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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, November 29, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 0 the stars and stripes world monday november 29,1993tbilisi mob attacks bakery As bread rationing nears from wire reports Tbilisi Georgia a crowd attacked a bakery in i be georgian capital sunday As the City prepared to be pin bread rationing ibis week. About 5ck> people bad gathered outside the Iron pates of a read l factory no. 2 in the Chilly Early morning police said. Around 2 a.m., about to people leu by two jumped men got through the Glt its. Guards inside the bakery fired into the air dispersing the crowd. They also detained the. Leaders a of the attack officials said. Only three of Tbilisi a eight bread factories were operating because of electricity shortages officials Many people in the City now stand in line All night to buy Oread. Bread rationing is to begin  card set Beijing a All nonresident workers in Shanghai China a largest City will soon be forced to Register for a a Green card before they can seek employment an official newspaper reported sunday. Labor a police officials will establish the . Style permit to keep better track of the City a 2.5 million migrant labourers called a Blind wanderers the state run China daily said. 1 he card valid for two years will be issued upon entry to the City it said. A. Shanghai which has 14 million Legal residents 200,000 of them unemployed has been hit by Quot an excessive swarm a of newcomers Many of whom turn to crime to support themselves when they cannot find work the Shanghai based Wenhui daily  with Ira decried London a the confirmation of British government contacts with the Irish Republican  through intermediaries brought Strong condemnation and demands for top level resignations sunday from unionists in Northern Ireland. A a a statement from the Northern Ireland office confirmed late saturday that the government had responded to a message from the Ira seeking a Way to end the conflict with a message reiterating the demand for a Complete end to violence before any talks. Government officials acknowledged that there have been a series of contacts since then through intermediaries approved a at the highest level. But a the officials maintained that the contacts did not constitute a a talks or a negotiations a which the government has repeatedly denied holding. Peter Robinson the Deputy Leader of the democratic unionist party said the revelations meant unionists in Northern Ireland could no longer Trust British Northern Ireland Secretary Patrick Mayhew or prime minister John major. Mayhew major and other government officials have been denying reports from Irish nationalist sources in past weeks that the government was involved in a dialogue with the Ira or its political Wing sinn  spy gets life term Kuwait a a state Security court sentenced an iraqi to life in prison saturday for spying on kuwaiti military posts along the disputed Border with Iraq the Kuwait news Agency reported. The report said the court found Khaled Rahim Wali 1.9, guilty of espionage aug 6. It gave no further  flees surrenders Rennes France a a British convict violated his furlough from prison and flew a Small plane across the English Channel to France where he made an emergency Landing and turned himself in. Graham Jones 33, who w As serving a term for fraud in a prison in Surrey Southern England was to be flown Back to Britain on sunday a spokesman for the British foreign office in London confirmed. Jones flew the rented four seater across the Channel thursday night. Heavy fog forced him to make an emergency Landing in a Muddy Field near the Village of Saint Marouf in Normandy. He spent the Nicht in a hotel at the Channel port of Cherbourg. Broke and not speaking a word of French he hitchhiked to the Paris suburb of Aube Villiers on Friday and turned himself in to police. Bosnia May seek sanctions to curb efforts by Croatia Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr bosnian president Alija Izot Bogovic preparing for new peace talks demanded sunday that the world Community use Force to protect bosnian Aid convoys and threatened to seek sanctions against Croatia. A Shell landed in the old part of Sarajevo about a half mile away shortly after Izot Bogovic gave a news conference before his departure for talks in Geneva. Five people were killed and at least four More were wounded. % reversing a previous stance Izot Bogovic said he would accept a demilitarized future bosnian state Only if Croatia and Serbia were disarmed As Well. A there is Little possibility of that a he acknowledged. Serbian led Yugoslavia is suffering under . Co nomic sanctions for its role in instigating the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Izot Bogovic said his government will demand sanctions against Croatia is Well unless the croats Promise in Geneva to Stop intervening militarily and politically in Bosnia and allow Access to the Adriatic sea near the resort town of cum he said. He charged that a Large number of croatian troops were being sent into Bosnia. _. Under plans worked out in Geneva Bosnia would be turned into a Loose Union of three states divided along ethnic lines with muslims in the Middle the croatian state adjacent to Croatia and the serbian state bordering Serbia on the cast. Izot Bogovic said that with the Onset of Winter a Lack of food and Medicine endangered More than 1.5 million people in Bosnia. A. The bosnian delegation to the Geneva talks will follow guidelines set by the bosnian parliament Izot Bogovic said. The parliament rejected the peace plan worked out in Geneva. It said the plan was unacceptable unless serbs return occupied territory and other conditions Are met he said. His delegation also will insist on . And nato commitments to enforce any peace plan and will Appeal to the United states to take part in enforcement Izot Bogovic said. _ meanwhile local officials said they hoped serbian and . Engineers could make line repairs that would return electricity to Sarajevo. The line was knocked out thursday by shelling. Kurd protest crackdown kurdish demonstrators carry posters and wave a kurdish nag saturday outside Frankfurt a kurdish Center which was shut Down last week after a crackdown by German authorities on the kurdish workers party or pkg. The pkg was blamed for two coordinated Waves of violence across Europe earlier this year aimed at turkish interests. The pkg is fighting Turkey for an Independent kurdish state. Dec ministers focusing on crime Asylum seekers in belgian talks Brussels Belgium a european Community nations Are to meet today to plan for tighter cooperation on terrorism organized crime and drug smuggling. During two Days of talks Justice and Interior ministers from the 12 dec nations also plan to discuss joint action in handling immigrants and Asylum seekers. Their meeting is to be the first since the eco a Union treaty came into Force nov. 1. The treaty sets the framework for cooperation among member nations in Justice issues and other concerns. Among the topics to be discussed is creation of a european police office or euro pol which will coordinate police cooperation among the 12 states. The first stage of euro poll a operation the european drugs unit is to Start operations within the next few weeks in the Hague Netherlands. Dec governments have stepped up plans for police and immigration cooperation since the Start of the year when the Community so single Market a program removed most s checks on Borders Between member nations. That move raised fears that drugs  stolen goods criminals and illegal immigrants would be Able to avoid detection by slipping freely from one nation to another. The need for cooperation was Given added urgency by the collapse of communism which has opened up new routes into the dec for immigrants and Asylum seekers from Eastern Europe and for smuggled narcotics and weapons. The ministers Are to debate ways of improving the Exchange of information Between National police forces and efforts to tighten the eco a external Border. A seizure last week in Britain of 300 guns reportedly in route from Poland to protestant extremists in Northern Ireland has highlighted the need for tighter controls officials said. Dec states already have agreed to rules preventing the passing on of Asylum seekers from one member nation to another although the rules Are not yet in Force  
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