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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 7, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world tuesday december 7993�x-president reclaims office in venezuelan election from wire reports Caracas Venezuela a Rafael Caldera the grand old Man of venezuelan politics who is known for political integrity has been elected president. Caldera who was president from 196974, received 31 percent of the 5.7 million votes sunday defeating three rivals who each tallied 21 percent to 23 percent according to the state news Agency Van pics and the Al Nacional newspaper. Unlike the first time around Calder a a government will have to Deal with inflation recession and military unrest. President Carlos Andris Perez was suspended from office in May on charges that he misused some $17 million in Public funds Berlin Wall charges filed Berlin a prosecutors have charged the former chief of the East German Border police and five aides with manslaughter in the deaths of 18 people shot Down at the Berlin Wall and other Border control Points. The charges against Klaus Dieter Baumgarten and the other officials were announced sunday night by Uta pollster spokeswoman for the Berlin Justice authorities. The complaint says that after the aug. 13,1961, construction of the Wall Baumgarten and the others Quot gave orders to secure and Harden the Border. In doing so they knew refugees would be killed by the mines automatic shooting machines and troops they assigned to the Border it  cold toll hits 44 Moscow a exposure to cold has claimed 44 lives in Moscow alone this Winter the highest number of vict ims Over such a Short period in at least 15 years City health officials said monday. People have been dying at the rate of More than two per Day on the streets of the capital in a cold spell that began in mid november. A dozen people a Day arc a Cong hospitalized for frostbite Ana exposure compared with two a Day last  rip trains in India new Delhi India a bombs exploded in five trains As they sped across India on sunday night and monday morning killing one person and injuring at least 18 others the government said. In new Delhi a homemade bomb went off monday in a poor neighbourhood killing at least two people the United news of India news Agency reported. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts but the timing suggested religious extremists. A year ago dec.6, hindu radicals destroyed a mosque in Ayodhya which set off two months of communal riots across India that killed at least 2,000 people mostly  for ties Vietnam says Hanoi Vietnam a prime minister to Van kit told mondays opening session of the ninth National Assembly that Vietnam is ready to establish diplomatic relations with the United states without any preconditions. The americans broke off relations in april 1975 when communist North Vietnam captured Saigon the capital of South Vietnam. Quot we intend to close the past and look Forward to the future Quot kit said in a state of the country report. Quot we Are ready to establish Normal relations on the basis of Equality Mutual respect and no  but president Clinton has made the lifting of the 19-year Trade embargo against Vietnam a a prerequisite to establishing diplomatic relations a a contingent on a full accounting of americans missing in  fear u.s., poll says London a one out of five British travellers wont visit the United states because they Are afraid of violence or robbery according to a Survey released monday. The Survey by the Home and overseas insurance co. Ltd. Found that the United states scored 13th out of 42 countries in the Quot fear rankings with 21 percent saying they would not visit because of crimes against tourists.  about Florida a popular destination for the British More than half said they would be worried about travelling to the state a in View of the recent tourist murders there sex East German spy Given 6 years freed on bail Weir Berlin a closing out the cold wars most daring espionage career a court on monday convicted former communist East German intelligence Boss Markus Wolf of spying treason and bribery. 9 the duss Aldort court sentenced the 70-Ycarold Wolf to six years in prison a for running his ring of dreaded agents but let him stay free on Bond pending Appeal known As the Quot spy without a face for his elusive machinations Wolf inspired writers of spy thrillers. More recently he has been writing books of his own seeking to put the Best Light on his fabled career. Wolf operated East Germany a renowned spy apparatus for 33 years reaping fear and admiration during the tense Era when Washington and Moscow bristled with hostility for each other nuclear arms at the ready. He directed 500 spies in West Germany alone including a mole whose unmasking toppled chancellor10th letter bomb kits Vienna office hurting Secretary Vienna Austria apr a. Letter bomb exploded monday in a lawyers office in Vienna seriously wounding a Secretary. It was the 10th such device believed linked to anti foreigner sentiment. Vienna a mayor Helmut Zilk lost a thumb and left forefinger when a mail bomb blew up in  sunday night at his Home. Austrian leaders