European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T i Page 8 b the stars and stripes r world monday november 30, 1992french support condom machines from wire reports Paris the French overwhelmingly Back a move by their education ministry to install condom dispensers in High schools to combat aids according to a poll released saturday. T he nationwide Survey of people age 15 and older found that 83 percent support the policy and 14 percent oppose it. Three percent had no opinion. France is the european Community nation hit hardest by the disease. The death toll has passed 14,000, and from 100,000 to 200,000 people Are believed to carry the immunity stripping  rally held  Don some 500 undo masochists and their supporters marched through London on saturday in Britain a first a amp a Pride March. Wearing dog collars leather harnesses chains rubber suits and bondage gear they demanded a reversal of a 1990 court ruling that resulted in prison sentences Tor 11 Gay men convicted on assault connected charges resulting from consenting sadomasochistic  arrested Beijing a Man has been arrested for allegedly pushing his 7-Yeai-okl Stepson into a Bear pit where the boy was mauled to death a government run newspaper reported saturday. Lin Mao s badly mauled body was discovered by a Park worker july 8, the Legal daily newspaper reported. Lingchu Huiwen 34, was arrested nov 22 in connection with the death. The boy Hail been admiring the hear when his Stepfather pushed him into the Pil. The paper  s Tomb on View c Airo Egypt a the Tomb of the King tutankhamen was reopened to tourists sunday for a two month period marking the 70th anniversary of its discovery by archaeologists Howard Carter and lord Carnarvon. The Tomb one of Egypt a most popular tourist attractions was closed ast year for restoration work being supervised and financed by the Paul Getty Institute of California. The Tomb discovered in 1922, contained a treasure of More than 5,1100 items found buried in the boy Kinus Tomb which dated to around 1555  tax of d Warsaw a parliament on saturday approved introducing a value added tax on goods and serv ices by july 5, 1993, pulling Poland in line with other european states. The legislation passed by the Sejm or lower House sets out Basic tax Rales of the full 22 percent Rale for most items and a preferential 7 percent Rale that will apply to agricultural machines fertilizers medical i Iii mini some food items children a clothing papers maps scores and musical  report due London a Lite investigators have completed their search of debris at Windsor Castle and Are to present a report wednesday on the cause of the Blaze. The nov. 20 fire at Queen Elizabeth has weekend Home which overlooks the River thames 20 Miles West of London severely damaged More than half a dozen state rooms. Iraqi mines turn kurd land into killing Fields group says Nicosia Cyprus a millions of land mines indiscriminately planted by iraqi troops in violation of International Law have killed or injured thousands of kurdish civilians the Middle easts watch human rights group said sunday the new York based group said in a report that the mines mostly italian made also have caused Large areas of Farmland in Northern Iraq tone unusable or highly dangerous and hindered the rebuilding of destroyed villages in the Kurdistan Region a it is a reasonable conclusion that the iraqi army Laid and abandoned these millions of mines to make Large areas of Kurdistan unusable for All time a Middle East watch said. Iraqi officials had no immediate reaction to the report titled a hidden  in was based on a Survey of 15 minefields in iraqis As  Dahouk and Erbil provinces carried out by a Middle last watch consultant Rae Mcgrath. Middle last watch said the manufacture venezuelan Leader vows not to quit Caracas. Venezuela a embattled president Carlos Andres Perez Rodriguez told the nation sunday that he would not resign in the Wake of a failed coup that left at least 169 people dead. Perez urged Yunc Zuelas to demonstrate their support for democracy by turning out in massive numbers for municipal and state elections next sunday. He also announced that curfews and other restrictions imposed after fridays coup w ill be lifted by the end of the week. Perez s televised speech was made before an audience of political leaders at the presidential Miraflores Palace which was bombed during the coup attempt. The Congress was to meet today to this cuss the political situation. Police in Caracas fired tear Gas and rubber bullets sunday to disperse a protest outside the retch de Catia prison. Forty two people were killed in riots there Friday by inmates trying to take advantage of disorder created by the coup. Scores of the prisoners relatives demanded that Oftie als Tell them if their jailed family members had survived the riot. On nearby streets armed police officers burst into Homes looking for suspects in the widespread looting of neighbourhood businesses Friday Anu saturday. Elsewhere streets of the capital were Calm after two Days of violence. Perez 70, is widely unpopular because of his economic austerity programs which sparked riots in 19k9 and a coup attempt in february. It la a reasonable conclusion that the iraqi army Laid and abandoned this millions of Minos to Maka Large areas of Kurdistan unusable for All  Middle East watch ers of the mines especially Italy a Valse la  spa of Brescia sold them to Iraq in vast numbers during the 1980-88 Iran Iraq War despite an International arms embargo in Force at the time. The human rights group recommended that the hundreds of Kurdistan minefields Many Booby trapped to hamper clearance be identified with warning signs in the local languages. Iraq started to Lay the mines after the government drove kurd from hundreds of villages on the iranian Border before and during the War with Iran. Millions of additional mines were sown a during the 1990-91 persian Gulf War because the iraqis feared . Forces Migl i attack from Turkey. V after the kurd seized control of much of the North during an anti government rebellion in March 1991, kurdish civilians began moving Back to their Homes Many of which had become deadly minefields. In just five of the minefields Mcgrath surveyed 30 people a mostly refugees fleeing the iraqi army were killed in five months the report said. In one Hospital in the City of As Sulayman Yah 1,652 people wounded by land mines were treated Over a similar period the report said. Of these 397 had limbs amputated. The group said that As late As August up to 20 people a week were still being killed or wounded by the mines. Simian smorgasbord a Monkey gobbles peanuts with hundreds of other primates in an annual feast at a hotel in lop Buri Thailand. Sundays meal included noodles Fried Rice vegetable salad fruit and dessert. The monkeys live in a Buddhist Temple where the hotel owner prays. He feeds them As a gesture of thanks for the Success of his business. Informer says Ira planned to kill Royal couple London a an Ika killer a Rcd informer says he was involved in an aborted plot to kill Prince Chatles and his wife Diana in 1983, a newspaper reported sunday. Sean of Callaghan currently serving two life sentences for murder in a Northern Ireland prison was quoted by the sunday times As saying the Irish Republican army asked him to kill the couple at a Rock concert at London s Dominion theater on july 20, 1983. He was to Plant explosives in a Bath room just a few feet from the Royal Box according to the newspaper. But of Callaghan arranged for the British secret service to declare him a wanted Ira suspect giving him an excuse to Call off the assassination attempt and return to Ireland the sunday limes reported. The newspaper said senior Security sources in Ireland confirmed details of the plot. Intelligence sources in Britain said of Callaghan was a paid informer for mi5, the Security service in the mid-1980s. None of the sources was identified by name. The newspaper said of Callaghan had committed terrorist acts As a teen Ager but later turned against the Ira. In 1988. He surrendered to British police and later pleaded guilty in a Belfast court to two murders. The sunday times said of Callaghan claimed he made the disclosures to gain Public recognition for his role As an informer. In 1979, an Ira bomb killed Charles great Uncle. Lord Mountbatten