European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes world thursday december 2,1993talks continue for release of . Envoy in Yemen from wire reports san a Yemen a american Diplomat Haynes r. Mahoney remained in the hands of yemenite tribesmen wednesday two Days after mediators almost managed to free him before apparently running into last minute problems with his captors. Negotiations continued wednesday for his release officials said. Mahoney was kidnapped by five gun men thursday after he left a reception at a hotel in san a Yemen s capital and was heading for a it thanksgiving dinner at a friends Home. Mahoney chief of the . Information service in Yemen apparently is in Good condition. He is believed held in the Remote Oil Rich March province near the saudi arabian , rebels of pact Geneva a the georgian government and abkhazian separatists signed an Accord wednesday that is meant to pave the Way toward peace in the troubled former soviet Republic. It fell Short of a full fledged peace agreement. A memorandum of understanding was signed after two Days of face to face peace talks the first since abkhazian rebels forced georgian troops from Sukhui the provincial capital on the Black sea in september. Copies of the document were not w immediately available. However it was understood to provide for a cessation of hostilities Durr g peace negotiations an Exchange of prisoners and a return of refugees to their on Libya begin Cairo Egypt a . Sanctions aimed at forcing Libya to hand Over two suspects for trial in the bombing of pan am flight 103 took effect wednesday. There was no immediate reaction from the libyan government. No mention of the new tougher restrictions was made by the official news Agency Jana which has been reporting almost daily protests against the sanctions since they were adopted by the . . The new sanctions which freeze libyan assets abroad and ban sales of some Oil equipment to the country were approved in a Resolution proposed by the United states Britain and rate up in Russia Moscow a the number of slayings in Russia skyrocketed this year and business people and Bankers Are becoming the chief targets Law enforcement officials said tuesday. Drug addiction and drug related crimes also Are on the Rise in part because of Loose Borders. Between Russia and former soviet republics. In the first nine months of this year 21,731 _ _ homicides were committed in Russia a 35.5 percent increase Over the same period in 1992, Interior ministry spokesman Alexander Rostovtcev said. Rightist civil servants warned Bonn Germany a the government threatened tuesday to fire soldiers Mai carriers and other civil servants who belong to a Radical right party founded by a former nazi is Soldier. The Interior ministry said there Are indications Franz Schoenhuber a world War ii Soldier who Heads the republicans Quot pursues unconstitutional the ministry did not elaborate. News reports have linked some members of the parly to violent Neo Dazi barred from trial Cape town South Africa a police put up a barbed wire barricade wednesday and prevented youths from attending the trial of three Black men accused of murdering White american scholar Amy Biehl. Throughout the trial Young supporters of the defendants have yelled anti White slogans outside the courthouse. At one court session several youths in the courtroom giggled As witnesses described diehls dying moments. People unable to prove they were Over is were barred from entering the courthouse wednesday and a Soo Yard Wall of barbed wire prevented demonstrations at the building s Entrance. Biehl 27, was killed in a racially motivated attack while driving friends Home to the Gugu Letu Black township aug. 25. She was beaten and stabbed by a Black mob. Mongeni Mantina 21 Mzik Hona Nof Emela 22 and Vusumuzi Untamo 22, have pleaded innocent to charges of murder Public violence and robbery. 2 nurses killed in Sarajevo Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr shelling of Sarajevo s overburdened main Hospital killed two on duty nurses and wounded a doctor and two technicians . Officials reported wednesday. . Forces protested immediately to bosnian serbs. An unexploded round found at the scene will help identify the killers said it. Col. Bill Aikman Sarajevo based spokesman for . Forces. A a shells hit the emergency department for abdominal surgery on the second floor of one building in the Hospital Complex shortly before Midnight tuesday. Quot there was no electricity in the Hospital and it was cold Quot said Sacir Berkic 43, one of the wounded technicians. Quot we put All the patients in two Quot then i went to the staff room to Light a cigarette with my friends the two nurses Quot he said from his Hospital bed wednesday. Quot they were sitting on a Couch with Only a lamp for Light. Then a horrible explosion. "1 crawled through the darkness and climbed onto a patient s bed and started tearing the Sheet to make bandages to Stop my bleeding. Then two Guys found me in the dark Ana i was operated on for one and a half Berkic suffered shrapnel wounds. Kosovo Hospital exposed on the Heights above sniper raked Lions cemetery has consolidated