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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world the stars and stripes thursday March 5, 1992begin awake but critical following heart attack from wire reports Jerusalem a former prime minister Menachem begin regained consciousness wednesday but remained in critical condition after suffering a heart attack. The 78-year-old begin who won a Nobel prize for making peace with Egypt but led Israel into the 1982 invasion of Lebanon had been rushed unconscious to Tel Avivm Sichikov Hospital after collapsing at his Home tuesday. Hagai Elias spokesman for the health ministry said wednesday morning that begin a is now conscious but still on a  he described by Gina a condition As critical but  Back at Refuge Moscow a former East German Leader Erich Honecker left an elite Moscow Hospital on tuesday and returned to his Refuge in the chilean embassy. Chile a government said his health was a totally  the report from Santiago contradicted accounts that the 79-year-old Honecker was suffering from cancer when he entered the Botkin Clini on feb. 24.woman Pilot proves Point Oslo Norway a Norway a first woman fighter Pilot said she was ready for combat tuesday and had proved her male classmates wrong by being picked to Fly one of the f-16 jets they coveted. A i decided to become a combat Pilot when i told the Guys at officers school that i might like to Fly fighters and they made it Clear that i would never make it a 23-year-old Mette Grotteland told the norwegian news Agency Nib. After 2vi years of combat flight training at Sheppard fab Texas Grotteland was told she will join an f-16 Squadron possibly at the Bode air base in Northern  to reduce spies Moscow a russians foreign intelligence service which has taken Over the pkg by a operations abroad will trim its network of spies in the United states and Hopes for reciprocal Steps a spokesman said tuesday. Now that the cold War is Over the number of agents operating in the United states and other Western countries will be Cut to a a a reasonable number the inter fax news Agency quoted the intelligence Agency a spokesman Tatyana Samolis As  during Juk Bolzano Italy a an explosion in a movie House during a showing of Juk injured 14 people tuesday night news reports said. The italian news Agency Ansa said investigators believe a powerful firecracker went off in the theater possibly ignited by a carnival  carnival winds Down Rio Dijaneiro Brazil Lara is famous tour Day carnival Celebration neared its end i tuesday with riots spectacular Samba Parade marching into the wee hours. I he final seven a Samba schools a neighbourhood groups from riots slums a marched Down the City s six Block Long a Samba Dromey in a 10-hour Parade that ended at 4 30 . Peacekeeper Dies 1 vre Lebanon a a . Peacekeeping Soldier from Fiji has died in an israeli Hospital almost two weeks after being wounded while trying to Block an israeli military Advance in Southern Lebanon a spokesman said. Timur Goksel spokesman for the . Interim Force in Lebanon said pvt. Petaia Soro Vaka Tini died tuesday. Explosion fire in mine kill at least 78, trap 296 Zon buldak Turkey apr fire touched off by a Gas explosion that killed at least 78 Coal miners hampered frantic efforts wednesday to reach about 300 miners trapped underground officials said. Turkish television said Rescue teams hampered by the fire were unable to reach the original site of the explosion. They recovered bodies Only from higher Levels. Istanbul mine disaster crying relatives crowded the mine Entrance As the dead and injured were pulled out. A nearby Hospital quickly filled with 87 injured. One of its floors was converted into a morgue of charred bodies. The methane Gas explosion tuesday night occurred about 1,700 feet below the surface in Kozluk six Miles from the Black sea port of Zon buldak said state minister Omer bar Utu. He Quot said in Kozluk that an Early warning system did not work because the methane Gas increased to a dangerous level just 20 seconds before the explosion. The minister said the latest figure of 296 missing miners was determined from the number of flashlights registered in use. Bar Utu said that smoke from the fire was intense inside the mine and that Cement blocks would be positioned to prevent fire from spreading. Zon Gulda Turkey Adana one injured mine worker said he heard a great explosion followed by intense heat and a blackout. With the help of a flashlight he walked to safety in two hours. A everything happened so suddenly. I thought doomsday had arrived a said Yusuf Sahin another survivor. The Anatolia news Agency said two of the injured were badly burned and a amps map in grave condition. An associated press photographer in Kozluk said bodies filled up a morgue at a state Hospital and a lower floor was turned into a makeshift morgue. The photographer said that most of the bodies were charred but that some victims had suffocated. He said relatives were searching for loved ones in vain. A How am i going to survive alone a a woman holding onto her 9-year-old son cried about her missing husband. Moving out a Libya asks world court to Block possible ., British aggression Ter National court of Justice invoking the Montrea convention Banning attacks on civil aviation. A we believe Libya was behind the bombing of Par am 103 at Lockerbie a the British statement said flight 103 exploded Over Lockerbie Scotland in december 1988, killing 270 people. Libya claimed in its complaint to the court that it had investigated the allegations against the two suspects sought by Washington and London and has begun criminal proceedings against them in line with the convention. Libya said that both Britain and the United states had violated the convention by failing to respond to libyan requests for investigative assistance. Despite the efforts of Libya to resolve the Mattei within the framework of International Law including a Treal convention the United states has rejected this approach and continues to adopt a posture of pressuring Libya into surrendering the accused a Tripoli s filing said. The Hague Netherlands apr Libya has asked the International court of Justice to bar the United states and Britain from using Force to compel the North african state to surrender two suspects in the bombing of pan am flight 103. Libya said tuesday that it was requesting immediate provisional measures by the world judicial body apparently to pre empt any military action by London or Washington. Libyans Case is based primarily on its claim that the United states and Britain have breached their obligations under the Montreal convention in the investigation of the 1988 bombing. The convention deals with International disputes relating to civil aviation. After Libya announced at the United nations that it was filing its Case the  State department called it a another in a Long list of delaying  the British government wednesday said it was a extraordinary that Libya should have approached the in  
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