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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, September 8, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes sunday september 8, 1991 croatian women weep during the funerals held in Osueke Yugoslavia on Friday for seven soldiers lulled in bile. Dec foreign ministers attempt to forge Yugoslavia peace plan the Hague Netherlands up1 a european Community foreign ministers and parties to the civil War in Yugoslavia began meeting saturday in a last ditch Effort to achieve peace. Ministers of the 12 dec countries the entire collective yugoslavian presidency and representatives of All six yugoslavian republics met in Hollands Palace of peace under the chairmanship of former nato Secretary general lord Carrington amid continued fighting in Croatia. Ministers arriving in the Hague cautioned against optimism for chances of Success for the dec peace initiative. On thursday Carrington and several dec foreign ministers questioned the use of holding the conference while fighting continued but decided Friday to go ahead. A this is a last Chance peace conference. We will see if the Republican leaders Are in Good Faith a said Luxembourg foreign minister Jacques Poos adding saturday s session would be an initial. Yugoslavian Federal president Stipe Mesic said late Friday on arrival he was a not optimistic that the dec mediation would bring peace to Yugoslavia or a solution to its problems of ethnic Independence. But dutch foreign minister Hans Van Der Broek said he was hopeful the conference could bring about a Lull in the fighting. Serbian foreign minister Vladimir Jovanovic said in Ign Ith i an interview with Britain a Independent television on Friday that the serbian delegation a would do its bests to help the conference but he indicated any settlement was unlikely from saturday s talks. As the ministers began their meeting saturday dutch police were trying to control a potentially explosive situation As thousands of serb and croatian demonstrators threatened to face off against each other. A this is a very worrying situation indeed a said a police spokesman. He said Early saturday that about 5,000 pro croatian demonstrators blockaded the Palace of peace calling for an end to the fighting in Yugoslavia and Independence for the croatian Republic. But the blockade was broken when police moved the demonstration to Malie Field outside the Center of the Hague where demonstrations normally take place in the dutch seat of government. By mid morning however the croatian demonstration had grown to 10,000 people and a pro serbian demonstration had begun outside the Palace of peace. Conoho plane wreckage combed Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a searchers on saturday began sifting through the wreckage of an executive Jet carrying . And British Oil executives and their spouses. No survivors were found among the 12 people aboard. A regrettably none of the information indicates the likelihood of survivors and i have contacted this to the families. Realistically and with profound sadness we must prepare for the worst Quot said Continental Oil co. President Constantine s. Nicandros whose company officials and spouses were in the plane. The Jet owned by Conoho inc. Of Houston disappeared from radar screens wednesday afternoon As it prepared to land in Kota Kinabalu on the Island of Borneo for refuelling on its Way from Tokyo to Jakarta Indonesia. After a three Day search the wreckage was found 30 Miles South of Kota Kinabalu Airport or about 910 Miles East of Kuala Bumpur said Stanley Harsha press attache at the . Embassy in Malaysia. Rescue officials speaking on condition of anonymity said pieces of the aircraft clothes life jackets and other objects were strewn Over a wide area. Some of the articles were hanging from Trees. World the mythical Birthplace of Apollo gets electricity from wire reports Delos Greece electricity has finally arrived at the mythical birth Ilace of the god of Light. Officials on Friday turned on the Power to this Island in the Aegean sea where greek mythology says the god Apollo was born. The electricity brought by underwater Cable from the nearby Island of my Konos was turned on at a ceremony attended by Deputy Premier Tzannis Tzanetakis and other officials the Athens news Agency reported. The 2-Squarc-mile Island is the smallest Island in the Cyc Ladic Chain. Thousands of tourists visit the ancient Sanctuary of Apollo but the Island is inhabited Only by a handful of museum guards and the staff of a Small Hostel for  to add crime fighters Rome a the italian government has unveiled a proposal to add nearly 30,000 police officers in coming years to fight organized crime. A Bill sent by the Cabinet to parliament on Friday Calls for bolstering the regular police Force by 10,500 officers the paramilitary Carabiniero by 13,300 members and tax and customs agents by 5,400.prostitution crackdown Beijing a China has arrested nearly 30,000 in a crackdown on prostitution sending both alleged prostitutes As Well As their clients to a a reeducation Center for up to two years. The report issued Friday also said 40 percent of the prostitutes detained were carrying sexually transmitted diseases the state run Xinhua news Agency said. A prostitution gangs have increased and prostitution in a number of hotels and cultural and recreational places has become rampant a an unidentified official in the Public Security ministry was quoted As saying. The report came two Days after China adopted a new Law increasing the penalties for prostitutes and their clients. Under the new Law prostitutes and their clients face a six month to two year term in what Xinhua called a a Are education Center for  there was no  greets Thatcher Tokyo a emperor Akihito received former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in audience at the Imperial Palace on saturday. Thatcher told Akihito she was honoured by the tanned visit to great Britain by Crown Prince Haruhito for the opening of the Japan festival on sept. 16 in London according to officials at the Imperial household Agency. Thatcher arrived sept. 1 for a 10-Day  suspect arrested Jerusalem a an 18-year-old israeli has been arrested on suspicion that he cracked foreign Bank computers and passed on credit card numbers to american hackers who bought tens of thousands of dollars in goods Israel television reports the israeli described by computer experts As a Genius also broke into . Military computers and built sophisticated equipment that allowed him to make Long distance phone Calls without getting charged the report said thursday. Police raided the suspects Home in Carmiel on thursday after the american hackers were questioned and gave his name to authorities in the United states the report  Call for outlaw of communism Bucharest Romania a More than 5,000 romanians blocked downtown traffic on Friday to demand that cont unit parties be outlawed and that president Ion Iliescu and the government resign. It was the first such rally since last month s attempted coup in the soviet Union. Witnesses reported minor scuffles with riot police. One demonstrator was bleeding apparently after being hit by a bottle thrown at police they said. Romanian state television quoting police sources reported two policemen were Hurt. A major protest organizer wrote in a letter to the government that the existence of the socialist labor party and the National salvation front Quot prove to be a fatal danger to the future of democracy in  Quot had the Moscow coup been successful it would have brought Hack the stalinist dictatorship. That a Why we have to outlaw the front the socialist party and the communist party a wrote Ticu Dumitrescu president of the association of former political prisoners. The socialist labor party succeeded the former communist party. The governing National salvation front took Power after the communists were ousted in the december 1989 revolution. Foes accuse the front of harbouring totalitarian views. Shouting Quot never again communism and Quot Down with Iliescu a Flag waving demonstrators jammed the capital s main University Square site of a 53-Day anticommunist demonstration in june 1990. Violence that followed the violent breakup by police of last years demonstration left six people dead. Main opposition groups participating in fridays protest included the peasants party the students league and the civic Alliance. A proposal before parliament would pronounce the communist party illegal  
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