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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday novembers 1993 the stars and stripes Page s Sites 1 killed in coordinated violence Bonn Germany apr kurdish militants smashed and burned turkish consulates and businesses across Europe on thursday in a coordinated violent protest against Turkey s treatment of its kurdish minority. At least one person was killed and 16 were injured in More than 60 attacks that left soldering shops and offices and shattered Glass in the streets of Urban centers in Germany Switzerland Austria Britain France and Denmark. More than 40 kurd were arrested. It was the second kurdish Day of rage since june 24. Thursday s attacks hit turkish Consul ates travel bureaus airlines Banks a newspaper office in Frankfurt and a Cable television station in Berlin. The kurd accuse the turkish govern ment of a brutal Campaign to uproot a marxist guerrilla insurgency battling for a. Kurdish Homeland near the Borders of Iraq and Iran. German officials said they would try to ban the marxist group that police suspected in thursday s attack the attacks began simultaneously at 11 30 . Local time. Police said they found leaflets at several Sites denouncing a turkish genocide against the kurd. Spokesmen for the National front for the liberation of Kurdistan refused to comment on who was responsible. The group is the political Wing of the rebel kurdish workers party known by its kurdish language initials pkg. The turkish embassy in Bonn said it a first tipped off German Security forces German police officers search the burned out turkish airlines travel office in Bonn on sunday to intelligence about planned at thursday alter firebombs exploded during a wave or kurdish violence. Tacks by the pkg which has about 5,000 some sailors marines depart members in Germany. Police patrols were increased but weren to enough said Numan Hazar the no. 2 off Cal at the embassy. Seven turkish consulates were among the More than three dozen targets in be Many. Foreign minister Klaus Kink i said it was time to accede to Turkey s demands that Germany ban the pkg which a has abused our tolerance and Liberal Laws for  Quot its a bad Day for Germany a internal Security a said Interior minister Manfred Kanthor reflecting the View of Many germans who blame foreigners for the rising violent crime rates in Germany. Some German officials have Quot said they worry about a civil War breaking out among the 1.9 million turkish citizens living in Germany a 400,000 of them kurd. There were attacks thursday against the turkish embassy in Bern Switzerland and at a turkish Bank in Vienna Austria. Five people were injured in attacks on the turkish embassy and three other targets in London. A Bank and two travel agencies were hit in Strasbourg France. About 30 kurd staged a peaceful sit in at european Community Headquarters in Brussels. Belgian police quickly broke up the protest. In Wiesbaden West of Frankfurt flames from a firebombed turkish restaurant killed a Man and injured eight other people including a Small child the attacks hit downtown areas of Many cities including Bonn the quiet German capital where a turkish airlines office was firebombed. Mogadishu Somalia apr about 3,600 somalian clan leaders and . Officials meanwhile met to discuss ways to improve Security and keep tensions Down in the City. The turnout was better than a meeting a week earlier and included representatives of Mogadishu s two main factions. The departing marines never came ashore after arriving As support following an oct. 3 Battle in which 18 . Soldiers died fighting supporters of Mohamed far Rah aided. The bloodshed led Washington to rein in military operations and step up efforts for a political solution to Somalia a clan conflict. The arrival of us. Army soldiers m1a1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles Over the last two weeks permitted the deployment of the marines elsewhere a . Military spokesman col. Steve Rausch said. There Are now 7,500 . Troops in Mogadishu bolstered by 30 m1a1 tanks and 42 Bradley vehicles the Pentagon said. An additional 8,650 sailors and marines remain offshore on a four ship amphibious Landing Force and an aircraft Carrier. Asked about reports that . Forces had adopted a change in strategy and will establish a High profile presence in Mogadishu s streets Pentagon spokesman capt. Michael Doubleday said the forces were simply conducting missions president Clinton directed when he ordered the new deployment last month. The spokesman said in Washington that the insertion of ground troops with armoured vehicles puts the . Contingent a in a better position to do some of those missions a including protecting . Forces on the ground keeping roads secure and holding off would be attackers. Ten of 13 somalian elders invited to attend the second meeting of the Mogadishu Security advisory committee showed up thursday including representatives of aided who controls Southern Mogadishu and Aji Mahdi Mohamed his clan rival who rules the Northern half. Only four elders were at the first meeting. . Officials said there was Little substantive Progress but they were optimistic after getting the divisive factions to sit face to face for about two hours. 17 Hurt in Tennessee dorm fire Cleveland Tenn. Apr a fire in a menus dormitory at Lee College Early thursday injured 17 students including several who jumped from second Story windows. Eight students were hospitalized. The cause of the Blaze was under investigation. The two Story wooden dormitory Ellis Hall has about 70 residents. Three students were taken by helicopter to the bunt unit of Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga where they were in serious condition said fire department spokesman Joe Wilson. The other students suffering mainly smoke inhalation and broken Bones were taken to two Cleveland hospitals. Five of them were admitted. Jonathan Reese a resident of the dorm said flames chased him Down a second floor hallway. A i ducked into a room and i  see my hands or my feet a Reese said. A fall i remember is someone throwing a chair through a window. He Dove out and i Dove out after  it took firefighters about four hours to control the Blaze which is believed to have started in the dorms prayer room. Students will be housed temporarily in motels said Henry Smith Dean of students. The school which has an enrolment of about 2,000, is affiliated with the Church of god. Shaken students gathered thursday morning at a Chapel service. Noting that no one died David Tilley the colleges vice president told the students a anybody who has the nerve to ask where god was when Ellis Hall burned he was fight there in the Middle of those  baby food recalled by Heinz Heidelberg Germany a the . Heinz company is recalling 4-ounce Glass jars of strained applesauce baby food because of possible Glass contamination. The product is sold in Germany at military commissaries according to a release from the army a 7th medical come. The suspect jars Bear the following code on the lid po703fh, indicating the Date of production followed by numbers 1900 through 2100, which indicate the time of production and a March 96 expiration Date. Jars bearing the Date code and any number Between 1900 and 2100 should be returned to commissaries. Purchasers will receive full refunds  
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