European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 16 the stars stripes monday june 6,1994bosnians boycotting talks with serbs . Claims from wire reports 1 of Geneva a . Peacekeepers sunday gave up a four Day attempt to begin cease fire talks Between bosnian serbs the bosnian government because of a government Boycott a spokesman said. . Spokesman Michael Williams said bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic was unmoved by the peacekeepers assessment that a . Exclusion zone around the Eastern Muslim enclave of Gorade was Clear of armed serbs. Ganic told . Officials that serbs were located in two previously unmentioned Sites but Williams said that peacekeepers checked that there was Only one site. Williams said the site slightly straddled the Edge of the 1.9-mile 3kiiomcter zone posing no threat to collapses in China Hong Kong a an unfinished five Story building collapsed in Southern China killing at least two people injuring More than 60 saturday news reports in Hong Kong said. Others were feared trapped in the rubble of the Hong Kong owned factory building the reports said. The incident occurred in Lon gang about 12 Miles Northeast of Zhenzhen a Boom City bordering Hong Kong. Zhenzhen other South chinese cities have suffered several Industrial disasters in the past year. Poor safety standards have been noted. An official spokesman in Zhenzhen was quoted by Hong Kong radio television As saying an initial investigation suggested illegal structures on top of the factory were to rocks Taiwan Taipei Taiwan a a Strong earthquake jolted Taiwan on sunday triggering a landslide that blocked traffic on a Highway on the Eastern Side of the Island. The quake occurred at 9 09 . And had a preliminary magnitude of 6, the Central weather Bureau said. Its epicentre was under the sea about 20 Miles South of Han a City about 50 Miles South of Taipei. Buildings in Taipei swayed police said one Man in the City was Cut by Glass on Iris thigh when a piece of furniture in his House toppled. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries. Police said the landslide blocked traffic on a Highway linking Ilan he alien counties. The earthquake was also Felt in Okinawa other Southern japanese islands.32 Burn to death on bus Karachi Pakistan a All 32 passengers of a bus that caught fire saturday near the Southern pakistani City of Hyderabad were burned to death officials in Karachi capital of the Southern Singh province said the bus caught fire while going to the town of Tando Jam near Hyderabad which is about 105 Miles North of Karachi. The cause of the fire has not been determined they said. There were 15 children among the victims. The provincial government has ordered an inquiry to determine the cause of the fire. Singh has been suffering from ethnic violence for several years Many people have been killed in attacks on buses to open Royal Tomb Moscow a the Tomb of the younger brother of russians last Czar will be opened so genetic tests can be done by experts identifying the remains of the slain Monarch the newspaper Izvestia reported saturday. After a series of sophisticated tests British experts concluded last year that Bones found in a pit outside Yekaterinburg in 1991 were those of Czar Nicholas ii his wife three of his five children. The Czar his family were slain by bolsheviks in 1918. Although their remains have been identified officials fear the russian Public still has doubts Izvestia said. In a bid to ease those doubts investigators want to compare genetic material from grand Prince Georgy Alexandrvich with genetic material from the Czar s Bones Izvestia said. The Prince died in 1899 of consumption. The newspaper report did not say when the Tomb would be opened. Corrugated steel a plastic Tarp protect a mayan Tomb at the Palenque ruins die Temple of the inscriptions is at left rare Tomb of mayan Noble discovered in Mexico City up mexican archaeologists have uncovered the Tomb of a mayan Noble buried in one of the temples of the Palenque Complex in the Southern state of Chiapas. The Tomb of the unidentified Noble who is thought to have lived sometime Between . 600 800, is near the Temple of the inscriptions where the burial chamber of the mayan King Pacal was discovered in the 1950s, officials said thursday. Until wednesday when archaeologists opened the unadorned sarcophagus in Palenque 660 Miles Southeast of Mexico City the Pacal Tomb had been thought to be the Only one of its Type in Central America Mexico. A it was truly impressive a said Carlos Silva director of Mexico a National Institute of anthropology history in Chiapas a the sarcophagus was a deep red color from the cinnabar that the mayans had used in funeral the tombs have created something of a group for allowing Ankara Turkey apr an International human rights croup condemned the turkish government saturday for tacitly allowing the common but illegal practice of virginity exams for unmarried women. The new York based human rights watch urged the government to denounce the exams which Are most commonly conducted on women in police custody also have been forced on Hospital patients students applicants for government jobs. The group also called on medical workers to help Stop the practice. Women in police custody also have been raped stripped otherwise sexually abused the groups report said. It said police officers arbitrarily harass unmarried women accusing them of prostitution raid hotel rooms where unmarried couples Are a this is the Only place in the mayan world where we have uncovered tombs of this Type a Silva said noting a some peculiarities about Palenque. A the site is on the Edge of the Maya culture yet it displays sortie characteristics found nowhere the newly discovered burial chamber sarcophagus contain no glyphs As the mayan pictographic writing system is known thus making identification of the Noble his Date of death More difficult. A a we la be performing tests on the remains including Dan analysis to determine if there is any blood relation Between this Man Pacal or the Palenque dynasty a said Alejandro Martinez director of archaeology at the anthropology Institute. The discovery of the burial chamber a sealed More than 1,000 years ago a was made a week ago by archaeologist Arnoldo Gonzalez who headed a special project at the Palenque site deep in the sem tropical Jungle of Chiapas. A exams a the report noted that female virginity is identified with family Honor in Turkey a woman a right to control her own body is considered secondary by Many. Relatives of newly married turkish couples still wait outside the bedroom on the wedding night to see if the sheets Are stained with blood a sign that the Bride was a Virgin. If she fails the test the Bride is sent Back to her fathers House. The report includes dozens of personal accounts including those of women who described the exams As degrading painful. The government a denies or dismisses the problem a the report said. Two High school students committed suicide in 1992 after school authorities ordered them to submit to virginity exams the report said. If a girl is found to be no longer a Virgin she is expelled from school. Failed liftoff adds to rocket firm s woes Paris apr Europe a troubled ariane commercial rocket suffered another setback saturday when it failed to launch 4v$ months after the last shot ended with the rocket plunging into the sea. The unmanned rocket which was to put three satellites into orbit failed to lift off from its launch pad in French Guyana As scheduled saturday morning because a valve pumping liquid Hydrogen did not open officials said. Charles bigot president of Arian space the commercial of the european space Agency said the launch would be postponed a for a few the rocket failed to ignite at 4 02 . In Kourou As scheduled clouding the planned comeback of ariane since its Jan. 24 failure. Arian space blamed an overheated component in the rocket s third stage for january a crash which Cost the program 2.1 billion francs $370 million. Saturdays launch was to have lifted into orbit an american Intelsat 702 telecommunications satellite two scientific str 1a in satellites for the British defense ministry
