Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 21, 1992

You are currently viewing page 64 of: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, May 21, 1992

     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes thursday May 21, 1992 new foreign minister seeks wider German military role world Venice plans to Fine ill mannered tourists from wire reports Venice Italy a authorities stepped up their Campaign thursday against a bad mannered shirtless tourists in an Effort to protect Venice As Peak Holiday season approaches. Signs in five languages will be Hung throughout the City Center and sent to tourist offices abroad warning Bare chested offenders they could face fines of $25, announced a City tourism official Augusto Salvadori. Wearing bathing suits dropping litter eating bag lunches around monuments and dangling one s feet in the City a canals were cited by Salvadori As examples of a a behaviour to be  riders robbed Budapest Hungary a an armed gang held up travellers on the Vienna Austria be Grade express train tuesday and made off with jewelry and Money the state news Agency Mai reported. The robbers believed to be yugoslavs attacked people in sleeping compartments and forced them to hand Over their valuables. Mai reported that victims pulled the emergency Brake and the robbers jumped off the train As it stopped by Almasy Kizito 25 Miles West of  eruption kills 1 Jakarta Indonesia a a Volcano on the Remote indonesian Island of Sanger talmud has erupted killing at least one person leaving two missing and injuring six others the official news Agency Ankara said wednesday. The 3,940-foot mount Karang Tang 1,450 Miles Northeast of Jakarta erupted late monday belching smoke lava and burning particles Ankara  doctor sentenced Johannesburg South Africa a High school dropout who posed As a paediatrician treating several babies who died has been sentenced to is years in prison. A this must surely be the Mother of All frauds a judge Eugene Van Rensburg said tuesday in announcing the sentence against Andre Esterhai zen 41.former mayor extradited Guatemala City the former mayor of the Eastern town of Zacapa has been extradited to the United states on drug trafficking charges officials said tuesday. Arnoldo Vargas was taken by . Police from the jail where he has spent the last 18 months to a waiting flight  pilgrims invited Jidida saudi Arabia a King fahd has invited 13,000 muslims from the former soviet unions russian and Central asian republics to make islam a annual religious pilgrimage at his expense a saudi official said tuesday. Muslims from around the world already Are converging for the Hajj or pilgrimage to islam a holiest shrines at Mecca and Medina. About 2 million people Are usually gathered by the time the ritual culminates this year around june 11.cnn now in russian Moscow a russians news junkies now have the ultimate fix can world news in their native language. Cable news network founder Ted Turner threw the switch monday night in a television studio to begin a new two hour nightly broadcast in Moscow of in no a International report with a simultaneous russian translation Arafat suffers flu London a Yasser Arafat has undergone medical checks at a Tunis Tunisia Hospital after a bout of flu one of his advisers in the Palestine liberation organization said wednesday. Bonn Germany up1 a in a departure from his predecessors policies new foreign minister Klaus Kincl said tuesday that armed German troops should participate in . Military operations. A my personal View is that the increased importance of the Federal Republic must be taken into account a Kincl told the Stid Cutsche Zeitung a daily newspaper. Quot it will not be enough in the future that German troops make do without weapons on . Missions a said Kincl who took office monday. A i say this Clear last week 140 unarmed German medical troops flew to Cambodia to run a military Hospital for . Forces that Are to demobilize four rival armies and help prepare for free elections. Although government officials said earlier that deployment of the troops had the tacit agreement of the social democratic party spathe opposition group tuesday called the move unconstitutional. The German Constitution bans combat troops from being sent outside the North Atlantic treaty organization theater. After Germany was criticized by its allies for not sending troops to the persian Gulf War Chancellor Helmut Tokyo up a japanese legislators wednesday moved a step nearer to forcing a vote on a controversial Bill that could Send japanese ground troops abroad for the first time since world War ii. An and hoc committee in the upper House decided to hold three sets of Public hearings next week according to a committee official. The Bill cannot come to a vote until such hearings Are held. Led by the social democratic party the opposition has shot Down several versions of the Bill but in december the governing Liberal democratic party pushed the legislation through the lower House following a violent Melee in the diet Japan a parliament. The sep continues to maintain that the legislation violates Japan a pacifist Constitution but the lip is Kohl pledged he would Amend the Constitution. The spa said it would continue to Block attempts to introduce a constitutional clause allowing German participation in out of area missions. A we warn the government against trying to achieve a change of the Constitution by setting a precedent a spa leaders said tuesday referring to the deployment of medical troops to Cambodia. The spa said participation in the Franco Crinan brigade also violated the Constitution. Kohl and French president Francois Mitterrand were to Complete plans for extending the existing brigade into a european defense unit at a Summit in la Rochelle France today and Friday. Hans Dietrich Genscher Kinkele a predecessor As foreign minister had supported the creation of such a european Force under the Western european Union but he opposed German participation in out of area combat missions such As the .-led War against Iraq. In a further departure from Genscher a policies Kin Kel indicated that he wants Germany to increase its involvement in Asia Africa and South America. Genscher had concentrated on East West issues and played a leading role in helping end the cold War conflict. Widely believed to have arrived at Broad agreement with the other major opposition parties on a revised version of the Bill that satisfies their objections. The version would allow regular members of Japan a military to participate in . Peacekeeping missions a recent poll by the Asahi Shimun a mass circulation daily showed that most japanese think sending troops overseas would violate the Constitution but More of them than not want to see troops dispatched anyway. Several asian nations with Long memories of Japan a brutal wartime occupation have criticized the plan. One hearing will be held next tuesday in Tokyo but the details of the others have not been set. The committee has not decided How Many people can attend. Debris from midair collision the Tail Assembly of a Tanker stands out amid the debris of two russian military aircraft that collided Over the Village of Dergach on saturday killing 12 of the 14 Crew members aboard the planes. Wreckage from the midair collision was spread Over a i mile radius in the Saratov Region. Japan nears showdown on Bill allowing troops to serve abroad  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade