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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes thursday March 19, 1992 pro iranian group claims it bombed israeli embassy a r h a it s a w Ltd a i map Rescue teams search through wreckage for victims of a blast that razed the israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires Argentina a a pro iranian group in Lebanon said wednesday that it was responsible for the israeli embassy bombing that killed at least 11 people and injured More than 250. In Israel foreign minister David Levy threatened retaliation. A those who carried out these murders and those who sent them can expect painful punishment a he told parliament a the israeli government will choose the place and manner to avenge the blood of the  Hope was waning meanwhile that a dozen or More people believed trapped in the wreckage were alive. Just after Midnight state television reported rescuers had heard feeble cries for help coming from the rubble of the embassy. But wednesday morning those cries were no longer being heard. A a it a difficult to think anyone could be alive a police chief Alberto Bataglia said. In Beirut the shiite Muslim group islamic jihad said in a statement that it carried out the bombing to avenge the killing of a shiite Leader in an israeli air attack in South Lebanon a month ago. The embassy bombing a is one of our continuous strikes against the criminal israeli enemy in an open ended War which will not cease until Israel is wiped out of existence a the statement said. It said the attack was in retaliation for the death of Sheik Abbas Muslawi the Leader of the Radical shiite group Hezbollah who was ambushed and killed by israeli helicopters last month. Three israelis and an Argentine priest were among those confirmed killed in the embassy bombing. Five embassy workers including diplomats were among the missing. Argentine president Carlos Menem said he had asked the Cia and israelis Mossad secret service to assist in the investigation. The government stepped up Security at highways airports and Border Crossings the private news Agency Noticia Argentina reported. A fall indications Lead us to believe it was a terrorist attack a Menem said. Palestinian with 18-Inch Blade kills 2, wounds 20 in israeli City Jaffa Israel up a a palestinian armed with a a sword like Blade burst into a crowd of costumed teenagers tuesday slashed More than a dozen of them and killed two passers by. The killer was then fatally shot by an israeli Soldier. Police said the assailant a resident of the israeli occupied Gaza strip carried a pamphlet from the fundamentalist islamic jihad organization. The pamphlet praised the stabbing of three israeli soldiers last month and called for More assaults on israeli targets. The attack occurred outside a dance club in an Industrial Section of Jaffa a Seaside City adjacent to Tel Aviv where the youngsters from a nearby High school were waiting to be admitted for a party celebrating the jewish purim Holiday. Witnesses said the assailant jumped out of a truck ran into the crowd of students and slashed with his knife which carried a 18-Inch Blade. Running toward a garage next door the attacker fatally stabbed a Young jewish israeli woman and the Arab israeli owner of the garage. At least 20 people including More than a dozen students were wounded and were taken to hospitals. Palestinians in Gaza City identified the assailant As raid Muhammad Rifai 21, a vegetable merchant. Rifaie a brother Nasser said raid was an extremely religious Muslim who hated zionism and wanted to avenge the death of his father Muhammed. Muhammed Rifai was sent to an israeli prison in 1989 for participating in violence related to the palestinian uprising and died of a heart attack a the was always talking about struggle and martyrdom a Nasser Rifai said of his brother. The students were waiting for an Early purim party at the club. The Holiday which began wednesday night Marks the delivery of the jews in ancient Persia from a massacre plotted by Haman. Today jews celebrate the festival by wearing costumes much like halloween. Tel Aviv Jaffa police chief Yigal Marcus said authorities had captured a Man who drove the assailant to the site of the attack in an Industrial part of this mixed Arab jewish area. Both the attacker and the Driver were from the occupied Gaza strip he said. Outraged jewish residents called for revenge chanting a death to the  right Wing lawmakers responded to the attack by demanding that palestinians be banned from entering Israel from the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. British polls put labor ahead London apr two new opinion polls indicate the opposition labor party is 5 Points ahead of the governing conservative after a week of election campaigning. Both polls in wednesdays times of London and the guardian put labor at 43 percent and the tories at 38 percent. The election is scheduled april 9. A Harris poll in the daily express on tuesday put the conservatives 3 Points ahead of labor but other recent polls have shown labor edging ahead. The Mori poll in the times puts the latest state of the parties with the equivalent poll findings of last week in brackets at a labor 43 percent 41 percent. A conservative 38 percent 38 percent. A Liberal democrats 16 percent 16 percent. A others 3 percent 5 percent. The 1,099 people polled were interviewed monday. Figures for the ice poll in the guardian with last weeks findings in brackets Are a labor 43 percent 42 percent. A conservatives 38 percent 39 percent. A Liberal democrats 16 percent 15 percent. A others 4 percent 4 percent. The 1,100 people polled were interviewed tuesday. The margins of error were not immediately available but Are usually plus or minus 3 percent. World japanese official urges role with peacekeepers from wire reports Tokyo a foreign minister Michio Wata Nabe said wednesday that japanese troops need to participate in overseas peacekeeping operations if Japan is to play a larger role m world affairs. A Japan can to keep acting like some special Case the outspoken Watanabe said before a committee in the diet Japan a parliament. A no matter where you go All countries Send their troops a Brando daughter wins Aid Papeete French polynesia a Cheyenne Brando the daughter of actor Marlon Brando received permission wednesday to enter a French clinic while awaiting a ruling on whether she will be tried in connection with her sex boyfriends murder. Brando 21, was arrested last november in France where she had been receiving treatment for depression. She was then flown to this French territory in the South Pacific where a judge is investigating her connection to the 1990 shooting of Dag Droplet the father of her child. Brando a half brother Christian Brando is serving a 10-year prison sentence for voluntary manslaughter in California for shooting Drollet then 26, at Marlon Brando a Hollywood Hills mansion in May 1990. Dead woman unnoticed Stockholm Sweden a an old woman sat for two months on her Balcony this Winter before a neighbor discovered she was dead it was reported tuesday. The 84-year-old woman May have died while watching fireworks from her apartment on new years eve police in the Stockholm suburb of Kraneberg said. A we found newspapers from the beginning of january a said police officer Erik Larsson. Daily newspapers Are dropped through mail slots into apartments in Sweden. The woman was found monday sitting on a chair on her Balcony dressed in a coat and hat. Her forehead was leaning against the railing. Margaretha Marsellas a neighbor realized there was something wrong when she saw the woman on the Balcony around the clock despite freezing temperatures. Accused killers surrender san Salvador Al Salvador two leftist rebels assured they will not be extradited to the United states have surrendered for trial on charges of executing two . Service members shot Down in a helicopter. The Secretary of the first instance court of Chin Ameca a Small town located 60 Miles East of san Salvador and just a few Miles from where the helicopter was downed said the former rebels surrendered to the judge tuesday and were being questioned. Radio reports from the scene identified the suspects As Ferman Hernandez known by the pseudonym Porfirio and Silveriano Fuentes town As Aparicio who has characterized the killings As an act of War Jamaica builds own autos Kingston Jamaica a the first automobiles Ever manufactured in Jamaica have been unveiled amid much fanfare. The cars put on display in a hotel in new Kingston this week Are the result of a joint venture Between the serv Wel group of companies of Jamaica and Art and technology of Britain turkish Accident kills 14 Bursa Turkey a a truck skidded into oncoming traffic including a bus triggering a 10-vehicle Accident that killed 14 people and injured 11, authorities said. The Anatolia news Agency said the Accident occurred during a rainstorm on the Bursa Ingol Highway  
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