European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and Stripe thousands of filipinos bid Farewell to . Navy from wire reports Olon Gapo Philippines a tens of thousands of people jammed the streets of this port Friday for an emotional Farewell to the . Navy which Abandons nearby Subic Bay naval facilities next week. Tuesdays Transfer of the . Navy a largest base in Asia Marks the end of nearly 100 years of american military presence in this former Colony. Most of the 300,000 residents of the City depended on the base for their livelihood. The government Hopes to transform Subic into a commercial restricts women Khartoum Sudan a Sudan a Muslim fundamentalist government has issued new decrees that ban women from working in markets and other Public places after 5 p.m., an official newspaper reported thursday. T he decrees also require All shops to close two hours for Friday noon prayers the army daily Al Kuwait Al mus Alaha said. Sudan s Muslim fundamentalist government has taken a number of other Steps affecting women. It requires female ministry employees to cover their hair As islam demands. It also has banned men from working in hair salons for women. Fireworks Plant blast kills 5 Huelva Spain a five people were killed in an explosion that destroyed a fireworks factory on the outskirts of this Southern town blast at the Small family owned Hermanos Camacho fireworks factory occurred shortly after 5 p.m., a fire department spokesman said. T he five killed were believed to be the Only people in the factory at the time he synagogue opens Istanbul Turkey a a 500-year-old synagogue was opened to the Public thursday after years of restoration As part of celebrations marking five centuries of Harmony Between Spanish jews and Muslim turks. At the inauguration a leading turkish jewish businessman Jak Kamhi expressed the jewish Community a happiness Over the opening the the Shrida synagogue which he said was the oldest of the 16 jewish temples in this Metropolis of 10 million. T he Shrida was built in the 1400s in Istanbul Snow rundown District of killed in n. Ireland Belfast Northern Ireland a an unidentified gunman killed a part time protestant Soldier t thursday night police said. In a separate attack three masked gunmen fired into a pub in Kilcoo a largely roman Catholic area 20 Miles Southeast of Belfast killing a Catholic customer Peter Mccormack. Three other people were wounded. The Ulster Volunteer Force an outlawed protestant paramilitary group claimed responsibility for the attack. No group immediately claimed responsibility for killing 27-year-old Lan Warnock a part time member of a locally recruited unit of the British army in Portadown 25 Miles Southwest of fog diverts flights Helsinki Finland More than 1,000 people heading for Moscow were stranded at the Helsinki Airport Friday after u flights were diverted because of fog in the russian capital. A everything is under control and the Normal traffic at Helsinki Airport has not been affected Quot said Vladimir grat Sev an Airport duly officer. Quot the situation is bad in Moscow and it could Lake two to three Days for the fog to nine of the diverted aircraft belong to the russian airline Aeroflot. Normal flight time Between Helsinki and Moscow a 540 Miles apart a is about 90 minutes. World saturday november 21, 1992 . Security Council oks liberian arms embargo by the new York times United nations a the Security Council on thursday authorized an arms embargo against Liberia and directed Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali to Send a representative there to report on the civil War. At the same Lime the 15 Council members made it Clear in their unanimous decision that the ban would not apply to West african peacekeeping forces in the country. The fighting which in nearly four years has killed about 60,000 people is entered on the outskirts of Monrovia the capital and the Only territory still controlled by the government. Liberian soldiers Are supported by a 12,000-Man West african Force that includes troops from Nigeria Ghana and five smaller West african nations. The 16-member economic Community of West african slates this month voted to impose a Trade embargo on the 95 percent of the country controlled by rebel Leader Charles Taylor. The group also repeated earlier demands that Taylor disarm his troops mostly teen age youths and confine them in supervised Camps. Diplomats at the . Were not optimistic about prospects for the economic embargo or the disarmament plan. The current round of fighting began last month when the Taylor rebels the National patriotic front began fighting with a rival guerrilla group then turned on the peacekeeping forces which had begun to move into the rebel held territories during the summer. The peacekeepers withdrew and the fighting began in and around Monrovia. The Taylor rebels started the civil War in december 1989. A cease fire was arranged in november 1990 but was violated frequently. Last september at a multinational conference in the Ivory coast town of Yamoussoukro Taylor agreed to put his troops arms under supervision of the West african peacekeeping forces and to confine his guerrillas in Camps. Quot none of the liberian warring factions is blameless for the resumption of hostilities a Edward j. Perkins the american representative to the United nations said in the debate. But he added a no Factor contributed to the climate of distrust so much As the intransigence of the National patriotic flying too High police unload an estimated 3 tons of cocaine thursday from an air plane that landed wednesday on a Remote Airstrip near Casey Quebec. The plane had been tracked from the time it left Colombia and was chased by Canadian Jet fighters and helicopters. The seizure was called one of the largest Ever in Canada. Mayor denies Hitler display planned Florence Italy a a Florence a mayor on thursday denied that the City had any plans to display Watercolours attributed to nazi dictator Adolf Hitler at the uffizi gallery the italia news Agency Agi reported. Earlier in the Day berlins top culture official Ulrich Roloff Momin issued an open letter to Giorgio Morales Florence mayor denouncing the purported plan. Morales was quoted As denying Quot in the strongest Way possible that the City intended the display the 20 Watercolours. Eighteen of the 20 have been authenticated. Reports about the purported plan a arose the just protest of the cultural commissioner of Berlin a Agi quoted Morales As saying. The works Are being sold by the sister of the late Rodolfo Siviero who was responsible for tracking Down italian Art plundered during world War ii. The Watercolours had been kept in Florence and were to be auctioned Friday. The italian government has intervened to make sure the works done to leave Italy after auction and possibly wind up in Neo nazi hands. Morales said that Siviero had intended to set up a museum in Florence with the works he retrieved but that he a never thought that hitlers ugly Watercolours would be part of any display Agi reported. The mayor was quoted As saying the paintings Are considered historical items and a thus there a be no reason to display them Quot but could be made available for viewing for experts for academic purposes. The works have been described As ugly and amateurish. They show scenes of Munich Germany and Vienna Austria and were done Between 1910 and 1914. In his letter Roloff Momin wrote a just imagining that the works of that dictator should be presented along with a world famous collection of the most important Renaissance painters of the world is an intolerable provocation of Good taste and against All victims of
