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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes sunday september 8, 1991 dec leaders demand truce in Yugoslavia be obeyed the Hague Netherlands up a european Community foreign ministers and yugoslav leaders ended the first Day of their peace negotiations saturday with dec demands that a cease fire be respected in Yugoslavia. Ministers of the 12 dec countries the collective yugoslav presidency and representatives of All six yugoslav republics met in Hollands Palace of peace under the chairmanship of former British foreign Secretary lord Carrington As fighting continued in Croatia. A if this conference is to succeed the fighting has to Stop immediately a dutch foreign minister Hans Van Den Brock told the conference in his opening address As the representative for the eco a rotating presidency. At Issue is ethnic violence in Croatia that has raged since june 25 when Croatia and Slovenia declared Independence from Yugoslavia. The serbian Republic opposes an Independent Crotia because it fears the serbian minority in that Republic will be discriminated against. Yugoslav representatives were vehement As they staked out opening positions at the conference. A every Republic and nation in Yugoslavia has the right to choose its own status. When the status has been chosen in a democratic Way such a Choice cannot be answered with violence but has to be respected without the use of any form of Force a said yugoslav president Stipe Mesic a croat. Franjo Tadjman president of Croatia asked for outside military intervention. A i ask the dec to Stop talking about peace and help my people a Tadjman said. A we need military Force to Stop the violence. This aggression against Croatia must be called to a halt. We need a military Force forces from the United nations if necessary to prevent the serbs and the yugoslav Federal army from going on fighting this dirty War in my  his serbian counterpart Slobodan Milosevic responded by blaming the fighting in Yugoslavia on Croatia and Slovenia. As delegations left the Palace of peace they were met by More than 10,000 demonstrators who came to the Hague from throughout Europe. March for Independence Taiwan citizens March through a Taipei suburb saturday to demand that the government declare Taiwan an Independent state from China. The nationalist government fled to Taiwan from Mainland China in 1949 after losing a civil War with the communists. The demonstrators also want membership in the United nations. Taiwan withdrew from the world body in 1971 after Mainland China was admitted to the organization. Bering has threatened to use Force to reclaim the Island should it declare itself an Independent state. Former . Attorney general Ramsey Clark arrived saturday to participate in the March. 11 killed in Colombia shootings Bogota Colombia apr gunmen ambushed and killed 11 people in Medellin in two massacres in less than 24 hours police said saturday. Marauders in two vehicles trapped seven men Between the Ages of 20 and-30 standing on a Street Corner in a Medellin suburb by blocking their escape routes and shot them Down on Friday police said. The gunmen All escaped. Medellin a chief of police col. Gonzalo Jimenez said it was Likely the work of so called a a cleaning squads that roam the City exterminating anyone considered undesirable such As drug addicts the homeless and Petty thieves. Later Friday unidentified attackers shot and killed four youths As they left a restaurant in the Medellin suburb of Manrique according to a local police report. World the mythical Birthplace of Apollo gets electricity from wire reports Delos Greece a electricity has finally arrived at the mythical Birthplace 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-Square-Mie 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 planned 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 suspect s Home in Carmiel on thursday after the american hackers were questioned and gave his name to authorities in the United states the report said. Rain hinders search of Conoho Jet wreckage in Jungle i Iai a i i1mdi1d in .,1�?z. / a a i i. Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a searchers said saturday that they found body parts As they picked through a Patch of scorched Jungle where a Jet carrying . Oil company executives crashed. Mohd Adnan Yahya director of the department of civil aviation said the search was hampered by rain and thick Mist. Police and army troops searching the nearly impenetrable Jungle on Borneo Island said there was almost no Chance of finding any survivors among the 12 peo ple on Board. The Grumman Gulf Stream ii Jet owned by Conoho inc. Of Houston disappeared from radar wednesday As it prepared to land for refuelling at Kota Kinabalu Airport on Borneo the wreckage of the Jet which was on its Way from Japan to Jakarta Indonesia was found 30 Miles South of Kota Kinabalu on Friday after a three Day search. The cause of the crash has yet to be determined. Timber workers told police that they saw the Tail end of the plane emitting smoke before it crashed. Local villagers said it had been raining heavily at the time contradicting a report by civil aviation officials that the weather had been Clear. Search personnel said tops of Trees sheared off by the aircraft were scorched. Conoho inc. President Constantine s. Nicandros said the passengers relatives bad been contacted. Conoho officials and their spouses were aboard the Plai Conoho is a subsidiary of Dupont c the . Petrochemical giant. A realistically and with profound a Ness we must prepare for the wors Nicandros said. Nicandros said that Dupont a Grumman officials had arrived in Mai Sia and that investigators from the u National transportation safety to were being dispatched there at the inv Tion of the malaysian government  
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