Many medical facilities that were scattered about Sarajevo before the War. The City has one other Hospital. Staffers often work around the clock despite heavily damaged buildings shelling and frequent shortages of water and electricity. At least two dozen have been killed in the line of duty. Doctors at Kosovo often must perform surgery without aesthetics heat or electricity. Even so they claim a High Success rate. All but two of 20 children wounded in the shelling last month of a Sa-553-year-old Eton to get its first Ever foreign headmaster London apr Eton College the prestigious institution whose alumni include three of Britain last nine prime ministers and the poets Shelley and Gray will receive its first foreign headmaster since it was founded in 1440. John Lewis a new Sealander will take Over at Eton next fall. A. The school is located across the River thames from Windsor Castle 20 Miles West of London. It has educated Many of the country s political and military elite Over the centuries. Tuition is 12,000 pounds $17,760 a year and Competition among the Rich and powerful remains fierce for the 1,260 openings. Formerly an All boys school it began admitting girls in 1971, though their numbers Are Small. Lewis 51, has been headmaster of Geelong grammar school in Australia for 13 years. He was educated in Britain at Cambridge University. He will replace Eric Anderson 57, who has held the Post since 1980. The school announced the appointment tuesday. In addition to Percy Bysshe Shelley and Thomas Gray old estonians a As former students Are known a inc Lutje writers George Orwell Henry Fielding and Aldous Huxley and the economist John Maynard Keynes,4,500 radios on Way to besieged citizens Paris apr a French retail Chain and a journalists group have collected More than 4,500 portable radios for citizens of Sarajevo to be informed about How to move around their War torn City safely organizers of the drive said. The radios Are intended for Sarajevo residents particularly the aged and those living in isolated locations to receive information about food distribution and which areas of the City Are dangerous because of fighting and shelling. The radios have been sent to a military base at Orleans in North Central France which will Send them on to Sarajevo said a statement from reporters sans Fronti amp res reporters without Borders. Reporters sans Fronti amp res fac a nationwide Chain Selling books computers and audio visual equipment and the radio promotion group Vive la radio led the three Day Dave to collect the radios. Raj Evo elementary school were saved. There Are no official figures on the numbers of doctors nurses and other Kosovo staff members killed in Sarajevo s 19-month-old siege by serbian forces but Berkic Saidh had counted 25 to 30.., dec push for Trade pact deadline Brussels Belgium apr As the dec. 15 deadline closes in the european Community and the unit cd states intensified efforts wednesday to Settle a stub born dispute Over farm subsidies and save world Trade talks from collapse. . Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher and other senior american officials converged on the 12-nation Community for bargaining sessions that could decide the Fate of the global Trade we All realize there is very Little time left Quot said sir Leon Brittan the dec Trade chief As he met with . Trade representative Mickey Kantor for the Start of two Days of negotiations. Quot there Are a lot of issues to be resolved a the 116-nation Uruguay round of negotiations a Fiji joined last week a is the most ambitious attempt to overhaul the world trading system but has been stalled for nearly three years by the bitter farm fight. The talks Are being conducted in Geneva under the general agreement on tariffs and Trade the world body that governs Trade. The Clinton administration signalled tuesday that it might be willing to Compromise with France which has refused to accept hefty cuts in government payments to its 1 million banners. Miff inc a Dent Francois Mitterrand reaffirmed on wednesday his readiness to work out a Deal with Washington. Trains crash after derailment killing 4 Paris apr a passenger train jumped its tracks and crashed into another train North of Paris on wednesday leaving four people dead and at least 37 others injured. One of the three who were seriously injured died in a Hospital adding to the three already known dead. The victims included the Driver of the first train police report. The train derailed around 7 45 . At St. Leu do Esse rent near Beauvais about 50 Miles North of Paris. A it smashed into a waiting passenger train that had a few people on Board Quot said Kemy Duhaut Secretary general of the Oise regional government none of to said second appeared to have been injured the Accident was apparently caused by a Large Pound piece of Metal that had been left on the Ira regional director for the French rail in of Bruno Beaufus Ducrot. A a the piece could have been left on the tracks i routine maintenance he said. But other in of officials suggested it could 1 been placed there deliberately since another train passed the same Point a half hour earlier without i Dent
