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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes would thursday. November 11,1993 us., South korean forces to conduct joint exercise 1 from wire reports Seoul South Korea . And South korean1 forces will jointly conduct an annual combined Field training exercise dubbed foal Eagle 93 starting next week primarily to test rear area defense capabilities an announcement said wednesday. The .Rsputh Korea combined forces come said the defensive exercise will Start monday and last for 10 Days in various locations throughput the country. The exercise will involve the majority of South korean forces and . Units stationed in Korea. Some of the events will inc life the firing of Blank ammunition and nighttime combat operations. The officials said the exercise is designed to test rear area Protection operations and major command control and communications systems. It will be the 28th in a series of such exercises scandal nets Rome official Rome a former secret service chief who been running Rome since the mayor quit in april resigned tuesday after he was implicated in a slush fund scandal. Alessandro Voci who headed the civilian intelligence Agency from 1991 to 1992, was put under investigation monday in the widening scandal that has led to the arrests of five Agency  has been shaken by allegations of an intelligence service slush fund that was used for payoffs Perks and personal enrichment. Neo nazi s hat in ring Cottbus Germany a 28-year-old neb nazi Leader will be Able to run for mayor of this Eastern City near the polish Border where rightist extremists have attacked Asylum seekers an election official said wednesday. Frank Huebner whose group German alternative was banned in december 1992, will Lead the far right German league for Homeland an nation in the dec. 5 election. Huebner initially was denied a place on the ballot when the District electoral commission found his nominating petition to fall two signatures Short of the necessary 100 and refused to recognize additional signatures he obtained the Day after the oct. 26 deadline. But District commission chairman Hans Peter Baldamus said wednesday that the Brandenburg state electoral commission had ruled that the Law gave Huebner until oct. 28 to collect nominations. Exit Hanoi Hilton Hanoi Vietnam the Hanoi Hilton a legacy of the Vietnam War and the american prisoners if held is being demolished. Known by the vietnamese As the Hoa to prison it is giving Way to a $45 million 14-Story hotel and 22-Story office Tower. Construction is scheduled to begin in february. The 81,000-Square-foot Complex is expected to be completed in Early 1998. Wrigley Sale reported Singapore with no sign that the government will relent in its War against chewing  the . Company William Wrigley or. Has sold its property in Singapore business times reported wednesday. The import manufacture and Sale of gum was outlawed in january 1992, but chewing the substance is not illegal. Gum was blamed for delaying subway trains by causing the doors to stick. Cuba oks ship gambling Rome three decades after Fidel Castro sent the High rollers packing gambling is returning to Cuba or at least to its shores. Starting dec. 13, the liner Santiago de Cuba will make weekly cruises from Havana with a Casino on Board for passengers according to italian booking agents. Before the 1959 revolution Cuba was a major Center of gambling and prostitution run by . Based gangsters attracting streams of tourists fro the United states. When Castro came to Power he shut the casinos Down. With Cuba undergoing severe economic difficulties because of the loss of Trade and Aid with the collapse of european communism Castro has begun to loosen economic controls while clinging to one party communist Rule. Honda s solar powered dream zips past camels tuesday along a Road near Alice Springs in Central Australia. Hondo can dream of Victory As entry leads solar car race Gle Dambo Australia a Honda s solar powered car relied on its batteries under Cloudy skies wednesday to Widen its Lead Over its Swiss rival in the transcontinental world solar Challenge. But overcast skies spoiled team Honda s Hope of crossing the finishing line in Adelaide 1,865 mites South of the starting line in Darwin. Wednesday was the fourth Day of Competition. Honda s dream car passed Gle Dambo 390 Miles North of Adelaide at 43 Mph about 2vi hours ahead of the spirit of Biel Iii designed by Switzerland s Biel University race official Steve Jonas said. At the end of tuesday the dream had led the Swiss team by about an hour. There Are technical secrets we Don t understand in the Honda dream a Swiss Biel team member said at the end of tuesday s run. We have underestimated  Jonas said the spirit of Biel i could have mechanical or Power problems. But without reports from along the race course he said he could not be sure Why the Swiss car was suddenly falling Back. The dream was running on its batteries to maintain its Speed under the overcast Outback skies Jonas said. The cars have solar cells and batteries charged bythe solar cells. Third place is held by Kyo Cera son of Sun fro Japan and the australian entry Aurora Al is Only minutes behind in fourth. The leading american car in fifth place is intrepid from California state polytechnic University Pomona chased by George Washington University  the California state University los Angeles entry solar Eagle is in seventh followed by Australia s Northern territory University s desert  the University of Michigan s Maize and Blue held ninth place. The race from Darwin in Australia s Northern territory to Adelaide in South Australia state attracted 52 of the world s most advanced solar powered cars. Teams race Only from 8 . To 5 . Each Day. 13 parties to be on russian ballot Moscow a of 35 parties and blocs that originally registered for Russia s parliamentary elections next month 13. Actually will appear of the ballot elections officials said wednesday. They Range from communists to free Market reformists to environmentalists although a few groups led by prominent hard line leaders failed to make the Cut. The 13 parties and blocs which have been registered represent the whole spectrum of political forces in Russia said Nikolai Ryabov head of the russian election commission at a meeting. There Are pro president and pro government blocks those who favor a centrist approach and those who consider themselves a soft or hard line  among those qualified to run in the dec. 12 election were the russian communist party headed by Gennady Zyuganov the right Wing Liberal democratic party headed by Vladimir a Mirinovsky the pro president rus Sia s Choice bloc the women of Russia movement an the environmental group Cedar. Only 21 parties and blocs met the weekend deadline for submitting 100,000 or More signatures to qualify for the ballot for the state Duma the lower chamber of the new bicameral russian  checking their documents the commission dropped eight parties saying they had presented too few signatures or violated collection rules. Britain has Europe s filthiest ovens poll finds London up British women Don t like being called housewives Are always in a hurry and derive less satisfaction from shopping and cooking than their european counterparts factors that add up to Britain s having the dirtiest ovens in Europe a new Survey revealed tuesday. A Tupperware Survey of 5,000 european women found that British women responded most negatively to the term housewife seeing her As an overworked unpaid and unappreciated  the British also tended to clean their ovens less frequently than other Western europeans with 39 per cent of germans saying they cleaned their ovens after every use and half of British women leaving the Job for a month or More the Survey said. It used to be said that being House proud is a Way of Loving yourself said Kate Cutler a Tupperware spokeswoman. But the younger British woman does thave time she tries to but there Aren t enough hours in the  the Survey said British women Are less satisfied wit Home activities such As cooking and shopping. The Dis Content with Domestic activities although found another countries is mostly a British phenomenon. Cutler said the Young British woman concentrates other children her partner and then herself. In other european countries women take care of their families first their Homes second and themselves last  
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