European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday december 8, 1992 world the stars and stripes a Page 9muslims in 2 nations attack hindus hindu fundamentalists stand atop the dome of a Muslim mosque in Ayodhya India after storming the says Iraq ruined equipment it returns Abdali Kuwait apr the government on sunday accused Iraq of sabotaging looted kuwaiti military equipment including fighter aircraft and radar systems before returning it under terms of the persian Gulf War cease fire. Most of the returned equipment is useless said officials talking to ambassadors at a new desert receiving Center at Abdali about a mile South of Iraq. A they brought those Back to us in bits and pieces a said col. Mahmoud Bou Shahri pointing to two a-4 skyhawk jets with gutted fuselages and their wings Cut off. Kuwaiti flags on the jets were covered with mud. J Yong the equipment piled up at a Dali were five French made Thomson radar control systems air Force computers ejector seats and a Sand sweeper used to clean runways. Boushehri said none of the equipment returned in the past week was usable. Medical and construction equipment returned earlier through the Iraq saudi Arabia Border also was useless officials said. Under the March 1991 cease fire Resolution that ended the 43-Day Gulf War Iraq was to return billions of dollars in plunder that it stole after invading Kuwait in 1990. Iraq has returned Kuwait airways Jet liners islamic Art museum treasures and Gold looted from the Central Bank during the seven month occupation. . Ambassador Edward Ghneim condemned the iraqis a Wanton destruction of the military equipment. A while in a sense they re complying with the letter of the . Cease fire Resolution this is not the spirit of it a he said. Boushehri said it would take six months to return the plundered a kuwaiti military equipment at the current Pace. Kuwait a armed forces lost 90 percent of their equipment during the invasion and occupation. The heavily outnumbered and outgunned kuwaitis were quickly overwhelmed when the iraqis invaded. Air Force pilots escaped to saudi Arabia with 19 of 27 sky Hawks and almost half the country a 32 French built Mirage fighters and 24 military helicopters. Most of the army a Armor heavy artillery and other hardware and All but two of the Navy a eight missile boats were captured or destroyed. Most of the captured naval Craft were sunk by the forces during the War. By the end of the year Kuwait will have spent an estimated $9 billion on new equipment for its armed forces. Women Only coaches pick up steam in Seoul Seoul South Korea apr afraid of pawing male Dasse neers. An increasing number of be Many Channel islanders aided nazis during Wii papers say Islamabad Pakistan apr the Day after hindu fundamentalists razed a 16th-Century Muslim mosque in India muslims in neighbouring Pakistan and Bangladesh attacked hindu temples and businesses. Pakistanis conservative islamic government monday deployed thousands of riot police to protect the country s hindu temples. Police in the Southern port City of Karachi battled nearly 200 Torch wielding demonstrators who tried to set fire to a Small hindu Temple. In Bangladesh muslims attacked hindu temples and shops and disrupted a Cricket match Between India and Bangladesh. About 5,000-Young men with Iron rods and Bamboo Sticks tried to storm the Dhaka National stadium but they were beaten Back by policemen firing tear Gas and rubber bullets. There were no immediate reports of injuries. In pakistanis Federal capital Islamabad police surrounded the Indian embassy. A the abhorrent act of extreme fanaticism deserves to be strongly condemned by All civilized countries and especially those which oppose religious intolerance and uphold human rights a said pakistanis prime minister Nawaz Sharif in a statement. He called an emergency Cabinet meeting. Orthodox muslims of pakistanis Jamaal a islami party called a one Day strike monday to protest the demolition of the 430-year-old mosque in the Northern Indian town of Ayodhya. A the demolition of the mosque has exposed the real face of India which Calls itself a secular country a said Ghafoor Ahmed Deputy chairman of the party. About 800,000 of pakistanis 120 million people Are hindus. Police feared mobs would target the estimated 50,000 hindus running businesses in Karachi. # in Bangladesh within hours after the events sunday in India angry mobs hurled stones at an important hindu Temple in Dhaka the capital. Bands or Young men also looted several hindu shops. By William to oily los Angeles times London a in a Little remembered military action in world War ii the Channel islands were conquered by German troops and became the Only part of Britain to suffer occupation. For years after the War rumours circulated that Many British residents of the Channel islands had collaborated with the nazi occupiers. But an embarrassed postwar government like that in France was reluctant to make the Issue Public by pressing charges. Most of the relevant documents were ordered kept secret for up to 100 years. But last week the government under pressure from members of parliament belonging to the opposition labor party decided to release 27 folders of partly censored papers. The documents show the extent to which officials on the two largest Channel islands Jersey and Guernsey collaborated with the germans. Among other things the records show that at least 435 women on Jersey and Guernsey had illegitimate children by German soldiers a a revelation that led one British newspaper to headline the Story a sleeping with the a numbers of women including a surprising number of married women. Have carried on and lived with germans a said a wartime intelligence report. A informants think titbits of food an extra log a bit of butter etc., have been the initial bait in Many the documents also Tell of reprisals a group called the Guernsey underground Barbers shaved the Heads of women collaborators a practice followed As Well by the resistance in wartime and postwar France. More damaging was the revelation that some islanders assisted the germans in setting up four notorious forced labor Camps on the northernmost Island of Alderney. There hundreds of captured russian and polish soldiers French jews and other prisoners died from the harsh working conditions. According to the documents Channel islanders also cooperated with the nazi authorities in exposing some 2,000 jews and British resistance members who were sent to concentration Camps on the continent in 1942. The Channel islands were occupied in june 1940, and were not freed from German Rule until the Overall nazi surrender in May 1945. When the allies invaded France in the summer of 1944, Many islanders escaped to nearby French territory. While the degree of collaboration varied a postwar investigation absolved most islanders of serious misconduct during the coaches pick up steam in Seoul Seoul South Korea apr afraid of pawing male passengers an increasing number of female commuters Are taking advantage of the a women Only coaches introduced on Seoul area trains a week ago officials said monday. The Korea National Railroad said about 97 percent of passengers Riding in those coaches during recent morning Rush hours were females. On the first Day in service dec. 1, about 70 percent of the riders in the Womel Only coaches were female. Despite the women Only designation there is no Legal ban on men using the cars. But the Railroad said the percentage of female passengers in the cars has increased along with the publicity. The state owned Railroad designated two of each trains 10 coaches for women passengers after mounting complaints about male passengers fondling women in crowded Rush hour trains. Most South korean women Are too shy to fend off such abuses on the trains the main Mode of transportation for Seoul a 12 million people. The company said the number of women a coaches would be increased to three on each train next year if the system remains successful
