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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 24, 1994 world 1 the stars and stripes Page 9 18 children in in from wire reports Cairo Egypt a a truck loaded with youngsters on their Way to visit relatives Graves skidded out of control and Sank in an irrigation canal killing 18 children and injuring six egyptian newspapers reported sunday. In keeping with an egyptian Muslim tradition of visiting the dead on the first Day of major religious feasts More than 40 children Ages 6 to 17 were loaded into a truck saturday to join their parents in the religious ritual. Parents of the children went in other vehicles. It was the first Day of id Al aha one of islam a holiest events when Muslim faithful head to Mecca saudi Arabia on pilgrimage. But in villages near Al Hedaya 50 Miles South of Cairo the Day turned into one of mourning As families gathered at hospitals to receive the bodies of their dead children. Blast kills Spanish officer Madrid Spain a an  officer was killed monday when his car exploded As he drove to work on a major Highway in an attack believed to have been carried out by the Basque separatist group Eta police said. News reports identified the officer As Miguel Peralta Ultreras 59. A. The reports indicated the explosion which snarled Rush hour traffic at 8 30 a.m., could have been activated by Remote control. No group claimed responsibility. However police said it bore the Hallmarks of Eta which has killed 736 people mostly Security Force members since it took up  in 1968 to win Independence for Spain a three province Northern Basque Region. Eta a Basque language acronym for Basque Homeland Ana Liberty often targets police military personnel and members of the civil guard a paramilitary Force that watches Borders patrols Rural areas and investigates terror attacks. Australian assault in Campbelltown Australia a a Man arrested by a task Force investigating the killings of seven backpackers once tried to abduct a British Hitchhiker and fired a shot at him prosecutors said monday. Ivan Robert Milat 49, a former truck Driver appeared in Campbelltown local court to face charges of armed robbery and firing a gun at a person. A after Milat was arrested sunday he was questioned in connection with the slayings of two britons three germans and two australian backpackers. The bodies of the seven victims were found Between september 1992 and november 1993 in the Clang to state Forest 60 Miles Southwest of Sydney. Their remains were recovered from shallow Graves at four Sites. Prosecutor Eddie Billett told the court that Milat picked up the 24-year-old British tourist on a Highway near Sydney in january 1990. Billett alleged that Milat drove to the Forest and pointed a pistol at his passenger. When the tourist fled on foot Milat fired a shot and ordered him Back in the car Billett said. The tourist was Able to Flag Down a car and escape. Milat is also accused of robbing the tourist whose name was not released r. Meanwhile several Hundred police monday searched Forest and nearby houses seeking evidence in the slayings. The bodies of Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke both 22-year-old britons were found in september 1992. James Gibson and Deborah Evrist both 19 and from Victoria state were found nearby in october 1993. A St november the body of Simone Schmidl 20, of Germany was found about four Miles from the others. A few Days later authorities recovered the bodies of Gabor Neugebauer 21, and Anja Habschied 20, both of Germany. A War museum Berlin a t a War museum operated for decades by the red  in East Berlin will be closed this month for a renovation that could also tone Down grim exhibits of nazi Germany a defeat. Photos at the museum on the unconditional capitulation of fascist Germany in the 1941-45 War show nazi defendants convicted at the Niernberg War crimes trials a after they were hanged. Another photo shows Hermann Goering Adolf a Hitler top Henchman who cheated the Hangman by poisoning himself grimacing in death. The museum will be refurbished starting sunday and reopen next year in time for the 50th anniversary of the German surrender in May 1945. Officials at a recent news conference  say which exhibits will remain after the overhaul by a joint russian German authority. The museum will show a a mixture of the old and Cor rect and the new and necessary a said maj. Gen. Viktor Yakimov of the culture department of the russian defense ministry the last of the 8 million troops who served under soviet and later russian flags in Germany will pull out this summer ending an Era of occupation. The Start of that Era is recalled at the museum located in the building where nazi Germany ratified its formal surrender. Many of the red  soldiers in Germany since world War ii have visited the two Story building in a former officers club at a nazi  engineering school in Karls Horst a District in the former East Berlin. It was part of the troops political education about the soviet  a Campaign against Germany they saw the grim Fate of nazi leaders and the room where Field marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the surrender May 9, 1945, before Allied  kill 1, damage Belfast City Hall Belfast Northern Ireland apr a Security guard died monday after being shot by two masked men and two other people were injured when an explosion rocked City Hall. No one immediately claimed responsibility in the attacks. The violence came four Days after the Irish Republican  a political ally sinn fein gave a guarded Welcome to Britain a response to questions about a British Irish peace plan for Northern Ireland. Belfast police said City Hall was damaged in the explosion about 2 40 . The extent of damage was not yet known. The British news Agency press association reported that the blast was close to an office used by sinn fein members of the Belfast City Council. Sinn fein is a Legal political party though it is Allied with the outlawed Ira which has waged an often violent Campaign against British Rule in Northern Ireland. The two injured people believed to be workers were hospitalized but their conditions were not immediately known. Shortly before the blast the masked men had shot the Security guard at a department store Complex that was undergoing renovations about 200 Yards away. Police later confirmed that the unidentified Man had died. Only 2 Days until mar Magazine in thursdays paper youll find info about Heidelberg Kaiserslautern Mannheim Karlsruhe Worms and. Pir Masens a everything in the 26th ask a Nat Cornu prs a hymn with a  Amof Lind Homo study program it i Pampu 11p training and . Of Amitta Romiz a Tell 4v.t� Misti foot u f omit for in com a a thai s yours to mud i Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr the latest Deal to ease tension in Gorade failed monday before the Ink was dry. . Officials said serbian troops refused to withdraw from the town were building new bunkers and wave restricting . Movements. Leaders of Bosnia a serbs signed an Accord saturday with the . Military commander it. Gen. Michael Rose pledging to pull about 150 militiamen from a 1.9-mile 3-Kilometer exclusion zone around Gorade. The troops were supposed to leave the town which is 35 Miles Southeast of Sarajevo by sunday. Bosnia a Muslim led government says it is boycotting peace talks to end the 25-month-Long War until the matter is resolved. Representatives of Bosnia a three warring factions have been invited to meet this week with envoys from the United states Russia France Britain and Germany who Are seeking a negotiated settlement to the War. Serbian leaders also informed . Military observers monday that they would not be permitted to move freely within a larger exclusion zone decreed by nato last month.  him. Uilk a mar i Vrh Tish be Send for free information 70dav in Germany Call 06302-92120 33 Neo nazis arrested at Campground Magdeburg Germany apr a Alice arrested 33 Neo nazis at a Camp found outside Magdeburg where some them took part in a rampage against i Reigner less than two weeks earlier Tho cities said monday. Police confiscated baseball bats tear is knives and banned world War i Mili by flags sunday after getting complaints of other campers that the youths were shouting Neo nazi slogans. 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