European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday february 17,1993 Britain s Prince Charles left Bernardo so Pulvida Amor Cente Mexico s ambassador to Britain and Ricardo Ampudia Mexico s director of protocol watch dancers at the City Hall in Mexico City on monday. Charles visits mexican project Mexico City a Jovita Loperna received a Royal gift on her 65tn birthday monday a visit to her Mexico City Home and a kiss from Britain s Prince Charles. In return Loperna served up a tasty plate for Charles of Barbacoa a traditional mexican Lamb dish. It s not Welsh Lamb is it joked the Prince of Wales. I thought it would be full of chilis. I m glad it s  Charles visited to Pereria s housing project on the first official Day of his visit to Mexico. The two Story eight apartment Complex was built to replace a run Down building destroyed by Mexico City s devastating 1985 earthquake. Britain had donated Money for the massive rebuilding Effort. � the Prince also received Flowers and kisses from 5 year old Gloria Ezquivel Loperena s granddaughter. Charles wished Loperna Feliz cum Leanos or Happy birthday in Spanish. Some family members seemed a Little confused As to the Job of the 44-year-old heir to the British throne shouting Welcome or. President As he entered the tiny two bedroom apartment instamatic cameras flashed As he posed for pictures with Loperena her daughters granddaughters nieces nephews and other relatives crowded into the living room. The rickety Homes belonging to Loperena and her eight daughters and other families were1 destroyed in the 1985 quake. They lived in shacks in a nearby Park ing lot for a year before pitching in themselves to build the new Complex with funding from the mexican government and Enesco. Three adults and three children live in the apart ment. Charles came to Mexico for a four Day visit after a three Day trip to the United states his first outside Europe since his separation from his wife Diana Princess of Wales. The Prince arrived sunday evening from Houston piloting the controls of a Royal air Force Jet.  Zimbabwe Start joint Maneu vers Harare Zimbabwe a the United states and Zimbabwe on monday launched their first joint training Maneu vers which were described As a follow up to their collaboration last month in famine plagued Somalia. . Army spokesman col. Dan Hank said 26 sol Diers from the 3rd special forces group from fort Bragg n.c., will spend 45 Days with a Zimbabwe com Mando battalion. This is a two Way thing. Well be learning tracking from the zimbabweans he said. The training also includes High Altitude free fall parachuting for precision deployment of commandos. We Are already Side by Side in Somalia. These exercises can Only perfect our operations Zimbabwe s maj. Gen. Constantine Chiw enga said of the training. Zimbabwe last month sent 150 troops to assist the  multinational Force attempting to restore order and protect food Aid deliveries in Somalia. As part of Basic unit skills the joint Maneu vers program also touches on the growing role of peace keeping forces at world trouble spots Henk said. Zimbabwe s left leaning president Robert Mugabe has often been critical of . Military intervention abroad and relations sometimes have been Chilly. American Aid was Frozen in the mid-1980s because of Zimbabwe s hostility to the . Government. Zimbabwe meanwhile has received military hard Ware and training from the soviet Union China and North Korea since achieving Independence from Brit Ain in 1980. Slovakia elects Kovac 62, As nation s first president from wire reports Prague the parliament of Slovakia which became an Independent nation on Jan. 1, elected Michal Kovac on monday As the Republic s first president. Kovac who ran unopposed was elected with 106 votes 16 More than he needed for the required three fifths majority in the 150-member slovakian , 62, is a member of the governing movement for a democratic Slovakia the party of prime minister Vladimir Mesiar. But he won the support of the largest opposition party the former slovakian communists by promising if elected to remain above party politics. Gunmen kill British Soldier Belfast Northern Ireland gunmen ambushed and killed an off duty British Soldier late monday in protestant Western Belfast police said. The killers fired As the Soldier stepped outside his House to walk to his Mother in Law s Home nearby police said. They fled in a car hijacked a Short time earlier. No one claimed responsibility. The Soldier a part time member of the Royal Irish regt was in his late 30s and the father of two children police said. His name was not immediately released. Five Vintage planes Burn mount Hope Ontario a fire on monday destroyed five Vintage world War ii fighter planes including one of Only two spitfires in the world that could still  spitfire owned by the .-based Confederate air Force organization reportedly was Worth about $1.5  said they still were trying to determine the cause of the Blaze at the Canadian warplane heritage museum hangar about 30 Miles South of Toronto. Damage was estimated at More than $3 million. A sixth privately owned non Vintage plane also was destroyed. Nine die in tribal clash Johannesburg South Africa nine people were killed overnight in tribal rivalry in South Africa s strife torn Natal province police said tuesday. At this stage All indications Are that the deaths were the result of faction fighting Between different groups police spokesman capt. Bala Naidoo said in a Telephone interview. Naidoo did not identify the groups a police officer close to the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the clash appeared to revolve around territorial claims by traditional healers in the Village of a Maloti 330 Miles South of Johannesburg. Poland curbs abortions Warsaw Poland president Lech Walesa has signed an anti abortion Law that strictly limits the procedure forcing women with Normal pregnancies to leave the country if they want an abortion. But because the Law signed monday still allows abortion under limited circumstances some activists Are vowing to fight on for a total ban. Meanwhile abortion advocates Promise to press for a referendum to re legalize abortion. This Law will result in the deaths of Many women family tragedies and deserted and orphaned children warned parliament Deputy Zbigniew Bujak in the Standard Mlodoc newspaper. Killer of environmentalist escapes in prison break Sao Paulo Brazil a the killer of internationally known rain Forest protector Francisco Mendes espied from jail with his father and seven others setting off a huge manhunt through dense Amazon Jungle police said Mon Day. Darcy Percira his father Darli Alves a Silva and the other inmates broke out late sunday from a Penitentiary in the acre state capital of Rio Branco about2,200 Miles Northwest of Sao Paulo. Police said the escapees sawed through the cell bars in the lightly guarded prison Pereira and a Silva a rancher who was convicted of ordering the killing were sentenced to 19 years in jail in de Cember 1990. Mendes was slain in 1988. The murder of Mendes spotlighted the often violent struggle Between conservationists and ranchers in the vast Amazon rain , president of the rubber tap pers Union in his Hometown of Lapuri where he was killed had led a crusade to preserve rain Forest acreage. Destruction of rain Forest lands not Only wipes out wildlife but disturbs the natural balance of vegetation. That in turn contributes to the so called Green House effect believed responsible for gradual Rise in the Earth s temperature. In february 1992, a judge ordered a Silva retried on the grounds that testimony of the prosecution s main witness was biased. The new trial has not yet been scheduled. A Silva has also been accused of involvement in another murder in the Southern state of Parana. He was scheduled to be flown to that state for trial on March 23. State police chief Carlos Alberto a Silva said the prisoners sawed off the bars of their cells. He said Security at the 300-inmate Francisco Oliveira Conde Penitentiary was extremely  he said authorities had closed off every Road leading out of the far Western acre state. More than 100 police officers were said to be searching for the escapees