European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world Friday novembers 1993 serbian chief rejects talks until sanctions dropped from wire report Belgrade Yugoslavia serbian president Slobodan Milosevic has rejected the idea of a International peace conference on the yugoslav conflict while his Republic is under Trade  an interview broadcast thursday on state television Milosevic also said he believed differences among Bosnia s warring serbs muslims and croats might be resolved sooner than Many  but hews unclear about How that might happen. Yeltsin plans longer term president Boris n. Yeltsin has backed away from plans to stand for re election next june presenting provincial leaders wednesday witha draft Constitution that would allow him to remain in office until 1996. In september Yeltsin Promise the Early presidential vote when he dissolved Russia s parliament and called for december elections to a new governing body. But Yeltsin on wednesday circulated a new draft Constitution to leaders of Russia s republics and told them he would approve it even if they did t. Asylum seekers pay Cut Bonn Germany about 600,000 Asylum seekers got an unpleasant Surprise this week when they went to collect their living allowances the payments had been Cut by 25 percent and came As coupons instead of  s part of a calculated Effort by the German government which has shut the door on new Asylum seekers and wants those already living in the country to feel less at  treat you like a dog they Don t want. Around said Olivier Barman 27. Barman said he Sready to go Home to Ivory coast even though the government there would like to see him  life has become too difficult Here he said. Starting monday monthly payments were Cut Froman average of about $360 to about $268, with Only $49 in  _ 39 killed in Vietnam Hanoi Vietnam gasoline leaking from broken pipeline fuelled an explosion and fire that killed 39 people in Northern  to news reports thursday at least 60 other people were injured in the Accident tuesday night in Nam Khe Village 90 Miles from Hanoi. The blast occurred at a gasoline pipeline running through the Village after a repair Crew worked earlier in the Day to fix a leak. St. Mark s cover moved1venice Italy the ancient Bronze covering of the main door to the St. Mark s Basilica was packed wednesday to travel to Rome to undergo  decision to Transfer the covering to Rome was made by the head of the restoration project Ettore Vio who sought a climate controlled area for the work and wanted to avoid the disturbance from tourists in Venice s most famous Square. Earthquake rattles Greece Athens Greece a Strong earthquake struck southwestern Greece on thursday causing panic among residents in the ports of Patras and any Tolbut no damage or injuries. The Athens seismological Institute said the 7 18a.m. Quake measured 5.4 on the Richter scale and had its epicentre 102 Miles West of the capital. Sex Kab general cleared London former Kab Gen. Oleg Kalugin will not face charges relating to the 1968 slaying of a dissident bulgarian writer with a poisoned umbrella tip police said thursday. Kalugin was arrested at London s Heathrow Airport As he arrived in Britain on saturday to take part in a British broadcasting corp. Television program about mi6, the British intelligence Agency. The russian embassy protested to the British government about the arrest. Kaluzin was released sunday. Scotland Yard said thursday that the Crown prosecution service had decided there was not enough evidence to charge him in the slaying of writer Georgy Markov. China airlines Jet skids into sea at Hong Kong a a taiwanese Boeing 747carrying 296 people skidded off the runway into the sea at Hong Kong s Airport thursday. Authorities said 22people were treated for minor injuries Shock and cold. The China airlines Jet hit the runway in driving wind and rain veered left and came to rest in shallow water its rear Section submerged but its fuselage above  led passengers off escape chutes using rub Ber dinghies As stepping stones and then guiding the up an embankment to the runway. Dick Siegel Deputy director of the civil aviation department said the weather May have played a role. He declined to elaborate saying the Accident in a Matte for  the Airliner was arriving at Kai Tak Airport from Taipei Taiwan carrying 274 passengers Ana 22 Crew members China airlines said. Other officials differed on the cause of the crash. An airline spokesman to Chi said the plane landed property but Rainwater on the Tarmac affected its brakes. There were sudden gusts the runway was flooded an naturally the Brake