European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March 25, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 some weapons destroyed by Iraq . Team says Manama Bahrain apr a . Team of ballistics experts has confirmed that Iraq destroyed and buried a number of scud missiles and other weapons of mass destruction its team Leader said tuesday. Speaking shortly after returning from the Field on the second Day of a Mission to verify iraqi disclosures on terror weapons Derek Boothby said there Are a quite a few places a so called graveyard Sites a still to visit. The . Team Leader made his remarks in a satellite Telephone interview. On sunday he visited one site South of Baghdad and on tuesday he visited two places North of Baghdad he reported. Inspection Tours will continue Over the coming Days he said adding that the destroyed weapons had All been buried. Bowing to world pressure after a showdown with iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz at the Security Council iraqis Delegate to the United nations last Friday said substantial quantities of weapons of mass destruction had been destroyed in june. Boothby a 35-member team went to Baghdad on saturday to verify the iraqi statements which have forestalled possible military intervention from the United states Britain and other Allied nations. The allies forced Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 in the Gulf War and iraqis weapons must be destroyed under the ceasefire agreement. Test run Spain a new High Speed train makes its first official test run from Madrid to Ciudad real on monday. The train called ave is scheduled to make Maiden run from Madrid to Seville on april 20. Its Libya makes offer on suspects United nations apr libyans ambassador said monday that his country would turn Over the two suspects in the 1988 bombing of pan am flight 103 to the Arab league. The offer is the North african country a latest Effort to evade . Security Council sanctions being pushed by the United states Britain and France. The United states Britain and France Are pressing the Security Council to impose sanctions on Libya for refusing to hand Over the two libyans suspected in the bombing Over Lockerbie Scotland and four others suspected in the bombing of a Uta French Airliner a year later. The bombings killed 441 people. Ambassador All Ahmed Al Souderi louder made the com Ain. Ment to reporters at the United nations. On sunday the 21-member Arab league urged the United nations to forego imposing sanctions on Libya. Echo Uteri added that it would be up to the Arab league to decide the Fate of the men a whether they would be then turned Over to the United states and Britain for trial or trial in a Neutral country or to give the men to the United nations. A . Diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity said the United states had no objection to any particular procedure As Long As it results in the two men being extradited and tried in the United states or Brit fired Over marriage Vatican worker says Vatican City apr the Vatican is looking into the Case of a woman who says she was fired when she announced her marriage plans the Vatican a spokesman said monday. Italian newspapers on sunday reported that a 28-year-old italian who worked for the Institute for religious works the Vatican Bank for nearly 10 years filed a complaint this month with the holy seems labor office contending the Bank fired her after she told her employer she planned to marry. Without saying whether it was indeed True that the woman had been fired for announcing her marriage plans Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said a if there was a certain action in that sense i can assure that in the future it wont happen the newspaper said the Bank was acting on the Assumption that a woman starting a family be Able to devote enough attention to her Job. Navarro denied there was any such policy. Navarro said women working for other Vatican divisions Are allowed to continue in their posts after marriage. He said they receive 15 Days off for their marriage and six months maternity leave. In response to reporters questions about the woman a complaint Navarro said the Case was a in an advanced stage of study and Mcdonald s files Appeal against Mccon Doms from wire reports Montreal a the makers of the big Mac want Mccon Doms to go a away. Mcdonald s filed a court Appeal monday seeking to Block the Sale of the contraceptive by a Montreal store specializing in condoms. The Oak Brook fast food Chain claims Mccon Doms violate its trademark a Jmc language cd covering More than 75 products such As crib Mcconic or Mckinds. Mcdonald s also claims the logo on the my condom a a stylized letter m in yellow print a is an illegal copy of its registered Golden Arches according to papers filed in Superior court. The store la Capot Crie is named for a capote a the French Slang word for condoms. Jet crashes near Athens Athens Greece a a a sudanese cargo plane crashed into a Mountain near Athens Airport tuesday shortly after reporting that it had instrument failure officials said. All five crewmen were killed said civil aviation authority chief Stilios Lydakis. But Sudan airways regional representative Nabil Tadros said he believed there were seven people aboard the plane. The Boeing 707 crashed into mount hymn Taos 9 Miles Southeast of the Airport. The plane was flying from Amsterdam Netherlands to Sudan with a refuelling Stop at Athens. It was not immediately known what it was carrying. South koreans vote Seoul South Korea a South koreans cast ballots tuesday in a crucial parliamentary election seen As a barometer of president Roh Tae Woods popularity ahead of presidential voting later in the year. At stake in the country a first general elections in four years were 299 scats in the National Assembly. Rohrs democratic Liberal party hoped to win 60 percent of the seats to keep its current majority. Vodka stolen in Denmark Copenhagen Denmark thieves stole russian Vodka Worth $230,000 bound for Canada the National radio said monday. The 10,512 bottles of Vodka were in a Container on a semitrailer parked Over the weekend in an open storage area North of aarhus Western Denmark. The thieves drilled out the Gate lock and entered the storage area with a truck. The trailer was hooked onto the truck and the robbers drove away with All 876 crates each containing a dozen bottles of Moskovskaya. Graduate program starts Warsaw Poland a Eastern Europe a first graduate program in american studies was inaugurated monday at Warsaw University. The degree granting program is an outgrowth of the american studies Center which was established with the cooperation of several . Universities in 1976, when Poland was still a communist country. University officials said eventually All courses in the program will be taught in English giving students a practical Edge in Poland a new Market Economy where foreign language skills Are a must. Westerners sentenced Beijing a in a display of China a determination to fight its growing drug problem a court monday convicted two britons and two germans on hashish charges and imposed jail sentences of up to 15 years. The 15-year sentence was one of the harshest China has imposed on a Westerner for any crime Short of espionage. Several Hong Kong and burmese men have been executed on drug charges. The Peoples daily newspaper reported tuesday that authorities arrested More than 18,000 people on drug charges last year triple the 1990 total
