European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 25, 1993 world the stars and stapes turkish sailors1 families seeking More damages from wire reports Ankara Turkey relatives of five turkish sailors killed when a . Aircraft Carrier fired on a turkish destroyer will go to court to demand higher compensation the defense minister said tuesday. The sailors were killed when two sea Sparrow missiles fired by the . Aircraft Carrier Saratoga hit the turkish destroyer Mua Vinct last october during nato exercises in the Aegean sea. Defense minister Nevzat Ayaz told parliament that the government helped the families reach an agreement with a . Law firm to pursue the Case. Is Umihan Talay a government official said the United states offered to pay a compensation of $250,000 to the families of the victims. He said however that if the victims were american citizens the payment would be three times higher. Manchester captures match Lucerne Switzerland the International chess federation on tuesday awarded the 1993world championship match to Manchester England a boost for British underdog Nigel Short in his bid to dethrone Garry Kasparov. Manchester Short s Home City promised prize Money of $1.69 million in beating out two other British bids for the right to play Host to the 24-game championship match in August the federation s Lucerne Headquarters said. No starting Date was set. Demjan Juk protesting delay Jerusalem John Demjan Juk the retired . Autoworkers sentenced to death for the killings of thousands of jews in a nazi concentration Camp will Start a hunger strike next week to protest the eight month delay in his Appeal his lawyer said  Sheftel Demjan Juk s lawyer said his client will Stop eating sunday the seventh decision will be prolonged and hell die in the , 72, identified by survivors of the Treblinka concentration Camp in Poland As the guard they knew As Ivan the terrible has been awaiting a ruling on his Appeal since june. Envoy evades Hippo attack Freetown Sierra Leone . Ambassador Lauralee Peters and some of her staff narrowly escaped an attack by a Hippopotamus As they were canoeing in a Northern game Park a . Embassy spokesman said tuesday. This was t Disneyland. It was not a Mech Cal Hippo said Kiki Munshi of the . Information service. When we saw the White of the Hippo s eyes we thought it was the Best time to  terrorism trial starts Rostock Germany an alleged right Wing terrorist went on trial tuesday for attempted murder in the firebombing of a Home for Asylum seekers an attack that unleashed a wave of anti foreigner violence. The 22-year-old unemployed Berlin Man is accused of travelling to this Baltic coastal City in August to take part in Neo nazi riots. After five Days of riots in front of the Home the protesters torched the refugee building. No one was injured but the attack remains one of the most publicized in a series of More than 2,200 acts of violence against foreigners that killed 17 people a Germany last year. Kohl in Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrived wednesday on the third Stop of a five nation asian tour and was expected to discuss with president Suharto human rights bilateral relations and other issues. Kohl visited Indonesia in 1983 and 1908. The two countries Are in favor of reforming the United nations to reflect the new political realities of the Post cold War Era. Germany wants sperm Ahjit seat on the . Security Council while Indonesia is calling for a Restruck tuning of the  leaves for Tokyo on Friday. Moscow mock trial rules Gorbachev was a traitor Moscow up supporters of the old order in Russia concluded a mock trial of Mikhail s. Gorbachev on tuesday sentencing him to be stripped of All titles and awards and asking foreign governments to Boycott the former soviet president. His lies and hypocrisy cynicism personal dishonesty careerism mercenary sentiments abuse of Power fall under High treason which provides for capital punishment said the decision of the people s Public tribunal though it stopped Short of calling for Gorba Chov s death. The tribunal made up of former soviet officials and attended largely by former communist party Mem Bers bitter about the collapse of the soviet Union an the loss of their Power and prestige depicted Gorba Chev As a Saboteur who set out to cause the govern Merit s downfall. Proclaiming the former soviet Leader a traitor to the interests of the people and the state the tribunal sought to blame Gorbachev for the fall of the Iron cur Tain and the revival of capitalism in Eastern Europe. Members of the tribunal also accused him of provoking ethnic conflict causing the deaths of hundreds of thou Sands of people and of taking bribes from South Korea s former president. The organizers compared the mock court to the trials of world War ii War criminals saying that Gorbachev was guilty of crimes against the world and humanity and that Many countries were now at War because of him. Gorbachev however strove to keep the soviet Union together until the end when the leaders of Russia Ukraine and Belarus without consulting him declared the nation dead and formed the Commonwealth of Independent states in its place. In frequent interviews he still talks longingly about the inevitability of the soviet Union being revived in some form in the near future. But the tribunal said Gorbachev should be isolated and stripped of All titles and awards presumably including Gorbachev s three orders of Lenin the top so Viet Honor. The tribunal called his Nobel peace prize awarded in 1990, a  .nnspectors wind up visits to iraqi Sites Cheep Chow a Sparrow hovers in night tuesday to pick bread crumbs from the Mouth of a woman at Plaza orc note in Madrid Spain. Two other hungry Birds await their turn for a Friendly handout in the Sunshine. Manama Bahrain a . Inspectors left Baghdad Iraq on tuesday after making Surprise visits to iraqi Mili tary Sites to determine whether the coun try is hiding ballistic missiles or trying to revive a weapons making program. The inspectors said that they had Gath ered important information and that Ira again had tried to interfere with their Mission. A . State department official said iraqis appeared to have aimed weapons at inspectors helicopters. The visits were the first one Day inspections made by the . Inspectors since they began working to assess and destroy Iraq s weapons of mass destruction under a . Resolution that was. Part of the persian Gulf War cease fire. Husam Mohammad min the chief iraqi coordinator of logistics support to the United nations said Iraq had com plied fully with the . Resolution. No ballistic missile has been found in Ira since March 1992, but Western Intelli gence experts said there May be 100 to Loo hidden. Chief inspector Nikita Smedovich said the inspectors collected important data on their latest visits. But he would no comment further on the findings saying the information must be Analysed. Smedovich headed two teams of nuclear biological and missile experts who searched three military Sites monday. The visits followed reports that a 13 Mcm bar team led by Patrice Palanque of France had found evidence that Iraq was hiding ballistic missile facilities. Christopher Tours disputed israeli areas Jerusalem a Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher toured the contested West Bank and Golan Heights by helicopter wednesday for an appraisal of their Security value to Israel. The helicopter inspection of land Israel won in defeating combined Arab armies in the 1967 six Day War gave israeli and palestinian leaders More time to con Sider a dispute Over palestinian deportations. The israeli army s Northern commander maj.  Mordechai pointed out the narrowness of the Galilee Panhandle As Christopher visited the Mizpah Ramie observation Post near Kibbutz manara. To the West is the part of Lebanon controlled by the israeli army and a client lebanese militia and to the East Are the Golan Heights seized by Israel in the 1967war and declared annexed in 1981. Both areas Are important in to hts peace negotiations. Lebanon is demanding israeli withdrawal from its Terri tory and Syria wants the Golan Back in any peace agreement. From the observation Point about six Miles below the Northern tip of Israel Christopher could Sec into Lebanon across Israel s Hula Valley and the volcanic bulk of the Golan. Pointing out the confines of the area Mordechai noted Israel s vulnerability to a Surprise attack and the capability of syrian missiles to reach most of Israel s cities. He also told Christopher that israeli settlements along the Frontier and the nearby town of Kiryati she Mona have been regularly subjected to Katusha Rock ets from palestinian and shiite Muslim guerrillas in Lebanon. Well i understand the situation much better now that i be seen it on the ground Christopher said when asked what he had Learned from the trip