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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes tuesday May 28, 1991 world skinheads attack Gays holding festival in Berlin from wire reports Berlin a several dozen right Wing skinhead radicals armed with tear Gas and clubs attacked homosexuals in Eastern Berlin inti Irrig several people police said sunday. The attack late saturday night comes amid increasing violence among Young right Wing radicals in former communist East Germany. According to police Gay men and lesbians were holding a Spring festival at a local museum when some 70 skinheads arrived. The thugs swung clubs and set off fireworks police said. A neighbouring paper warehouse went up in flames but the cause was unclear. A number of people were injured including a woman who was hospitalized said police. Guillotine victims found Lyon France a three decapitated skeletons presumed to be the remains of royalists guillotined during the French revolution were discovered by construction workers City authorities said sunday. The Bones were uncovered during work to build an underground parking garage in front of Lyon City  some months during the 1789 revolution a Guillotine operated in front of the building local historians said. Justice was dispensed from the basement of the existing City Hall. Those convicted had merely to walk a few paces to reach a Madame Guillotine a As it was called historians said. Pope ordains 61 priests Vatican City w Pope John Paul ii ordained 61 priests sunday from around the world including 20 belonging to the powerful opus Dei organization which promotes traditional Christian values. The ordinations were performed in a ceremony at St. Peter s Basilica marking the feast of the holy Trinity. Fifteen of the new priests were from latin America. 13 from Eastern Europe 20 from Western Europe four from India and two from Africa. The others were from Canada the United states the Philippines sri Lanka and Indonesia a. A a a. A a a a a a a -. The North americans were Konrad Karl Kuz Vinski .33, of Canada a member of the missionaries of Charity and two  citizens John Anthony Corapi. 44, of the society of our lady of the most 1 Kelv Trinity and John Zuhlsdorf 31./ their hometowns were not immediately Avail Able. A. A a a a a a. A v a a a a a a a a a Elk charges 8 runners Oslo Norway a an enraged Mother Elk attacked eight runners when they strayed too close to the calves she had borne in the Middle of an orienteering route reports said monday. The terrified Elk charged the leaders in a Field of 231 contestants who were bearing Down on the calves she had Given birth to shortly before sunday s National race near trondheim. She broke one runners Collarbone loosened another a Teeth and trampled six others. Some of them required stitches for their wounds. None sustained permanent injury the Oslo newspaper Dag bladet reported. A a in he Elk caught me completely by Surprise. It attacked me from the Side and ran me Down. 1 did no to have a Chance a said Hanne Sannes 1991 Junior world Champion in orienteering a sport that combines map Reading and Cross country running. Havel Prague Czechoslovakia apr president Vaclav Havel says the names of about 140 suspected collaborators with the former communist regimes secret police should not be published. A commission appointed last year to compile  a informers requested that a list of 140,000 names be made Public. But Havel in an interview recorded during a state visit to. Finland last week and broadcast sunday said a publishing a kind of a Telephone Book with thousands of names would not be Good for Many reasons he added the Federal government of Premier Marian Calfa also agreed to keep the list of names under wraps. A a a a a a a a. A a a a. A a Calfa told the National Assembly on Friday that publishing the list would be ill advised  would leave alleged former collaborators and their families open to possible reprisals. The rude Provo daily last week said 14 government ministers or Deputy ministers were found by the commission to have collaborated with the former secret police. The commission also found 58, former police agents among government and National Assembly employees and two who Are now deputies the paper said. Spewing Ash Clouds of ashes and hot gases billow Over a Volcano sunday near Shimbara Bay in southwestern Japan. Lava falling from the Volcano which erupted last november for the first time in 198 years prompted the evacuation of about 1,500 people from their Homes at the foot of mount Unze Dake police said. I  a s government also says legislation is needed to determine Quot which criteria should be used to decide whether or to what extent a person collaborated. The problem should be. Solved in a a More civilized Way a said Havel the former dissident playwright who became Czechoslovakia s first democratic president after four decades of communist Rule. Havel who has opposed Witch Hunts against officials of the former regime and their cronies said he already had worked out a possible solution but did no to elaborate. A a a a. A a a. A a  a the National Assembly was scheduled to vote tuesday on whether to publish the list. A in a highly publicized debate in March 10 deputies to the National Assembly were publicly accused of collaborating with the secret police. Most denied the charges in a subsequent debate. Non communist politicians of several other former soviet bloc countries have been embarrassed by revelations that they once collaborated with the secret police. Communist regimes across the East bloc were replaced by democratic governments beginning in the fall of 1989. A Cuba finishes pulling troops out of Angola Mexico City up Fidel Castro welcomed Home the last group of cuban troops from Angola where More than 300,000 cuban soldiers served since 1975, cubans official news Agency said sunday. A Castro saluted the 2,900 soldiers upon their return to Havana on saturday and embraced Gen. Samuel Rodriguez a top cuban commander in Angola Prensa Latina said in a dispatch monitored in Mexico City. A your soldiers left behind a positive image impossible of being erased the Agency quoted Rodriguez As saying a they built schools and hospitals and made friendships of profound  Cuba agreed to withdraw its troops front the Southwest african country five weeks ahead of a . Agreement reached by Angola Cuba and South Africa Prensa Latina said. The United states served As a mediator in talks that led to the Accord the Agency said. The agreement also called for South Africa to withdraw its troops from Namibia on angolans Southern Border. The first namibian elections provided for by the Accord were held in november putting an end to South african administration of the country awarded to Pretoria after world War  head on collision kills 8 Pentraeth Wales. Apr eight people were killed Ima Holiday weekend collision Between a Small Van and a car on Anglesey off the North Wales coast police said sunday. A. The head on crash was on the Road Between Pentraeth and the Menai Bridge which links the Island in the Irish sea with the Mainland a police spokesman  of the dead most of them teen age youths a re Rehng a the Van and died immediately police said. The eighth victim the cards male Driver died in Hospital at Bangor on the  arrested As accomplice in Gandhi death new Delhi India apr police have arrested a Tanfil woman believed to be a accomplice of Rajiv Gandhi s suicide Assassin reports said monday. It was the first word of an arrest in the former prime minister s slaying last tuesday at an election Campaign rally near the Southern City of Madras. Investigators were known to have Nar rowed their focus to a rebel tamil militia fighting for Independence in sri Lanka off India s Southern tip. The authorities have identified the killer As a woman in her late 20s with the features of a sri lankan tamil who strapped plastic explosives around her body and blew herself up. United news and press Trust of India said the arrested woman was a 30-year-old sri lankan tamil identified Only by her first name of Vasanthi. She was taken into custody in South Arcot District of tamil Nadu state late sunday the reports said. Police Are also seeking a Man who posed As a journalist at the rally where Gandhi w As slain. They believe he might have been Pari of a backup squad that would have stepped in if the primary Assassin had tailed to detonate the bomb. Word of the arrest came As the government announced that a judicial inquiry into the assassination would be header by a supreme court Justice Jagdish Sha ran Verma  
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