denounced the attacks calling for vigilance and political restraint to avoid increasing tension. The latest letter bomb exploded monday afternoon in an attorneys office seriously wounding one woman the Interior ministry said. Austrian radio said the Secretary was wounded on her face and one hand. There was no indication Why the lawyers office was targeted. Three other letter bombs were defused monday. They were addressed to Terezija Stoisits a member of the Small native austrian croatian Community and spokeswoman in parliament on minority rights for the austrian greens Johanna Dohnal minister for women a affairs and an employment office for foreigners. Police have made no arrests in the bomb incidents which started Friday. Four of the 10 letter bombs delivered since then have exploded injuring five people. The other bombs were detected and defused. Government and police officials have worried that the letter bombs Are linked to xenophobia fuelled in part by an influx of refugees from the former Yugoslavia which Borders Austria. The leadership of the governing austrian social democratic party denounced the letter bomb attacks As a cowardly and insidious Quot Willy Brandt in 1974. Wolf smiling throughout much of mondays proceedings said no had expected the verdict but maintained the court had no grounds to try him Wolf maintained that he had never Accra cd his country. His attorneys have asked Germany a supreme court to decide whether former East German agents May be tried on espionage charges. The ruling expected next year is Likely to be a landmark in Germany s efforts to put the former communists on trial for various mis deeds during the 40 years of stalinist Rule. Wolf held the rank of general lieutenant in the foreign espionage Wing of the East German secret service known informally As the Stasi. His agents used All Means available a from bugs to amorous adventures with lonely secretaries in Bonn a to run circles around the soviet blocks Western enemies. Wolf retired in 1986 and later showed up As a self proclaimed reformer . 4,1989, when pro democracy forces Drew More than 1 million people to a rally in East Berlin. He was roundly booed. As German reunification raced closer Wolf fled to his old friends in Moscow in september 1990, with German prosecutors hot on his Trail. After frantic but futile efforts to gain political Asylum in another country Wolf surrendered to German authorities in september 1991. Ian tech search near stonehenge London apr scientists using sophisticated equipment will search Fields surrounding stonehenge for prehistoric remains linked with the 4,000-year-old Stone Monument. Land on Salisbury Plain 90 Miles Southwest of London will be surveyed for features such As buried ditches pits and hearths said English heritage the caretaker of the Monument. If found they could increase knowledge of stonehenge a origins and use said Andrew David head of the Arche ometry Branch of English heritage. The double Circle of giant standing stones aligned on the rising Midsummer Sun is one of the worlds most famous ancient monuments. Historians believe it was a Center of worship and astronomical observations 2,000 years before the Advent of christianity. It is surrounded by about 450 ancient burial grounds and other archaeological Sites. The English heritage team will use two types of equipment to carry out the first full geophysical Survey of the area surrounding the Monument without disturbing the land. The first technique uses magnetometers which can find buried items by noting changes in the local magnetic Field. A second method measures contrasts in soil moisture which also will reveal buried features such As stones the tests will begin this month and be completed in the Spring. Serbs Shell Market kill 4, wound 18 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr serbs shelled a crowded Market in Sarajevo on monday leaving at least four people dead and 18 people wounded. The shelling came a Day after the first infantry clashes in weeks Between besieging serbian forces and the army of Bosnia a Muslim dominated government and just Days after the failure of the latest Effort to negotiate an end to 20 months of War. An associated press photographer Morten Hvaal said he saw the bodies of a Young woman and three men who were killed by shelling late monday morning that hit a Market and other Sites in the Central part of the City. Sixteen of the wounded were hit at the Market and two More were in the Western part of the City said a doctor on duty in the emergency Ward of Kosovo Hospital the Market was crowded with people shopping and trading for food cigarettes and clothing trying to survive a second Winter of War in Bosnia s capital. Over the weekend fog and ice virtually shut Down the International Airlift mainstay of Many of Sarajevo a 380,000 people. A Short time after the Market was shelled a mortar round exploded in a cemetery during a funeral Fot a 34-year-old woman and an older Man who were killed in shelling last week. There were no casualties at the funeral. Hvaal said the round hit less than 75 Yards from the mourners who scattered for cover  
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