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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, December 20, 1993

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 stars and stripes world monday december 20,1993 Bonn Germany and Back a former Eastern German voters unfelt communist s bid to become mayor of the capital of Brandenburg state according to exit polls from a Runoff vote sunday Horst Gramlich the incumbent mayor of Potsdam for the social democrats won about 56 percent of the vote to de it feat Rolf Kutz Mutz of the party of democratic socialism the reformed communists according to the incas polling service. The surprising strength of the former communists in the first round of the Brandenburg local elections dec. 5 had alarmed the established parties and led to Calls for a ban on the sex communists they won 22 percent of the vote slightly More than Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democrats. The social democrats the main German opposition party won about 35 percent. The dec. 5 vote the first statewide elections in the East since just after unification in 1990, showed the High level of discontent in Germany a six Eastern states a a a a. Where half the in Kutz Mutz dust rial labor Force has been thrown out of work. Threats by West German business leaders to Boycott investment in cities that elected former communists May have contributed to the defeat of Kutz Mutz who appeared to have made Little improvement on he 43.5 percent of the vote he won dec. 5. Kutz Mutz a 46-year o1d economist had been uncovered As a former East German secret police informant just before the first vote but that apparently made no difference to voters. The party of democratic socialism picked up the Banner of the former East German communist party after it was dissolved Early in 1990. Many of its 145,000 members Are elderly former communists. It has virtually no support in West Germany. Besides Potsdam runoffs for mayor were being held in 84 Brandenburg cities and towns where no one won an absolute majority of the vote. The communists also were soundly whipped in Cottbus and Brandenburg. Rightist youths go on rampage Berlin up authorities in Eastern Germany said sunday that rightist youths demolished a nightclub and desecrated a Ceme Teiry with nazi symbols. Police said about 30 youths shouting Neo nazi slogans fought with guests and employees and smashed furniture at a nightclub in the Eastern German town of Wustrau. The youths fled. Police in the Village of Gross leu then in Brandenburg state said suspected Neo nazis had desecrated a cemetery with the nazi is Symbol which forms the letters with lightning bolts. Bbl to air show Mao As sex. By the los Angeles times. London a plans by the British broadcasting corp. To televise a documentary depicting the late chinese ruler Mao tse Tung As a sex obsessed tyrant have drawn severe objections from the chinese government but the bbl pledged saturday not to pull the broadcast. A the chinese said the British government should be a fully aware of the consequences if the documentary chairman Mao a the last emperor airs As scheduled on tonight a Tim watch Public affairs program. The program is expected to chill relations further a Between the British and chinese governments a which already Are frayed because of British insistence that additional democratic reforms be enacted in Hong Kong before the Colony is turned Over to China a control in 1997. Mao founder of communist China presided Over one Quarter of the worlds population from 1949 until his death in 1976. The 100th anniversary of his birth will be celebrated in China on dec. 26. Mao was married four times. In the program Mao a physician for 22 years or. I Zhihui who now lives in exile in Chicago claims the Leader had a secret sex life with numerous Young women. A in Public Mao espoused the cause of women a rights a bbl producer Jeremy Bennett said. A in private he collected used and discarded concubines in the  a the image promoted by the communist author a Man looks at a sculpture of China a revolutionary Leader Mao tse Tung at an exhibition in Beijing. The artwork is part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of Mao a birth. Tics of Mao As an ascetic almost Puritan figure could not according to the doctor have been further from the truth Quot Bennett said. The women according to the program were often recruited As stewardesses on Mao a special train. If he liked them they would be invited to retire with him for the night. In Beijing he would frolic with naked girls in his heated swimming Pool i said. A statement issued by the chinese embassy in London declared that the program a a. Is pure slander on chairman  pose deadly risk along Brittany beaches Paris apr strollers were warned to stay off several Brittany beaches sunday As explosives experts searched for dangerous detonators that washed ashore by the hundreds. More than 300 of the Cylinder shaped detonators have been found since Friday on beaches in two of Brittany a administrative departments. Finish re and mor  origin of the detonators was not known. Maritime officials said sunday that they probably did not come from the she Bro a freighter that lost 80 cargo containers last week during a storm in the English Channel. The swedish made detonators labelled As explosive and dangerous Are about 5 inches Long painted Gray and intended for use in construction work. Police said they could maim or kill if set off by someone who tinkered with them. The biggest Batch of the detonators a about 150 a was found Friday and saturday on the 18-mile pors Carn Beach near the town of Saint Gul Nole. More than 100 civil defense explosives experts military personnel police officers and firefighters joined in a search that continued sunday. More than 100 More detonators were found sunday on another group of beaches further South including  Ile. Earlier last week hundreds of Small sacks of pesticide from the a Herbron a cargo were found on beaches in the Region. Several dozen flasks of toxic germicide believed to be from the she Bro also were found. Norway holds israeli Rulo talks to break Mideast impasse Oslo Norway apr israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and senior Plo officials struggled sunday to break a deadlock Over implementing palestinian self Rule and there were reports in Israel that the talks were making headway. The israelis and the Palestine liberation organization returned Over the weekend to the same country mansion in southwestern Norway Borregaard Hov Edgard where they held Many of the backdoor talks that led to a Middle East peace Accord in september. Operating under a near Media blackout the two sides sought to Settle issues that Are holding up implementation of the Accord in time for a tentative midweek Summit Between israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Plo chairman Yasser Arafat a fall i can say is that the talks Are continuing Quot said Sverre Burgh Johansen a foreign ministry official who was leading the negotiations at the farm speaking by Telephone in Tunis Tunisia Plo executive committee member Ali Jushak said the palestinian delegation proposed a Compromise on the two main issues holding up agreement control of Border Crossings and the amount of land the palestinians would control around Jericho. Israeli army radio reported a much Progress Quot in the talks without providings4cvie % % % due to the increased value of the . Dollar we re Able to offer substantial Price reductions. Fantastic offers for groups of 20 or More phone direct dealing 0043-5352/3134. Fax/5390 for More information Contact. Tyrolean Tours  Box 6 a-6372 Oberndorf Tirol Austria or Contact your on base fit or  office 4 ski Austria boys and girls Send in your Christ Mas wish lists and he a personalised reply from Santa. Children s name will Ulso appear in t he St ars and St i pcs. Send be t re is to santa1 it radio a the stars and stripes Apo at 09211-4211 details. But Rabin speaking on israeli television was cautious. A even if More Concrete discussions ensue in Oslo the decision makers Are not there Quot he said. A everything will have to be brought Back Here. And Only then will we know whether there Are  some israeli reports said Peres and his team would return Home sunday but norwegian reports said the talks might continue into this morning. Jailed Escobar brother injured by letter bomb Bogota Colombia apr the imprisoned brother of slain drug lord Pablo Escobar was seriously wounded saturday when a letter bomb addressed to him exploded in jail prison authorities said. Local radio quoted Hospital officials As saying Roberto Escobar received injuries to an Eye and his Chest face and hands at the Tagui jail on the outskirts of Medellin. His wounds were not life threatening the officials said  
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