European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes saturday november 3,1990state of emergency expanded by Moldavia Moscow apr the moldavian government expanded its week old state of emergency Friday after armed groups began marching toward three cities to confront secessionist ethnic russians Tass said. The reported movement against the russian minority in Moldavia came a week after the republics legislature imposed a state of emergency in the Southern part of the Republic to prevent clashes Between moldavian nationalists and the Galgauz minority. At least two regiments of soviet Interior ministry troops were sent to the area to keep order in that dispute. The emergency rules were expanded to the predominantly russian cities of Dubos sary Tira spol and Bendery said Dubos Saryu a Deputy mayor Alexander Karajan according to the official news Agency Tass. It was imposed following reports that a armed units were approaching the cities from the capital Kishinev Karajan was quoted by Tass As saying. He did not say who made up the units Tass reported.53 soviet soldiers seeking Asylum Germany reports Bonn Germany api a the Interior ministry said Friday that 53 soviet soldiers have applied for Asylum in Germany since the end of August. Meanwhile a Hessen state spokesman said the wife and two children of a soviet major of jewish descent had been Given permission to remain in Hessen pending the discharge of the major from the red army. A German Interior ministry statement said 53 members of the soviet army had applied for Asylum. It is widely believed that dozens of other red army soldiers have deserted and Are hiding out in former East Germany. Reports Over the past several months have said that Many of the soldiers May desert rather than return to the Bleak housing and economic conditions in their Cartel presents demands for its hostages Bogota Colombia up a the feared Medellin cocaine Cartel Friday demanded an amnesty and an end to extradition of suspects to other countries in return for freeing seven journalists it is holding hostage. The proposal was the latest round of Public mane vering in the Wake of the kidnappings aimed at forcing the government to negotiate a political settlement with the Cartel. A lawyer for the Cartel Guido Parra made Public a letter in which he Laid Down its outline for talks with a group of Well known colombians trying to negotiate the Freedom of the journalists. The extraditable a hit squad and kidnapping gang that does the bidding of the Cartel admitted this week it was holding the journalists. In a statement the gang threatened to kill the hostages if police did not cease operations against the group. Those being held include the daughter of a former president and the son of the publisher of Al Tiempo colombians largest newspaper. President Cesar Gatria has repeatedly rejected negotiations with cocaine traffickers. 18 hindus killed by police after mob storms mosque new Delhi India up about 10,000 hindus tried to storm a moslem mosque in Northern India to Start building a Temple but police opened fire and killed 18 people in a new round of violence Friday Over the site. The deaths brought to More than 130 the number of those killed since supporters of the right Wing hindu Bharatia janata party first attempted on tuesday to begin construction of the Temple in the Northern utter Pravesh state town of Ayodhya 345 Miles Southeast of new Delhi. Indians Temple dispute has sparked the worst political crisis prime minister . Singh a five party National front government has encountered since it assumed Power 11 months ago. Hindu radicals claim the mosque occupying the Ayodhya site was built by the Mogul emperor Babbar after he destroyed a Temple marking the Birthplace of lord Rama one of the most important hindu gods. Moslem leaders deny the claim and contend no Temple Ever existed at the disputed place. The Ayodhya dispute has been soldering since february 1986, when a court agreed to allow hindus to worship in the mosque. The move led to widespread communal riots in Northern India. Fridays violence in Ayodhya began when hindus gathered near the disputed site presently occupied by a 460-year-old moslem mosque and were blocked but lice barricades. The crowd of about 10,000, who Viii the mosque relocated so they can begin construction s the Temple then sat on the Road and Sang religj0 hymns. Later the crowd threw stones at Security forces attempted to storm the barricades forcing police told canisters of tear Gas and then open fire killing 18 pie Ayodhya police and the press Trust of India new Agency said. Tension continued throughout utter Pravesh with authorities enforcing curfew in 23 of the states 65 Dlf tricks a state Home ministry official said. In neighbouring Bangladesh authorities relaxed a 2vi hours an indefinite curfew in the capital of a Haft amid fears of violence Between hindus and Moslen Over the Temple Issue. The right Wing hindu party withdrew its Suppah from the government after its president . Adv anal was arrested when he failed to heed a government want ing to Call off the plan to begin construction of the Temple. 