European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse The sfasdwl1942-1992 50 years of service Hambaum vol. 51, no. 52 35c monday june 8,1992 d 8693 a Sarajevo s night in hell Many believed killed in bosnian artillery Duel y dam n Linro tort Atrino for pc a or mph Carpu a with Muhln Nhuc t fit Vars Annn Rupil a Vlis Rry a / Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr buildings in Central Sarajevo were ablaze from heavy shelling sunday after what bosnian radio described As Quot another night in the Belgrade based news Agency Tan Jug said Many people were feared killed in the fierce artillery Battle raging through the pre Dawn hours Between serbian forces and the City a Muslim led defense forces. No estimates of the number of dead and wounded were reported Early sunday. Bosnian radio told listeners cowering in cellars that their capital had just lived through Quot another night in red tracers flashed Down from serbian Hillside positions ringing the City. Continuous blasts from mortars and cannons echoed deafening by through deserted streets strewn with rubble Glass and downed Power lines. Rockets hit the twin 20-Story Unis towers that dominate Central Sarajevo a Skyline. Flames spewed through the night from the top 11 floors of one of the Glass and steel structures. The editorial offices of the leading bosnian daily newspaper Oslebo Dienje in Western new Sarajevo were ablaze Tan Jug reported As were other buildings in Central Sarajevo and the Dobrija and Krasnica suburbs. Four buildings in the downtown marshal Tito Barracks evacuated by yugoslav troops saturday also were afire. Lack of water hampered firefighters efforts to prevent the blazes from spreading. Water supplies intermittent at Best see Sarajevo on Page 2 Bush major underscoring historic ties Camp David my. Up a president Bush and British prime minister John major invoked memories of Allied efforts in world War ii As they opened Mountaintop talks saturday aimed at resolving global challenges. But it seemed certain that the two leaders would reach no Accord on a pending Earth Summit treaty which Bush opposes and major favors. The president and prime minister Are to join More than 100 other Heads of state this week at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Bush and major made no mention of the Earth Summit in Brief statements on the prime ministers late afternoon arrival at Camp David. Instead they focused on the Bond Between the United states and Britain and the 48th anniversary of a Day the Pivotal world War ii Allied invasion at Normandy on june 6,1944. Quot the a Day invasion. Told the world that aggression would not stand a Bush said. Quot it is fitting that the prime minister and i meet on this historic anniversary to talk about our countries in see Bush on Page 2 British prime minister John major and president Bush take off in a Golf cart at Camp David md., on saturday. Election moves Czechoslovakia closer to breaking into 2 nations Prague Czechoslovakia apr rival czech and slovak election victors mulled coalition partners sunday after a countrywide vote increased the chances that Czechoslovakia will split apart. The elections were a blow to president Voclav Havel the Liberal humanist and sex dissident writer who symbolized the gentle Quot velvet revolution against communism in late 1989. Havel repeatedly had appealed to his compatriots to vote to keep the country together. Many of his allies in the National parliament which must decide in summer whether Havel remains president failed to win seats according to initial projections. Havel said he expected that talks on the future especially on forming a viable Federal coalition Between the two Tough rivals who won a a will be very conservative Federal finance minister Vic Lav Klaus the front runner in the czech Republic said talks on the future of the federation could Start monday. Vladimir Mesiar made no immediate comment apparently pondering his options As the Clear election Victor in Slovakia. The Burly populist and former Boxer was ousted As slovak Premier a year ago. The czech Republic is the wealthier two thirds of the country while the slovak Republic is the poorer Eastern third. According to predictions based on initial results Mesiar won up to 37 percent of the vote in Slovakia with his Calls for slovak sovereignty and More slovak control Over the Swift Tough reforms Klaus has made to privatize the state run Economy. Unemployment in Slovakia has rocketed to 11.3 percent since communism was overthrown in 1989. By contrast the jobless rate in the czech areas of Bohemia and Moravia is 2.85 percent. The czech Republic Bor see election on Page 2 a amp sallies breaking with . At Earth Summit Rio de Janeiro Brazil a Japan and the 12 european Community nations will break with the United states and sign an Earth Summit treaty to protect threatened species officials said saturday. At the same time however the dec was moving to ease the United states isolation at the Summit and join president Bush in his $150 million proposal to help preserve tropical forests said dec spokesman Laurens Jan brinkhorst. A we regret the isolation of the United states a brinkhorst told a news briefing. Quot we done to want a slugging match of everybody against the United the United slates is alone among the major economic Powers in opposing the biodiversity convention one of the Cornerstones of the . See allies on Page 2
