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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 23, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 poll finds germans want new Bonn Germany apr a popular Magazine said wednesday that a poll it commissioned shows nearly 60 percent of those questioned would like a German King again. The Glossy Munich based Magazine Bunte said a research firm had asked 2,128 germans what they thought about the return of a monarchy after last weekends much publicized reburial of prussian Monarch Frederick the great and his father. According to the Magazine 59.9 percent said they would rather have a King than a a a Mere president As head of the reunited German state. No margin of error was Given. Prussian Royalty has not had a throne since 1918. Prussia itself has not existed since the victorious world War ii allies condemning its militarism abolished it As a German state in 1947. Officials have been worried about a Rise in right Wing extremism and nationalism since German unification. However sentiment in Germany a country painfully aware of its history has been strongly against a return to the past. That was evidenced by the loud opposition to and political angst caused by the sem official reburial of the remains of Frederick the great and Frederick Wilhelm  Mission of mercy Relief workers Load food and other supplies aboard a soviet transport aircraft at an Airport in Cape town South Africa on wednesday morning. The transport later departed on a mercy Mission to Antarctica to res world14 bus passengers killed by mine in Nicaragua from wire reports Managua Nicaragua a an anti tank mine exploded under a bus in Northern Nicaragua killing 14 passengers and wounding several others the Interior ministry said. The explosion Early wednesday occurred on a Highway in Jino Tega province 140 Miles North of the capital. At least seven of the 14 killed were reared former Contra rebels known As re contras the ministry said. The reared rebels accuse the government of failing to keep its pledge to provide former contras with economic Aid after they Laid Down their arms last year. Authorities had not determined whether the mine had been planted during Nicaragua s civil conflict when Contra rebels were fighting to overthrow the previous sandinista  rocks India new Delhi India an earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale rattled the far northeastern state of megh Alaya on thursday morning but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage the press Trust of India news Agency  joblessness up Prague Czechoslovakia a unemployment in Czechoslovakia increased to 3.8 percent at the end of june leaving 300,800 jobless a jump of 223.8 percent from a year earlier the Federal statistical office said wednesday. The report carried by the official ctr news Agency said nearly 6.73 million people were employed on june 30. Cue 169 stranded members of a russian Polar research team. They have been trapped for about a month aboard the soviet Relief vessel Mikhail Slomov which is caught in ice clogged . Dependents to Start returning to philippine base Manila Philippines up a the first group of american military family members who fled to the United states after mount Pinatubo erupted is scheduled to return to the Philippines next week the Navy said thursday. A statement from Subic Bay naval facilities said 400 dependents arc expected to arrive thursday at the facility 60 Miles Northwest of Manila on the first flight from the United states. Navy officials have said some 3,500 military family members arc expected to return to Subic by mid september. Eruptions at mount Pinatubo which began june 9, wrought heavy damage on Subic a Navy repair and logistics Center and Clark a forcing the evacuation of 17,700 dependents. Subic now staffed by 5,600 troops has been restored to Normal operations while Clark has been closed. . And philippine negotiators agreed last month to extend the lease on Subic for 10 years after a 1947 treaty governing its tenure expires sept. 16. Clark however would be turned Over to the philippine government within a year. The agreement which requires ratification by the philippine Senate faces stiff opposition from Many senators who say the duration is too Long and the compensation of $203 million annually is too Low. . Team goes to Cambodia for talks on status of 83 mias from wire reports Bangkok Thailand a . Military experts flew to Cambodia on thursday to discuss the status of 83 americans missing in action from the War in Indochina the . Embassy said. The team led by army col. William h. Jordan the main adviser to the defense Secretary on Mia issues flew to phenom penh Cambodia from Hanoi Vietnam where they had just completed Mia talks with vietnamese officials the embassy said. Of the 83 americans unaccounted for in Cambodia some Are civilians the statement said without elaborating. The two Days of talks scheduled to begin monday in phenom penh would be the second on the prisoner of War missing in action Issue and reflect increasing cooperation by the cambodian Side. The previous meeting with the communist authorities was in september 1990. Last month . Personnel made the first investigation Ever into alleged sightings in Cambodia of missing americans. They concluded that some photographs that purportedly showed american prisoners were fraudulent. Meanwhile sen. John f. Kerry d-mass., said thursday in phenom pen that prime minister Hun sen has pledged to help resolve the fates of the missing americans. A a Hun has taken Steps in the past few Days and agreed to pursue the things i asked him to a said Kerry chairman of the new Senate select committee on mias. A i am very positive about the governments willingness to put this Issue to  Swiss arrest suspect in iranian s death Geneva apr Swiss police said wednesday that they arrested a suspect in the killing of former iranian prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar and stepped up the Hunt for an alleged accomplice in the aug. 6 assassination. Geneva police chief Laurent Walpen said a routine patrol spotted the suspect Ali Rad Vakili wandering on a Lake Geneva Beach shortly before Dawn. Walpen said he was one of the three iranians sought by French police after Bakhtiar was killed at his Home outside Paris. He said investigators determined that a second suspect Mohammed Yazadi parted company with Vakili before they both crossed the Border illegally into Switzerland. Both surfaced separately in Geneva where they spent two nights at different hotels before vanishing again aug. 15, according to Walpen. Vakili had since been wandering from place to place sleeping in boats anchored at marinas around Geneva. But Walpen said the iranian had a More Money on him than a vagrant would  Swiss authorities said they expect a French extradition request to be filed shortly. Walpen said a nationwide manhunt continued in Switzerland including the search for an Iran air jetliner before it took off from Geneva for Tehran Iran late tuesday  
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