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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes military Friday february 5,1993 War. Cholera starvation grip Angola Luanda Angola a the government Drew up plans for a state of National emergency As loyalists battled rebel troops in the Countryside and a cholera epidemic threatened to sweep the capital. In the Countryside the danger of starvation due to War and dislocation was acute and . World food program officials estimated that 2 million people May be in danger of starving within the next few months. The 12-member permanent Council of parliament met in a special session wednesday to consider imposing mandatory military service enacting Art emergency medical mobilization in the capital and Banning the rebel National Union for the total Independence of Angola unit government sources said. Parliament is to vote today on a final draft of the proposals. A virulent Strain of cholera has been spreading in Luanda the capital since Unita destroyed a water purification Plant two weeks ago and City residents began using nearby River water. The humanitarian organization me a coins sans frontiers doctors without Borders warned that a cholera epidemic could soon hit the capital the journal de Angola reported. The danger of starvation is acute in Huila province about 50 Miles South of Luanda. Rains have been plentiful in Northern Huila but Farmers have been unable to Harvest or move produce to Market because the area is controlled by Unita. The government also prohibits Aid agencies from mov ing freely in the Unita held Countryside. In Southern Huila the government is in control and Relief shipments assured but there is a severe drought according to officials in change a District seat. Corn that should be Chest High was at ankle level around change this week and officials predicted a dry february normally the heart of the Rainy season. Wwvu1huuu right Wing recording seized in German Dusseldorf Germany a raids on the Homes of far right Rock band members and a Cologne area music production company netted thousands of hate records and other Neo nazi Materi Al police say. The bands Are under investigation for alleged promotion of violence and racial hatred through their texts Herbert Schnoor Interior minister for nor Rhein westfalen state said after wednesday s raids. German officials have vowed to crack Down on Neo nazi groups. Schnoor said the Rock of Rama record ing company in Briihl near Cologne was one of the main targets of the raids. Police also raided Homes of musicians around the country. Rock of Rama has distributed records by 28 skinhead and other Radical rightist bands. Officials say the company did notes Pouse rightist views but produced the recordings strictly for profit. The company also produced and distributed Punk music and texts in the late 1970s. Neo nazi music groups under invest. Gation include bands with names like Stork aft disturbing forc Volks Zorn people s Wrath and end sick final 3 turks injured in arson attack Cologne Germany a three turks were injured in a pre Dawn arson attack on three Homes occupied by foreigners police said thursday. The attack appeared to be a continuation of far right violence against foreigners. Police said swastikas were painted on three houses that had Gaso line poured on them about 2 30 . The houses were then set on fire causing heavy damage. They were occupied by turks and ethnic germans who have been repatriated from Poland and the former soviet Union police said. Victory. More than 30,000 recordings cassettes and compact discs believed to contain Radical rightist music were confiscated in nor Rhein westfalen state police said. Binazir Bhutto has baby daughter weighty problems inside a Cage with his Star elephant Trainer Alexander lir Khov ponders the crisis that prompted him to go on strike last week. Terekhov was fired by Moscow s Durov animal theater and told that his performing elephant Dasha was being sent to Breed in Ukraine. In protest to Makhov locked himself and his elephant inside a Cage and said they won t come out until Terekhov gets his Job Back. Islamabad Pakistan a after denying for months that she was preg Nant former prime minister Binazir Bhutto gave birth by caesarean Section to a girl according to news reports thursday Bhutto s third child was born wednes Day three weeks earlier than expected at a Hospital in Britain where she was receiving treatment for gallstones. Both Mother and baby who weighed 6.5 pounds were reported doing Well. Bhutto s husband Asif Ali Sardari has been in jail since october 1990 on charges ranging from corruption to extor Tion. He has denied his guilt and has not been convicted of any crime. However As a member of parliament Sardari is allowed to travel to the Federal capital of Islamabad while the legislature is in session. He and Bhutto share a guarded residence while he is in Islamabad. As late As last month Bhutto had not revealed her pregnancy. In january her political Secretary Naheed Khan said this is the sort of news you published during the elections of 1990, and you were wrong then and you re wrong  her previous two births were also shrouded in secrecy. Despite leading the opposition in a country with one of the highest Popula Tion growth rates in the world Bhutto insists that questions about her pregnancies or plans for More children Are irrelevant to Public life and sexist in  russians unfurl huge right reflecting Mirror in space Moscow a huge experimental Mirror was successfully unfurled in space thursday and reflected sunlight to the Earth s dark Side tracing a weak 1yi-mile-wide beam across Europe russian space officials said. Their six minute Experiment could be the first step in creating revolutionary space tools for illuminating Large areas of the planet at night. The cloth backed Mirror 82 feet in diameter was unfurled about 3 53 . From the unmanned Progress Supply ship flying next to the orbiting Mir space station said Viktor Blagoev director of the russian space flight control Center. Everything went exactly As we had planned he said in a Telephone interview from Kaliningrad North of Moscow. Blagoev said there was no word on whether anyone on the ground saw the Light Casi by the Mirror. Scientists said they had expected the Light to be too weak an moving too fast for anyone on Earth to see. But they said two starry Points of Light the Banner and the Mir s solar panels might Nave been visible zipping across the night sky As the Banner moved across Europe toward the former soviet Union and the Risingsun. The Mirror is made of Kevlar an extremely thin but Strong synthetic material used in bulletproof vests and military helmets. It is coated with a thin layer of alumni num and shaped like a . Someday a spotlight reflected by several such ban ners could be used to Light up nighttime work Rescue operations blacked out cities or Sun starved Polar areas. A Lelan i cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and ser Gei Avdeyev who returned to Earth last week spoke to reporters about the project wednesday from inside a Glass quarantine Booth at Star City the russian space enter. The spacemen emphasized that the Experiment s Mam purpose was to test whether scientists could open in Jyh Baner and keep Flat with centrifugal Force while the Progress Tower of it. A i Sheet a to harness invisible gases called solar wind which emanate from the Sun  
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