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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes monday september 23, 1991aquino backs . Withdrawal deadline Manila Philippines up a president Corazon Aquino expressed support sunday for a phased withdrawal of . Forces from their Philippines bases following the philippine Senate a rejection of a 10-year lease. She did not mention her wishes for a National referendum on the subject. In her taped television talk show Aquino fended off criticism that she was trying to violate the philippine Constitution by calling for the referendum to override the Senate which rejected the lease last week in a manifestation of nationalism. A if we Are now talking Only of withdrawal perhaps we would no longer hear criticism. What i would like to clarify is 1 have not thought of violating the Constitution a Aquino said. Aquino met with four pro bases senators a Leticia Shahani Jose Lina Ernesto Herrera and John Osmena a on saturday and later taped the talk show broadcast on sunday. The Senate on sept. 16 rejected 12-11, a treaty allowing the United states to pull out from Clark a in one year and remain for 10 More years at Subic Bay naval facilities for $203 million annually. World the 1947 military bases pact in the former . Colony expired sept. 16, coinciding with the Senate vote. Critics said the rejected lease was an affront to philippine sovereignty. Those favouring the treaty worried that a sudden . Pullout would dislocate a shaky Economy already reeling from the eruption of mount Pinatubo now in its third  in his Back Yard i French soldiers with the 151st inf regt run past a Resl Marne 91 military Maneu vers. The exercise started Dent or dam Pierre France during part of the six Day thursday and 8,600 soldiers Are taking part.550,000 vietnamese workers fired in massive budget deficit Effort Bangkok Thailand up a the vietnamese government fighting to reduce a massive budget deficit has sacked More than 550,000 civil servants official Hanoi radio said. The move however has temporarily put further strains on the budget with government units asking for some $17 million in additional funds for Severance pay to the discharged officials said the radio. A translation of the Vietnam Csc language report was made available sunday. A so far More than 550,000 civil servants have been discharged from work Quot the report said. It said the layoffs were in response to a Cabinet Deci Sion but did not give the Date of the decision. According to a report by the world Bank Vietnam experienced a budget deficit last year amounting to More than 7 percent of the Gross Domestic product. Vietnamese prime minister to Van Kiel said last month that the budget situation has worsened this year due to the collapse of most Aid and Trade from the soviet Union. Until Iasi year the soviet Union provided an estimated $1 billion per year in Aid to Vietnam. The dismissal of so Many civil servants fuels unemployment already estimated at More than 20 percent and seen As one of the most serious political threats to the communist  lays off nearly half of workers for one week from wire reports Turin Italy a Italy a Auto giant Fiat on saturday announced plans to reduce its car production by laying off 50,000 workers for one week next month. The temporary layoffs of nearly half of Fiat autos 115,000 workers from oct. 28 through nov. 3 will trim production by 30,000 cars. Fiat owned by the Agnelli family has closed some factories for one week every month since february in response to sluggish Auto demand in Europe and loss of Market share in  girls strip searched new Delhi India a a High school principal ordered 70 female students to remove their clothes for a body search after one Pupil complained she lost the equivalent of $6, the mid Day newspaper said saturday. The incident occurred Friday in the Laxmi Devi Jain girls senior secondary school which was besieged afterwards by hundreds of angry parents. Principal Shail Bala Gupta ordered the students to strip after a student complained she had lost 150 rupees or $6. The bags of All students were searched first the newspaper said and the strip search was ordered when the Money could not be  rules protested Sydney Australia a thousands of demonstrators marched through Sydney and Melbourne on saturday to protest tighter gun control rules that were proposed after a gunman killed eight people in a suburban shopping mall. Police estimated that 12,000 people participated in the March through downtown Sydney. Anti gun control groups estimated the attendance at 25,000.forefathers honoured Seoul South Korea a South koreans celebrated Husok a the mid autumn Moon festival a on sunday by honouring their forefathers with family rites at Home and visits to ancestral graveyards. Children and women walked through Seoul streets in traditional korean costumes As part of one of the biggest holidays in  get Access to dead sea scrolls photos san Marino Calif. Up the Huntington Library announced sunday that it will permit scholars unrestricted Access to master photographs of the dead sea scrolls the sheaves of papyrus and leather documents that include some of the earliest biblical texts. The announcement was praised by scholars previously shut out by a a dead sea scrolls Cartel that controlled who could study the documents and criticized by others who charge the Library has the photos illegally and has no authority to release them. About 3,000 negatives of the culturally precious documents discovered four decades ago by bedouin shepherds in caves near the dead sea near the Israel Jordan Border Are housed at the Library and Are believed to be one of the finest and most extensive collection of scroll facsimile is. Previously Only a Small group of aging International scholars were allowed Access to scroll copies by a 12-Man editorial committee with a contract with the israeli department of antiquities regarding who could use them. A this action should bring an unprecedented openness into scrolls research by making possible a new Era of cooperation on the part of biblical scholars specializing in this Field a said William a. Moffett director of the Library East of los Angeles on the former estate of Railroad magnate Henry Huntington. Quot its a major breakthrough and great news for scholars a said the Rev. James Charlesworth a scrolls specialist at Princeton theological Seminary in new Jersey. Charlesworth said the wider Access would Lay to rest concerns that the unpublished segments of the scrolls contain material undermining Christian and jewish beliefs. But the former editor in chief of the official scrolls research team said Huntington did not have the right to break the agreement Over the use of the photographs. A permission was Given to make copies on condition that they would be used Only by the scholars working on the project a John stud net of Harvard University told the times. Magen Broshi curator of the shrine of the Book a museum in Jerusalem where some of the dead sea scrolls Are stored called Huntington a decision a a most scandalous  the Library known for its Art collection and botanical gardens has for the past decade been the repository of 20 Metal file boxes that contain what is believed to be the most extensive photographic reproduction of the scrolls both in text and fragment form. Scholars say 80 percent of the scrolls total contents have been published revealing new insight into ancient jewish life and affecting Bible translations. Only about 20 percent of the text in fragment form has been transcribed and published  
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