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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes in on b wednesday june 26, 1991 wins citizen Washington apr a Phoenix High school senior recited portions of the us Constitution answered geography questions and explained eco nordic theory monday to win a National citizenship Competition and a $12,000 scholarship. P rank Pasquale 111, 17, of Paradise Valley High school in Phoenix won the close up foundation citizen Bee with a total of 159 Points one Point away from a perfect score of 160. Competing for the third year Pasquale sealed the Victory when he correctly explained that in 1789 there were two classes of senators who served either two years or four years to provide continuity within a state legislature. He was Given the question after winning an Appeal of an earlier ruling by the judges. John Van Deweert of Dryden n.y., won second place and an $8,000 scholarship with 156 Points. Van Dewert left directly from his High school graduation saturday night to come to Washington to begin the Competition sunday morning. Carlton . Larson of Dickinson n.d., won third place with. 151 Points and a $4,000 scholarship Micah Cheatham of ran Stein Germany the representative for department of defense dependents schools was eliminated in the first round sunday. He was one of 98 students of the 113 participating who were eliminated in that round. A. Both Larson and Van de Cert participated last year in the program sponsored by close up foundation an educational organization that acquaints students with. The issues and processes of government. A. A i just memorized the Constitution that a about it a said an elated Pasquale explaining How he had prepared for the Competition. A my father went Over the Book with me for an hour each night. A behind every successful student is a Pushy Mother a added Pasquale who wants to attend Harvard University. Fifteen Young men out of a total 113 social studies High school students from 45 states the District of Columbia and . Territories advanced to mondays final Competition at the smithsonian institutions museum of natural history. The students were selected based on the number of Points they collected for written and Oral tests on american history geography government economics and current events. More than 140,000 students from 3,700 High schools participated in the close up citizen Bee program this year. Financial backing for the sixth annual citizen Bee came from Burger King corp., Komg peat Marwick the Milken family foundation and Kraft general foods. National scholarships were pro Vidd by american Honda foundation. Bombing from Page 1. A it the time that they had proof Libya carried out the disco attack., a a a a Stern said that despite continued rentals by German. Officials the flight 103 bomb arrived in a suitcase at Frankfurt Airport on dec. 21 aboard air Malta plight pm 180. It was placed aboard the London bound pan am Boeing jetliner without checks to determine  Luggage belonged to a passenger the Magazine alleged. Silicic the attack there has been speculate pm that the Lockerbie bombing May have been carried out by a palestinian terrorist group on orders from Iran in retaliation Lor the accidental Downing of an iranian Airliner Over the Virsia Ingulf by a . Navy Cruiser in july 1988. Investigators arrested 16 members of the 1 copies front for the liberation of Palestine general command in Germany in october of 1988. One of them Hafez Kassem dal Kamoni was in  a i Oshiba cassette radio containing plastic explosives sum Lar to those in the device used in the pan Ann attack. However German Federal police in Wiesbaden said they have never been Able to link the palestinian group with the plight 103 attack. ,. Dal Kamoni who was convicted of attempted murder by a Frankfurt court earlier that it year for attacks against is. Troops in Germany is serving a 15-year prison sentence. No one was killed in the attacks but several germans were Hurt. Yugoslavia from Page 1. Mostly with nationwide issues. The other House deals mostly with internal issues involving the. Republics. A Slovenia with the population of 1.-9 million and crop. Tia with 4.7 million people want the six Republic yugoslav federation of 23 million dissolved into a common Market style association of Independent states. They thus Hope to escape being dominated by Serbia the largest Republic with 8.5 million  marxist government of Serbia in the cast of Yugoslavia wants to preserve the federation or to redraw internal Borders so All serbs would live in one state guaranteeing their political and civil rights. This Means Serbia would Annex serbian dominated enclaves in Croatia and Bosnia Hercegovina a a formula. For civil War. About 600,000 serbs live in Croatia and an. Other l4 million serbs live in Bosnia Hercegovina. The Independence declarations have wide support in both republics which Are fiercely nationalistic. In december nearly .90 percent of the slovenian electorate supported Independence As did Riviore than 90 percent of voters in Croatia at a May 19 referendum. Markovic the Federal prime minister was in Zagreb monday in a last minute Effort to persuade the croatian leadership against unilaterally declaring Independence. Me warned that it could Only Lead to bloodshed. There was. No official vote count for Independence in the croatian Assembly but those opposed a most of them ethnic serbs a numbered about 50 the slovenian. Assembly in passing its Independence decrees voted 180-2, with 12 abstentions. 7 ,7 a Quot in Zagreb 250 Miles West of Belgrade croatian president Franjo Tadjman told the Assembly a with this act the Republic of Croatia begins the process of dissolution from the other republics and the socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. At the same time we begin a Campaign for International recognition of the Republic of Croatia.