European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 22, 1994 world the stars and. Stripes Page 13n. Yemen Battles Ori after truce fails san a Yemen apr Northern Yemen abandoned its cease fire just hours after it took effect saturday saying the Southern part of the country had attacked its forces on several fronts. The North announced tie cease fire after rejecting the South a decision to secede from their 4-year-old Union and said it would hold its fire for three Days beginning saturday. Hours later president Ali Abdullah Saleh a northerner called a news conference to say the civil War that began nearly three weeks ago was continuing saturday. A this morning the separatist forces , so fighting is going on. On Many War fronts a Saleh said m his Palace Garden. Saleh said the secession decision by vice president Ali Salem Al Beith a southerner was a made by a sick person suffering from  a we As Well As our armed forces and our yemeni people will Neyer accept this secessionist decision a he said in an earlier speech broadcast at Dawn saturday on san a  and South Yemen United in 1990, but their armies never merged and disputes Between the two leaderships led to civil War. Southern leaders favor splitting from the Union and exploiting new found Oil Fields while Northern leaders want to keep the Union even through Force. Fridays unexpected announcement of the truce had come As the North said that its forces were closing in on a major Southern base whose capture would open the Way to the South a regional capital of Aden. Saleh gave no further details of the alleged violations of the cease fire. It was not Clear whether he was trying to imply that the South had promised to stick to the truce. No such announcement has come from Southern a officials. A a a v there was no immediate Independent account of any hostilities on the War fronts saturday. Saleh warned foreign countries not to recognize the South a declaration of Independence. Today is the anniversary of the 1990 merger. A any Arab country or Friendly state that May try to sympathize with this declaration puts itself in the rank of enemy of the people of Yemen a Saleh said. He also said Southern forces were being resupplied from outside the country. Two Tupoljev aircraft landed saturday morning in the Southern port town of Mukalla carrying two tanks each and ships were Docking there bringing More Materiel for the South Saleh claimed. He did hot specify which country was sending the weapons. The former marxist South Yemen was almost exclusively armed by the soviet  any state that is extending this kind of help is interfering in the internal affairs of Yemen a Saleh said adding that a these Craft will be considered enemy ships and  the Southern leaders made their secession announcement after a meeting in the had Ramaut Region at least 209 Miles Northeast of Aden. The location could indicate that the top leadership in the South has fled Aden to escape capture and retribution from the North. Northern leaders say they will put the Southern leaders on trial. Rioting protestant youths clash with Belfast police Grafton a latest thriller a Belfast Northern Ireland apr hundreds of masked protestant youths went on rampages across Belfast late Friday and Early saturday in the worst riots in Northern Ireland this year. Police said at least one Ritter was believed shot in the violence in which youths fired guns and Molotov cocktails at police and hijacked cars at gunpoint the hostility of protestant youths was unusual in a Community that professes loyalty to Britain including the Predoti i partly protestant police. It apparently was meant to protest recent police efforts against pro British protestant paramilitary groups. In recent weeks paramilitaries rooted in working class protestant districts have been striking Catholic targets with ease. The a a loyalist groups claim such attacks discourage the Irish Republican army supported in Catholic areas from intensifying its Campaign against British Rule of Northern Ireland. In the riots in Belfast the widespread use of firearms and coordinated plans of attack suggested the latest outbreak of violence was orchestrated by one of the provinces two main outlawed loyalist groups the Ulster defense association or the Ulster Volunteer Force. In a rare show of Force against protestant loyalists police fired Back at the rioters and believed they shot one in the Ball Sillan area of North Belfast said the Royal Ulster constabulary Northern Ireland a police Force. Police also made at least two arrests. German who killed toddler gets 9 years Bamberg Germany a a Mother who killed her 18-month-old son kicking him in anger and cutting up the body to conceal the crime was convicted by a German court Friday and sentenced to nine years in prison. In one of Germany a most shocking cases of child abuse her husband Frank received a seven year sentence for Iping garbage dumpster. Gisela Hofmann admitted that she kicked her son Tobias in an angry fit Over autopsy workers sold brain parts officials say Ven i helping dispose of their songs body in a the child a crying hitting him in the hip. Although the child a condition worsened the parents did not Call for help. Tobias died in front of them 12 hours later of internal bleeding aug. 3. 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