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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world monday april 18,1994 harrods to charge for seat of luxury from wire reports London London s exclusive department store harrods confirmed saturday that it will charge 1 Pound about $ 1.50 for the use of four new luxury lavatories which Are currently being refurbished at a Cost of $1.5 million. The toilets located near the first floor fashion department will have Marble floors and Walls High Quality Woodwork subdued lighting phones blow dryers and uniformed attendants. The refurbished lavatories will Bethe last word in luxury a harrods spokesman told the Sun newspaper. I m sure customers won t object to the fee which is very reasonable forthe first class  eco charter planned the Hague Netherlands Mikhail Gorbachev signed an Accord saturday for creation of an Earth charter aimed at establishing an International environmental Protection  former soviet Leader signed the Accord As head of the environmental group Green Cross International which will work with a similar organization the Costa Rica based Earth Council to draw up the charter. Our civilization is going through a crisis which threatens to undermine the foundations of existence of Humankind he said. Cannibalism probed Recife Brazil reports that poor people have been eating human flesh discarded by hospitals in a dump outside this City have local officials dodging the blame. The government of the province of Pernambuco where Recife is located denied jurisdiction saturday in handling the matter saying treatment of the trash site is strictly the responsibility of municipal officials. But Ana Paula Soter the health minister in Olinda the town adjacent to Recife where the dump is located has charged Pernambuco officials with authority in the Case. Poor people scour the dump Nolinda 960 Miles Northeast of Brasilia for food and some reportedly have found human flesh and eaten it. Several Recife hospitals Deposit waste at the site. Israelis visit Oman Muscat Oman in a breakthrough for the Middle Eastern peace process the first official Israel visitors to a persian Gulf nation arrived in Oman for a conference on water resources. The israelis were among 44 delegations to the conference on water the scarce resource that experts fear could become the next Point of conflict in the Region. Oman like the rest of the Gulf were places we Only read about said Yossi Gal spokesman for the Israel delegation. Bombs Rock Athens Athens Greece time bomb destroyed two cars belonging to official French interests in Central Athens Early sunday police said. Noone was injured. The two bombs went off within five minutes of each other under two cars parked near the French Institute a cultural Center. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts. N. Ireland party snubs offer on reunification London a Northern Ireland s pro British protestants can have a guaranteed share of Power if they agree to reunite Ireland the Irish Republic s Leader said saturday. One main party re buffed his offer however. Albert Reynolds offered politicians from both sides of Northern Ireland s political religious Divide a guaranteed 30 percent of places in an enlarged govern ment and throughout the Public sector it was the first time that Reynolds prime minister of Ireland since 1992, de tailed his Hopes for ending 73 years of Irish partition. But Northern Ireland s largest pro British party the Ulster unionists Dis missed Reynolds remarks As fantasy. This is absolute nonsense. How would he get 30 percent in the government for a Start what he says would be unworkable in any democratic society said William Ross an Ulster unionist member of the British parliament. There is not going to be an  Reland Republic so he is whistling in the  Reynolds speaking to his ruling fianna fail party in a Dublin suburb pledged to allow citizens of a United Ireland to re Tain dual British Irish citizenship. He also promised to consider a devolved parliament in Belfast that would maintain Many Powers in Northern ire land where pro British protestants hold majority. Reynolds was careful not to insult sinn fein the Ira s Legal political allies. Sinn fein has been at the Center of the Northern Ireland peace debate since Reynolds and British prime minister John major last december offered the party a place in negotiations if the Irish Republican army first abandoned its 24 year Campaign against British Rule. Sinn fein with 12 percent of the vote in Northern Ireland has refused to accept the offer. The Ira observed a three Day cease fire earlier this month but both governments dismissed the Ges Ture immediately followed by bomb and gun attacks As inadequate for talks./. -"., v women ordained despite protest London a a minister opposed to women priests shouted his Defiance saturday As the Church of England s London diocese  first female priests. More than 2,000 people crowded St. Paul s Cathedral in Central Lon Don to see the 36 Church of eng land deacons be elevated to the Priesthood. The Church began or Daining women in other English dioceses last month. The Bishop of Willesden the right Rev. Graham Dow asked the congregation is it your will that they should be ordained priest the vast majority replied it is but the Rev. Paul Williamson was among those who shouted no earlier on saturday Williamson lost a Legal Appeal to have the Ordi nations stopped. High court judge Dame Mary Arden rejected his Case ruling that under Church Law there was no utterly fundamental or insuperable objection to the ordination of  palestinians reportedly linked to firebombing Munich Germany a Western intelligence officials believe palestinian radicals firebombed a synagogue in Linbeck last month an attack initially blamed on German rightists a newsmagazine reported saturday. The March 25 attack in the Northern port City caused no injuries but charred two rooms where the City s Small jewish Community was to sit Down for the Syna Gogue s first passover seder or feast italian rightists fill top posts in parliament by the new York times Rome bruised but victorious after his first Battle with parliament Silvio Berlusconi on saturday secured the speakers posts in both houses of parliament for his handpicked candidates paving the Way for his own nomination As prime minister in the next few Days. After two Days of fractious bargaining the chamber of deputies elected As its speaker Irene Pivetti a 31-year-old fresh Man legislator from the separatist North Ern league while the Senate chose a 49 year old economist Carlo Scognamiglio from Berlusconi s forza italia party. I m Happy about the strength and compactness of the majority and the Choice of something new Berlusconi said of the results. Parliament convened Friday for the first time since Italy s March 27-28 elections in which Berlusconi s party and its right Wing allies won enough seats to form the next coalition government. Parliament s Choice of Pivetti and Scogna Miglio both backed by the rightist Alli Ance that links forza italia the Northern league and the Neo fascist National Al Liance was a distinct break with italian political traditions. Under Italy s traditional system of Power sharing the posts of speaker in the two houses of parliament have often gone to the opposition which for All the postwar period has been led by the pow Erful communist party and its successor the democratic party of the left. Thus Pivetti succeeds Giorgio Napolitano a communist Deputy elected in 1992, since the holocaust. Right Wing radicals were suspected. But on saturday the Munich based focus newsmagazine said that very re liable sources in Western intelligence agencies believe militant palestinians were responsible for the Linbeck attack. Prosecutors investigating the Case say they have no evidence of a Middle East Ern link to the attack it said. Embach Pring spectacular Bazaar Friday april 29 11 . To 8 a a saturday april 30 10 . To 8 . Sunday May 1 11 . To 3 . 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