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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world the stars and stripes monday december 9,1991crash kills zambian aide injures vice president a from wire reports Osaka Zambia a an automobile Accident sunday on the Road to Zambia a main Airport killed a presidential aide and severely injured the country a new vice president Levy Man awash a spokesman for Zambia s state House said. Quot or Man awash is in intensive care a the spokesman said. A this condition is described As  Man awash was in route to the Airport to see off the president Frederick Chiluba on a one Day Courtesy visit to neighbouring Mozambique when his car struck another presidential vehicle returning from delivering Chiluba s Luggage. An aide identified by the spokesman Only As a emr. Mwale died instantly in the crash which happened around 8 . Sunday. Chiluba cancelled his visit to  Maxwell speculation London a executives in the late Robert maxwells publishing Empire had Learned of his financial manipulations before his fatal cruise and he feared a boardroom coup a newspaper reported sunday. The account in the sunday Telegraph followed other newspaper reports that the offices of some of the same executives at the London daily Mirror had been bugged. Lawrence guest the Mirror group newspapers financial director had repeatedly Chal ended Maxwell about $84.5 million that alleged a Nad been moved from Mirror group into Maxwell s private Empire the sunday Telegraph said without attribution. Guest ordered an internal investigation into the alleged transfers and the publishing magnate feared Nis executives would try to oust him the paper  dec currency urged Bonn Germany a Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger said sunday that a future european currency will have to be at least As stable As the German Mark and warned that the european Community should not allow rampant inflation. A whatever replaces the a Mark must be at least As Good that Means As stable As the a Mark a the head of the powerful German Central Bank said in an interview with the Bild am sonntag weekly. A the european Community must become More than Ever in the past a Community of Solidarity As Well As a Community of stability and not a Community of inflation a he said in the interview published sunday on the eve of the dec Summit in maastricht Netherlands. Mexican general implicated in deaths of 7 drug agents Mexico City up the mexican army stripped a top general of command saturday and three officials of the attorney general a office resigned As officials reacted to a Blue ribbon report about the killing of seven drug agents by the military. Army officials announced saturday that Gen. Alfredo Moran Acevedo and several other unnamed officers involved in the nov. 7 incident had been relieved of their duties. Moran was on hand at a Clandestine Airstrip in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz when soldiers under his command shot and killed seven agents of Mexico a judicial police who were pursuing drug traffickers. Hie incident raised questions about whether the military might be protecting drug traffickers in Exchange for bribes. But soldiers opened fire on the agents plane killing seven of 10 officers while All the drug traffickers escaped arrest. Officials from both the army and the police initially called the incident a a tragic error a Ana said the soldiers mistook the agents for drug traffickers. In fact a Blue ribbon report released Friday by the National human rights commission said the initial Exchange of shots Between soldiers and drug agents probably occurred because the soldiers failed to recognize the agents. But the commissions report also said Moran was told by two different officials of the attorney general a office that his soldiers were shooting at Federal judicial police. One of those officials told investigators a the general told me. The agents were acting arrogantly and did no to want to identify themselves and that he would personally go to the site with 100 men saying t done to know How this is going to turn  a the Blue ribbon report added the shooting intensified after Moran a arrival with the seven agents killed while the general was on hand. Reports in the mexican press have suggested the soldiers May have been protecting the drug dealers from arrest. The Case has also caught the attention of american officials because . Customs agents had been involved in the Chase. The Blue ribbon report raised several questions about the army a conduct in the incident. For instance the report said one slain agent died from blows to the head he received after being wounded and disarmed. Also when a second Federal judicial police plane landed after agents in the first requested assistance Over their radio the army took those men into custody disarmed them and beat them the report said. Cuba cuts transport to save Oil Mexico City apr the cuban government drastically Cut transportation saturday to conserve Oil and More reductions Are Likely in the coming months cuban officials announced. A report by the cuban news Agency Prensa Latina monitored in Mexico City said the transportation ministry ordered a 40 percent Cut in services on Urban buses railroads and Domestic airlines beginning saturday. Transportation workers Are also limited in their free use of Public transit vehicles a fringe Benefit of their employment. Holiday travellers in the Caribbean nation will probably run into problems As a result of the cutbacks a transportation ministry spokesman said. Already services Between the capital of Havana and the provinces has been reduced and Domestic air routes cancelled. Cubans Economy has been reeling from cutbacks in Oil shipments from the struggling soviet Union. This year Cuba will receive about 10 million tons of soviet Oil Down from 13 million tons in 1990. The soviets moreover Are 400,000 tons behind in scheduled deliveries. Deputy soviet foreign minister Alexander Vladislavlev and cuban Commerce minister Ricardo Cabri Sas have been meeting in Moscow to discuss a 1992 agreement to Trade cuban sugar for Oil. The Oil shortage has endangered cubans vital sugar Harvest. The government has mothballed 10,000 tractors for Lack of fuel and spare parts. It is replacing them with hone and of drawn farm equipment. Cuban president Fidel Castro has stepped up Nis Praise of the Virtues of manual labor in recent speeches to students and intellectuals. Castro has asked russian president Boris n. Yeltsin to renew a sugar for Oil agreement to ensure Oil shipments to the Island for 1992. The russian Republic produces 90 percent of soviet Oil and is cubans primary supplier of crude. Cuban officials fear that if they Are forced to sell their sugar on the open Market instead of using it for direct Trade a glut on the sugar Market would drive Down prices. Dig near pyramids gives Rise to ancient colossal bakery a arts old Giza plateau Al cd geologists have near the est bakery where Bakers Labouring in smoke filled rooms turned out thousands of loaves every Day for hungry Crews building the pyramids. Quot we re talking colossal baking Here easily enough to feed 30,000 people a Day said Egypt Logist Mark Lehner of the University of Chicago a Oriental Institute. The Well preserved bakery with a Hearth Doug vats and bread pots dates from Giza plateaus Pyramid building Days which began with the fourth dynasty in 2575 . Experts say it is the oldest bakery found in Egypt perhaps in the world. To ancient egyptians King or commoner bread was an everyday Staple taken with a bit of onion or garlic and a swig of Beer. Money did not exist and bread was doled out As partial payment to those who inched massive stones into the towering pyramids that still evoke Awe after 4,600 years. Records from the period describe at least 14 kinds of bread. So far the team of american and egyptian experts working 1v4 Miles from the Sphinx has found three kinds of bread holds Small and Large Bell shaped and Flat trays. The larg Esu nolds weigh 22 pounds.  businessmen David Koch of new York and Bruce Ludwig of los Angeles. Dig the dig began in october financed b a Lessen David Kod a Bruce Ludwig of la Gers found the Oakery in november. After the seasons work ends this month team members plan to study the Art of making bread with ingredients available then. Bread baking is pictured on Tomb Walls of a fifth dynasty official named in in the cemetery of Sankara South of the pyramids. A we did no to know for sure until now that this scene was real. We did t have a bakery to compare it with a said expedition co director Zahi harass in charge of antiquities in the Sankara area. Tomb paintings Are like a a Sears Roebuck Catalon for egyptology its a Lehner said. A egyptology is the Only science where you can look at a Tomb painting go out and dig up the same scene in reasonably Good condition then compare the  for those making the bread working conditions were nightmarish. Heat was intense. Smoke was so thick a these rooms would have been like a night sky filled with rain a Lehner said. A a we be dug through feet of Black Vel vet built up  Egypt Logist Mark utter left of the University of Chicago a Oriental Institute watches As colleague John Nolan lifts an ancient bread Mold at the Gaza plateau site  
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