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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 28, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9u.n. To Monitor rights in Salvador san Salvador Al Salvador apr More than 100 . Observers have begun an unprecedented International Mission to Monitor human rights in Al Salvador despite continuing civil strife. Civilian military and police observers who numbered 110, flew into the capital of san Salvador on Friday and began setting up operations in a downtown hotel hundreds of peace activists Many carrying signs hailing the Mission As a a popular Triumph a welcomed them. The  rightist government of president Alfredo Cristiani and the leftist Faramundo Marti National liberation front guerrillas persuaded the United nations to Send the Mission during peace talks. It was the first tangible result of 15 months of .-mediated negotiations aimed at ending nearly 12 years of civil War. The fighting has claimed an estimated 75,000 lives mostly civilians. Although the two sides have been unable to reach a cease fire the United nations responded to the invitation to Send monitors partly As a Confidence building measure in the peace process. The . Observers in Al Salvador have been assured cooperation by both sides according to pakistani Diplomat Iqbal Riza who Heads the International Agency s Force. He said that the Mission will spend its first 60 Days collecting reports of human rights abuses and that investigations into the allegations would Likely begin in the fall. Riza said the group would establish offices in the provinces of san Miguel Santa Ana san Vicente Chala Venango and Usu Lutan As Well As in the capital. Ultra rightist organizations have distributed leaflets threatening the observers accusing them of meddling in salvadoran affairs. Cristiani Hast condemned the threats and said a no one should interpret it As any kind of  he pledged to provide Security for the Mission. According to a . Official the organization s willingness to deploy in Al Salvador reflects a greater world Effort to place the Protection of citizens in a country above the sovereignty of a nation. Western leaders used the same justification earlier this year in dispatching a Force to protect kurd inside Iraq. Philippine mud floods leave 16 dead .90,000 in shelters world Manila Philippines up a at least 16 people were killed in flooding and volcanic mudflows As Monsoon rain kept More than 90,000 people in evacuation centers saturday officials said. President Corazon Aquino flew by helicopter saturday to her Hometown of Concepcion in Tarlac province 70 Miles North of Manila and visited the Mudflow inundated Village of Santa Rita. Aquino arrived with two truckloads of Relief supplies for 22,638 victims in Concepcion and promised to provide the refugees housed in two schools with blankets and shelter. Reports from the military office of civil defense and the red Cross said six people were killed in Concepcion and another in Florid Blanca in avalanches of Ash Sand and boulders a loosed from mount Pinatubo by Monsoon downpours overnight. In the capital police and Relief agencies said nine people died in incidents of electrocution and drowning Friday night. The weather service recorded 8.38 inches of rainfall Over 24 hours ending at 8 . Saturday in Manila. Most of the capital was flooded Friday evening As a tropical storm entered near Japan spawned the Southwest Monsoon in the Philippines. Civil defense officials said that 90,296 people fled to evacuation centers fearing mudflows in towns near mount Pinatubo because of the Monsoon during the last three Days. The Volcano erupted june 9 after a 611-year dormancy leaving at least 323 people dead. Civil defense officials said More than 1.2 million people had been displaced or lost their jobs As a result of the eruption. Many faces of politics nesting dolls bearing the likenesses of president Bush and soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev Are Selling like hot cakes As the Moscow Summit approaches. Vla Damir be Rauhof 21, set up shop last week on the arbat the shopping zone in Central Moscow. The matrix Osaka dolls Are popular with souvenir Hunting tourists. Head on crash of trains kills 3 in East Germany a from wire reports Berlin a a passenger train and a freight train carrying gasoline crashed head on saturday near the former East German Border leaving three people dead and 35 injured police said. A series of explosions ripped through the gasoline containers pulled by the freighter after the collision. Police said there was still a risk of explosion hours after the crash. The crash Between the freight train and the Dresden Cologne express occurred in the Eastern German state of Sachsen Anhalt near the former West German Border. Police said they think the freight trains Engineer ignored a Stop signal causing the crash. Quot Korea resume Trade Seoul South Korea a a ship loaded with 5,000 tons of South korean Rice left saturday for delivery to North Korea in the first direct Trade Between the two countries officials said. They said the freighter operated by South koreans Samsun shipping co., left South koreans West coast after a departure ceremony attended by government officials and citizens. Samsun officials said the ship was scheduled to arrive in North Korea on monday. The Rice will be swapped with 40,000 tons of Coal. The Trade is part of agreement completed in March Between the North and the South in which 100,000 tons of South korean Rice will be exchanged for North korean goods. North Korea lacks hard currency. Many South koreans Hope the Rice Deal will Lead to expanded Trade and contribute to easing tension Between the rival Korea. British politician Dies London a Earl Attlee the Only son of prime minister Clement Attlee who led Britain after world War ii died Early saturday at the age of 63, a Southampton Hospital spokesman said. The spokesman did not give any details but a family Friend said he suffered a stroke monday evening and had been in a coma. Attlee was chairman of Keith Wilden Public relations Ltd. And a Deputy whip in the House of lords for the social democratic party of which he was a founder member. His father a member of the labor party was prime minister from 1945 to 1951 and introduced a sweeping program of nationalization and a new system of social services in Britain. He accepted an earldom in 1955 after he retired As Leader of the opposition. Sex can be a real headache researchers say London apr the classic bedroom complaint a live got a headache May Well e True a but during sex not before. A hearing of sex headaches May bring a smile to the lips of the uninformed but hey Are anything but amusing to those who Lave experienced them a or. James Lance i neurologist at the University of new South Wales in Australia wrote in an article in last weeks British medical journal. Lance said sex headaches arc More common among men a having been reported in patients from 18 to 58 years old a and develop a without any obvious change in sexual  Lance described sex headaches in two stages beginning with a cramping sensation in the Back of the head and followed by a a a Thunderclap a an excruciating burst of pain at the Peak of orgasm. Although its not Clear Why men suffer More experts speculate the first stage of the headache May be caused by muscle spasms in the Back of the neck and the second stage from increased blood pressure. Or. Seymour Diamond director of the Diamond headache clinic in Chicago said he treats about two to three patients a month who suffer from sex headaches most of them men. He said he also suspects there Are sex headache sufferers too embarrassed to seek help. They either Bear the pain or done to have sex said Diamond who runs the largest private headache clinic in the United states. Diamond said he believes that sex headaches fall into a wide category of a exertion Al headaches Quot also caused by coughing and sneezing  
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