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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday november 13, 1991 . Envoy arrives to guide cambodians on new path phenom penh Cambodia a the United states on monday stationed its first Diplomat in Cambodia in 16 years to help the War shocked nation arrange democratic elections. A a we re about to embark upon the implementation of a plan that will Lead to a new Era in cambodian history a Charles Twining an expert on Indochina told reporters after arriving to set up a . Diplomatic Mission. He will serve As charge do affairs of the new . Mission. Twining will work with the United nations and cambodians supreme National Council a reconciliation body of government and guerrilla leaders to guide the nation to  elections by 1993. The vietnamese installed soviet backed communist government and the three rebel groups a two of which were supported by the United states a that fought it signed a peace treaty in Paris on oct. 23. The agreement was another product of improving relations Between the superpowers since the end of the cold War. The United states and soviet Union have helped Settle other proxy wars in Africa and latin America agreeing to Cut military Aid to factions in each conflict. The United states had hurriedly shut its old embassy in phenom penh in april 1975, As the chinese supported Khmer Rouge closed in on the capital to defeat the american backed government of Lon nol. One of the most enduring images of americans Defeated intervention in Indochina was a news photo of american ambassador John Gunther Dean the . Flag tucked under his Arm walking to an evacuation helicopter. The Khmer. Rouge government of pol pot was ousted by vietnamese backed communists in 1978 after a three year reign of terror. Pursuing Radical social revolution the Khmer Rouge killed hundreds of thousands of people in purges slave labor Camps and execution Chambers. Like Japan and Britain which also sent envoys to Charles Twining the charge do affaires for the new . Mission in Cambodia arrives in phenom penh on monday. Phenom penh Over the past two Days the United states will recognize the supreme National Council As cambodians authority a not its present administration. On thursday former cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk is to return to phenom penh from More than a decade of exile to Lead the Council. Cambodian Premier Hun sen left for Beijing on monday to escort him. Twining said the Paris peace agreement which gives the United nations extensive military and administrative involvement in cambodian affairs a offers the most realistic Way to bring peace to  the Accord would a give the cambodian people the Chance to choose their own government and build safeguards against the return to the violence of the past a he said referring to the totalitarian horror under the Khmer Rouge. Muslims in Turkey suspected of murdering go paper says Ankara Turkey apr investigators probing the october car bomb killing of a . Soldier have turned their attention to a left Wing Radical islamic group a major newspaper reported monday. A senior police official declined to comment on the report by the turkish daily Hurr yet. Staff sgt. Victor d. Marvick 31, was killed oct. 28 by powerful bomb that blew up when he started his car. Miyick a computer specialist worked at the joint turkish-. Logistics group. The killing along with the wounding of an Egypt Diplomat in a similar attack the same Day had i blamed on islamic jihad. An Anonymous caller told turkish papers the bombings were to protest the Mideast a Tian Een peace conference that was to Start in Madrid Spain. Quoting unnamed sources Hurr yet said the police suspected the outlawed Dev sol or revolutionary left guerrilla group because Marvick had taken part in operations against it. Marvick assisted the police in a crackdown on Dev sol in july on the eve of president Bush a visit to Turkey the newspaper said. Twelve Dev sol militants had been killed in police raids on their hideouts in Istanbul and Ankara. Hurr yet said Marvick deciphered com meter diskettes seized in the raids. Also seized were arge caches of arms explosives and military uniforms. Marvick whom Hurr yet described As a martial arts expert refused police Protection the newspaper said. . Delivers 5 planes to philippine air Force from wire reports Manila a the United states delivered five military aircraft to the philippine air Force tuesday to replace the forces world War ii Vintage planes and improve its air Power against the communist insurgency officials said. The head of the philippine air Force maj. Gen. Loven Abadia said the Ovio Bronco planes were the first Batch of 24 aircraft acquired through the . Foreign military sales program under a military bases agreement that expired sept. 16. Abadia said that 10 fighter planes would be delivered in january 1992 and that nine others Are scheduled to arrive in March. The twin engine Turboprop aircraft will1 replace the Philippines aging Fleet of t-28 propeller driven planes Abadia said.2 killed in plane crash Sydney Australia a two soldiers were killed and eight others injured tuesday when an army aircraft on a Parachute training exercise crashed near Nowra 100 Miles South of Sydney army officers said. Spokesman it. Oil. Pat Green said the 10-seater pilatus Porter aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from a Small army Airstrip around mid afternoon. He said the plane was carrying eight parachutists in training a Pilot and co Pilot. Confirming two deaths Green said a we do not yet know who were killed but the eight injured Are in Hospital suffering various injuries mainly broken limbs but none of them is  the crash was not accompanied by fire or explosion and its cause was being investigated. In the meantime the army temporarily grounded its Fleet of pilatus porters Green said. The  Are used mainly for surveillance but Are often converted for Parachute  sifted for papers Beirut Lebanon a the american University of Beirut resumed classes monday As officials sifted through the rubble for documents that survived the car bombing of the main administrative building. One person was killed and eight were wounded in the blast Early Friday. University officials monday estimated damage at $200 million. The explosion demolished College Hall. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack which was preceded by threats from pro iranian shiite Muslim fundamentalists to strike at american interests to protest Arab israeli peace  jailed for arson Aachen Germany a two Volunteer firemen were sentenced to prison monday for setting fires in two warehouses a Sawmill a lumberyard and bams. The regional court in Aachen found the members of Durens Volunteer fire department of 16 cases of arson Between september 1990 and february 1991, with total damage estimated at $1 million. The ringleader was sentenced to six years in prison and the other Man to two years rive accomplices were put on  convicted in attack on soviet children Berlin apr eight Neo nazis were convicted monday of attacking a Home and threatening the terrified children inside boys and girls Hurt in the chernobyl nuclear disaster. Meanwhile the mayor of the East German City of Weimar expressed outrage after three rightist youths accused of shooting a mozambican Man in the head were freed during the weekend without being charged. On monday a youth court convicted and sentenced eight Neo nazis in the May 9 attack on a Home for children suf Fering from radiation sickness resulting from the 1987 nuclear Accident at chem Boyl. The right wingers were convicted of breaching the peace grievous bodily harm and incitement. The attack took place in the East German City of zittau. Two other men Ages 34 and 23, were sentenced to 15 months in prison and a 23-year-old was sentenced to one year. The others were ordered to pay restitution fines or enter into work programs. Judge Lothar Scholz said the Drunken Neo nazis attacked the Home in the late evening with rocks. They shouted such slogans As a a tree a rope a russian child and a we need a second Cherno two of the thugs smashed a window injuring an soviet adult who was looking after the children. Previous reports said the youngsters brought to Germany by charitable groups for a Holiday became hysterical during the attack. Prosecutors from the five East German states meeting in the City of Magdeburg on monday said they need More Federal funds to beef up the criminal Justice system trying to Deal with such problems. Weimar mayor Klaus Buettner filed a formal complaint with Justice minister Hans Joachim Jentsch after three German youths were freed sunday one Day after they were arrested for shooting a 29-year-old mozambican Man in the left Temple with an air gun. A Only 2 centimetres three fourths of an Inch further and the shot would have killed him a said City spokesman Joachim Vogel. 7 a judge on sunday ordered the sus elects freed even though the prosecutor and demanded criminal action Vogel said  
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