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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world sunday. October 31,1993 Kuwait judges delay Bush Case verdict Kuwait a a court saturday after the Brief court session Al Fahad postponed until Christmas the verdict of looking exhausted told reporters our 14 men implicated in an alleged iraqi Only concern is that no injustice is done piously flawed. Yorker Magazine said the Case was base Don circumstantial evidence that was co be elot to kill former president Bush during is visit to Kuwait. This is a big Case and care is needed to reach truth and Justice judge Salah Al Fahad of the state Security court said. The three judge panel hearing the Case has to study 1,700 pages of court Tran scripts before reaching a verdict he said. Christmas is not observed in islamic countries such As Kuwait. Therefore dec. 25 is a working Day in the emirate to an innocent  prosecutors charge most of the defendants were iraqi intelligence agents sent across the Iraq Kuwait Border with it said the Fri had no smoking gun directly linking iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein or any of his advisers to the alleged plot. The court has been hearing the Case in f a prison ment for two kuwaitis charged with trying to hide the other defendants. Human rights activists have expressed concern that the defendants would t get a fair trial because of the pervasive hatred and fear of Iraq a legacy of sad dam s 1990 invasion of the emirate. Explosives to kill Bush during his visit intermittently since june 5, with court a Kuwait has issued death sentences for a _ a 1. _ _ l_.2.j a. _ _ -._. A a. I. Of m. A �.iic�/1 its of off Etc i 11 of mine . Iraq has denied the accusation. Pointed lawyers defending the accused scores of iraqis palestinians stateless president Clinton cited the alleged there is no jury. Arabs and a few kuwaitis convicted of col murder plot As the reason for a . Mis in a september session prosecutors elaborating with the iraqi occupation Force Sile attack on iraqi intelligence head demanded the death sentence for 11 Ira which was expelled by .-led forces in quarters in Baghdad on june 27. Is and a kuwaiti accused of direct in Early 1991. Most of the sentences however but last week a report in the new evolvement. They Are seeking 10-year in have been commuted to life in prison. Arming disarming . Soldiers left in Mogadishu Somalia unload a Tanker truck from the cargo ship Denebola on Friday. Armoured equipment and support vehicles arrived in Somalia As part of the . Effort to bolster troop strength. Meanwhile an army ordinance disposal team set off a Remote control explosion Friday above that destroyed about 90,000 pounds of ammunition rockets and soviet made missiles taken from somalian gunmen. Subway Extension in London Given final go ahead London up officials gave final approval Friday to a $2.83 billion Extension to the London underground authorizing a huge project expected to create 22,000 new jobs by 1998 and help bail out the struggling Canary wharf office development Secretary of state for trans port John Macgregor gave final approval to extend the Jubilee line from Central London s Green Park to East London s Stratford Section. The project will also open up new service to the financially troubled Canary wharf Complex located in London s docklands area. Canary wharf a subsidiary of Canadian real estate giant olym Pia & York has had trouble attracting tenants because it currently lacks subway service to Central London. Macgregor said the 10-mile Extension to London s Jubilee line will represent one of Britain s largest construction projects As Well As the first major new underground line in London for a  Gorbachev rates below Stalin in poll Washington a Mikhail s. Gorbachev is thinking about a political comeback but a new poll says he remains one of the most unpopular politicians in Russia. The Survey commissioned by . News & world report found that More russians have a negative View of Gorbachev than of the late dictator Josef Stalin. Gorbachev has left open the possibility he will run against Boris n. Yeltsin in a presidential election next year. Yeltsin has political problems of his own according to tace poll made Public Friday. The Survey found 50 percent of russians said they approved of the Way Yeltsin was handling his Job and 34 percent said they disapproved. But when asked whether Yeltsin deserves another term 61 percent said it was time to give a new person a Chance. Twenty nine percent said he deserves re election. Eighty percent said they planned to vote in the parliamentary elections and 43 per cent said they would be More Likely to sup port candidates who Back Yeltsin. Only 19 percent said they would be More Likely to vote for candidates who oppose Yeltsin. While a solid majority of voters indicated they were looking for an alternative to Yeltsin none of his current potential rivals has much support. When asked to name a favorite in a future presidential election 29 percent named Yeltsin and no one else got More than 8 percent. Fewer than 1 percent Spanish town bids for Lenin s Tomb Madrid Spain a Vladimir Lenin May be unwelcome in Moscow these Days but residents of a working class Madrid suburb say they d be glad to have his embalmed cadaver As a tourist attraction. Russian diplomats promised the neighbourhood association of Parla last week that if the body of the father of the 1917 bolshevik revolution leaves Russia Parla will be the first to know association spokesman Florencio Aguado said Friday. Aguado told Spanish National radio the idea came up when russian president Boris n. Yeltsin announce that Lenin s mausoleum on red Square would be closed and his Corpse removed. It seems like a Good idea to bring it Topala to draw tourists Aguado said. The association representing a leak bedroom Community on Madrid s Southern outskirts says that if Lenin s Tomb makes it to Parla the City will set up a mausoleum and charge admission. Russian government officials have proposed moving Lenin s body out of red Square most Likely to a plot next to his Mother s grave in St. Petersburg. Named Gorbachev. Yeltsin got a favourable rating from 51 percent of people and unfavourable from 46 percent. Gorbachev s rating was 22 percent favourable and 72 percent unfavourable. Sta Lin who is blamed for the deaths of millions of people during his 30 years in Power is regarded favourably by 27 percent and unfavourably by 55 percent. Fifty percent of the people said Yeltsin did the right thing when he dissolved parliament while 33 percent said he should not have done it. When asked whom they blamed for the ensuing violence 50 percent said both sides 31 percent named the opposition Lead ers and Only 12 percent blamed Yeltsin. Sixty three percent said they think it is very Likely or somewhat Likely that other conflicts bloodshed and anti government actions will occur in Moscow or other  the same percentage said  would affect their lives. When asked if the would react through a variety of Means rang ing from taking up arms to writing letters 60 percent said they would do nothing. Only 3 percent said they would take up arms and 4 percent said they would take part in a strike. Eleven percent said they would participate in meetings 8 percent in demonstrations and 6 percent said they would write petitions or letters  
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