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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 a the stars and stripes saturday november 3,1990 news briefs state of emergency expanded by Moldavia Moscow apr the moldavian government expanded its Wick 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 Pirajan 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 apr 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  to meet with Kohl Stop in Czechoslovakia Bonn Germany apr president Bush will meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl on nov. 18 in Germany Kohls spokesman said Friday. Spokesman Hans Klein said the visit would probably last a few hours and would Likely occur somewhere in the Vicinity of Kohls Hometown Ogger sheim. Czechoslovakia a state news Agency ctr reported Friday that Bush will pay a one Day visit to that nation on nov. 17. Bush a visit the first Ever to Czechoslovakia by an american president will coincide with the anniversary of the Start of last years popular revolution that ended four decades of communist Rule in the nation. On thursday the White House said Bush will go to Paris nov. 19-21 for a 34-nation arms control Summit. The White House said Friday that Bush would visit . Forces in the persian Gulf on thanksgiving. The projected Centrepiece of the Summit will be the signing of the conventional forces in Europe treaty the most sweeping arms control Accord in history. It would set limits on tanks anti aircraft artillery and various other categories of non nuclear weapons from the Atlantic Ocean to the ural mountains of the soviet Union. 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 parly 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 by police barricades. The crowd of about 10,000, who want the mosque relocated so they can begin construction of the Temple then sat on the Road and Sang religious hymns. Later the crowd threw stones at Security forces and attempted to storm the barricades forcing police to lob canisters of tear Gas and then open fire killing 18 people Ayodhya police and the press Trust of India news Agency said. Tension continued throughout utter Pravesh with authorities enforcing curfew in 23 of the states 65 districts a state Home ministry official said. In neighbouring Bangladesh authorities relaxed for 2vi hours an indefinite curfew in the capital of Dhaka amid fears of violence Between hindus and moslem Over the Temple Issue. The right Wing hindu party withdrew its support from the government after its president . Advani was arrested when he failed to heed a government warning to Call off the plan to begin construction of the Temple. The party has 86 members in the  Sabha or the lower House of parliament and its support is necessary for the survival of Singh a coalition. The hindu party is not a member of the coalition but had extended critical 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 the 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 waste disposed from ships at sea and the rest thrown or discharged off vessels during routine operations. Officials and environmentalists at the meeting said Friday they hoped the global control of such land based waste would be dealt with at the 1992 . Conference on environment and development in Brazil. Delegates also agreed that the dumping convention should be applied to the burial of radioactive waste under the sea floor. The Resolution though not binding was a setback for plans for seabed disposal of High level 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 businesses were owned by the state and run by the communists. Although the businesses were supposed to be turned Over to a government Trust the communists Are widely suspected of spending their last Days in Power hiding and transferring the wealth. At a parliament session in Bonn on tuesday Ingrid Matthaus Maier a prominent member of the leftist social democrats charged the ads had taken Over the a material Worth of the old communist state without accepting responsibility for 40 years of injustice and a ruined  from Page 1 termination 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 Abdulian 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 shipments to Israel in announcing plans to free four sick and elderly americans iraqi information minister Latif Jassim denied that the captives were being treated badly. 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 Chicago suburb Raymond gales a Diplomat stationed in Kuwait and now in Baghdad and Michael Bames. Trinh a vietnamese american is suffering from an acute ulcer and gales had unspecified medical problems the official said on condition of anonymity. No details were Given on Bames and it was not known whether Kanji was sick. Kanji was on a religious pilgrimage when the crisis started. The official iraqi news Agency said the government was acting 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 reopen and paperwork can be processed. Fonday is the moslem Sabbath. Thousands of foreigners including about 1,000 americans remain in Iraq and Kuwait. Iraq has selectively freed hundreds of hostages including about 300 French nationals this week. Saddam refused to let foreigners leave both nations when the United nations slapped Iraq with a Trade embargo and the United states began sending More than 200,000 troops to the Region in response to iraqis invasion of Kuwait. Meanwhile Western governments have responded so optically to iraqis invitation that families of hostages visit Iraq Over the holidays and have advised citizens not to travel to there. The iraqi foreign ministry on Frida denounced that reaction saying the United states and Britain a have no respect Foi human  information minister Jas Sim said these governments a Are totall  the British foreign office asked rela Tives not to go but 10 wives of British hostages said they will Fly to Iraq nex week to seek their husbands Freedom other relatives welcomed iraqis offer to it let them visit at Christmas. Iraq has amassed an estimated 430,001 troops in Southern Iraq and Kuwait. About 100,000 troops from Arabia Europe and other regions have joined that . Forces in the saudi arabian Deser South of Kuwait and aboard ships in that persian Gulf Region. Washington has said up to 100,001 More . Troops will be dispatched join the roughly 220,000-Memoer a can Force already deployed in Region  
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