European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 world b the stars and stripes thursday june 27, 1991 a tanks called out to keep lid on unrest in Algiers prom uric reports Algiers algerian tanks have taken up positions Arouri key ministries and in troubled. Neighbourhoods of the algerian capital after clashes Between police and Muslim fundamentalists left at least one person dead and 12 people wounded., \ a. A a. The government expressed determination on tuesday to keep a lid on the latest unrest the. Worst Sinee the government of president Chad i Lleini Jedi proclaimed a state of emergency. June. 5 . The emergency declaration followed nearly two weeks of fundamentalist protests in which at least i s people were killed. A /. In imposing the emergency Benj Edid also postponed what would have been the country s first in it 11 in arty p or i a men t a by e 1c Chi o n a o originally scheduled for today until years end lie also agreed to opposition demands for Early presidential elections. The clashes began after police started tearing Clown islamic insignia from town Halls and reinstated algerians official motto a by the people for the people.�?�. A cholera death toll rises Lima Peru a the death toll in Peru a 5. Month old cholera epidemic now. Exceeds 2,000, mainly because of continuing outbreaks in the northeastern Amazon Jungle the government a said tuesday. ,.� . . Health ministry spokesman Juan Garcia said that of 221,423 cases registered since late january 2,143 people died. A a i he epidemic is under control in the.highlands-, and along the coast. But Remote areas in the Loreto Jungle area 600 Miles Northeast of Lima still list n High mortality rate because of limited Access to health posts Garcia fear the number of cases will Rise dramatically at years end when summer begins in the Southern hemisphere. Cholera Bate a thrive Between temperatures of 86 and 104 Quot degrees. F i s a Quot / .new1. Outbreaks were reported. Tuesday in. Neighbouring Ecuador where 372 people have died and 20,000 eases have been.regis-. March a. A a. A Paris apr they fought along Side frenchmen in a losing cause three decades ago then fled their native Alec. Ria. But the Cir families remain outsiders As this weeks rioting by embittered youths shows. A for 30 years we be been peaceful a. Said Mohamed Ghai Atou Leader of the. Harki Community in Alsace. A we can to wait any longer.�?�. An estimated. 200,000 algerians fought for France against the , who in 1962 won Independence. For their North african country. A. Many Harkis were killed or jailed As collaborators. Nearly 70,000 escaped to Franco and were promised help in assimilating. A now the Community numbers at least 450,000, including second and third generation Harkis. The promises have been largely empty. An estimated 80 percent of the a sons of Harkis Between 18 and 35 Are jobless. Over the weekend the frustrations boiled Over in the Southern City of Nar Bonne where Kilarki youths set cars on fire blocked streets with burning barricades and clashed with club wielding riot police. Four youths were arrested and 14 police. Officers were injured by. Stones and firebombs. On monday the trouble spread. About .100 Harki youths in Bouques North of Aix in prove acc Block add a Highway in a show of Solidarity with the four. Arrested in Narbonne. A leaders of the Harkis spread among several dozen cities voiced support for the youths complaints about racism and unemployment. ,�.�?. �. �. �. Ache i Brunini president of a National association of Harkis said the. Rebels a had the courage to express a. What All Young Harkis he predicted hot sum mar a. �.�. �-. A unlike traditional immigrants the Harkis were French citizens before they came to France because of a 1947 Law granting French citizenship to All algerians. They have virtually no lies with their land of origin and. Feel France owes them for their wartime service. A we did no to buy our French citizenship. We earned it with our blood a said Bourgal Dayak 37, who travelled to Narbonne from another town to join the protests. An elderly a Sharki a wearing a French uniform stands in front of a smoking barricade tuesday in Bouques in Southern France. The government virtually ignored the Harkis until some at transit campy staged hunger strikes took hostages and clashed with police in 1975,. A it says on the papers that in a French but that does no to change the Way i look a said a protest Leader Mohamad Sedouki at the time a i done to think there a any one of us who Hasni to been called a dirty in 1976, the government assigned a Deputy Cabinet minister to oversee the Harkis and politicians wooed their votes with promises of financial Aid. In 1987, then Premier Jacques Chirac pushed a program awarding each Harki family about $10,000 but Harki leaders worried about their off Springs future complained that the payment was too Low. Politicians of All persuasions still pay at. Least lip service to the Harkis plight. A. Jean Marie be Penis far right National front which advocates the deportation of most North african immigrants said monday that France a has a specific duty to those who chose at risk of their lives the Side of. �-.