European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday september 4,1990 news updates government dissolved Mogadishu Somalia apr president Mohamed Siad Barre whose country in East Africa is wracked by rebellions and banditry on monday dismissed the 6-Montn-old government of prime minister Mohamed Ali Samantas. The president gave no reason for the move announced on state radio. He asked Mohamed Haw Adle Madar a former Cabinet minister to form a new government. Samantas will stay on in a caretaker capacity until the new government is formed. Madar a former vice president of the National Assembly is a member of the Northern Isaak clan from which the rebel somali National movement derives its main support. Kashmir investigation new Delhi India apr parliament approved Federal Rule Over Kashmir on monday and the government said it will investigate charges of a a excesses by Security men battling moslem secessionists. I Subodh Kant Junior minister for Home affairs said three Security personnel faced unspecified punishment for a excesses on women a and that authorities will investigate More than 30 other cases of alleged rape or molestation. The Indian police army and paramilitary forces have been widely accused of human rights violations and indiscriminate lulling in their Hunt for moslem militants. Kant said most of the allegations of atrocities by government forces were fabricated by the militants. The local elected government was suspended last january in a government crackdown on the separatists. It was replaced by a federally appointed governor. A Mohawk Warrior with mask stares Down a Canadian Soldier As news Media crowd in sunday a Day after troops seized control. Shot fired As soldiers surround last holdout of militant mohawks Eagle scout Mainz West Germany a John Gen Dron has been advanced to the rank of Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting. Gendron who has been in scouting for four years is a ninth grader at . Arnold High school in Wiesbaden West Germany and is the son of sgt. 1st class Michael and Denise Gendron. For his Eagle scout project the 15-year-old organized a Home safety program. It consisted of a seminar presented at Mainz elementary school and an emergency Telephone number fist for the Mainz army Community service. His fist will be included in Welcome packets for newly assigned personnel. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in the areas of leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. Oka Quebec apr a shot was fired monday morning As soldiers moved closer to the last area under control of armed Mohawk warriors. There was no immediate indication which Side fired the shot but it did not appear anyone was hit. Both Mohawk and army spokesmen denied firing. The incident took place As a 2-month-old standoff wore on monday with troops surrounding about 30 Mohawk Indian militants who refused to surrender and retreated to a drug and alcohol detoxification Center on Indian land. On sunday about 350 Sot iders demolished the last barricades blocking Access to the Kan Satake Indian reservation and seized control of most of it. Mohawks were confined to a Small wooded area around the Center. Late sunday the militants issued a statement saying the army had Given them an ultimatum to surrender by 8 . Monday or face attack. But an army spokesman Mai. Jean Paul Macdonald said that was a absolutely  a the Canadian forces Are not in the business of giving ultimatums in such sensitive situations a Macdonald said. Native representatives including three chiefs from the six nations Iroquois confederacy met late into the night at the Center to discuss ways to end the standoff without violence. The indians had erected the barricades at Kan Satake and another Mohawk Community Kahn awake in a dispute Over plans by Oka town officials to expand a Golf course onto what they claim is tribal land. The barriers had blocked traffic on an Oka Highway and about 20 Miles away on a Bridge connecting Montreal to Southern suburbs. E. German unemployment rate disputed Berlin apr the head of the East German unemployment federation charged monday that the number of jobless has reached 1.5 million five times higher than official government figures. Klaus Grehn told the Neues deutschland daily that the government s 350,000 jobless figure reflects those workers who applied for unemployment benefits and not the real number without jobs. Most of the 1 million Short time workers actually work almost no hours at All Grehn said in the interview. Rising unemployment is a result of East Germany a transition from a centrally planned system to the free Market following its economic merger with West Germany on july 1. Warning strikes have become commonplace As disgruntled East German workers take to the streets to express their discontent. The head of the West German Union federation warned Over the weekend that a strike wave is Likely in East Germany if workers Are not brought into the economic conversion process the newspaper reported. Grehn said unemployed East germans receive about half the amount of Money that jobless West germans get at a time when prices in East Germany Are rising sharply. Grehn recommended that the unemployed in East Germany receive extra Money to compensate for Price increases. He blamed growing unemployment on the Lack of a strategy to develop new jobs in East Germany and the failure to work out plans to restructure state enterprises. Almost All East German factories were run by the state under the communist  demanding soviets return 4 Small islands on the eve of the soviet foreign min Kami led a Tokyo a ister a visit to Tokyo prime minister Toshiki rally monday to demand the return of four tiny islands that have been the main Barrier to normalized relations. About 1,200 members of the governing Liberal democratic party gathered at the Kudan Kaikano Hall in Tokyo to demand that Moscow give Back the islands seized in the closing Days of world War ii. A the return of the Northern territories is the cherished desire of All japanese people a Kaif said at the rally. A i think we cannot proceed with work on the peace treaty if we set the territorial Issue aside a Kaifu said. Because of the dispute Over the islands the soviet Union and Japan never signed a peace treaty to for Mally end hostilities at the end of the War. The Northern islands will be a leading topic of discussion when soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze comes to Tokyo on tuesday for four Days of talks with japanese leaders. His trip is to pave the Way for a visit by soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev next Spring. It would be the first time a no. 1 soviet Leader Ever came to Japan. Gorbachev has sent mixed signals on the soviet stance on the territorial dispute. But last week he was quoted As saying he was willing to talk about anything. The islands Are no More than specks on a map 2,000 Square Miles of land that is Home to 40,000 people. The soviet Union declared War against Japan and occupied the islands stretching from Japan s Northern Island of hokkaido to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia in the week before Tokyo surrendered. Soviet settlers colonized the Barren land and Moscow built military facilities on three of the four islands. Moscow maintains that its ownership of the islands was established by the 1945 Yalta agreement in which the allies agreed to strip Japan of territory seized before and during world War h. But Tokyo claims an 1855 commercial treaty establishes the islands As japanese territory. The Liberal democratic party insists that Tokyo will not sign a peace treaty with the soviet Union without the immediate and unconditional return of All four islands