European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes tuesday july 30,1991madagascar Leader quits after protests Antananarivo Madagascar apr prime minister Victor Ramaha tra announced his resignation and dissolution of his Cabinet on sunday. He acted hours after president Didier rat Siraka made his first Concession to seven weeks of huge pro democracy protests and offered to open talks with opponents seeking his ouster. The Cabinet was to be formally dissolved monday state run television said. The broadcast also called for striking bureaucrats to go Back to work promising that none would be fired. Rat Siraka had offered earlier sunday to dissolve the Cabinet and open talks with the opposition. He also offered to consider replacing the country a socialist Constitution. A i extend you my hand a rat Siraka said in a radio address. Quot come i am ready for dialogue to put the country right  the address came a Day after the oppositions self declared prime minister Albert Zafy was arrested at his Home. He was believed to have been taken to a jail for political prisoners. The six party opposition coalition chose Zafy As prime minister appointed a Shadow Cabinet and took Over several government ministries to show its disdain for rat Siraka a government. A opposition figures have been Demon Strating almost daily since june 10 to protest rat Siraka a 16-year Rule and push for democratic reforms. Although the protests have been largely peaceful two people have been reported killed. In his address rat Siraka agreed to study new election Laws and said he was prepared to hold a referendum on a new Constitution before years end. In a separate radio speech Rama Hatra said police and soldiers would not be ordered to fire on demonstrators a unless troops Are in a situation of legitimate defense or protesters enter government  opposition leaders had suspended talks with rat Siraka a government Friday demanding that three of their Cabinet ministers be freed. The three were held after the opposition Cabinet occupied the government ministries last week. That prompted rat Siraka to declare a state of emergency that bans gatherings imposes a curfew and gives authorities wide ranging Powers of search and arrest. The Public has largely ignored the order however and the army has been reluctant to confront the demonstrators. The coalition seeks multiparty elections to replace rat Siraka elected to a third seven year term in 1989 in voting the opposition claims was rigged. A % of a. Snipers beware a yugoslav army tanks move cautiously through the Coa Greben route from Ghana to to Stanica. Glina has been than Village of Petrinjak about 37 Miles Southwest of a the site of fighting Between croats and  charged with daughter s death following standoff near Bamber turkish project to bring water Power to Region Sanli urfa Turkey apr Turkey has moved a step closer to realizing one the worlds biggest engineering projects a system of 21 dams and 17 Power stations to provide electricity and irrigate the country a dry Southeastern part. Of sunday officials marked the completion of a 16-mile irrigation Tunnel. Another Tunnel is to be finished in two months. A Turkey will take a giant stride into the 21st Century with the Overall project Premier Mesut Yilmaz told a crowd at the Tunnel Mouth near Sanli urfa a provincial Center 40 Miles North of Syria. He was referring to the Southeastern Anatolia project the Chain of dams and Power stations to be built on the historic euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The. Project costing an estimated $15 billion is scheduled to be completed by 2012. The giant Ataturk dam to Cost $2.5 billion and the twin Sanli urfa tunnels Are the Centrepiece of the project. When their Concrete lining is Complete the two tunnels will pump up to 426 cubic Yards of water per second from the 314-Square-Mue Reservoir of the Ataturk dam to the arid Harran Plain. The dam being built on the euphrates will generate 8.9 billion kilowatt hours of Energy annually when fully operational in 1993. The whole project will generate 26 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year doubling the country a annual output. It will also help irrigate 4 million acres of arid land to transform turkeys underdeveloped Southeastern provinces into a Rich Basin for agriculture. But turkeys relatively water poor Arab neighbors Are worried. Last year talks among Turkey Iraq and Syria on sharing of euphrates Waters broke Down when Turkey rejected iraqi demands for 910 cubic Yards to be let through instead of the 650 cubic Yards per second it had pledged. But Yilmaz strove to soothe the iraqi and syrian fears saying Turkey would not use water As a political weapon. Turkey has also proposed to sell water to the Middle East from two other Rivers. But response has been limited because of the Cost estimated at $20 billion for the envisaged two pipelines. President Turgut Ozal has invited a Middle East water Summit to Convene in Istanbul in november to discuss the project and the regions water  on converting cars to . Standards set Mannheim Germany a a seminar on converting cars to . Emission standards for import to the United states will be held at 7 30 . Aug. 8 at the Mannheim officers club the seminar is one of several being staged in Germany by trans car a Mph of Kelterbach Germany. The meeting in Mannheim was originally set for Heidelberg but was moved because a meeting site was not available in Heidelberg. For More information Contact trans car officials at 06107-8051. A Bamberg Germany a amps a an infantryman whose 2-year-old daughter died after a three hour police standoff earlier this month has been charged with murder and kidnapping an army spokesman said. Spec. Jervaris c. Roberts was charged by military authorities july 2 with the murder of his daughter said maj. Ken Fugett a 1st army div spokesman. A persian Gulf Veteran Roberts is with he co 6th in 6th inf regt in Bamberg. He was also charged with kidnapping the child and his wife Fugett said. The incident occurred the morning of july 1 after an argument Between Roberts and his wife. The woman fled their Home seeking military police authorities said at the time. Dublin Ireland apr an Irish ships Captain who had admitted transporting arms from Libya for the Irish Republican army has been sentenced to three years in prison. Judge Liam Hamilton on monday sentenced the skipper Adrian Hopkins to eight years in prison but suspended five years of the sentence. Hopkins and four other Irish nationals aboard the Eksund ii a panamanian registered freighter were arrested off the coast of France on oct. 30, 1987. Customs agents found 150 tons of arms on Board including Roberts barricaded himself and his daughter in their Garten Strasse apartment in Gundelsheime about two Miles North of Bamberg. He threatened to kill the girl if his wife did not return to him according to a German police press release. About three hours later Roberts came out of the apartment unarmed and surrendered to police. The child was found in a water filled Bathtub. Attempts to revive her were unsuccessful. German and american authorities Are continuing their investigation to determine if the Case will go to trial Fugett said. Roberts is in . Custody at the army correctional facility at Mannheim. Surface to air missiles guns and explosives. Hopkins 52, jumped bail in France and fled to Ireland where he has been in custody for a year. In March a French court found Hopkins guilty in absent a and sentenced him to seven years for arms smuggling the four other irishmen were sentenced by a French court in March to prison terms of five to seven years. Authorities have said the weapons were loaded at the libyan port of Tripoli with the full knowledge of authorities  skipper gets prison for arms smuggling