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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fbrutfy17, 1993 gunmen miss tourist bus in Southern Egypt Assiut Egypt a suspected fundamentalist gunmen shot at a bus carrying German tourists air Southern Egypt on tuesday but missed their target police said. To a lh5 fifth attack Civ,.-in u.unsi., i Egypt this year but no one has Bee t .1. Aee ago Mili Tants shot at a bus carrying mice 2gi.cn tier mans near Assiut and missed. The latest attack apparently the work of Muslim extremists occurred near Man fault 19 Miles Northwest of Assiut. Man fault 170 Miles South of Cairo is a focal Point of Muslim extremist violence. Police said the bus was on its Way from the ancient Southern City of Luxor to Cairo. A police officer speak ing on condition of anonymity said police escorting thebus exchanged fire with the assailants. The militants have traditionally targeted police an egyptian christians or copts. They turned to attacking foreign tourists last year to Embarrass the government and reduce its largest source of foreign currency. Tourism which brought in $3 billion last year has dropped by More than so percent since the militants killed a British nurse and wounded two compatriots Inan ambush last october. Five germans were wounded in a similar attack Les than a month later. Both incidents were in Southern  radicals want to overthrow Egypt s secular government and replace it with a theocracy similar to that in Iran. More than 80 people were killed in extremist related violence last year. Seven people have died since Jan. 1. 2 escaped Lions shot Down after killing zoo attendant Cairo Egypt a police fatally shot a lion and his mate tuesday after they escaped their zoo Cage and killed their attendant officials said. Abdel Aziz Al Drini the director at Cairo s International gardens said the Lions broke out of their Cage while their keeper cleaned another Cage nearby. They attacked him and he was rushed to Hospital where he died. Employees called police who shot and killed the two cats. Al Drini said the keeper had cared for the animals Montasser and Fatima since they were brought to the Gar Dens six years ago. They had produced nine cubs three of which still lived with their parents. The gardens where plants from several countries Are on exhibit have a Small zoo. It is closed for the Public on tuesdays for maintenance. The stars and stripes Page 9 parents of 22 children trying to adopt 5 More fort Atkinson wis. A Pete and Cindi Sam pc parents of 20 children and guardians of to others want so badly to adopt five More kids that they Are plan Ning to uproot their clan and move to another  Sampes Are Selling their 11-bedroom House and heading to Parkersburg w.va., this Spring even though there Are no Guaran tees officials there will permit the adoption of the five West Virginia siblings once the family arrives. After struggling with bureaucrats in Wisconsin and West Virginia Over the adoption forbore than a year the Sampes decided to move because they fee they owe it to the four girls and a boy who were abused and neglected in their previous Home. They Are probably feeling helpless and hopeless and betrayed that we lied to them mrs. Sampe said. They have no idea How hard we be  Sampes already have two biological daughters 18 adopted children and two Foster sons they Are adopting in Wisconsin. Samplis a mechanical Engineer his wife a homemaker. They collect adoption subsidies for. Some of the Chil Dren and Sam pc received a Small inheritance. They initially hoped to bring the five new children who spent a week with them last year to their Home in fort Atkinson after winning approval from West Virginia officials. But the Wisconsin department of health and social services rejected the adoption ruling the Sampes failed to provide Ade quate information and undergo unacceptable Home assessment. They Haven t gone along with our need to com plete an Independent study said Gerald born Wisconsin s interstate adoption coordinator. Mrs. Sampe 40, believes Wisconsin fears Finan Cial liability for the children and is prejudiced Pete Sam pc and family gather in their fort Atkinson wis., Home. Against big adoptive families. The state denies the charges. West Virginia officials initially discouraged the Sampes from moving there. But West Virginia Senate president Keith Bur Dutte asked for an examination of the Case. Nato chief Hungary leaders discuss peril of balkans7 War Budapest Hungary a the commander of nato s european forces on tuesday ended a three Day visit that focused on yugoslav warfare raging beyond Hungary s Southern Borders . Army Gen. John m. Shalik Ash Vili said the talks with Premier j6zsef Antall foreign minister Geza Jeszenszky and defense minister Lajos fur focused on the dangers posed by possible spread of yugoslav blood shed to Otner parts of the former federation and possibly across its Bor  singled put As particularly dangerous the situation m Serbia Kosovo province where relations be tween serbs and the ethnic Albania majority Are tense Shalikashvil said. Hungary a former Warsaw pact member has begun to forge closer co operation with nato and the Alli Ance s away surveillance planes based in Germany and Italy use Hun Garian airspace daily to Monitor air activity Over War torn Bosnia and Herzegovina to the South. Mixed reviews full House Greet return of movies  extend trip to Poland Warsaw Poland a former president Nixon will extend his current european trip to Poland on thursday atthe invitation of president Lech Walesa Poland s presidential press office said. The private visit by Nixon is part of five nation fact finding Mission that started feb. 7. Nixon 80, who resigned from office in 1977, will meet Friday with Walesa an also hold talks with prime minister Hanna Suchocka and foreign minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski. Nixon who has made stops in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia travelled to Riga Latvia on tuesday and planned to visit the ukrainian capital of Kiev before flying to Warsaw on thursday night. By laur1nda key the associated press Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina after 10 months of siege the first movie shown in Sarajevo was bound to open to a packed House even though moviegoers had to Brave sniper fire to reach the theater. The reviews however were mixed the movie was terminator 2. More than 100 people scramble through a Hole in a Wall across a play ground and into the stage door of the old Obala theater saturday to watch the Vio Lent Sci i thriller about a boy being stalked by a robot Assassin. On the Way out Many people said the experience was hardly escapist. We Don t need that kind of film be cause As soon As i walk out of this place i will see it live said a Man who identified himself Only As Mustafa. But Danijel Gradack a 26-year-old Law yer was just Happy to be Able to go to the movies. It kind of proves that the City snot dead he said. Terminator 2 was chosen to open Sarajevo s first War Cinema because John Cameron is one of the Best of the newer american directors said Karim Zaimovic 21, one of the Cinema s organizers. He said the movie which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger As the boy s cybernetic protector had drawn heavy crowds when it made its peacetime  is a super idea something is happening said Jasmina Alibegovic 26."but i think what Sarajevo needs More is a disco to open somewhere that Millwork All night. The film was shown at midday night time performances Are too dangerous. Movies will be shown twice a week a different hours and on different Days. News of what s on will spread by word of Mouth not advertisement for Large crowds often draw mortar or sniper  movie is actually a video projected on a 12-by-9-foot  s National movie Archive is in a building under serbian control arid Noone knows what has become of the col  Zaimovic says he and his colleagues will collect videos from private owners or if possible from the outside world  
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