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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 the stars and stripes world 1 thursday december 2,1993irish Leader plans to meet with major for peace talks from wire reports 1 Dublin Ireland a Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds said wednesday that he wit meet a Britain a John major on Friday for the first of a series of Anglo Irish summits to discuss peace efforts in Northern Ireland. Reynolds speaking in the Irish parliament described fridays visit with the British prime Inister As Quot a working meeting Quot and Satt 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  gets Eagle Back Moscow a president Boris n. Yeltsin signed a decree tuesday restoring the czarist double headed Eagle As Russia s state Emblem. He scrapped the soviet Era Seal a Globe framed by ears of Corn and Hung with a red Obbon inscribed with the marxist slogan Quot workers of the world unite Quot also out is the famed Hammer and sickle Symbol of the peasants and workers. 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 government Hopes to make Money by Selling the right to use the new Crest in trademarks Ana commercial logos said Rudolf Pik Hoya chairman of the commission that chose the double headed Eagle Over such proposals As bears and Birch Trees now maybe they la confess Warsaw Poland a thieves who stoic a pair of. Suitcases from a car May by 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. A on Christmas eve catholics break wafers to Exchange Good wishes a tradition observed in More than 90 percent 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. Police said Lee Hing 31, was taken to the Hospital where he was reported in satisfactory condition with injuries to his 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 its population drop by nearly 1 million people ill 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 23 declined by a fifth to 2,155,000. Quot 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 Quot 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 Germany is about 80 million. Tens of thousands of people left East Germany As communism was collapsing in 1989, and the migration to Western Germany is continuing. . Diplomat is freed by yemenite abductors san a Yemen a  american Diplomat Haynes r. Mahoney was freed by his yemenite captors on wednesday two Days after an earlier agreement to release him collapsed. Mahoney was released at 10 . Local time and was in route to the capital san a from the kidnappers desert stronghold near the saudi Border said Interior minister Ychaya Almutawakil the release was confirmed by . Information serv i. My gunmen last thursday Tion at a hotel in san a and was heading for a ice spokesman Rick Roberts. Mahoney 44, was kidnapped by five gunmen last thursday after he left a retch thanksgiving dinner at a Friend s Home. An agreement for his captors to free him monday collapsed moments before mediators were to drive him away. The negotiations resumed tuesday. The Interior minister said Mahoney was released Quot through the efforts exerted by influential sheiks in the Region who had insisted that the government should not conduct any military operation to release the kidnapped  an estimated 300 soldiers backed by six tanks and two helicopters were deployed near the kidnappers desert stronghold Abou 145 Miles Northeast of san a. Ago at the toot or Ai Nard Tain in the Remote desert province of March the ancient capital of the biblical Queen of Sheba. He seemed to have lost weight but the kidnappers take him around sightseeing Quot said Abdel Aziz Al say oaf editor in chief of the English language weekly Yemen times. Roberts who flew in from Riyadh saudi Arabia to replace Mahoney temporarily As Usis chief in Yemen said the kidnappers had Quot placed no demands on the .  he said the negotiations were strictly a matter Between the yemenite government and the kidnappers led by their tribal Chiel Sheik Mubarak Saleh Al Zaidi. The tribe was demanding Back pay for scores of tribesmen discharged from the military Over the past 10 years payments of undisclosed rental fees for an Oil pumping station in the tribe s territory and development plans for the Region. The Interior minister declined to give any details on the agreement to release Mahoney or on what if anything the government had promised the kidnappers. Mut Wakil said the Interior ministry would try to enforce the Law in regard to the kidnappers but declined to elaborate or to answer any other questions. The tribe that abducted Mahoney apparently was responsible for previous kidnappings in the Region including a group of 23 european hostages abducted last month and released after two Days. Tribesmen have seized some 200 foreigners Over the last 18 months mainly oilmen and tourists to Force the government to redress grievances. All the kidnapped foreigners were released. The longest anyone was held was 19 Days. Move Over Rudolph members of the american association Quot Santa Goodwill ride gondolas tuesday in Venice Italy. The san tas arrived in the Lagoon City to distribute Christmas presents to elderly add poor people. New Book reveals another Side of Hitler Bonn Germany up a Adolf Hitler did not want cakes or baby girls named after him failed to pay his dues to a dog owners club and believed Jesus was not a jew according to a new Book. 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 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 Goring 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. Some of the documents seem both macabre and laughable. Tote Leader of a nazi youth group who had written to Hitler was told the fihrer Quot wishes to inform you that he is convinced that Christ was not a jew a a thank you note reprinted in the Book expresses Hitler 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 a Hilerine Quot 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 Quot Adolf Hitler tart Quot Hitler loved dogs but failed to pay his alsatian association dues the Book also says  
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