European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 11,1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world first Western airline set to Fly into Hanoi from wire reports Bangkok Thailand a air France is scheduled to launch the first flights by a Western airline into the vietnamese capital of Hanoi the voice of Vietnam said in a report heard tuesday. The French airline is to begin flying Boeing 747 jumbo jets from Paris to Hanoi on May 1 and provide weekly service. Air France already flies to to Chi Minh City formerly Saigon in Southern Vietnam. The state radio said the air France planes will leave Paris each Friday afternoon and Stop Over in Bangkok and to Chi Minh City. They will leave Hanoi on saturday afternoons arriving at. Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport on sundays. The radio report issued saturday was monitored in  rises in Britain London a reported crimes in England and Wales increased by 16 percent in 1991, led by a Sharp increase in burglary the government said monday. Home burglaries were up by 18 percent in 1991, and burglaries of other premises increased 24.5 percent the Home office reported. Robbery increased by 25.1 percent though violent crime Overall was up 6  seeks Auto Plant Ankara Turkey a Turkey is trying to get the French automaker Peugeot to build an Assembly Plant near the site of last weeks Coal mine disaster a businessman said monday. An underground mine explosion 120 Miles North of Ankara in the Zon buldak area killed 270 miners March 3. About 32,000 people have jobs in the Region and the government loses up to $650 million per year in subsidies to the aging  remove drugs Sudbury Ontario a a Canadian Man who went to a Hospital complaining of stomach cramps has been charged with drug Possession and smuggling after doctors surgically removed 31 condoms filled with hashish Oil police said monday. The Man had recently returned from a trip to Jamaica when he went to a Hospital with severe stomach pains said Sudbury Region police sgt. Dwight Teeple. David Leggat 35, of Sudbury in Northern Ontario has been charged with importing narcotics and Possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking. Stolen paintings recovered Paris a four 16th and 17th-Century paintings stolen from the louvre museum 10 or More years ago were recovered by police who charged two men with trying to sell stolen property police sources said monday. The works three Oil on Wood paintings and a fourth Oil on Copper work that Are considered to be priceless by Art experts were stolen from the louvre in 1979, 1981 and 1982, according to authorities. Police arrested Jean Claude Mugnaini 52, and Fernand Bury 49, As they were trying to sell the  gunman kills self Lugano Switzerland a the Kalashnikov wielding gunman who killed six people and wounded six others in a door to door rampage in Southern Switzerland last week has committed suicide hanging himself in his jail cell police said tuesday. Erminio Criscione 37, used the time during a lapse when his guards were being changed monday evening to tie a Linen cloth to his window bars and hang himself police said. Criscione had been watched closely since he surrendered in tears after the wednesday evening rampage in three villages near Lugano in the italian speaking Canton of Ticino police said. Bomb blast on rail line disrupts London service London apr a Small bomb exploded along tracks near a South London train station during tuesday mornings Rush hour. No injuries were reported but the blast caused major disruptions in rail and subway service. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but suspicion fell on the Irish Republican army which has been pressing its political demands with a string of recent bombings in and around London. L he Ira wants to make Northern Ireland a major Issue in National elections. Prime minister John major is expected to announce later this week when the elections will be held. Mondays explosion came hours before the announcement of the annual budget a key event in the buildup to a National  plot foiled salvadorans say san Salvador Al Salvador a nine people a including two air Force members a have been arraigned in connection with a plot to kill colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria by bombing the prison where he is held. The plot to kill Escobar the Medellin drug Cartel Kingpin was masterminded by Richard Salcedo of the rival Cali Cartel the armed forces press committee said monday. The rival cartels Are fighting for control of the cocaine Market in new York City. More than 200 people have been killed in fighting. Al Salvador Stop drug fighting Agency the executive anti narcotics unit said the plotters intended to drop four 500-Pound bombs from helicopters onto the prison in Colombia where Escobar is held. An air Force lieutenant colonel an air Force sergeant two guatemalans a cuban and four other salvadorans have been arraigned on charges of Possession of and robbery of weapons of War in connection with the plot officials said. The anti narcotics unit said three of the four bombs were loaded this week aboard a Light plane which left a Rural coastal strip for an unknown destination. The fourth bomb which reportedly did not fit on the plane was confiscated by authorities. Government agents also confiscated More than $456,000. In Bogota Colombia police said they were searching for the plane and the other bombs. They said the bombs were bought for $400,000 from an air Force officer. Colombian authorities have barred All aircraft from airspace Over the jail. Escobar surrendered to authorities last june and is awaiting trial on charges of murder and smuggling cocaine. He is being held in a Hilltop prison overlooking his Hometown of a Nigado. British rail was alerted 30 minutes in Advance of the blast at Wandsworth common giving officials time to halt train service and evacuate the station. Police would not provide details of the phoned warning. Rail and subway service was suspended on several lines around the capital. Traffic into Liverpool station was halted and service was held up at Victoria station. The Ira disrupted London rail service with bombings on dec. 16, dec. 23 and Jan. 30. No one was Hurt in those blasts but a year ago an Ira bomb killed a commuter at Victoria station. The Day after the bomb exploded at London Bridge rail station the Ira bombed an office of the Crown prosecution service the Federal prosecution Agency causing damage but no  dreams Cham Yick Kai 32 front and Chung Kin Man 38, scale a 30-Story Hong Kong building monday in an Effort to raise enough Money to climb mount Everest on March 21 with an International team. The Hong Kong climbers Are about $2,600 Short of their $38,460 goal. Action urged on Comfort girls Tokyo apr foreign minister Michio Wata Nabe said monday that the government should do a something visible for korean women forced into prostitution for Japan a world War ii army. The opposition legislator who raised the question interpreted this to mean the government would study compensation for the wartime a Comfort  at a meeting of a parliamentary budget committee the legislator Hideko Itoh said Watanabe stated a we can to Settle the matter easily no matter How Many discussions we have from a Legal Point of View. We have feelings of sorrow and i think we must show something visible. That is  asked about the japanese governments investigation concerning the women Watanabe told the committee a when we roughly find out their actual conditions we can to just give political consideration to them. Itoh of the social democratic party said this meant that after the government found out the number and current living conditions of the wartime sex slaves it would study the question of compensation. Turks bomb kurdish bases in Iraq Ankara Turkey apr Turkey sent warplanes to strike guerrilla bases of the turkish kurd in Northern Iraq for the second time this month turkish officials said. The planes bombarded two Camps of the kurdish labor party five Miles from the turkish Border an announcement from the regional governors office in Diyarbakir said. It said mondays hour Long air strike was in Retalia Tion for a kurdish labor party attack on turkish reconnaissance planes saturday. The planes were fired upon from the ground As they flew Over Northern Iraq the announcement said. It did not say if any aircraft was hit. On March 1, turkish planes bombed a kurdish labor party base near Hak urk in Northern Iraq. The . High commissioner for refugees said nine iraqi kurd were killed in that operation. Ankara denied there were civilian casualties