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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                , monday nov Ember 1993 world he stars and stripes Page 1 1 Aspin claims n. Korea creating crisis on nukes from wire report Seoul South Korea . Defense Secretary Les Aspin says a crisis is looming unless North Korea acts to Clear up suspicions about its nuclear program. The Ball is in the North korean court. If they want to avoid a crisis they will have to make the next move to Honor their International commitments he said in an interview published sunday by the Korea times an English language newspaper in Seoul. The Issue will top Aspin s Agenda when  and Tokyo next week for Security talks. 200 found in mass grave Guatemala City the remains of nearly 200women and children who witnesses say were killed by the military a decade ago have been exhumed from common grave in Central Guatemala. The guatemalan press reported saturday that theremins of 70 women and 107 children had been pulled from the grave discovered last month in the town of Rio negro. Witnesses say the townspeople were killed Nomarch 13,1982, by members of the army and a military auxiliary Force fortification found in Israel Jerusalem the world s oldest known. Fortress a Wall believed to Date to 4000  has been uncovered in Central Israel the government said sunday. The Wall was found near the Central coastal town of Hadera. Archaeologist Eli Yanai was quoted As saying in a statement from Israel s antiquities authority. V the 4-foot Wall protected villages along a strategic Road. The finds uncovered during recent excavations to Widen a Highway included a 24-Yard stretch of Wall and a watchtower. Also uncovered were the skeletons of a Young couple and the House of a Well to do family i which a rare Copper axe was found. Russia spies reportedly Cut Moscow russian intelligence has sharply reduced the number of agents and streamlined its operations to Cut out ideology a top adviser to the service said in an interview saturday. We have Cut the number of agents in the Center and abroad by 30 percent to 40 percent in the last two years and closed intelligence stations in about 30 countries retired Gen. Vadim Kirichenko told the military newspaper Krasnaya zvezda. He said russian agents would be sent Only where Russia has real National interests. We no longer have an enemy Kirichenko said. We now plan our work on geographic  Germany Iran links alleged Berlin Germany s intelligence service supplied Iran with computers and has far closer links to iranian intelligence than top Bonn officials have claimed in recent weeks a Magazine reported. Germany s Federal intelligence service and delivered four computers and specialized photo equipment Worth $60,000 to its iranian counterparts in 1991, the investigative newsmagazine Der Spiegel said saturday. The report also said German intelligence officers trained a group of iranians in Munich in 1992. The upgraded links Are also shown by the fact that Iran and Germany have both stationed High level intelligence representatives in their respective embassies in Bonn and Tehran said Der Spiegel. London East end seeks title London London s East end site of Jack the Ripper killings and Home of the Friendly Cockney accent May soon have a new official name the East end the area of London East of the original Settle me it has been popularly known for generations a the East end but its official name is Tower  leaders arc pressing to change the name to bring a new sense of identity and Pride to the area which in Cornea Bleak slum and the shimmering new gl4�aau-�icci docklands development. We Waul to reclaim the name East end for  Tower hamlets councilman Peter Hughes ii. No one Alse should Bable to claim it we warn to a formally known As the East  . Re 1 Otto re Saddam London a the United states refused to support a plot by an iraqi dissident to kill Saddam Hus Sein and May have betrayed the coup plotters the Sun Day times of London reported. Cia agents held three Days of secret talks with the iraqis in London last november the newspaper said quoting Saad Jabr a London based iraqi dissident who arranged the meetings. The coup plotters were sunni muslims members of the minority sect which has Long supported Saddam the sunday times said. The sunday times said the iraqi dissidents wanted american planes to bomb two military Camps to create chaos. Senior officers at the Camps the Al Rasheed 10 Miles South of Baghdad and Al Taji about 30 Miles to the North would then seize Power it said. " the plot was already far advanced when the Ameri cans were called in and the talks went into extensive details the newspaper said. As a sign of Good Faith the iraqis named 10 officers involved in the plot it said. The americans said they wanted to Check How Well placed the plotters were. After months of silence the Linton administration said it would not Back the plot because turmoil in Iraq could endanger the Middle East peace process the sunday times said. Jabr passed the message on to the plotters and assumed they would