European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 9, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9 world former key communist kills himself in Moscow from wire reports Moscow a George Pavlov retired communist party business manager committed suicide by jumping out a seventh floor window of his apartment building the soviet news Agency Tass reported tuesday. Pavlov 81, was found dead by relatives sunday the soviet news Agency said. Tass quoted police investigator Dmitri lakh Rushin As saying motives for the suicide were a being  it did not elaborate. Pavlov is the second communist apparatchiks at one time responsible for administering the party a enormous wealth to have committed suicide in the past six weeks. Nikolai Kruchin who held the Job from 1983 until the time of his death also jumped out the window of his seventh floor apartment on aug. 28. Kruchin 63, left behind a suicide note but its contents have not been made  crashes in Germany Hannover Germany a a private air plane crashed at Hannover a Airport and burst into a fireball on tuesday killing All six or seven people who were on Board police said. The two engine Cessna 425 crashed and exploded slightly More than 100 Yards from the runway As it was approaching to land police said. A thick fog covered the runway at the time but officials said they did not yet know the cause of the Accident. Six or seven people were in the plane and no one survived according to police. The plane had flown to Hannover from Vienna Austria offi Mcialw said.18 killed in South Africa Johannesburg South Africa heavily armed police patrolled Black townships tuesday after gun Battles that claimed 18 lives and prompted Nelson Mandela and president . De Klerk to accuse each other of inciting violence. The fighting monday in Toloza and other townships left a dozen people wounded and was the worst political violence since the government and Black groups signed a peace pact on sept. 14. Mandela the african National Congress president accused de Klerk of doing nothing to halt the killing of Blacks in the townships and repeated charges that government Security forces were behind the violence. De Klerk launched a bitter attack on the Anc saying it was trying to seize Power by destabilizing South  hospitalized Bonn Germany a Willy Brandt the former Chancellor of West Germany has been hospitalized with severe pains in his legs his office said tuesday. The mass circulation Bild newspaper said the 77-year-old patriarch of German politicians was a severely  however there was no confirmation of that from his office. Brandt was the mayor of West Berlin when communist led East Germany began building the Berlin Wall in August 1961. He served As Chancellor from 1969 to 1974. He was forced to step Down when his closest aide was unmasked As a communist spy. His efforts won him the 1971 Nobel peace prize. Dissidents in Cuba urge communists to yield Power Mexico City apr dissidents in Havana Are demanding that Cuba s communist party end its monopoly on Power the mexican government news Agency no Timex said monday. The cuban democratic convergence a coalition also urged the party to Call general elections and Grant amnesty to political prisoners when the communist party Congress convenes thursday in the provincial capital of Santiago de Cuba. President Fidel Castro who has sworn to stay on the orthodox path no matter the Cost leads the list of 1,800 delegates. Coalition spokeswoman Maria Elena Cruz. Varela told reporters she feared the Congress would produce Only cosmetic changes. She said the coalition s proposal was circulated among several delegates. Cruz Varela spoke at a news conference in Havana a a bold move in tightly controlled  official Calls amputation on men unlikely Islamabad Pakistan a a senior government official said monday that the amputation sentence passed on two americans convicted of stealing is unlikely to be carried out. A we re aware of the situation. Don t worry  be All right a Siddique Khanu minister of state for foreign affairs said after returning from a 12-Day visit to the United states. Without elaborating Khanu said the pakistani embassy in Washington and the state department had discussed the matter. Charles Boyd 29, and his 23-Ycar-old brother Daniel were convicted last month by an islamic court of robbing $3,200 from a Bank in the Frontier City of Peshawar. I they were sentenced to have their right hands and left feet amputated a a punishment the judge said was Laid Down in the Muslim holy Book the Koran. The conviction and sentence have been appealed to pakistanis supreme court and a hearing is set for saturday. The Boyd Brothers who converted to islam while still