European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b. The stars and stripes monday August 19, 1991italy returns last refugees to Albania from wire reports Rome a Italy on sunday sent the last of about 500 albanian army deserters Back to their Homeland completing the forced repatriation of More than 3,000 Asylum seek is the Interior ministry said. On saturday night the ministry said it had received guarantees from the albanian government that the deserters be arrested or tried. It said Albania had asked Italy to return the deserters because it feared thai allowing them to stay would set off a wave of desertion in the armed forces. A the italian government asked for and received precise formal guarantees that the soldiers officers included will be. Returned to their units a an Interior ministry statement said. But the italian news Agency Ansa on sunday quoted an albanian military police official As saying a these men will be tried for desertion under International the nine flights to Send Back the deserters who were accompanied by italian police were the last part of an operation that began before Dawn saturday when More than 2,000 Asylum seekers were roused from their sleep by police and hustled off to airports for flights Back to their Homeland Europe a poorest nation. Interior minister Vinceno Scotti said 3,315 albanians were sent Back Oyer the weekend Ansa said reporting from an Alpine resort town where he briefed vacationing president Francesco Corsiga. Those whisked Back to the tiny impoverished nation across the Adriatic from Italy were the bulk of those remaining from a wave of 18,000 refugees who sailed to troops who fled to Italy walk by groups of fellow albanian soldiers after being returned to Tirana on sunday. Italian shores earlier this month. Thousands of others had agreed to go Back on their own a few Days earlier when they realized the italian government was Adamant about sending Back economic refugees. Apparently some of those sent Back Over the weekend had arrived in Italy months ago in earlier Waves and had been rejected for Asylum. Rome insists that with the Start of the democratic process in Albania this Spring few would be eligible for political Asylum. It also says economic Aid to Tirana is the Only Way to solve the refugee problem. Foreign minister Gianni de Michel is was scheduled to make his latest trip to the albanian capital today to work out details of an Aid package. The pre Dawn Roundup was criticized in the italian press sunday with Many articles contending that the remaining refugees were led to believe their cases would be seriously considered for Asylum. A a government that to avoid the worst assumes a commitment toward 2,000 poor people indicating a procedure for Asylum consideration knowing All along a As minister Scotti declared yesterday saturday a that they were Selling those poor souts a giant lie is heading toward a dramatic drop in credibility a the Rome daily la Republica said in an editorial. Officials said 154 albanians including 30 children remained in Italy. The Interior ministry said that most Are in hospitals. 1 Neo nazis attack shelters for refugees Bonn Germany up a Neo nazis ransacked and set ablaze several refugee shelters in Eastern Germany while several Hundred Neo fascists clashed with leftist groups saturday night in Western Germany police said sunday. Police said they arrested 29 people mostly youths in connection with four attacks against the Homes for people seeking Asylum. Police arrested six in the City of zittau after 20 to 30 skinheads smashed win Dows and Spray painted swastikas and such slogans As a foreigners out on the Walls of a shelter for romanian refugees officials said. In the City of Leisnig one person was injured when Neo nazis smashed windows with Molotov cocktails setting ablaze a shelter for people seeking political Asylum police said. Police arrested three people in another Eastern town who allegedly set fire to a Home for political refugees. Police also detained about 20 people suspected of ransacking a restaurant and a nightclub in Chemnitz. In Western Germany police arrested 150 people after several Hundred Neo nazis clashed with about 300 leftists near the bavarian City of Bayreuth. A police spokesman said about 1,500 Neo nazis had gathered to protest a ban of their planned commemoration of the fourth anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess hitlers Deputy fihrer. The Neo nazis marched through town while about 2,500 anti fascist demonstrators gathered outside Bayreuth the police spokesman said. He said police kept the hostile groups part until they left town later at night and ran into one another at filling stations and rest stops. Battles broke out at several locations and one of the highways had to be closed off for 15 minutes he said. N. Korea says s. Korea seeks confrontation and War Toton to l. Tokyo apr North Korea accused South Korea on sunday of building military positions in the demilitarized zone Between the rival states and of seeking a Only confrontation and the communist North regularly accuses the capitalist South of various provocations but such allegations have increased recently. In the past week the two sides have been feuding Over rival plans for rallies to promote korean reunification. They called off various bilateral talks while still planning to go ahead with their highest level talks a meetings Between their premiers scheduled for aug. 27-30. The South and its allies expressing fears that the North was close to developing nuclear weapons also have been pressing the North to accept International inspection of its nuclear facilities. A the North a official korean Central news Agency contended sunday that with . Encouragement the South koreans a Are getting frenzied in the moves for provocation of a new War pushing ahead with the Large scale construction of various attack positions at More than 30 places in the demilitarized the report monitored in Tokyo said that on Friday and saturday South Korea sent 500 to 1,000 workers into the Doz a scentral sector to work on a Large scale fortification project. A this clearly shows that the South korean puppets seek Only confrontation and War remaining indifferent to the peaceful reunification of the country a it said. The Agency also accused South korean troops of firing automatic rifles in the Doz on Friday but did not say where the alleged firing was directed. On saturday it added South korean troops moved an armoured car into the Doz a in readiness for an attack polygamy called Way to help soviets form Market Economy Moscow a a communist party official in the Central asian Republic of Kazakhstan has suggested that a return to polygamy would help smooth the country a Rocky transition to a Market Economy a newspaper reported saturday. At a round table meeting with representatives of local social organizations the chairman of the Prio Vernyi regional party committee noted an increase of single women in the country the daily Rab Ochaya Tribuna workers Tribune said. She said that polygamous marriages would help single women to support themselves and their children in the face of rising prices and a egotistical Market conditions Quot the paper said. Polygamy used to be common in Kazakhstan which has a Large Muslim population. Members of the round table discussion failed to reach a decision. 5 people killed in blast fires on ship off Northern Lebanon Beirut Lebanon up a a blast aboard a Tanker ship off Northern Leb anon ignited roaring fires sunday that killed five people and severely burned at least 10 others according to a radio station and medical sources. The voice of the nation radio station quoting witnesses in Tripoli said gasoline was being unloaded from the unidentified ship about two Miles off the City Sharbor when the deafening blast occurred. A ambulances with wailing sirens raced to the Beach As casualties were being brought from the stricken ship in Small boats a the radio said. It was not immediately known what triggered the explosion. Medical sources in the City reached by Telephone said that at least five people were killed and that 10 others had suffered critical Burns or injuries. Tripoli is a port 42 Miles North of Beirut. A we have just received two people from the ship with critical Burns a said a a rce at a islamic Hospital in Tripoli. Quot they have asian