1 the party has 86 members in the Sabha or the lower House of parliament and its support is Nece sail for the survival of Singh a coalition. The hindu party a not a member of the coalition but had extended critic i support to the from Page 1 out increasing pollution in other parts of the environment. It also Calls on nations to encourage and promote cleaner Industrial processes recycling the treatment of waste on land Ana More research and development on alternative and environmentally sound Means of waste disposal. The United states which in 1988 passed a Law halting Ocean dumping of Industrial waste originally opposed the International ban. A but they realized there was such Strong sentiment against dumping that it was pointless to obstruct it and they just gave up a said Remi Parmentier of the environmental group Greenpeace. Delegates concluded the meeting by calling for til creation of a global mechanism for controlling land based pollution of the sea. About 80 percent of All Ocean pollution is generated on land with 10 percent coming from Industrial was disposed from ships at sea and the rest thrown or dig charged off vessels during routine operations. Officials and environmentalists at the meeting Sai Friday they hoped the global control of such land base waste would be dealt with at the 1992 . Conf rent on environment and development in Brazil delegates also agreed that the dumping Convent id should be applied to the burial of radioactive was under the sea floor. The Resolution though not binding was a setback for plans for seabed disposal of High lev nuclear from Page 1 As saying. The ads headed by Gregor Gysi is fighting to minimize the repercussions of the Money scandal As Germany approaches the dec. 2 parliamentary elections. Gysi has estimated the party a wealth at 2 billion Marks $1.3 billion and has promised to make a full disclosure of ads holdings and to Clear up the scandal he has also denied prior knowledge about the Money leaving the country. In former East Germany most property and business were owned by the state and run by the communist although the businesses were supposed to be turn Over to a government Trust the communists Are wide suspected of spending their last Days in Power hid ii and transferring the wealth. At a parliament session in Bonn on tuesday inti Matthaus Maier a prominent member of the leftist is Cial democrats charged the ads had taken Over till a material Worth of the old communist state with if accepting responsibility for 40 years of injustice and ruined from Page 1 Tion to visit loved ones in Captivity Over the holidays calling it a brutal re ploy a Bush suggested thursday that in some forms of brutality the iraqi president had surpassed even Hitler a raising some eyebrows by likening Saddam to the Leader of nazi Germany who ordered the extermination of millions of people in world War ii. In another development diplomats said four More americans in Iraq will Likely be freed Over the weekend. Also Friday a Kuwait a exiled Crown Prince and Erime minister said economic sanctions and failed and efforts to find an Arab solution to the Gulf crisis Are a a waste of time As Long As Saddam wont listen. The kuwaiti news Agency which is operating in exile carried a statement by Sheik Saad Al Abdullah Al Sabah reiterating kuwaiti Calls for a military assault to drive the iraqis out of the emirate. A saudi sources said Syria is to Send More land troops to saudi Arabia bringing its contribution to 15,000 soldiers and 300 tanks. There had been fears that Syria might withdraw from the multinational Force against Iraq because of . Arms id. Unspecified medical problems the official said on condition of anonymity. No details were Given on Barnes and it was not known whether Kanji was sick Kanji was on a religious piling image when the crisis started. The official iraqi news Agency said the we Ernie to was a Tine on a petition from the Arab american reconciliation society. Diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity said the men would not leave Baghdad before saturday when government offices ramp a Nfn Otis r i shipments to Israel in announcing plans to free four sick and elderly americans iraqi information ment officet�?~reonen�?~3�?T Quot a pc Quot Vern mister Latif Jassim denied that the Cap be own esd Plaff 1trk can Tives were being treated badly. Hate do Friday is the moslem Sab a . Official in Baghdad on Friday identified the four to be freed As Randall Trinh 49, of Hacienda Heights Calif or. Abdul Kanji 50, of Glencoe a Chi hundreds of feed Cago suburb Raymond gales a Diplomat French National key about 300 stationed in Kuwait and now in Baghdad the week and Michael Barnes. Trinh a vietnamese american is suffering from an acute ulcer and gales had Ahi,uouisnsftsa0f .forei8ners. Including about look americans remain in Iraq Western governments have responded so optically to iraqis invitation 8 j0staees visit Iraq Over the holidays and have advised citizens not to travel to there. The iraqi foreign ministry on Fridal denounced that reaction saying the United states and Britain a have no respect Foj human information minister Jam Sim said these governments a Are totals i despite the British foreign office warning to relatives 10 wives of by Stiffl hostages said they will Fly to Iraq Ner week to seek their husbands Freedom other relatives welcomed iraqis offer let them visit at Christmas. Iraq has amassed an estimated 430,0 troops in Southern Iraq and Kuwait. About 100,000 troops from Arabia etl rope and other regions have joined Tel . Forces in the saudi arabian Destef South of Kuwait and aboard ships inf persian Gulf Region. Washington has said up to 100,0 More . Troops will be dispatched i bolster the roughly 230,000 America troops there
