Trade rules emerging from the Uruguay round must enhance open and fair Competition they said stressing that significant Progress in agriculture textiles and clothing a is crucial to a successful  attending the second gathering of the fledgling group Are delegates from the six member association of Southeast asian nations plus the United states Japan Canada Australia new zealand and South Korea. The Asean Philippines t a separate state outcome of last a we Are c the principal will be left of a entries a Singapore Indonesia the Psi Thad flab and Brunei a issued it a Goth sharply critical of Theka ice Png Geneva. C4 that deaf will be struck among it 4fall a def he developing countries cold the six said. Delegates to spec said it was necessary to find a for China Taiwan and Hong Kong to join Che Quot it a a. /. Ici als said there May be difficulties wit China and Nisan technically in a formal state of Wetr since the it these communists drove the nationalist gov Emmer pm the Mainland in 1949. The British Colony of Hon Tong reverts to chinese Rule ii jul 997,  a crackdown on no democracy demonstrate last year Large numbers of Hong Kong residents have migrated out of fear. / a Over the Lonk term Baker Sai Ltd soviet economic Reform should also positively Aff get the world  \. / a. A Baker is schedule amp to leave a tuesday for Irkutsk / in Central Siberia for ister Eduard Shev Ardna. Make Progress in Solvin conflict w soviet foreign minted at a new attempt to 12-year-old Afghanistan Sydney Australia apr a Man wielding a syringe robbed three stores during the weekend and the assailant told a shopkeeper it a infected with the aids virus before squirting her with what appeared to be blood. Police said the syringe in each Case carried a liquid resembling blood and scientists were analysing a hypodermic dropped outside one store. On sunday afternoon a Man entered a newsstand in the Northern suburb of Cremote and demanded Money from clerk Debbie Bright. A i looked at him and then i looked at the Needle a said Bright 23. A the saw me staring at the syringe and said a yes it is. This is an aids infected Needle Quot. Bright picked up a Candy Jar and yelled to a 90-worker for help. The assailant then squirted the contents of the syringe on her face. When she screamed the Man fled without taking any Money. It a the Chance of me getting aids is virtually nil a Bright said. A but i will Stilt have to have blood tests. I will not know for sure for three months.�?�. Two hours later a Man held up a pharmacy in the Northern subs if of crows nest. The mail ran off and dropped the syringe he was carrying after of year old employees handed him Money a Phat Floist Ivan Crotta handed Over 506 dollars 400 Vas. Dollars when a Man entered another pharmacy Bondi an East Sydney suburb on saturday after Poon and demanded Money while Pointin the syr Juge at him. \ it certainly looked like blood in that syringe Quot Chi Javotta said. A it was stuck up right near my face not there was no Way i  have done what he  John Dowd attorney general for new South Wales state warned monday that robbers threatening people with syringes could face sever charges. The charges could include a attempted murder through the administration of a Poison Quot which carries a maximum jail term of 25 years. Robbery with a syringe could be classified As armed robbery carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail a because the syringe becomes an offensive weapon a he said. % Ivan  a assailant shoots Man due in court for War crimes trial Adelaide Australia up a a Man due in court monday to stand trial for the slayings of 24 people in the Ukraine during world War ii was in serious condition after being shot in the Chest by an unknown assailant. Police Are treating the Case As attempted murder a spokesman said. ,. A 24-hour police guard has been placed on Ivan Patyuk Hoydich 74, who was in intensive care after undergoing emergency surgery sunday to remove a Bullet from his Chest. An automatic handgun a .22-caliber Herclia believed to be the weapon used in the attack was found in Long grass near the scene of the shooting police later found three spent shells near the wounded Man. On monday doctors took poly Khovich off the critical list and said he was in serious but stable condition a Hospital spokesman said. Poly Khovich was the first Man to be charged under australian War crimes legislation and was due to face a committal hearing monday in Adelaide a magistrates court. Poly Khovich was charged in january with killing 24 people and with being knowingly cons ceded with the deaths of 850 others in the Ukraine during world War ii. V. Because of his age and health prosecutors did Obj take poly Khovich to the Ukraine to seek car nce against him. Instead they arranged for More than 40 witnesses to be brought to Australia. \ no new Date for the trial was  Graves vandalized in England France from wire reports jewish cemeteries in Manchester England and Toulouse France were vandalized Over the weekend. Elsewhere in Europe there have been recent attacks on jewish Graves at Avignon in France and in West Germany at Stuttgart and Tii Bingen. In Manchester swastikas and anti semitic slogans were daubed on Graves and headstones were pushed Over and broken in a jewish cemetery in Manchester a Charlestown District in Northern England police said monday. They estimated the damage at 70.quo pounds s128,000 and said the attack May have been carried out by a travelling gang of supporters of the extreme right Wing National front. The attack was linked with two others with Iri the last six weeks at Edmonton in North London and at Leeds in Yorkshire. In the Edmonton attack the words a we will Rise again a were painted on gravestones. A it is a terrible thing to think there Are people who would do this to the resting places of the dead a said rabbi Jacob Rubinstein in Manchester. A we Are extremely concerned to think that in Light of what has happened to other cemeteries these peo ple Are crawling out from under stones again a he said. In Toulouse the nazi Flag and anti semitic inscriptions were painted on about 30 tombstones in the Catholic cemetery of Salveta Saint Gilles 9 Miles West of Toulouse authorities said monday. A Wall inside the cemetery and a pillar holding a statue of the Virgin Mary were also defaced with the nazi Flag and the inscription a jews ovens in red paint authorities said. The vandalism was discovered sunday by families who went to the cemetery to visit the Graves of their dead according to the police. Aporia inscriptions on some 30 of the 100 tombstones at the cemetery were a cd Sinh to Jesus a a nazism will return and arabs you Are  police said hey have begun an investigation of the incident but added that the heavy ring in the area Over the weekend had erased Many footprints and other evidence. The desecration a the Salve at Saint Giles cemetery was the first such incident reported in France in several weeks after a wave of anti semitic violence last Spring during which tombstones were overturned and inscriptions insulting jews were painted at several jewish and Catholic cemeteries