European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 7, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9prime minister ousted in Kashmir state Islamabad Pakistan apr a new prime minister of Pakistan held Kashmir took the oath of office Early saturday after the. Government dismissed Quot and arrested his predecessor. Chief Justice Sardar Mohammed Ash Raf of the Azad Kashmir free Kashmir supreme court was sworn in As acting prime minister of the Semi autonomous state in the Himalayas. President Sardar Abdul Qayyum evoked his constitutional Powers to fire prime minister Mumtaz Rathore on Friday following a we Klong Power struggle. The president was quoted As saying that outbursts by Rathore after his party a overwhelming defeat in last weeks elections threatened to incite violence and damage pakistanis stand in kashmiris dispute with India. Rathore complained of vote rigging among other charges. Less than an hour before the swearing in held before Dawn the president told reporters the ceremony would be held later in the Day. A presidential spokesman said the ceremony was moved up for Legal reasons. A the program was changed the last minute because our lawyer said there should not be a Gap of 12 hours a said a spokesman for Qayyum. The official associated press of Pakistan reported that Rathore was taken by helicopter from Mazaffar Abad the capital of pakistani Kashmir. Rathore had a beaded a fragile coalition government since May 1990.s. In the june 29 legislative elections his left leaning Pakistan Peoples party and its allies were overwhelmingly Defeated by the conservative Muslim conference winning Only two of the 40 Assembly seats. The Muslim conference won 28 seats. Charging widespread rigging and vote fraud Rathore fired the election commission invalidated the balloting demanded that new elections be held on sept. 27, and threatened civil War if opponents tried to remove him. But Rathore received Little backing from the Leader of the Pakistan Peoples party former prime minister Binazir Bhutto. Bhutto who said Little about rat Horci a allegations left Pakistan on thursday for a three week tour of Europe. Bhutto was dismissed in August on charges ranging from corruption to political ineptitude. She is being tried before special one judge courts on charges of misconduct and abuse of Power during her 20 months in office. Three months after her ouster Bhutto and the Pakistan Peoples party were dubbed in National and provincial elections that relegated the party to opposition outages linked to firm s faulty software Dallas apr a Telephone equipment firm said Friday that the recent spate of phone system breakdowns was caused by glitches in its computer software. Three Telephone companies helped diagnose the problem that Cut connections to 10 million customers in the past two weeks dec communications corp. Of Plano Texas said in a statement. The problem shut phone switching systems in los Angeles san Francisco Washington and Pittsburgh. The last outage hit Pittsburgh on tuesday. The companies recreated the problem in a Laboratory Experiment and designed changes for the software that controls sophisticated Telephone switching equipment. Repairs were under Way the company said. Technicians from dec Pacific Bell Bell Atlantic and the Bellmore research lab worked to diagnose the problem the company said. Dec designed and installed switching networks for Bell Atlantic and Pacific Bell. Dec likened the problem to a Power line surge that caused network congestion with Calls backing up until the entire system shuts Down. Pacific Bell called the repairs a a Stopgap measure a and said could be weeks before dec pinpoints the source of the problem. A they Haven to found the reason or the Root cause of the problem a said Craig Watts a Pacific Bell spokesman. A what they be discovered is a Way to help the network handle the problem until they be found the de Stanley a spokesman for the Chesapeake amp Potomac Telephone co. In Washington said the company was satisfied with a Sci a efforts. A we Are very encouraged by the interim software solution by dec a said John Seazholtz a Bell Atlantic vice president in Arlington a. A we recognize however that there is still a lot of work ahead to identify and cure the Root cause or causes of these service disruptions a Seazholtz said in a statement. A software change was being installed in the Bell Atlantic and Pacific Bell systems to eliminate the problem according to the statement. A this provides Protection much like a fuse on a Power line a the company said. A company spokesman could not immediately be reached for further comment. A Sci a Headquarters was closed Friday. Stowaways Daniel Fernandez left and Raul Mena Tell their talc of survival a Miami detention facility sealed in Box screamed for Crew s help survivors say Miami apr two dominican men who spent three Days in a sealed Container on a cargo ship said they survived by conserving their strength while six other stowaways screamed and pounded on the Box for help before dying. A i started to Pray to the Virgin Mary and kept on doing that a said Raul Mena. A i Felt like my life was coming to an six men died in the plywood and fibreglass Container where temperatures May have reached 130 degrees officials said. Mena 25, and Daniel Fernandez 19, stayed the Bottom of the Box breathing through a crack in the Container. A the first Day was tranquil. We would eat sleep a Fernandez said during an interview Friday an immigration holding facility South of Miami. On the second Day when the heat began to Rise a we All started to get desperate and agitated a Fernandez said. A one Man promised a if i leave Here alive ill become an evangelist a ill a the stowaways paid up to $400 to be sealed in the freight Container which was loaded on the cargo ship Tropic reign on saturday night in puerto Plata in the dominican Republic. The voyage to the port of Palm Beach took three Days though the men said they were told would take Only Ivy. Mena and Fernandez said they made the trip in the Hope of getting jobs. They took provisions 6 Gallons of water juice a few chocolate Candy bars and bread. 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