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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, December 30, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 30, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 3high-Speed train does t slow baby mans France up a a pregnant woman who went into Jabor on Frances High Speed Tiv train gave birth to a baby girl As she hurtled through the Countryside at almost 200 Miles per hour rail officials said saturday. Marie Haverlant 36, was More than eight months pregnant when she took the non Stop Rennes Paris train Friday intending to visit the Home of her parents with her 9-year-old son Julien. The pair took their seats in Carriage no. 13 of the worlds fastest train which earlier this year reached speeds of 320 Mph. By a stroke of Luck a doctor working for the French National railway company in of was on Board the train when Haverlant went into labor. Passengers watched agog As he delivered a 4-Pound baby girl. Mother and child were reported doing Well saturday. Swiss embassy in Tehran closed As tensions Rise italian government backs Broad smoking restrictions Rome apr the government saturday approved a proposed Law which would ban smoking on Domestic flights in schools and hospitals and require no smoking sections in bars restaurants and offices. The Law needs approval by parliament. The ban would also cover International flights of less than two hours and train corridors outside no smoking compartments. The Bill Calls for fines and would give restaurants and offices up to three years to comply. Bern Switzerland apr Switzerland closed its embassy in Tehran on sunday after iranian authorities stopped a Swiss Diplomat from leaving Iran officials said. The move also interrupted . Relations with Iran. There was no immediate comment from Iran. Switzerland which has represented . Interests in Iran since the american embassy was seized in 1979, has been locked in growing tensions with Iran Over the arrest of an iranian in Bern last monday. He is suspected of involvement in the August assassination of former iranian prime minister Shahpour Bakhtiar who lived in exile in Paris. The Swiss identified the Man on Friday As Zeal Sar Hadi 25. Speculation Over the identity of the suspect had entered on Hossein she Khattar a Counselor to the iranian telecommunications ministry. France issued an arrest warrant for she Khattar after the killing and has said it will Issue one for Sarhadi. South african interests also represented by Switzerland in Iran were also interrupted by sundays development officials said. Swiss foreign ministry spokesman Marco Cameroni said the embassy was closed indefinitely after a woman Diplomat sought to leave Tehran for vacation on a flight to Switzerland. Iranian officials at the Airport confiscated her diplomatic passport and refused to allow her onto the plane. The embassy was Able to get the passport Back several hours later Cameroni Saith Walter Hafner Swiss charge do affaires in Tehran protested the iranian action first in a Telephone Call to the iranian foreign ministry Cameroni said. The Swiss foreign ministry then filed a sharply worded protest. Cameroni said the protest called the iranian action a a dear and serious injury of human rights and demanded a the immediate and unconditional restoration of the Freedom of movement Quot of the embassy staff. The. Iranian actions against the Swiss embassy staff were hindering a the free performance of their diplomatic and consular duties a Cameroni said and the Mission was therefore being closed. Further Steps were possible he said. Swiss authorities said Sarhadi had been staying at the iranian embassy in Bern since last september but that he had entered Switzerland on a tourist visa and had never been registered with the Swiss government As a Diplomat or embassy employee. Iran claimed that Sarhadi was protected by International conventions and demanded Nis release. Iranian officials started restricting the movement of the Swiss embassy staff in Tehran late last week officials said. Meanwhile Iran and France signed an Accord sunday settling a billion Dollar financial dispute that had strained their relations for 12 years. Under the Accord Paris will pay Tehran $550 million in the next 48 hours. Three instalments of $150 million will follow in 1992, said Tehran radio. The Money was invested in 1974 by Iran slate Monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in euro if the european uranium enrichment consortium. After the Shah was overthrown in 1979 by the islamic revolution the iranian government cancelled the agreement and demanded that France repay the Money a plus another $1 billion in interest. Probe into plane crash centers on British Pilot cd Loggia Italy up a investigators sunday stepped up efforts to identify the decomposing remains of a Pilot whose crashed plane was pulled from the Adriatic sea at the weekend after getting caught in fishing nets. Police said their efforts so far to pin an identity on a Man carrying documents made out in the name of John Richard Hawke 54, from Truro great Britain have been in vain. Results of an autopsy set for sunday have yet to be released. British Media reported sunday a Man identified As Hawke a former Royal air Force Pilot acrobatic stunt flyer and Exen cyclopedia Salesman was charged in 1965 in Miami with trying to smuggle a Squadron of bombers to an unfriendly country. Wreckage of the four seater single engine plane was pulled from the Adriatic sea 12 nautical Miles off the italian coast saturday with the decomposing body of its Pilot still strapped in his seat. Witnesses at the Salvage operation said that about $900 in . Currency was found on the body. Police speculated the Man might have been a director of an unnamed american freight forwarding company. Officials said they were trying to determine the authenticity of a Florida driving License and a British pilots License both made out to Hawke. The driving License showed a picture of a Man with a Goatee. Italian police said they Are also probing the possibility the Small Piper aircraft could have been coming or going from War torn Yugoslavia. With troubled Yugoslavia just across the Adriatic italian sources said it was conceivable the plane could have been pulled by Strong currents from the spot where it went Down to the location near the italian coast where it was found. Investigators said the crash could have occurred any time in the past two months. An air traffic control Center responsible for the Region near Venice was still trying to determine the Date of the crash since no record of the flight appears to exist. 5 believed dead in crash of China airlines cargo Jet Taipei Taiwan up a five Crew members of a China airlines Boeing 747 cargo flight were presumed dead after their plane crashed into Northern Tia wants wan i Mountain Range sunday. The five whose names and nationalities were not immediately known could not be found in debris near the crash site and police said it was unlikely there were any survivors. There were no other passengers on the flight which was headed for Anchorage Alaska said China airlines officials. The flight left Taipei socks International Airport at 2 35 . Sunday. Thir teen minutes later the Captain reported the planets second engine was malfunctioning. Officials immediately lost radio Contact with the flight which disappeared from radar tracking devices at 3 . The crash was reported 25 minutes later. Officials said they did not know what caused the Accident. The aircraft which had clocked More than 45,000 hours flying time passed a safety inspection on dec. 21, the state run China news Agency reported. Transportation officials said they Wii investigate the crash. Streams of fire molten Rivers of lava etch a fiery pattern Down the slope of erupting mount Etna on Friday. Lava flows from the Volcano which came alive dec. 14, threaten the water Supply to the Village of Zaft Erana Etna in Sicily  
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