�?�. A Tadjman criticized the federation and Serbia saying they a heavily deliberately and permanently violate the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of Croatia or support activities against its interests. As an example he cited Serbia so ruthless move to Block Croatia a Stjepan Mesic from taking his turn As Federal head of state in the rotating eight member Federal presidency. A 5.000 March in korean War Parade Allied from Page 1. Has Quot established a timetable for the withdrawal of its 1.25d military personnel still remaining in , a but   it. The so called a residual Force expected to replace them Quot would Elearly have combat Power but it a a would t be based in Northern Iraq Quot he said. Williams said lie  say whether the Lorce could be based in Turkey. Cheer leading clinic from aug. 23-25 in Mainz a b Mainz Germany a the annual  in d for family members aged 10 to 19 will he held Here i w aug. 23 to 25 the clinic sponsored by he Usarek youth services is limited to 275.participants on a first come first served basis. Registrations should be forwarded through each Community to usar Lur by aug. 16. I lie Cost is. Instructors Are provided by the National cheer Lead. Ing association in Dallas. For More information Call 370-8823,8330 in Heidelberg. 7. New York up a More than 5,000 Middle aged korean War veterans marched Down Broadway through a flurry of ticker tape tuesday in the first Parade in their Honor in the 38 years that have passed since the end of the conflict. The midday Observance served As a footnote to the operation Welcome Home Parade which honoured the heroes of the persian Gulf War and paid special tribute to the previously Unsung veterans of the Vietnam. War. It  compare in size or Fervour to the june 10 a Mother of All parades a but it had a spirit of its own As a Celebration much deserved but Long deferred. A i think plans for the korean Var vets suffered because of the persian Gulf War but the vets Are still very Happy about it a commented Joseph Fitzpatrick a spokes mail for the Parade commission. He noted that half of the nations population Hadnot been born when the korean War sometimes known As a the forgotten War a ended in 1953.in or dnvi.1 Dinkins was on hand to give marchers a some in uniform and some in civilian clothes a Send off Down the City a traditional a can yen of heroes a past the faded Blue stripes and painted yellow ribbons left Over from the Welcome Home Parade. Some 181,000 residents of the new York City metropolitan area served in Korea the largest number from any locale. V the Bifid from the . Military Academy at West Point led the Parade marchers included units from 1 of the 15 foreign nations that fought alongside american troops in Korea As part of a . Command formed to repel the .1950 invasion of democratic South Korea by communist North Korea. The event marked the 41st anniversary of the beginning of the three year undeclared War which was fought by the . Force under the command of Gen. Douglas Macarthur on one Side and the communist koreans and later the communist chinese on the other. The conflict which took 157,000 american lives ended with an armistice. A from Page 1 Hahn no selected for award Hahn a Germany a staff sgt. Dennis Dumale of the 6911th electronic Security so has been selected As electronic Security come non commissioned Olicer of the year for 1990. One of 10 command airmen to be honoured Dumale combined Bis role As alternate Public at Tail s representative and alternative unit safety no with his sgt. Safety Quot cartoons that were published regularly m the Hahn base newspaper. These demands a Jalal Talaban Leader of the patriotic Union of Kurdistan said upon his return to this Mountain resort town close to the iranian Border after a two week absence in. Turkey. A the obligations and conditions Are terrible.�?�. ,. But the kurdish leaders also played Down suggestions that4he demands would prevent an agreement irom being reached with Baghdad or that the eight party iraqi Kurdistan front would split on the Issue. They estimated that an autonomy pact could be signed anywhere from a week from now to months in the future. _ questioned about the last minute iraqi demands kurdish Leader Sami Abderrahman who has taken part in repeated negotiations with Baghdad officials since 1961, said the demands were being Quot taken out of context a but offered no explanation As to Why they had not Bee n made Public earlier. Previously kurdish leaders had said the main slum Blim. Blocks to an agreement were the inclusion of the Oil Rich City of Kirkuk in the autonomous zone questions about iraqi Security forces in the area and urd ish insistence that a constituent Assembly a and to the Baghdad government a write a new Constitution for the country. The talks began in april after iraqi president Saddam Hussein ended a crackdown on kurdish insurgents that sent a mass exodus of kurdish civilians fleeing to the iraqi turkish Border. In Baghdad on monday a senior government official said in an Impromptu interview that he expected an agreement to be signed soon meaning this week or nex a Washington Post correspondent Caryle Murphy reported. The official also said he believed that Talaban despite his reported reservations about the document would sign the Accord noting that to Labanie a representative had participated in All of the negotiations in 13aghdad. Last Friday two government controlled newspapers reported that the talks had progressed Well and that the Accord would be signed soon after a four Day Muslim Holiday that ended tuesday. It remained unclear whether the iraqi demands As some kurdish leaders insisted constituted a precondition for concluding an agreement  
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