European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes Friday june 5, 1992 . Drops Jordan exercises to protest shipments to Iraq Washington apr the United states will suspend military exercises with Jordan because the kingdom has failed to Stop banned goods from flowing through its territory to Iraq officials say. President Bush made the decision after . Intelligence reported that the smuggling was unabated despite a commitment from King Hussein to Stem the flow the officials said. Jordan has been caught in a vice Between a longstanding Alliance with the United states and the menacing Shadow of neighbouring Iraq. During last years persian Gulf War Hussein sided with iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The decision angered Congress which suspended All . Aid. Bush has been More understanding. He has restored . Aid and asked Congress for an additional $104 million next year for Jordan. Bush welcomed Hussein to the White House in March and got a Promise that Jordan would enforce the International sanctions against Iraq. Of Hest of Zahra Iran a hundreds of thousands of iranians converged thursday on the Golden domed shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the third anniversary of the islamic revolution Leader s death. A about 10,000 mourners pounded their Heads and heat their chests in a highly choreographed display of traditional Muslim grief before thousands of foreign guests and dignitaries. On Cue the demonstrators shouted thunderous chants of a death to America Quot and a death to Israel Quot familiar refrains of the Ayatollah s followers. An estimated 120,000 people packed into the shrine and hundreds of thousands of others were in the surrounding Complex or being brought in by buses backed up for Miles. Overcome by heat and exhaustion some mourners fainted. First Aid workers pushed through the tightly pressed mob to revive them with splashes of water. Disabled veterans of the 1980-88 Irun Iraq War sat in wheelchairs in a cordoned off Section of the Complex 10 Miles South of Tehran. The shrine the Sie of two football Fields was covered by Plush persian carpets and lit by dozens of glib Jordan has become the biggest leak in the sanctions imposed by the United nations after Iraq invaded Kuwait officials said. Only food and Medicine Are officially allowed to be sold to Iraq. The administration views the economic stranglehold As its Best Hope for removing Saddam from Power. The smuggling across desert terrain enables luxury goods and defense related purchases into Iraq making it easier for Saddam to maintain the support of his military and political loyalists. Bush recently approved a stepped up Campaign to undermine Saddam including More contacts with the iraqi military and an increase in the secret . Budget to Aid the iraqi opposition. But . Officials said Saddam has tightened his grip on Power since it was shaken by the War and subsequent rebellions last year by kurdish and shiite dissidents. Although he a not As Strong As before the War he s certainly stronger than he was a year ago one official said. Tearing chandeliers. The government promoted the event this year invoking Khomeini a memory in a bid to re establish its own legitimacy at a time Many iranians grappling with economic hardship Are disillusioned with the islamic revolution. It flew in guests from neighbouring Pakistan Afghanistan and the former soviet asian republics. So Large was the list of official visitors that All hotels in the capital were full Tehran radio reported. President Hashemi a Sfanjani is anxious to dispel accusations by his Radical rivals that he has steered away from the path Khomeini set in 1979, those rivals were swept away by a Sfanjani s supporters in the recent parliamentary elections. Young men Clung to the Grid surrounding Khomeini a grave. Guards beat off common mourners who tried to press through to a special Section reserved for journalists and foreign guests. Offices and shops were closed for the Day the second in a three Day period of mourning proclaimed by the government. Movie billboards in the capital were draped in Blaek cloth and posters bearing portraits of Khomeini were everywhere. World Qatar Cabinet oks draft of defense pact with . From wire reports Doha Qatar a the Cabinet on wednesday approved a draft defense cooperation treaty with the United states the Qatar news Agency reported. It said the pact would be debated at an unspecified time by the shura Council a consultative body whose islamic members Are appointed by the Emir. The state run news Agency gave no details of the treaty and did not say when it would be signed. Qatar would be the third member of the six nation Gulf cooperation Council to conclude such a treaty with the United states since the Gulf War. Kuwait and Bahrain have signed  ban fights pollution Rome a Italy a capital was to reimpose limits on cars in the City Center starting thursday because of dangerously High pollution Levels officials said. Only cars whose License plates end in an even number were to be permitted to drive in Central Rome starting thursday at 6 a.m., they said. The restriction is to continue through today if nitrogen dioxide readings do not drop below danger Levels. Taxis Public transport cars with foreign licence plates or catalytic converters emergency vehicles and handicapped Drivers Are exempt from the emergency  to pay Back tax Athens Greece a Greece a former Royal family on wednesday agreed to pay $3 million in Back taxes and donate land around its Palace to Charity the finance ministry said. A ministry announcement said sex King Constantine of Greece will pay for most of the $3.2 million he owes in Back taxes and interest by transferring 50 acres Worth $2.3 million to the state. The rest of the debt will be settled in Cash the ministry said.21 Hurt in rail collision Vienna Austria a Twenty one people were injured some of them seriously in a collision Between a passenger train and a goods train in the province of lower Austria on wednesday the austrian radio station Orf reported. The Accident occurred in the station of Gronbach am Schneeberg when a regional train coming from Wiener Neustadt collided with the stationary goods train according to  airline reports loss Madrid Spain a Spain a state run airline Iberia wednesday reported a 9 percent decline in passengers last year which it blamed mostly on the persian Gulf War. The airline reported after tax losses for the year of $359 million. It said the six week Gulf War was responsible for most of the loss a or about $300  soothes ruffled fur Rome a besieged by angry owners of fur Coats and Alligator bags the italian government on wednesday backed Down on a census of rare animals and their products. The premieres office said that closer examination of International Law on rare animals showed that it a does no to refer to personal or Domestic use a of the products the statement said. An announcement last weekend that italians had to Register the items by saturday led to a Stampede on Forest corps  smuggler seized Geneva a Swiss police at Geneva Airport reported wednesday finding 10 pounds of heroin hidden by a German woman in a Box of paper diapers and bottles of lotion for her baby. The woman who was not identified was arrested May 26 on arrival in Geneva from Bombay India the police report said. A drying the Harvest two men drag their feet through Rice spread out to dry along an unused Section of Highway wednesday in so Apango Al Salvador. The five mile Section just East of san Salvador was built in the mid-1980s but the Road was abandoned because of the Cost. Coffee and Cotton Are the nations largest crops but Rice is commonly grown. Iran Marks Khomeini s death with huge anniversary display