European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A a a a 1 a. Saturday August 7, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9clinton sends Gerald Ford to soothe ruffled belgians from wire reports Brussels Belgium a former president Gerald Ford will attend the funeral of King Baudouin today after Washington a original Choice former vice president Walter Mondale was criticized As slighting the nation. . Sources in Brussels said Friday that food and his wife Betty would attend the funeral Ford a Republican was president from 1974 to 1977. But the announcement came too late to appease the Media Here. Quot Only the a great. And Mondale a was the headline in the newspaper la Libre Belgique calling the decision the Quot Mondale Gaffe. Mondale a Democrat was vice president during the Carter administration. President Clinton recently named him ambassador to Japan. La Libre Belgique noted Japan was sending # emperor Akihito and Queen Elizabeth ii of Britain was representing her country at today a funeral. Quot Clinton sends a Man from the third rank a complained Het Belang Van Limburg in a front Page Story about the Mondale  gives up drink Sydney Australia a a hard Riding Cowboy has Given up hard drinking after his horse failed to outrun a police car. Gene Cetinich 46, told the courier mail Friday he was arrested on july 18 for Drunken Riding after a Rodeo in Makeeba 600 Miles North of Brisbane. A he galloped away when officers ordered him to Stop. A police car with sirens and lights activated followed in hot Pursuit until the horse slipped and fell on his fleeing Cowboy. The horse was unharmed. Cetinich who was fined 370 australian dollars $250 . In the Makeeba magistrates court on thursday suffered a bruised  urges beatification Castel Gandolfo Italy a Pope John Paul ii marked the 15th anniversary of the death of Pope Paul i on Friday by calling for his predecessor to be beatified As soon As possible. John Paul greeted several dozen Well wishers As he walked the Short distance from his vacation residence to celebrate a special mass in the tiny Parish Church in the Lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo South of Rome. In Brief remarks John Paul noted the beatification process was opened by the Vatican on May 11. Quot the Hope is that the lord allows us to see As soon As possible Paul i Quot raised to the honors of the altars a the Pope said.5 die in Ecuador crash Guayaquil Ecuador a two american scientists and three ecuadorean died when their plane crashed while flying too Low Over a Remote Forest in Central Ecuador police said. The scientists were identified As ornithologist Ted Parker and botanist Alwyn Gentry of conservation International in Washington. Also killed was ecologist Eduardo Aspiazu of the nature foundation but the names of the others were not immediately available from police. Parker a wife Jacqueline Case was hospitalized with a broken  in Guayaquil about 170 Miles Southwest of Quito police said. Two other ecuadorean also survived the crash. The americans had hired the plane to Fly Over the Congon Forest Reserve North of  found in pizza oven Surrey British Columbia a Royal Canadian mounted police investigators said thursday whoever cooked a body in a pizza oven had keys to the pizza parlor. L they said there was no sign of forced entry at the take out restaurant in Surrey. Pieces of a Corpse were found on trays in the oven wednesday night after a passerby reported seeing smoke. Police have already interviewed management and staff from the pizza place but detectives said they done to have a suspect. Detectives were still studying the charred remains and said once they Luniow who the victim is it could Lead them to the killer. �?o1 thought i have seen As Many strange things As i could a inspector Larry Gallagher said. Quot but this probably is the most bizarre Case i be Ever seen. Hiroshima stands still to recall atomic attack Tokyo apr forty eight years to the minute after hell rained Down from the Cool morning skies in the worlds first atomic bombing Hiroshima fell silent Friday. Trains came to a halt and 45,000 people gathered at ground Zero now peace memorial Park. They bowed their Heads for one minute in memory of those killed by the bombing that devastated the City at 8 15 . On aug. 6, 1945, and ushered in the age of nuclear weapons. The four ton bomb that exploded Over Hiroshima a with the Power of about 13 Kilotons 13,000 tons of int was the first atomic weapon used in War. More than 71,000 people were killed. A second atomic attack on Nagasaki thrice Days later killed More than 70,000 people. Japan surrendered unconditionally to the United states on aug. 15, ending world War ii. Quot since the tragedy that befell Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapons have not been used nor have they been exploded accidentally a Hiroshima mayor Takashi Hiraoka said. Quot yet there is no guarantee that such things will never