European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes world thursday january 6,1994 11 killed in Venezuela trying to escape from jail from wire report Caracas Venezuela eleven inmates trying to escape were shot to death by National guardsmen tuesday in the second eruption of violence at a venezuelan prison in As Many halt of the 40 prisoners who escaped tuesday from the jail in Maracay were still at Large said the National guard commander in the City 60 Miles West of , col. Augusto Davila Navas reported that 11 fleeing prisoners were killed by guard gunfire an that three guardsmen were wounded. The carnage in Maracay came As doctors nearly 400 Miles away worked to identify More than 100 corpses from the deadliest prison riot in Venezuela s history. Storm hampers sea search Halifax Nova Scotia storm swept seas forced rescuers to curtail the search wednesday for36 Crew members of a greek owned Ore Carrier who Are feared dead after their ship Sank in the North half dozen merchant vessels assisting in the search were sent on their Way but two Canadian military aircraft and a coast guard vessel remained in the area. Officials were to decide when darkness fell wednesday whether to abandon the tuesday the coast guard ship picked up two empty life rafts in a churning sea All but dashing Hopes of finding survivors of the greek owne Marika 7. A 25-Man life raft known to have been aboard the ship before it Sank was unaccounted ship went Down in a storm saturday about 930 Miles East of Newfoundland. Asylum seekers decline Bonn Germany the number of people seeking Asylum in Germany dropped by More than 26 percent to 323,000 people in 1993, the Interior ministry said drop is thought to be linked to a tightening of Laws july 1 that make it More difficult to claim Asylum in Germany. Faulty Jet repairs blamed Moscow the russian jetliner that crashed and burned in Siberia this week reportedly was overloaded and improperly itar Tass news Agency quoted unidentified sources tuesday As saying the plane was carrying 20tons More than its allotted weight which May have contributed to the Cras Hithe main cause however appears to have been recent faulty repairs to one of the Jet s three engines the Agency said. The engine caught fire monday after the plane took off from Irkutsk cutting off fuel to the other two engines and causing the plane to go out of control itar Tass said. The crash wiled at least 125 people. Water taxis face woes Amsterdam Netherlands the water taxis in this Venice of the ? North Are running into a rare navigation problem what with the High water and the Low of our boats got stuck under the Bridge at Munt Square Annelies Koopman of the Hollan International tour company said wednesday. Now we avoid this area and take other of rain and the Runoff of the recent Northern european flooding have conspired to raise the water level in the City s 93 Miles of canals up to 6.25 inches above May not seem like much but it s sufficient to raise the City s canal boats and water taxis jus enough to hit some of the hundreds of antique Iron Bridges that Span the canals. Dad kills 5 children self Osnabrock Germany a 35-year-old jobless russian immigrant killed his five children with knife then took his own life Early wednesday after his wife walked out authorities three girls and two boys were stabbed or had their throats Cut As they Lay in bed said chief Cit prosecutor Wulf Eberhard Hennings. Their Ages ranged from 4 to 12. The Man then slashed himself and set a fire in the fourth floor apartment Hennings said probably dying of smoke wife 33, left the apartment tuesday after an argument telling her husband she wanted to separate the prosecutor said. She Learned of the killings from a news report and was in Shock. Massive Hunt for my As starts today in Vietnam Hanoi Vietnam a the United states today is launching its largest search Mission for americans missing in action since the end of the War. The operation comes at a time when the United states is assessing the entire Issue of mias and consid ering when and How to move ahead in lifting its 19-year Trade embargo against its former enemy. Some Western diplomats and businessmen anticipate such a move will be made this year. A dozen . Companies already have registered to bid for about $300 million in internationally financed Highway projects Fol lowing an easing of the embargo last september by president Clinton. Army maj. Gen. Thomas h. Necdham commander of the american search operation said a review of the Mia situation was under Way in Washington. Clinton has made further Steps toward renewing Trade and diplomatic relations with Vietnam contingent on Hanoi s Progress in the fullest possible accounting of the 2,239 americans still unaccounted for. Some veterans organizations and Mia family Mem Bers oppose renewed ties with Vietnam just now claim ing Hanoi continues to withhold information As Well As conceded the vietnamese could do More. The vietnamese could keep looking for documents he said i encourage them at every Point tory to find More still he does t believe the government is holding Back remains. But there Are individuals that have come across re Mains that know where remains Are but Are hoping and hoping that at some Point the United states will buy them he said. The . Policy is not to pay for remains. Army it. Col. David l. Fredrikson a spokesman forthe operation said it would be the largest search mis Sion since the Vietnam War ended in 1975. When Viet Nam first allowed the United states to search for re Mains in 1988, there were Only three men to conduct investigations. The 23-Day operation that begins today will involve eight teams of 84 americans including four excavation teams plus their vietnamese counterparts. Passengers take cover outside a bus after hearing gunfire near san Cristobal de Las Casas Mexico on tuesday vials said at least 93 people were killed in four Days of fighting Between soldiers and Indian peasant rebels. Government offers to negotiate As mexican rebels head for Hills san crist6bal de Las Cas As Mexico a the government offered wednesday to hold talks on end ing an Indian peasant uprising but insisted the insurgent first disarm free hostages and identify their leaders. Indian rebels who Are protesting the conditions of peasants have retreated into Mexico s Southern Hills As thousands of government soldiers fight to extinguish the new year s rebellion. At dusk tuesday army planes bombed a poor neigh boyhood near a military base South of this town. Wit Nesses saw five warplanes and counted seven were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. Eloy Cantu Segovia a top adviser to Interior min ister Patrocinio Gonzalez said wednesday that the planes were summoned by troops who had been sur rounded by rebels. Thus this Means the army was Only defending itself. It was not a punitive action he said that before talks can take place the rebels must cease hostilities turn Over their arms including 3,000 pounds of dynamite stolen from the state Oil monopoly Lemex the Day before the uprising identify their leaders and release kidnapped official who spoke on condition of Anonym Ity said he imagined the rebels would hear terms of the offer by radio. So far they have made no Public response to requests for tuesday night Cantu blamed the uprising on extremists including some salvadorans and guatemalans who he said were manipulating the mayan indians inthe poor Region. It s an indigenous group in the hands of violent professionals he said. Four Els trained the statement said the rebels pulled out of three towns they occupied on new year s Day. The army reported sniping continued in oco Singo scene of the fiercest fighting and in some other areas. The rebels calling themselves the Zap Atista army formational liberation Are protesting injustices in Chiapas a state plagued by poverty illiteracy and chronic land Dis Putes. They appeared to have some 1,000 army had about 14,000 soldiers in Chiapas the Independent Excelsior news Agency residents said they had hidden in their houses for three Days afraid to go out even for food. Some said rebels had looted their Homes
