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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 23, 1992 world the stars and stripes Page 3 israeli arabs stage strike to protest deportations Jerusalem apr israeli arabs joined palestinians on tuesday in a strike to protest the expulsion of 415 suspected moslem fundamentalists to Lebanon. U e one stay strike was the strongest support shown by Arab citizens of Israel in the five year palestinian uprising against israeli Rule of the occupied territories Israel radio said. Meanwhile the families of the deportees awaited an israeli supreme court decision on the menus Fate. The court had been expected to Rule monday but delayed a decision until it could hear further arguments. Civil rights lawyers have appealed to the court saying the deportations thursday were illegal. The deportees have been living in tents in freezing weather in a no Many a land Between israelis self declared Security zone in South Lebanon and lebanese controlled territory. At least four deportees have been injured by israeli backed militiamen who blocked their attempts to return to the Security zone. Israeli newspapers reported tuesday that the israeli army had fortified its positions in the area to Block further moves by the palestinians. All of the deportees Are residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. Israel accuses them of being members of the fundamentalist Hamas and islamic jihad movements. The men were expelled after six israeli troopers were killed Over a 10-Day period. Muslim fundamentalists were blamed for the deaths. Israel has faced worldwide condemnation for the deportations but prime minister Yitzhak Rabin has said repeatedly he will not allow the palestinians to return. Tuesdays strike closed shops and schools in Many Arab towns Arab reporters in Northern Israel said. There was less Observance in mixed jewish Arab towns such As Haifa they said. Israeli arabs number about 900,000. They Are palestinians who remained inside Israel at the time of the creation of the state in 1948, and their descendants. In the occupied territories and Arab East Jerusalem palestinians closed their shops and offices for a fifth consecutive Day to protest the deportations. There Are about 1.8 million palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The mainly Arab hadash party declared it would no longer support the government in parliament. Arab legislators Nave not been part of the Rabin coalition but have supported it. Arab lawmakers in the coalition also supported the strike. End of the Road for Spanish tomatoes a French riot policeman stands on a barricade of Spanish tomatoes set up monday at the St. Charles Market near Perpignan France by growers protesting importation of vegetables from Spain. About 300 Farmers angered by falling prices destroyed the tomatoes before taking two police inspectors hostage for three hours monday. No injuries were reported in the incident which started when a police car monitoring the Farmers protest at the Market was rammed by another car carrying Farmers. The Farmers forced the police out and held them releasing them Only after Security forces intervened with tear Gas. German state bans Neo nazi group Bonn Germany apr state authorities in Niedersachsen on monday outlawed a Neo nazi organization and a newspaper said attacks by Germany a Radical right Are declining. State officials said they banned the German comradeship federation a gang of about 60 Neo nazis based in Wilhel shaven a port City in the North German state. The Federal government has taken the same action against two larger Neo nazi groups the nationalistic front and the German alternative. The decision to ban the Wilhel shaven group was made after police confiscated Neo nazi propaganda in dec. 9 raids said Gerhard Glogowski Interior minister for Niedersachsen. Right Wing incidents continued last weekend. Vandals wrote a death to jews a a Sieg Heil and other nazi slogans on about 20 gravestones in a jewish Ceme Tery in Leipzig and toppled 10 other gravestones. A refugee shelter in Greif Swald in the Eastern state of Mecklenburg Vor Pommert was hit by two firebombs saturday night. No one was injured and property damage was minor. On monday police said three Young Neo nazis carved a Swastika in the forehead of a greek girl during a Daylight attack in a Disseldorf Park last week. The girl whose name was not released has returned to Greece and is not expected to be permanently scarred police said. The Welt am sonntag newspaper said that As of dec. 13, right Wing radicals committed 2,184 acts of violence this year including 1,953 against foreigners. The attacks left 17 dead and 542 injured. The newspaper said the information came from the Federal office for Protection of the Constitution an intelligence Agency and the chief watchdog of German  launched in China apparently lost in space from wire reports Beijing a a telecommunication is satellite launched by China has disappeared and its australian owners said tuesday that they have Given it up for lost. China has refused to comment on the disappearance which could set Back the country a ambitions in the competitive International launch Industry. A fall we know is that we Haven to been receiving. Any signals at All a said David Foster spokesman for opus communications which owns the satellite. A we can t track it. It might have blown  the satellite was launched monday from the Yichang satellite launch Center in southwestern China a Sichuan  showered on Spain Madrid Spain a the lottery that Bills itself As the worlds richest rained $1.3 billion in tax free winnings tuesday on thousands of Lucky ticket holders a including King Juan Carlos a in a Spanish Holiday tradition dating Back almost two centuries. The five digit number picked for the grand prize in Spain a Christmas lottery known As it i Gordon the fat on paid 300 million pesetas about $2.7 million to holders of each of 95 tickets bearing the winning number 31466. King Juan Carlos won 15,000 pesetas about $135 from a ticket purchased for 3,000 pesetas about $27 by a Friend who annually sends the Monarch a ticket numbered 00000.robbers use sewers Athens Greece a a group of robbers monday used the City a sewerage system to Tunnel into a Bank a basement vault and break open nearly a third of its Safe Deposit boxes police said. A police announcement said the unprecedented robbery occurred Over the weekend at an Ergo Bank Branch near Central Athens. It said the robbers managed to break into 301 of 1,151 Safe Deposit  to beautify woman Vatican City a an italian woman who reportedly refused an abortion and died after giving birth will be beatified by Pope John Paul ii. The roman Catholic Church which prohibits abortions has Long promoted the cause of Gianna Beretta Molla a Milan paediatrician who died in 1962 at age 39. Italian news agencies quoted Church accounts monday As saying that the Mother of three was warned of the a Isles to her life when she became pregnant again but that she refused to have an abortion and died a week after giving birth. No Date was announced for the beatification the last formal step before possible  in China kills 22 Beijing a an explosion in a chinese gun factory killed 22 people mostly schoolchildren working at the Plant an official newspaper reported tuesday. Eight people also were seriously injured and six slightly Hurt in the explosion dec. 6 in the factory in southwestern China a Yunnan province the Public Security news Renmin tongan Bao said. The children Between the Ages of 9 and 14, had been working sundays at the factory it  ties established Seoul South Korea a South Korea and Vietnam established formal diplomatic relations tuesday ending animosities that Date to their confrontation in the Vietnam War the foreign ministry said. A statement issued by the socialist Republic of Vietnam and pro West South Korea said the two nations would establish Liaison offices in each others capitals april 2. South Korea sent More than 300,000 troops to fight on the Side of South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam in the 1960$ and 1970s during the Southeast asian War. After the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975, the two nations had no Contact  
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