European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday december 30, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3high-Speed train does t Stow baby mans France up a a pregnant woman who went into labor 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. Iranian syrian Aid sought to free German hostage 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. Bonn Germany up a German foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher telephoned syrian foreign minister Farooq Ash share on saturday in an Effort to gain the release of two germans the last Western hostages still held in Lebanon a German foreign ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said Ash share promised his support. Genscher also planned to phone iranian foreign minister Ali Akbar Vella Yati the spokesman said. Genscher made other phone Calls recently to . Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar and his special envoy Giandomenico Picco the spokesman said. Germany was standing firm on its refusal to release two imprisoned lebanese Brothers in Exchange for the two germans. Government spokesman Norbert Schafer told reporters Friday that the government will not consider a Trade of Mohammed Ali Hammadi and Abbas Hantman i both convicted of terrorist acts by German courts for the two German Aid workers who were kidnapped in Lebanon in May 1989. Thomas Kemptner 30, and Heinrich Striebig 50, in a videotape released by their kidnappers thursday appealed to Chancellor Helmut Kohl to release the two Brothers to gain their own Freedom. Schafer said the government regrets that the kidnappers refuse to release without conditions the two germans who were illegally seized. He said the Hammadi Brothers were convicted of serious crimes by courts of Justice and therefore the gov. Ern ment will not change its stand that a Trade is out of the question. Mohammed Ali Hammadi was convicted in 1989 of murder and air piracy in connection with the 1985 hijacking of a Twa Airliner in route to Beirut Lebanon. A . Navy diver aboard the plane was murdered by the hijackers. After Mohammed Ali Hammadi was arrested on a trip to Germany the German government rejected an american request for his extradition and placed him on trial. His brother Abbas Hammadi who also was arrested on a trip to Germany in 1988 was sentenced to 13 years in prison for complicity in the kidnapping of two German businessmen in Beirut. They were seized As hostages to Trade for Mohammed a Hammadi but were later released. In Beirut on saturday the Muslim operated radio station voice of the Homeland said a visiting iranian official contacted the captors and urged them to free the two germans before the end of this year. Atallah Moha Erani Iran a Deputy president for parliamentarian and Legal affairs who arrived in Beirut on wednesday asked the shiite Hamadi family to a Speed up the release of the two germans before the end of this year in accordance to pledges made by Tehran to the German government a the radio quoted iranian sources in Tehran As saying. Kemptner and Striebig workers for the German Relief Agency Asme hum Anitas were kidnapped May 16, 1989, in the Southern port City of Saida. Iranian sources said the Issue of the German hostages will be resolved before Pyrcz do Cuellari a term of office expires dec. 31.korean delegates fail to reach nuclear pact Seoul South Korea apr South and North korean delegates failed saturday to reach a nuclear non proliferation Accord for their heavily armed Peninsula but agreed to meet again this week. Two delegates and three nuclear experts from each Side met for two hours at the Border Village of Panmunjom to discuss the nuclear disputes that threaten to scuttle the historic reconciliation Accord. They agreed to meet again tuesday said officials of the South koreans National unification Board. Details of the meeting were not immediately available it was the second inter Korea nuclear meeting in three Days. A breakthrough was made in the Issue thursday when North Korea in a Surprise move promised to sign a safeguards agreement and open its nuclear facilities to International inspections a at the earliest possible the hard line communist state also stated that it would not possess facilities for enriching uranium a Promise indicating that it would abandon suspected plans to make nuclear weapons. Experts believe that North Korea one of the worlds few remaining stalinist regimes would have the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons in a few years. The proposed no nuclear declaration along with the dec. 13 reconciliation Accord would greatly help promote peace on the tense korean Peninsula one of the last Heaters of cold War confrontation. Seoul officials want North Korea to sign the safeguards agreement with the Vienna Austria based International atomic Energy Agency and allow Neutral inspections by Jan. 15. The officials said that if North Korea fails to comply with the South korean demand the 1992 joint .-South Korea military exercises would be held As scheduled. A permanent halt to the exercise team spirit has been Long sought by North Korea. The exercise an annual event since 1976, usually begins in late january and ends in fundamentalists win algerian Assembly election Algiers Algeria apr Muslim fundamentalists who triumphed in algerians first free parliamentary elections will a preserve All liberties and avoid Irani an style excesses if they take Power their Leader said saturday. The islamic salvation front took the Lions share of seats in thursdays first round vote for a 430-seat parliament leaving some algerians wondering whether forces like the president and army can prevail against the Rule of the Koran. Final official results were Likely to be announced today the official aps news Agency said. Premier Sid Ahmed Gozali has said the fundamentalists won 187 races out right just 29 Short of a majority in the National Peoples Assembly. The party a leadership saturday claimed 190 scats. The nation was taking Stock with newspapers speaking of a Shock Waves a a the earthquake and a the Abdelkader Vachani acting Leader of the islamic front said in a French television interview that his party rejected a evil hate and aggression and hoped to establish peaceful relations with All nations. A Algeria must work with All the political forces existing in the world and we cannot imagine today or tomorrow Algeria being totally isolated from the world around it a he said. 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 a Fiorana Etna in Sicily
