European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A map Tom Hansen in a Black shirt holds a news conference sunday in Havana. A your main purpose was to Send Aid to Cuba but also to demonstrate against the blockade a said Hansen the National coordinator of pastors for peace. Group sends cubans supplies to Challenge . Embargo Australia tosses out ban on Gays in armed forces from wire reports Canberra Australia a the Cabinet Lias decided to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military a spokeswoman for prime minister Paul Keating said monday. In september a special labor party caucus committee recommended that the ban be lifted despite opposition from australian defense Force chiefs and the armed forces federation which represents rank and file soldiers. Fop military officials had persuaded defense minister Robert Ray in june to continue the ban citing what they called the potential threat to unit cohesion and morale. Flip Cabinet was split on the Issue. Attorney general Michael Duffy who pushed to overturn the ban had his position boosted by the commitment of . President elect Clinton to admit Gays to the . Military and a similar decision earlier this year by  typhoon eases up Agana Guam a typhoon Gay rolled Over the . Pacific territory of Guam on sunday packing sustained winds of 120 Mph but causing Only minor injuries and damage. Quot this is what we basically Call a banana storm a a lot of crop and vegetation damage but very Little structural harm Quot local journalist Dave Ecret said. Quot gov. Joseph Ada went on radio using the emergency broadcast system a Little while ago and said there did not appear to be enough damage to Call for an emergency  Ecret added that the storm brought very Little rain a just High winds. Nonetheless 4,200 people hunkered Down in emergency shelters As Guam a Pacific Island approximately Halfway Between the . West coast and Japan Cal heed its sixth typhoon in three months. Before easing up the storm had been classified As a super typhoon last week with maximum sustained winds of 150  cleric arrested Rio de Janeiro Brazil a an evangelical preacher predicting the end of the world on dec. 11 was arrested for causing panic in a devout Region of Brazil Media reports said sunday. Pastor Elifas Ferreira a Silvas apocalyptic message in of encouraged poor inhabitants of the northeastern City of Carnaru to Start giving away their meager possessions to a a purify themselves for judgment Day. But unconvinced local police officers silenced the Good news Mission Church preacher by arresting him for the crime of a causing panic with false  Quot he is a madman Quot Carnaru police chief Ademar Condido told the daily journal do Brasil newspaper. A in a Region As poor As this with a population with so much religious Faith he could end up driving Many people to  Gate gets the Gate Toronto a a terrorist proof Gate made for the Canadian embassy in Washington at a Cost of si00,000 is being sold for scrap. The Gate made of polished stainless steel broke in 1989 after just two weeks of use because it was poorly designed and weighed too much embassy spokesman Malcolm my Kachnic was quoted by the Toronto Sun As saying. The computer controlled Gale would Cost $60,000 to repair so the embassy has decided to spend $24, ki0 on a lighter Gate. The embassy which Cost about $64 million and Sims on prime real estate Between the White House Ami the Capitol building opened in 1989,Thailand puts sex on hold Bangkok Thailand a police have seized More than a thousand pirated copies of Rock Star Madonna a sizzling sex Book but authorities had conflicting opinions monday about its contents  was among some 3,000 books believed to be pornography in that were seized in a major sweep of Bangkok bookshops last week police said. But the Fate of sex remains Uncertain in the country although it has been banned in a number of it her nations. Col. Santroni Metta Jil of the police special Bianch division said the american singers Book was pornographic As defined by thai Laws and would be destroyed. But police maj. Boonchoo Kellet from the same division said in another interview that photos in the Book were a artistic rather than  Tampico Mexico a people from around the world loaded a Havana bound ship with 15 ions of wheelchairs bicycles and bibles on sunday in Defiance of the . Trade embargo on Cuba. A caravan of 44 trucks and More than 100 people from 25 states and nine countries arrived in this Busy Gulf of Mexico port after crossing the Border at Laredo Texas on Friday. Some group members flew aboard a chartered Cuba a Airliner to Havana on sunday night. Others were going with the freighter which is to depart wednesday for a three Day trip to the Caribbean Island. A a five Felt for a Long time the embargo was not Only illegal but immoral and this was a Chance to break it a said David silk a businessman from Mystic Conn. The 30-year-old Trade embargo was imposed after Fidel Castro took Power and prevents most Commerce with the Island by . Citizens and corporations. The caravan of supplies organized by the Minneapolis based pastors for peace entered Mexico after a scuffle with . Customs officials who tried to prevent the group from crossing because members would not fill out Export licenses. Nicosia Cyprus apr Iran inducted a newly acquired russian built submarine into its Navy monday Tilting the regional balance of naval Power As the nation is rearming and reviving its revolutionary Militancy. It becomes the first country in the Oil Rich persian Gulf Region to acquire underwater warfare capability. Tehran radio monitored in Nicosia quoted rear adm. Abbas Montaj Deputy commander of the Navy As saying Iran a gives itself the right to acquire equip ment which raises and strengthens its defensive  Montaj said the submarine Quot is one Means of boosting underwater defensive capability and Iran intends to use it alongside its Superior strength and i s conventional naval  the radio said the kilo class diesel electric submarine was named Taresh after a famous Muslim Warrior it said the ceremony took place at the big naval Hast at Bandar cd Abbas in the Southern Gulf. The Taresh was delivered by Russia under a to million Deal Over . Objections. A second Suh to under construction and Iran has an option for a third Over the last few years the iranians have spent a estimated $7 billion on Mig-29 interceptors Sukhun. Ground attack aircraft tanks and missiles. A it was a Small sacrifice compared to what cubans Are going through a said a smoke Tokunbo a 29-year-old mail Carrier and student from Oakland Calif. He was arrested in Laredo after refusing to give up a Supply of notebooks and pencils. Three people were jailed and $1,500 Worth of Medicine was confiscated before . Officials allowed the group into Mexico. A your main purpose was to Send Aid to Cuba but also to demonstrate against the blockade Quot said Tom Hansen National coordinator of pastors for peace. A we also want normalization of relations with Cuba a hopefully within the first 100 Days of Bill Clinton a administration a Clinton has said he favors keeping sanctions against Cuba one of the worlds last communist nations. The caravan with Drivers waving peace signs and cuban flags at puzzled mexicans on the Roadside was met sunday morning in the outskirts of Tampico by police escorts who led it to the town Square for a rally. The group then drove to the port and loaded boxes filled with Spanish language bibles powdered milk and medical supplies onto the 2,500-ton cuban freighter Pinar Del Rio the submarine Purchase was disclosed by the commander of the Navy rear adm. Ali Shamkhani in june 1990. He said the subs would be based at the Chah Bahar naval base on the Gulf of Oman coast 65 Miles West of the Border with Pakistan with the submarines a the Navy will extend its Mission deep into International Waters Quot said Shamkhani a hero of the 1980-88 War with Iraq. Tehran has Long sought to be the regions military Power. Shamkhani said in a 1990 interview with an iranian daily that the submarines a will add to our superiority Over the whole persian Gulf and Complete control of the Strait of Hormuz Quot the Only Gateway to the Gulf through which 20 percent of the worlds Oil supplies pass. Jane s defence weekly published in London said last week that inspection of the submarine by British a it warships that spotted it off Yemen while in route to the Gulf revealed a a what is probably a surface to air mis me  Jane s said a platform on the iranian sub not seen in Ridard russian Navy Kilos could be used to launch a-1 or Sa-16 guided missiles. Iran s new submarine bolsters its defense Navy official says