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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes r world thursday november 26, 1992final Marker positioned on new Iraq Kuwait Border from wire reports Cairo Egypt a the demarcation of land boundaries Between Iraq and Kuwait was completed with the placement of the last Marker separating the two states , spokesman said tuesday. A the demarcation process went without any incidents or obstacles a Abdel Latef Kabbaj of the . Iraq Kuwait observer Mission Nikom w As quoted As saying in a Kuwait radio report monitored in Cairo. Nikom was set up after  Allied troops ended Iraq s seven month occupation of  least 3 die in sinking la Coruna Spain a at least three sailors drowned four others were rescued and five were reported missing tuesday after the danish cargo ship Charm Sank off the Northwestern Spanish coast a danish consular official said. The consular official said it had been confirmed by dutch authorities involved in the Rescue Mission that the four people rescued in the rough sea were Eili  militants arrested Cairo Egypt a two Muslim militants suspected of taking part in an attack on a tourist bus that left five German tourists and two egyptians injured last month were arrested tuesday Security sources said. The attack was said to have been carried out by four militants As the bus was travelling through the Southern City of Lena 406 Miles South of Cairo. T he sources said police rounded up the two As they were hiding at two apartments in the Al Safra Section of Alexandria. They were identified As Abdel Hadi Al Sagheer Abdel Mottaleb and draw Mohamed Ibrahim both High school students.20 Hurt in . Rail crash London a two passenger trains collided in London on wednesday morning injuring 20 people and slowing Down commuters police said. The British rail trains sideswiped each other near London Bridge station South of the River t Hames at 7 26 ., said inspector Paul Canning of the transport police. One of the trains was travelling from the Southeast coastal town of Ramsgate to Charing Cross station. The other was bound from Charing Cross to Tunbridge Wells 30 Miles Southeast of the capital Canning said. British rail said an inquiry would be  sought in Jet crash Beijing workers on wednesday were sifting through the debris of a Boeing 737 jetliner looking for clues to Why it crashed into a Mountain killing All 141 people on Board in China a worst air crash. In Taiwan a travel agents group lodged a a Strong protest Quot against China a tourism Industry. Nine taiwanese were among those who died when the plane crashed tuesday near the tourist City of Guilin in a mountainous Region of South China. Officials at the civil aviation administration of c Hina said workers were looking for the planets a Black Box Quot or cockpit conversation and flight data recorders. They had no other details on the investigation and other work at the crush . Korea buildup goes on Seoul South Korea a despite economic difficulties communist North Korea has continued building up a military that already is one of the worlds biggest South koreans defense ministry said wednesday. In an annual report the ministry said North Korea has 1.01 million soldiers compared w Ith South koreans 665,000. The North korean armed forces rank As fifth largest in the world it added. T he ministry is report last year listed North korean military strength at 995,000 troops and South koreans at 655,. This years report also said North Korea has 25 submarines 290 helicopters. 850 fighters and bombers and 3,700 tanks. That is one More submarine and 100 More tanks than the ministry reported last year. Yugoslav dam May spill toxins . Official says Geneva apr thousands of yugoslavs could be without drinking water unless repairs Are made to a dam that threatens to spill toxic waste into the Danube River system a . Official said tuesday. A it is extremely dangerous a said Hanns Zimmer Mann of the . Disaster Retief office. If the Structure should collapse tons of Poison sludge the consistency of wet Sand would slide into the Tara River he said. The dam holds Back 4.6 million cubic Yards of waste from abandoned Lead and Zinc mines. The Center Section of the 600 to 700-Yard-Long earthen dam running alongside the Tara at Moj Kovac in the montenegrin mountains in Yugoslavia has been heavily eroded by High water that followed Flash floods last month Zimmermann said. He said it could collapse. In Brussels Belgium the european Community on tuesday granted $134,200 in hid for initial emergency repairs. A european commission statement said collapse of the dam Quot would cause an ecological catastrophe and endanger.  