European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 c the stars and stripes sunday april 5, 1992 fighting imperils . Peace plan sunday april 5, 1992 Belgrade Yugoslavia a fighting on Friday in Croatia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina left scores of people dead and jeopardized a . Peacekeeping Mission according to defense officials and news reports. The fighting came As deployment of about 14,000 . Peacekeepers was to begin in Earnest in several areas of ravaged Croatia. Advance teams Are already in place but most troops Are scheduled to be deployed beginning this weekend through april 25. The . Peacekeepers Are to support a Jan. 3 truce and end the ethnic warfare in Croatia that has left up to 10,000 people dead since the Republic declared Independence from Yugoslavia last june. The truce which has been violated almost daily but has held in general was breached again Friday by clashes Between the serb led forces and croatian units in the serb held Region of Baranda and the Eastern croatian stronghold of Osisek. The commander of the . Forces maj. Gen. Satish Nambiar told reporters in Belgrade the situation was a serious a but refused to say whether it could delay deployment of peacekeepers. Serbian Media claimed about 50 croatian soldiers were killed in an attack on Baranda. They said serbs repelled the attack and that three of their own were killed and a dozen wounded. Those figures could not be independently confirmed. Hospital officials in Osisek reported 12 killed and 16 wounded in heavy shelling. Defense officials reported heavy shelling in surrounding areas As Well and said a croatian Soldier had been killed in Jar Mina 18 Miles to the South. One croatian Soldier was killed overnight in Osisek and three people were wounded Hospital officials said. Croatian defense officials also reported at least three croatian soldiers killed and four wounded in fighting with serbs and serb Allied forces in Val ovo East of Osisek. Osisek mayor Zlatko Kramaric in a Telephone interview appealed for . And european Community help. Tensions were still running High in neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina where disputes have involved a volatile mixture of slavic muslims serbs and croats. That Republic announced in january it plans to leave what remains of the yugoslav show Anne Frank s earlier years Amsterdam Netherlands apr previously unpublished photographs of Anne Frank have been compiled in a scrapbook style Book for children telling of the diarist s life before the holocaust. Anne Frank published recently by the Anne Frank foundation mixes snapshots postcards letters and school report cards to give Young readers a chronological account of the jewish girls life. A panne s life Story has never been fully told a said co author Rian Verhoeven who said she a tried to make the Book As much like a family album As Anne died in March 1945 at the Bergen Belsen death Camp in Germany. She was 15. The 64-Page Book contains 20 photos Given to the foundation recently by Elfriede Frank the second wife of Annex slate father Otto according to photo editor it Stoker. The photos never before shown in print were found among Otto a papers Stoker said. Otto Frank died in 1980. Snapshots show Anne As an infant at the Beach at school and at play in the years before her family took Refuge in the cramped hiding space referred to As a the Annex in the diary of Anne Frank. In her diary Anne recounts her family a two years in hiding confessing her emotions and fears in let Anne and her family hid from nazi occupiers in the rear apartment of an Amsterdam House now ters to an imaginary Friend Kitty Ner Fai i a run by the foundation As a museum. The new Book is in dutch but Stoker said versions in French and German Are planned and the foundation is looking for a publisher for an English translation. Verhoeven said the Book is a response to a hundreds of letters and Calls every year from children asking about Annex a Early childhood and what happened to the family after world War Anne Frank begins with her birth in Frankfurt Germany in 1929 and follows the Frank family a this photo of Anne Frank at age 11 will be included in a new Book about the diarists Early years. Flight to Amsterdam when she was four and the nazis had taken Over in Germany. German forces invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, and the Franks went into hiding two years later. Anne Frank also picks up where the diary left off telling of the Franks deportation to nazi death Camps and How Otto was Given the diary after the War by Miep gics the dutch woman who had brought food to the hideaway. Otto