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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 9,. 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world suspected Ira bomb blast injures 16 in n. Ireland from wire reports Belfast Northern Ireland a a huge bomb exploded outside an unmanned army Security base in Northern Ireland lightly wounding 16 civilians in nearby houses the Royal Ulster constabulary said Friday. The bomb which police said they believed had been transported by the Irish Republican army t on a tractor extensively damaged the base Ana dozens of surrounding Homes in Fivemiletown 75 Miles West of Belfast on thursday night a police spokesman said. Most of the wounded were elderly or children showered by pieces of Glass in their Homes the spokesman said. None was seriously injured. At the time of the attack no soldiers were at the  targets jewish site Stockholm Sweden a a bomb exploded outside a jewish owned restaurant thursday. Police suspect the motive was to Block a party planned Friday to celebrate israelis Independence Day. No one was injured in the 4 30 . Explosion. The bomb was placed on the sidewalk outside the aquavit restaurant in Central Stockholm and it shattered the front windows and damaged a Wall and the main door owner Darios beg said. A a we re going to open today a beg said thursday afternoon. A a we be fixed it so it looks  but he said the private organizers of the israeli Independence party indicated they Felt uncomfortable and would probably cancel. Israelis official Independence Day is May 14.cameraman tapes crash Bucharest Romania a a plane that crashed in the Carpathian mountains killed the Pilot and a local to cameraman whose film of the crash was shown on state television. A one could say he taped his own death a a state to commentator said of cameraman Ion Alexandru Iliescu 21, of Brasov. The television on thursday showed film that Iliescu took As the Lin 142 aircraft nose dived near Poi Ana Brasov about 125 Miles North of Bucharest. The film also showed the moment of Impact. Pilot Ilie Dumitru 35, was also killed in the wednesday Accident the television reported. Iliescu was filming for local  videos seized Liverpool England a police seized 3,000 videos depicting mutilation cannibalism and murder in nine raids across the country officials said thursday. Ten alleged members of a major network of dealers were detained said Liverpool a chief trading standards officer Peter Mawdsley. One of the detainees was a boy of 12, he said. Charges Are Likely to follow under the video recording act and obscene publications act which set penalties of up to 20,000 pounds $37,000 per tape and up to three months  liquor kills 75 new Delhi India a at least 75 people have died of poisoning after drinking cheap homemade liquor in the East Indian state of Orissa the United news of India reported Friday. The news Agency said More than 100 others in the City of cutback were in critical condition in hospitals with complaints of severe Eye irritations and Chest pains. Many of them May go  robbed in Italy Rome a sculptures and paintings Worth More than a million dollars were stolen Early thursday from a gallery in northeastern Italy officials said. A Bronze sculpture of a Bagpiper by 20th-Century artist Marino Marini valued at More than half a million dollars and a 1940 Oil painting titled landscape by Giorgio Morandi were among the 29 works stolen from the Cesarini gallery in Fossom Brone a coastal town officials said. Landscape was scheduled to go to Belgium within Days for a Brussels exhibition. Norway Russia to probe undersea nuclear dumps Oslo Norway apr nuclear experts will comb Arctic Waters for secret soviet atomic waste dumps and keep tabs on a wrecked submarine with a leaking reactor officials said. Norway and Russia which share an Arctic Border agreed jointly to map suspected soviet radioactive waste dumps this summer according to Norway a environment ministry. Per strand of the National Institute of radiation Hygiene said a similar project last summer revealed radiation leaks from the soviet nuclear submarine Komsomol lets. The submarine caught fire and Sank near Norway three years ago killing 42 of its 69 Crew members. Results of last Summers tests were made Public wednesday after the norwegians shared them with russian experts in Oslo strand said. They showed barely measurable traces of radioactive cerium from the submarines reactors. A but it shows there has been a leak and that it must be watched a he said. Another joint expedition this month will take More samples near the wreck of the Koms molets which Sank on april 7, 1989, 120 Miles Southwest of Norway a Arctic Bear Island. Norway worries that the Koms molets reactors a and soviet atomic waste reactors and possibly whole submarines dumped in the Barents and Kara seas a could contaminate Rich Arctic fishing grounds. Fourteen possible atomic waste dumps will be tested. A we will together with the russians try to determine the extent of dumping a said Knut Gussgard director of the nuclear safety authority. The