in the United states said they came to Pakistan because they wanted to help an estimated 3 million afghan War refugees living across the rugged Northwest Frontier province. C the Brothers Are the first foreigners convicted and no Timex said a . Diplomat attended the news can Ference. Held at the Home of Elizardo ,.a Well known dissident who spent Many years in cuban prisons. The no Timex dispatch monitored in Mexico City did not specify when the conference was held. Cruz Varela said the cuban people want democratic change but without bloodshed. Cuban officials say the Congress will move to make the party More democratic but Rule out any discussion of changing Cuba s one party system or its centrally planned Economy. After holding thousands of meetings with citizens across the nation in preparation for the Congress party officials suddenly decided to Convene behind closed doors. The decision was made after the failed soviet coup and Moscow s announcement it was pulling its troops out of Cuba. Daniel Boyd left and his brother Charles try to avoid photographers at a sept. 25 court appearance. Sentenced under a Law promulgated by the late Gen. Mohammad Ziaul Haq the military dictator who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an August 1988 plane crash. Some pakistanis have received similar sentences but All were overturned on Appeal. The harsh sentence surprised even fundamentalist muslims. Islamic scholars said the judges interpretation of the Koran was erroneous noting the holy Book Calls for severing the left hand not the right but never for the first offence. It mentions nothing about cutting off feet for theft. Laos says Mia photo shows Farmer Bangkok Thailand up a Laos has identified a Farmer of French and lao heritage As the subject in photographs initially thought to be of an american Serviceman missing in action from the Vietnam War the state radio said. The radio in a broadcast monday quoted foreign ministry spokesman Vanheung Vongvichith As saying a laotian government investigation was triggered by the publication of photographs said to show Navy it. Daniel v. Borah a . Aviator lost in Vietnam. A the investigation revealed that the person in the news reports is a member of the Mangson tribe of the lao Theung group. His name is Alao a Vanheung said. The broadcast said Alao no last name Given was half French and 66 years old. Vanheung said . Officials were taken to interview Alao in september. . Defense department spokesman Pete Williams told reporters last month that american investigators had spoken to the Man who said he had been photographed by a trader from Southern Laos. He said the investigators accepted the a count and concluded the claims that the photographs showed Borah were groundless. Woman lands Jet in saudi Arabia but can t drive car there Dhaka Bangladesh up a women Are not permitted to drive cars in saudi Arabia but they Are allowed to Fly Large jets. Captain Yasmin Rahman became asians first woman to Pilot a wide bodied Jet when she flew a Bangladesh airlines dc-10 from Dhaka to the saudi arabian red sea port of Jidida on sept. 27, the air Carrier announced monday. A controllers in the United Arab emirates saudi Arabia and others were quite surprised to hear a woman a voice identifying herself As the Captain of a bangladeshi dc-10,�?� said her Pilot husband capt. Ashfaque Rahman. A at first they thought Biman Bangladesh airlines had employed a Westerner on contract but they were soon congratulating her and welcoming her into their  an architect by education the female Rahman claims to be the Only architect aviator in the world. Proud of her employers she could not resist taking a shot at Biman s major regional rival Singapore airlines. A even when asian air giant Singapore airlines discriminates against women Biman has a Liberal policy towards women a she said. Rahmann a Rise to the cockpit controls in such a male dominated profession is not Likely to cause any discomfort to male colleagues since she has More than 10 years of flying experience her husband said. A she has captained Domestic flights for three years now so she is Well established As a Pilot in her own rights a he said. A passengers on International routes Are not going to suffer from any Lack of Confidence because there is a woman at the controls  during her first a cd to flight to Jidida Rahman experienced different reactions from air traffic controllers in Pakistan Iran and Arab countries but not in India where she is Well known in aviation circles. Bimanis first woman Pilot Oksana Rahman of no relation died in August 1984, when her aircraft crashed at Dhaka Szia International Airport while in turning irom an internal a Lilit