European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 13, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 5 chinese Airliner hijacked by doctor civil servant from wire reports Taipei Taiwan in the third hijacking to Taiwan in a week a doctor and a civil servant commandeered a chinese Airliner Friday brandishing surgical knives and a blood pressure gauge they said was a men surrendered peacefully on Landing claiming they were fleeing political persecution. A flight attendant was slightly injured by a knife Hel to her neck officials said. It was the seventh hijacking to Taiwan this unlike in the past authorities this time searched the aircraft for spy equipment and questioned each passenger. Previously the planes and those aboard were released promptly. 18 charged in mob slaying Palermo Sicily authorities have charged18 people in last year s assassination of Italy s leading mob prosecutor a slaying that set off Ananti mafia crusade. Giovanni Falcone was a key american ally i pursuing the . Mafia connection. In a country where big crimes often go unsolved the breakthrough May boost the morale of italians battered by corruption scandals and recession. The suspects include mafia Bosses on the ran the italian news Agency Agi and newspapers reported Friday. They also include the lookouts who traced the Progress of Falcone s car from the Palermo Airport Down a Highway where he his wife and three escorts were killed by explosives under the Road that were set off by Remote control. The reports said a mafia insider supplied key information to investigators. Tamil rebels seize base Colombo sri Lanka tamil separatist consolidated their hold Friday on one of the biggest prizes of their decade old insurgency a military. Base that had prevented guerrillas from extending their reach. Rebels prevented helicopters carrying fresh government troops from Landing at the base in Northern sri Lanka near the rebel held Jaffna Peninsula defense Secretary Gen. Hamilton Wanasinhe said. At least 200 soldiers and sailors were killed thursday when rebels overran the base in an attack from the ground and from motorboats. The military claimed More than 100 guerrillas were killed. There was no Independent confirmation. The military lost Contact with hundreds of Soldier Sand sailors when they fled into the Jungle after the attack a senior military officer said. Manhole covers pose risk Moscow a Sharp cold snap has created anew headache for Moscow motorists leaping manhole covers. With temperatures dropping to minus 15 celsius 5 degrees fahrenheit this week manhole covers seem to have taken on a life of their own. They jump out said Vladimir Lushin spokesman for Moscow s traffic police. The covers Are made of a Metal that contracts an expands easily As temperatures fluctuate Lushin explained. Some covers even jump in not out he they fall to the Bottom of the Haiti orders Oil delivered port a Prince Haiti a judge ordered two american Oil companies on thursday to release fuel supplies Frozen under . Sanctions. Civil court judge Henock Voltaire gave Texaco and Esso 24 hours to begin deliveries to Independent stations said Rigaud Duplan lawyer for the National Petroleum distributors association which sued to free the supplies. The same order was issued wednesday to Shell co. . Ltd. But the British company issued a. Statement thursday in new York that it would not go sitting on their local fuel reserves the distributors have been complying with .sanctions intended to Force Haiti s military to restore democracy. . And other warships offshore Are ensuring no further Oil supplies reach Haiti. secure mental Hospital. ,. I Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina a t . Peacekeepers deployed around a mental Hospital that was caught in a combat zone Friday to protect about100 patients including some near death. Canadian troops rushed to the Hospital in Bakovich Village in Central Bosnia and Herzegovina about 20 Miles West of Sarajevo and helped evacuate staff Mem Bers after heavy shelling nearby. Many of the Hospital s patients were too ill to move said cmdr. Ides Bald Van Biesbroeck a . Spokes Man in Sarajevo. He said the canadians negotiated cease fire Between bosnian croatian militia forces and the Muslim led government army. The two sides formerly allies against bosnian Serbi an nationalists who now control most of Bosnia s Terri tory have been battling for land in Central Bosnia for months. About 20 peacekeepers and medical personnel will remain at the Hospital until they think the patients care can be assured without them Van Biesbroeck said. Pope s patched up Pope John Paul ii leaves the Gemello in Rome on Friday after being treated for a right shoulder fracture he suffered when he fell during an audience. He spent one night at the Hospital before re turning to the Vatican. His Ortho Peist said John Paul would need at least six weeks to recover completely and has ruled but skiing or swimming in the coming months for the Pope who usually goes skiing after Christmas. John Paul will make his first Public appearance since the Accident from his window overlooking st. Peter s Square at noon sunday for Bis usual Blessing. The Hospital is not far from another one near Ojni Ca where 230 mental patients were left without care for three Days last july when government forces took the area from croats. Staff members who abandoned that Hospital re turned with peacekeepers to find the patients mostly children and adolescents languishing in horrid conditions. Four children died. Van Biesbroeck said croatian Muslim fighting also flared around croatian held Kiseljack and in villages near Vars a town North of Sarajevo that recently was captured by government forces. He said that shells landed within about 100 Yards of the peacekeepers base in Kiseljack and that All the town s stores were closed. In a bid to ease Muslim croatian fighting Croatia foreign minister mate Granic flew Friday to Sarajevo to Confer with bosnian officials. He is the highest rank ing croatian official to visit the besieged capital during the 19-month-old War. A Day Bridge taken Down amid protests Beno Uville France a the first Bridge liberated by Allied troops Dur ing the a Day invasion has been Dis mantled the victim of a final Battle with old age and economics that angers veterans. Despite protests from surviving British paratroopers who captured the Span from German troops authorities in Normandy decided the Pegasus Bridge has outlived its usefulness. In a three Day operation this week the historic 600-ton drawbridge spanning the Orne canal was dismantled and its part were set aside in Case someone wants to rebuild it As a Monument. British Veteran Sand local residents vented their displeasure earlier this week. It s a shame to do this to us to us Brit ish actor Richard Todd said monday standing stiffly in tweeds with a remembrance Day red poppy in his Lapel. In the 1962 film classic the longest pay Todd played his real life role As one of the 6th British airborne div Para troopers who captured the Pegasus Bridge Early june 6,1944. Todd said France should have held of the dismantling until after the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Landing next june which tens of thousands of world War ii veterans and their families Are expected to attend. As a first piece of freed French territory the Pegasus Bridge became a Symbol of lib erty and a pilgrimage Point for Veteran Sand War bum in the 49 years since a Day. For authorities in the Calvados Region of Normandy the question is a practical one. The Bridge is Rusty and too narrow to handle modern traffic volumes and it shakes when the Span is lifted. The Bridge was raised 4,000 times a Yea to allow boats to pass into Caen Harbor or go to sea. The regional chamber of com Merce and Industry has pressed for a new Bridge for three years. Court hears tapes of suspected Tot killer Preston England a one of two boys accused of killing James Bulger mimicked the Little boy s cry ing for his Mother and said they quieted him by saying they d get her according to taped police interviews played Friday. For the second successive Day the court heard tapes of the boy whom the Media must Call child a ducking questions and changing his Story. The boys both now 11, Are charged with the murder and abduction of the 2-year-old James who strayed from his Mother at a Liverpool shopping mall feb. 12. Before the tapes began thursday the court hear psychiatrists evidence that the boys knew that to abduct and kill a child was wrong. Child a also told police such actions would be wrong. Such evidence is important because prosecutors must prove the boys said to be of average or above average intelligence knew right from wrong
