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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 15, ,1993 the stars and stripes Page 5 a 1 a. A a a a. At least 30 die in Cairo Boulder slide Cairo Egypt apr thirty people were killed tuesday when a Mountain face collapsed and boulders the size of houses rained onto one of Cairo a poorest sections. Police said about 10 other people were missing. Dozens of victims were trapped under debris after a 200-Yard Wall of Limestone Rock buckled about 4 . Police and soldiers worked late into tuesday night to Rescue survivors and pull out bodies. An 8-year-old boy Anton Lamai was rescued from the rubble 10 hours after the collapse. His father March said three other sons were kilted by the falling boulders according to Egypt a Middle East news Agency. Rescue workers were hampered by mud from the previous Days rain Ana bulldozers sent to Clear away debris could not get into some narrow streets of the Al Zaraya area which Means a a alleys in arabic. The death toll reached 30 by evening the Interior ministry said. Brig. Osama Mohammed Mansour head of the local police said 21 people were rescued from the debris. At least seven others in Homes at the fringe of the collapse also were injured. The boulders a some of them 20 feet High a demolished nine buildings and damaged four or five others beyond re Kair. Each two and three Story building used several families. Subhi Sader 21, whose House was left with a huge Hole said he was awakened by what sounded like an explosion. A we thought it was an earthquake a Sader said a i woke up my Brothers and my Sisters. When All the dust went away we looked and saw that the Mountain had fallen it was not immediately dear what caused the collapse of the Wall of Rock rubble is cleared tuesday from a Section of Cairo Egypt after boulders from a Mountain broke free and flattened a residential area. From the Moat Tam Hills which separate ened by quarrying. Mondays Rains could 12th Century the Eastern Edge of Cairo from the de have loosened the Rock further. Sert. The areas chief landmark is a popular to Many of Cairo a zab Atcon a those who Citadel which was built make to Cir living collecting garbage and but few tourists visit Al Zaraya Home Rescue workers said that the face of tourist site the. _ _ _ the Mountain apparently had been weak by the Muslim conqueror Saladin in the Selling whatever can be  reportedly links Jackson boys los Angeles a a Michael Jackson a former maid reportedly claimed to have seen him in a Bath and Shower with naked boys and said the superstar would sometimes rub youngsters against his Crotch. Blanca Francia who worked for Jackson for five years said she quit in disgust two years ago according to the los Angeles times and the to show hard copy. Citing unidentified sources the times reported tuesday that Francia told investigators that she saw a naked Jackson with at least two nude boys once in a Whirlpool Bath and once in a Shower. She also said she found Jackson and an. Other boy together in a sleeping bag the times said. Francia is not the first employee to accuse Jackson. Five former Security guards for Jackson sued the entertainer last month claiming they were fired because they knew of his alleged activities with boys. Jackson 35, remained in seclusion at his Nev Erland ranch monday he returned Friday from Europe where he underwent treatment for an addiction to painkillers. Francia is scheduled to give a deposition today in a lawsuit accusing Jackson of molesting a 13-year-old boy. Jackson has said he is innocent. Francia told hard copy that Jackson called boys a Rubba Quot and would rub them against his a private  she said she cleaned a a a hideaway where Jackson would escape with Young friends. �?o1 saw Little things like rubbing a boy against his body. He had boys sitting in hts Lap and rubbing them a she told the to show. It was not Clear from the hard copy interview whether Jackson was clothed at the tune. Hard copy producer Cheri Brownlee who read portions of the interview to the associated press refused to say whether Francia was paid. Aided seeks release of backers can chief says he d accept . Army flight again Addis Ababa Ethiopia a with peace talks broken off somalian clan Leader Mohamed fan Rah aided turned his attention again tuesday to winning the release of eight followers held by . Forces in Mogadishu. He said the continued detention of three top aides and five other supporters would a not help our relations with the United states.�?�. The members of aided a a clan faction were arrested in connection with fighting in Southern Mogadishu that killed dozens of . Troops including 24 americans from june into Early october. . Troops had tried to track Down aided who was accused of ordering attacks by his militia fighters. But the . Security Council lifted an arrest warrant for aided in an attempt to draw him Back into efforts to work out a political settlement among Somalia s Many clan based factions. Aided said his faction would continue talks with the United states despite the detentions but he said the release of his aides a would solve Many  aided whose faction controls Southern Mogadishu has refused to Deal with , officials who took Over leadership of the somalian peacekeeping Mission from the United states last May. He has accused . Officials of favouring his rivals. Aided boycotted a three Day ,-sponsored humanitarian conference in Addis Ababa earlier this month to press his demand that his supporters be freed. But he did participate in informal talks that ethiopian president Melcs Zenawi arranged with other somalian leaders. Those talks collapsed sunday and representatives of other factions went Home. It was unclear when or How aided would return to Mogadishu he said tuesday that he would accept . Travel assistance like the flight on a . Plane that brought him to Ethiopia on dec. 2. But . Military officials in Somalia already said there were no plans to Fly him Back to Mogadishu. It Black Hawk hit by army officials flak Washington apr defense Secretary Les Aspin is considering phasing out the army a Black Hawk helicopter program lawmakers say. Seeking to head off that possibility 28 senators wrote to Aspin and urged him to save the program. They argued that terminating the Black Hawk would threaten a an entire Industrial base network Quot much of it based in Stratford conn., at Sikorsky aircraft with its 11,000 employees. A it appears that the department of defense May be preparing to abandon the future of Utility helicopter production a the lawmakers wrote Aspin. They noted that the Black Hawk is the Only army Utility helicopter in production and that Sikorsky is supported by a network of suppliers and subcontractors that Are a perilously close to  Sikorsky delivered the first Black Hawk to the army in 1978 in an Effort to replace the Huey helicopters used in Vietnam. Since then the Black Hawk has become the army a main mobility Workhorse. The letter responds to a confidential recommendation by the army to Aspin that Black Hawk purchases be phased out the army is in the second year of a five year contract with Sikorsky for 60 Black Hawks per year. This years defense budget contains $234 million for the second round of purchases. A congressional source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the army setting new spending priorities is asking to make a Radical reductions in the 60 that it is supposed to buy next year and to buy no Black Hawks in the final two years of the contract. Sikorsky aircraft a division of United technologies corp., apparently heard of the army recommendation and rallied its allies on Capitol Hill  
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