European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday february 26, 1993 the stabs and stripes Cage 3 Clinton Yeltsin to meet in april Geneva Switzerland a pres ident Clinton and russian president Doris n. Yeltsin will meet april 4, for eign ministers for both nations said thursday. The Summit Marks their first official meeting although the two held talks on an informal basis before the . Elec Tion. The announcement was made by russian foreign minister Andrei a Kozarev at a joint news conference with Secretary of state Warren m. Christo Pher. The site will be named later Christo Pher said. Yeltsin has been seeking an Early Summit with Clinton since the presi Dent s election in november. . Officials said Clinton was recep Tive to the idea because he wanted to show support for the embattled russian Leader. Clinton expressed Confidence in Yeltsin after meeting wednesday with Brit ish prime minister John major saying he believed the russian Leader could withstand the political challenges from conservatives in Moscow. We Are putting a lot of Effort into trying to support democracy and trying to support economic recovery there Clinton added. Just before leaving office last month president Bush went to Moscow to sign an arms control agreement with the russian president. Kozarev said Christopher suggested several earlier dates but they agreed on april 4 because the meeting Between Clinton and pc latin required consider Able preparation. They also were plotting a joint strategy Lor a cease fire and a settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia two former republics of Yugoslavia torn by ethnic strife. Cops arrest thousands in new Delhi protests. New Delhi India a police beat demonstrators with Bamboo Sticks fired tear Gas and rounded up thousands of people thursday to Block a huge rally by militant hindus seeking the government s ouster. Thousands were shoved onto buses and taken to makeshift detention Camps in sports stadiums. Dozens of people were injured by police  the level of violence was less than feared in a country that recently has witnessed much communal bloodshed. Police armed with rifles and  did not use them demonstrators were unarmed and stones were thrown in just one incident injuring seven policemen. Theata party a Crest Merit mounted its largest Security operation Ever in new Delhi. Bharatia janata s popularity was boosted in Decem Ber when zealots destroyed a Muslim shrine on a site held sacred by hindus in Ajodhya. The incident sparked rioting Between hindus and muslims that killed 1,940 people according to government figures. Parts of India s capital City of 10 million people were under siege thursday ringed by police barricades. The parliament lawns where the rally was to be held were sealed off with barbed wire. No violence was reported outside the Central part of the City. Opposition Leader Lai Krishna Advani claimed Victory even though his rally was thwarted saying the government panicked. The rally was successful even before it started and i thank the government for helping us do that he said speaking to a reporter an hour before he and other party leaders were arrested. But the government could claim Success in prevent ing a potentially explosive rally that it feared could reignite hindu Muslim riots. Prime minister . Narasimha Rao who has been shaken by the hindu resurgence and by dissent in his own party said he banned the rally because Bharatia janata could not be trusted to restrain its followers. The hindu party called the rally to demand construction of a hindu Temple on the site of the demolished mosque in Ajodhya 300 Miles East of new Delhi. It is trying to discard the secular character of the Multi eth Nic land and make it a hindu state. It also demands Rao s resignation Early elections thousands of hindu militants face police in new Delhi on thursday blocked from reaching a rally site. And the lifting of a ban on extremist hindu groups outlawed after the Ajodhya mosque razing. Hindus com prise 82 percent of India s 875 million people muslims about 12 percent. Bharatia janata president Murli Manohar Joshi was knocked Down by a water Cannon and slightly injured before being arrested. He was marching at the head of a column trying to reach the site where the rally was to have been held. The party said about 500 of its activists were Hurt. In Dian news agencies said 25,000 people were detained. Police chief Mukand Bihari Kaushal said 2,835 peo ple were arrested including 113 parliament members. Only 88 people were injured he said at his makeshift Headquarters on the parliament grounds. In Many cases people were jammed into buses taken a few Miles away and released. Others were Likely to be released without charge within a Day. In one clash a teen age boy was hit in the face at close Range by a tear Gas canister and collapsed bleed ing badly. He was carried away by the crowd. Someone hurled the soldering canister Back at the police. Of Academy investigating rape of freshman Cadet air Force Academy Colo. A air Force authorities Are investigating the rape of a female freshman Cadet by three to five men at the air Force facade my officials said. The woman was t sure if the attackers were cadets civilians or both said facade my spokesman will Ketterson. The 18,000-acre Post is open to the Public. If civilian suspects Are identified in the feb. 14 attack the Elpaso county sheriffs department will investigate. Any Ca dets implicated could face a general court martial Ketterson said. The woman has continued in her classes at the Academy Ketterson said. The Academy has 4,286 cadets 506 of them women. Academy officials have taken Steps in recent months to fight sexual harassment in the Wake of a Federal study released in october that found most women cadets reporting that they Are subjected to de meaning remarks about women. Members of the Academy s wings of Blue Parachute team were recently punished after two women cadets complained they were sexually harassed Dur ing a practice session. In 1991, six cadets were dismissed after an incident in which cadets hid in a closet and watched a classmate have sex with a female Cadet who was unaware of their presence. That same year a senior Cadet pleaded no contest to raping a woman in a Colorado College dormitory and was placed on probation. Canada denies Gay worker family related Job Benefit Ottawa a a homosexual Federal employee does not qualify forthe same family related Job benefits As a heterosexual worker the supreme court of Canada ruled thursday. The court decided 4-3 that Brian Mossop a Federal translator from to Ronto was not eligible for a paid Day of leave in june 1985 to attend his Lover s father s funeral. Federal employees get the Day off to attend funerals of members of their immediate families including fathers in Law of married heterosexuals. The decision is the High court s first on homosexual rights. The supreme court said that under the Canadia human rights act Horr sexual Cou Ples do not constitute a family. But the court said the decision should not be interpreted As mean ing that homosexual couples canno constitute a family for the purposes of. Legislation other than the Canadia human rights  Mossop was re fused bereavement leave to attend the funeral of Ken Ponert s father. Mos sop and Popert had lived together for eight years jointly owned a Home and had a sexual relationship. Mossop complained to the Canad an human rights commission. The Canadian human rights Tri Bunal concluded Mossop was discriminated against but the Federal court of Appeal overturned that ruling