European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes sunday june 14, 1992 car bomb intended for official kills four hurts four in Tbilisi Moscow apr four people were killed saturday in the georgian capital of Tbilisi when a car bomb exploded in an apparent attack on the Deputy chairman of Georgia a ruling state Council. The Remote controlled bomb was planted in a asked car and went off shortly after the official Doha a Iose Liani passed by in a motorcade on his Way to a meeting of the state Council. He was unhurt. Four bystanders a two women a Man and a child a were killed and four people were injured according to Georgia a Interior ministry. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb. Iose Liani has Many potential enemies including supporters of the former georgian president Oviad Gamsa Hurdia who was ousted in a civil War Early this year. The head of the state Council former soviet foreign minister Eduard a. Shevardnadze denounced the Beijing apr More than 1 million chinese workers have been Laid off this year As the government tries to turn around its Money losing state owned factories the official China daily reported saturday. The 1.4 million layoffs represent 1 percent of China a total Urban labor Force according to statistics from the slate councils economic and Trade office the state Council is China a Cabinet. Those layoffs however were Only a Small step in getting rid of the nations redundant workers which the office estimated at More than 10 million. Other official figures have put it at twice that. Earlier this year the government launched a Campaign to Quot break the three Irons a which refer to guaranteed employment guaranteed salaries and guaranteed posts. Warsaw Poland full a Solidarity warned saturday it will no longer tolerate the inept policies of president feel Walesa the parliament and the government which the labor Union charged have led to political turmoil. Solidarity also demanded the Swift dismissal of politicians is to allegedly were once communist agents and blamed Walesa for dismissing the government of former prime minister Jan Olszewski who had begun the exposure operation. A the delegates expect the president government and parliament to fulfil their duties for the people in an honest Way a said a Resolution adopted by the Soli bombing. A but we Are not afraid and even if Only one sensible person is left in Georgia he will continue struggling for Georgia to remain on the chosen path toward democracy Shevardnadze said. Meanwhile fighting continued in two other trouble spots in the caucasus mountains. Azerbaijani troops attacked armenian villages for a second Day saturday in a Large scale offensive on the disputed Region of Magorno Karabash. Armenia warned it would take a decisive action to defend the besieged enclave the Independent inter fax news Agency reported. Also fighting Between georgian militants and South ossetian flared overnight. Three georgians were killed when ossetian snipers opened fire news reports said. State owned enterprises for the first time were Given the Power to hire and fire employees. Until now the state guaranteed every citizen a Job and workers were assigned to jobs where they stayed their entire lives regardless of work performance. The practice has resulted in bloated payrolls and an unproductive labor Force. The China daily said in a separate report that the average factory worker actually works for less than 5l/i hours in an eight hour Day. The layoffs have been met with resistance from workers a traditional conviction that jobs have to be guaranteed in a socialist country like inadequate unemployment Protection for the jobless has further compounded Llie problem the paper said. A Solidarity will not tolerate any longer heir inefficiency incompetence and ill will a it said. The Union did not say what action it might take the Congress called on the government to end the recession and find a solution for which stands at 11.4 percent of the count re a labor Force. The Resolution called on Walesa not to Stop Quot the de comic ionization process a a reference to the practice of disclosing names of former communist agents. It also expressed dissatisfaction Over confirmation of Waldemar Pawlak As the crime minister. Paw Lak is Leader of the peasant party which has communist roots. Czech slovak break looms As leaders fail to agree from wire reports Prague Czechoslovakia a czech and slovak leaders Are growing further apart after failing to resolve major differences Over Czechoslovakia a future. The deadlock is boosting separatist sentiment both in Slovakia the country a poorer third and the wealthier More populous czech Republic. At least 10,000 people have signed a petition posted on Prague scentral Wenceslas Square that Calls for a czech break with the slovaks. The two Peoples first United in 1918 when the Austro hungarian Empire dissolved at the end of world War i. Vaclav Klaus who won last weeks elections in the czech lands secured backing from at least six other czech parties on Friday As he tried to strengthen his pro federation stance ahead of a talks sunday in the slovak capital . Starts Mia Hunt Bangkok Thailand a the United states on Friday began its fourth search for americans missing in action in Cambodia during the War in Indochina the . Embassy said. A 48-Mcmber team of military experts and two . Helicopters will search areas of three cambodian provinces the embassy said. Cambodian personnel will join in the searches expected to last two plans protests Johannesburg South Africa the opposition african National Congress says it is planning nationwide demonstrations Over stalled constitutional talks Between majority Blacks and the minority White government. Anc president Nelson Mandela on Friday defended the Call for strikes and demonstrations which critics say will disrupt the Economy. Quot we regret that method will Impact on the Economy but the Economy is so mismanaged it can to be damaged further a Mandela said. A they Haven to responded to All our compromises and we have no alternative but to resort to the Power we have a mass president . De Klerk has said he will act to prevent the Anc from paralysing the country but did not specify what Steps he would patient Dies Padua Italy a Ilario Lazzari the first italian to undergo a heart transplant seven years ago died in a local Hospital Friday after a bout of pneumonia doctors reported. Lazzari a Carpenter was 45.lautrec show a big draw Paris a an exhibition of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec a paintings and lithographs that closed this week Drew nearly 700,000 visitors during its four month run at the grand palais museum officials said Friday. About 7,500 people went through the turnstiles daily Many of whom waited in line for hours. China moves on prostitutes Beijing a authorities in an economically booming Southern chinese province have arrested More than 10,000 prostitutes and their patrons in a two month crackdown an official newspaper reported saturday. More than 4,600 of those arrested in Huangdong province have been sent to labor Camps for six months to two years the China daily trapped Harare Zimbabwe a trappers have captured More than 40 crocodiles in a Lake in Northern Zimbabwe after fatal attacks on tourists and residents a breeder said Friday. A it was a Choice of selective captures or Large scale killings a said Jon Hutton executive manager of the Crocodile association of Zimbabwe Quot it was better to move them than to have people demanding we eradicate two zimbabwean tourists and five villagers have been killed by crocodiles along the shores of Lake Kariba in the past year according to wildlife experts. A protesting Independence a woman in Moscow shouts slogans against russian and most businesses were closed for the Day. Thou president Boris n. Yeltsin during the first russian Sands of pro communist demonstrators denounced Independence Day on Friday. Government offices the occasion As a Day of mourning. 1.4 million Laid off in China Solidarity warns against inept policies Darity Congress held in the seaport of Gdansk
