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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                10 the stabs and stripes world bund a february pm Israel urged to use court to end palestinian crisis Damascus Syria a. The Clinton administration has called Lor Israel to use its appellate court process to in cd the repatriation of deported palestini ans from Lebanon senior . Officials travelling in the Middle cast with Secretary of slate Warren m. Christopher on Fri Day insisted that such a humanitarian gesture would not undermine the Compromise agreement he reached feb. 1 with israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Thai agreement provides for returning 101 palestini ans right away and the remaining 295 by the end of the year mostly in september. It also sets up a process of Appeal to military courts. The palestinians refused to accept the Deal and Are resisting a . Call to reopen peace talks in washing ton in april. They say they will not return to the talks until Israel brings Back All the deportees who Are now housed in a tent Camp in Southern Lebanon betwee israeli and lebanese Security posts. As a result Christopher is faced with a major Road Block As he Tours the Region trying to get the stalled talks resumed. He flew to Jordan on Friday night and met with King Hussein on saturday. Christopher arrived in Damascus on saturday from Amman on the third leg of his Middle East Mission. His plane was met by syrian foreign minister Farouk Al Sharaa. After delivering a Brief arrival statement Christo Pher was driven into the City. He is scheduled to hold talks with president Hafez Assad today before flying on to the persian Gulf. The . Top Diplomat is trying to build an Arab and israeli consensus not Only to resume negotiations in Washington on Borders peace and palestinian self Rule but also to Compromise their differences. Two senior . Officials insisting they not be identified by name said they did not want to leave any impression they were pressuring Israel to renegotiate the agreement. In fact they said the idea of speeding the appellate reviews originated with Egypt Ana had not yet been put to Jerusalem. Passengers rescued from danish ferry Copenhagen Denmark a a hydrofoil ferry carrying 280 people took on water in rough seas Between Sweden and Denmark on Friday night and passengers were removed by a Rescue boat danish res Cue services and police said. Rescuers said that the ferry was not in danger of sinking and that no one was Hurt. A rogue wave pushed out two windows of the Cinderella ii soaking some Passen Gers and panels fell from the Cabin ceiling danish police said. The 324-Lon, 135-fool Long hydrofoil was travelling at nearly 30 Man when the Accident occurred. The danish owned boat sailed into Calm or water by flak Fortt a Man made Island off Copenhagen the danish capital. We took in a Little water capt. Hans Friburg said. Passengers were afraid in the first minutes but we quickly went in the ice of flak Fortt and everything be came  the Rescue Craft i Bornholm shuttled All 269 passengers to a Dock in Central Copen Hagen. The 11-member Crew remained aboard the ferry. One of the first passengers to Debar was Jakob Wil Iuler 34, of Poland. He was soaked shirtless and Barefoot wrapped in a Blanket against the cold. I was sitting up front and it was hell to get All that water Over me he said still shivering. Swede Inge Ullstrom who wan with his wife Eva said there was no panic aboard but our 4-Ycur-old son Marcus got scared of course. The ferry was headed across the 10-mile wide Oresund a Strait to Malmo in South Ern Sweden when Strong winds stirred up Choppy seas. Hydrofoils skim above the water on Wing like structures. Passengers some wrapped in blankets arrive in Copenhagen on Friday after they Werc rescued from the danish hydrofoil Cinderel. La ii which began taking on racer Between Denmark and Sweden. Pear shape aids Fertility research finds London a a new study surest Fertility disaffected not Only by weight but by How it is distributed. According to u dutch study of 500 women those who tend to gain weight in inc Waist developing an Apple shape take longer to conceive than their Pear shaped counterparts women who Treiul to gain in the hips. The study was published in the feb. 20 Issue of the British Sci Ideal journal doctors have Long known that women who Aie Loo Skinny or obese have More difficulties getting pregnant than women of average weight. Our Struly shows women who air of Normal weight Ami Apple shaped have a lower probability of Concep Tion than Normal weight women who Aie Pear shaped or. Joukje  said. She is an epidemiologist at the Institute of 1 in Van tic