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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Drops plan to deliver blankets in Bosnia by raft from wire reports Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a Swift River currents forced . Relief workers saturday to abandon a plan to deliver 1,000 blankets by raft to Muslim slavic villages outside serbian besieged Sarajevo As freezing temperatures pushed War ravaged Bosnia and Herzegovina deeper into agony. Fighting persisted without abatement 10 Days after the warring factions were to have silenced their guns under the latest .-brokered ceasefire news reports said. Meanwhile a senior serbian Leader appeared to threaten a possible walkout from Geneva based peace talks because of a rejection of a serbian demand for the partition of the former yugoslav Republic into autonomous Muslim slavic serbian and croatian  quake rocks Greece a Strong earthquake measuring 6.5 a a a afe a Athens _ _ on the open ended Richter Scafe and entered in the Mediterranean Shook Greece Early saturday but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The quake which rattled windows and caused panic in the cretan town of Khania was recorded at 7 07 . Local time a spokesman for the Athens Observatory said. The epicentre was placed some 65 Miles West of Crete in the Mediterranean. Some panic also broke out in Athens where people Felt the quake As they were waking up but no damage or casualties were reported in Crete or the capital. The quake was the second to be Felt in Greece in three Days. More russians leave Cuba Moscow a russian troops in Cuba boarded a ship bound for Home As part of a gradual withdrawal of former soviet armed forces from the Island nation the itar Tass news Agency reported saturday. The soldiers left with their families from the port of Havana on Friday night aboard the liner Ivan Franko itar Tass said quoting russian ambassador at Large Vyacheslav Ustinov. The russian defense and foreign ministries had no comment on the report. The pullout marked the second reported troop reduction since september 1991, when the number of former soviet army soldiers training in Cuba was Cut from 2,800 to 2,150.possible Hitler Art unsold Trieste Italy a no buyers have come Forward for a Batch of Watercolours believed painted by the Young Adolf Hitler. About 250 people who crowded into a hotel conference room Friday heard the auctioneer Stephen n. Cristea Call out a starting Price of $270,000 for the 20 works. After he called out the Price five times with no response the auction was declared closed. The Watercolours were believed painted by Hitler Between 1910 and 1914, when he was an aspiring artist living in Vienna Austria. Massimo Marietta a lawyer who represented the seller Imelde Siviero said the italian governments decision last week to prohibit them from being taken out of Italy had ruined the  gun kills woman Hamburg Germany a a woman died after being hit by a Bullet fired from what looked like a ballpoint pen that her sex husband was handling police said Friday. The couple whose names were not made Public had divorced but were together thursday evening to celebrate the woman a 48th birthday when the secret agent device went off. A 6.35mm Bullet hit the woman in the Chest and she died in the Hospital a police statement said. The 54-year-old Man was questioned and released l remains under investigation for a possible Narge of accidental homicide the statement said. The fatal shot was fired As the Man a fiddled with the weapon which according to his statement he had found on the Street while taking a walk and which he had not recognized As a pen gun a the statement said. French Premier rejects  agriculture Deal from wire reports Paris a French Premier Pierre by Rogovoy said saturday that the agricultural Accord Between the United states and the european Community reached a Day earlier is a unacceptable and it will not be  but Bergovoy stopped Short of saying France would exercise its veto to torpedo the Accord. A we have before us thus difficult negotiations a he said in a statement released by his office. Washington and the dec agreed Friday to Cut exports of government subsidized Grain by 21 percent and to reduce the amount of Farmland used to grow Oil seed crops. France which has the eco a largest agricultural Industry and a powerful farm lobby has been the Lone rebel amid the ongoing talks. The 12-Membcr dec agreed in May to revamp its agricultural policy reducing subsidies to Grain and livestock Farmers by up to 35 percent in response to complaints mainly from the United states that the government Aid made european products unfairly competitive on world markets. Bergovoy underlined that the Reform of agricultural policy reached in May which will