European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday february 7, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9 a bomb debris smuggled on flights paper reports from wire reports London the foreign office says it will investigate a weekend report that radioactive debris from a bomb tests in the 1950s was smuggled to Britain in diplomatic bags on Qantas airways passenger flights. The observer newspaper reported sunday that nuclear dust gathered after Hydrogen bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific was flown without the airline s knowledge to Britain via Honolulu san Francisco and new York and was secretly approved by the state department in Washington. Military transport had been abandoned because scheduled flights were cheaper the observer said. The newspaper said the practice was disclosed Jet government records newly placed in the Public records office. The dust was sealed in Lead boxes but the report said it was impossible to know whether Qantas Crew or passengers were unknowingly subjected to radiation which the official records suggest could have been Many times above Safe Levels. A foreign office spokesman speaking anonymously said the department would examine the documents cited in the report. We will have to examine whether this actually took place he said. Mandela vows retaliation Johannesburg South Africa african National Congress president Nelson Mandela said sunday that his organization would retaliate against White supremacists suspected of bombing Anc offices and Homes of its members Johannesburg radio 702 reported. We cannot allow the right Wing to destroy our offices and the Homes of our members Mandela said during a Campaign Outing for april s All race election. The Anc blames White supremacists for at least 19 recent bomb blasts against Anc offices Homes of prominent Anc members electric pylons and railway lines in the Orange free state and Transvaal provinces. White supremacists have threatened violence to secure their demands for an Independent White state within the Borders of a Post apartheid South Africa a demand the Anc rejects. German militants arrested Detmold Germany police arrested 73 right and left Wing radicals saturday before a protest March against rightist extremism by 3,500 leftists were detail neck and weapons were seized from their cars simultaneously police raided the Headquarters of the right Wing nationalist front and arrested 49 people who allegedly were planning to attack the protesters. The nationalist front was banned in november 1992, but its militants Are still Active in Detmold in Central Kassel 48 Miles to the South 13 leftists went on trial Friday for severely beating 22-year-old Thomas Kubiak a nationalist front Leader. China says Trade ban hurts Beijing China has lost $230 million since it banned the Trade of Rhinoceros Horn and Tiger Bone a senior official said Jian minister of the state science and technology commission noted the losses in a meeting with Murray Hosking chairman of the convention on International Trade in endangered species. Jian did not explain How the losses were incurred but presumably it was by state owned Medicine factories. The Bones and horns were popular ingredients in traditional chinese Medicine and Are reputed to cure a wide Range of ailments. 4 wounded by Ira mortar Belfast Northern Ireland four soldiers were hospitalized after an Ira mortar hit their patrol vehicle "nr1v sunday authorities said. Three soldiers were hit by shrapnel but their wounds Are not life threatening police said. A fourth was treated for Shock. The mortar was hidden in Bushes on the outskirts of West Belfast and triggered by Remote control. It is a m Type of weapon the Ira has used in previous attacks a police spokesman said requesting anonymity. Irish Republican army has frequently targeted soldiers and police in its violent Campaign to end British Rule in Northern Ireland. ., Germany Vatican assailed by a Mirinovsky Moscow a continuing his string of Bombas tic attacks on the West russian nationalist Vladimir v. A Mirinovsky on saturday accused the United states Germany and the Vatican of instigating world War Iii against slays in the former Yugoslavia. A third world War against the slavs and the orthodox Faith has already been unleashed on the sly and it is being instigated by the United states Germany and the Catholic Vatican a Mirinovsky told an outdoor rally of about 500 supporters according to a report by the inter fax news Agency. He demanded . Sanctions against Serbia be lifted. According to inter fax a Mirinovsky also likened French president Francois Mitterrand to Adolf Hitler for his support of nato airstrikes on ser Bian positions around Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ". Accused the West of trying to kill serbs As part of a plot to encircle Russia with a Green Muslim accused russian president Boris n. Yeltsin of helping the West work out the mechanisms of rus Sia s extermination in Serbia. Yeltsin s government has supported International sanctions imposed on Serbia for fomenting warfare in Bosnia and has taken an Active role in peace efforts. Serbs and russians both slavs and orthodox christians historically Are close. Croats Are traditionally roman Catholic and the bosnian government is dominated by muslims. A Mirinovsky recently returned from a four Day tour of serbian dominated areas in the former Yugoslavia. Liberal democratic party Leader Vladimir v. Zhi Rinous by flanked by a bodyguard dressed in a serbian army uniform addresses a rally saturday in Moscow. During that visit he repeatedly asserted that any attack on Russia s serb Brothers was an attack on Russia. An estimated 200,000 people have been killed or Are missing since the bosnian War began in april 1992. A Mirinovsky also predicted his Liberal democratic party May definitely come to Power this year. It currently is the second largest faction in the russian parliament. Deadly eruption Indonesia s mount Semer in East Java spews out Mol ten Rock and Ash saturday. The 9,877-foot Volcano the highest Mountain on the Island of Java has been erupt ing since thursday. Lava has reportedly hit half a dozen villages flooded Rice melds and covered dozens of least seven people have been killed and about 2,000 others have fled their Homes. Thousands More arc still trapped by the lava and debris officials said. Vietnam yielding More . Remains Hanoi Vietnam a four Days after the United states lifted a 19-year Trade embargo against Viet Nam Hanoi is turning Over the remains of More Ameri cans in a repatriation ceremony today. Officials Are to announce the number of remains handed Over after today s ceremony at Noi Bai International Airport. While there have been similar ceremonies in the past this one took on added significance since presi Dent Clinton had made the lifting of the embargo con Tingent on Hanoi s cooperation in the fullest possible accounting of americans missing in action from the Vietnam War. Veterans groups and families of mias had strongly opposed the end of the embargo saying the United states would lose its leverage in forcing Viet Nam to help account for the More than 2,230 american mias. T3ut the United states withheld some carrots the big Gest of which is the restoration of diplomatic ties Bro Ken when communist North Vietnam Defeated the .-backed South in april 1975. The United states also did not immediately Grant Hanoi most favored nation Trade status which would lower tariffs on vietnamese imports to the United states and make them More competitive
