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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday july 29, 1993 world the stars and stripes Lage 9 British museum treasures recovered after break in from wire reports London police on tuesday recovered roman treasures stolen from the British museum last week and arrested three men one of them As heralded the museum a second time. Pieces of roman jewelry and Silver coins were found in a raid on a House in North London Scotland Yard said. Police recovered other jewelry including. Brooches and rings from the Man arrested Early tuesday at the museum after staff alerted police of another break in a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said. The museum valued the stolen items All from the late roman Empire at $372,000. Kuwait seeks joint Force Manama Bahrain Kuwait is seeking to create a joint defense Force of persian Gulf nations kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheik Saad Al Abdiilah Al Sabah said wednesday. The proposed new Force would draw army Navy and air Force units from Gulf states he said at a new conference in Manama. A similar proposal soon after the 1991 persian Gulf War also called for troops from Syria and Egypt. But Gulf countries hesitated to bring egyptian and syrian forces onto their territories in  Sheik who serves As Kuwait s prime minister said Kuwait has been soliciting support from other Gulf states for the idea. He said the Issue would be brought up at the next Summit of the Gulf cooperation Council scheduled for december. Al 6 fatality identified Seoul South Korea a Pennsylvania Pilot was killed i the runway collision of two . Air Force f-16jet fighters in Western Korea .military officials said wednesday. A statement issued by the . 8th army said it. Cot. Ralph a Gardner 38, of Milton pa., died tuesday when his Jet collided with another single seat f-16 during a training Mission at the . Base at Kunsan. The other Pilot survived the crash and was released after treatment the statement said. It said an investigation was under Way. Anti rightist raid nets 20 Berlin police investigating Neo nazi activity arrested 20 people in a crackdown at a tent Camp in a Forest in Eastern Germany where Ultra rightist propaganda material was found officials said  said the arrests were made monday at a Camp of the association of patriotic youths which is being investigated for possible links with the recently banned Neo nazi patriotic association of  officials said about 60 people from various parts of Germany including children had Bee camping in a Forest in the Eastern German Federal state of Thuringer since july 17. French Farmers rampage Toulouse France hundreds of Farmers undercut by cheaper imports blocked trucks loaded with Spanish melons czech meat and chilean apples then dumped the cargo and set fire to it before Dawn  was the latest incident in an offensive by militant Farmers demanding More Protection As the government engages in talks aimed at lowering world Trade  said about 400 Farmers in the southwestern Region of France confronted the trucks at freeway toll Booths near Toulouse South of  10 trucks which also contained Spanish wine and new zealand kiwis were emptied and their contents torched. Cameras set at missile site Baghdad Iraq  weapons inspectors installed surveillance cameras tuesday at one of the two missile Sites the United nations wants to Monitor but the cameras will not be turned on for several  inspectors team Leader Bui Eckert said iraqi cooperation was really  we have Hung three cameras at one site today Eckert of Dayton Ohio said a Baghdad after spending 11 hours at the site. I am Happy with the Progress we have  waste May taint 4,400 Sites in Germany Bonn Germany a the government has listed 4,400 Sites potentially contaminated by military waste some of it dating to world War i. The Post cold War Survey the first of its kind in Germany was sent to the 16 state governments this month and urged them to begin an immediate investigation of 630 Sites that Are thought to be highly danger Ous. Many of the other Sites also require cleanup but less urgently. Who will  the multimillion Dollar Tab i anyone s guess. The Catalon of former armament Sites containing explosives fuel and chemicals mostly left by nazi dicta Tor Adolf Hitler s War Industry was the result of a three year $40,000 search through . And German archives. Some of the Sites were known but few of the 1,700 locations in Eastern Germany had been looked into previously said Hans Jurgen Nantke spokesman for the Federal environmental office which commissioned the study. Although there is nothing As lethal As the millions of mines sown in the soil of nations such As Afghanistan and Cambodia the report could Lead to some Nasty expensive surprises. You Don t know when for example a Container of chemicals might begin to leak into ground water Nantke said. World War Hera explosives still Are found during construction projects around Germany sometimes forcing authorities to close off neighbourhoods during removal. Authorities in Hessen state estimate that they will end up spending $40 million to clean a Reservoir built Over a site where the Nobel company produced Dyna mite from 1941 to 1943, said Renate Gunzenhauser a state environmental official. In 1987, the state began cleanup work fearing that higher than average Luke Mia rates among 300,000 people who use the water might be caused by the contamination. The government study begun in 1990, would have been impossible before the end of the cold War. East German War Industry records were closed and Access was restricted to Western military archives said Cay Friemuth an environment ministry spokesman. A Bulldozer tuesday ploughs land in Valencia Spain before the area is hosed Down in the Hunt for a scorpion. Spanish declare War on scorpion Valencia Spain firefighters hosed Down land near a popular Beach tuesday in Hopes of drowning a missing scorpion that allegedly escaped during a botched robbery attempt on the Van of two scottish circus performers police said the news that a scorpion packing a vicious sting and 100 eggs was Loose near Al Puig Beach on Spain s Eastern Mediterranean coast caused panic among bathers and a Field Day in the nation s Media. Firefighters earlier tried burning the 300-Square Yard Sandy area to flush out the missing scorpion named woman a poisonous member of a species that can grow up to 7 inches Long. Circus performers Cal and Jane Calini told police that they had recovered nine tarantulas and the scorpion s male partner a pandanus Imperator named Bastard late Friday shortly after a thief had abandoned them in their Box near the Van. A police spokesman said authorities Are holding Bastard because the Valinis do not have the proper papers to possess such creatures at least in Spain. It was not Clear what role the spiders and scor pions played in the Valinis act. Suspect arrested in boy s strangulation London up police said wednesday that a Man has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a 9-year-old boy who was strangled to death and left naked in a Park Over the weekend. A thames Valley police spokesman inspector Den Nis Evernden said the Man was arrested tuesday night and was being held for further questioning wednesday about the killing of akhlaq Ahmed who was strangled while his father and Uncle watched Cricket nearby in a Park in Slough a suburban town West of London. Police tuesday found the boy s clothes near a Stream not far from where his body was dumped sunday. The boy disappeared shortly after telling his father Mohammed Razzaq that he was going to a Public restroom in the Park. His naked body was hidden in Bush is just so Yards from swings where he had been playing earlier in the Day. He was not reported missing for several hours because his father returned Home thinking the boy was being watched by an Uncle. Forensic tests showed the boy had been hit in the face or smashed against a Wall be fore being strangled. Authorities were Uncertain whether the slaying was sexually related  
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