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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 26, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 9 world2 police officers slain 4 wounded in Turkey from wire reports Ankara Turkey a gunmen killed two police officers and wounded four others wednesday in Ankara and the Southern City of Adana the Anatolia news Agency reported. Three gunmen entered a coffeehouse in a working class District of Ankara ordered the people to lie Down and shot four police officers inside the sem official Agency said. One police officer died on the scene and the other three were hospitalized. In Adana gunmen raked a police car with automatic weapons fire when it slowed Down at a traffic Light killing the Driver and wounding a passenger described As a police official the Agency said. Police reportedly detained three  unyielding in talks Cairo Egypt a libyan Leader Moa mar Qadhafi told Arab league envoys in Tripoli that Libya wont surrender two suspects in the bombing of pan am flight 103 without an order from the world court an Arab Diplomat said wednesday. An egyptian official said a the Outlook is not encouraging. I guess the next step is from the other  by that he said he meant the United nations and the West. The Arab league delegation returned to Cairo Early wednesday after an exhausting overnight trip to the libyan capital to discuss the offer announced monday by libyans . Representative Ali Ahmed . Korean loses majority Seoul South Korea a after a major upset in parliamentary elections president Roh Tae woo on wednesday vowed to Speed up economic and political reforms. Rohrs governing conservative party lost its parliamentary majority in tuesdays voting. That outcome was especially damaging to Kim Young Sam and the party a other factional leaders vying to run in presidential elections later this year. A we must humbly accept the Peoples will shown in the elections a Roh said. His single five year term ends next february and korean Law bars him from seeking  plans Mission Paris a undersea explorer Jacques Yves Cousteau has unveiled plans to build a floating Marine Laboratory fitted with High technological equipment for monitoring the environment. Calypso ii 216 feet Long and 52 feet wide was designed so Cousteau can continue his work monitoring the a general health of the  it will be big enough to transport a helicopter hydroplane and min submarine. Cousteau 81, did not give the Cost of the ship. He said tuesday that it would be built by 1995-96 if enough Money could be raised. Cambodia returns remains phenom penh Cambodia a four sets of remains that May belong to foreign journalists believed to have been executed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas 22 years ago were being flown to Honolulu on wednesday . Officials said. The remains dug up by . Investigators Are to be examined in Honolulu at . Military facilities. . Investigators say preliminary findings suggest the remains May belong to four of the five journalists working for the american networks Abc and lbs who disappeared while covering the War in Indochina. Student kills self in class Nice France a a Law student has died after shooting himself in the head in front of More than 200 classmates including a Young woman who had spurned his advances. Before shooting himself 20-year-old Fabrice Massici shot at the woman and slightly wounded her. Mondays incident occurred in a lecture Hall at the Nice Law school. Ammo blast destroys afghan guard Center Peshawar Pakistan apr an ammunition dump explosion that gutted the presidential guard Headquarters in the afghan capital was caused by an electrical Short a . Official said wednesday. There were no reports of casualties from tuesday nights blast. State run Kabul radio monitored in Islamabad Pakistan said the fire at the Bala Isar military Garrison in Southern Kabul caused some damage largely because the flames were fanned by High winds. Ammunition depots often explode in Kabul the afghan capital but the blast prompted fears that an attempted coup was under Way against president Najibullah and his communist style government. A what happened last night was just an electrical Short. It was nothing. It was totally misrepresented a said Benon Sevan the . Special envoy on . Fun lovers to lose punch after 150 years London apr after 150 years of tickling British readers with genteel satire Ana distinctive cartoons punch Magazine has gone Down for the count. A you pays your Money and you takes your Choice a punch said in 1846. Today fewer and fewer readers Are willing to pay for punch and on tuesday the publishers Choice was to pull the plug As of april 8. A i think it was one of those great British institutions the explosion took place As diplomatic efforts have intensified to find a negotiated settlement to the afghan civil War. Rumours of a possible coup or Transfer of Power have been circulating for Days in Kabul and in Peshawar the staging Arena for the Muslim resistance fighting for nearly 14 years to overthrow the soviet installed government. Speculation intensified following an emergency meeting of Najibullah a Cabinet on monday a hurriedly called meeting of the seven major resistance leaders on tuesday and Sevanes unannounced visit to Kabul later that Day. Sevan has been shuttling Between Kabul Peshawar and Islamabad to find a common ground for a negotiated settlement. He is expected to return to new York soon to meet with . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali. Which Over Many Many years had simply not been Able to compete with the changing world around it a editor David Thomas said. Graham Wilson managing director of United newspapers the Parent company said it could no longer absorb the magazines losses estimated at More than $1.71 million last year. A a punch a Market is not As big or As Rich As it was a Wilson said. Punch was first published on july 17, 1841, As a Radical paper but it evolved into an upper class institution blending humor with serious political comment. Its founders touted it As a a Guffa graph intended to form a Refuge for destitute wit an Asylum for thousands of orphan jokes the millions of perishing puns which Are now wandering about without so much As a shelf to rest  the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray was an Early contributor a his snob papers ran in 1846-47. Pooter the hero of the diary of a nobody debuted in punch in 1852. The Magazine has published half a million cartoons and drawings including the work of sir John Tenniel famed for his illustrations of Alice in wonderland and John Leech who also illustrated Many books for his Friend Charles Dickens. Punch was famous for rejecting everything Dickens a londoner looks pensively at punch after learning the Magazine will fold. Ever offered though in the next Century it published the lightweight work of . Wodehouse. From 1849 until 1956, the Magazine carried the same cover drawn by Richard Doyle showing a wickedly grinning punch puppet in striped shirt and peaked Cap and the dog Toby in ruffled Collar and plumed hat. Punch and Toby lingered in other forms on the cover until 1969. The magazines circulation peaked in the 1940s at 175,000. Today it is about 33,000. Cosmonaut Back in soviet less world Arkalyn Kazakhstan apr a russian cosmonaut who blasted off from the communist led soviet Union 10 months ago left the space station Mir and returned to a different world wednesday. Sergei Kri Kalev who rocketed into space on May 18, 1991, landed in Kazakhstan at 11 51 . Aboard the soyuz tm-13 spacecraft along with fellow russian Alexander Volkov 34, and a 39-year-old German test Pilot Klaus Dietrich Flade. Ground workers lifted the three from the spacecraft placed them in chairs and wrapped Coats around them. They wiped their brows then took their blood pressure. The cosmonauts smiled and waved at photographers and All three drank Bouillon. A of my three landings this was the smoothest a said Volkov a Veteran space traveler. Kri Kalev appearing a bit dizzy was Given smelling salts. Television for the Commonwealth of Independent states reported however that Kri Kalev was feeling  Kri Kalev spent 313 Days in space about two months Short of the 366-d.ay world record held by fellow cosmonaut Musa Sanarov. Volkov blasted into space in october. Kri Kalev originally was scheduled to return in october but the political changes in the former soviet Union kept him waiting. While in space the communist idea of a Utopia failed on Earth his old country ceased to exist his Hometown of Leningrad once More became St. Petersburg and the once proud soviet space program went begging. In order to retain the use of the Bai Konur space Center in Kazakhstan Russia was forced to negotiate a Deal that resulted in a relatively inexperienced kazakh cosmonaut to be sent into space last october. This meant that Kri Kalev had to wait until until now for his replacement. Russia has invited its former ideological adversaries to Send space passengers in return for Money to keep the 6-year-old Mir station flying. Previous customers have come from Japan Britain and Austria  
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