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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes saturday april 25, 1992 de Klerk plan advocates sharing Power in Council Syria pulls its troops from Lebanon Airport from staff and wire reports Beirut Lebanon a the syrian  pulled out its 2,000-Strong troop contingent from Beirut a Airport on thursday and redeployed in nearby Hills Airport sources reported. They said lebanese troops who previously shared Airport Security duties with the syrians had assumed full control. Syria the main Power broker in Lebanon has had As Many As 40,too troops in the country under a 1976 Arab league peacekeeping  showered on lovers Frankfurt Germany a a love making session ended in a cold Shower for a student couple at Frankfurt University Early thursday. The couple sneaked into a ladies restroom but was left stranded when a janitor locked the doors for the night. After futile attempts to unlock the doors the couple in desperation activated a fire sprinkler system that brought firefighters Rushing to the University cafeteria shortly after Midnight. The two students were freed from their predicament but the University said thursday it expected them to pay for the 20,000 Marks $12,000 in damage caused by the sprinkler  agreement shaped Bonn Germany a Germany and Russia say they have agreed in principle to work jointly on the restoration of an autonomous Republic in Russia for ethnic germans whose ancestors settled along the Volga two centuries ago. German officials hailed the thursday Accord As a breakthrough but when the a Volga Republic will be resurrected remains an open  hiring russians Seoul South Korea a South Korea has hired 35 russian scientists including fighter plane designers and plans to invite another 120 by year end to bring in advanced technology news reports said thursday. In a related development Gong to Myung head of a foreign ministry think tank said korean officials Are in Moscow for joint projects with russian defense industries. Both moves Are seen As an attempt by South Korea to reduce its heavy Reliance on american weapons and technology. Seoul officials complain that . Companies Are reluctant to Transfer advanced defense  admission eyed Florence Italy a this City of Renaissance treasures is considering charging admission to churches containing precious artworks to discourage vandalism Ana to raise Money for Security guards. City officials Are considering a fee of approximately 80 cents for at least four churches including Santa Maria Novella and san Lorenzo with its Brunelleschi and Michelangelo Sacri sties news reports said  Mother is 62 Rome a a 62-year-Otd woman has become pregnant after a test tube Conception her doctor said thursday and she apparently would be the oldest person to give birth if she delivers successfully. Concetta Disessa a housewife from a calabrian Village in Southern Italy is due to give birth to a boy in August and has had no complications or. Raffaele Magli said in a Telephone interview from his office in Naples. He said she was impregnated with an egg from a 30-year-old woman that was fertilized with sperm from Disessa s  flood toll rises Beijing a flooding in China s Southern Hunan province has killed 94 people and serious-1 by injured 880 others an official newspaper reported thursday. The fatalities bring to at least 248 the number of reported deaths from heavy Rains and flooding in Southern and Eastern China since March. Cape town South Africa a in a plan that would guarantee South Africa its first Black Leader president . De Klerk proposed thursday to hold multiracial elections for an interim presidency. Saying the plan contains a the Backbone of democracy a de Klerk provided the greatest detail yet on How he envisions moving from White domination to Power sharing with the 30 million Black majority. He told parliament each political party would be Able to nominate one candidate for a ruling executive Council. The top three to five vote getters in National elections would sit on the Council with the chairman serving As state president. Chairmanship would rotate every six months de Klerk said. A multiracial election would give the Black majority voting rights for the first time and guarantee popular Black leaders such As Nelson Mandela a seat on the Council and thus the presidency. There was no immediate comment from Mandela a african National Congress the largest Black movement. A Telephone calf to an Anc spokeswoman was not returned. David Dalling one of five White members of parliament who this week joined the Anc said neither he nor his four colleagues was prepared to comment on behalf of the Anc. The Anc has traditionally opposed Calls for a coalition government saying a party that wins a majority should Rule by itself. The Anc and several other political groups negotiate the Hague Netherlands a the Netherlands has granted Asylum to a British Man charged by London police with having homosexual sex with a minor. Justice ministry spokesman Gert Riphagen said thursday that the briton Andrew Prochodsky 4$, had recently received dutch residency status a on humanitarian  Prochodsky fled to the Netherlands in 1989 after jumping bail in London where he faced charges of engaging in illicit sex with a 17-year-old, said his dutch lawyer Willem Vanbennekom. British Law allows homosexual Contact Only Over the age of 21, whereas the age of consent in the Netherlands is 16. Prochodsky has served two two year terms in British prisons for the same offence and faces four years if convicted a third time Vanbennekom said. Ing with the government must agree before any transitional plan can go Forward. Leading Black and White parties Nave been working on a new Constitution and plan to make a Progress report next month. De Klerk did not give a time Frame for his proposal but has said an interim government should be installed within a  months Quot we do not wish to leave South Africa without a responsible government at any time during the process of democratization a he told parliament. Both pro and anti apartheid politicians in parliament rejected the idea. Colin Eglin of the Liberal democratic party called the concept a novel interesting and probably unacceptable a saying a rotating presidency would Lead to a Power struggle. A nothing could be worse for South Africa before it has developed a common nationhood a he said. Ferdi Hertzenberg of the pro apartheid conservative party which favors separate homelands for Blacks and Whites predicted the plan would fail. A there is Only one Way to achieve Freedom for All people of South Africa and that is by partition Quot Hertzenberg said. De Klerk did not say How Long the executive Council would Rule but in the past he has said an interim leadership could be in Power several years. The Anc also wants an interim government but envisions it ruling Only Long enough to oversee elections for an Assembly to draft a new Constitution. Riphagen said that even though Prochodsky failed to meet residency requirements he was granted permission to stay in View of his previous prison terms and the fact that be has not committed a crime in the Netherlands. Riphagen maintained that Prochodsky had not been Iven the official status of a political refugee but said is Quot personal circumstances warranted overlooking the residency requirement that he be gainfully employed. The Netherlands regularly shelters foreigners accused in their Home countries of violating a Law that is seen Here As unjust or discriminatory. There has also been a tradition of tolerance toward homosexuals and Riphagen said the government has committed itself to work toward guaranteeing them full equal rights. Riphagen said British authorities had not contacted the dutch in the Case nor had they been consulted. 26 Hurt when police break up sit in a blood soaked protester is carried away after police stopped a four Day Long protest in Taipei Taiwan. Taipei Taiwan a at least 26 people were injured Friday when riot police dispersed 1,000 protesters and ended six Days of protests demanding direct presidential elections in Taiwan. The state run broadcasting corp. Of China quoting police sources said 24 protesters and two police officers were injured and seven arrested during the three hour crackdown outside Taipei a main train station. Traffic around the station had been paralysed since monday afternoon when the demonstrators began consecutive sit ins on the Street outside the station to push for Radical political reforms. Officials at the National Taiwan University Hospital said 21 protesters were treated. A spokesman of the opposition democratic progressive t Kao Chun was Hospital edition while another unidentified Man was unconscious after riot police beat him with Shields. The police action began about 4 35 a.m., when More than 2,000 police officers with clubs and Shields converged on the protesters. Sitting on the Street with  linked the demonstrators shouted a direct presidential election and a unite for Taiwan As they were shoved one by one into 22 police buses. View y said party member Ili Zed in serious con dutch Grant Asylum to sex suspect  
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