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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 12,1993 a fimm  .3qs�s a a $ of t. Is racism. . Siuw. I v a a a a we it i i is a a a a a palestinian Deportee emerges from his tent in the no Many a land Between Israel and Lebanon on sunday. Wants . To to return a Cairo Egypt up a the Palestine liberation organization called for the use of International Force against Israel As an emergency Arab league meeting prepared to Convene monday to discuss Israel s deportation of More than 400 palestinians. The Plo representative in Cairo Saced Kamal told reporters that his group would ask the leagues foreign ministers to Call for enforcement of a . Resolution demanding Israel allow the return of the palestinians deported dec 17. He urged the ministers a to Call for the implementation of the seventh chapter of the . Charter on Israel to Force it to comply with Resolution 799.�?T the . Security Council Resolution Calls on Israel to allow the men to return to their Homes in the israeli occupied territories. Israel has accused the expelled men of belonging to Radical Muslim groups responsible for killing several israeli soldiers and has refused to implement the . Resolution. However Israel has agreed to allow Back 10 palestinians deported by mistake including a 16-year-old boy who returned saturday. The seventh chapter authorizes the use of Force in cases of noncompliance with . Security Council resolutions. Such was the Case during the persian Gulf War when Iraq refused to withdraw from Kuwait. Kamal called the expulsions a War crimes in the eyes of International humanitarian law.�?�. The Plo requested the emergency session of the Arab league foreign ministers. So far representatives from 18 member states have said they will attend. Arab. League Secretary general Esmat Abdel Meg did who was to open the meeting late monday has described the gathering As a show of Arab Unity in the face of israelis a no humanitarian  on sunday More than 2,000 students at Egypt s largest University marched peacefully to protest the deportations. They called on Egypt to Cut ties with Israel and to expel its ambassador whom they called the a pig from  battered Tanker leaks More Oil into sea off Shetland islands London up a Hurricane Force winds and High seas pounded the grounded Tanker Braer monday damaging the stricken vessel and causing More crude Oil to pour from its ruptured tanks into the Ocean off the Shetland islands. A Large quantities of Oil Are now escaping from the ship a John Macgregor Secretary of state for transport said monday. Salvage experts said most tanks at the front of the vessel were leaking and open to the sea and those at the Back were considerably damaged. Officials said More than half of the 25 million Gallons of Oil originally on Board had leaked into the sea. The Hurricane Force winds and High seas prevented efforts to pump the remaining Oil off the ship but officials said the heavy seas were helping to disperse the spill from the Tanker which ran aground a week ago on the Southern tip of the main Shetland Island a the Salvage team will continue to work but the Job May be More difficult and there May be less cargo to recover a said Geert Offeman head of Salvage operations. Macgregor said dealing with the consequences would not be Quick or easy. A More Oil leaked from the Tanker today but the flow has now lessened a said capt. George Sutherland director of Marine operations for the Shetland islands local government. Weather experts said there was no sign of any break in the bad weather for the next 24 hours but Buckingham Palace said the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh who postponed their visit to the shetlands planned for monday hoped to make the trip tuesday. The government monday widened its inquiry into the causes of the Accident to assess whether any further measures were appropriate to protect the British coastline from pollution from merchant shipping. Speaking in parliament Macgregor said a this Accident raises wider questions about Tanker movements around our coasts and 1 have decided to commission an additional inquiry. Consideration should be Given to the International and economic implications of any new  he said about $66 million would be available for compensation from the insurer and the International amp Oil pollution compensation fund. One of the islands two fish markets the Scalloway fish Market closed monday a to ensure against contamination of  a specialized Oil recovery Barge expected to arrive in the shetlands monday was delayed by the bad weather the stars and stripes b Page 11 8 More die in Bombay riots Between hindus muslims from wire reports Bombay India a five people were stabbed to death in hindu Mislim riots and police fatally shot three other rioters monday the sixth Day of renewed violence in which More than 160 people have died. The mobs have fought with knives stones and acid. They also have set fire to Homes and businesses in Bombay in riots that erupted again last week in a renewal of violence Over the demolition of the 16th-Century Bari mosque by hindu militants dec. 6. The demolition in the holy town of Ayodhya immediately sparked nationwide riots that killed More than 1,200 people in one week including 202 in Bombay indians largest City. Monkeys Back from space Moscow a two monkeys returned to Earth in Good condition sunday after spending nearly two weeks in orbit aboard a russian spacecraft the inter fax news Agency reported. The monkeys were launched dec. 29 aboard a. Soyuz Booster rocket fired from the Ples cts cosm drome North of Moscow. The rocket also carried plants insects and cell and tissue cultures. The press service of the military space program said experts from the european space Agency As Well As italian German Ana other foreign scientists monitored biological experiments on the monkeys and insects. Record japanese travel Tokyo a despite a biting recession at Home a record 12.3 million japanese will travel overseas this year up 500,000 from last year the Japan travel Bureau predicted monday. The Bureau said expenditure by overseas and Domestic travellers would Rise 2.7 percent to $147 billion or an average of $4,384, up from $4,312 last year. The Agency attributed the optimistic Outlook to an economic recovery it said was predicted in the second half of 1993. Retraining prostitutes Bangkok Thailand a a Cabinet minister has proposed curbing Thailand a thriving sex Trade by retraining prostitutes As nurses and then exporting them to such countries As the United states. Interior minister Chavalit Yong Chaiyuth told a weekend seminar that the country s estimated hundreds of thousands of prostitutes should be put through three year training courses in nursing the nation newspaper reported monday. A after the course they should be sent to work in countries that need assistant nurses a like the United states a he said. A this would bring More income to the country than exporting labourers a Libya faults . Embargo Cairo Egypt a Libya blames the United nations for almost 700 deaths in Road accidents it says were caused by traffic that increased after the . Banned air travel to and from the country. The latest casualty was Ibrahim m. Bakkar the Justice and Public Security minister Libya s official news Agency Jana said sunday. He died wednesday in a car Accident As he drove Back to the capital of Tripoli from an Arab Interior ministers meeting in neighbouring Tunisia. Libya in protesting the air arms and diplomatic sanctions imposed by the United nations on april 15, closed its Overland Borders for three Days starting saturday. Affected were All six neighbouring countries a Tunisia Algeria niger Chad Sudan and Egypt. Forceps found 6 years late new Delhi India a an Indian woman suffered severe pain for six years because doctors left a pair of forceps in her Abdomen by mistake during pregnancy related surgery a state High court was told monday a recent a Ray showed that Saraswathi Arumugam 34, Nad a pair of forceps in her Abdomen causing excruciating spasms the Indian express newspaper reported. The Madras High court has ordered a panel of doctors to remove the forceps immediately and submit a full report on her treatment the paper said. The woman who does Odd jobs for a living has sued for compensation of $3,500.a a  
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