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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, March 19, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes tuesday March 19, 1991 world guard Jet set ablaze at base in puerto Rico from wire reports san Juan puerto Rico a a group of unidentified people broke into an air Force base sunday and set a National guard a-7 Jet on fire causing some $100,000 in damage to the aircraft officials said. The fire was set at 3 30 a.m., but caused no injuries or deaths at the base located hear san Juan s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the incident and police said authorities were investigating the Case. Police officials said the intruders Cut through a wire Fence in the Northern part of the base and set the plane on  s new Leader Copenhagen Denmark Lars Emil Johansen replaced Jonathan Motzfeldt As Greenland a Premier and formed a new government following the March 5 elections news reports said monday. Motzfeldt 52, had headed successive govern Menis since Greenland won Home Rule from Denmark in -97.9. The 44-year-old Johansen claimed to represent a younger political generate in. In a Post election Power struggle within the ruling socialist sum it party Johansen emerged at the head of a new coalition with the leftist inuit Ala Tigist party. Missile did t get packed Prague Czechoslovakia a a military patrol discovered a soviet anti tank missile that was apparently left behind at a railway station by departing soviet troops the state ctr news Agency reported monday. The missile was found in the town of Rokyta Nice some 94 Miles North of Prague when the last soviet soldiers based there left ctr said. The soviet Garrison based in Roky Nice withdrew feb. 15 As part of an agreement for the total withdrawal of soviet troops from czechoslovak territory by midyear. 7. Albania frees prisoners Vienna Austria a communist Albania freed More than 120 political , but opposition activists said the action fell Short of a pledge to release All prisoners held for antigovernment activity. It some of the released inmates reported that 26 other political prisoners were on Nunger strikes and threatened to a set themselves afire if they Are not free by tuesday night said Gene polio a spokesman for the opposition democratic party. Albania last week promised to free political prisoners from jails in which hundreds and Possi by thousands of government opponents died during 46 years of stalinist Rule. A Man tries to extinguish a fire spreading through the shacks in the South african township of  in South Africa leaves 19 dead 60 Hurt. Joiiya Nesburg South Africa apr at least 19 people were killed and More than 60 Hurt in weekend township Battles Between rival Black factions fighting with machetes and guns police said monday. Zulu followers of the inkatha Freedom party clashed with african National Congress supporters sunday in Northern Johannesburg a Alexandra township. Police said 10 people were killed most of them hacked to death and 49 were injured. A. In another Black factional fight sunday this time at a Black migrant workers Hostel in Southern Johannesburg six men. Were hacked to death and seven injured police said. A 7 -7. A a. 7three people were killed and at least four were injured in scattered incidents in other areas they said police and  reinforcements were sent to restore Calm in the townships but police commanders said the situation remains tense. 7 Quot the killing must Stop and the Community must realize that violence brings nothing but More violence a said maj Reg Crewe of the police department. The violence broke out when inkatha called a peace rally in Alexandra to try and halt violence that began earlier this month Anc officials had urged authorities to prohibit the rally but police allowed the meeting to proceed. A a.7 7 a police said trouble began when Anc supporters attacked several zulus on their Way to the rally. Obed Barela a township official said three inkatha supporters were killed by a mob that stoned their vehicle then hacked and stabbed them to  the rally dispersed scattered confrontations broke out Between inkatha supporters township residents and Security forces. Police said most of those killed in Alexandra  7 police said the death toll included a Man killed when police used shotguns and tear Gas to disperse a crowd that had set several shacks on fire. Police and soldiers also were sent to the George Goch Hostel in Johannesburg where fighting sunday left six people dead Crewe said. Some inkatha supporters at the Alexandra rally had come from Johannesburg hostels police said. 7the Anc and inkatha have waged virtual warfare for five years in Eastern Natal province the traditional Zulu Homeland leaving More than 5,000 people dead. The fighting spread in August to townships near Johannesburg killing More than 1,000 people. Beirut Lebanon dim a member of the pro iranian Hezbollah militia said monday that lebanese  troops have searched a Hezbollah stronghold in Southern Beirut where Western reports have said foreign hostages were held. Tile pro syrian As Safir newspaper monday reported a lebanese  Force stormed the Hay Madi Barracks used by Hezbollah Early saturday but did not say if the search was linked to efforts to find the 12 Western hostages believed held by Hezbollah or iranian linked shiite Muslim elements. The soldiers searched Barracks areas particularly underground rooms the As Safir said. A a a. A Hezbollah source said a lebanese  troops carried out a Quick surprising search in the neighbourhood of Hay Madi but we will cooperate with the government Security plan a the  has also staged More patrols in Southern Beirut said the source who requested anonymity. The Beirut Southern suburbs Are patrolled by lebanese and syrian troops As Safir said the lebanese  has intensified patrols in Beirut suburbs considered Hezbollah strongholds. The newspapers report implied the troops found no Trace of the hostages. The search came As syrian officials repeatedly hint that the Damascus regime a main Power broker in Lebanon will intensity efforts to locate the captives. Muslim shiite sources Friday said Syria and Iran had agreed in principle to seek the release of All hostages and that their efforts might result in setting free one of. The captives probably a . Nation a the 12 westerners held Are Terry Anderson Thomas Sutherland Joseph Cicippio Edward Tracy Alann Steen and Jesse Turner of the United states Terry Waite John Mccarthy and Jack Mann of Britain germans Thomas Kemptner and Henrich Struebig and Alberto Molinari of Italy. Halle Germany a  High ranking official was quoted monday As i gig the government to Speed up its investigation of former East German  to jail some to prevent them from joining Erich Honecker in soviet exile. A there is a danger that other top former communists and Stasi secret police officials will also go to the soviet Union a said Erwin Huber Secretary general of the Christian social Union party the Neue Presse express newspaper reported. Hubert a bavarian party is aligned with Chancellor Helmut Kohl governing Christian democrats. Honecker the ailing sex Leader of former East Germany was moved wednesday by soviet officials from a military Hospital near Berlin to Moscow. The soviets said the move was needed for the 78-year-old former leaders health condition. Germany demanded his immediate return noting he is Vvan Ted on urges rna Slaughter charges in Germany for allegedly giving shoot to kill orders Tor people trying to flee then East Germany 7. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher on monday met with Mikhail a. Gorbachev in Moscow arid w As expected to seek Honecker a return Huber in the newspaper interview said German officials must Speed up their investigations to determine w Inch senior communists should be prosecuted  
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