European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Pro democracy students in Belgrade chant slogans denouncing the hard line Rule of president Slobodan student protesters demand Milosevic resign Belgrade Yugoslavia apr thousands of protesting students disillusioned by the civil War and hungry for democracy rallied wednesday to demand that hard line serbian president Slobodan Milosevic step Down. Earlier three croatian soldiers were killed in fighting tuesday and a Van carrying european Community monitors was fired on defense officials said. The 10,000-Strong demonstration in Belgrade marked the first anniversary of an anti government protest in which two people were killed. It was seen As the boldest Challenge to Milosevic since then. The governments promises last year to relax state control Over the Media were never realized. In an emotional speech opposition Leader Vuk Draskovic called for a general strike. A a it Snow or never a Draskovic said. A either they fall or the bolsheviks will destroy a. A robotic help for Blind a seeing Eye robot called Mel dog is Only one of the Many inventions featured at a robot exhibition in Tokyo on wednesday. The Battery operated robot has direction finding sensors that Aid Blind people much As seeing Eye dogs do and Are used with a Leash. The crowd chanted a resignations red bandits a the protesters called for new elections a democratic Constitution an amnesty for those dodging the draft for the War against Croatia and Complete disclosure of casualty figures. Milosevic and his socialists a the renamed communists a won elections in december 1990. They still enjoy considerable popular support despite wednesdays protests. Also wednesday leaders of ethnic serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina rejected a european Community plan to keep the tense Republic a unified state. Leaders of Bosnia a three main ethnic groups All have expressed dissatisfaction with the dec document. The serbian leaders want to split Bosnia along ethnic lines while muslims and croats say this cannot be accomplished without ends tour of Germany Hamburg Germany up a the sight of a former East German army ship decorating the Garden of a Hamburg Villa brought a smile to former soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev who concluded an eight Day visit to Germany on wednesday. A a in a also have a few submarines to sell a Gorbachev jokingly told members of the Hamburg City Council who had taken him for a River tour of the Northern port. Gorbachev made the remark As he was shown the ship of the former East German National Peoples army. East Germany ceased to exist in october 1990, a Little More than one year before the soviet Union disbanded. Earlier in the Day Gorbachev held talks with Hamburg officials and Laid a Wreath at a cemetery where 384 soviet prisoners of War were buried. In Bonn Chancellor Helmut Kohl and numerous other politicians thanked Gorbachev for helping enable Germany to reunite after 40 years of division. In the arc conservative stronghold of Munich he was made an honorary bavarian and in the Small town of Gaiter slow the Bertelsmann publishing company showed him the presses that Are producing his latest Book which should be on Sale in april. In speeches and interviews Gorbachev said he fully supports the Reform program of his former opponent Boris Yeltsin and he urged the International Community to step up its support. Gorbachev who was to return to Moscow on thursday will deliver lectures in the United states in May. World plan to capture Saddam foiled Magazine reports from wire reports Rome a the United states and Britain planned to capture Saddam Hussein and his top aides during the persian Gulf War but were thwarted by bad weather and a scud attack an italian newsmagazine reported. The newsweekly europeo in its edition due out thursday reported that a commando Force from the elite British special air service was to carry out the strike. Fnu the plan called for groups of 12 to 20 men protected by . Aircraft to penetrate the bunkers sheltering iraqis political and military leaders. The soldiers were to capture or kill them the Magazine reported. The Magazine attributed the report to unidentified sources including an officer reportedly involved in the climber hailed Paris a a 32-year-old woman who practice for her Solo climb up the Eiger mountains forbidding North Wall by hanging from beams m her Paris apartment was hailed wednesday As a National heroine. Catherine dest Ivelle was anointed Queen of the peaks after becoming the first woman to make the ascent alone up what Baedecker a guide to Switzerland Calls a the most dangerous Mountain Wall in the initial Media reports depicted dest Ivelle s ascent As the first Solo climb up the North face by a woman in wintertime. But she said in a Telephone interview from Chamonix France on wednesday that it was a female first for any season. The Mountain climbing Center at Grindel Wald near the Eiger confirmed her assertion. The climb through ice Snow and freezing weather to the 13,036-foot Summit took i6v2 hours. Part of the Way dest Ivelle climbed in the dark. Most of her Way she gripped the icy Rock with Bare continue airstrikes Diyarbakir Turkey a turkish helicopters attacked a kurdish guerrilla base in Southeastern Turkey on wednesday in a third Day of attacks on rebel Camps. The Camp of about nine tents and 50 guerrillas in the mountains in Bingol province belonged to the outlawed kurdish labor trips up tradition Jerusalem a for want of a shoe some jews May have to postpone a ritual. The Haifa rabbinical court has lost its ceremonial shoe for Yalitza the ritual that enables childless widows to remarry. Jewish Law entitles the dead husbands brother to marry the widow to give her children. The biblical obligation is rarely observed today. But to get out of it the widow must remove a knee High shoe from the brother in Law in a rabbits presence and ritually spurn him by spitting. The Man May keep the shoe but the custom is to leave it for future ceremonies. The problem began monday when Albert to Ledano refused to surrender the shoe. A the wanted to keep it in his brother a memory a rabbi Menashe Miller said wednesday. Miller said it would take at least a month to have a new shoe made to the biblically prescribed Captain surrenders Bangkok Thailand a the Captain of a passenger ferry that collided with an Oil Tanker on sunday surrendered to police on thursday to face charges of recklessly causing the deaths of at least 95 people. Col. Viral Anant Akul police chief of Chonburi province 50 Miles Southeast of Bangkok said Prayoon Yakob 38, gave himself up four Days after he steered his vessel into the path of the Tanker in the Gulf of Thailand. The Tanker sliced the ferry in two sinking it immediately. Many of the More than 120 passengers a mostly elderly women returning from a. Pilgrimage to a Buddhist shrine on is Chang Island a were trapped in the wreckage or hurled into the sea
