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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9. A a a a prime minister ousted in Kashmir state Islamabad Pakistan a a new prime minister of Pakistan held Kashmir took the oath of office Early saturday after the government dismissed 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 invoked 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 incite stand in violence Kash elections threatened to and damage pakistanis mires dispute with India. Rathore complained of vote rigging among other charges. Less than a hour before the swearing in held before Dawn the president told reporters the ceremony would be held later in the Day. A presidential pokes Man said the ceremony was moved up for Legal reasons. A the program was changed at 4hejast 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 headed a fragile coalition government since May 1990. 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 scats. 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 pc ponets 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 Rathore 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 status. Phone outages to 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 it 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 tale of survival at a Miami detention facility Friday. 1 men 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 Mai and kept on doing that a said Raul Mena. A i Felt like my life was coming to an  sue men died in the plywood and fibreglass Container where temperatures May have reached 130 degrees officials said. Mena 25, and Daniel Fernandez 19, stayed at 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 at 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 1 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 it would take Only 1 i. 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. They also had some tools which they were told to take if they needed to Cut breathing holes a two Small saws a hand Drill and two flashlights. When the temperatures inside the Box started to Rise some stowaways began pounding on the Container screaming a let me out let me out a Mena and Fernandez said. They disputed accounts by some . Immigration and naturalization service officials that the men fought among themselves for air. A there Wasny to any fighting at All. It was just screaming hoping that the Crew would hear us a Mena , speeding Bush learns agents7 secrets Beltsville my. Apr president Bush the nations most protected citizen took a Field trip to Rural Maryland to learn How secret service agents make sure he stays that Way. During Bush a visit to the secret service training Center Friday the president ride in a souped up Sedan with an agent demonstrating Speed driving and 180-degree spins. And he fired a secret service Rifle aides said. A the seemed like he was having a pretty Good time a spokesman John Herrick told reporters a the was interested in everything a agents also demonstrated How they would save him in the water Speed him away from a motorcade explosion and intercept weapons from getting into a hotel where he was speaking. Reporters and photographers watched Bush s helicopter land at the James j. Rowley training Center but they were not allowed to accompany the president on his tour of the training facility. Secret service spokesman Robert Snow citing Security reasons instead escorted reporters to the firing Range where they were briefed on the secret service weapons and taught to shoot one of them an Uzi sub machine gun. The secret service prefers the Uzi because of its triple safety system and because it is simple Ami accurate reporters were told. The most protected citizen was even protected on the training centers grounds. Although Bush was surrounded by secret service officers on the grounds of several Hundred acres his own White House secret service Security detail remained with him. The secret service was created in 1865 As a division of the Treasury department assigned to combat counterfeiting of Money. The presidential protective Mission was added to the secret service mandate following the assassination of president Mckinley in Buffalo n.y., in 1901  
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