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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes e world thursday december 2,1993somalia Dan leaders Start gathering in Addis Ababa from wire reports Addis Ababa Ethiopia a Somalia a rival clan leaders  confrontational stances wednesday As they prepared to meet face to face. Alt Mahdi mohair id arrived in Addis Ababa for the meet inc. With Mohamed Farrah aided and the leaders of Somalia a other factions a senior ethiopian official said. Aided was planning to show up today for the gathering said Abdulmejid Hussein ethiopians minister for external economic relations. Omar Jess who leads one of three clan based militias Allied under aided accused . Troops wednesday of committing a unprecedented destruction and said they obstructed humanitarian , 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 understand ing 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 immediately , it was understood to provide Tor a cessation of hostilities during peace negotiations a Exchange of prisoners and a return of refugees to their Homes. Sanctions on Libya begin Cairo Egypt a . Sanctions aimed at forcing Libya to hand voc r 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 Oft he new tougher restrictions was made by the official news Agency Janai which has been reporting almost daily protests against the sanctions since they were adopted by the . Security Council on nov. 11. The hew 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 arid Bankers Are becoming the chief targets Law enforcement officials said tuesday. Drug addiction and drug related crimes also Are on t he 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 Alix aide r Rostov Sci  civil servants warned Bonn Germany a the government threatened tuesday to fire soldiers mail 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 a pursues unconstitutional goals a the ministry did nut elaborate. News reports have linked some members of the party to violent Neo nazi  barred from trial cafe town South Africa a police put up a barbed wire barricade wednesday and prevented youths from attending the trial of three Clack men accused of Murde ring while american scholar Amy Piehi throughout the trial Young supporters of the defendants have yelled anti White slogans outside the courthouse. At one court session several youths lit the courtroom giggled As witnesses described biehls dying moments. People unable to prove they were Over 18 were Barrea from entering the courthouse wednesday and a 500-Yard Wall of barbed wire prevented demonstrations at the buildings Entrance. Biehl 27, was killed in a racially motivated attack while driving friends Home to the Gug Ulutu 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 by shells at Hospital in Sarajevo Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina Aoji a shelling of Sarajevo a 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. Shells hit the emergency department for abdominal surgery on the second floor of one building in the Hospital Complex shortly before Midnight tuesday. A there was no electricity in the Hospital and it was cold a said Sadr Berkic 43, one of the wounded technicians. A we put All the patients in two  a then i went to the staff room to Light a cigarette with my friends the two nurses a he said from hts Hospital bed wednesday. A 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 Elatic nth a 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 a Eton College the prestigious institution whose alumni include three of. Britain a 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. _ the school is located across the River thames from Windsor Castle 20 Miles West of London. It has educated Many of the country a 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 Tor 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 include writers George Orwell Henry i Riding 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. Hie 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 citral France which will Send them on to Sarajevo said a statement from reporters sans front acres reporters without Borders. Reporters sans Fronti ires fac a nationwide Chain Selling books computers and audio visual equipment and the radio promotion group Vive la radio led the three Day drive to collect the radios. Raj Evo elementary school were  Are no official figures on the numbers of doctors nurses and other Kosovo staff members killed in Sarajevo 19-month-old siege by serbian forces but. Berkic said he had counted 25 to 30.., dec push for Trade pact before deadline Brussels Belgium Apas the dec. 15 deadline closes in the european Community and the United states intensified efforts wednesday to Settle a stubborn 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 Effort. A we All realize Thuo is very Little time left a said sir Leon Brittan the dec Trade chief As he met with . Trade representative Mickey Kantor for the Start of two Days of negotiations. A there Are a lot of issues to be  the 116-nation Uruguay round of negotiations 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 Farmers. French president 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  train derailed around 7 45 . At St. Leu do Ess Crent near Beauvais about 50 Miles North of Paris. It smashed into a waiting passenger train that had a few people on Board a said re my Duhaut Secretary general of the Oise regional government. None of Thos on the second train appeared to have been injured h said the Accident was apparently caused by a Large 21 Pound piece of Metal that had been left on the track said the regional director for the French railway in of bring Beaufils Ducrot. The piece could have been left on the tracks after routine maintenance he  other in of officials suggested it could hav been placed there deliberately since another train a passed the same Point a half hour earlier without inc Dent  
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