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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 9, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 3spreading Good will Larry Babb of Ohio holds a russian child who received Christmas gifts at a Moscow children a Hospital tuesday. Members of operation care lift a venture Between British and american groups delivered medicines and toys to hospitals and children a Homes in the  to drop monitoring of truce croats report Belgrade Yugoslavia a the european Community announced wednesday that it is suspending monitoring operations in Yugoslavia after one of its helicopters was downed by a Federal warplane croatian radio reported. The radio quoted dec Mission spokesman Joao a Silva As saying the activities of monitoring teams were halted until the Federal armed forces can guarantee their safety the radio said. All five dec military observers aboard the helicopter a a Frenchman and four italians a were killed in tuesdays shoot Down. It was not possible to immediately confirm the radio report. No one answered the Telephone at the dec Mission office in Zagreb the croatian capital. Teams from the 12-nation european Community have monitored cease fire violations and other aspects of the War in Croatia since late summer. Despite the Downing of the dec helicopter . Officials encouraged by the general Success of a 5-Day-old cease fire said they would not be dissuaded from sending an Advance Mission of military observers to Croatia. Tuesdays attack was blamed by Many on hard line elements in the serb dominated Federal army. It also could have been an attempt to undermine do yugoslav defense minister quits Belgrade Yugoslavia apr the Federal defense minister Gen. Velko Kadijevic has resigned and will be replaced by the hard line army chief of staff yugoslav Media reported wednesday. The announcement of Kadijevic a resignation came a Day after the military acknowledged a Federal warplane shot Down a european Community helicopter Over Croatia killing All five truce observers aboard. The Tan Jug news Agency said Kadijevic resigned dec. 31 and formalized his decision wednesday in a letter to the serb dominated Federal presidency. Belgrade to reported that chief of staff Blagojo Adzic had been appointed the new defense minister. It appeared hard liners May have staged the attack on the dec helicopter to undermine Kadijevic who supports the Effort to Send . Peacekeepers to Yugoslavia to end the 6-month-old civil War in Croatia. Sense minister Veljko Kadijevic whose support for the cease fire has been opposed by several leading commanders of serb irregulars in contested areas of Croatia. The tenuous .-brokered truce the longest period of relative peace during the 6-month-old civil War in Croatia was still reported to be holding wednesday along most of the 350-mile front despite isolated incidents. No casualties were  sentenced to 18 years for Jet bombing kor Dallos Greece a a court on wednesday sentenced a palestinian to 18 years in prison after finding him guilty of the 1982 bombing of a pan am jetliner in which a japanese teen Ager was killed and 15 passengers were injured. The three judge court had ruled 2-1 earlier in the Day that Mohammed Rashid was guilty of premeditated murder and planting explosives aboard an Airliner. Court president Apostolos Karagiani Poulos announced the sentence at the close of the trial held in the maximum Security kor Dallos prison. He said Rashid will be expelled from Greece after serving his sentence. The bomb exploded while the Jet was flying from Tokyo to Hawaii on aug. 11, 1982, killing 15-year-old torn Ozawa and injuring 15 other passengers. A the decision is political and in essence condemns the palestinian struggle a Rashid told reporters. A i was simply the Scapegoat of United states  Rashid 41, immediately appealed the verdict and sentence to a higher court. The sentencing came after 10 weeks of hearings that included evidence and Testi Mony submitted by Fri agents. The Fri and the prosecution accused Rashid of being a top official of the defunct Iraq based May 15 terrorist organization which specialized in the construction of nearly undetectable High tech bombs. Court prosecutor Marios Hatzopoulos had proposed that Rashid be sentenced to the 18 years in  to visit Germany England Washington up a defense Secretary Dick Cheney was scheduled to leave late wednesday for visits with the leaders of Britain and Germany the Pentagon announced tuesday. Defense department spokesman Pete Williams said Cheney will meet with British prime minister John major and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He will also meet with his defense counterparts and the foreign ministers of both nations. Williams said Cheney would discuss a items of Mutual  he declined to be specific. While in Germany Cheney will visit . Troops engaged in Field training. He will return to Washington on tuesday. Phone prefixes will change for areas in Eastern German Delta Jet carrying 44 lands after losing its right engine Grapevine Texas apr an engine fell from a Delta air lines jetliner tuesday shortly after taking off for Houston with 44 people aboard authorities said. No injuries were reported. Strict marketing manager. The engine landed on a Grassy area next to a runway. A it can Fly on one engine if necessary a Holland said. The engine was designed to separate from the Wing Case of a major malfunction said l. Henry Conley Eltas District marketing director. By Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Tele Kom the German Telephone system soon will eliminate the �?o0037�?� dealing code now used to place Calls to areas in Eastern Germany. A series of Domestic prefixes beginning with �?o03�?� will replace the old prefix which had two zeroes to distinguish it As an International dealing code. Tele Kom plans to Start reprogramming switching stations along the former inter German Border on tuesday and then gradually to expand the new dealing system to other areas of the former West Germany. The West a conversion is expected to end april 15 with the unification of the Eastern and Western Berlin Telephone networks under the single prefix of �?o030.�?� Western customers who Call Eastern Berlin now must dial the prefix �?o0037-2.�?� a list of new local dealing prefixes for Eastern German cities is available at Tele Kom offices and Long distance calling stations at Post offices. The �?o0037�?� code a vestige of the Days when Germany was a divided country still May be used for a transition period after the new prefixes become valid. After april 15, Tele Kom will begin the More demanding task of reprogramming dealing procedures for customers who live in Eastern Germany a Eastern Berlin and the states of Brandenburg Mecklenburg Sachsen Sachsen Anhalt and Thuringia. A customer in the East now must dial �?o0049,�?� the International prefix for Germany when calling areas in Western Berlin or Western Germany then add the appropriate City code. Calling from one part of Eastern Germany to another Here Are the new prefixes of some of the principal cities in former East Germany. Brandenburg Chemnitz Cottbus Dessau Dresden Eisenach Erfurt Frankfurt Oder Gera of Erlitz Gotha Halle Jena Leipzig Magdeburg 03301 Meissen 03521 0371 Merseburg 03461 0355 Neu Brandenburg 0395 0340 Oran Lenburg 03301 0351 Potsdam 0331 03691 Rostock 0381 0361 Schwerin 0385 0335 Stendal 03931 0365 Stralsund 03831 03581 Suhl 03681 03621 Tougau 03421 0345 Weimar 03643 03641 Wittenberg 03491 0341 Zwickau 0375 0391 is is even More complicated because the prefixes used depend on what City is called and where the Call originates. The Telephone authority Hopes to convert All Eastern German telephones to the Domestic dealing system by the end of 1993. People calling Eastern Germany from foreign countries May begin using the �?o0049 International prefix for Germany and the new City codes starting next summer Tele Kom spokesman Gunther Buchmuller said  
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