European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes world saturday april 23,1994 Battles Between clans rage around Mogadishu Airport from wire report Mogadishu Somalia the bodies of seven somalis were found in a Public Square Friday arrival clan members battled for the seventh Day around Mogadishu s Airport. The United nations which has had two peacekeepers killed and two wounded in Cross fire from the fighting said at least eight somalis have been killed and nearly 90 wounded. Somalian sources put the death toll at More than 20. It was not Clear whether the deaths of the seven were connected to the fighting Between the Habre factions of the Hatiye clan that have been at Odd for Many years. 55 kurdish rebels killed Ankara Turkey turkish troops killed 55 separatist kurdish guerrillas in clashes thursday apart of a widening crackdown on rebel operations officials  deaths brought the two Day total of rebels killedto90.forty-three people died in land and air attacks on bases at mount Ararat and ten Duruk Mountain near the iranian Border said gov. Dogan Hatipoglu of Eastern Agri  other kurdish guerrillas died in clashes in Bingol Hakkari Batman and Spirnak provinces the regional governor s office said no reports were available on possible government losses. V Jev Elry robbers kill 3 Moscow masked robbers killed three people thursday in a jewelry store Holdup in Southern Russia and police said an officer and on of the gunmen died in ensuing gunfire. The two armed men shot to death a policeman clerk and a customer while cleaning out the jewelry store in Krasnodar 750 Miles South of Moscow near the Lack sea the itar Tass news Agency reported. Police alerted by the shop s alarm system took after the robbers and a second police officer was shot to death in the car Chase. The robbers were finally cornered near a local factory where one died in a shootout with police itar Tass said. Corpse found intact Athens Greece Iran s official news Agency says archaeologists have found a Well preserved Corpse in a Salt mine dating Back 2,000 years. The eyes hair Beard garments and other item son the Corpse were still intact providing scholars with a wealth of new material on ancient civilizations in the  thinker cuts out pain London Andy Bryant believes positive thought can mask pain. He believes it so firmly that he had a Vasectomy Friday without an aesthetic. I feel great said Bryant who put himself into a hypnotic trance for the tour minute operation. There was Only one moment that was a bit worrying when i had not realized the blood Supply in Ray stomach would be affected and i Felt sensation of the nerve being Cut so i gave myself another instruction the 36-year-old hair car consultant told reporters. Surgeon Tim Black at the Marie slopes clinic said Bryant was a Good patient. He did flinch once and i told him not to worry. Assoon As i said Calm Down he was Fine Black said. By invitation Only London car passengers without reservations won t be travelling through the Channel Tunnel Between France and Britain until october the Tunnel operators said thursday. Weeks ago eur Tunnel scrapped any Hopes of beginning its passenger automobile shuttles May 7, the Day after the official inauguration by Queen Elizabeth ii and French president Francois Mitterrand but the Tunnel operators had said for some Tim that they will be taking passengers through As soon As june or july. They said thursday however that these initial trips will be at Low capacity and the passengers will be mostly journalists an shareholders who can get aboard by invitation Only. Eur Tunnel executives Hope this will give the some free publicity As they Iron out bugs in the often delayed Tunnel that has thus far Cost 10 billion pounds around $15 billion. Singapore Page 12 lashes by the Washington Singapore in a Case related to that of a american convicted of vandalism a judge thursday sentenced a 17-year-old Hong Kong youth to 12 lashes with a Cane and eight months in jail for Spray painting cars.-.  the sentence nearly equivalent to punishment sometimes meted out in Singapore to rapists and other violent criminals was handed Down by judge . Re Medios the same magistrate who last month sentenced american Michael p. Fay to six lashes and four months in prison. "   -.-. ,. / Fay 18, of Kettering Ohio is in jail awaiting the out come of a clemency Appeal to Singapore s president to aver caning. Shiu Chi to one of five youths charged in a spate of vandalism last year had pleaded not guilty and said confession was beaten out of him by police. The judge refused to throw out the confession however and gave Shiu the minimum three strokes in each of four vandalism charges under mandatory sentencing guidelines. Shiu who was 16 at the time of the offence also was fined$970. / a / v.,\. My son and i will riot admit guilt no matter How seriously he is punished said Shiu s father after the sen tence was announced. He said the family would Appeal. Fay pleaded guilty last month to two vandalism counts after plea bargaining reduced the charges against him that were punishable by caning. He was sentenced to three strokes on each count four month sin prison and a $2,230 Fine. Shiu s sentence appeared Likely to bolster the Singa pore government s denials that Fay was being singled out for harsh punishment in the Case because authorities wanted to Send a message about american social decay. However it seemed to underscore a perception that defendants who contest the charges against themare liable to get tougher treatment. President Ong Teng Cheong received Fay s 13-Pageclemency Appeal wednesday. As a figurehead who lacks the authority to decide such matters independently Ong must seek the advice of  the govern ment of prime minister Goh Chok Tong is considered unlikely to Retreat from Public stands in support of the sentence however. Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew now a senior minister in the Cabinet said in Australia on wednes Day that caning inherited from British colonial rulers had helped keep Singapore s streets Safe. The punish ment is usually reserved for violent crimes but was extended to vandalism involving paint in the 1960s in Abid by Lee to keep political opponents from Spray painting anti government Graffiti on the City s Walls. Of 2 in Rhein again both big Berlin a almost nine years ago a . Serv iceman was slain and his id card was used to get a car bomb onto Rhein main a Germany. It exploded killing two americans and injuring 23. On thursday German authorities took two Steps inthe Case involving members of the fanatical red army faction a  chief Federal prosecutor s office in Karlsruhe announced that Birgit Hegefeld arrested last year in bungled shootout in bad Kleinen that embarrassed the German Security forces was accused of buying the caused in the bombing. And in a Frankfurt court prosecutors demanded life in prison for Eva Haule who was accused of triple murder for her alleged involvement in the  two women Are the Only people to be charged or arrested in the Case and neither was accused of carry ing out the actual attack on aug. 8, 1985, at Rhein main just South of Frankfurt. Haule 39, declared when her trial opened last no vember that she would t testify against other red army faction members. Hegefeld 37, has made similarly defiant statements since her arrest last june. Their group grew out of 1960s leftist student move ment to launch murderous attacks on the . Military and German business  is already serving a 15-year sentence for an at tempted bombing of a nato training area in bavarian 1984. Arrested in 1986, she has never betrayed her comrades. The charges against her in the Rhein Mailbombing Stem from notes in her handwriting found in another prison cell that mentioned our attack on Theair base prosecutors say. Prosecutors on thursday named Hegefeld in a string of indictments leading with three counts of murder former alleged Purchase of the car used in the Rhein main bombing. The indictments say she also helped plot the murder of . Army spec. Edward Pimental of new York City to use his military id card to enter the  who died in the bombing were airman 1st class Frank h. Scarton 19, of Woodhaven mich., and Becky Joe Bristol a civil Ian air Force employee and the wife of a senior airman from san Antonio. Hegefeld was also indicted for attempted Mur Der in the 1988 shooting attack on Hans Tietmeyer Novar the head of Ger Many s Central Bank the Bundesbank and then the top civil servant in the finance ministry. The prosecutor s office said Hoge Feld rented a car used in the attack. Hegefeld a further indictment accuses her of helping to cause the bombing that ruined a new prison in March 1993, a few Days before it was to have opened at Weiter Stadt Germany the shootout in which Hegefeld was arrested last june was a serious embarrassment for Germany s Secu Rity forces which have had few recent successes against the tiny and secretive group. The chief Federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl and Interior minister Rudolf Seiters resigned under heavy criticism in the Wake of the incident. Kennedy in Law wins another reversal Belfast Northern Ireland a an appeals court thursday overturned the murder conviction of Kennedy in Law Paul Hill who previously won his free Dom from a wrongful imprisonment for Ira bombing sin Britain. Hill .39, now married to a daughter of the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy argued that physical and psycho logical abuse by English police led him to confess to helping Kidnap and kill a former British Soldier in Bel fast in 1974. He and three co defendants in the bombing cases spent 15 years in prison in Britain before being freed by a London appeals court in 1989. That Case was the basis for the movie in the name of the father. The bombing Case was one of a series of appeals Vic tories for people convicted of Irish Republican army attacks in the 1970s and led to the appointment of a government commission to review Britain s Justice sys. Tern. Lord chief Justice sir Brian Hutton said the Belfast court was not convinced that Hill had always told the truth. But he said the Burden was on the state to satisfy us beyond a reasonable doubt that Hill s charge of mistreatment was untrue. The murder victim s widow Maureen Hall said she was disappointed with the verdict and claimed the Kennedy circus put extra pressure on the judges. As the ruling was read Hill sat Between his wife Courtney Kennedy and her Mother Ethel Kennedy. He clasped hands with each in turn when his conviction was overturned. Other Kennedy relatives including . Rep. Joe Kennedy d-mass., attended Appeal hearings in february and March