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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 14, 1993 i world the stars a amp of stripes Page 9u.s. Agrees to provide military advice to Albania from wire reports Tirana Albania the government and the United states signed a memorandum tuesday outlining the military advice . Experts will provide As Albania restructures its armed forces. A albanian military Reform will be based primarily on . Military experience albanian defense minister Saft Zhu Lali said. . Army experts will advise albanians on modernizing the Structure of their armed forces. It. Gen. Ilia Vasho albanian chief of staff would not say what other Aid would be Given. The signing took place during the first Day of a visit by a . Delegation led by Brig. Gen. Thomas j. Lennon executive officer to the Deputy commander in chief of . Forces in Europe. Lennon met Zhu Lali and Vasho. The . And albanian Milit Aries have stepped up cooperation in recent months both fearing that the bitter fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina might spill Over into Albania Bosnia a mountainous Balkan neighbor. A scientist to get award Jerusalem a an ism scientist who created a Way of studying irregular shapes in nature such As Clouds or coastlines will be awarded the $100,000 Wolf prize for physics this year the Wolf foundation said tuesday. Benoit b. Mandelbrot 68, created a Branch of mathematics called a fractal geometry that allows scientists to study Complex forms in nature that cannot be Well researched using traditional  foundation said Mandelbrot changed a the View of nature with his research which has important applications for physics and other Fields. Mandelbrot of Scarsdale n.y., has been a fellow at the ism Thomas j. Watson research Center in new York since 1974. The polish born physicist is also a professor of mathematical sciences at Yale University. Grenade play is fatal Manila Philippines a at least three children were killed and 17 others were wounded when a grenade they found on a Street exploded while they were playing with it police said wednesday. A police report said the explosion took place monday in Sasuman a town in Sampanga province about 30 Miles Northwest of  would protect boys Dubai United Arab emirates a Young boys will no longer be kidnapped to train As Camel jockeys if a proposed Law takes effect in the United Arab emirates later this year. The official news Agency Wam reported tuesday that the . Camel racing federation has proposed the Law to prohibit using the boys often 4 to 7 years old from Riding in the races. Police have encountered Many attempts in some asian countries a particularly Pakistan India Bangladesh and sri Lanka a to smuggle boys who have been kidnapped or purchased into Gulf countries to take part in the Camel  racing is a National pastime in the Gulf countries and millions of dollars Are spent each year in competitions drug use decriminalized Rome a the government has decriminalized drug use less than three years after parliament passed a Law making it illegal to use drugs. The Cabinet decree issued tuesday takes effect immediately. But parliament must convert it into Law in 90 Days if it is to stay in Force. The Cabinet left untouched stiff penalties for Selling drugs that also were part of the june 1990 drug Law. Tuesdays decree drops criminal penalties against drug use but left in tact such punishments As suspension of Drivers License or arms permit or confiscation of passport. Under the decree anyone found possessing More than three times the amount of an a average daily dose can be prosecuted As a drug dealer. Duty h to a Bolish d raft slash size of military the Hague Netherlands a the government tuesday unveiled sweeping cuts in the armed forces including a phased abolition of the nations 130-year-old draft Over the next five years. A Only an All Volunteer army could in the Long term create sufficient room for the guarantee of Quality in a much smaller Force defense minister Relus Ter Beck said in a statement to parliament. The dutch military currently numbering 120,000 personnel will be slashed by 44 percent. To a total peacetime length of about 70,000. The Overall cuts will be completed by the end of the Century Ter Beck said. The announcement followed formal Cabinet agreement earlier this week and is virtually sure to gain parliamentary approval by the end of the year a defense ministry spokesman said on condition of Anonym a to Ter Beek said the planned shrinkage is a response to the reduced threat of a major land War in Europe following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. A whereas Only a few years ago All our attention was focused on the defense of Allied territories the armed forces must now be prepared chiefly for crisis management operations a he said. Like other nato forces the dutch military is Rede fining its role to concentrate on participation in International peacekeeping and humanitarian missions. Ter Beck said the draft will be go from being conducted 12 months a year to nine months in 1994 and scrapped altogether four years later. A dozen army Barracks will close and two air Force f-16-fighter squadrons will be disbanded. When Complete the cutbacks will lower the $7.7 billion annual defense budget by about $610 million. Incidental savings before 1998 arc forecast to save another $820 million according to defense ministry figures. Most affected by staff cuts is the army which will shrink by 54 percent to about 36,000 personnel in four battalions rather than the current seven battalions. Navy and air Force staff will be Cut by a Quarter and a third to 17,500 and 13,000 respectively. The announced draft abolition signifies a Cabinet capitulation after much political and Public pressure for an end to what is increasingly being seen As an unfair practice. The dutch used to see the draft As a Way of civil ionizing the military but earlier personnel cuts and the myriad exemption possibilities mean that yearly Only about 39,000 men or 30 percent of those eligible arc called  Are latest victims of bosnian War Zagreb Croatia apr she has no official name but nurses at Petrova maternity Hospital Call her Emina. The baby was born in november to a 17-year-old Muslim girl who said she was raped repeatedly during three months in a serbian run detention Camp near Teslic in Central Bosnia. A she did no to want to see the baby after the birth. She just left Quot said Veselko Grizelj the Zagreb hospitals chief obstetrician. Her whereabouts Are not known. Grizelj said the dark haired infant has become the favorite of the Hospital staff. Baby Emi Nawas to be transferred this week from the Hospital to a Home for abandoned children. The Home is run by the local chapter of Caritas a roman Catholic Charity. Accounts have surfaced of widespread rape by forces fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina a civil War. Serbian forces have been blamed most often but there have been recent reports of rapes of serbian women by muslims. The european Community in a report issued last week said some 20,000 women May have been raped by serbian fighters As part of a a deliberate pattern of terror. The dec report croatian officials and Charity organizations say it is impossible to estimate How Many women May have become pregnant from rape but Many arc expected to reject their babies. The charities and croatian officials have received Many offers to adopt the babies but they say their hands Are legally tied. Children born to bosnian women Are bosnian citizens and thus their adoptions would fall under bosnian rather than croatian Law. Emina is the second baby born in Petrova Hospital to a raped Mother Grizelj said. In August a croatian woman from a Village near the croatian town of Vukovan which fell to serbian forces after a three month siege gave birth to a boy who was adopted by a croatian couple. Two other bosnian rape victims await birth in Zagreb a main maternity Hospital. A nurse holds a baby matted Emina born to a girl who said she was repeatedly raped in a detention Camp. Charles alleged love affair in print Sydney Australia apr you wont find the titillating transcript in the British tabloids. But the intimate record of what purports to be a 1989 love and sex phone tryst Between Prince Charles and his mistress is now in print. The australian Magazine new idea which published the transcript wednesday said it a finally confirms Camilla Parker Bowles Long standing passionately familiar relationship with the Man who would be King a Charles separation from Diana Princess of Wales after More than 11 years of marriage was announced dec. 9 by British prime minister John major. For months the tabloids had been reporting that the marriage was on the rocks. New idea said the conversation Between Charles and Parker Bowles was taped by a radio enthusiast who was scanning London s Mobile Telephone frequencies dec 18, 1989, in one part of the conversation which exudes sexual intimacy the woman identified As Parker Bowles says she needs her partner All the time to which the male speaker replies a ooh god ill just live inside your trousers or something. It would be much  much of the conversation deals with How and where the two can meet. Toward the end they swear love for each other. Charles 44, and Parker Bowles 45, have known each other for about 20 years  
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