European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes monday August 19, 1991italy returns last refugees to Albania Bari Italy up a Italy a Surprise repatriation of the final group of 3,000 albanian refugees concluded sunday after 24 hours of almost non Stop flights. The final plane containing 174 albanian soldiers left Bari for the albanian capital of Tirana shortly before noon the Interior ministry said. Officials said they had hesitated to Send Back a group of about 700 albanian soldiers fearing that they might be mistreated once they landed on albanian soil. But the Interior ministry said that Italy had received guarantees from Tirana that the military deserters would not be subject to special treatment or persecution. A the italian government asked for and received precise formal guarantees that the soldiers officers included will not be arrested or brought to trial but 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 news Agency said that soldiers who arrived earlier sunday had been loaded onto military trucks and taken away from the Airport to unknown destinations. Most of the soldiers had been housed in and around the Bari area. They were flown Home beginning late saturday officials said. Police guard a group of illegal immigrants saturday As they Board a plane returning them to Albania. More than 20,000 albanians flooded the Southern port of Bari on aug. 8. After escaping from Europe a poorest nation aboard overcrowded ships. Around 17500 had been returned via ship or plane by wednesday officials said. The rest were dispersed throughout Italy for what they had been told were checks of their possible political refugee status. The coordinated repatriation of the refugees began Early saturday As around 3,000 police a approximately one for each refugee a moved in at Dawn to hotels and pensions temporarily housing the albanians. The refugees were taken to 11 airports up and Down the Peninsula and loaded aboard civilian and military planes for the one hour flight to Tirana. Officials said 154 albanians including 30 children remained in Italy. The Interior ministry said that most Are ill in hospitals. Interior minister Vicenzo Scotti signalling that the crisis could be considered officially Over flew North to the Dolomite Mountain resort of Cortina do am Pezzo on sunday to report on the operation to vacationing prime minister Guilio andreotti.200 clash after Hiess anniversary rally Erlanger Germany apr two people were arrested and several injured m a confrontation involving 200 right and left Wing radicals on the fourth anniversary of the death of nazi Leader Rudolf Hess police said sunday. About 4,000 protesters a Neo nazis and left wingers opposed to them a marched in Bayreuth and Wun Siedel where Hess is buried on saturdays fourth anniversary. Nearly 150 people were detained before the rallies began accused of carrying homemade weapons or tear Gas police said. But the marches were largely peaceful. However several buses transporting the protesters a both right and left wingers stopped saturday night at a Highway rest area near Erlanger Southwest of Bayreuth. Police said the Neo nazis attacked first with As Many As 200 people from 10 buses ultimately becoming involved. An unknown number of protesters were injured by flying rocks and Highway flares police said. A stretch of the autobahn Between Niernberg and Frankfurt had to be closed for 10 minutes they said. Most of the protesters hurried Back to their buses which left As police arrived. Two men were arrested police said. Earlier in the Day about 1,500 Neo nazis marched through Bayreuth shouting a foreigners out and a Rudolf Hess a Martyr for Germany a after their planned commemoration at Hess grave in Wun Siedel was banned. Shortly before about 2,500 left Wing protesters demonstrated against the planned rightist rally. Police said sunday that 148 protesters had been detained in Bayreuth 25 Miles from Wun Siedel for carrying illegal weapons. Hess convicted during the Niernberg War crimes trials died after 46 years in Spandau prison in Berlin. Officials said the 93-year-old Hess hanged . Korea says s. Korea seeks confrontation and War 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. 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. 1 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 a 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. 3 suspected Basque separatists killed in shootout with guard san Sebastian Spain a three suspected Basque separatists were killed saturday in a shootout with members of the paramilitary civil guard who stormed their hideout in this Northern Basque City. Also saturday a bomb believed to have been rigged by Basque separatists exploded on a major railway route causing an electricity Pylon to fall across the track a freight train collided with the Pylon soon after the explosion but no one was injured. Civil guard head Luis Roldan told a news conference that the three people killed in the shootout were members of the Monosti commando unit of the Basque separatist group Eta. He said the arrest earlier saturday of 10 people associated with the Eta led to the discovery of the apartment hideout in a san Sebastian neighbourhood. He said civil guards issued five separate Calls to the people holed up in the apartment to throw out their weapons and give themselves up. He said each Call was answered with gunfire
