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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 12, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 saving the Sphinx no Stone is being left unturned in Giza plateau Egypt in an Effort to keep the 4,500-year-old Sphinx from falling apart. A research weather station installed by californians j. Paul Getty conservation Institute on the sphinxes Rump and on a Cliff above it May provide the information to decide How to Stem the decay. The Sphinx was carved from natural Rock augmented by layers of hard and soft stones. It is a crouching lion with a human face that is believed to be that of Chiph run a pharaoh who died in 2494 . Gunmen slay candidate 5 others in restaurant raid Mexico City up hooded gunmen burst into a restaurant in Eastern Mexico and killed a local politician two of his relatives and three other people police said saturday. Twenty people were wounded. Police said at least four men armed with High powered weapons entered the restaurant Friday evening in Yanga a town located 130 Miles East of Mexico City in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. The attackers killed Sixto Diaz Perez 43, head of the municipal Branch of the ruling revolutionary institutional party and a candidate for mayor in upcoming elections. They also killed Diazo a brother Union Leader Rafael Diaz Perez Diazo a Nephew Cesar Diaz Hernandez 22 and three other people. Of the 20 other people wounded six were Hurt seriously police said. However three of those seriously wounded were suspected of taking part in the attack and being held under police guard police said. Rafael Diaz Perez was head of the local sugar cutters Union and a candidate for the leadership of the National Campesino a federation an organization affiliated with the ruling party. He was playing dominoes in a bar across the Street when the shooting broke out. Rafael Diaz Perez was gunned Down when he Drew a pistol and ran across the Street to defend his brother said Arturo Arma a reporter with Al dicta men newspaper in the state capital of Jalapa. . Official unsure Iraq list Complete Baghdad Iraq apr Iraq has Given a . Inspection team a list of nuclear materials imported from Europe but the chief inspector said saturday that he was Uncertain whether a full disclosure was made. David Kay Leader of the 20-member team which left Baghdad on saturday after a two week inspection said that the iraqi regime claimed its list was Complete. A but i am not sure the list came from Europe or that it was Complete a Kay said. A we Are still not sure that we have a Complete understanding and we Are still discovering further  Iraq has been ordered to submit to . Inspections under terms of a cease fire agreement ending the persian Gulf War. The cease fire ordered the destruction of iraqis nuclear chemical and biological weapons. Kay steam from the International atomic Energy Agency in Vienna Austria is one of several teams that have conducted the inspections. A we still have some gaps and despite the iraqis cooperation we still have some information that we requested and we have not received yet a he said before leaving. Another . Team is expected to arrive in Iraq in three or four weeks. Kay did not specify however that missions scope. Kay said Friday that it was Clear iraqis program for enriching uranium the focus of his visit was not for peaceful purposes. World grenade in Philippines kills two wounds 20 from wire reports Zamboanga Philippines a a grenade exploded late saturday during the Farewell performance of a visiting Christian missionary group killing two foreigners and wounding 20 other people officials said. Police said the motive for the attack was unknown. But local government sources said it May have been in retaliation for anti islamic remarks allegedly made by one of the missionaries during a visit Friday to a University with a Large Muslim student population. The 250 missionaries who come from 34 countries arrived july 31 from Hong Kong to sell religious books and tracts and were to sail sunday for Malaysia. Police identified the dead As a Karen Goldsworthy 19, of new zealand. A Maaza Sofia Siegfrid son 19, a swedish National bom in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. The injured included filipinos and foreigners from Switzerland Canada the United states Ireland Sweden Vietnam the Sudan Germany and Papua new  disperse protesters Marseille France a police fired tear Gas sunday to break up protesters who blocked train tracks in several locations immobilizing 40 trains and leaving 20,000 passengers stranded. The demonstrators were protesting plans to Lay track for High Speed trains through wine producing regions of Provence a Scenic area of Southern France. Hundreds of protesters blocked train tracks at Arles Senas Miramar Sorgues and elsewhere to demand that an Independent commission review the French National railways  Bush lobbies in China Taipei Taiwan a Jeb Bush second son of president Bush made an unpublicized trip to Taiwan Over the weekend to lobby for a . Firm seeking a government contract Here. The Bush trip which received scant attention by the local Media was confirmed sunday by Taiwan lawmaker Kao Tzu min. The younger Bush was in Taiwan to assist my a . Pump manufacturer compete for a contract to equip a sewage treatment Plant As part of a six year $300 billion government infrastructural development plan. Bush who left sunday described the visit As a private business trip and evaded reporters questions on whether he carried any messages from the president to taiwanese  found in Depths Moscow a researchers in a special submarine have plunged More than a mile Down to the deepest oldest Point of siberians Lake Baikal and found crayfish. Soviet researchers Dove 5,370 feet in a deep water vehicle called Pisces and rummaged along the Bottom in the murky near freezing water before returning to the surface the government newspaper Izvestia reported. A the discovery of ancient pebbles embedded in the crystallized foundation led researchers to believe they were in the oldest part of the Lake a Izvestia reported. Scientists estimate the lakes age at 25 million  Bible could be answer to pravda s prayers by Kathy Lally the Baltimore Sun Moscow a after More than 70 years of opposition pravda the giant and very official communist party publishing House has decided to give the masses their opiate. It plans to print the Bible. All in the name of capitalism of course. A business a explained Mikhail m. Troschine pravda a Deputy director a is  right now business is bad. The party a major newspaper pravda dropped in circulation last year from 10 million to 5 million. Magazines such As party life and political self education also have stumbled. With the Cost of paper rising daily pravda knew it needed a Best seller. Providentially the patriarch of the russian orthodox Church Alexis ii told pravda that he was interested in placing an order for bibles. A demand for the Bible is very great Stroschin said thursday. He acknowledged that the desire for the Bible might always have been there a but for some political purposes it Wasny to  one of the political purposes just might have involved soviet founder Vladimir i. Lenin who called religion a a deception a fraud which clogs the brains of the workers and peasants in the interest of the landlords and  philosopher Karl Marx had called it the opiate of the masses. Today the communists Are the landlords and Are trying mightily to catch on to capitalism. The printing House wants to keep its 2 billion Ruble a year Empire intact. The Bible could be an answer from on High. A we could do 5 to 10 million and it would sell easily Stroschin said. A the demand is really   
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