Lead to lower Grain prices a is the limit of what we will  a amps Jim using her head first grader Shelby Roberson 6, ponders some Tough questions during a discussion on american indians and their culture last week. Pupils in Alma Trevino a first Grade class at Halvorsen elementary school at Rhein main a Germany also discussed the pilgrims and the origins of thanksgiving this week there will be a pageant featuring costumed children. France is asking the european commission to verify the compatibility of the Accord with the common agricultural policy. The european commission is to meet wednesday the same Day the French National Assembly is to open debate on the state of the Long stalled world Trade negotiations. A the unpopular socialists facing legislative elections in March have maintained a Strong stand in favor of French Farmers a powerful social Force capable of seeding social unrest in society at Large. Hundreds of Farmers demonstrated wednesday near the . Embassy burning an american Flag and skewering its remains on a Pitchfork to protest . Demands for reduced subsidies in the farm negotiations. Christian Jacob head of the National Young Farmers organization said far workers were very angry about the proposed Deal and called on the government to use its veto. Luc Guyeau of the National federation of Farmers unions said he was a a stupefied by the position taken by the european negotiators. Quot the Deal is not balanced a said Guyeau. Both organizations have announced major demonstrations Over the coming  Aims for Marianas Saipan Northern Mariana islands apr emergency shelters were readied saturday As super typhoon Gay packing gusts of up to 220 Mph continued blowing its Way across the Pacific toward this . Commonwealth. The storm was expected to pass Between Rota and Tinian in the Northern Marianas by mid morning monday said the . Military a joint typhoon warning Center on Guam. \ hurricanes arc called typhoons West of the International Date line. Gay reached a super typhoon status thursday in the Marshall islands when its maximum sustained winds hit 150 Mph. As of Early today Gay was 560 Miles cast of Guam and 530 Miles cast Southeast of Saipan the capital of the Northern Marianas. Its maximum sustained winds were estimated at 180 Mph with gusts to 220 Mph. The storm was moving West Northwest at 16 Mph. The storm diminished slightly during the morning and its course had shifted so that it was no longer forecast to pass Over Saipan. The warning Center forecast that Rotas 2,300 residents and Tinian a 2,100 could expect winds of 140 Mph with gusts to 155 Mph. Guam population 133,000, could expect winds of 80 Mph gusting to 100 Mph the Center said. Saipan the capital of the Northern Marianas with a population of 39,000, can expect winds of 115 Mph gusting to 130 Mph the Center said. Saipan is about 1,600 Miles Southeast of Japan and 180 Miles North of Guam. Authorities were advising residents of the Northern Marianas to Start moving into shelters or other typhoon proof structures before dark today disaster control officer Frank Chong said. Water and other supplies were brought to the 11 government shelters in the capital of Saipan while other shelters were set up in schools on Rota and Tinian Chong said. Extremists rampage in Germany Berlin apr skinheads and anarchists dulled with knives fired rocks at police pounded restaurant patrons with baseball bats and torched a University during a violent night that left one Man dead and at least six injured police said saturday. The violence in three German cities late Friday and Early saturday was the latest sign of a leftist counteroffensive to an alarming surge in Neo nazi activity in Germany where foreigners Are attacked almost daily. Meanwhile an arc conservative party in Chancellor Helmut Kohls government said the governing coalition would crumble a a forcing new elections a unless All parties agreed on Tough new Asylum Laws. Germany a Liberal Asylum rules have lured record numbers of foreign refugees to the country this year. The refugee increase has been followed by a surge in rightist hate crimes and retaliation by leftist groups. According to police accounts two groups of men crawled on the Steps of an East Berlin subway station late Friday. A 27-year-old Man was stabbed to death and a 21-year-old and 25-year-old suffered knife wounds. Meanwhile about 25 leftists stormed a restaurant frequented by Neo nazi skinheads in the depressed East German Industrial City of Erfurt about 120 Miles Southwest of Berlin. In Hamburg police said leftist extremists detonated a bomb inside the Law school faculty building at Hamburg University about 2 . Saturday causing heavy fire damage to three of the four floors  
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