European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 11, 1993australians demonstrate against visit of . Carrier from wire reports Sydney Australia a a state legislator was among five kayaker arrested saturday in Sydney Harbor for protesting the visit of a . Aircraft Carrier. All were released without charge. Richard Jones a member of the new South Wales parliament was among about 30 activists protesting the arrival of the Ranger. The activists said the Ranger and its four escort ships almost certainly carried nuclear weapons. The Pentagon a policy is that it will not comment on whether american ships Are carrying nuclear weapons. Refugees in Pakistan Lahore Pakistan a a group of 325 Bihari muslims came Home sunday starting the Long delayed repatriation of refugees stranded since the 1971 War that led to the creation of Bangladesh from what was East Pakistan. Waving the Green and White Flag of Pakistan some wept As they left the chartered plane and Knelt to kiss the ground. A this is Only the first phase said foreign ministry spokesman Khalid Salim. Another 230,000 Bihari remain in More than 60 refugee Camps scattered across Bangladesh languishing in filth and disease. Pakistani officials say it could take years to Complete the executes 59 Beijing a at least 59 people were executed saturday Many accused of robbery on China a railroads and highways in a Clear warning against crime during the lunar new year Peak travel season official Media reported. Six people were executed in Shanghai for a spree of train robberies that began in 1988, the official Media reported sunday. Another six were put to death in the Southern City of Huazhou for robbing vehicles on the roads of the prosperous Pearl River Delta the newspaper Yangcheng evening news reported. The newspaper also said 45 people were executed in Canton on saturday a 19 for Large scale theft 17 for robbery and nine for murdering or wounding others a and two More were executed in nearby Appeal to Clinton Oslo Norway a norwegian whale Hunters Are appealing to president elect Clinton to Stop an american environmental groups a terrorist actions against them. A we cannot believe that . Laws would allow a terrorist organization to have a base on american soil a whalers Jan Odin and Olav Olavsen said about the los Angeles based group sea Shepherd in a letter to Clinton. / in the letter delivered to the embassy in Oslo the Olavsen who Are Brothers asked Clinton to Stop the activities of sea Shepherd which claimed credit for sabotaging the Brothers 71-foot whaling ship by Bradena last month. Norway angered environmentalists in May when it announced it would resume commercial whale Hunting this year in Defiance of a 1986 global ban. Paul Watson Leader of sea Shepherd said that his group is planning More actions because a Norway is the robbers steal Platinum Moscow a armed robbers who broke into a fibreglass Plant in Central Russia before Dawn saturday stole Platinum Worth $239,800, a news Agency reported. The robbery occurred at the Steklov Olono Plant in Gus thrust Al nyy a City. 108 Miles East of Moscow the itar Tass news service said. It said the three robbers armed with a Rifle. Bound two workers and then removed two Platinum tips intended for the production of Glass filaments. Each tip weighs about 6.6 pounds. Indonesian crash kills 15 Jakarta Indonesia a plane carrying 39 passengers and a Crew of five crashed saturday shortly after Takeoff in East Java killing 15 people and seriously injuring 24, officials said. The two engine propeller driven plane from the indonesian airline Bourcq crashed and broke in two about four minutes after taking off from the capital of surabaya said the Airport officials. World the stars and stripes v a Page 11 Salem Siouris kisses his 16-Ycar-old son Bassam after israeli authorities allowed him to return Home following three weeks As a Deportee on a snowy lebanese Hillside. The red Cross also brought but another Deportee. Jerusalem apr foreign minister1 Shimon Peres said saturday that the deportation of 415 palestinians has Hurt israelis chances for peace and that the main task now is to minimize the damage. Peres comments came the same Day Israel allowed officials of the International red Cross to visit the makeshift tent Camp in Southern Lebanon where the men Are stranded. After the four hour visit two of the deportees were evacuated. It was the first visit to the Camp by Relief officials in about two weeks. Lebanon also has prevented Relief from crossing through its territory to reach the deported men. Israel expelled the men from the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip on dec. 17 after six israeli soldiers were killed during a 10-Day period allegedly by Muslim fundamentalist groups. Israel said the men were fundamentalist activists. Quot there is no doubt the deportation caused damage Quot Peres told Israel army radio on saturday a for the future i think that our prime consideration must be to ensure that the deportation must not conflict with the chances to make the deportees have been stranded Between the israeli controlled zone in Lebanon and land patrolled by the lebanese army. Lebanon refused to take in the men saying they were israelis responsibility. On saturday the red Cross delegates left the Camp with Bassam Siouris 16, who Israel has acknowledged was deported in error and Zohair lob Batch 26, who has a kidney malfunction. The two were taken by , helicopter to rats an a quran Headquarters of the . Force in Lebanon just North of the israeli Border. Siouris arrived at his Home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank Early sunday the army said. 1 israeli radio reported that lob Batch would be treated either at a . Hospital or at a Hospital in the South Lebanon town of Marj a Uyun where the israeli backed South Lebanon army militia has Headquarters. A source close to prime minister Yitzhak Rabin said he would not be returned to the tent Camp. Israel also has said nine other palestinians were mistakenly deported and will be allowed to return to Israel. In an Effort to resolve the impasse Over the others , envoy Chi Maya Gharakhan met Friday with Peres in Israel an was to meet with palestinian leaders and to unveil korean War secrets Moscow apr the russian defense ministry announced sunday that it plans to declassify secret files on soviet combat activities during the 1950-1953 korean War. The announcement carried by the itar Tass news service said the files will be declassified Quot in the near future but offered no specific Date. Documents on the deportation of ethnic finns and germans from the area around St. Petersburg a then Leningrad a during the initial stage of world War ii will also be made Public the ministry said. During 1992 alone More than 500 secret files were declassified by the russian military command almost As Many As the number declassified during the entire soviet Era it said. Some of the files declassified following last june a decision by the supreme soviet legislature concerned the Fate of american pilots downed Over the soviet Union in the years of the cold War and the 1954 soviet exercises involving the first time use of nuclear weapons the ministry least 60 die in 3-bus crash in Argentina Corrientes Argentina a at least 60 passengers died and 80 were injured when three buses collided and one burst into flames saturday night police reported sunday. The Accident took place near the City of Santo tom6, about 370 Miles Northeast of Buenos Aires. Details of the crash were sketchy and police said the cause was unknown. Two of the buses were going to Buenos Aires. The third owned by a paraguayan company was bound for asunci6n, the capital of Paraguay Northeast of Argentina the police said. One of the buses headed for Buenos Aires ran head on into the bus headed for Asuncion and burst into Lames. Nearly All the passengers were Burnt to death accounting for nearly the full death toll according to police. The paraguayan bus broke in two and some passengers were killed and others injured police said. The third bus turned Over and there were numerous injuries among the passengers police said
