European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes monday september 9, 1991break embargo iraqi paper tells arabs Nicosia Cyprus apr an iraqi military newspaper urged Friendly Arab states saturday to defy a . Embargo on Trade with Baghdad even at the risk of Western military interdiction. Quot the people of Iraq Are demanding a positive step that would demonstrate courage daring and the Correct and Noble Arab position to lift the evil economic blockade imposed on them Quot said an editorial in Al had Disya the iraqi defense ministry newspaper. Quot Only a few ships or planes would be enough to Challenge the tyranny of the United states and push it towards a deadly humanitarian dilemma if it tried any hostile action against this Arab step a the editorial said. Excerpts were published by the iraqi news Agency monitored in Nicosia. Western diplomats have vowed to maintain economic sanctions against Iraq until it fully complies with an april 3 cease fire Resolution that ended the persian Gulf War. The embargo was imposed after iraqis aug. 2, 1990, invasion of Kuwait. The iraqi newspaper said Arab silence on the continuing sanctions Quot is a source of disgrace and casts doubts on the truth of the a sympathy which certain Arab governments show toward Iraq a the newspaper said. It said it was not referring to Arab states that joined the  coalition that ended the iraqi occupation of Kuwait but to countries that professed support for Iraq. There was widespread support for president Saddam Hussein in Yemen Jordan Sudan Algeria and some soviets claim they shot Down 1 St . Planes lost in Vietnam Moscow a the soviet Union sent 3,000 troops to Vietnam during the . Involvement there according to the first account in the soviet press about the secret military action. In 1965, soviet soldiers shot the first american planes downed in the Southeast asian nation the Magazine Eko planet reported. The soviet defense ministry previously has acknowledged that soviet advisers served in Vietnam and that 13 were killed. But no details of their activities have been published before in the soviet Union the Tass news Agency reported saturday. Tass said the magazines account was based on interviews with those who carried out soviet policy in Vietnam in the late 1960s and Early 1970s, including Ilya Shcherbakov the soviet ambassador to Vietnam from 1964-1974. It was written by a former Tass correspondent who reported from Vietnam during the War Alexander Mineyev. Shcherbakov said the soviet government was very re strained in the conflict Between communist North Vietnam and the .-backed South. A but the Tonkin incident confronted soviet Leader i Nikita Khrushchev with a dilemma a the article sat referring to . Retaliation in 1964 for an alleged attack by North Vietnam on american ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. The incident prompted the United states to escalate greatly its troop presence and involvement. A on the one hand North Vietnam a socialist country had suffered from air strikes and shelling from the sea. On the other the Shock of the Caribbean crisis was still quite fresh in his memory a it said a reference to 1 s.1 the 1962 cuban missile crisis. Soviet Aid began flowing to North Vietnam in Early 1965, when Leonid Brezhnev had taken Over soviet leadership the Magazine said. In August 1965, soviet forces shot Down the first . Planes. But after 1966, it said no soviet troops directly participated in combat because the vietnamese forces had been trained to handle the soviet equipment. Cheese if you please More than 540 cheeses from France the United kingdom Germany Switzerland Greece the Netherlands Denmark and Italy cover a 538-Square-foot refrigerated cheese Board saturday during the sixth exhibition of wine cheese and bread in the southwestern French town of Lan gon. Exhibitors Hope the Board will do More than please the Eye and tempt the palate a they plan to submit it to the guinness Book of world records. Other Arab quarters during the Gulf crisis. Despite the embargo the United nations has proposed a one time Oil Sale by Iraq to finance urgent food medical and humanitarian needs caused by sanctions As Well As the devastation of Allied bombing during the Gulf War. . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar suggested in a draft report obtained thursday that Iraq be permitted to sell around $2.5 billion in Oil saying the $1.6 billion first authorized by the Security Council Isnit enough. Western diplomats said it was unlikely the Council would approve a higher amount than $1.6 billion. They said Iraq still has not fully disclosed its own Domestic Cash and Gold reserves which could finance humanitarian purchases. World gunmen kill 42 Blacks injure 50 in s. Africa from wire reports Johannesburg South Africa a More than 40 Blacks were killed in vicious factional fighting sunday including at least 20 ambushed As they marched to a political rally police said. Police spokesman maj. Reg Crewe said sunday night that 42 people died and More than 50 were injured in clashes around Johannesburg. Gunmen fired automatic weapons at hundreds of inkatha Freedom party members As they paraded Down a main Road toward a stadium Early sunday in the Toloza township Southeast of Johannesburg. Police spokesman col. Frans Malherbe said authorities did not know who was responsible for the massacre. However the township has been the site of repeated Battles Between the two leading Black groups the african National Congress and the Zulu based inkatha  protest clash Taipei Taiwan apr riot police clashed with protesters sunday after some 15,000 opposition supporters marched through Taipei streets in driving rain to demand the government hold a plebiscite on Taiwan a membership in the United nations As an Independent state. Police fired water cannons when some protesters drove a truck toward riot police deployed behind barbed wire barricades witnesses said. An unidentified protester threw a firebomb but missed the police. Other protesters then Tore off Metal fences dividing the roads they said. The latest clash occurred shortly after protest leaders failed to obtain an agreement from officials to enter the restricted presidential office building to deliver a petition addressed to president Lee  strike planned Ottawa a about 110,000 Federal government employees were planning to launch a nationwide strike today to delay movement of government checks tax refunds and unemployment benefits the Public service Alliance of Canada said. The strike by the largest Union of Federal government employees is the second labor shutdown in a month to hit canadians. On thursday 46,000 letter carriers and postal workers agreed to end a 13-Day Campaign of rotating strikes after the Federal government appointed a mediator to Settle the dispute Over wages and Job  from Pinatubo kills 7, buries 800 Homes Bacolor Philippines up a heavy rain sent steaming volcanic debris thundering Down on villages at the foot of the mount Pinatubo Volcano Dairying hundreds of houses and killing at least seven people police and local officials said. Downpours spawned by typhoon Ivy which is hammering Japan caused floods and mudflows in 14 villages near the town of Bacolor 50 Miles North of Manila. On saturday night. Police and local officials said seven people drowned four were injured and several others were missing in the torrents of Ash Sand and other volcanic debris on the slopes of Pinatubo which began erupting june 9. Police said 800 houses were inundated by 6 feet of steaming mudflows or Zahars. Quot we thought it was the end of the world a said Annalyn Pineda 10, whose father sister and brother were among those killed. Pineda who suffered Burns said she survived by holding onto a Bamboo Grove. Nilo Caballa a municipal councilor said Many people survived by climbing up Trees and onto rooftops. Quot people fled their Homes screaming after the Siren wailed to warn them of Rushing mudflows a said Hector Soto a Farmer. Quot it took Only a few minutes for the roaring mudflows to Swallow our  at least 588 people have died in the eruption of mount Pinatubo and of diseases in evacuation centers. More than a million filipinos have been displaced. Philippine volcanology its said last week that Pinatubo was simmering Down after belching volcanic debris for three months but mudflows will continue to threaten four provinces for years