European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes thursday May 14.1992 world soldiers wrap . Flags around coffins allegedly containing the remains of americans killed in the korean War. N. Korea turns Over coffins said to hold mias remains Panmunjom Korea apr North Korea turned Over 15 narrow coffins to . Officials wednesday and said they contained the remains of . Service Mem cars listed As missing in action in the 1950-53 korean War. . Military officials said 15 More would be returned by the end of the month in the largest repatriation of remains by North Korea since 1,868 sets were returned in 1954. Although some of the coffins contained dog tags american officials said North Korea apparently Hadnot identified most of the remains. Washington has made settlement of the Mia Issue and the question of halting the alleged construction of a North korean atomic bomb a precondition for better relations. North Korea is reaching out to improve its flagging Economy. A i Hope in the near future to have More repatriations a maj. Gen. James f. Record said. A the accountability of pos and mias is a great humanitarian  the Brief ceremony took place at the Border Village of Panmunjom 35 Miles North of Seoul. A steady rain fell As North korean guards lined up 15 Brown coffins several Yards from the demarcation Tine separating North and South Korea. Officials representing the United nations lifted Vinyl that had been placed Over the coffins to protect them from rain and looked inside each. Some of the coffins contained Bones buttons badges and dog tags. The coffins were carried to the South Side of the demarcation line and covered with Blue . Flags. The remains Are to be taken from Panmunjom to the . Army Central identification Laboratory in Hawaii for evaluation and possible identification. North Korea turned Over five sets of remains in May 1990 and 11 More in june 1991. The remains have yet to be positively identified. The Pentagon currently lists 8,177 american service members As unaccounted for from the War which ended in july 1953. It says North Korea should be Able to identify at least 389 because that Many Are known to have been held alive at wars end. More than 5 million americans fought on the Side of South Korea during the War and there were 54,000 . Casualties. Toll in mine blast rises to 14 when 3 More victims found Plymouth Nova Scolia apr rescuers on wednesday found three More bodies at a Coal mine in Eastern Canada bringing the official death count to 14 after an explosion deep underground trapped 26 workers. Rescue workers were continuing to search for 12 miners still unaccounted for in the saturday blast mine spokesman Colin Benner said. The discovery of the three bodies came at 10 30 . After hours of shovelling and Clearing away heavy obstacles caused by the blast. Rescuers finally broke through a Roc slide into open tunnels about 75 Yards from where they believed the nearest group of miners was trapped. Benner said it could take a a considerable time to bring the three bodies to the surface. A mine Rescue Crews have worked heroically in an Effort to restore a path to the North and Southeast Mains a said Benner an official with Curranh resources inc. Of Toronto the mines owners. He said rescuers had to Wade through knee deep water. The bodies of 11 miners who apparently died instantly in the blast were brought to the surface two Days ago. Memorial services were held for some of those victims tuesday and funerals were scheduled for six of them later wednesday. For Cliff Macpherson a 71-year-old retired Collier who lives in neighbouring Stellarton the mine explosion in Plymouth fits a pattern of mine disasters in the Region. Macpherson remembers the explosion in the now closed Macgregor mine nearby that killed 19 miners in 1952, and the 1956 blast in a Coal pit in nearby Spring Hill that took 39 lives. A the town is not going to fall apart a he said. A a they be had bad accidents nere Ever since the 1800s, a after every explosion that has happened the Fellows were just waiting for them to get it straight and get Back to  it May not be bravery or a love of their work that tempts the miners Back. In a Rural area with 17 percent unemployment miners of the 2-year-old Westray pit in Plymouth could have trouble getting another Job. A a it a a poor province and that a a poor area Quot said Michael Bradfield a professor of economics at Dalhousie University in Halifax. A a that a Why you had people saying the Day after a if it opens again we would go Back  they done to have Many  Nova Scotia Premier Donald Cameron has said it is unlikely that the mine which employs about 200 people will Ever operate again. Over a its a terrible thing to lose the boys but Well adjust a time a Plymouth resident Caye Hoare said. 1 but if they close the mine we won t adjust. The Community will  special German Force to probe Neo nazi attack from wire reports task Magdeburg Germany a a special police so Force has been set up in Magdeburg to investigate an attack by Neo nazis that killed one person and injured several others police said tuesday. Magdeburg police spokesman Johann Lott Mann said Law officials Are worried that rival Neo nazi and leftist groups May be heading into a gang War As a result of the weekend fracas. About 60 far right skinheads with baseball bats attacked 20 leftist a a punks attending a birthday party at a Magdeburg restaurant on  son in Accident Warsaw Poland a Slawomir Walesa 20 year old son of president Lech Walesa injured a woman when he lost control of his car in the Northern seaport of Gdansk the polish news Agency reported tuesday. Walesa a car drove onto the sidewalk and hit the 51-year-old woman who was treated at a Hospital and released the Pap report said. A statement issued by the prosecutors office in Gdansk said Walesa was sober when the Accident occurred Friday. Last year his brother Przemyslaw was charged with Riding a bicycle while  kills . Nurse Diyarbakir Turkey a a . Nurse doing Relief work in Iraq was killed in a car Accident near this Southeastern City a police official said on tuesday. The victim was identified As Chiquita Hood 29, said the police official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Hoods colleague Todd Bennett 24, was injured in the Accident monday the official  refuses award Johannesburg South Africa a Nelson Mandela has refused to accept turkeys Ataturk peace award the african National Congress said tuesday. The turkish government announced the award a Given in memory of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk founder of Modem Turkey a will be presented to the Anc president next tuesday. The Anc did not say Why Mandela would not accept the award but suggested it was linked to human rights  in soccer deaths Bastia Corsica a two More people were charged tuesday with involuntary homicide in last weeks collapse of temporary grandstands at a soccer championship semifinal judiciary sources said. The two Are Bernard Rossi regional director for the firm soc Otec that inspected and approved the stands and Etienne Galeazzi Secretary general of the corsican soccer league sources said. The Accident occurred at furiani stadium in Bastia when several Hundred fans stamping in unison caused the steel stands to collapse. Thirteen people have died from the Accident so far. About 700 were injured in the  commit suicide Seoul South Korea a four students have committed suicide in the past two Days Over problems with their studies in South koreans highly competitive school system police said today. R police said the students had either left suicide notes or told friends about mental stress Over  lyricist succumbs Athens Greece a Nikos Gatsos a popular lyricist for some of Greece a Best known composers died tuesday of cancer. He was 76. He died at Athens Hygeia Hospital a Hospital spokesman said