European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday april 22,1994 100 . Hanoi Vietnam apr More than 100 . Specialists on thursday began another in a series of searches to determine the Fate of americans missing in action from the Vietnam War the second major operation since president Clinton lifted a 19-year Trade embargo against Hanoi on feb. 3, . Officials have said that Progress i killings linked to mafia decrease 50% in Italy from wire reports Rome a mafia related killings in Italy dropped by 50 percent last year with 226 people slain in 1993 compared to 453 in 1992, according to government statistics released wednesday. The figures from the government statistics office 1stat and the ministry of the Interior showed the Overall homicide level for 1993 in Italy  27.1 percent to 1,065. The italian police have in recent years launched massive operations against the mafia in Italy culminating in the arrest in 1993 of Salvatore Riina a the alleged a Boss of Bosses of the mafia a who had been wanted for 23 years. Earlier this week police arrested More than 100 people in a vast anti mafia sweep concentrated in the North of Italy. On tuesday police arrested the former Palermo chief of police Matteo Cinque As part of a probe into the activities of the Camorrah the Naples based  kills Irish policeman Londonderry Northern Ireland a a police officer was killed and two others were seriously injured in a bomb attack wednesday night police a said. V the officers were on patrol in a police land Rover when they were attacked a police statement said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack in the largely commercial Waterside area of Northern Ireland a second largest City. The Irish Republican army has in the past targeted police and the army in Northern Ireland in its fight to end British  demilitarized Paris a Long used on the Battlefield and even by Marie Antoinette while in prison Carrier pigeons lost their military status in Reform approved by the Senate on wednesday. The legislation approved unanimously says the Interior and defense ministries will no longer regulate the use of Carrier pigeons. Instead Frances 900 Carrier Pigeon associations representing 28,000 Hobby buffs will regulate themselves the Law said. The Law reforming a 1957 code also crops the ban on import and Export of the Birds which have not been used militarily by France since 1962. A this primordial element of our history has today become a sport and a passion a said sen. Desire Deba Delaere. Carrier pigeons were used in France by the resistance against the nazis by the army during world War i and by Marie Antoinette in communicating with her advisers while in prison before the former Queens  arrests 2 iraqis Beirut Lebanon a lebanese detectives arrested two iraqi diplomats at the Beirut Airport thursday As they tried to Board a flight out of the country with other diplomats expelled Over the assassination of a leading iraqi dissident. Lebanon was already holding two iraqi diplomats cultural attach Mohammed Kazem fans and commercial attache Khalid Alwan Khalaf in the death of Taleb Ali Al Suheil. The iraqi opposition Leader was found dead of a Bullet through the heart in his Beirut apartment last week. He was 64. Lebanon accused iraqis intelligence department of ordering the killings but Baghdad refused to waive diplomatic immunity so the diplomats could be prosecuted. On monday Lebanon ordered the iraqi Mission closed and gave the staff until noon today to leave the country. A russian right wingers give the nazi Salute As they March in Moscow on wednesday to Mark Adolf Hitler s birthday. Neo nazi rally in Moscow celebrates Hitler s birthday Moscow apr about 15 Neo nazis marched through in Lei Ter of Moscow to Mark Adolf hitlers birthday wednesday chanting anti government and anti semitic slogans and scuffling with passers by. Dressed in fatigues the Neo nazis marched toward the Kremlin shouting a a Sieg Heil a a death to Yeltsin a a death to jews and a Long live  the demonstrators ranging from teen agers to men in their 50s, yelled at and punched several passers by observers said.  a handful of police officers observed the rally but did not interfere. No injuries were reported. The Neo nazis said they belonged to Alexander Barka shove a russian National Unity the largest of several Small Neo nazi groups. Markashov and othe hard line leaders were jailed for their role in armed resistance to president Boris Yeltsin a government last fall. They were released under an amnesty in february. Ultra nationalists fascists and other opposition groups have gained popularity amid growing dismay Over russians Market reforms which have led to a Sharp fall in living standards in St. Petersburg about 10 Neo nazis peacefully marked hitlers birthday talking to reporters in front of a Cathedral while seven busloads of police officers looked on. Group Leader Dmitry Bobrov 24, said the organization cancelled plans for a torchlight March because members were closely observed by agents from a Branch of the former Kab which was the soviet secret police. The group which says it has 100 members planned to meet privately to a drink Beer and watch a German documentary of the 1930s about the birth of the nazi party a Bobrov said. No demonstrations were immediately reported in Germany England recently pulled out of an exhibition soccer game in Berlin after reports that Neo nazis planned to use the match to Mark hitlers birthday. 6 suspected in attack on turks Home Bielefeld Germany a in the latest attack on foreigners in Germany six youths suspected of Neo nazi sympathies were seized after allegedly setting fire to the Home of 13 turks on Adolf hitlers birthday. The turks escaped unharmed. The youths were arrested shortly after wednesdays Blaze and Are being investigated for arson and attempted murder prosecutors said thursday. Witnesses saw the local youths near the House shortly before the fire started police spokesman Michael Waldhecker said. Investigators suspect the youths aged 14 to 16, carried out the wednesday night attack to Mark hitlers birthday Waldhecker said. The youths have made Radical right statements Dur ing questioning said Waldhecker adding that he did no to have details. The fire started when someone threw an incendiary device through a window of the top floor of the three Story building Waldhecker said a firefighters doused the flames. The House suffered about $88,000 damage and is not now habitable. The attack in Bielefeld about 60 Miles West of Hannover was similar to a firebombing last year in Solingen in Western Germany that killed five turks. Four youths Are on trial for that hate crime the worst since East and West Germany were unified in 1990. At least 30 people have died in Neo nazi attacks since unification. Join in new the fullest possible accounting of mias will weigh heavily in future relations Between Washington and Hanoi the officials say vietnamese cooperation has been excellent but still greater results must be achieved. President Clinton has called for a More cooperation and More answers before establishing diplomatic relations with Vietnam. As a first step the two sides have agreed to set up Liaison offices. American investigators and recovery teams along with their vietnamese counterparts began interviewing villagers and preparing to excavate burial and crash Sites in 15 provinces and in the country a three major cities a Hanoi to Chi Minh City and Haiphong. Some of the cases were along the to Chi Minh Trail a series of trails dirt roads and River Crossings through Western Vietnam and Laos that served As the communists major Supply route from the North to its troops fighting against the .-backed Southern forces. The . Mia office said the new operation is scheduled to last-34 Days