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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 15, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 allies agree on embargo of Libya diplomats say United nations a the United states Britain and France have agreed on a Resolution imposing an air and arms embargo on Libya until it hands Over suspects in the bombings of pan am flight 103 and a French flight diplomats said thursday. The Resolution also Calls on . Members to withdraw Many of their diplomats from Libya said the Western diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity. The draft was expected to be circulated to the entire 15-member Security Council. A vote is expected by the end of the month and the diplomats said it is certain of passage with at least nine votes. Diplomats said the Broad agreement shows that France is standing firmly with the United states and Britain despite libyans efforts to Divide the three by promising to cooperate with a French investigation. Libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi said thursday that four libyan officials were willing to go to France to face charges of complicity in the 1989 bombing of a French Uta Airliner Over niger. That bombing killed 170 people. But he said Libya would not Honor the . And British request to hand Over two other libyans wanted in the 1988 bombing of flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland which killed 270 people. A those accused by the americans they Are not officials a they Are simple citizens a Qadhafi said. A they can to go to a country like the United states or Britain. Like anybody else they would be  but lord Treffgarne a former British Diplomat said thursday night that Qadhafi had told him at a meeting he might hand Over the two for trial in Scotland if a certain safeguards were Given. He did not elaborate but said the British government had frustrated any dialogue with Libya. The diplomats said the latest Resolution Calls for an embargo on All sales of weapons and military equipment to Libya. It also would ban Sale of airline parts and equipment to the libyan airline prohibit the airline from Landing abroad and prohibit foreign airlines from Landing in Libya they said. Apelle american photographer David Turnley won the world press photo Competition with this picture of army sgt. Ken Kozakiewicz mourning for a buddy killed during the Gulf War. Photo of weeping go wins top prize Amsterdam Netherlands apr american photographer David Turnley on Friday won the 1991 world press photo Competition s top prize with his Gulf War picture of an american Soldier weeping for his dead buddy. The press photo of the year was chosen from among 18,000 entries from 75 countries. A 7 a the photo shows wounded army sgt. Ken Kozakiewicz weeping after learning his buddy had been killed in Iraq on the last Day of the Gulf War. Near Kozakiewicz was a body bag containing his Friend. The picture was taken in a helicopter of the 5th Mash Mobile army surgical Hospital fast surgical team. It was later determined that Kozakiewicz a Friend had been killed by Friendly fire. Turnley works for the Detroit free press and Black Star. The photo of the year award carries a Cash prize of 15,000 guilders $8,333. World Spanish strikers shoot fireworks at ministry from wire reports Madrid Spain a angry workers launched fireworks at the ministry of Industry on Friday heating up a Day of transport strikes and labor demonstrations that kept hundreds of thousands of commuters stuck in traffic. Police in the Spanish capital assigned 4,000 of their 5,000 officers to traffic control in an Effort to  Narl hours of jams created by strikes in the City bus and subway services. Complicating the situation was a series of eight labor demonstrations planned for the Day including one expected to draw 20,000 Union members to the ministry of Industry Commerce and tourism. That group planned to protest the demise of Coal mining metallurgy and other sectors of the Economy. Thousands of demonstrators took to the Street in front of Madrid a Bernabeu soccer stadium in the morning blocking traffic along the Pasco do la Castellana the main Boulevard through the capital police  mayor resigns Florence Italy a mayor Giorgio Morales resigned thursday after judicial officials renewed an investigation into alleged irregularities in awarding contracts to musicians at the City a theater. The investigation centers on accusations that the theater a Board of governors had unfairly favored foreigners Over italians in awarding the contracts during a Competition in March 1990. Morales was one of the 10 members of that Board. The mayor said he was quitting because of a City ordinance that requires the resignation of any Public official accused of abusing his or her a up  crash kills officers Seoul South Korea a a South korean army helicopter crashed Friday morning killing a three Star general and five other High ranking officers news reports said. Four other people were Hurt the reports said. The Domestic Yon Hap news Agency said the crash occurred about 9 50 . Near so san 120 Miles Southeast of Seoul. It said army it. Gen. Lee Hyon by was among those killed. Military officials confirmed the crash but had no further details  full of cocaine Tegucigalpa Honduras a a woman who fainted in the Tegucigalpa Airport after Arrivin from Colombia was found to Nave an Asti match 80 packets of cocaine hidden in her stomach honduran police said thursday. Sandra Elizabeth Galeas 25, was taken to a Hospital in the honduran capital where a rays revealed a strange objects in her stomach said police investigator Manuel de Jesus Luna Gutierrez. Galeas was being detained by police but two people travelling with her caught their flight to Al Salvador before anything illegal was suspected police  Man unnoticed on Tokyo commuter train Tokyo apr for the second time in less than a month police on thursday said a Man has died on a commuter train in Tokyo and gone unnoticed for hours by the other passengers. A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said a Man approximately 60 years old was found dead aboard a train just after Midnight wednesday. Police believed the Man had died about four hours earlier but that other passengers probably thought he was sleeping. The body made at least one round trip Between Tokyo and Takeo 27 Miles to the West. On Jan. 17, a dead Man went unnoticed for about five hours after his death aboard a train police said. Bomb suspected in ferry probe Rome apr investigators believe a bomb went off aboard the ferry that collided with a Tanker off Livorno last april killing 143 people a prosecutor said thursday. Luigi de Franco who is heading the investigation said traces of exploded int and nitroglycerine were found aboard the wreckage of the moby Prince. He said there was a blast aboard near the Bow propeller. The prosecutor in a Telephone interview with the associated press from his Home in Livorno said investigators have not ruled out the possibility that explosives had been illegally carried aboard. But he said the bomb theory a was More  he did no to elaborate. Still he said major Points must still be resolved including identifying possible suspects. Investigators have not determined whether the explosives were set off by the collision or exploded first and destroyed the ferry a navigational system sending the Craft on a collision course with the Tanker Agio Abruzzo. The prosecutor said he has asked the defense ministry to determine whether a military satellite detected the blast and if so whether it occurred before the inferno that broke out following the collision with the Tanker which was at Anchor 2vi Miles out of Livorno Harbor. All the dead were aboard the ferry which had just left Livorno in route to Sardinia. The Only survivor was a Cabin attendant who said he rushed on to the deck and saved himself by dangling overboard clinging to a rail until rescued. The prosecutor also said he has no suspects in a possible bombing  
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