Frank was the Only member of the family to survive the s death May be verified test results to be revealed this week Frankfurt Germany apr prosecutors May at last have proof of the death of Josef Mengele the a Angel of death of the nazis Auschwitz Camp but they refuse to say so until this week. Prosecutors Are refusing to say yet whether genetic tests performed three months ago confirmed Mengeler a death. The Washington Post quoted non governmental sources it As saying the tests proved he died in 1979. The results of the probe Are to be released in Frankfurt this week the Post reported in a Story from Berlin. Frankfurt prosecutor Hubert Harth on Friday scheduled a news conference for wednesday on the status of the investigation. The announcement came three months after Mengeler a son provided a blood Sample for sophisticated genetic comparison to remains purported to be Mengeler a. Harth contacted by Telephone refused to say whether the prosecutors would announce the results of the. Genetic tests. Even so it was the first indication in years of a development in the Case. In june 1985, remains said to be Mengeler a were exhumed in the town of Emu near Sao Paulo Brazil. An International group of forensic experts examined the remains and said they were a almost certainly Mengeler a. But controversy Over whether Mengele actually died continued Over the years with reports that he had been spotted in Portugal and the United states. Mengele was responsible for killing More than 400,000 people at Auschwitz in what is now Poland. Most of Nis victims were jews. Survivors of the death Camp say Many of the victims died of cruel medical experiments directed by Mengele a nazi doctor. Witnesses said Mengele had lived in Brazil for 18 years and drowned in a swimming Accident in 1979.lone Sailor s $600 Beacon pays off in storm Brisbane Australia apr an English Solo Sailor lucked from wild seas by a helicopter said saturday that e owed his life to a $600 radio Beacon. Don Ling was rescued off Fraser Island 100 Miles Northeast of Brisbane on Friday after clutching the Small Beacon that transmitted distress signals. Seven hours after his 45-foot catamaran Sank after colliding with a bulk Ore Carrier the signals led a Bureau of emergency services helicopter from Brisbane straight to the Sailor. Ling 59, was in the Ocean for Ivi hours wearing a life jacket Waterproof coat to shirt and Cotton shorts. He survived 9-foot Waves driving rain and 40-Mph winds rescuers said. Ling a former civil servant said he paid $600 for the Epiro emergency position indicating radio Beacon four years ago in England. The equipment now costs $150. He was under observation saturday at Maryborough Hospital and being treated for bruises. A when i bought the Beacon i thought it was a lot of Money a he said in an interview with the Brisbane courier mail newspaper. A now i reckon its the Best Money in be Ever spent in my life. Only a fool would go to sea without Ling said his catamaran Sank Early Friday six hours after the collision with the bulk Ore Carrier which offered to take him on Board. He declined believing his Craft was still seaworthy but the catamaran began to sink 30 minutes after the Tanker departed. Canadian abortions reportedly performed without aesthetics Yellowknife Northwest territories apr the government has ordered an investigation into reports that the territories largest Hospital performed abortions without aesthetics. Government Leader Nellie Cournoyea ordered the review of Stanton Yellowknife Hospital last week Cournoyea acted after receiving a flood of complaints that women endured excruciating pain during abortions and that Hospital staff made demeaning and racist remarks to the women Many of whom Are eskimos. Don Zamkowy management Board chairman of the Hospital said Friday that officials Hadnot seen any of the complaints and therefore could not respond. Doctors at Stanton generally do not use aesthetics while using a device called a Luminaria tent which slowly dilates a woman a cervix overnight or. Suzanne Perkins said. The doctors use a narcotic painkiller during the operation itself she said a having an abortion will have an element of discomfort no matter what you do Quot she said. Last week the Hospital changed its policy to allow women a Choice in consultation with their doctors of what aesthetics and painkillers they will receive. Or. Henry Morgentaler who has abortion clinics across the country said his doctors always use local anaesthesia. A i think its absolutely essential whether you use Luminaria or you done to he said from Toronto. A if a patient complains there is still pain we use additional
