European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday january 20,1994 russian transport plane crashes near base killing 6 from wire reports Moscow a huge military transport plan crashed wednesday in Russia killing six people authorities said. The crash was the third aviation disaster in less than a month in the former soviet Union raising concern that economic woes Are causing a decline in flight safety. The an-22 plane a soviet Era Behemoth capable of airlifting tanks crashed at 11 40 . In a Field near Tver 95 Miles North of Moscow it was carrying nine passengers and Crew members. , a spokesman for the state committee for emergency situations said the an 22 took off at 11 13 from a military base near Tver. Seven minutes later the Pilot told ground controllers there had been an explosion aboard the four engine Turboprop plane. Twenty minutes after that it crashed. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. Authorities declined to say whether the plane was carrying ammunition or other explosives. 5 koreans stabbed to death Seoul South Korea a 36-year-old Man believed to be mentally ill stabbed five people to death in Seoul on wednesday police said. Cho Heng a Carpenter went to a House where he rented a room until 10 Days ago wielding a knife and killed the House owner and three other family members according to police. As he ran away from the House he stabbed a woman to death police said. ".". He was arrested by police half an hour later. Cho told police that he killed the family members of the House because its owner told him to vacate prematurely the room he had rented. He also said the family bugged him and put him into a mental Hospital for 10 Days. Police said Cho was hospitalised twice last year for treatment of a mental disorder. Hashish seized in Morocco Rabat Morocco customs officers have seized 3,135 pounds of hashish hidden in cans of sardines and olives authorities announced wednesday. The seizure took place at the port of Tangier aboard a truck driven by Pawel Skowronski a pole who was arrested and charged with drug smuggling. The Date of the seizure was not disclosed. Morocco is a major source of hashish for Europe while Poland has grown into a key drug trafficking Center. Authorities said the cans had labels of a polish company Alfa a Gdansk. French probe Mirage crash Bayonne France the French air Force opened an investigation wednesday into the crash of a Jet Trainer near an agricultural High school that caused no injuries. Two Mirage f1-ct warplanes collided during training Maneu vers tuesday evening. One plane made an emergency Landing at the Mont de Marsan air base but the other slammed into a wooded area at the school. The explosion opened a Crater near school buildings which were unoccupied at the time. The Pilot bailed out and was unhurt. Military authorities gave no preliminary cause for the collision which took place at Cher Raute a Village near Bayonne a City in Southern France thatis 480 Miles Southwest of Paris. Major quake hits Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia a a major earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale struck the irian Jaya Region of Southeastern Indonesia wednesday morning. But there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Officials from . Geological Survey and the Royal Hong Kong Observatory said a severe earthquake occurred about 62 Miles beneath Manol Chari on Indonesia s Side of new Guinea or 2,000 Miles from Jakarta. Workers rushed out of their offices in panic in Sabire about 37 Miles Southwest of the quake Scenter the official Ankara news Agency reported. The uses said it was the largest earthquake in More than two decades to hit Indonesia. Zap Atista army for National liberation guerrillas show up in a Jungle to meet with Media representatives saturday. Mexican state governor quits As guerrillas press demands san Cristobal de Las Cas As Mexico athe governor of Chiapas slate where a violent rebellion broke out this month resigned tuesday and his successor pledged Justice and democracy in the impoverished re Gion v. The government s peace envoy meanwhile said that he has been communicating with the rebels through Mes sages but that no direct talks have been set up. Gov. Elmar Setzer Marseille turned in his resignation to the state legislature saying he wanted to contribute to peace in the  Setzer who was in office a year had been accused of being a weak Leader with close ties to the powerful land owners who arc among the targets of the revolt. He was the latest in a series of High ranking mexican officials to leave office following the revolt that broke outran. 1 and left at least 107 dead. Interior minister Patrocinio Gonzalez Garrido who was accused of condoning human rights abuses while governor of Chiapas resigned last week. Javier Lopez Moreno a Federal congressman was elected by the Chiapas legislature to replace Setzer. I Hope that after this painful Awakening we can come out with a great Victory Lor Chiapas Savici Lopez whose term ends after August elections. The rebel Zap Atista army for National liberation named in Honor of Emiliano Zapata a hero of the 1910 mexican revolution say the guerrillas Are fighting forthe rights of indians a majority in impoverished Chiapas. Earlier tuesday the special commissioner for negotiations with the Indian rebels Manuel Camacho soils told. Reporters that he had received new statements from the guerrillas. He did not disclose the contents of the Mes sages or of messages he spoke of receiving monday. We recognize the need for changes and the grave irreversible consequences for Mexico if violence continues he said repeating hints that the government May be will ing to go part Way toward meeting rebel demands for eco nomic and political changes. _. Still the envoy did not respond to rebel complaints that villages were being strafed by military aircraft despite a . Copters used at first to help quell rebellion Washington a the mexican government used .-supplied helicopters to help put Down a rebellion in Southern Mexico until the Clinton administration demanded that the practice be stopped . Officials say. The helicopters had been supplied by the United states for drug enforcement. But in fighting the rebellion they were used for logistical noncombat purposes state department spokesman David Johnson acknowledged tuesday. Word of the helicopter use came even As administration officials were privately expressing concerns to president Carlos Salinas de Gortari about the importance of respecting human rights in Chiapas the poor Rural Region where the rebellion began Jan 1, other officials said. Johnson said the helicopters which had been operated by the mexican attorney general s office were placed under the control of the mexican military and used in Chiapas. At . Insistence the government of Mexico ordered the. Helicopters withdrawn from service in Chiapas on Jan. 13," Johnson said. Unilateral government cease fire issued last week. Ca Macho noted that the government had offered the cease fire and an amnesty for rebels who put Down their arms. The rebels have said that they Are respecting the cease fire but that air attacks were continuing. Every night military planes drop bombs said a rebel Leader who identified himself As maj. Mario in an inter View monday with the associated press from a Jungle hideout East of san Cristobal de Las Casas. Probe of Cut hand capped girl ends Halle Germany a officials have dropped an investigation involving a girl who apparently Cut a Swastika in her Check and claimed Neo nazis had at tacked her a prosecutor said tuesday. The 17-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair claimed Jan. 10 that she had been attacked by skin Heads. The report horrified germans and led politicians to demand Quick action. But on Friday Sachsen Anhalt state prosecutor Juer Gen Hossfeld said the mutilation apparently was self inflicted. On monday he said the girl identified Only As hike j., was suffering from psychological problems. Accord ing to Hossfeld she admitted under questioning that she could have scratched the Swastika on her own left Check but claimed she had not purposely been in  no charges will be filed Hossfeld said but declined to give other details in the interest of the  attacks by rightist extremists and Neo nazis mostly against foreigners have plagued Germany since unification in 1990. The Federal office for the Protection of the Constitution recorded 1,814 such attacks in 1993, including eight deaths