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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes wednesday March 11, 1992 n. Korea multinational Force gets War Honor stalls on nuke Issue Seoul South Korea apr North Korea on tuesday rejected new demands by South Korea that a timetable be set for inspections of the North a nuclear facilities officials said. A there was no Progress because of North koreans rejection of our proposal for Early inspections a a spokesman for South koreans unification ministry said after three hours of talks at the Border truce Village of Panmunjom. Government officials in Seoul said the standoff threatened two peace accords adopted by pro Western South Korea and communist North Korea Only three weeks ago. A seventh round of talks on nuclear issues was set for saturday. . And South korean officials believe North Korea is on the verge of developing nuclear arms. North Korea denies its nuclear program is for weapons and has agreed to allow outside inspections but has not said when. A your continuous refusal to accept Early nuclear inspections will create a serious problem and threaten inter Korea relations As a whole a South Korea said in a statement delivered to North korean envoys at tuesdays session. The South accused North Korea of trying to avoid inspections. A your insincere attitude has been amplifying suspicion a the statement said. South Korea demanded dates be set for Mutual inspections of designated facilities in each nation but North Korea insisted All american military bases in the South be inspected unification ministry officials said. North Korea proposed a separate agreement saying nuclear inspections should be held a was Early As possible a but refused to set a timetable they  bases in Europe used by nato e-3a sentry Azacs airborne warning and control system by Vince Crawley staff writer Geilenkirche Germany members of natos airborne Early warning Force were honoured tuesday for the radar flights they made in Southeastern Turkey during the persian Gulf crisis. The forces performance was a evidence of the value of multinational rapid reaction forces the direction nato is going today a said German maj. Gen. Albert Weber who leads the airborne Early warning Force come. The forces 2,500 personnel come from 12 countries and Fly airborne warning and control system aircraft Over Western and Southern Europe keeping an Eye on other aircraft. Each of the 18 Azacs aircraft is manned by a multinational Crew. The Azacs Force natos Only operational military unit is a really the Cornerstone or maybe the Centrepiece of the move toward multinational units a said . Brig. Gen. Jay d. Blume commander of the Azacs unit. The unit called the e-3a component has been flying for More than 10 years. E-3a refers to the designation of the Azacs air plane a modified Boeing 707 with an easily recognized radar disk attached atop the aircraft. Headquartered at Geilenkirche the Force flies continuous surveillance missions from Forward bases in Konya Turkey Preveza Greece Trapani Italy and Orland Norway. The Crews in Konya were alerted As soon As Iraq invaded Kuwait on aug. 2, 1990, and they spent the next seven months guarding against an attack from Northern Iraq into Turkey which is a member of nato. The operation to guard Turkey was officially called Anchor guard and lasted from aug. 8,1990, to March 16,1991, after flying 7,027 hours and completing 740 flights. . Adm. Jeremy m. Boorda commander of Allied forces Southern Europe presented the unit with a Campaign Streamer during the ceremony on tuesday afternoon. No Icea sets suspect in synagogue attack linked to Hezbollah _ Ai i f____1 ,1__ur Istanbul Turkey apr a Man a police statement said the Man was apprehended after lobbing hand Gre 20-year-old Nazmi Ortac from Batman in Nades at a synagogue was identified by Southeastern Turkey. It said he travelled police tuesday As a member of he Bol from Batman to Istanbul with two other Lah an iranian backed shiite Muslim Hezbollah members a week before the guerrilla group March 1 bombing of the Neve shalom synagogue in Istanbul. Authorities were still seeking the other two. But they said two men had been arrested on information obtained from Ortac. The attack slightly injured a passer by and caused insignificant damage to the synagogues facade. The building had been reinforced with thick Concrete and bulletproof windows after two gunmen burst in during a Sabbath service eight years ago and killed 22 people before blowing themselves up. De Klerk wife escape tear Gas sprayed at Rall women against Aquino members of the philippine women a organization Gabriela raise their fists and shout anti government slogans during a rally in Manila. About 3,500 demonstrators marked International women a Day on sunday by staging the protest against president Corazon Aquino near the presidential Palace in. Johannesburg South Africa apr bodyguards rushed president . De Klerk and his wife to safety after right Wing protesters sprayed tear Gas during a raucous College rally. Police said Justice minister Kobie co Letsee was slightly injured As people ran to escape the tear Gas at the University of the Orange free state late monday in Bloemfontein. Officials said the president and his wife Marike were not Hurt in the incident during the rally backing a March 17 Whites Only referendum on whether to end apartheid. Police capt. J. Van Der Merwe said right Wing students sprayed tear Gas from an aerosol can at the Back of the cafeteria where the president was to speak. The cafeteria was packed with hundreds of students. She said no arrests had been made. Pro apartheid groups headed by the conservative party Are fighting to defeat de Klerk in the referendum. De Klerk has said he will resign if Defeated Clearing the Way for a Whites Only general election. Right Wing parties Are demanding a White Homeland saying Whites and Blacks cannot live together As equals. Right Wing students heckled de Klerk shouting a go Home  african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela meanwhile warned that the Anc could return to armed struggle if Whites vote to uphold apartheid. In his strongest warning yet Mandela said that if the measure is rejected and political reforms Are halted the Anc a will return to the struggle of the old Days with much regret a the Star newspaper of Johannesburg reported monday. Still Mandela was optimistic the referendum would pass. A i think the forces of peace and Progress Are too Strong to be Defeated by the forces of darkness a he was quoted As saying. The Anc waged a Campaign of violence against the White led government for 30 years. It suspended the armed struggle in August 1991 after the government began negotiating political reforms with Black groups  
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