environmental group Greenpeace claims the soviets dumped 17,000 containers a filled with tons of solid and liquid atomic waste a in Arctic Waters. Dumping in the Kara sea a near the Novara zem Lya islands a soviet nuclear weapons test site a included 15 nuclear reactors and highly radioactive spent no s4s Susan Harris Clear fuel Greenpeace said. A Greenpeace report in february said most reactors were from nuclear submarines although some were from the atomic icebreaker Lenin. Greenpeace said the soviets scuttled at least one submarine a the k-27 a in the Arctic Ocean in May 1968 after an Accident and that its reactors were dumped in 1982. Aleksander Mikhailov a top nuclear safety official in the russian nuclear submarine and icebreaker port of Murmansk told norwegian newspapers last november that the soviet Union dumped radioactive waste in the Kara sea As recently As last summer. Charges of racism spark clashes Toronto apr police clashed with youths on the streets for the third time this week following a peaceful anti racism rally thursday outside the Ontario legislature. At least three teen agers All under 18, were arrested police said. No injuries were reported. About 1,000 people took part in a 2v-hour rally at Queens Park in Central Toronto on thursday then Dis versed peacefully As police flooded the main streets to Ead off a repeat of riots monday and tuesday. The clash occurred later outside Eaton Centre a shopping mall and popular hangout for youths and where previous clashes occurred. About 100 youths and 300 police officers were involved in thursdays clash. The Black action defense committee which organized the rally had refused to postpone it despite pleas from the City Council and police. Ontario Premier Bob Rae angered some in the crowd thursday with a speech that critics said sounded vague. A whatever happens we must work together a he told the crowd roughly half of which was Black. A there is no route to take us to a Quick and easy  a Well rehearsed Bob a shouted one heckler. A give that Man a shovel a cried another. A rally monday was held in front of the american consulate in Toronto to protest the acquittal of four White current and former police officers in the Rodney g. King beating in los Angeles. The rally was Given added meaning when Toronto police shot and killed a Black youth last weekend. Mondays demonstration which began peacefully evolved into a violent six hour window smashing spree Down Yonge Street. Tuesday about 150 took to the streets in the same area. Thursdays demonstration was planned several weeks ago to demand that the attorney general a office Appeal the acquittal of two police officers in the december 1988 fatal shooting of Michael Lawson in suburban Mississauga. The officers fired six shots into the stolen car in which the Black 17-year-old youth was Riding. Friday was the last Day the acquittal could be appealed. Blacks in Toronto accuse police of racism. Among other demands at the rally was legislation making racism criminal better training of police in the use of deadly Force and acknowledgement that the shooting of Blacks by police is not a coincidence. Eight Blacks and at least 10 other persons have been shot by police in Toronto and its suburbs since 1988. Three Blacks and three others were killed. Australians frown on guardian Angels Sydney Australia up americans guardian gels began patrolling Sydney trains thursday despite eing told they were unwelcome and being described As a loonies by the police minister. But new yorkers Curtis Sliwa founder of the group ind Sebastian Metz the groups International co Ordi Lator said they were determined to patrol trains to protect commuters from attack. The group claimed to have already recruited 40 aus radians and hoped to increase this number to 100 to staff their patrols. In new York a spokesman for the guardian Angels Francisco Nazario boric a said australians had asked he group for help in fighting crime. A there Are a lot of crime problems in Sydney a Borina said. A we received petitions from australians for help so we sent a training team to  Quot police minister Ted Pickering issued a Stern warning to the group threatening to a come Down on them like a ton of bricks if they step out of  a i have a message to the so called guardian Angel group a thanks but no thanks a Pickering said. A we done to need your kind of assistance and As far As i am concerned you can go Home. Anyone who takes the Law into their own hands can clearly be described As loonies and will be dealt with according to the  he said police had been instructed to watch them closely to ensure they stayed within the Law but nothing could be done to Stop them from boarding trains. A there is nothing to Stop people getting dressed up in fancy dress and going on trains As Long As they have a valid ticket a he said. Transport minister Bruce Baird agreed that Sydney had no need for groups such As the guardian Angels claiming that crime and assaults on trains had decreased by 38 percent in the past two years  
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