was unable to Stop the plane to said. But Alex Liu China airlines Hong Kong manager witness recalls seeing toddler with older boys Preston England a her voice just a whisper a woman said thursday at the murder trial of two 11-year Olds that she watched a toddler with a fresh bump on his forehead stumble across a Street with two schoolboys. One of the boys picked up the Small child and put him Down on the Corner said Lorna Brown 43. The two older boys each took one of the toddler s hands As they walked away. The two 11-year-Olds Are the youngest children to be charged in Britain with murder. They Nave pleaded inno cent in the slaying of 2-year-old James Bulger though the prosecution says one of the boys confessed during police questioning. The three boys paths crossed at a shopping Center i Liverpool on feb. 12. James was taken on a shopping trip by his Mother and he wandered away As his Mother bought sausages at a Butcher shop. The older boys who May be identified by the Media Only As child a and child had skipped school. Brown is one of More than two dozen people who re Call seeing two older boys tugging and carrying a Small boy along a 2vi-Milc route across Liverpool. Their Trail ended at a lonely rail line where the two beat James to death As his blood splattered their clothes prosecutors said. Brown said her attention was drawn tothe boys because the Small child seemed distressed and had a speckled wound in the Middle of his forehead Asif he had hit it on the  crying on the stand. Brown said that she Felt uneasy after she had passed the three and turned to take another look but that they had  Driver David Keay 33. Said he was parked outside the shopping mall the Day James was abducted and saw two boys who seemed to be dragging a toddler. One of the boys lifted him up and held him across his Chest a Bear hug sort of  another witness environmental health officer Mal Colm Walton 26, told the court that he saw a Little boy crying his eyes out As he stood near two boys outside the mall. Walton said that each expressed concern for the toddler and that he thought the older boys were Takin care of him. In a police statement read to the court wednesday Denise Bulger described her High spirited son. Who had Ridden a Seesaw taken Candy from a store tossed a fallen baby suit Over his head and eaten a sausage Roll for lunch the Day he was abducted. Said the brakes worked Fine and blamed the Accident on Slippery runway. He said the actions of Pilot Liu Shou Rong a 47-year-old air Force Veteran averted disaster. He said that when the plane reached the end of the runway Liu turned left in the space where planes usually Circle after Landing that slowed the plane he said at a news conference. If the plane had carried on. It would have been alot worse. The brakes worked Well and the reverse thrust worked Well. Everything he should have done he did. But the plane just kept  Kenny Bell a passenger from Poole England said that the plane came Down with a bump it dropped Down very  i looked out of the window and the next thing i saw was the sea and we just settled Bell said. It was a Ter Rible feeling. At first i thought of Well this is it " a helicopter divers fire engines and boats converged on the plane which had lost its nose Cone and had a Large Gash below the cockpit. Fire official Peter Cheung said everyone was evacuated within 30 minutes. Alfito Denst Bulger buries her face la her hand after the battered body of her son James was found earlier this year. Bulger is not attending the trial of her son s accused killers both 11. But a statement la which she de scribed the 2-year-old was read to the court wednesday. Nicola Bailey who was with Denise Bulger that Day said the boy kept breaking free from his Mother. Denise told James off several times for this and had to smack his legs Bailey said in her police statement which also was read in court. The court also watched a videotape of James last moments in the mall compiled from several mall Security  tapes at the Liverpool shopping Center showed the two boys playing with James then taking him out onto a Busy Street. Defense attorneys agreed with prosecutors that the boys in the tape were the two on trial. 4 die in 24-vehicle pileup in italian Tunnel Florence Italy a fire broke out in a High Way Tunnel following a Chain reaction collision thurs Day involving two dozen vehicles. At least four people were killed police said. Twenty cars and four trucks were involved in the  the superhighway Between Bologna nnf1jfjnrfr?m the Accident in the Rio Veggie Tunn caused line Long As nine Miles along Italy s busiest Highway