European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 10, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 9vance cites Progress on peacekeepers Belgrade Yugoslavia apr . Envoy Cyrus Vance left Yugoslavia on monday with what he called a a substantial agreement on How to deploy . Peacekeepers in Croatia. But his Boss said there still was too much fighting to allow a . Force to enter the country. In a meeting sunday with serbian president Slobodan Milosevic Vance said no peacekeepers would be sent unless the .-brokered cease fire is observed. And . Secretary general Javier p6rez de Cuellar said monday in new York that the continued shelling around p i the croatian City of Dubrovnik would recent the deployment of . Peace keepers. The . Chief told reporters that the cease fire around the Adriatic port a is holding More or less.�?�. However he added Quot it is not what i would Call a total cease fire which is indispensable for us to Send any peace i a  he. Said he would be keeping briefed by Vance today. Thousands of people have been killed in the 5 i months of fighting since Croatia declared Independence. Croatian forces have battled both the serb dominated Federal army and serbian irregulars. Most of Croatia was reported quiet monday and european Community monitors said preparations were under Way for the Federal army to leave Barracks near Zagreb Croatia a capital. Croatia agreed to halt a blockade of the Barracks if the troops would leave. . Sources in Belgrade the capital of Serbia and of Yugoslavia quoted Vance As saying a concept had been worked out for deployment of peacekeepers that has the a substantial agreement of All  the sources speaking on condition of anonymity quoted Vance As explaining that under an a link blot strategy the troops would be deployed at trouble spots and not along demarcation lines or Borders. Croatia had wanted peacekeepers along the Border with Serbia because it claims Milosevic is seeking to expand Serbia a territory. However the yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug quoted Vance As telling Milosevic that the terms of the nov. 26 cease fire have not been met so no peacekeeping deployment can be envisioned. Sum Didio Hahn fuel tapped pvt. Manfred Boll a member of the pipeline Pioneer in 850, a German army unit at Zweig Rick in a works saturday amid a configuration of pipes that pumped aviation Fidel from storage tanks at Hahn a into a nato pipeline. About 1.9 million Gallons of Jet Fidel were moved from Hahn which no longer has fighters stationed at the base to air bases at Span Dahlem and bit Burg. The 583rd logistics so at Hahn assisted the 850th. 17 saved 10 lost after ship sinks in Mediterranean Catania Sicily up a italian Navy helicopters and two passing cargo ships rescued 17 Crew members of a Small romanian freighter that Sank in a Mediterranean Gale Early monday but 10 other crewmen were missing and feared drowned Rescue officials said. Officials identified the romanian ship As the 4,620-ton scale a owned by the romanian Nav rom shipping company. They said the boat Sank shortly after Midnight when its cargo of ammonia nitrates shifted in a Force 10 Gale. Ibe boat was located some 160 sea Miles East of Catania. The ship sent out a distress signal and then the Crew took to the lifeboats. Twelve of the Crew were picked up by a passing freighter and another four clinging to a capsized life raft were plucked from the sea by an italian Navy Rescue helicopter from a base near Catania on the East coast of Sicily. Later monday another crewman who was clinging to a capsized Lifeboat was picked up by the russian freighter Kuloy. One of the four men picked up by the helicopter was in serious condition in a Catania Hospital officials said. He had several broken vertebrae. Several freighters passing in the area and italian Navy reconnaissance planes searched the area until darkness monday but found no Trace of the 10 missing Crew members in the storm lashed Waters. Meanwhile there was a Happy ending to a similar drama in the Adriatic sea off the East coast of Italy. World the 3,000-ton motor ship afr with 10 Crew Mem ers aboard and flying the Flag of Honduras developed a heavy list when its cargo of Grain shifted in the Gale and the ship sent out distress signals. A russian freighter and an italian fishing boat stood by the honduran ship for several hours until the italian tugboat Tiziana d. Arrived from Ancona in mid afternoon. Wife held in death of suicidal mate Tokyo apr a woman has been arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing her husband after he apparently failed to hang himself a newspaper reported monday. A i wanted to make him comfortable As soon As possible a the mass circulation Asahi newspaper quoted Utako Yamashita 43, As saying. She was arrested sunday at her Home in Yokohama on suspicion of murder but it was not immediately Clear what charges prosecutors would