the commission said the funds Are exempt from the world Trade embargo slapped on Yugoslavia for fomenting War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Only Serbia and Montenegro remain Inyoung Wannabe Rina Alaimo 16, takes part in a trial run of military training at an army Barracks in Rome on tuesday. The defense ministry is to study the results of the trial in which 30 women and girls took part to see if women should be in the italian army. The yugoslav federation. Veljko Padu Rovic a Moj Kovac official played Down the danger. A the situation is not so grave at the dam because the flooding water has now withdrawn and repairs have already started Quot he said by Telephone but Stojanka Bozicic an editor with the daily Pobyeda newspaper in Podgorica the montenegrin capital said that Only makeshift repairs were done monday and t tuesday and that the main Hope for saving the dam was the improved weather. A a it a a race against time Quot she said. A it has to be done As soon As  Zimmermann who returned monday from a trip to the dam said that should it collapse it would endanger anyone who  water from the network of Rivers that runs from Moj Kovac past Bosnia and Belgrade to the Black sea. The Tara flows into the Drina which in turn feeds into the Sava. The Sava joins the Danube at Belgrade Yugoslavia a capital and from there the River runs Between Romania and Bulgaria. Zimmermann said that a Crew has begun preparing a ramp at the Edge of the Tara by the dam and that he has ordered materials from Italy. Still needed however is the Green Light from the . Committee supervising economic sanctions against Yugoslavia. Corsican group bombs French site Island Complex Aix in Provence France a powerful bombs badly damaged the courthouse in this Southern French City tuesday while a series of explosions levelled a vacation Village on the Island of Corsica. No one was injured. The National front for the liberation of Corsica Floc claimed responsibility for the vacation Colony and courthouse bombings. Although the French Island is the Birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte military Leader and emperor of France from 1804 to 1815, Many of Corsica a 250,000 inhabitants View France As a colonizing Power that suppresses the native culture and language. The attack at the courthouse in Aix in Provence 18 Miles North of Marseille was the most serious. Police said four men driving cars with corsican License plates pulled up to the Structure about 2  They gave a homeless Man sleeping in the doorway Money to go away then placed two bombs before the three massive wooden front doors police said. The blast turned the doors into splinters shattered windows on three sides of the building toppled a Stone pillar and reduced several Stone blocks to dust. Windows on surrounding buildings were blown out for several Hundred Yards. A caretaker couple living in the building escaped unscathed but their apartment was destroyed police said. Anti terrorist police from Paris took Over the Case. On Corsica itself about 15 hooded men tied up a caretaker couple monday evening at a vacation Village near Ghi Tonaccia. Explosive charges tied to 50 canisters of butane were used to level about half the 100-apartment Complex. The letters Floc were painted on Stone Walls nearby. Ouss i7.official Over ethnic coverage Moscow up a president Boris n. Yeltsin fired the chief of Central slate television because of the networks coverage of an ethnic conflict in the Northern caucasus mountains the firing came t tuesday a Day after a to report on the plight of the Inrush people who have been fighting North ossetian and russian troops Over territory taken from the Inrush by Josef Stalin in the 1940s. Yeltsin signed a decree late tuesday removing Yegor Yakovlev As head of the slate television and radio company Osta Kino formerly the soviet state broadcasting network a in connection with drawbacks in the organization of coverage of developments in the zone of the state of  the government moved to limit coverage of the ethnic conflict in North Ossetia and the Inrush Region in the caucasus after declaring a state of emergency and sending russian troops into the area last month. Yeltsin decree said Osta Kino had violated Quot decrees setting limits on distribution of information from the territories of North Ossetia and  under former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev s policy of ski Snow Yakovlev transformed the Moscow news weekly into a prominent voice for Reform. On monday he said on the main to news program t Tat the government was making a mistake in trying to limit reporting to official viewpoints on ethnic conflicts  
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