health Caio of the Netherlands  Tor applied scientific research in Leiden. Or. Alan Decherney chairman of obstetrics and Gyne cology at Tufts University in Medford mass., said the study confirms earlier observations. Look at All the old Fertility goddesses they Are All pears he said. Although scientists do not know Why body shape Corre lates with Fertility they have speculated that fat can act like a chemical signal triggering the release of hormones. Apple shaped women the typical male shape Mav have higher Levels of male hormones compared with Pear shaped women the typical t Engle physique do Cherney said in a Telephone interview. Previous american research tied other health Bene fits to the Pear shape. One study suggested Pear shaped women have higher Levels of Hal the Good cholesterol associate with a lower  of heart disease. Another study said car Shaird women Are less Likely to get breast cancer than Apple shaped women. Nixon hails polish miracle1 through economic reforms from wire reports Warsaw Poland former president Nixon on Friday praised polish Market reforms As a Miracle and urged inc Wisl to pay More attention to the newly Independent Eastern european democracies Nixon is making a Brief private visit to Poland at the invitation of president Lech Walesa. It is part of the former president s five nation fact finding Mission that slatted feb. 7. Nixon who turned 80 last month arrived in Warsaw on thursday after visiting the ukrainian capital Kiev. He earlier travelled to Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia and Riga in Latvia. He was to Stop in Paris before flying Home today. Nixon said he planned to Brief . Officials an business leaders on his tour. During his meeting with Walesa at the presidential Del Weder Palace and talks with foreign minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski Nixon hailed Poland s 3-year-old Market reforms. Berlin sentences attacker Berlin a Berlin court sentenced a 24-year old Man to 3tt years in prison Friday after finding him guilty of three firebombing attacks against foreigners. Six other people aged 18 to 25 received 1 to 2 year probation sentences after being convicted of attempted arson for their part in the attacks on buildings owned or occupied by foreigners. No one was injured in the f ire bombings which were aimed at hostels for vietnamese guest workers and a turkish fast food restaurant in Berlin last summer. Judge Guenther Leschynski said the six men and one woman found guilty of the firebombing had not acted spontaneously but instead had planned the attacks in Advance and obtained necessary materials for making Molotov cocktails. The judge sentenced the Leader of the group to 3vi years in prison but said the Milder probation sentences for the other six unemployed East Berlin residents were caused in part by their showing remorse for the attacks. Frank House refurnished Amsterdam Netherlands if Anne Frank had survived and returned to her hiding place this week she would find it just like she left it almost half a Century ago. For the first time since world War a the secret Annex where the Frank family and friends hid from the nazis is being refurnished to match How it was during the two years covered by Anne s famous diary. The restoration is being done As part of a new educational film on the teen age diarist s life aimed at International distribution . Broekhuizen Deputy director of the Anne Frank foundation said thursday. Filming is scheduled this week he  similar to those of the Frank family have been borrowed or in some cases built from scratch. Researchers have used three main sources in figuring out How the Annex looked including the records of Anne s father Otto the detailed diary itself and Miep Gies a non jewish Friend who smuggled food to the family during the years in the secret  film centers upon a modern Day boy Reading the diary while visiting the Annex where it All happened Broekhuizen said. Wei pardons ruled out London prime minister John major on Friday ruled out posthumous pardons for 307 British soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion during world War  of the men were suffering from Shell Noci sleep deprivation and cold said Andrew a lawmaker with the opposition labor party who has campaigned for the pardons. In a letter to Mackinlay major said we cannot rewrite history by substituting our latter Day judgment for that of contemporaries whatever we might think. No evidence w As found to Lead us. To think that the convictions were unsound or that the Kyj crib Offen Sest a.  of v a i their Post throwing away anus disobedient striking Superior officers  
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