�. A Ira London family jailed 15 years ago for allegedly running an Irish Republican army bomb factory was by of Appeal. The latest in a Ira related convictions overturned in British courts. Three appeals judges threw out the a com id ions on explosives Possession a charges against the , of the Maguire family and a seventh Man. A one of the so called Maguire seven died in prison. Hie others including Anne Maguire her husband and two. Sons were released in the 1980s after a serving prison terms varying from four to 14 years. A. A \ a this confirms the serious misjudge meats which have been Luule in Connee Tii n w i t h a 11 Ege d Ira o f be it so so said be g isolator Robert Cryer who campaigned for years to prove the family a innocence. A a 11 i a pcs a b in q u e s t i to a m a re voc r. T h a efficiency effectiveness and fairness of much of British justice.�?�. A Public 7inquiry. Last year recommended overturning the 1976 convictions. Of Anne Maguire 54. Her a husband Patrick 57 Sou Patrick 30, and Vincent. 32 her brother Shaun ,.52 another relative Giuseppe Conlon and a family Friend Patrick of Neill 49. Conlon died in prison. A . A prosecutors had conceded that the convictions based primarily on scientific evidence were incorrect but Only the Appeal court the nations second highest could reverse the convictions. Patrick Maguire who was 13 years old. When he was arrested said he cannot forgive or forget the. Years taken from him. �?o1 Haven to been waiting 16 years for someone to Tell me i am innocent i know that a he said before the hearing. A what like is for someone to Tell me Why i have had to suffer for 16 the Maguiree were convicted on the basis of tests a later shown to be inaccurate a that detected the explosive Nitro by Cirinc on their hands. A the Clearing of the family followed two a other successful appeals by Quot Irish men jailed in Britain who had declared their innocence for years. A Quot. 7 . Six men convicted for pub bombings in Birmingham and four convicted of bombings in Guildford near London in the 1.970s, were and freed recently 7. 7 a 77 . 7. Quot a athe Maguiree were arrested after investigations into the. 1974 bombings at Guildford and Woolwich which killed seven people . Police raided the Magu Irest Northwest London Home in december 1974, acting on confessions made by two of the Guildford defendants. The confessions were later discredited because they were determined to have been made under duress. A. 7 7 a 7 �.��.g.-. Swabs from the hands of the famil members were said to be heavily contaminated with nitroglycerine. But no explosives were found in the tidy House when a picture of Queen Elizabeth ii Hung 01 the Wall and a bust of Winston Churchil was in one of the bedrooms. 4 kuwaiti Emir spares a unt1 i nations a. A the Emir of Kuwait. Wednesday con Fulcd All 29 death sentences handed Down by his country a Niar tial Law courts changing them to life imprisonment . Officials and dip lorants said. A . A the move came a Day after Kuwait decided to lift martial Law imposed after the liberation of Kuwait City by Allied troops feb. 26, the lifting of the decree closed the martial Law courts which had been sharply criticized for the harsh to alleged collaborators with Iraq kuwaiti ambassador Mohammad. Abulhasan in Foi Nied . Sec rotary general Javier Perez de Cuellar by Telephone of the decision to commute the 29 death sentences according to spokeswoman Nadia Youncs a. A a ,.the Emir Sheik Jaber a Ahmad Al Sabah commuted the sentences a was a result of the clemency Appeal of the Secretary general a Youncs quoted the kuwaiti ambassador As telling Perez de Cuellar. Most of those condemned to hang had been convicted of collaborating with iraqi troops during their seven month occupation of Kuwait. Defendants were Given limited Access to lawyers a Little evidence was presented during Brief court Sesions. Critics also contended Many sentences were to harsh. The 29 people sentenced to death were most jordanians palestinians and stateless arabs. Kuwaiti Justice minister Ghazi Obeid Al Samar Sai in Kuwait on wednesday that 125 cases remaining t be heard by the martial Law court will now be sent t the general prosecutor for reassignment to Civilia courts. 7 a 4 .7
