European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 27, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 11 parasite linked to animals found in new Sealander from wire reports Wellington new zealand a parasite that was previously believed to appear Only in wild animals has been discovered in a human being new zealand researchers said monday the parasite Tricinella pseudo Pitalis was found in an unidentified new zealand woman. The finding was made by Victoria University biologists or. Ruth Ainsworth and or. John Andrews and Wellington Hospital neurologist def Davi Abernethy. The woman is believed to have contracted the parasite when she visited the australian Island state of Tasmania in 1985. The researchers said they think she either ingested it or got it through Contact with focal matter of wild animals. The woman had suffered from a mildly painful and debilitating illness Over the past seven years that had baffled doctors and left her unable to exercise. She has since recovered after treatment the researchers said. They did not give More details of her illness or treatment. Andrews said the parasite is related to Tricinella spirals the parasite that causes trichinosis a sometimes fatal disease that can be contracted from uncooked  advisory dropped Manila. Philippines the United states said monday that it has removed the Central philippine resort Island of Obracay from its list of areas that . Travellers should avoid. . Embassy spokesman Frank Jenista said Obracay famous Tor its White Sand beaches had been included in the travel advisory for More than a year because of concern Over High crime on the Island. Train crashes into bus Jakarta Indonesia a passenger train slammed into a bus at a crossing in Eastern Java killing at least 15 people and severely injuring 20, a. Newspaper reported sunday. The mass circulation Kompas quoted col. Edi Sukarno chief of the local police As saying the crossing Gate had been left open by the guard who apparently was sleeping. Kompas said the guard had been detained for interrogation. The intercity bus was carrying 38 people when the Jakarta surabaya train hit it at Dawn saturday in Sombang District about 516 Miles East of Jakarta the paper added. It said 11 of the injured were soldiers bound for their Post in the seaport of surabaya. Iraq seeking . Help to halt . Provocation Baghdad Iraq a Iraq accused the us. Air Force on monday of provoking Iraq by violating its air space and asked the United nations to halt such intrusions. The protest came As a team of . Weapons inspectors left Baghdad for two iraqi missile test Sites South of the capital to prepare to install surveillance cameras. Iraq s refusal to install the cameras earlier this month had brought Baghdad closer to a possible Mili tary confrontation with the Western allies. The iraqi protest followed a . Missile strike sat urday against an iraqi anti aircraft site in Southern Iraq. The strike was carried out after an american Jet reportedly detected that it was being tracked by radar. Baghdad denied sunday that its radar had locked onto the Jet and denied reports that it had returned fire Locking on with radar is considered a hostile act. On june 29, a . Jet fired a missile at an iraqi a radar site in Basra province after radar targeted two patrol planes. Allied warplanes have patrolled a no Fly zone Over Southern Iraq since August 1992 to protect shiite mus Lim rebels in Iraq s Southern marshes. The rebels fled there after a failed uprising. Since then Allied planes have flown thousands of missions to ensure that iraqi aircraft do not Fly below the 32nd parallel where the rebels Are located. There is also a no Fly zone above the 36th parallel in Northern Iraq to protect iraqi kurd from attacks by the forces of iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Iraq has lodged a protest with the United nations Over the continuation of airspace violations by . Air Craft for provocation and reconnaissance purpose said a government statement issued in Baghdad. The statement said . Aircraft based in saudi Ara Bia and other . Facilities in the persian Gulf carried out As Many As 580 sorties Over Northern and Southern Iraq in the past two weeks. The inspection team is led by Bill Eckert 47, of Day ton. Ohio. He said his team would install the cameras today. We still have questions to work out with the iraqi government on technical aspects Eckert said monday. I want to give them time. We Are Here to  under a Compromise the cameras will be installed but not turned on until further talks Are held on Long term monitoring of Iraq s weapons of mass destruction As called for under 1991 persian Gulf War cease fire Bill Eckert right and other . Weapons inspectors arrive in Baghdad on sunday to install surveillance cameras at two iraqi missile test Sites. Agreements. Eckert said those negotiations would take place in new York in late August or Early september. On sunday the aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln and a Battle group of seven ships including a nuclear powered submarine cruised up the persian Gulf. Two of the support ships have Tomahawk cruise missiles Anavy spokeswoman said. The Abraham Lincoln group based in Alameda calif., replaces the Nimitz group which left the Region last month. The ships presence in the Gulf is part of a regular . Deployment in the area following the Gulf War. Major reportedly riled by ministers weak support London a prime minister John major told a reporter that three Cabinet ministers were bastards for providing Only lukewarm support for him during a parliamentary showdown last week a newspaper said sunday. The observer said major apparently did not know that a microphone was still on when he made the remarks Friday to an Independent television news reporter who had just interviewed him. The re Porter also did t know the microphone was still on the newspaper  hours before the interview major faced Down rebels from his conservative party and won a crucial vote of Confidence in the government s support for the maastricht treaty on european Unity. The newspaper said major did not name the Cabinet ministers in the conversation. In conducted the interview at British broadcasting corp. Facilities in major s office at no. 10 Downing St. The observer said the bbl was monitoring the conversation and bbl employees leaked a transcript. Conservative party chairman sir nor Man Fowler asked the bbl to investigate. The bbl said it was not aware of any transcript of the purported Conversa Tion. In said it would not comment on a private conversation. Major s office said it would have no comment. The prime minister threatened last week to Call a general election  conservative rebels supported the government s efforts to approve the Long delayed maastricht treaty. The treaty Calls for a common currency joint Central Bank and a United for eign and defense policy for the Community nations. It has been approved by 11 other european Community nations. Fears in Britain about being drawn into a Federal Type Europe have slowed the Union momentum. Major s threat worked with the government winning a Confidence vote in the House of commons 339-299. The vote cleared the Way for Britain s formal ratification of the pact. But it Cost major much Good will both inside his party and among voters. . Gives Blessing to new Asia Security plan Singapore a the United states on Mon Day endorsed the creation of a new Security arrange ment in Asia that asians foresee As the possible germ of one or several nato style defense pacts. It has a name the Asean regional forum but for new the architects and participants of the new arrangement Are vague about what it is or where it s going. Asean is the existing association of Southeast asian nations. Like other emerging organizations amour cd the world this forum As born in the cold War s end which left Asia and the Pacific facing Security concerns no longer kept in Check by the orderly division of the Region be tween allies of the old soviet Union and United states. Most of the Region now fears China s growing military Power and North Korea s nuclear ambitions Many Are nervous about Japan s economic might and its festering territorial dispute with Russia six regional nations Are contesting China s claims to South China sea islands some in the Region worry that the .-Japan Trade Dis Pute could develop into a military confrontation. To assuage such concerns Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher said monday we tied new regional Security dialogues to meet common challenges. This forum is most promising in this  at the opening of an annual asian for eign ministers meeting Christopher noted that by join ing this forum the Clinton administration was departing from its predecessor s opposition to an asian Security dialogue. The Bush administration was concerned that participation in such a forum could be perceived As pre  . Forces from the Region. Christopher said this was not the Clinton administration s intent much to the Relief of asians Tjo View the United states As a bulwark against China Japan and other regional threats. It is in America s interest to remain in gained in the Region said Singapore s foreign minister Wong Kan seng. In turn it is in our interest to do what we can to create conditions to ensure that the americans see that their future is tied to that of the