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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 21, 1992 world the stars and stripes Page 9 sex red army cuts total in Germany by 350,000 from wire reports Berlin a withdrawals of former red army troops from Eastern Germany Are running on schedule with Only 200,000 of the original550,000 soldiers and family members still stationed in Germany an army spokesman said Friday. A the role As a fighting Force in the sense of the earlier soviet military doctrine has Long ceased to exist a said it. Col. Konrad Freytag a spokesman for the German armed forces the Bunaes Wehr adding a the task today is planned  the 380,000 red army troops stationed in former communist East Germany during the cold War were regarded As a key military threat to Western european Security by nato planners. Under the agreement Between the German government and the former soviet Union that brought about the oct. 3,1990, German unification All former soviet troops must be withdrawn from Eastern Germany by the end of 1994. Fire hits Windsor Castle Windsor England a a a a serious fire broke out Friday at Windsor Castle injuring at least one person but none of the Royal family was there Buckingham Palace said. Nine fire engines were battling flames at the Royal family a Castle West of London sky to said. The cause of the Blaze was not immediately known a Palace spokeswoman said. A a it a a serious fire that Sall we know a she said. The Royal Berkshire fire and Rescue service said it was called to a fire in the private Chapel of the Castle at 11 37 . Three ambulances were Jurson was taken to the re service said. 1i1u via us of m /  standing by and one pc Hospital with Burns the somalian fighters fire mortars at . Camp Mogadishu Somalia apr fighters apparently Allied with one of Somalia s main warlords fired mortars at . Troops at the capitals Airport officials said Friday. No one was Hurt. The 500-Man pakistani battalion is in Somalia under . Auspices to protect humanitarian Aid shipments from clan based militias and Independent bandits. Four to six mortar rounds were fired at the troops Camp thursday night but ail missed their target . Officials said. Shortly before the attack . Envoy Ismat Kitani said the troops would stay at the Airport despite demands for their withdrawal by Gen. Moha Mccu Farrah aided the warlord who controls Somalia a South where the country a famine is worst. Aided said the . Troops arc an unwarranted for eign intervention and he opposes the world body s plans to deploy 3,000 More. The pakistanis arc camped in tents in a narrow area surrounded by Hills and dunes on the Northern Edge of Mogadishu s International Airport bordering the Indian Ocean. A . Official speaking on condition of anonymity said the shells appeared to have been fired from a nearby military base occupied by aided s clan militia. The official said that one Shell burst atop a High Dune overlooking the pakistani Camp and that the others apparently dropped onto the nearby Beach or into the sea. A pakistani officer who also spoke on condition of anonymity said he and his men did not Sec where the shells came from and did not return fire. Yeltsin vows asian cooperation Seoul South Korea up a russian president Boris n. Yeltsin ended a three Day visit to South Korea on Friday by pledging a shift from cold War confrontation to cooperation on asian Security and economic issues. Yeltsin and South korean president Roh Tae woo followed up a Friendship treaty signed thursday by issuing a 27-Point declaration calling for peaceful cooperation across Asia. Yeltsin also used the statement to Promise that Russia would keep probing the 1983 Kal 007 shoo Down in which a soviet Jet shot Down a korean airlines commercial flight when it strayed Over the former soviet unions airspace. All 269 people aboard the flight died including 61 americans. Yeltsin on thursday turned Over the Kal planets flight recorders then in Friday s statement expressed written regret for the attack. Yeltsin also used the closing declaration to endorse nuclear inspections of both South Korea and North Korea. Western experts say North Korea has tried for years to develop nuclear weapons. Laos to let . Team see suspected Mia site to Chi Minh City Vietnam apr Laos will let american investigators visit the site where a satellite photo showed what May have been a . Military Rescue code dug into the ground a . Senator says. American teams will also see previously closed areas where there have been reported sightings of people who could be mias said sen. John f. Kerry the chairman of the Senate committee on missing . Servicemen. He announced the agreement thursday after returning from a Day trip to Vientiane the capital of Laos. The . Satellite photo taken in january 1988, shows the 12-foot-High letters a Susa a with something underneath that could be the letter  the letter a  was used As a secret emergency code by american aviators during the Vietnam War. Some people have said the letters might have been a signal from an american held prisoner since the Vietnam War. Experts agree the a Susa Quot was Man made but they Are not sure whether the other marking was a a a a a or whether it was intentionally stamped out in a Rice Paddy. Kerry d-mass., is visiting Southeast Asia with Sens. Thomas a. Daschle d-s.d., and Hank Brown r-colo., to seek More information on the 2,265 americans unaccounted for since the War. That includes 519 servicemen missing in Laos. Kerry and Daschle met with the prime minister of Laos Kamtai Siphandone and foreign minister Phoun Sipaseut to seek assistance for the Mia search. Laos agreed to give . Experts Access to film archives and will allow lao speaking asian americans to serve on search teams Kerry said. Searches in Indochina Are conducted jointly by the Host governments and Pentagon task forces. The senators flew to Vientiane after a three Day visit to Vietnam a capital Hanoi where they said they received full cooperation from vietnamese officials. Vietnam which is seeking International help to rebuild its Economy Hopes to improve relations with the United states. The United states has imposed a Trade embargo and diplomatic freeze on Vietnam since the communist North took Over the South in 1975. The official american policy is that relations will be normalized Only when Vietnam has helped make a full accounting of the missing. Kerry said wednesday that he would recommend that president Bush make a reciprocal gesture for vietnamese cooperation on the Mia Issue. Bush in a letter the senators carried to president be due Anh pledged he would take such action if cooperation was forthcoming. Neo nazi attacks surpass 91 rate prison break about 150 inmates and others at Baru Noie prison in Glasgow Scotland begin a six mile run within prison wails thursday to raise Money for a a Cash for kids Christmas fund. Other events such As pole vaulting were not included in the activities. Hanover Germany apr nearly 300 More Radical rightist and Neo nazi attacks have been carried out in Germany this year than in All of 1991, a ministry said thursday. Claus Henning the no. 2 official in the state Interior ministry of Niedersachsen said that Between Jan. 1 and nov. 8, there were 1,760 attacks carried out by Neo nazis and other Radical rightists in Germany. That compares with 1,483 in 1991. Henning said about one third a or 586 of the violent acts a were arson and bomb attacks against Asylum seekers and foreigners. About 70 percent of the radicals carrying out the violence were Between the Ages of 16 and 21, he said. Other attacks included throwing rocks at Asylum shelters attacking foreigners on streets and desecrating jewish cemeteries and memorials. Officials have said 11 people have been killed in the attacks this year  
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