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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 8, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3polish leaders replace 3 Cabinet chiefs Warsaw Poland apr moving quickly to consolidate Victory Over political foes president Lech Walesa and his new prime minister Waldemar Pawlak ousted the Heads of defense intelligence and state television this weekend. Replacement of the three Cabinet chiefs came within hours of parliaments dismissal Friday of the Center right Cabinet of prime minister Jan Olszewski. Olszewski had for months been feuding with the president and on saturday essentially accused Walesa and his supporters of firing him in order to protect a nest of communist agents hidden in government. A there simply is a common front Quot Olszewski said in an interview in the newspaper Nowy Swiat. A it seems the communists Are returning to  with Walesa a support Pawlak placed on leave Interior minister Antoni Macielewicz and defense minister Romuald Szeremi Tew. On thursday Macielewicz caused a juror by releasing a list of a picture shows weary bearded German hostage Beirut Lebanon apr a newspaper sunday released the photograph of a German hostage whose kidnappers say will go free if the captors receive a Concrete assurances a about two shiite Muslim Brothers jailed in Germany. Al Nahar received the instant color photograph of Heinrich Striebig on saturday along with a statement from the self styled holy warriors for Freedom. The same statement was delivered to a Western news Agency without a photograph. The picture showed Striebig 51, from the Waist up dressed in a White _ sleeveless to shirt. He Striebig looked Haggard and had a Bushy Beard. It was impossible to Tell when the picture was taken but it was similar to one released last july. Striebig was kidnapped with fellow German Thomas Kemptner 30, in South Lebanon on May 16,1989. They were on assignment for a German Relief organization. They Are the last Western hostages held in Lebanon. In the statement the kidnappers said a the matter is moving through a reasonable mechanism within the framework of a positive solution towards a satisfactory conclusion for  legend former communist police agents in government without supporting evidence or the right of self defense. Quot Pawlak also replaced Zbigniew Romaszewski As head of state television. Although Pawlak and Walesa repeatedly denied that they harboured fears of a coup during the transition the moves were interpreted As a precaution. The three Olszewski appointees were replaced by officials who Nad served in the previous Solidarity governments of prime ministers Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. Janusz Onysz Micwicz a mathematician and longtime Solidarity spokesman during the period when the Union was outlawed was named acting defense minister. Onysz Micwicz was previously the country a first civilian Deputy defense minister. Andrzej Milczanowski the former head of the state Protection office once More took Over intelligence duties in his capacity As acting Interior  in Copenhagen a fire rages sunday in a Chapel beside the danish parliament building in Copenhagen. The Blaze began saturday night when two rockets landed on the Chapel roof after being fired by boaters attending a carnival. The festival s last two Days were cancelled after the fire which burned out the Chapel. Yeltsin accepts resignation of Moscow s mayor by the new York times Moscow a president Boris n. Yeltsin accepted the resignation of Moscow mayor Gavril k. Popov on saturday and issued a presidential decree giving the Job of managing this City of 9 million to the current Deputy mayor. Popovs departure from City politics has been a Long time in the making to the Point where his repeated threats to quit were often ignored. In his latest res ignation statement issued two Days ago Popov said he wanted to devote himself to his role As chairman of the movement for democratic reforms. The appointment of Deputy mayor Yuri la Zhukov does not indicate any shift in policy on the City level since la Zhukov has been the City a chief administrator throughout Popovs tenure. Popov a former economics professor was a popular political figure when he Diana received psychiatric Aid for eating disorder paper says London apr the Princess of Wales suffered from bulimia the Binge purge eating disorder but is now fully cured the daily mail newspaper reported saturday. In a front Page gossip column the paper quoted one of Diana a friends As saying she urged the Princess to get help from Maurice lips Edge a psychiatrist at Guys Hospital in London. A i did what i would do to any close Friend who was very ill. I made her understand that she had to get the Best doctor possible for her condition a the daily mail quoted Carolyn Bartholomew As saying. The newspaper said lips Edge treated the 30-year-old Princess from Early 1988 until Early 1989. A by then she was completely cured and there has been no recurrence a the daily mail said. On Friday the newspaper reported that the Princess overdosed on a mild painkiller in 1986 while she was deeply troubled by marital problems. Buckingham Palace had no comment on either report. Diana married Prince Charles the heir to the British throne in 1981. British tabloids have regularly reported that the marriage is unhappy. They have two sons Prince William 9, and Prince Harry 7. Yeltsin and other supporters of fundamental change a known in Moscow As a a democrats a were the opposition to the then ruling communist party. But in the year since he became mayor of Moscow Popovs authority has suffered badly. He and the City Council have been in a running Battle Over issues ranging from appointments to privatization. And Popovs reputation has been tarnished by rumours of corruption sustained by a published poll of local business executives who ranked him As one of the richest people in Moscow. His resignation comes when Yeltsin a own government is under attack from All sides. The pain of economic Reform has taken some of the glow off the Triumph Felt by opponents of the old communist system after the failed coup last August even though Yeltsin a own popularity does not yet seemed to have suffered. John Paul attacks marxism for undermining families Luanda Angola apr speaking in the Shadow of a towering Monument to angolans marxist founder John Paul ii on sunday renewed his criticism of ideologies he accuses of undermining families. John Paul gave the most crowded mass of his seven Day visit to Angola on a Sandy wasteland dominated by the unfinished mausoleum of Antonio Agostinho Neto angolans first president. Neto died in 1979, four years after the country gained Independence from Portugal. The Pope told tens of thousands of angolan catholics that they should work to protect the family against a ideologies and campaigns that attack against its  the Pope has criticized the influence of communism on african families throughout his tour of Angola and the twin Island nation of Sao tom6 and Principe. Neto made Angola a marxist state and requested the help of 50,000 cuban troops in a civil War against the . And South african backed un1ta rebel movement. Although Neto is still revered by the ruling popular movement for the liberation of Angola his successor Jose Eduardo Dos Santos has moved away from marxism and has pledged to hold free elections in september. A year ago Dos Santos signed peace accords with Unita Leader Jonas Sav Imbi to end one of africans bloodiest civil wars. John Paul urged angolans political leaders a not to give up despite the difficulties the construction of a future of understanding peace and just   
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