European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes sunday August 18, 1991 Fifita glance Eric Schall 14, of Ramstein Junior High school has that sporty Back to school look. See sunday Magazine. Lost in jail almost 100 prisoners have languished in the Baltimore City jail for up to a year with no fixed trial dates and state investigators say they Are seeking evidence of other prisoner rights being violated. A Page 4 aids conference moved Harvard claims that the . Immigration policy has forced a scheduled aids conference next year to be held overseas rather than in the United states. A Page 5 Bush stands Pat president Bush rejects pleas from about 100 jobless people who demonstrate outside his Seaside estate in Maine on Friday saying he would withhold funding for a $5.3 billion Extension of unemployment benefits. A Page 6 4 sailors missing the Navy has declared four sailors missing at sea after their helicopter went Down during routine re supplying of the Carrier Nimitz s Battle group. A Page 7 Poison threat the Colgate palmolive co. Was operating a 24-hour hot line saturday in Australia to handle thousands of Calls from concerned customers following an extortionists threat to Poison its products. A Page 8 Economy looking up robust exports helped trim the . Merchandise Trade deficit in june to $4 billion the lowest monthly level in eight years. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. .13 letters. .12 Money matters. 15-17 sports. 18-24 weather. .11 Pope sends Clear message of moral support to pecs Hungary apr Pope John Paul ii told Church leaders and pilgrims from the breakaway yugoslav Republic of Croatia on saturday that he supported their a legitimate aspirations and hoped to visit the Republic soon. The Pope spoke at an open air mass in this southwestern hungarian City near the croatian Border on the second Day of his visit. The roman Catholic Cardinal of Croatia Franjo Kuharic five croatian Bishops and several Hundred croatian pilgrims attended. In a last minute addition to his homily John Paul said a once again i assure you i am close to your legitimate aspirations renewing my appeals to the International Community so that they help you in this difficult hour of your history. A i am hopeful to be Able one Day in the near future to visit  the Vatican has steadfastly supported negotiated solutions to the yugoslav conflict 1 that would respect self determination for both croatians and slovenes. Both republics Are predominantly roman Catholic. Both republics issued declarations of Independence on june 25, and bloody fighting followed. The yugoslav army has agreed to pull out of Slovenia which has been peaceful for More than a month. But clashes continue in Croatia be tween ethnic serb militiamen and croatian forces. A cease fire was proclaimed last week but scattered fighting has continued. The Popes words were a Clear message of moral support for the croatian people. It was also the first time he expressed a desire to visit Croatia. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said the Pope had planned Only a Brief greeting but expanded his remarks after talking with the croatian Church leaders. Hungary has emerged As a largely secular country after 40 years of communist Rule. In the Southern diocese of pics there Are Only 137 priests Down from 480 who filled parishes before world War ii. Italy rounds up albanians at Dawn then flies them Back to Homeland Rome apr hundreds of albanian Asylum seekers were rounded up before Dawn saturday by police and were being flown Back to their impoverished Homeland news reports said about 10 Days after Many of them sailed illegally to Italy. About 18,000 albanians arrived in Italy earlier this month the latest wave of immigrant hopefuls this year. After a Chilly Welcome most had agreed to return Home and went Back in the past few Days. But about 1,000 of them refused to go and Only three Days earlier Interior minister Vincenzo Scotti had said they could Stajn Italy temporarily while their cases were examined to see if they qualified for political Asylum. In the Milan area Quot some 500 albanians were hustled out of hotels about 5 . And put aboard air Force c-130 planes for. The flight across the Adriatic sea the italian state television Rai reported. A police dispatcher in Milan told the associated press that 116 albanians from that City alone were sent South to Bari for transport to Albania after they had a Chance to present their requests for political Asylum which were apparently denied. About 10 were allowed to stay he said. The Interior ministry press office said it had no information on the Roundup. Trying to discourage albanians from coming to Italy Rome had warned for months that economic refugees would be sent Back and that Only political refugees or those who quickly found jobs would be allowed to stay. In View of the easing of albanians communist hard line few were expected to qualify As political refugees. In Turin another Northern City refugees were roused at 4 . And transported in military trucks to the Airport where they were put aboard an a italia civilian Jet for Albania Rai said. Similar mass roundups were carried out in Genoa Naples Bari Tuscany and towns in Central Mountain regions news reports said. Kills from Page 1 looked like a Young Girt. Its a terrible scene in there terrible a Kelly said. A there was a chinese Man lying on the ground with a Bullet in his stomach a said Constable George Koh Ahila. A blood was everywhere. People were running frantically around. It was total  Kelly said the dead included four women and three men including the assailant. One shopper told australian associated press she was having lunch across the mall from the Coffee shop at the time of the attack. A it sounded like people were arguing very loud a she said. A so i stuck my head out and 1 saw these people looking All of a sudden. They were jumping Over the rails. A waitresses and people were running away. All of a sudden i hear people scream and the bang. I grabbed my two sons and my Mother in Law a said the witness who was not identified. Panicked shoppers fled As the shooting began. One woman shopping in a discount grocery said she thought the gunman was coming straight for her. A i grabbed a lady s baby and we jumped Over the railings a said Carolyn Healey 38. A we were running through Here but we could still hear the shooting As if he was coming after  witnesses described a scene of carnage and confusion. A there were bodies everywhere a said one unidentified teen Ager interviewed by a television network. Said another a the was running past shooting at anyone he could  earlier a police spokesman had said the gunman began shooting from the upper level of a parking garage but said the confusion had made it difficult initially to piece together events. The mall is filled with Small restaurants and boutiques. The bodies remained in the shopping Center for hours after the assault As the coroners office and police investigators sought to piece together the sequence of events. The incident was the worst mass slaying in Australia since december 1987, when Frank Vitkovic shot dead eight people in a downtown Melbourne building and plunged to his death from the 11th floor. Hostage from Page 1 to continue the talks. A a in a glad to hear it. It is something which just proves that the move of the Secretary general is beginning to Bear fruit a Uri Lubrani israelis envoy in the hostage negotiations said of those remarks. The comments underscored the complexity of efforts to arrange the release of the Western hostages a including five americans a and resolve the cases of seven missing israeli soldiers in Exchange for the Freedom of nearly 400 Arab prisoners in Israel and South Lebanon. On saturday the weekly Magazine Ash Shiraz reported that iranian president Hashemi a Sfanjani wants the Western hostages released to Patch up relations with the West. The Magazine which closely follows iranian affairs said the Reform minded a Sfanjani seeks to end its International isolation and concentrate on building a modern state based on Western technology. But some iranian hard liners still oppose any concessions to the United states it reported. Relatives of the Arab prisoners staged a sit in Friday in Beirut and sent an Appeal to the United nations saying their loved ones deserve Freedom just As much As the missing westerners As Israel came under growing pressure to release at least some prisoners Lebanon Stop shiite Muslim cleric Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah expressed scepticism Friday about . Efforts to pressure Israel. A we believe that the americans will not pressure Israel to release the detainees it holds a Fadlallah said. He said the . Government a Only wants the hostage Issue to be resolved according to its own terms a but that the Fate of Arab prisoners must also be resolved. Iranian ambassador Hussein Mousavi an also suggested Friday that without German a a flexibility on the release of the Hama Dis two German hostages May not be freed even if a Swap for the other Western captives is worked out. A the Hamadi family and the German hostages represent in our eyes an additional and special concern a said Mousa Vian Mohammed Hamadi was convicted in 1989 of the murder of a . Sailor during the june 1985 hijacking of a Twa Airliner. His brother was jailed for kidnapping two germans