European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday november 22,1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9 Yeltsin Kohl reach Accord on cooperation Winter Aid world citizens demand removal of rail line after wreck from wire reports Tehuacana Mexico a outraged citizens blockaded City Hall on wednesday demanding the removal of a rail line used by a runaway freight that slowed through the town killing 32 people. Quot people have been demanding the removal of the tracks for 40 years and nobody did anything a said Faviell Castillo one of the protesters. Huge cranes shifted the tangled cars wednesday and rescuers with dogs searched the wreckage for More victims. The Force of tuesdays derailment hurled some of the rail cars More than 40 Yards. The trains conductor Constancio Moises Martinez Hernandez told investigators the brakes failed while the train was going downhill about 12 Miles outside Tehuacana a picturesque City famed for its Mineral water. About nine mites outside the City the Crew uncoupled five cars then jumped off the hurtling train. The engine and 14 freight cars smashed into automobiles waiting at a Busy Highway intersection on the Northern Edge of Tehua amp a. Five buildings including a discotheque and a restaurant also were jailed Antwerp Belgium a Jean Pierre Vanrossem former Stock Exchange guru and author who was vying for parliament in sundays elections was arrested Early thursday following new accusations of fraud officials said. Antwerp authorities were to make the charges Public late thursday but newspapers said they were related to complaints that Vanrossem had allegedly misappropriated 8 million francs from private investors Over the past year. The iconoclast Vanrossem is running for parliament on a Quot libertarian ticket in sundays National elections but it is unlikely he will be Able to vote. He is expected to remain behind bars until at least journalist freed Beijing a a prominent chinese journalist who was arrested for trying to meet Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii has been released after being held five Days. Dai qing said authorities freed her wednesday after she began a hunger strike that morning. Dai was picked up by police saturday morning to prevent her meeting with an aide to Baker. During his weekend visit Baker pressed chinese leaders to improve their human rights unions stage strike Tokyo a two Japan airlines labor unions went on a 24-hour strike thursday to demand higher Winter bonuses. The strike caused the cancellation of 13 flights and affected 2,270 passengers. Shinichi Yamashita a Jal spokesman said the company tried to reduce the inconvenience to passengers by telephoning them and arranging for transfers to other Jal flights or other airlines. Twelve Domestic flights were suspended along with an International flight to Washington from Tokyo a International Airport at ministers named Ankara Turkey a Suleyman Demirel a Veteran turkish Leader who was twice ousted by the military formed a coalition government wednesday following his Triumph in last months parliamentary elections. Demirel who became prime minister for the seventh time named 20 ministers from his Center right True path party and 12 from the Center left social Democrat populist party of Erdal Inonu who will serve As Deputy prime minister. Charges of party corruption nepotism and Lush living by the family of prime minister tur gut Ozal and an inflation rate of 70 percent figured in the october vote against Ozalis motherland party which had governed for eight years. . Diplomats say they expect Little or no change in turkeys . Stance under Demirel. Bonn Germany apr russian president Boris n. Yeltsin making his first foreign trip since the failed August coup signed a Broad cooperation pact with Germany on thursday and won a pledge of Aid for the coming Winter. Yeltsin welcomed As though he headed an Independent nation rather than a soviet Republic and Chancellor Helmut Kohl signed a 12-Page joint statement on future cooperation. The document mentioned the soviet Union Only twice. One instance dealt with the russian republics pledge to cover most of the immense soviet foreign debt. The other obliged Russia to respect the existing treaties Between Germany and the soviet Union. Yeltsin and Kohl who has Long been on intimate terms with Yeltsin a rival soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev smiled broadly As the two leaders met for the first time. They Shook hands in the courtyard Ine front of Kohls office. Without revealing details Kohl said Germany the biggest provider of Aid and credit to the soviet Union will help Russia develop a Market Economy and provide food and humanitarian Aid through the coming Winter. Germany cannot act alone Kohl said. A your Western partners Are summoned likewise to Rise to this great Challenge and do Justice to their joint responsibility a he said. The joint declaration said Russia and Germany were Quot mindful of the sinister segment of their joint history Zagreb Yugoslavia a As preparations were made to Bury hundreds of Vul Kovar a dead in mass Graves thursday serbian led forces shifted their offensive onto remaining croatian strongholds in Eastern parts of the breakaway Republic. Hundreds of the wounded and others already evacuated from ravaged Vukovan prepared for the next leg of an Odyssey taking them through two republics and Back to Croatia near where they started from. Even As the Federal army and serbian forces cleaned up the Danube River town they captured after a three month siege Zeljko Raznatovic commander of serbian volunteers in Vukovan said when asked about his next goal a we Are going on. croatian defense ministry and diplomatic sources in the croatian capital of Zagreb said they had indications of a massive buildup of the serbian dominated army around the Osisek area. That could not be immediately con a nazi Germany s invasion that left tens of millions dead. But they said they were moving to Quot the closest cooperation Quot in awareness of the two countries centuries of Good economic cultural scientific and human relations. Kohl said he and Yeltsin made a a decisive and big step in agreeing to re establish an autonomous Republic for some 2 million ethnic germans on the Volga River. Germany worried that All of them will assert their right to immigrate has been pressing for a Homeland that with German Aid will give those ethnic germans a future in Russia. The so called a Volga germans Are mostly descendants of Farmers who were encouraged to immigrate to czarist Russia by Empress Catherine ii in the mid-1700s after the soviet Union was established they were Given an autonomous Republic on the Volga River but Josef Stalin dispersed them to Kazakhstan and other Distant republics under great hardship in 1941 because they were thought Likely to become traitors when the nazis invaded. Kohl said he and Yeltsin had discussed Germany Scall for Moscow to extradite Erich Honecker former East German communist Leader. No Progress was apparent since Yeltsin said Gorbachev still protects the 79-year-old Honecker in his Moscow exile. The russian and German foreign ministers also signed a joint declaration on promoting a bilateral Ger Man russian relations and agreed to regular Contact at the foreign ministers level. Firmed. Osisek 20 Miles Northwest of Vukovan has been under bombardment almost constantly for several months. Heavy shelling was reported there wednesday. The City of 140,000 was reported quiet overnight but sporadic shelling resumed thursday. The army and croatian authorities agreed late wednesday that refugees remaining in Vukovan should be evacuated to Kremska Mitrovich a town in Serbia a european Community Deputy spokesman said in Zagreb. About 1,600 refugees and 400 wounded spent the night in Kremska Mitrovich wednesday. They were to leave thursday for a town just across Serbia a Border with the Republic of Bosnia Herzegovina in route to the croatian town of Djakova just 30 Miles West of Vukovan Koestal said. Reports of atrocities in Vukovan emerged As the sick and wounded were being evacuated. One report claimed that 41 children had been slain. A a woman looks out from her House in to Kopje a croatian Village that has been under heavy shelling recently. Serbian led forces moving on As Vukovan dead await burial
