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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, December 31, 1992

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Honecker unlikely to live through trial court says from wire reports Berlin a Erich Honecker probably wont live to the end of his trial an appeals court said wednesday increasing pressure to Stop the prosecution of the 80-year-old former East German Leader for manslaughter. Honecker has incurable liver cancer and although he has appeared Spry in most court sessions since his trial started nov. 12, court appointed doctors have put his life expectancy at three to six months. A three judge panel of the appeals court turned Down a petition by Honecker a lawyers to reverse a trial court ruling that keeps Honecker in prison. But the panel said the recent assessments of Honecker a health meant a the ability of the accused to stand trial will not endure much  the trial court has said Honecker a health will be assessed again in  desecrated Strasbourg France a vandals desecrated a jewish cemetery before Dawn tuesday with Spray painted protests against israelis expulsion of 415 palestinians. �?o415-Swastika,�?� read one of the inscriptions at the cemetery in Cronenborg a suburb of the Eastern Border City of Strasbourg. The United nations has condemned israelis deportation of the suspected palestinian militants who have been stranded on a snowy Hilltop in Southern Lebanon two weeks ago. Lebanon has not accepted them. In recent anti semitic attacks swastikas were painted on a jewish Community Center in Strasbourg Early this month. In August 193 jewish tombstones in Herrl Isheim also in Eastern France were tipped  i cause backed Rome a documentation is being gathered to bolster the cause for possible beatification a and perhaps sainthood a for Pope Paul i who died in 1978 after 15 years in the papacy an italian Bishop said tuesday. But the Bishop monsignor Vigilio Olmi discounted a report indicating the process was moving swiftly. A a it a really just at the beginning. There a a Long Way to go a Olmi said by Telephone from Brescia where he is an auxiliary Bishop. Paul i grew up near  hotel bombed London a a Belfast hotel was extensively damaged by a 300-Pound bomb a Royal Ulster. Constabulary spokesman said wednesday. No one was Hurt by the tuesday night blast that came after police were warned that a bomb had been left in a vehicle in the parking lot of the drum keen hotel in Southern Belfast the spokesman said. A the warning was Given and 16 minutes later As police were still evacuating the area the bomb exploded a he said. More than 30 guests and staff had been taken from the hotel and nearby Homes before the blast. On the Beach some of the 59 Pilot whales that swam ashore near Nelson on new zealand a South Island sunday await help. Volunteers have been covering the whales with sheets to protect them against sunburn. Rescuers were hoping to get the stranded mammals Back into the water on the next High tide. Israel will permit return of 10 deported in error Rabin says Jerusalem apr prime minister Yitzhak Rabin said wednesday that 10 palestinians deported in error to Lebanon May return to Israel immediately. There was no hint however of a breakthrough in talks with . Envoy James Jonah on providing food fuel and Medicine to the 415 deportees stranded in Lebanon a freezing Southern mountains. Rabin said after the talks that any of the 10 wanting to return should go to an israeli controlled crossing Point and a we will receive  he said he doubted that six of the 10 would even try because they face trial and possibly Long prison terms in Israel. The deportations Are m Force for up to two years. Bassam Siouris 16, of Hebron the youngest Deportee and one of those expelled in error a will be brought Back safely Home a Rabin promised. Siouris was picked up for painting Graffiti on a Wall. In Lebanon most of the deportees said their Muslim prayers inside the tents to avoid the wind and 27-degree temperatures. Some ventured out to Start fires with Wood gathered the Day before. A it was one of the worst nights we be had since we came Here a said Aziz Dweik a Deportee. Wiek said the deportees would hold a meeting later in the Day to discuss whether Siouris and the other nine sex Pell Edby mistake would return. Siouris said he was a Happy for myself and sad for my  a i miss my Mother and my father a he added. Meanwhile Rabin blamed Lebanon for blocking humanitarian supplies to the deportees and called on the International Community to pressure Lebanon to change its position. Israel has agreed to a proposal by the International committee of the red Cross that two Aid convoys one from Lebanon and one from Israel be permitted to reach the Camp simultaneously. A i believe its time that countries like the United states or the United nations advise the lebanese government to respond positively to the red Cross proposal a he said. On tuesday however Lebanon turned Down the proposal. Lebanese leaders have said they will not be a dumping ground for Israel. Rabin said that if Lebanon changes its mind and the red Cross proposal is raised again Israel will a also agree to it now or tomorrow or two Days from  Jonah earlier met with israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres who declined comment afterwards. Jonah returned to Israel on wednesday after a one Day trip to Lebanon in which lebanese leaders refused any aia to the palestinians saying they were israelis responsibility. Jonah was expected to leave later wednesday for . Headquarters in new York. In a speech to jewish jurists tuesday night Rabin repeated israelis decision not to allow the deportees to return. A we Are determined the deportees will not come Back to Israel unless there will be a Complete change and All the organizations will decide to maintain Tranquility a no violence no terror a during the peace negotiations a Rabin said. Israel expelled the palestinians on dec. 17, alleging they were Active in Radical islamic organizations responsible for killing six israeli Security officers. The men Are stranded in a no Many a land Between territory controlled by the lebanese army and israelis self proclaimed a Security  Israel occupied the zone in 1985, to try to shield its Northern Border from  cuts russian officials housing Perks Moscow up a president Boris i. Yeltsin on tuesday abolished russians system of giving state owned country uses to top government officials a a love calculated to Delight those Dis usted by the privileges of russians ruling lass. T the decree abandoning the a state Lachau system came a week after at empty by lawmakers in the russian Par lament to buy their official apartments it a fraction of the Market Price. Luxurious state owned Dachau or country houses were just one privilege a Joyed by the communist party elite Der soviet Rule. Top officials also had Access to special food shops limousines rest Homes and hospitals. As a Radical lawmaker in the first soviet parliament Yeltsin tirelessly campaigned against party privileges artfully exploiting a wave of Public anger at the lavish lifestyle of soviet leaders. As Moscow communist party Boss Yeltsin could often be seen Riding on Public transportation and shopping in Ordinary state stores behaviour unheard of for a top party official. Yeltsin a decree tuesday carried by the state news Agency itar Tass said government owned Dachau cannot be made available on favourable conditions to officials whether they Are still in office or retired. The decree instructs russians privatization ministry to work out How the Dachau can a pay their Way a implying that government officials currently living in state country houses will have to Start paying rent for them. Yeltsin a decree also appealed to parliament and the judiciary to do the same with the state Villas under their control. The decision on the Dachau comes Days after russian lawmakers granted themselves the right to buy the apartments allocated to them while in office at special prices Well below the Market rate. The Resolution scandalized Many Ordinary russians who associate such privileges with the discredited former communist regime. The critics insisted that deputies should have to buy their apartments at the Market Price like everyone else. Former soviet prime minister Nikolai i. Ryzhkova was criticized for trying shortly before his retirement to Purchase his opulent official residence outside Moscow for a Small sum. Russian parliament chairman Ruslan Kha Bulatov under pressure from Liberal lawmakers finally suspended the Resolution on cheap apartments. A we should not create artificial benefits for deputies a he told parliament  
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