European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes wednesday january 29,1992 israeli foreign minister David Levy right looks at the chair that a palestinian representative was to have occupied. Palestinians shunning talks in dispute Over delegation Moscow apr palestinians boycotted Middle East peace talks that opened tuesday rejecting the demand of . And russian sponsors that their delegation include Only residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. In All foreign ministers and senior diplomats from More than 20 nations Are attending the two Day talks on regional issues an outgrowth of the .-organized october conference in Madrid Spain. The broadest Cross Section of the Arab world Ever to sit at a negotiating table with Israel was in Moscow for the session. Faisal Husseini head of the eight member palestinian delegation told the associated press at his hotel after the two Day talks opened that the palestinians would not participate until his full delegation is accepted. Quot we insist that palestinians have the right to choose their representatives Quot said Husseini a resident of israeli annexed East Jerusalem. His delegation includes three palestinians from the West Bank three from Quot exile and another Jerusalem resident. In an apparent Concession to the palestinians however a fifth working group was set up to Deal with the problem of refugees. The other groups Are to focus on arms control water sharing the environment and economic development. With the palestinians so far not participating it was by John Millar it Irmburg Bureau Grafe Wohr Germany a the Coo headed response of two 3rd inf div soldiers to a training Accident last week saved the life of a woman Soldier thrown from her truck a division spokesman said monday. Pfc Troy Davis and spec. Gerald Longardner combat medics assigned to he co 2nd in 6tn inf based in Erlanger received army commendation medals on sunday for their actions at thursdays Accident at the Grafe Wohr combined arms training Center maj. Steven Shively said. The two medics were at an m-16 Rifle Range at Grafe Wohr Early thursday afternoon when they were informed that there had been an Accident nearby. Davis 20, said he and Longardner 21, were led to a tractor trailer cab parked in the Road. A we weren to sure what was going on or what happened a he said. Longardner said it appeared that the truck had gone out of control As it was Neading Down a sloping icy tank Trail. A it was a sort of mud ice a he said. A a it a easy to see How it might have gone out of Longardner found a female Soldier lying underneath the truck on the ice. Quot she was in a state of hysterics crying in pain Quot he said. The medics said it did no to appear that she had been run Over but rather was pushed along the ice by the trucks Back wheels As it Slid to a Stop. The Soldier was covered in blood Davis said and their initial examination found several head injuries. He said the victim had suffered a Back injury and a bystander told them the victim also had a leg injury. It was not known How the woman was thrown from the truck. On tuesday Grafe Wohr training area unclear How much could be accomplished by the groups which were to meet today. None of the palestinians who came to Moscow on monday were seen at the Section of the Oval conference table where they were to have shared space with the jordanian delegation. Other major players Are absent. Syria and Lebanon have refused to attend saying insufficient Progress was made in bilateral peace talks in Washington that were held after the Madrid meeting. Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev co sponsor with Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii greeted the delegates tuesday saying his country would not wage a Battle for influence in the Middle East a we Are not going to compete for ideology influence or for military domination and Imperial ambitions also Are alien to in his speech to the conference Baker appealed to the nations or the Middle East to curb military spending and direct their energies toward the common problems of refugees water shortages and an endangered environment. A despite the political issues that currently Divide governments and Peoples there Are real ties that bind the Peoples of the Middle East together a he said. Baker said the Bush administration might support efforts to reduce arms shipments especially those that a contribute to instability amidst spokesman Paul Burckhardt said he could not provide further information on the Accident. Davis said he and his partner did no to have time to think about anything but helping the injured Soldier. A at that Point we did no to know what to think a Davis said. A fall we knew was she had multiple head wounds and a possible spinal the medics said they were not equipped to transport a patient with a Back injury and were worried about possible internal injuries. Longardner went in search of a radio to Call for a medical evacuation helicopter. While waiting for the helicopter Longardner and Davis enlisted the Aid of bystanders to secure the patient on a litter. The two medics treated her for Shock and with the help of onlookers carried her to a Safe place to wait for the helicopter. The victim was first flown to a medical facility in Grafe Wohr before being transported to the army Hospital in in Ornburg Longardner said. Hospital spokesman 1st it. Anthony Handy said tuesday that the victim did not want information about her released to the Media. Davis and Longardner said they were proud of their actions but both emphasized that they simply did what they were trained to do. Actually we train for this stuff so often and so much that the Only difference was that it was real blood and a real casualty and there was a life at stake a said Davis. A we just did our Longardner said that responding to an Accident a kind of comes second nature to a medic. A once you do it so Many times in practice it s repetitious. When they cry a medic a you never know what you re going to have to world angry mob harasses . Team in Baghdad from wire reports United nations a three members of a . Inspection team in Iraq were confronted by 40 demonstrators in the lobby of the Sheraton hotel Baghdad on monday. Iraqi police officers stood by Ana did not intervene . Officials said. Francois Giuliani a spokesman for . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali said the teams american Deputy chief inspector . Army maj. Karen Jansen and two colleagues had been a jostled shouted at and pinned against the Wall of the lobby while iraqi police looked on.�?�. The rest of the inspection team was trapped in a bus in front of the hotel for 25 minutes until they managed to Force their Way out through the hostile crowd said an official for Trie United nations. Giuliani said the iraqi police when asked Why they did not get involved replied that they were not allowed. The 18 members of the team for the special commission on chemical and biological weapons had just arrived in Baghdad from Bahrain. They were to carry out inspections of weapons of mass destruction in the Wake of the persian Gulf collide near Rome Rome a two commuter trains collided monday evening just Southwest of Rome killing at least four people and injuring about 100 others the civil defense ministry said. Italian news agencies said ambulances and helicopters were sent to the site in suburban Santa Maria Delle mole to evacuate the injured to area hospitals. The italian news Agency Ansa said some of the injured were trapped in the wreckage for More than two hours. The injured included the engineers of the two four car trains. Witnesses said a train bound for Rome from Velletri in the Hills just outside the capital had just left the station when it slammed into the train coming from Rome. The cause of the Accident was under arrests soar Paris a a week old crackdown on prostitution in the Bois de Boulogne a Park along the Chic Western Edge of Paris has led to about 500 arrests the City police chief says. A the Early results Are satisfying a chief Pierre Verbrugghe told the City Council on monday. The crackdown includes nighttime closures of four roads through the Park and the deployment of 30 extra officers during the night. Most of the arrests have been for sexual solicitation and deportation proceedings have been initiated against about 10 illegal immigrants working As transvestite prostitutes he said. The crackdown followed press reports that most of the hundreds of prostitutes frequenting the Park were infected with the aids virus. Police said a majority of the prostitutes were transvestites primarily from South Mig crash kills 2 Prague Czechoslovakia a two pilots were killed when a soviet made Mig-23 fighter bomber crashed on a test flight in foggy weather 93 Miles East of Prague the official Csuk news Agency reported tuesday. The plane crashed near the City of Policka in a difficult meteorological conditions late monday the Mlada front a daily said. According to defense ministry spokeswoman Vlasta he Usikova there was dense fog during the night test Library loses Luster Moscow a in the latest blow to the memory of soviet founder Vladimir Lenin his name has been stripped from the largest and most prestigious Library in the former communist Empire. The Lenin state Public Library a an imposing Gray Stone building near the Kremlin a will now be known simply As the russian state Library the news Agency Tass reported monday. Russian president Boris n. Yeltsin ordered the name change. Following the failed August coup Lenin a reputation fell along with statues and other monuments to the Leader of the 1917 bolshevik revolution. Medics recognized for saving life of Soldier injured in truck Accident
