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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 21, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 injured children adults evacuated from Bosnia Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr thirteen badly wounded children and 20 injured adults left War ravaged Bosnia on sunday for treatment in West pm Europe and the United states. The first medical evacuation in almost four months from battered Eastern Mostar and another dash through Battle lines from Zenia in Central Bosnia and Herzegovina came As leaders from the three warring sides prepared to search for Christmas peace in Geneva. ,. A spokesman suggested an agreement May emerge in talks next tuesday. But key issues remain unsolved such As sea Access for landlocked regions controlled by the bosnian government. Two children and 20 adults left Muslim held Mostar in 20 armoured vehicles driven by Spanish . Peacekeepers and organized by Sally Becker Quot a dubbed the Quot Angel of Mostar Quot for evacuating five a Relief worker wounded children last August. Eleven More children 10 from government held Zenia and one from nearby Kalanj travelled via Isoko and split Croatia to Ancona Italy said Salemka Lisinski of the . High commissioner for refugees in Zagreb Croatia. The Mostar evacuees accompanied by 22 relatives will go to Spain Italy and the United states she said. The other children and 18 relatives Are destined for austrian and american hospitals the evacuations followed . Complaints Friday that bureaucracy and shortage of foreign Hospital Beds were delaying evacuation of 89 critically wounded bosnian. The search for peace is to continue in Geneva today and in Brussels Belgium on wednesday. Quot we be got a revised agreement that we believe is broadly acceptable to the parties said John Mills spokesman for negotiators Tri Orvald Stoltenberg of the United nations and lord David Owen of the european Union who Are pressing for Christmas peace. The eur formerly the european Community changed its name when the maastricht treaty on european Unity took effect in november. Quot there Are still important matters to be resolved Quot Mills said in Geneva. Momcilo Krajisnik president of the self styled bosnian serbian parliament told a serbian radio station late sunday that bosnian serbs and croats agreed to make concessions to the muslims Quot but we concluded a Spanish . Soldier in act Kovalc Southern Croatia helps carry a wounded Muslim boy to an ambulance sunday for evacuation to Ancona Italy. They would pose new  any settlement Likely revises an Accord rejected in late september which would have divided Bosnia into three min states dominated by muslims scrubs and croats. Eur officials now seek More land and Access to the Adriatic sea and Sava River for the landlocked muslims. French defense minister Francois Leotard said France will decide by March 21 whether to keep its 6,000 peacekeepers a the largest single contingent a in former Yugoslavia. Film of atomic bomb Sites discovered Tokyo up a the uncut version of a documentary shot directly after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was found in the archives of a film company where it had been hidden for 48 years to prevent confiscation by the Allied Powers a japanese news service reported monday. The August 1945 film depicts the devastating aftermath of the nuclear raids that ended world War ii in the Pacific focusing on the ordeals of victims and Rescue measures a spokesman for Nippon eiga shins a co. Told the Kyodo news service. The 15 negative film reels with a total screening time of three hours were packed in a Metal Box labelled Quot atomic bombing and hidden in the company a archives. The company plans a nationwide release of the work on video to Mark the 50th anniversary of the bombings in 1995. A 30-member Crew from the company a wartime predecessor Nippon eiga Sha shot the material in 35 my format Between september 1945 and Early 1946 while accompanying a group of physicists on a Survey tour of minibus truck crash kills 17, injures 5 Johannesburg South Africa apr a crash Between an overcrowded minibus and a truck killed 17 people and injured five monday police said. The minibus was carrying 22 people several More than its recommended capacity when it collided with the truck on a desert Highway in the Southern Cape province said police capt. John Sterrenberg. All the dead were in the minibus he said. The cause of the crash was not known. The bombed areas Kyodo reported. Around january 1946, the general Headquarters of the Allied Powers banned further filming and ordered confiscation of All film that was not included in a 1946 . Documentary. One of the cameramen Sueo Induc 82, of Nagasaki and some of his colleagues secretly copied part of the material before handing it Over to the Allied Headquarters and concealed it at a processing Laboratory. A when the confiscation order was issued i thought this inevitably meant that the material would never be returned a Lenoue told Kyodo. The Crew members later returned the material to the archives of Nippon eiga shins a where the film remained undisturbed. Inoue said he Hopes the film will contribute to an expansion of the anti nuclear movement. Tsutomu Iwakura representing a citizens roup that has been urging the United states to turn Over the original material said the recovered documentary must be preserved for its historical importance. Jordan lobbies to enter worldwide Trade group. T a a a from wire reports Amman Jordan a Jordan has asked members of the general agreement on tariffs and Trade to support its membership in the world Trade body on sunday foreign minister Tala satan Al Hassan met separately with ambassadors from 27 asian african and Western countries including the United states and Canada to lobby for membership state run Petra news Agency reported. The news Agency did not say when Jordan fila nned to apply for membership in Gatt which ast week concluded a landmark round of negotiations on the elimination of Trade barriers. Jordan is the world s second largest exporter of phosphates after the United states with 15 percent of the world Market its annual exports Are estimated at $400 million. Argentine prisoners rebel Buenos Aires Argentina about 2,400 inmates in five prisons rioted sunday and were holding More than 65 guards hostage according to press reports. The inmates want Freedom for those who Hove been held More than two years without sentencing. They also complain of overcrowded cells and rough treatment of visitors the la Nacion and Catarin newspapers said. The revolts began Friday when inmates took Over cell blocks in the la Plata and Bahia Blanca prisons. Four guards and one inmate were wounded at la Plata officials said. No other acts of violence and no damage to any of the facilities were reported. 49 feared dead at sea Kuala Bumpur Malaysia a two fishing trawlers jammed with illegal immigrants collided off the malaysian coast in High Waves and 49 were feared drowned police said sunday. The missing indonesians had been aboard a boat that Sank after the collision saturday night police superintendent Olshak Abdul Aziz told reporters. He said 55 indonesians most of them from the. Other boat were Safe. The collision occurred off Disaru about 150 Miles Southeast of Kuala Bumpur. Turks attack kurd in Iraq d1yarbakir, Turkey air raids on havens for turkish kurdish rebels in Iraq killed about 200 guerrillas authorities in Southeastern Turkey reported sunday. 1 the strikes took place at Mazi Zhorni 15 Miles inside Iraq on saturday the regional governors office in Diyarbakir said. Last week Turkey said troops and helicopters killed about 100 rebels inside Iraq following a guerrilla attack on an army Post on the Border. Guerrillas of the Kurdistan workers party or pkg Are fighting for self Rule in Turkey s kurd dominated Southeast. More than 10,000 people have died in nearly a decade of fighting. Iran tightens video rentals Nicosia Cyprus a in its latest move to restrict Access to Western movies and music Iran s parliament has tightened controls on videotapes and audiotapes by requiring licenses for their distribution Tehran radio reported sunday. 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