European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 3, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 11 villagers sift through rubble sunday after their Home was destroyed in last week s israeli bombardment of South Lebanon. Lebanese troops May be sent to help curb guerrilla activity Beirut Lebanon a the army command or dered lebanese troops monday to prepare for deploy ment in the  areas of War torn Southern Lebanon military sources said. The move if approved by the United nations would give the army the Power top event guerrillas from using the villages As staging Points for attacks on the israeli occupied Security zone which Israel has Long demanded. The lebanese government has not decided to ban guerrilla attacks on israeli troops in Southern Lebanon which it considers an occupying Force. But it has said i opposes the guerrillas firing of rockets into Northern Israel. Israel launched its air sea and artillery attacks last week in Southern Lebanon after guerrillas killed seven israeli soldiers in the Security zone last month. The attacks last week killed 140 people wounded 496 and displaced 500,000. Two israeli civilians were killed and 24 were injured in Northern Israel in the guerrillas retaliatory rocket barrages. The we Klong fighting As halted saturday by a  cease fire two Days ahead of Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher s Middle East swing promoting an Lith round of Arab israeli peace  was in Cairo on monday. Military sources said troops at Lebanon s Southern ports of Saida and Tyre were being prepared for do  ploy ment in  areas once the United nations approves an arrangement in which its  cars would work with lebanese troops. The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said prime minister Rafic Hariri called . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali overnight and obtained his approval of the move. They said the lebanese deployment would begin Tak ing place after coordination meetings with officers of the . Interim Force in Lebanon. One source said the deployment would not be immediate. On sunday however lebanese troops began to move into Southern villages set up checkpoints search for weapons and confiscate rockets of the Type the guerrillas had fired during last week s hostilities. In the Southern town of Kharouf bearded Young men of the iranian backed Hezbollah or party of god watched with dismay sunday As lebanese soldiers erected a checkpoint at the Entrance to the shiite mus Lim Village. Beat it a Soldier shouted at the Hezbollah guerrillas. When one of the Young men argued the Soldier pointed his  m-16 Rifle at them checked their identification and ordered them to leave. The . Force stationed in South Lebanon sincej978, is made up of 5,300 troops drawn from 10 nations France Ireland Sweden Finland Norway Ghana Fiji Nepal Poland and Italy. Group protests Trade embargo against Cuba Mexico City a two plan loads of Ameri cans and canadians opposed to the . Trade embargo against Cuba flew to Havana on sunday while about150 tons of Aid were being loaded onto a cuban ship at a mexican port. The official cuban news Agency Prensa Latina said246 members of the pastors Foi each Convoy which crossed the . Border at Laredo Texas on thursday flew to Havana from Tampico Mexico in the afternoon. Fourteen members of the group continued a hunger strike sunday inside a school bus that was impounded in Laredo by . Customs officials. They began the hunger strike thursday to demand that they be allowed to donate the bus to a Home for the aged in Cuba. Pastors for peace collected the Aid in about 130 .and Canadian cities to help the Caribbean Island nation which is suffering from a serious economic crisis and to protest the 33-year-old . Trade embargo. They crossed the Border thursday in cars and on foot carrying what they said were food Medicine school supplies computers and other goods. Customs officials said they made a videotape of the crossing and could bring charges later if the goods Are shipped to Cuba in violation of . Law. Prensa Latina and the mexican government new Agency no Timex said that 90 tons from the . Group and 60 tons donated by mexican supporters of Cuba were being loaded sunday onto the cuban ship Picardel Rio in Tampico. The ship was due to leave for Cuba on monday. In Cuba the goods Are to be distributed through the mar tin Luther King or. Memorial Center a Church organization. . Law allows shipments of some Aid but not to the cuban government. . Flies Relief supplies to flood victims in Nepal from wire reports Katmandu Nepal a . Air Force Jet carried 25 tons of Relief supplies to Katmandu Over the weekend for victims of floods that have killed about 1,000 people in the Himalayan kingdom., the shipment of water cans emergency tools blankets and medical  was flown in from warehouses of the . Department of defens humanitarian assistance program in Okinawa Japan. The supplies were handed Over to inv pales Home ministry official Srikanta Regmi by the  s military attache. The United states also has agreed to help Nepal repair Bridges that were washed away during last week s floods and landslides which have left 966people dead and 799 missing or presumed dead. The floods destroyed houses an damaged crop Worth $200 million and left More than a million Nepal Csc homeless. Princess father Steps Down Tokyo i Hisashi Owada whose daughter Masako recently married Crown Prince Haruhito has stepped Down As Japan s top career Diplomat Foran advisory position in the foreign ministry officials said monday. Owada s Transfer out of the vice minister ship of the foreign ministry a politically important Post had been expected since his eldest daughter announced her engagement to the Crown Prince in february. They were wed june 9.ministry officials played Down the importance of Owada s family tics and said that then voc effective sunday was a routine personnel  Owada assumed the Post in August 1991, the tenure is generally for two years but can vary. Crown Princess Masako 29, gave up a promising career in the foreign ministry to marry the Prince Georgia won t take rubles Tbilisi Georgia in response to Russia invalidation of old rubles Georgia decided to Stop accepting the russian currency As of monday an withdraw from the Ruble  but Many of Georgia s 5 million people Are furious at the government s offer to Exchange old rubles for cheaply printed georgian coupons at the rate of one to one. Things Are so messed up that nobody will sell anything at the moment because they Don t Trust the Money they get in return grumbled Lalibai Lidzy a Tbilisi homemaker the move by Russia s Central Bank to void All rubles printed before 1993 has Hurt the other former soviet republics but none More than Georgia whose War torn Economy is now in chaos. Priest pleads guilty in thefts Melbourne Australia a roman Catholic priest pleaded guilty monday to stealing the equivalent of $1.25 million from charities to pay fora lavish lifestyle. The Rev. Vincent kiss 61, entered the plea whence appeared in the county court on seven charges of theft Between 1984 and 1990.each charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Prosecutor Kevin Silbert told the court that kiss who managed Charity Trust funds enjoyed a lifestyle of the Rich and  said kiss bought a House in the Philippines equipped another Home in Melbourne with a Whirlpool Bath and spent thousands of dollars on landscape gardening. He made regular overseas trips and often hired chauffeur driven limousines. Cardinal Dies in Germany Vatican City Cardinal Guido Del Mestri a retired Vatican Diplomat died monday in Nurnberg Germany the Vatican announced. In was 82. Del Mestri who had served from 1975 to 198-1 a the papal envoy to West Germany was made a Cardinal in 1991. A Brief Vatican announcement said the Cardina died in a Nurnberg Hospital. His Vatican diplomatic career began in 1940 an took him to postings in Yugoslavia Lebanon Romania Syria Indonesia Kenya Mexico an Canada. His death reduced to 148 the number of member sin the College of cardinals. Of these 100 Are under 80 years old and eligible to vote for a new Pope