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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes sunday september 22, 1991 world Perez de Cuellar refuses to extend term at . From wire reports United nations Javier Perez de Cuellar has ruled out the possibility of his staying on As . Secretary general after his term expires at the end of this year. A i am leaving this office in three months and 10 Days a he said Friday at his annual news conference. Earlier this year French diplomats had floated the idea that perhaps Perez de Cuellar should stay on another year or two to wrap up various disputes around the world and provide More time to choose his successor. Perez de Cuellar a peruvian career Diplomat has run the world organization for 10  features Picasso Paris a the French Art season has opened with a major exhibition of 116 drawings by Pablo Picasso including portraits of his family rarely displayed caricatures and erotic scenes. Charcoal drawings pen and Ink sketches engravings and Lead Pencil doodles a All executed Between 1893 and 1905 a Are on display in an exhibition that runs through nov. 25 at the Picasso museum in Paris. A Picasso youth and genesis traces Picasso a evolution As an artist from his student Days in his native Catalonia mastering Basic drawing skills to his preliminary sketches for some of his Best known  kill 16 Moscow a sixteen people died and 62 were hospitalized in serious condition after eating poisonous mushrooms near the russian town of Krasnodar a news Agency reported Friday. A special committee ordered the people of the Krasnodar Region in the Western part of the caucasus mountains to Stop picking and Selling mushrooms the government run russian information Agency said. Toward the end of summer and in the autumn Many russians travel to the Woods to pick mushrooms. Fresh and dried mushrooms Are sold by Street vendors in big cities. 3 american men free from kurdish captors Ankara Turkey apr military police questioned three americans now free after being held for three weeks by kurdish rebels officials said saturday. One newspaper said Security forces secured their Freedom. A senior official of the Eastern provincial Center of Bingol speaking on condition of anonymity later said the americans a among a group of five foreigners freed late Friday a were resting at an unspecified place. They were abducted aug. 30 at a guerrilla Roadblock near Bingol while on a Mission to inspect what they believed was the site of Noah Sark. In Washington the state department confirmed the release of the three americans Ronald Wyatt of Nashville Tenn. Marvin Wilson of Garland Texas and Richard m. Rives of Matthews . Also freed were briton Gareth Thomas and australian Allen Roberts. . Officials gave no additional information. Hurr yet a major turkish daily newspaper said Security forces acting on a tip rescued the five. Authorities were searching for the kidnappers the newspaper said. Earlier the sem official Anatolia news Agency said a Man claiming to speak for the outlawed kurdish labor party telephoned police in the township of Mala Girt in neighbouring mus province and said the captives would be released. Wyatt several expeditions have made claims concerning the site of the Ark but none has been generally accepted. Since 1977, Wyatt has been searching for the Ark which the Bible says made a landfall in Eastern Turkey near mount Ararat after a flood. He has been seeking excavation permits for a to documentary about a site he found in 1985. Wilson a wife Renatta said her husband called her shortly after 6 p.m., Texas time from Bingol. A the sounded wonderful a she said. Bingol is about 200 Miles West of the Turkey Iran Border. Her husband said turkish soldiers were guarding the former captives. Wyatt a wife maty Nell said in Nashville a a in be talked with the other wives. They have All heard briefly from their husbands  Burma gives . Photographs of Wii dog tags crashed plane Rangoon Burma apr Burma has Given . Officials photographs of the wreckage of a world War ii military transport plane and of the dog tags of three american servicemen a newspaper reported saturday. The state run working Peoples daily said foreign minister Ohn Yaw turned Over the photographs and a list of the debris from the wreckage to Franklin huddle jr., the charge d affaires at the . Embassy in Rangoon on Friday. The duty officer at the embassy reached saturday by Telephone from Bangkok said he was not familiar with the matter. Working Peoples daily said the material included photographs of the wreckage of a . C-47a transport aircraft of two damaged pistols of pieces of a . Army first Aid kit and of the identification tags of three american soldiers. The newspaper did not report the names on the dog tags. It said the wreckage was found by burmese soldiers in Jungle terrain in the Northern part of the country but gave no other details. . Forces battled the japanese occupiers of Burma during world War ii. A tale of two lives or How Dickens May have really died London apr the Long accepted Story of Charles Dickens death May have been invented to cover up his love affair with an actress a British author says. Claire Tomalin author of a recent biography of Nelly Ternan wrote in saturdays editions of the Independent newspaper that there is evidence that Dickens did not collapse at Home but during a visit with Ternan. Dickens fell ill on june 8, 1870, and died the next Day at Gads Hill his country Home near Rochester 35 Miles Southwest of London. Left unfinished was his last Book the mystery of Edwin Drood. Tomalin said she Learned of questions about Dickens last hours after publishing her Book the invisible woman the Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens. The Book contends that Dickens and Ternan were lovers from 1857, when she was 18, until Dickens died. Tomalin said she received a letter from . Leeson who told of a Story he had heard from his Grandfather the Rev. J. Chetwode postans. Postans said he had been told by the caretaker at the Linden Grove congregational Church that Dickens did not die at Gads Hill a but at another House in compromising  a my father told me that the old Man had emphatically repeated this allegation to him Many years later but had refused to divulge any details As to where the death occurred. He did however admit that he personally had been involved in the secret removal of the body to Gads Hill in order to avoid scandal a Leeson wrote to Tomalin. The Church Leeson added was opposite Windsor Lodge where Ternan was living at the time. Tomalin said she believes Dickens did die at Gads Hill where he was attended by three doctors. However she said it was plausible that he had fallen ill elsewhere. According to Georgina Hogarth Dickens sister in Law and housekeeper the author spent the Day of june 8 working at Home appeared unwell at dinner and collapsed. Tomalin said a Book written in 1891 by William Hughes a week s tramp in Dickens land provided a clue supporting the caretakers Story. Hughes wrote that on june 8, Dickens had cashed a Check for 22 pounds a very Large sum at the time at the falstaff inn near his House. According to a letter that Hogarth wrote to her attorney Dickens hat less than 7 pounds in his coat when he died. A could some of the 22 pounds have been for Nelly a Tomalin wrote. A and could it then by one of the ironies of Fate have paid for the undoubtedly expensive Carriage that carried Dickens Home a it la be a Long 16 Days world1, biggest Beer Bash. Is  the Globe. Theve a find or not to. 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