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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes world in 3 German patients got , tests find Bonn Germany a an examination of25,018 blood donations from the company at the Cen Jer of Germany s  scandal has turned up two cases of his positive blood the prosecutor said tuesday. One lot of the blood was donated to Romania an authorities there say it was never used. The other contaminated three Hospital patients in Germany this year. Prosecutor Norbert Weise said that it appears the damage caused by us plasma s negligent handling of blood supplies will be limited to the three cases based on the current results our worst fears Don appear to be confirmed said Weise who noted that the tests conducted by his office Are not "100 percent  in nine other cases authorities could t be absolutely sure there was no his infection Weise said and the donors will be sought for additional testing. The latest results could help curb the panic sweep ing Germany since the aids  scandal surfaced last month. Pour officials with us plasma of Koblenz have been arrested for violations of the pharmaceutical Law. Weise said they failed to adequately test blood supplies for the aids virus. Health minister Horst Seehofer has been criticize for being Overly alarmist about the risk of aids infection. He has urged All germans who got major sur Gery in the Pait decade to get an aids test. Or. Karsten Vilmar president of the Federal Doc Tor s Union said sunday that Seehofer was running an his show to improve his political profile. Physician groups said that the Chance of contract ing his from blood transfusion is 1 in a million and that More germans Are Likely to die by refusing blood transfusions out of fear than would die from contaminated blood. Two . Peacekeepers mount mow chains monday on an Aid Convoy truck at the yugoslav town of Mali  Convoy was turned Back by serbian gunmen and denied Access to the Bridge at the Border town of Vornik. Paperwork halts Bosnia Aid convoys Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina yugoslav officials have blocked . Aid convoys heading to Eastern Bosnia saying their paperwork was not in order. To the Southwest starvation was reported in the Bat the scarred City of Mostar. And in Sarajevo a mortar Shell exploded monday among children sledding on Snow near a . Peacekeeper base. Doctors at Kosovo Hospital said five were wounded two seriously. Lyndall Sachs a . Spokeswoman in Belgrade said yugoslav officials had begun on monday to de Mand special authorization for Aid convoys to Cross int Bosnia. They cited a Law passed by serbian dominated Yugoslavia last year requiring such permission for the passage of  have chosen to implement it the Law  Tola the associated press. This has created a bureaucratic Nightmare for  As a result . Convoys had to return to Belgraden monday As . Officials haggled with yugoslav authorities. The trucks had been bound for the Bosnia cities of Tula Srebrenick and Sarajevo. . Attempts to resupply its own operations in bos Nia also foundered. A 46-truck Convoy carrying supplies for the Nordi peacekeeper battalion in Tula stayed in Yugoslavia after bosnian serbian soldiers threatened to shoot Saidt. Col. Bill Aikman the . S military spokesman. Bosnian serbian Leader Radovan Karadzic personally approved the Convoy Aikman said but local soldiers threatened to fire unless the trucks turned away from the Bridge at the Border town of Vornik. Aid for Western Bosnia and much of it for Centra Bosnia originate in Croatia. But fighting Between eth Nic croats and Bosnia s Muslim led government has hindered shipments for weeks. Leaders of Bosnia s Muslim serbian and croatian actions pledged last week to ensure free and Safe Pas Sage for Aid convoys. That prompted . Officials tory to resume Aid shipments in Central Bosnia which were halted oct. 26 after an Aid Driver was shot an killed. Yugoslavia was not party to the agreement. In Mostar health officials in the Muslim sector of the City reported that an unspecified number of Resi dents had died for Lack of food said Peter Kessler . Spokesman in Sarajevo. Many of the 50,000 mus lims Are living in basements because most building shave been destroyed by croatian artillery. Aikman said nine residents in Eastern Mostar were wounded sunday while walking through a minefield to retrieve parachuted food. On sunday Only one . Convoy delivered its Load 78 tons of food to Tula. In better times 20 or More convoys would drop off up to 1,500 tons of food daily across Bosnia. Failure to get these convoys going again will mean the loss of a great Many lives Kessler said. More than 2.7 million bosnian Are depending nonfood Aid to survive this Winter because of disruptions from the 19-Momh-old War Over Bosnia s secession from Yugoslavia. Bosnia s government estimates More than 200,000 people have died from the War. Wednesday november 24,1993 mexican Senate approves Naftal by wide margin from wire report Mexico City the Naftal debate runabout As Long in Mexico s Senate As it did in the . House with pne big distinction there was never any question of the outcome. The Senate passed the pact easily by a vote of 56-2 late monday after almost 12 hours of debate that dragged on because each senator was allowed to have his say. ". The result was King on the cake for mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari who has made the North american free Trade agreement the Centrepiece of his sweeping economic reforms. Naftal passed its toughest test wednesday when it was ratified by the . House of representatives following much lobbying by president Clinton. I later passed the . Senate easily. The agreement Between Mexico the United states and Canad would create a huge economic Market encompassing 363 million people. Answers fit students to a t Paris ignorance is Bliss for Yankel Tapiro he s making a Small Fortune by Selling to shirts imprinted with some of the information that High schooners want to know when taking their dreaded baccalaureate  s shirts come in 20 models that feature science formulas history and geography notes conjugations of English verbs Ana other data. So far he s sold 30,000 of them at $27 apiece since  23-year-old entrepreneur got his inspiration from his own traumas trying pass the exam which i Given at the end of High school and determines whether a student can go on to a University. After attending test preparation schools seventies and failing the exam twice Tapiro finally passed the exam with some Clandestine help he said in a Telephone interview monday. He wrote crib notes on my jeans my shoes Little bit  Israel admits assassinations Jerusalem Israel has acknowledged for the first time that 10 to 15 leading Plo figures were assassinated in the 1970s on the orders of then prime minister Golda Meir. The members of Black september were assassinated after their group killed 11 israeli athletes at the 1972 olympics in Munich Germany said Gen. Ahern Yariv Meir s adviser at that time in a television interview broadcast monday. The interview was recorded a year ago but government censors Only gave permission for it to be broadcast monday the television report  said the results justified the assassinations. A Mission was undertaken consciously to wipe out kill the Heads of Black september he said. Then they stopped in a conscious Way their actions overseas against jews and  norwegian hits turbulence Oslo Norway Norway s peacemaking foreign minister is facing criticism at Home because he amassed frequent flier Points on official  a letter to a newspaper that has been pursuing the Issue Johan Jorgen hoist promised monday to cancel the More than 200,000 frequent flier Points he earned on Atlanta based Delta air lines. Norwegian government policy prohibits civil servants from collecting frequent flier Miles while travelling on government business. Among Many other journeys hoist travel extensively to negotiate a peace agreement Between Israel and the Palestine liberation organization. Reindeer hide saves Man Stockholm Sweden the Reindeer ranchers had a Mobile Telephone snowmobiles and a helicopter in route. But it was a Reindeer s hid that saved Olof Heikka from the Arctic cold Heikka a 21-year-old Reindeer rancher was Ding his snowmobile on a Mountain in Northern Sweden when it overturned last week a newspaper reported monday. His leg was broken. Two other ranchers used a Mobile Telephone Socall for a helicopter ambulance but it was two hours away. In the meantime Heikka s  in the Windy freezing temperatures. So Heikka s friends killed a Reindeer and wrapped the warm hide around him shielding him from the cold  
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