European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday March 6, 1992 Rescue efforts at mine halted by Gas buildup Kozluk Turkey apr Rescue workers halted efforts thursday to reach 150 Coal miners trapped by an explosion after poisonous Gas built up to dangerous Levels. Security officials cordoned off a Large area outside the mine As a precaution. Thousands of waiting relatives were ordered to stay at least 300 Yards from the Entrance to the mine. Before efforts were halted state television reported 122 bodies had been recovered from the methane Gas explosion tuesday in the incur Armani Coal mine. An Engineer supervising the Rescue operations told an a photographer that the level of Carbon monoxide reached a very High level. A the level of the Gas reached such a level that anyone who just took a breath inside would die instantly a said the Engineer refusing to be named. The Rescue operation was already slowed Down from a fire ignited by the blast 1,848 feet underground. Quot it is a heart rending pain for the whole country a Premier Suleyman Demirel holding Back tears told reporters in Kozluk. Workers late wednesday closed ventilation shafts feeding air to the fire and erected Concrete barriers to prevent the spread of the Blaze. A they Are sentencing them to death a an unidentified Young Man said. Akin Gonen the state minister for press relations said there was very Little Chance any of the missing miners were still alive. He said heat and toxic gases from the fire had probably already killed any miners who survived the blast. Bosnia police serb led soldiers join in patrolling trouble spots i Quot a _ _ _ a a albanians q croats 11 muslims a serbs no majority Slovenia Sarajevo Yugoslavia apr in an Effort to prevent More ethnic violence police teamed up with the serb led army wednesday to patrol streets that separate serb and Muslim neighbourhoods in Sarajevo. . Envoy Cyrus Vance arriving in the serbian and Federal capital of Belgrade said the scattered violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina would not affect the scheduled deployment of thousands of . Peacekeepers this month. And Bosnia a Muslim president Alija ize Begovic expressed Confidence a tense peace among muslims serbs and croats could hold. A we Are Midway Between War and peace in a sort of cold War which will fast for some time ize Begovic was quoted As telling the French daily be Figaro. A there is a balance of fear and i believe that for the moment fear is conducive to  at least eight people have been killed since a weekend referendum in which muslims and croats who together make up a majority of the population voted for Independence. Serbs who make up a third of Bosnia a 4.4 million people oppose Independence and boycotted the vote. All sides in Bosnia Are Well armed and say their traditional animosities ensure that any conflict would be much bloodier than the civil War in Croatia which has claimed up to 10,000 lives. Of the six yugoslav republics Only Serbia and Montenegro want to remain part of the federation. Barricades manned by heavily armed militants went up around Sarajevo after the weekend referendum. The barricades came Down late monday but were re established tuesday night because of reports that serbs were marching from the Countryside to protest an attack on a nearby Village. Sex people were injured in overnight fighting in Bosansky Brod a town of 33,000 on Bosnia s Northern Border with Croatia. Or. Mohamed Mut Ajic said it was a a a Miracle that there were no reports of deaths. A reporter Slobodan Lekic in Bosansky Brod said Bosnia Hercegovina a volatile mix ethnic tensions have increased in one of Yugoslavia a most ethnically diverse republics following a vote by muslims and croats to secede. Of Bosnia a 4.4 million people 44% Are slav Muslim 31% serb and 17% croat. _ _ areas where an ethnic group comprises a majority _ Croatia Bosnia and Hercegovina Yugoslavia Serbia \ t Montenegro Macedonia source Central intelligence a fluency 25 Kmap to. Dean Caple grenades had damaged a department store and other buildings. Dozens of refugees crossed into Croatia Over a heavily mined Bridge open Only for pedestrians. Trouble also was reported near Isoko a town Northeast of Sarajevo where serbs reportedly hijacked a police truck carrying explosives and near Foca South of Sarajevo where two army reservists were Hurt in an ambush. In Sarajevo the City where world War i began with the assassination in 1914 of austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand police and army units patrolled seven potential trouble spots where factions were Likely to clash. The joint patrols brought the serb dominated army which fought alongside serb irregulars in the croatian civil War More directly into the conflict in Bosnia. World terrorist threats prompt tighter Border Security from wire reports Madrid Spain Spain is to deploy 3,000 troops along the French Border to prevent infiltration by members of the armed separatist group Eta which has threatened to sabotage the summer olympic games in Barcelona. A the troops will be deployed some time before the olympic games begin on july 25,�?� a defense ministry spokesman said wednesday. He declined to be More specific. He said the move was aimed at averting any Crossings from France by members of Eta the armed group that has waged a 24-year-old violent Campaign for Independence of Northern Spain s three province Basque Region. Hunter fatally shot by dog Moscow a police investigating the death of a Hunter concluded he was shot in the stomach by his dog the itar Tass news Agency reported thursday. Gennady Danilov 33, was found dead in the Forest near Novgorod with his Hunting Rifle in his left hand the news Agency said. Nearby were a Barking dog and another dog whose Hind leg was caught in a trap. Police found a Cartridge Case and fresh scratches of the Rifle butt at the Accident scene it said. Egyptian statue found Cairo Egypt a the statue of sek met ancient Egypt a goddess of War was retrieved wednesday four Days after it was stolen from a Temple in the Southern town of Luxor a newspaper reported. The Al ashram newspaper reported that policemen arrested four men As the men tried to smuggle the half ton Granite relic in the trunk of their Peugeot from Luxor 450 Miles South of Cairo to the nearby town of Sohag. N. Ireland bomb hurts 7 Belfast Northern Ireland a five police officers and two civilians were Hurt Early thursday when a bomb in a parked Van exploded in Lurgan 20 Miles Southwest of Belfast police reported. No group immediately claimed responsibility. British launch Trident Barrow in Furness England a defense minister Tom King pressed a Button on wednesday to launch the 16,000-ton Vanguard the first of Britain a Fleet of four Trident submarines. The 600-million-Pound $1.04 billion Vanguard is the first of a Fleet that will More than double Britain a nuclear warhead capability to 512 warheads. Peugeot plans recall Paris a Peugeot said wednesday that it expects to spend 80-100 million francs $14-18 million on repairing engineering design faults in its 605 top of the line automobile that was launched in 1989. Owners will receive letters soon advising them that Peugeot dealers will replace some of their original equipment free of charge. Refugee numbers Rise in february Manila suffers outage of a wit a Bonn up a a total of 31,317 people sought Refuge in Germany in february the second highest number Ever registered in a month the Interior ministry announced in a statement wednesday the ministry said the largest group of Asylum seekers a 12,540 a came from War torn Yugoslavia Croatia and Slovenia. A total of 3,760 romanians 2,385 turks 1,379 nigerians and 1,273 vietnamese also sought Asylum in Germany in february. Other countries of origin of the Asylum seekers included Bulgaria Lebanon the Cis and Zaire. The ministry said february a total was the second highest monthly figure after 33,570 in october 1991, in january and february the authorities dealt with 34,282 applications for Asylum granting the status to 1,770 people or 5.2 percent of the applications. The German Constitution guarantees the right of Asylum to anyone fleeing political persecution but the Bonn government says that the great majority of Asylum seekers Are economic migrants. Manila Philippines a electricity was shut off thursday throughout Manila and surrounding provinces snarling traffic trapping people in elevators and shutting Down air conditioners in the 90-degree heat. Officials said generating plants serving Manila a City of 8 million people were shut Down in mid afternoon thursday after one of three major distribution lines failed causing an overload on the remaining two