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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 17, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11 Hunt for arms in Iraq soon to be intensified Baghdad Iraq a three or four teams of weapons inspectors will visit Baghdad in coming weeks a senior . Official said tuesday in what could prove a comprehensive test of iraqi compliance with disarmament resolutions. Other , sources said the heightened activity May also set the stage for a confrontation with Saddam Hus Sein perhaps Over the Issue of overfly rights for the inspectors aircraft., their comments followed a report monday in the new York times that  weapons inspectors plan to Challenge Iraq s refusal to let them Fly helicopters Over Baghdad. The newspaper in a report from . Headquarter sin new York said the . Commission enforcing compliance with the resolutions that ended the persian Gulf War would Tell Iraq this week of its intention to Send a helicopter Over Baghdad to photograph an undisclosed site. There was no immediate iraqi comment on the re port. But diplomats said it was unlikely Saddam would risk another confrontation at a time Baghdad is trying desperately to present a More cooperative face to the out Side world. The Issue of free Aerial Access involves three ch-53german helicopters each with a capacity to seat 37 passengers and staffed by German Crews. They Fly out of Al Rasheed Airport about 15 Miles from the City Cen Ter the United nations has in the past protested Iraq refusal to let the helicopters Fly Over Baghdad. Burning ideology residents of Yerevan Armenia drag marxist and Leninist books through the Snow to be sold As fuel Sun Day. The former soviet Republic is suffering severe food and fuel shortages because of a blockage by neighbor ing Azerbaijan another former soviet Republic in the troubled Region. France dedicates memorial to Indochina vets last wednesday made a pilgrimage to Dick bin Phu site of the crushing i Inch defeat in 1954 that assured Vic tory for the communist Viet Minn guerrillas. After the ceremony Mitterrand went to the City Hall of Frejus for a Courtesy Call on mayor Francois Gerard Marie Leotard. Russian court acquits mein kampf publisher Frejus France a five Days after completing a conciliatory trip to Vietnam president Francois Mitter Rand inaugurated a memorial tuesday to More than 23,000 French soldiers and civilians killed in the Indochina  who last week termed the War a mistake said he wished to convey France s solemn recognition of the sacrifices made by those who died in the 1946-54 conflict Between France and nationalist forces led by communist to Chi Minh. Veterans groups and military units were on hand for the ceremony held under a cold Gray sky near Frijus u Mediterranean port on a site used As an army Camp in world War i. The memorial which has been under construction since 1988, contains the re Mains of 17,250 identified soldiers 3,152 unidentified soldiers and about3,500 civilians. This is the second time in a few Days i be come to pay homage to the soldiers of Indochina said Mitterrand who St. Petersburg Russia a Acourt in Russia s second largest City Mon Day acquitted a publisher of Adolf hit Ler s mein kampf and released him from custody. The publisher had been charged with inciting ethnic hatred. Viktor Bezverkhny 63, admitted during the trial that in 1991 he printed and personally sold 300 copies of the Book in which Hitler set out the nazi doctrine. The prosecutor contended that Mei kampf and a foreword written by a new York russian language publisher Vio lated the country penal code which prohibits propaganda of racist supremacy. During the trial the judges focused on the foreword by the russian Call pub Lishing House. It read in part that the Book written in a simple and Clear language can be come a handbook exposing the Power of jews in  Bezverkhny said monday he saw Noth ing bad in publishing Hitler s Book but conceded the foreword was a failure earlier during the trial he had asked the court if books by Lenin Trotsky and Stalin arc sold what is bad a outselling Hitler s books in a closing Appeal Bezverkhny said that although he did not think he was guilty he would not publish such books in the future at least not without thoroughly Reading the foreword  Soldier Dies of injuries from crash in Somalia Mogadishu Somalia a an Ameri can Soldier injured when his Supply truck Over turned has died after being hospitalized for eight Days the army said tuesday it was the first . Non combat death in operation restore Hope. Pvt. David a Connor 19, died monday night at a . Military Hospital in Mombasa Kenya. He suffered severe head injuries and was Par Al Zed in an Accident feb. 7 on a routine suppl Mission outside Beli doge 65 Miles Northwest of Mogadishu the army said. Three other americans have died since . Led forces were sent to famine and War stricken Somalia on dec. 9. Two marines were shot to death and an army civilian employee was killed when a mine blew up under his car. Connor born in Garden Grove calif., was with the 57th trans co of the 10th Mountain div Light based at fort drum . He is survived by a wife and son. Gang suspected of sex slavery Madrid Spain Ltd about 2,000 women were smuggled into Spain illegally from latin Ameri can countries and were forced into prostitution police said monday after arresting the gang allegedly responsible. Police said they arrested eight people from Spain and the dominican Republic in raids monday. They said they also discovered 47 women mainly from the dominican Republic and one child who Alleg edly were being used by the gang itself As sex slaves. A Madrid police spokesman described the gang s activities As White slavery and said its members terrorized the women. They brought them Here and then forced them into prostitution the spokesman said in a Telephone inter View. We calculate that Over a period of three years they would have brought in some 2,000  the women apparently expected to find Low paying jobs in Spain working As House servants. These women were told they would have jobs As nannies or maids the spokesman said. But they were forced to become prostitutes at clubs. If there were problems and one of them wanted to escape they  he said the gang had various methods of getting the women into Spain. One was for the women to come in As tourists with enough Money on them to look As though they could stay for a certain time the spokesman said. Another was for them to come Over accompanied by a Spanish Man and u child not normally theirs. So that they looked like a married couple. The third Way they did it was to give the women two passports. One would be their  the other would make them appear to be members of a religious order. They would go through the controls at the Airport in Santo Domingo using their original passport. Then they would go into the bathrooms and change into the habits of the religious order. When they arrived in Spain they would show the forged passport. As they had enough Money on them to stay for a few Days they were let   
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