European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 19, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9new Battles blast yugoslav truce Belgrade Yugoslavia apr crop f Tian units blew up a key Bridge saturday and Federal forces pounded croatian positions in fighting that shattered a 10-Day-old cease fire. Air strikes and deployment of troops to Okutani marked the military a most direct intervention in Croatia since the truce took effect aug. 7. Fighting before the truce had claimed More than 200 lives. The Federal presidency called an urgent session saturday to discuss the escalating fighting in Croatia which declared Independence june 25 along with neighbouring Slovenia. Ethnic serb militiamen opposed world to secession attacked croatian forces last month. The army claims to be trying to keep the two sides apart. But Croatia accuses the Federal troops of siding with the ethnic serbs comprising almost 600,000 of the republics nearly 5 million people. The presidency demanded an immediate end to the fighting. A the cease fire must be strictly respected guarantees regarding the separation of forces Given by All sides should be fulfilled said a statement from the presidency carried by the yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug. A yugoslav cease fire monitoring team left Belgrade on saturday for Eastern Croatia. Other groups were to leave sunday Tan Jug quoted Dragan Musulin Deputy head of the presidency a information service assaying. By saturday afternoon 23 armoured Chi cles and 11 army trucks had entered Okutani which was nearly deserted after the fighting began anew thursday Tan Jug said. Croatian television showed tanks moving Down the Road to out Irani. The town mostly under the control of ethnic serbs could i not be reached by Telephone. At least two croatian soldiers were reported killed and nine wounded. Tan Jug reported 25 people were injured or missing. Fighting was reportedly to be continuing after the army arrived. Tan Jug quoted an ambulance Driver As saying Street fighting pitted serb militias against croatian police snipers and an armoured car fitted with a machine gun. In Stara Gradiska croatian forces blew up a by idec Over the Sava River to halt an army column trying to approach from the South Zagreb television reported. The River forms Croatia a Boundary with the bosnian  returned to sea amid cheers in Australia from wire reports Brisbane Australia a hundreds of volunteers and onlookers cheered saturday when rescuers dragged a Young whale beached on australians Eastern coast Back to sea. The 30-foot Humpback whale was stranded Friday. Marine authorities state emergency service workers police and residents spent the night planning its return to sea. Volunteers poured water on the whale to keep it Cool. J an excavator was called in saturday morning to dig a Trench to ease the whales passage at High tide and a nearby sea world amusement Park sent a boat for the towing. Rescuers built a special harness and struggled to fit it around the whale then towed it Back out into the Coral  allows actor s trip Jerusalem a a palestinian actor initially barred from touring Europe and North America with a play he wrote about his detention in an israeli prison Camp has received permission to travel his attorney said sunday. Israeli authorities had first refused a travel permit for Nidal Khatib an actor from the West Bank Village of Dura to travel with the company of his play Ansar named after the prison Camp. Khatib was told he would Only be granted permission if he agreed not to return to Israel for three years. But his israeli attorney Leah Tsemel said military authorities compromised and allowed Khatib to leave the country provided he does not return for one year. After the autumn tour the 27-year-old actor plans to study drama in  to get Asylum Beirut Lebanon a the lebanese government has issued a general amnesty on War crimes that would Clear the Way for Gen. Michel Aoun the Christian army commander who ended a costly two year Mutiny last october to take up political Asylum in France. Aoun and two of his close aides have taken Refuge at the French embassy in Beirut for the last 10 months avoiding the risk of prosecution on charges of embezzling $35 million in Public funds Between 1988 and 1990. The amnesty. Decision was reached saturday during a Stormy meeting of the Cabinet of president Elias hrawi.2 charged in escape plot Mexico City a a police sergeant and a jail Warden in the Southern state of Oaxaca were arrested saturday on charges of helping dozens of inmates escape the attorney general s office said. The office said Teodulo Gabriel Alarcon the Warden of the text spec municipal jail and City policeman Delfino g. Mendoza Bautista were ordered