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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 23, 1993 world the stars and stripes . Proposes troops engineers to Aid Haiti by the new York times Washington the United states has offered to Send about 350 troops and military engineers to Haiti As the Caribbean nation returns to democracy senior . Officials say. Clinton administration and . Officials made the pledge to Haiti s exiled president Jean Bertrand Aris tide and to the country s ruling military leadership. The vow was made during the negotiations that led to an agreement on a political settlement Early this month. The role of the haitian military was to be among the topics discussed thursday at the White House by Aris tide president Clinton and Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher. The purpose of the meeting is to bring some pressure to Bear on Aristide to follow through on the governors Island agreement one senior administration official said. The internationally backed agreement signed at a n in one of London Gays London a a suspect has been charged in one of a series of killings that targeted homosexuals and Gays in London have expressed their Relief. Colin Ireland 39, was charged wednesday with kill ing 33-year-old Andrew Collier in Early june. Ireland who was arrested tuesday appeared briefly in court thursday but was not required to enter a plea. He was ordered held for one week pending another court appearance. Since March 8, five men including an american have been strangled or suffocated and their remains found at their Homes. In each Case the killer Tele phoned police a National newspaper or a suicide hot line with precise details of the crime. He also threat ened to kill a new victim every week. News reports said Ireland apparently came Forward after police published a Security camera picture of a Man walking behind the fifth victim Emanuel Spiteri at Charing Cross train station shortly before his death. Ireland was described Only As being unemployed and of no fixed  the news reports said he has de Nied murder. Four of the victims were known to be homosexual. Police say they have no evidence that the american Perry Bradley i 35, was Gay. But the killing of Brad Ley a chemical company official from Sulphur Springs Texas has been linked to the others because of the Way he died and the physical evidence at the scene. The other victims were Christopher Dunn a 37-year old librarian found strangled at his Home May 30, and Peter Walker a 45-year-old theater director who died while tied to his bed. The police striving to overcome longstanding hostility and suspicion in the Gay Community assigned a homosexual officer to the investigation and have actively sought Gay cooperation. Governors Island in new York Harbor Calls for the restoration to Power of Aristide who was expelled from the country in 1991. The agreement also involves an ambitious Aid pro Gram under which . Military advisers Are to retrain the haitian military and create a new police Force Sepa rate from the army. Under the division of labor worked out by the United nations the United states is to take the major responsibility for increasing the professionalism of the military with a team of 50 to 60 military trainers. France Canada and perhaps some Caribbean countries will Send 250 to 500 police monitors and trainers to help build the country s police and set up a military Academy. The United states is also prepared to Send a Sepa rate contingent of about 300 army engineers As part of a larger team to work on military construction projects including the building of Barracks for officers officials said. The american troops will require interpreters. Sales take a jump a shopper in Sydney Australia inspects a Novelty at a neighbourhood supermarket Kangaroo meat cuts from Australia s National Symbol went on open Sale forthe first time wednesday at shops in the state of new South Wales and sold out almost immediately. Butch ers say Kangaroo meat appeals to the diet conscious be cause it is 99 percent lean whereas pork beef an Lamb can be 14 percent. Battered Miyazawa decides to quit Tokyo a prime minister Kuchi Miyazawa taking responsibility for the Liberal democrats historic election defeat announced thursday he would resign. Miyazawa made the announcement which set off a Battle to succeed him As head of Japan s dominant political party at a special meeting of his party s legislators. Leaders of the lip top factions have already stepped Forward As candidates. But the men former foreign minister Michio Watanabe and Hiroshi Mitsu Zuka Are better known for their skill at backroom Deal ing than their Zeal in tackling corruption. That could Hurt their chances in Japan s political Cli mate which is charged with tales of scandal and voter resentment. Japan s opposition parties won support in sunday s elections by attacking the ruling party s fail ure to enact political Reform. Miyazawa told the legislators that he was resigning to take responsibility for the party s setback in which it lost control of parliament s lower House for the first time since 1955. Many of you faced a very severe Battle. We lost Many important comrades Miyazawa said. As party president this is my responsibility. To make that responsibility Clear i announce my intention to  Miyazawa will keep his posts As president of the lip and prime minister until successors Are named. 73 illegal aliens ordered to leave great Britain from wire report London the government on thursday ordered 73 illegal immigrants who were arrested while working in an Orchard to leave the  were among 81 people arrested by police and immigration officials wednesday in what the government called the biggest raid of its kind. Those arrested were 55czechs, 21 poles two people from the former soviet Republic of Georgia two bolivians and one peruvian. The Home office said most were expected to leave the country voluntarily within the next two Days. A spokesman speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom said 14 were told that they must leave or face deportation. Eight of those arrested were freed and May remain in Britain. The workers were arrested in Kent Southern England. Mushroom death probed Moscow the death of a woman who ate poisonous mushrooms near Voronezh in Central Russia has touched off alarm for a second straight summer in a country where mushroom gathering is a National pastime. The Star Tass news Agency reported the death wednesday. The Region lies about 250 Miles Southof Moscow. At least 24 russians and 40 ukrainians died from mushroom poisoning last summer and Hundred were hospitalized itar Tass reported then. Lovesick teen Falls from Jet Suva Fiji a 17-year-old boy who could not ear to be separated from his Girlfriend fell to his de the from a wheel compartment of the air plane taking her Home to Britain. Police said thursday that the body of Mohamme Shamin was found wednesday at Nadi International Airport 60 Miles West of Suva. It would have been his 18th birthday. The youth tried to Stow away july 16 in the wheel compartment of the Boeing 747 carrying his Girlfriend Lurisha. The body of the ethnic Indian fijian National was found five Days later about 30 Yards from the end of the runway. Lurisha whose surname and age were not known had been Hying with relatives on Fiji. He met Shamin while both were attending the same Muslim school. In a letter left with a Friend Shamim wrote i will Farewell Lurisha at the Airport in the shortest possible time and then put my plan into action. I will fix myself near the wheels of the Jet and Ashe aircraft rises to the sky i will be pulled inside the undercarriage with the  acknowledging the risk he asked his Friend to search for his dead body if he was t heard from after two Days. Burned Man claims attack Grenoble France a Man who claimed that assailants set him on fire drove to an emergency room and collapsed 80 percent of his body covered with third degree Burns. Benvenuto Sanchez 23, remained in a coma thursday at a Hospital Burn unit in Lyon As police Inthis Alpine town investigated. Sanchez drove to the emergency room Earl wednesday Clad Only in socks and underwear. All the exposed surfaces of his flesh had been burned. Before losing consciousness Sanchez told the doctor that they threw gasoline on me and lit me up police reported. Police have no suspects and know Little of Sanchez who lives in a Grenoble suburb. They said they think he was attacked in the mountains around Grenoble but they have no idea How far he May have driven. Fugitive mob Boss nabbed Palermo Sicily keeping the pressure on the mob police on thursday captured a fugitive Boss considered in line to take Over the sicilian mafia. Salvatore Cangemi 51, wanted on charges of mafia association was stopped by police As he drove through Palermo at Dawn. The mafia leadership has been battered by series of police strikes particularly the arrest in january of Salvatore Toto Riina the mob s Boss of Bosses who had evaded capture for 23 years  
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