European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 22, 1992 world the stars and stripes Page 7u.n. 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 vile arcs 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 Athens a a Strong earthquake measuring 6.5 on the open ended Richter scale 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 Steps up demands Johannesburg South Africa a Nelson Mandela putting new pressure on president . Do Klerk Nas warned the government to set a Date for ending White Rule or face a severing of relations with the african National Congress. The Anc and the government which have held several meetings in recent months plan another to discuss the Date for establishing a multiracial government. A if that is not resolved there will be no further bilateral talks with the government a Mandela told a rally Friday. A break in relations with the Anc the country a main Black group would be a major setback to de Klerk who is trying to revive multiparty negotiations on ending 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. Crista 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 but remains under investigation for a possible charge 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 Viiu which he had not recognized As a pen gun the statement said. Senators Praise Vietnam but find no sign of pos such Gia Vietnam apr . Senators who visited two prisons and a Remote Mountain area Friday found no evidence of american pos but came away impressed by Vietnam a new spirit of cooperation. The senators also returned with an appreciation of How hard it is to track Down the missing in a land of Jungles Hills and tropical Rice paddies a Quarter Cen Tury after they disappeared. Two of them sen. . Kerry d-mass., and sen. Hank Brown r-colo., flew to the wrong spot in Pursuit of a tip that american prisoners of War had been seen there. Despite the logistical problems Kerry Brown and sen. Thomas a. Daschle d-s.d., said they sensed that the unprecedented cooperation they had obtained earlier in the week from officials in Hanoi was matched at the grass roots level. A i think in the last five Days Vietnam proved its seriousness in answering questions and Bent Over backward in showing its willingness to help a said Kerry the head of a Senate committee on pos and the missing in action. A i think in every regard today our expectations were a amps Jim using her head first grader Shelby Roberson 6, ponders some Lough questions during a discussion on american indians and their culture last week. Pupils in Alma Trevino s 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. Met a lie said. The three senators Are visiting Southeast Asia to seek information on the More than 2,260 americans unaccounted for in Indochina since the Vietnam War. The United states is not expected to normalize relations soon but Bush could relax the Trade embargo or do other financial favors for Vietnam. Kerry and Brown flew by helicopter to the southwestern City of rach Gia where they spoke with officials and inmates of the local prison. No americans were found and there was no word that any had Ever been seen. In search of More details the group drove to the local prison which held inmates guilty of so called crimes against National Security As Well As common criminals. Inside the High Walls topped by barbed wire the americans fired out questions have you seen any americans or heard of any foreigners being held captive prisoners said they had heard of no american typhoon Aims for Saipan Saipan Northern Marianas apr a emergency shelters were readied saturday As super typhoon Gay packing wind gusts of up to 225 Mph continued blowing its Way across the Pacific toward this . Commonwealth. The storm was expected to pass Over or near Saipan the capital on monday morning 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 4 . Saturday Gay was 620 Miles cast South cast of Saipan and 660 Miles cast of Guam. It was moving to the West Northwest at 17 Mph. Its maximum sustained winds were estimated at 185 Mph while wind gusts were estimated at 225 Mph. Although the storm was expected to weaken before hitting land the 39,000 residents of Saipan and the 2,100 residents of the nearby Island of Tinian could expect maximum sustained winds of 165 Mph with 200 Mph gusts. The Island of Rota with 2,300 inhabitants could expect 100 Mph winds with gusts to 115, while the neighbouring . Territory of Guam and its 133,000 residents could expect winds ranging from 65 Mph to 75 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 violence from skinheads anarchists leaves j dead 6 Hurt 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. According to police accounts two groups of men crawled on the Steps of an cast Berlin subway station late Friday. A 27-year-old Man was stabbed to death and a 21-year-old and 25-year-old was wounded. Police had no information about what ignited the rumble but about three hours later roughly 150 members from berlins violent anarchist scene converged on the subway station in violent protest. The radicals marched Down a main Avenue and fired rocks at police then set fire to trash containers on Mainzer Street. Meanwhile about 25 leftists wearing their trademark Black ski masks Arab scarves and hoods descended on a restaurant frequented by Neo nazi skinheads in the depressed East German Industrial City of Erfurt. Police there said the attackers beat restaurant guests with baseball bats and ransacked the restaurant. Four people were Hurt and one person was arrested. In the West German City of Hamburg police said leftist extremists detonated a bomb inside the Law school faculty building at Hamburg University about 2 . Saturday causing heavy fire damage
