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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes sunday november 4,1990 sex Norway Leader takes Over again Oslo Norway apr labor party Leader Gro Harlem Brundtland became prime minister saturday for the third time replacing conservative Jan p. Syse. Her minority government was formally installed by Crown Prince Harald the country a acting Monarch. Labor has Only 63 scats in the 165-scat parliament and must depend on support from some of the five opposition parties. A we Are very oriented to cooperation a said Brundtland at a news conference in which she presented her new 19-member Cabinet which includes nine women. Syse announced his resignation last monday after his year old coalition failed to Back his stance in negotiations with the european Community and the european free Trade association on setting up a joint Trade bloc. A we will be an objective opposition and we will be a firm opposition a Syse said after meeting with the Crown Prince and officially stepping Down earlier saturday. Harald has assumed official duties while his father King Olaf a recovers from a stroke. Brundtland said she expected to Lead the country until september 1993, when the next National election will be held. Elections forced Brundtland from office twice first in 1981 after seven months in office and again last october when the coalition led by Syse took Over. She said her immediate tasks will be drafting a 1991 National budget and dealing with issues relating to european integration. Brundtland a physician and Harvard educated Public health specialist said her government would stress traditional social democratic traditions. The new prime minister caused some controversy when she appointed Thorvald Stoltenberg the . High commissioner for refugees As foreign minister and Sec Ond in command of the government. Her decision to Call Home 59-year-old i Stoltenberg after Only 10 months As head j of the Geneva based refugee commission i Drew criticism from some who said she was putting Norway a interests ahead of i those of the United nations. A i can Well understand that people question and think it is sad that Thorvald Stoltenberg has to leave a Job where there is very much use for him a Brundtland said. A but we need his experience As a foreign minister in this very crucial phase for our government and  Stoltenberg served As foreign minister in Brundt Lana a second  lawmakers walk out of Assembly s swearing in Islamabad Pakistan Fuji a former prime minister Binazir Bhutto and nor party a legislators saturday staged a walkout from the inaugural session of the new National Assembly. The members from Bhutto a Pakistan Peoples party pakistanis ousted prime minister Binazir Bhutto leaves the Assembly schambers saturday. Declined to take the oath of office and left the Assembly because authorities had refused to allow Bhutto a husband Asif Sardari to attend the session. Sardari was elected to the Assembly in the oct. 24 elections but has been detained in jail on charges of involvement in a kidnapping. A court in Karachi on thursday ruled that Sardari should be released from jail in the Southern City to take the oath of office. After the walkout Bhutto said party officials changed an earlier decision to take the oath under protest when they realized Sardari would not be released. A we decided not to take the oath As a protest against this cheating a Bhutto said. Caretaker Interior minister Zahid Sarfraz had assured Bhutto and other pop members that Sardari would be brought to the Assembly sunday to be sworn in. Members from the islamic democratic Alliance a Loose coalition of parties opposed to Bhutto and backed by the army and members of smaller parties and independents took the oath of office saturday. Ida Leader Nawaz Sharif 42, a wealthy industrialist is expected to be sworn in As prime minister within the next three Days. The Ida scored a Victory in the elections winning 105 of 217 National Assembly seats. The pop won Only 45. Bhutto has charged that the Ida resorted to a Gross rigging a although most International observer teams said they had found no evidence to support her allegations. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan ousted Bhutto a 20-month-old government aug. 6, accusing its officials of corruption nepotism and a failure to ensure Law and order. He dissolved the National Assembly and declared a state of emergency. He appointed opposition Leader Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi to head an interim government until the elections. Bhutto demanded saturday that the president lift the state of emergency and that authorities release a number of her party workers who she said had been arrested during the elections. Sardari was arrested oct. 6 on charges of being involved in the kidnapping of a wealthy pakistani businessman Murtaza Bukhari. Bukari paid about $800,000 to his kidnappers to obtain his release. Sardari has denied the  from cry in dark Case divorcing after years of Strain Sydney Australia apr Michael and Lindy Chamberlain who claimed their infant daughter was spirited off by a Dingo in the australian Outback Are planning to divorce a newspaper said saturday. The marriage fell victim to the strains of fighting for More than nine years to Clear their names the Sydney morning Herald said. The couple claimed in August 1980 that their daughter Azaria was carried away by a Dingo an australian wild dog from the tent where they were camping in Central Australia near Ayers Rock. The child a body was never recovered. In 1981, Lindy Chamberlain was charged and later convicted of her daughters murder. She spent 3vi years in prison but was released after new evidence was discovered a a piece of clothing that indicated a Dingo might indeed have taken the child. The infants disappearance one of the most hotly disputed criminal cases in australians history was the subject of the Hollywood movie a a cry in the dark a starring meryl Streep As Lindy Chamberlain. The newspaper said that the couple is still living together at their Home North of Sydney and that it has not been decided who will have custody of their three remaining children. Lindy Chamberlain is in new zealand on a nine Day trip to promote her Book a through my  world today nursing Homes sex Rule prompts bottle in Australia Canberra Australia a the government is battling leading Church officials Over whether unmarried residents of nursing Homes should be allowed to have sex. The government said it has no intention of abandoning its new charter of rights which guarantees the sexual Freedom of nursing Home residents and would withhold funding for facilities violating the charter. The Little Sisters of the poor have threatened to close Down their six nursing Homes if Federal funding is withdrawn Over the groups refusal to adopt the new charter. The order claimed the government is adopting the Agenda of a militant sexual  a this has not been the work of militant sexual rambos a said Peter Staples the Federal minister for aged cafe. A people really should be Able to physically communicate with each  the combined pensioners association has argued that residents of nursing Homes should enjoy Basic human rights including the Freedom to express their  still clings to Walls of Auschwitz crematorium Warsaw Poland up traces of the Gas that killed 1.5 million people at the Auschwitz death Camp have been detected in the Walls of the crematorium an analysis shows. Polish scientists found lethal cyanide Gas in samples taken from the Walls of crematorium no. 2 in Birkenas part of the Large nazi German Complex at Auschwitz that housed both a death Camp and work Camp during world War ii polish news Agency Pap said. The findings conducted 45 years after the last mass extermination took place in the Camp confirmed the results scientists obtained in 1945 at the end of the War. An estimated 1.5 million people mostly jews perished in Gas Chambers of the Camp built by the nazis in 1940 near Krakow in Southern  tigers found surviving in chinese wilds Beijing apr forestry workers recently spotted a manchurian Tiger and cub in the wild ending a three year controversy Over whether the animal has survived in China a forests the Xinhua news Agency has reported. The tigers were seen on the Northern slope of mount Changcai in Northeast Jilin province. Zoologists estimated that Only 80 manchurian tigers roamed the regions wooded mountains in the late 1960s. Only 30 were left by the Early 1980s due to Hunting and destruction of their Range by Farmers and foresters. A 1987 Aerial Survey failed to find any Trace of the tigers in China a wilds. Xinhua reporter Zhu you i said the foresters spotted the two tigers in july but told few people. He said traces of manchurian tigers also have been seen in Quot the past year in neighbouring Heilongjiang province. About 100 manchurian tigers live in chinese zoos  
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