happen in the  he called on world leaders to eliminate All nuclear weapons by 2000. He spoke after the silence and tolling of Bells from a podium flanked by yellow and White chrysanthemums. Behind him stood the skeletal dome of a bomb wrecked building left unreconstructed As a chilling reminder of the destruction. Issuing Quot peace declarations has become an annual summer ritual in Hiroshima a City of 1 million that has risen from the scorched Earth of the bombing to stand once again As a bustling commercial Center. Hiroshima officials have been accused in the past of glossing Over the events that led to the bombing and stressing Only the suffering inflicted upon its citizens. The korean residents Union in Japan criticized the City thursday for not paying enough attention to non japanese victims of the bomb. About 20,000 koreans most of whom were brought to Japan As forced labourers were killed in Hiroshima. Hiraoka addressed those criticisms in his speech urging Japan a government to Quot improve the Way we educate future generations about the history of the atomic bombing and the War. A we honestly acknowledge and sincerely regret that our nation in the past during its colonial Rule and in wartime activities inflicted on people through the protesters lie on the ground around a world War u bomb wrecked building during a demonstration in Hiroshima marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing. Asia Pacific Region severe hardships the scars of which remain deep in their hearts a he said. Japan scentral government does appear to be finally addressing orc forthrightly its past Militarist exploits. Morihiro Hosokawa who is expected to become prime minister soon said he Hopes to make Clearing the wartime slate priority. Hosokawa a Grandfather a prime minister during the War committed suicide before facing a War crimes tribunal. This week the government admitted that Japan forced thousands of asian european and japanese women into sexual servitude at front line brothels during the War. Until last year the government denied any involvement. It has still not offered to compensate the women. Last russian unit pulls out of Poland Warsaw Poland up the last russian military contingent left Poland on Friday ending 48 years of what poles considered an occupation of their Homeland by up to 60,000 soldiers. The departure of the squad was delayed by four Days because of a conflict Over the location of a 30-Pcrson russian military Mission. The Mission will stay in Poland to Monitor the withdrawal of Post soviet troops from Eastern Germany through Poland. The poles want the Mission housed in the russian embassy while the russian Side insists that the Mission be located elsewhere. Russian Gen. Leonid Kovalev commander of the russian troops in Poland had originally said the troops would stay until the Mission Issue was resolved. But he gave the order for the pullout after the polish government said there would be no talks until the departure was Complete. However Kovalev left some soldiers behind at the Rem Bertow base which he earlier suggested should be made into the Mission site regardless of polish wishes. Quot some soldiers have stayed in rcmbert6w until the problem is solved a Kovalev said. But polish Gen. Zdislava Strowski who supervised the stationing of russian troops said he was satisfied with the pullout. A common sense has won a he said. Kovalev presented flashlights to some 30 officers and watches to 340 soldiers As presents before they boarded a train at Rem Bertow located in Warsaw. Then the communications squad paraded in front of him on the railway platform. No residents of Warsaw came to Sec the soldiers off although newspapers reported the hour of departure on their front pages. But Ostrowski was on hand to watch the departure. Ostrowski said that the pullout paved the Way for the opening of the official talks Between russian and polish foreign ministries. Russian ambassador Yuri Kohl cd said his government will not accept the idea to place the Mission in the embassy. Quot we have 220 diplomats and Only three Telephone lines a he said. He said Russia wants the Mission to be in one of its former offices in Warsaw where there Are enough telephones to be in touch with various railway stations in Russia Poland and Germany. He said Poland would be paid $42 million annually for the transit. There were mixed feelings about the soldiers who had Little to say to reporters. Quot i am from the Leningrad Region and now i will be closer to my Home a said one Soldier. Quot i am taking Back Home positive impressions from  the private who served in Poland for 18 months would not identify himself. A Small group of unarmed russian soldiers is still in Poland to guard buildings in Rem Bertow and at the russian command at Legnica in Southeastern Poland. Under an agreement signed by Poland and Russia last May the last russian Soldier is expected to leave the country by the end of november