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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                At a glance a stack Mummy a a Vik kit stalled by holds of a Highway bet us Paris Aad Lioe Usalj mayday As i scat Stonas caused havoc a the Paris area. See Story of Page 8. For Aore ear opera Aad stateside weather information see Page 11.officer�?Ts dad Speaks out the Onty police officer who faces a retrial in the beating of Rodney g. King Quot did him a Favory by not killing the Black Motorist the defendants father says. A Page ticket buying frenzy the half Price fare War among the nation s airlines has ignited frantic ticket scrambles. A Page stepping up Tail Hook probe the Navy is investigating More than 30 people for their roles in sex abuse at the 1991 Tail Hook association convention. A Page 6dod suspends contracts the Pentagon has suspended future contracts with a division of general electric co. Because of alleged fraud. A Page 7farewell to Sac the strategic air come was put to rest monday As the United states sheathed a but did t Shelve a the nuclear sword it has wielded through four  Page 9 inn Abby Ann Landers .19 action line. .16 comics. 19-2i commentary. .13 crossword. .19 faces a places .22 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 23-28 to listings. .27 weather. .11 10 die in Detroit Blaze Detroit apr fire roared through a boarding House Early tuesday Rufing 10 people Many of them elderly or handicapped and authorities suspected careless smoking. A i grabbed my Blanket and put it Over my head and i got out a said Delores Strempeck a 60-year-old resident. Her Roommate got up too but never made it out she said. Some residents complained they were unable to Contact a 911 operator to report the fire. Arson investigators concentrated on the Kitchen of the three Story building where witnesses said the fire began about 2 . A it started in the West Wall of the Kitchen Between the stove and the sink a fire marshal Donald Robinson told reporters. Robinson said investigators were examining the possibility that carelessly Dis carded cigarettes started the Blaze. A there was no evidence of anything cooking on the stove or the stove being on at the time Quot he said. Fire chief Harold Watkins said the dead four women and six men ranging in age from the mid-40s to 89, were found in bedrooms on the second and third floors. Sixteen people were believed to have been inside Watkins said. Watkins said the death toll made the fire the City a worst in his 38 years on the Force. The building was gutted. Two people were injured and four other residents and a night caretaker escaped unharmed. The Home once operated As an adult Foster care Center said Chuck peller of the state department of social services in Lansing. He said the state revoked its License in 1977, citing fire code health safety and paperwork violations. Violations included inadequate fire extinguishers an inadequate number of exits a locked exit or exits and open Stair Walls the department said. Since then the Home had been a Rooming House and needed no state License peller said. A Janie Nelson who with her husband Robert has owned the Home for 33 said the House underwent annual City Section and licensing. A some residents have been there 27 years a she said. A a it a  it was not immediately Clear whether the House had subsequently passed City housing inspections. Housing officials and a spokesman for mayor Coleman a Young did not return numerous Tele phone Calls tuesday. Robert Nelson said the building met City fire codes but could provide few de tails. Earth Summit delegates flood Rio Rio de Janeiro Brazil a the atmosphere is festive in Rio on the eve of a world Summit devoted to the planets Well being. Thousands of diplomats ecologists and native leaders have packed the City a bars restaurants and taxis easing the pain of a protracted recession. Residents Are reveling in the worlds attention and dozens of special events and concerts arc planned. But beneath the Bustle Many activists fear Little Progress will be made in addressing serious environmental issues. And some brazilians say the same delegates trying to protect Trees and animals have shown Little interest in human beings a especially Brazil s poor. The Earth Summit formally known As the . Conference on environment and development opens today at the Rio Centro convention Center 25 Miles West of downtown Rio. Twelve thousand environmentalists were to open the global forum a parallel non governmental conference. Groups ranging from an esperanto association to friends of the Earth were to meet in 36 Green and White striped tents at Flamingo Park. At the Earth Summit delegates from 185 countries will debate and negotiate until june 11. An estimated 100 presidents premiers and Kings will meet for the final Days. Not All delegates have titles. Former soccer great Pele named special Earth Summit ambassador is bringing 17 kenyan Street children to the conference. In deference to his soccer Loving citizens president Fernando