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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, September 24, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday september 24, 199122 arrested in Neo nazi attacks Dresden Germany apr police arrested 22 people after Young Neo nazis attacked Homes for foreigners in several Eastern German towns authorities said sunday. Seven people were injured in incidents that reflected growing tensions Between local residents foreign workers and Asylum seekers in the state of Saxony. Saxony has become one of the hotbeds of right Wing extremism in reunited Germany. Young Neo nazis and right Wing extremists have been attacking a Home for foreign labourers in the town world Vietnam raps Extension of economic embargo from wire reports Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam condemned an order by president Bush that extends the . Economic embargo against Vietnam for another year official Hanoi television reported. A these punitive economic measures lie in the Law prohibiting All contacts with countries that have been considered hostile to the United states a the television reported saturday according to a translation made available on sunday. Bush signed an order extending the embargo on sept. 20.game Reserve planned Johannesburg South Africa South Africa and Mozambique Are making plans to create a huge game Reserve straddling their Border a newspaper reported sunday. The sunday times said a preliminary plan Calls for merging South africans 8,000-Square-mile Kruger Park in the country a Northeast Corner with a 2,000-Squure-mile tract in Mozambique. Of Hoye Swerda since tuesday. They have vowed to keep up the attacks until the foreigners leave. About 150 youths hurled gasoline bombs stones and steel pellets at the building and at a cordon of police shielding the Home that houses about 150 labourers from Vietnam and Mozambique. The labourers work in a nearby Coal mine and arc slated to leave when their contracts expire Early next month. The youths shouted the nazi slogan a Sieg he ii and raised their arms in the nazi Salute. A group of several Hundred local residents stood by and watched the attacks Many of them encouraged the attackers. Police spokesman Gerd Schiffel said seven were injured and 16 Neo nazis were detained. Four of them could face criminal charges he said. In the Saxony town of Thi Endorf dozens of rightist youths broke into a Home for Asylum seekers and broke furniture. Police spokesman Wolfgang Kiesling said six youths were arrested. Neo nazis also attacked a Home for foreigners in the town of Freital but there were no arrests police said. Philippine politician asks . To Honor pullout commitment Manila Philippines up a an opposition senator urged the United states on monday to Honor its previous commitment to withdraw from philippine bases if lawmakers rejected a lease Extension. Juan Ponce Enrile who is seeking to become the Standard bearer of the opposition Nacion Alista party in the May 1992 presidential elections also slammed proposals in the Senate to fix a . Withdrawal period from three to seven years. The senator told a news conference that any withdrawal beyond a a a reasonable period of one year would require a treaty signed by both the Philippines and the United states. The Senate voted 12-11 on sept. 16 to reject the treaty signed aug. 27 after 15 months of negotiations. The rejection coincided with expiration of the 1947 bases treaty. Under the new pact Washington would withdraw from Clark a in one year and remain for 10 More years at Subic Bay naval facilities for an annual Aid of $203 million. Clark has been shut Down because of the eruption of mount Pinatubo Volcano but Subic a ship repair and logistics base of the 7th Fleet has recovered from Ash fallout. The Constitution states that the United states could continue to Post its 8,000 troops in the Philippines Only under a treaty ratified by a two thirds vote of the 23 senators and submitted in a referendum if Congress so desires. To overturn the Senate vote president Corazon Aquino has called for a referendum under the review provisions of the Constitution upon the request of 3 million voters. Legal experts said the referendum could be unconstitutional but Aquino said her lawyers were prepared to defend the polling before the supreme court. . Officials had said they would withdraw from the Philippines if the Subic lease were rejected but later said they would await the outcome of the referendum. In a statement monday Aquino squelched speculation that she was giving up on the referendum by appearing on sunday in a television program with a group of senators proposing to fix the . Withdrawal period to seven years. A while our main thrust continues to be the Call for a referendum spearheaded by the private sector we Are always willing to talk to anyone especially the senators who May have possible Compromise positions a Aquino said monday. Mexico cautions . On Border violations Mexico City a Mexico issued a veiled warning sunday that it will More strictly enforce Laws along its Border with the United states where it claims . Agents have crossed illegally and assaulted mexican agents. The Interior department ordered mexican Border agents on sunday to arrest any a a foreign police officers who commit a Quot violent act in mexican territory. The statement comes in the Wake tit a sept 14 incident in which . Border agents from san Ysidro calif., allegedly pursued a Man into mexican territory sept. 14, arrested him and took him Back to the United states. Mexico called the incident a Quot violation of our territorial sovereignty Quot noting that . Law enforcement agents cannot officially Cross the Border without its permission no Timex the government news service said the Man arrested in the sept. 14 incident was a mexican who had tried to enter the United states illegally. It said he had been treated roughly. The incident was considered particularly grievous because the . Agents allegedly assaulted mexican Border agents trying to Slop the arrest. Carlos Loaiza Aragon of the comptrollers office said agents beat a mexican Treasury police agent and a mexican customs official. The incident could become a Pivotal test for .-mexican relations which have improved Over the past two years since the two countries and Canada entered into free Trade negotiations. In a letter to the state department Mexico called the sept. 14 incident a a serious and said it threatened the Quot Good neighbor policy and the level of understanding that has been reached Between our two  despite improved relations officials Here have expressed scepticism about . Respect for its territorial sovereignty. The daily la Jornada claimed that some 500 illegal immigrants were injured by . Law enforcement officials while trying to Cross the Border during the first eight months of 1991. 11 rescued from sinking ship Bangkok up a vietnamese rescuers saved All 11 Crew members from a burning singaporean cargo ship before the ship Sank off the coast of Southern Vietnam Hanoi radio reported. A fall 11 Crew members of the singaporean cargo ship Elvis Uncle which was on fire were saved by a fishing boat of cuu Long province Southern Vietnam a the radio said in a broadcast on sunday night. It said the Crew members whose nationalities were not Given were safely transferred to Shore a and will be returned after meeting All the procedures defined by vietnamese  a the Vietnam Salvage company has found the place where the ship Sank and asked the ship owner to Contact it a the broadcast said. It did not say when the incident took , up there passengers aboard the excursion ship St. Pauli must have kept their fingers crossed monday As they chugged past the monstrous Spanish freighter Isla de la Plata in the Harbor at Hamburg Germany. No cause for jitters a it would be hours before the docked freighter would Start moving again  
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