European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse U. N commission Assai is Sudan s rights violations Geneva a the . Human rights commission thursday accused Sudan a government of widespread executions torture detention and expulsions and for the first time ordered a Public examination of the rights situation in Sudan. The 53-nation body voted to appoint a special investigator under a procedure traditionally reserved for nations with the worst rights records. Until now Sudan has been studied behind closed doors. A representative of Sudan a Muslim governed country of 26 million people that has been cited by watchdog groups Tor serious rights violations rejected the charges As Quot totally later wednesday the commission also voted to condemn Iraq for a massive violations of the gravest nature resulting in an at pervasive order of repression and oppression which is sustained by Broad based discrimination and widespread it asked the . Secretary general to Quot take the necessary measures to deploy a team of human rights experts and monitors to Check reports of widespread atrocities. The commission also renewed investigations of Iran Cuba Haiti and Burma and condemned atrocities committed by Security forces trying to keep zairian dictator Mobutu scuse seko in Power. The United states led the Effort this year to increase pressure on Sudan a islamic military dictatorship by pushing for a Public investigation. . Delegate Kenneth Blackwell said rights violations in 1992 and Early this year had worsened. Blackwell said there was a Quot reign of terror by Security forces fighting rebels in Southern Sudan where the people Are predominantly Christian or animist. He said government troops had executed hundreds of people including sudanese workers of International Relief agencies in Juba. Russia joined the West in pushing through the Resolution. The Resolution expressed Quot deep concern at the serious human rights violations in the Sudan including summary executions detentions without due process forced displacement of persons and it urged Sudan a government and rebels to allow Relief agencies Access to the hundreds of thousands of victims of famine and civil War in the South. Mistaken identity Marine col. Fred Feck holds up two toy guns taken troops serving in Somalia Are having trouble Distin from somali children wednesday in Mogadishu. Gushing Between the toys and the real family member reportedly slated As envoy from wire reports Dublin Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith sister of sen. Edward m. Kennedy dmass., is expected to be nominated As the next . Ambassador to Ireland the Irish times reported thursday. Quoting unidentified sources in Washington the Dublin newspaper said president Clinton is expected to announce her nomination on St. Patrick a Day March 17, when he meets with Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds in Washington. Boston newspapers carried similar reports thursday also citing unidentified sources. There has been no official confirmation of the reports either in Washington or in Dublin. Smith 65, lives in new York and is a frequent visitor to Ireland. She has four children. A son or. William Kennedy Smith was acquitted in december 1991 of a charge that he raped a woman at a family Home in student accused London a a 15-year-old boy was in custody thursday for butting his headmistress in the face and breaking her nose in two places the daily Telegraph reported. The boy who cannot be identified attacked the teacher after she told him to Stop playing with a computer game in class the paper reported. Magistrates in the Southern Welsh town of Newport were told wednesday that the boy had been told to switch off the machine and move on to his next class. When he ignored the 39-year-old teachers request she switched the computer off herself. The paper said the teen Ager then threw the computer and to Monitor on to the floor grabbed the teacher and pushed her Over a desk. He then smiled Down at her and butted her twice in the face. Another teacher dragged the boy off the shaken explosives found Moscow a a false bomb threat at Mcdonald a in downtown Moscow forced an evacuation and Early closing of the popular restaurant wednesday a police official said. A bomb squad inspected the restaurant located on the first floor of an apartment building and determined there were no explosives said Alexander Litvinov a duty officer at Moscow a police Headquarters. Mcdonald s officials could not immediately be reached for s is setting sail Helsinki Finland a Mcdonald a is going to sea. The first floating Mcdonald s fast food restaurant sets sail sunday on a new luxury passenger ferry that will Cross the Baltic sea daily Between Helsinki and Stockholm Sweden. Silja Europa with room for 3,750 passengers and 350 cars will have a Mcdonald Sas Well As several gourmet restaurants and boutiques in its Central shopping mall Silja line officials said pact on bases report says by Ray Rowden. Washington Bureau Washington Turkey has expressed an interest in renegotiating a 1980 defense pact that allows . Forces to use military bases there a state department official said thursday. No formal request has been received the official said. But a spokesman for turkeys foreign ministry told reporters wednesday that the government wanted to revise its defense and economic cooperation agreement with the United Stales. A we expect to make changes that reflect the new realities on the ground there a a the state department official said speaking on condition of anonymity. A a the military is in the process of drawing Down. Our presence in Ankara and Izmir is getting smaller and we be closed some smaller the Pentagon is expected to reveal plans to close More bases both in the states and overseas today. Officials at the state and defense departments agreed that military cooperation remains an important Clement of . Policy with Impact on the Middle East As Well As Southern Europe. Defense department officials said . Military forces spent More than $450 million in direct support of personnel and installations in Turkey in fiscal 1991, the most recent year for which figures Are available. The military paid contractors in Turkey an additional $243 million. Pentagon figures show Turkey also benefited from $500 million in . Military assistance in 1991 and had military sales agreements totalling $220 million. The United states views its relationship with the turkish government As a very positive a according to the state department official. A we done to expect this to be a full renegotiation with drastic changes in costs or commitments a the official said. The current agreement was signed in 1980 and Hasni to undergone significant changes since 1986. Renewal of the pact has been virtually automatic although there Are terms permitting revisions. In Ciurlik a in Southern Turkey has grow n in importance to the United states As the military reduces its presence in other parts of the country. In Ciurlik serve As an important staging Point for bombers attacking Iraq during the Pei Sian Gulf War. Operation provide Comfort fore have supported iraqis kurdish Refuge out of in Ciurlik since the end of Gulf War the original agreement gave the uni de states Access to 12 installations ii eluding listening posts used to Monius soviet activity during the cold a eight of those 12 have closed. The closure of the army a listener Post at Synop was announced in augus in december the Pentagon announced would return 25 Small Sites to Turkey ii eluding 14 that were associated with Ai Kara air station. Contrib sting to this report the associated press
