European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes world sunday january 17,1993coloinbicm Volcano kills at least 9 pasto Colombia apr blazing rocks the size of televisions smashed scientists Bones and scared flesh during the eruption of a colombian Volcano survivors said. The Volcano was still shaking saturday. Nine people were listed As assumed dead and seven were injured in the surf prise eruption thursday of the 14,030 fool Gal eras Volcano about 375 Miles South of Bogor i and 13 Miles from the City of pasto. Conflicting reports said up to eight others remained unaccounted for. Rescuers searched the rim area for bodies or survivors saturday but they stayed out of the Crater because of the danger of another eruption. Aftershocks continued saturday but had dropped off slightly from the More than 60 an hour registered Friday officials paid. Rescue workers earlier recovered the bodies of three colombian tourists and a colombian Engineer. Four scientists including a russian and a briton and one colombian tourist Are on the official missing list and presumed dead because they were last seen either inside or near the Volcano s Crater. As Many is 17 scientists who were at tending a nearby conference on Volcano logy were either inside the Crater or on its rim at the time of the eruption. The number of people still missing was Uncertain because tourists and journalists South America Caribbean sea Panama \ Venezuela Colombia o Bogota Volcano eruption r 200 pm brazils cart Fox not registered on the conference list were also in the Region said capt. Carlos Arturo Barios head of the civil defense department in pasto. A Black column of ashes shot 1v$ Miles Highland survivors said visibility atop the Volcano was about 3 feet. A �?o1 was sure we were going to die a an Stop Aid Convoy Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr serbian rebels saturday stopped a . Convoy bringing Aid to a Muslim enclave where hunger and cold have reportedly caused a rash of deaths Relief officials said. Zupa has been Cut off from outside Aid during the nearly 10-month-old War in the former Yugoslavia Convoy organizers were negotiating with the serbs to let them pass. But As night fell the Aid trucks were still idling less than i Miles outside town said the officials and a Zupa Ham radio operator. Sarajevo Bosnia s capital was reported relatively quiet. But fighting raged in Eastern Bosnia near the serbian Border where Muslim led government troops apparently were seeking to breach a strategically important corridor connecting Serbia to Pale the bosnian serbs stronghold Southeast of Sarajevo. Bosnian serbian commanders in Bra Paris apr a Mother has been convicted and Given a five year suspended sentence for having her baby daughter circumcised a tradition prac lived in her native Mali. The decision came just one week after a court for the first time sentenced a gambian woman to a year in prison for hiring a midwife to circumcise her two infant daughters. The ritual carried out in the mothers fire sence without anaesthesia and found in last and West Africa and the Middle East entails slicing off the Clitoris and adjacent tissue. Some societies perceive a circumcised woman As More pure and thus More desirable for marriage. Critics Call it genital mutilation that Drew Mcfarlane of Florida International University in Miami said from his Hospi Tal bed in pasto. Quot i still can to a Clieve in a  Mcfay Riarte suffered a broken foot bruises on his legs and badly burned hands from climbing Over the burning rocks.�?�1 heard this huge Boom and then blazing rocks the size of televisions started falling around us a he said. Quot the rocks began to get smaller then a Muddy rain started bringing Down the ashes. Everything was  Mcfarlane and two colleagues a geologist Mike Conway of Florida International and an ecuadorean scientist a tried frantically to scramble Ujiie Steep Wall of the rim. Quot i could stagger Only a few Steps and then 1 would fall Down. 1 kept burning my hands on the rocks a said Mcfarlane a geochemist. Conway s doth jacket was filled with holes from burning rocks. He said the ecuadorean was walking on two broken legs even trying to run. Conway also hospitalized had a broken hand broken fingers and Burns Over much of his body. The ecuadorean also survived. Mcfarlane and another badly injured american Stanley Williams were scheduled to be flown saturday from pasto to Miami on a medical evacuation plane. Tunac about 74 Miles Northeast of Sarajevo were dearly worried and said they had lost at least 40 of their troops saturday in a Clani just South of Bra Tunac. Quot this is the toughest Muslim offensive on serb positions Quot in the Region since the War began said col. Milan Prstojevich the local commander. He also accused the muslims of atrocities saying at least 150 serbian civilians were murdered in the past month in two nearby villages. Some had their eyes gouged out he said. All sides in the fighting have been accused of War crimes. But International organizations have said the serbs arc the chief culprits. Evidence of Large scale civilian deaths was clearly visible saturday in Bra Tunac some 100 Graves had been freshly dug in the cemetery. Some bore names of victims As Young As 12, african i in French circumcision Case Conway became too overcome to continue when he tried to recount something terrible that happened to a British scientist Geoff Brown. Brown was among three scientists who died inside the Crater. The other two were Nestor Garcia a colombian and a russian who the americans said was Igor Menya Ilov. The russian was identified by the colombian red Cross As Gorbin Gar Lov. Quot the last i saw of the russian was looking Down into the Crater and seeing him sitting there on a Rock smoking a cigarette and smiling obviously satisfied with the Gas samples they had taken a Mcfarlane said. Quot there is no Chance in hell they could have lived through the  Andrew Adams a geologic technician with the los Alamos National Laboratory in new Mexico said it was As if an atomic bomb had exploded. He said he and some others hid under a slight overhang of the rim and were still pelted with rocks the size of baseballs. Quot it seemed like hours being hit by the rocks but it was Only a minute or two a Adams said. Quot i saw a huge Black Cloud of ashes and Gas plumes of Light Brown Reddish Brown and  the scientists were part of a .-sup-ported study of the worlds volcanoes. Gal eras erupted last july after three years of inactivity it prevents sexual enjoyment As an adult. On Friday a court in the Northern parisian working class suburb of Bovigny convicted Kumba Diane a 34-year-old woman from Mali of having her daughter circumcised when the daughter was less than 1 month old. She admitted to the charge but said she did it in the name of tradition. Her husband an autoworkers at citroen since 1972, claimed he was unaware of the circumcision. Since 1983, French Law has called the practice child abuse that could draw a life sentence. But until last week Only a midwife had been sentenced to prison and parents had been Given Only suspended  High tech the look of the Netherlands is changing Northern City of Enk Huzzen replacing the As these futuristic wind turbines show traditional windmills associated with the they line the coast of Lake Ijssel near the country