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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stbipe9 i a world i thursday deem beg. 1993 kindergarten teacher killed by palestinian Irish Leader plans to meet with major for peace talks. From wire reports Dublin Ireland a Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds said wednesday that he will meet Britain a John major on Friday for the first of a series  summits to discuss peace efforts in Northern Ireland. Reynolds speaking in the Irish parliament described fridays visit with the British prime minister As a a working meeting and said further meetings would be held throughout the month. The scheduled Summit comes less than a week after the disclosure that the British government had been exchanging messages with the outlawed Irish Republican army which is waging a Campaign aimed at ending British Rule in Northern Ireland. In. A a. A. Yeltsin gets Eagle Back Moscow a president Boris n. Yeltsin signed a decree tuesday restoring the czarist double headed. Quot a Eagle As russians state Emblem. He scrapped the soviet Era Seal a Globe framed by ears of com and Hung with a red ribbon inscribed with the marxist slogan a workers of the world unite a also out is the famed Hammer and sickle Symbol of the peasants . The government had sought a new Crest since the soviet collapse. The new Emblem includes religious and Imperial symbols from before the 1917 russian revolution. Its Centrepiece is a Gold double headed Eagle a Symbol of three centuries of Romanov czars a on a red heraldic shield. In the spirit of the new capitalist times the t government Hopes to make Money by Selling the right to use the new Crest in trademarks and commercial logos said Rudolf Pik Hoya chairman of the commission that chose the double headed Eagle Over such proposals As bears and Birch  maybe the la confess Warsaw Poland a thieves who stole a pair of suitcases from a car May be feeding their stomachs a and possibly their souls. The suitcases taken monday from an organists car parked at a franciscan monastery in the Southern town of Jaslo were packed with wafers. Used for roman Catholic communion rites. They were valued at about $250. The friars had planned to distribute the wafers among parishioners before Christmas police told the Domestic news Agency Pap. Of Christmas eve catholics break wafers to Exchange Good wishes a tradition observed in More than 90 percent of Poland a  taxi saves a life Hong Kong a a window cleaner fell from the eighth Story of a hotel tuesday landed on the roof of a parked taxi and survived. 1 police said Lee Hing 31, was taken to the Hospital where he was reported in satisfactory i condition with injuries to Nis hand foot and neck. He fell while cleaning a room window in the mandarin hotel overlooking Hong Kong Harbor. The taxi Driver Yam Ming 37, suffered minor injury to his left hand and leg and was discharged from the Hospital after treatment police  lures East germans Berlin a hit by Westward immigration and a. Plunging birthrate former East Germany has seen us population drop by nearly 1 million people in four years. Young people made up the largest group of those leaving the area Federal officials said. From 1988 to mid-1992, the number of Eastern germans aged 15 to 25 declined by a fifth to 2,155,000. A the Sharp drop in the number of Young people is due to the fact that Many of them Are seeking their Fortune in Western Germany a Edith Dabbert an expert in the Federal statistics office said at a news conference. Overall the population in Eastern Germany fell from 16,674,600 in 1988 to 15,732,000 in the Middle of last year a drop of 942,600, according to the statistics office. The Overall population of Gennoy is about 80 million. Of tens of thousands of people Teft East Germany As communism was collapsing i 1989, and the migration to Western Germany is continuing. Al birth occupied West Bank apr palestini an gunmen sprayed an israeli car with automatic weapons fire in the occupied West Bank on wednesday killing a kindergarten teacher and wounding three other jewish  violence which raised fears of new settler reprisals against arabs came a Day after the Corst unrest in the occupied Gaza strip since the sept. 13 signing of a Plo israeli Accord to establish palestinian self ruin in the occupied lands. One 15-year-old palestinian was trilled and 65 were wounded tuesday. The shooting occurred at 7 55 . Wednesday while the israelis were fixing a Flat tire on the Roadside at the Entrance to Al birth a town seven Miles North of Jerusalem. The slain woman was identified As a 24-year-old Jerusalem resident who taught in a jewish settlement a 19-year-old Yeshiva Seminary student from a jewish settlement was seriously wounded. Two others were slightly wounded. The left Side of the rented White Fiat Uno with Cyl Low israeli License plates was riddled with 12 Bullet holes and was still up on its Jack. The seats were bloodied and there was a Pool of blood behind the car. Medical bandages were strewn about on the ground. Settlers in a nearby jewish settlement said palestinian git men drove by and fired at the car with two automatic weapons. There were fears the killing would ignite vengeance paints a portrait of corruption greed and sycophancy in the corridors of nazi Power. The Book by Beatrice and Helmut Heiber goes on Sale in Germany this week. It tells of hitlers fury upon learning that Field marshal Hermann Goering had looted valuable artworks in Vienna Austria before the fihrer himself got to pick the Best of the lot. It also describes hitlers anger at hearing of nazi propagandist Joseph Goeb Belso illicit affairs. Attacks by jewish settlers who went on a rampage last month and stoned cars closed roads and beat palestini ans after two settlers were killed and others wounded. The attack comes less than two weeks before Israel is scheduled to Start handing Over authority to the Palestine liberation organization in the Gaza strip and the West Bank Region of Jericho. The area is to be patrolled by palestinian police. Since the signing of the peace Accord 34 palestinians have died in clashes with israelis while six israeli civilians and three soldiers have been killed by palestinians. Thirteen palestinians died at the hands of other arabs most suspected of being informers. Jewish settlers who vehemently oppose the peace Accord called an emergency meeting to discuss Security Israel radio said it. Gen. Ehud Barak the armed forces chief of staff would attend. Uri Ariel a settler Leader blamed the amid for being unable to ensure the Security of the 120,000 settlers in the West Bank. He called a on fellow settlers not to retaliate against innocent arabs. A but anyone who thinks we arc going to read psalms All Day Long is mistaken a Ariel said on Israel radio adding that More jewish settlements Are planned. The daily Dediot Ahrnot reported wednesday that jewish settlers planned to launch an operation dubbed a this is my land to establish 130 new settlements doubling the number in the West Bank Gaza strip and Golan Heights. A thank you note reprinted in the Book expresses hitlers gratitude for a Barbera a gift of a Swastika made of human hair. A violin with 245 inlaid Ivory swastikas offered by a hotel employee also met with hitlers approval. The fihrer was however particular about use of his name. He did not allow parents to name their baby girls a Hitler Ines and As a letter printed in the new Book reveals would not allow growers to name giant strawberries after him. A Baker was ordered to rename his latest creation which he had originally titled a Adolf Hitler  Hitler loved dogs but failed to pay his alsatian association dues the Book also says. Move Over Rudolph / members of the american Asso Matiun a Santa Good ttys arrived in the Lagoon City to distribute Christmas will ride gondolas tuesday in Venice Italy. The san presents to elderly and poor people. New Book reveals another Side of Hitler Bonn Germany up a Adolf Hitler did not want some of the documents seem Bike macabre and cakes or baby girls named after him failed to pay his dues laughable. The Leader of a nazi youth group who had to a dog owners club and believed Jesus was not a jew a written to Hitler was told the fihrer a wishes to inform cording to a new Book. You that he is convinced that Christ was not a  based on previously unpublished letters receipts and notes from hitlers chancellery die Rizic Seite Desha Kenkre uzes a the reverse Side of the Swastika a  
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