scrap their plans. Instead they decided to go ahead with the assassination attempt in Baghdad on july 17, when Saddam attended a Parade marking the anniversary of his baath party s 1968 Sei Zure of Power. On july 15, col. Safiyanu Al go Urcini commander of a tank battalion of the elite Republican guard was summoned to review plans for the Parade and was arrested the newspaper said. Hundreds of other officers and retired officers were no scuds discovered in Iraq inspector says Manama Bahrain a a . Weapons inspection team did not find any hidden scud missiles or other prohibited arms during a monthlong sweep of Iraq the team Leader said sunday. . And other Western intelligence reports have contended iraqi president Saddam Hussein has hidden More than 200 scud missiles and other weapons from . Inspectors. However team Leader Nikita Smedovich a russian expert with the . Special commis Sion told reporters sunday his team of 50 to 100 inspectors found no evidence of hidden missiles during a search that he described As thorough. The inspection team s failure to find any hid Den weapons could bolster the position of iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz when he goes to new York this month to push for the lifting of the Oil embargo imposed on Iraq after its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Imprisoned and interrogated Over the next few Days it said. Jabr was quoted As saying he suspected somebody connected with the americans betrayed the operation because All of the 10 officers on the list Given to the Cia were arrested. The newspaper said most of the coup plotters were probably  schedule and location of the Parade were changed in Case any conspirators had escaped. It said unnamed american officials confirmed the talks had taken place but gave no further details. Bare facts in newsmagazine irksome italian women groups Rome a fora news Story about  a Magazine cover shows a naked woman sprinkled with banknotes. An anti smoking article features a topless woman puffing a Cigar. Italy s major newsmagazine Are As Well know for the flesh they expose As the stories they uncover. Bart breasts regularly appear on the covers As an a rated invitation to subjects As lurid As sex clubs or As Light As summer vacations. But after years of being served cheesecake photos some people Are getting fed  women s group has started a Campaign to draw attention to what they Call the gratuitous use of naked women and others including the Vatican and a presidential commission have joined in. The protests Are probably not enough to convince editors to tone Down their covers in the hyper competitive italian Magazine Market. But the rumblings suggest the covers could be pushing Public tolerance even Given Italy s easygoing attitudes that allow nudity on prime Tim television and porn stars to become politicians. The weekly magazines use naked women Only to sell More. In fact the covers rarely correspond with the Magazine s contents. This is a form of violence said Gabriele moscatello vice president of pin Telephone a women s group that has led the opposition to the racy covers. A after a 31-Natlon european conference on women s rights last week the Vatican denounced these of women As objects la the mass Media saying it s sometimes difficult to distinguish advertising from pornography.". I on wedness a a presidential commission engender relations issued a statement decrying the commercialization of the female  magazines however quickly Point out that italian television offers just As Milch  8 o clock there Are naked women running around saying look How Good this soap is " Sai Antonangelo Pinna a top editor at l espresso. This is  photos arc not uncommon on european Newsstands but Italy seems to be where the protes Calls Are loudest at the moment. Sure i m offended by seeing naked women on the Magazine covers said Juliet Piscino As she purchased a newspaper in Rome but do i thin they will change them because it bothers women the answer is  Rabin criticizes groups for violence Beitel occupied West Bank a an israeli civilian killed a palestinian who tried to Stab him Sun Day in the Gaza strip and jewish settlers vowed to step up protests following a settler s murder. Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin chastised both Arab and jewish opponents of the Israel Plo Accord. A enemies among the palestinians. Murdered a jew because he was jew. And the opponents among the jews rioted blocked roads Burnt Arab cars because they were Arab Rabin said in remarks broadcast on Israel radio. It is our obligation to stand Strong against Alt these and overcome  the islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement which is opposed to the limited self Rule plan for palestinians claimed responsibility for kidnapping and killing Haim Mizrahi of the Beitel settlement Friday. The army said he was stabbed to death and his body burned. Mizrahi s murder set off the most violent wave of vigilante action by settlers since the Accord was signed sept. 13  
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