file. The report said she stabbed her husband twice in the Chest with a Kitchen knife to put him out of his suffering because she thought his heart was still beating after he tried to hang himself from a clothes rack with a rope. Tamio Yamashita 52, a professor of Irish literature at Hosei University and an expert on the poet William Butler Yeats returned from studies in London in october six months ahead of schedule. Since then he had repeatedly told his wife that he wanted to die and had complained about health and work problems. The report said Utako Yamashita called the police from her Home and said a i have killed my  the police found her husband dead on the bed and she was next to him rubbing his body it said. Egyptian boy 4, cleared of assaulting toddler from wire reports Cairo Egypt a egyptian authorities acquitted a 4-year-old boy on charges that he assaulted a girl toddler when he was 2, marking the first such Case in the history of the egyptian judiciary newspapers reported monday. The trial in a Cairo juvenile court of Choco late chomping Mohammed Mohammed Ami Drew widespread attention in the egyptian Media. The boy was acquitted of assault and a previous court decision that ordered him taken into care was rescinded. A while the boys lawyers were defending him in court he happily munched on a chocolate bar his parents bought him happily oblivious of what was going on a the Cairo daily Al ashram reported. The Mother of the 2-year-old girl allegedly assaulted by Mohammed filed the Battery charges last year telling police the boy injured Ner daughter in an a unprovoked  Ira claims responsibility Manchester England a the Irish Republican army claimed responsibility monday for a series of firebomb attacks on stores in Manchester and Blackpool. The Ira has used incendiary devices about the size of tape cassettes in attacks on commercial and government property in England and Northern Ireland in their Campaign to drive the British out of the province. The claim of responsibility was made in a Telephone Call to a Northern Ireland radio station. In the latest attacks four stores in a shopping Center in Manchester were hit by seven firebombs Early sunday. Ten devices ignited in shop a a a a a Quot t. In in Blackpool on sunday and one on monday. I total 23 firebombs were r j a a and 18 ignited police said total 23 firebombs were planted in the two cities ice. Marcos denies charges Manila Philippines a Imelda Marcos pleaded not guilty monday to charges of tax evasion in the Philippines first criminal trial of the family of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The former first lady answered with a firm a not guilty As each of the seven charges were read. Her son Ferdinand a Bong Bong Marcos jr., pleaded not guilty to two counts. State prosecutors allege Imelda Marcos failed to file tax returns or pay about $1,246 in income taxes in 1985 and 198o.pro-statehood forces win a Victory in puerto Rico san Juan puerto Rico apr in a Victory for forces supporting . Statehood voters have rejected a Bill of a democratic rights that would have asserted the Spanish speaking Caribbean islands distinct cultural identity. The measure voted on in sundays referendum also proposed new rules for any future vote on the islands political status. The pro statehood new progressive party led by Pedro Rossello had campaigned hard against the measure warning that it might alienate the . Con Gress which oversees the Island. With nearly All ballots counted returns showed 54.9 percent of voters against the Bill and 45 percent in favor. The referendum outcome dealt a Sharp political blow to gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon. Colon Leader of the popular democratic party favors a continuance of the islands status As a . Commonwealth with greater autonomy. It also represented a defeat for the Small puerto rican Independence party which favors full autonomy. Puerto Picans Are about evenly divided Between those who want statehood and those who favor remaining a Commonwealth according to polls with less than 10 percent wanting full Independence. The referendum Bill had called for a the right to choose a status of full political dignity without either colonial or territorial subordination to the plenary Powers of the .  the Bill also sought to a guarantee. Our culture language and distinct identity a including the islands right to Field its own teams for International Competition such As the olympic games. A final clause sought to guarantee . Citizenship for puerto Picans. Spain filed puerto Rico for 400 years before territorial control was ceded to the United states in 1898. Congress granted the Island Commonwealth status in 1952. Residents of puerto Rico cannot vote in . Presidential elections. However they can be drafted in the . Armed forces. They Are represented in Washington by an elected non voting commissioner in the House of representatives