col Lor de Mello has called the Summit the a world cup of  others disagree. A the conference is just a Circle of Lead ers looking for electoral retreading a said Alfredo Sirkis president of brazils Green party. Much of the criticism has been directed at president Bush. Bush pressured european leaders to remove goals and timetables from an agreement to reduce Carbon dioxide emissions. The United states produces about one fourth of the worlds Carbon dioxide which scientists believe contributes to global wanning. Last week Bush also said he would not sign a a a biodiversity agreement to protect the world s plants animals Ana resources. Officials have since hinted that he May change his mind. A the Bush administration has recklessly undermined the Earth Summit a Josh Karliner Greenpeace a Summit coordinator said monday. A the Summit would be better off if he did no to  from Page 1 Campaign Democrat Hamilton Jordan Ipaige and Republican de Rollins. Both met in Dallas with Perot Over the past two Days. Jordan former Campaign manager and chief of staff to president Carter is vice president of whittle communications in Knoxville Tenn. Rollins is a Washington political consultant who managed president Reagan a 1984 re election Campaign. Neither Jordan nor Rollins returned phone Calls monday. Squires confirmed that Perot a has talked to both of them Quot but said that Quot neither has been hired Quot As of now. A it might happen and it might not happen Quot Squires said. Analysts from both parties have said that getting both Jordan and Rollins aboard would be a major political coup for the Dallas computer tycoon. Perot aides had told both Rollins and Jordan that they would be paid As much As s5 million for their services sources in both parties said. One prominent gop consultant who spoke on the condition of anonymity said monday that he was told by Perot aides that their employer was prepared to spend Well Over $100 million on his Campaign. The consultant who said he turned Down a request to come to Dallas for a Job interview said he was told Perot did not Lake the reported s1c0 million figure seriously. T , i did t think you d spend that much a a the consultant said he told Perot a representatives. A they said a no no you Don t understand. He d spend Many multiples of this a the gop consultant reported. Perot Worth at least $3 billion has said he would spend a what it takes a often pointing out that the si00 million figure bandied about was just an estimate made by journalists not himself. Squires said a i cannot believe that a Perot representative would make such a statement a that is so alien to everything i see and believe. That sounds like spin doctor  Perot a professional staff continues to Row As his Effort to get on every state allot plods Forward. On monday he qualified for Arkansas general election ballot his 12th, following a weekend nominating convention. Serbia from Page 1 other witnesses according to Sarajevo radio. Tomic and the witnesses said four . Armoured vehicles were escorting a Small Van and Large bus carrying food and Medicine to Western Sarajevo a sprawling Dobrija residential apartment District where an estimated 30, xxx people have been Cut off for More than a month. Serbian leaders Lay claim to the Complex in demanding the partition of Sarajevo into ethnic div trials. Serbian machine gunners and sniper it fired Al the Convoy As it approached a local health the in the Voin Ieko to vhf Section of Dobrija witnesses said. They added that at least two of the  armoured cars were hit and that the Supply bearing bus w As disabled. Made a mistake. We stopped a logic told United press International adding that he and other children a embassy staff then realized their error and fled m the Van. Quot pc had to leave the bus there he added. The two local workers who were hit were in the bus Tomic said. A it is horrible Quot he tide but is a concentration ramp 1 he incident came As serbian Cun ners hit the City and at least three other towns with hellfire. Jet fighters from the 5. Brian nominated yugoslav air Force also  a second Day of bombing raids. I be attacks by serbs underscored their a ceo . Economic sanctions api we Kenvl. The embargo is a bid to Force Serbia to end the More than two month yugoslav army backed drive to merge serbian dominated areas with what is left of Yugoslavia. In a related development yugoslav army representatives announced an agreement with bosnian officials to Complete a y yugoslav troop withdrawal from the capital. It Calls for abandoning the marshal Tito Barracks the last of four Federal facilities beginning this morning. Under the pact brokered by Wilson 809 cadets soldiers officers and civilian dependents would be guaranteed Safe passage from Sarajevo in Exchange for the surrender of artillery that the yugoslav army confiscated two years ago from the Republic s defense forces. Yugoslav army Gen. Dragoljub Simonovic acknowledged that some cannons had been deliberately damaged  
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