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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and strips world monday May 2, 1994 prisoners accused of being rwandan government troops arc held Friday by rebels in Kami about five Miles North cast of Kigali. The rebels captured a group of Barracks that held up to 900 members of the government armed forces. . Camp overwhelmed by hordes of rwandans children watch in horror As stunt flying pair crashes from wire reports Sydney Australia a a stunt learn including a Pilot and woman Wing Walker died sunday w Hen their Tiger Moth biplane crashed and burst into flames As they entertained children terminally ill with cancer the horrified children watched As the plane with the woman standing strapped to a Frame on the upper Wing lost Power shortly after Takeoff then crashed and exploded. ,. The 58-year-old aircraft took off in the Hunter Valley 100 Miles North of Sydney with the woman standing on the upper Wing in what authorities said was a routine performance by the experienced aerobatic team. When the plane was 200 to 300 feet in the air the engine began to sputter and the plane swerved. Sharply As the Pilot fought for control. The plane then went into a deep spiral and nose dived. / transsexuals seek to wed London a a Man who used to be a woman and a woman who used to be a Man have appealed to Queen Elizabeth ii to allow them to get married As their new genders British newspapers said saturday. \ the transsexual couple from Northeast England find it unacceptable that under British Law they can Only marry As the gender on their birth certificate. Jancen Newham used to be a North sea trav Lerman named John before her sex change operation and David Willis used to be a housewife and gave birth to a daughter eight years ago. The couple met five years ago just before John was transformed into Janeen and they have been living together in Lincolnshire. Divers fail to find bodies Mombasa Kenya a divers searched in vain Quot saturday for bodies of people missing after an. Overloaded ferry capsized and Sank 30  from Shore at least 44 people were believed trapped beneath the ferry when it capsized Friday morning said Sajjad Rashid chairman of the Kenya ports authority. Police officials speaking on condition of anonymity said 42 bodies had been recovered and at least 71 people were known to have survived. Because the ferry capsized so close to the Dock police said others May have swum to Shore safely. A a leftists blocked from rally Nurnberg Germany a police detained about 100 leftists saturday for demonstrating against a rally by the far right republicans that courts had approved. A police in the bavarian City of in Finberg 90 Miles North of Munich blocked a leftist crowd from marching to the republicans rally site and then took away 89 people who sat Down in the Street. About a dozen were detained at the republicans rally for throwing eggs and Rotten fruit or for fighting police said. No injuries were reported and the people in police custody were to be released later police said. Suspected extremists killed Cairo Egypt a police killed seven people suspected of being islamic extremists in a Dawn ambush saturday in Southern Egypt Security officials said. It was the heaviest blow against the militants since feb. 28, when police killed eight extremist suspects from Southern Egypt in a raid. Police said they seized a machine gun three rifles and five pounds of explosive powder from the hideout. Rescuers find sole survivor Jakarta Indonesia a rescuers have found alive one of 11 people who were on a passenger plane that crashed in rough terrain in West. Kalimantan a week ago the local search and Rescue Agency said sunday. The sole survivor of the crash Nur Inland fit Riani was found six Days after a bn-2a propeller plane from the private Dirga Tara air serv ice went Down in bad weather at mount Saran said a search and Rescue officer in the provinces capital of pontianak. Nur was the Only Surv Ivor in tuesdays crash of the British made Britten Norman propeller plane. She was among 11 people including the Pilot and a baby passenger. Ngara Tanzania apr Relief workers struggled sunday to Cope with a Quarter million rain soaked Rufu. Gees who found Sanctum from the Bloodbath in Rwanda at a crowded Camp in Tanzania. A it is quite a mess a said or. Ettienne Krug the medical coordinator at the Camp. A two Hundred and fifty thousand people is like a Small City and we have nothing organized. . Officials had anticipated an influx of refugees from Rwanda Tanzania s neighbor but were stunned by the size of the exodus that took place in the space of 24 hours thursday and Friday. \ a we went Down to the Border crossing. Thursday afternoon on a routine Check and when we looked across the Hills on the other Side of the River were streaming with people a said Maureen Connolly an emergency officer with the . High commissioner for refugees a it was amazing breathtaking a she added. A it was quite frightening really a said Bradley guar rant of the , world food program. Because of an earlier crisis in another neighbouring country Burundi the United nations the International committee of the red Cross and some private Agen second Book accuses atom bomb scientist Rome apr a Leader of the american team that raced to develop the atomic bomb passed on nuclear secrets to the soviets in visits during world War ii according to a new Book by the son of a4pp Kremlin spy the Book excerpted in the italian newspaper corriere Della Sera on saturday is the second Book this year local into question j. Robert Oppenheimer a loyalty to the United Stales and the Manhattan project bomb Effort. The author of the latest Book Sergo Beria contends Oppe theimer came to Moscow several times Between 1939 and 1943 to collaborate with the russian secret service to further the development of the atomic bomb. Beriau a Book my father Lavrenti Beria is scheduled to be released in Moscow on May 20. Beria claims his father one of soviet Leader Josef Stalin a super spies a hosted Oppenheimer at least once. Last month a Book by Pavel Anatoli Evich Sud Opla Tov formerly of the soviet unions Kab came out in the United states. Special tasks a the memoirs of an. Unearned witness a a soviet spymaster includes Alle Gat ions Oppenheimer and other Manhattan project physicists such As Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi passed on secrets to the soviets to avoid a Power imbalance that could Lead to another world War. Cies had Between 30 and 40 staffers and supplies on hand in Ngara a Small Remote Northwestern tanzanian town. A but it Wasny to enough. Guerrant said available food stocks meant to feed 50,000 people for two weeks will last the expanded refugee population Only two Days. _ _ the first food distribution is scheduled today and Guerrant predicted that it would be a chaotic and disorderly because of the huge number of people to be fed and the few Relief workers on hand to do it. The world food program has 58,000 metric tons of food in the pipeline enough food to feed 1.2 million people for two months a but the first shipments will not arrive for Days. To provide adequate sanitation Krug figures Relief workers Wilt have to dig 10,000 latrines. Minimum daily food requirements Are put at 100 metric tons of grains 30 metric tons of Beans 60 metric tons of Oil and 1 metric ton of Salt. Thousands of refugees who made it into Tanzania before rwandan rebels sealed the Border saturday morning were still trudging in the rain sunday walking the 10 Miles from the Frontier to the Camp. N. Korean reactor won t be monitored Vienna Austria apr because of Condi Lions imposed by North Korea the United nations nuclear Agency has dropped plans to Send inspectors there to Monitor the critical refuelling of a reactor a spokesman said saturday. Inspectors had hoped to determine this week whether any spent fuel from the reactor previously might have been reprocessed to make plutonium for nuclear weapons. But spokesman Hans Friedrich Meyer of the International atomic Energy Agency said terms set out in a message received Friday night from North Korea were unsatisfactory. He did not elaborate. The message was a response to a request the Agency sent on april 26 after the North had tentatively agreed to allow inspectors to be present for the refuelling. . Defense Secretary William Perry said previously that spent fuel rods to be removed from the experimental reactor could yield enough Plutonic  to make four to five nuclear bombs. \  
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