to stand trial in Federal court on charges of criminal conspiracy and interfering with the administration of Justice. A total of 34 inmates tunnelled their Way out of the jail aug. 5. Four were recaptured a few Days and they incriminated the two officials. They told authorities that their ringleader paid Alarcon $4,000, which Mendoza carried the ignore the Tunnel they were digging. Bodies of 2 divers recovered bringing Barge death toll to 15 Hong Kong apr the two latest bodies recovered after a typhoon Sank an Oil Barge were divers who became trapped in the vessels diving Bell during the Accident that killed at least 15 people officials said sunday. Two planes and 10 police patrol boats continued searching Hong Kong a coastal Waters sunday for seven other crewmen who Are missing. The Singapore owned Derrick Barge 29, carrying 195 workers on an Oil exploration project Sank 65 Miles East of Hong Kong on thursday when it was battered by typhoon Fred. A it is unrealistic to expect any survivors to be found at this stage but no one shall be happier than me to be proved wrong a said Trevor c. Berry spokesman for the Hong Kong Marine department. He said the search was being concentrated closer to Hong Kong because bodies of the missing May have been washed ashore by Strong winds and rough seas. Berry said 173 people including 11 americans were rescued. Fifteen others including Barge superintendent Billy Young of Weatherford Texas were confirmed dead. The body of diver John Lyons a new Sealander was Israel tests rocket built to intercept incoming missiles Jerusalem apr Israel successfully tested Over the weekend a ship launched missile designed to intercept incoming enemy rockets Israel aircraft industries announced sunday. The test was the first at sea for the a bar aka missile developed for the israeli Navy the Iai statement said. Israel also is developing a ground launched anti missile missile called the Arrow. Development efforts were stepped up after the persian Gulf War when  Patriot missiles were rushed to Israel to intercept iraqi scud missiles. The Barak hebrew Foi lightning can be installed on ships ranging from fast missile Craft to Large vessels Iai said. The missile is 2.4 Yards Long and can carry a warhead weighing 60 pounds with an effective Range of 500 Yards to 7.5 Miles Israel radio said. The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported the missiles Speed As Mach 2, or 770 Yards per second. Navy sources said the Barak would have Good Export prospects. Recovered by a Rescue ship thursday night. The body was identified saturday when the Rescue ship returned to Hong Kong. The body of the other diver Terry Dennison of England was recovered saturday when it was spotted 20 Miles cast of Hong Kong. George Stapleton a representative of Mcdermott South East Asia pet Ltd. Of Singapore theorized that the door of a decompression chamber that served As a diving Bell burst open it could have burst when the pressure suddenly changed As the chamber plunged toward the sea bed after the Barge capsized Stapleton said. A the men probably drowned and did not die of asphyxiation a he said. A a that a our Best  the four divers were undergoing decompression in the chamber after working on newly Laid Oil and Gas pipes. Officials said they were two Days into a four Day ascent from the sea bed when the typhoon struck. Eleven of the 15 bodies recovered have been identified. The victims also included five malaysians and one each from Mainland China the Philippines and Singapore. Mcdermott owns the 1,500-ton Barge. A this is an official photo of israelis a bar aka ship launched rocket designed to intercept enemy missiles. Vietnam says visits by former citizens grow Bangkok Thailand up More vietnamese who fled their Homeland Are returning Home for visits the official Vietnam news Agency reported. A in the first half of this year some 30,000 overseas vietnamese from All Over the world made visits to their native country a the Agency reported in a dispatch dated saturday. It said 20,000 of the visitors were from Australia representing 20 percent of the vietnamese Community there. In the same period overseas vietnamese sent More than $25 million to their relatives. A Many overseas vietnamese Are cooperating with foreign countries or acting As agents in investing in the country a it said. The report said 17 More companies were set up in Vietnam by vietnamese living overseas. About 85 vietnamese intellectuals have registered for a  program meant to Transfer knowledge Back to their Homeland it said. Other overseas vietnamese have donated Money to help victims of recent floods. The vietnamese government has welcomed overseas vietnamese even those who fled illegally to return for several years