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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, June 18, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday june 10, 1994 world the stars Ano stripes Page 92 fliers killed in crash of italian air Force plane from wire reports Melpignano Italy a an italian air Force plane crashed onto a sports Field while on a training flight in Southern Italy on thursday killing the two men aboard police said. Police identified the victims As it. Umberto Oriolo 28, and Cadet Paolo Ceccato 22. The italian built plane was on a training flight from a military Airfield at Galatia in Southern Italy when it crashed at Melpignano about eight Miles East of the Airfield. Witnesses said the plane apparently developed engine trouble. Instead of ejecting the Pilot and his Pupil steered the plane away from Melpignano and tried to land in the sports Field on the outskirts of the Market town. But the planets underside hit the Wall of the stadium spectators Terrace and the plane crashed in the Middle of the Field police  group lacks food Mexico City a group of 118 cubans who stormed the belgian ambassador s residence in Havana say they Are running Short of food but will never leave the compound unless they can leave the country. A we repeat once and a thousand times our intention to obtain political Asylum or remain Here until the end of our Days a they said in a letter dated june 14, that reached journalists thursday. The letter was faxed to the associated press in Mexico City. The group holed up in the belgian compound is one of three to have invaded diplomatic missions in recent weeks. The takeovers pose a problem for president Fidel Castro a government and for diplomats fearful of seeing their embassies turned into springboards for would be exiles to the United states. About 20 people used a truck to crash through a Fence into the German embassy on monday. Nine others jumped a Fence at the chilean ambassadors residence on  getting porno London a pornographers Are increasingly tapping into the minds of British youngsters via bulletin boards computer clubs and floppy discs that in some cases change hands in the schoolyard according to a nationwide Survey published thursday. The study by researchers at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston found that 30 percent of boys in British secondary schools were aware of computer pornography. The corresponding figure for girls was 1 percent. In primary schools where computer Access is More restricted just under 2 percent of children said they knew of computer pornography. Teachers researchers and police said the real figures were Likely to be much  a la Mode Singapore a spare the Rod and spoil the child is the message on the front of a to shirt that went on Sale Friday in an attempt to Cash in on publicity surrounding an american teen Ager who was lashed for vandalizing cars. The Back of the $15 shirt lists the crimes for which flogging is the penalty. It was Selling briskly according to one retailer. Michael Fay 19, who gets out of prison tuesday received four lashes from a Rattan Cane a Fine and More than 11 weeks in jail. The promoters said they plan to offer a Coffee Mug with the same design As the to shirt and a miniature Rattan key  of human kindness Timaru new zealand a an animal welfare officer has banned a milking Competition among drinkers at a bar because they would have distressed the cows. Trevor Whiting owner of the Crown hotel had planned to bring several cows into his bar where patrons would have been challenged to hand milk As much As they could. _ however Jim Mackenzie an inspector yith the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals said Friday that the contest was against the Law. Mackenzie said the Competition would have drawn a big crowd which would have unnecessarily upset animals used to a quiet life in a pasture. Rwandan rebels Rescue a a. A a a. A. Refugees in Kigali raid Kigali Rwanda apr rebels broke through government lines Early Friday rescuing an unknown number of Tutsi refugees in Central Kigali and shooting their Way out a . Commander said. The Tutsi led rwandan patriotic front struck around 3 ., apparently launching the raid from its nearby Northern stronghold of Gisoti. They used heavy artillery and mortar fire to keep the Hutu government forces pinned Down As they infiltrated the St. Paul refugee Camp. The raid forced the United nations to delay plans to evacuate up to 800 refugees from the areas. A it is very strange that the ref have staged this raid just when we were trying to arrange for a truce to take these same people out a said Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire commander of the 450-member , Force in Rwanda. A More than 1,000 refugees have been huddled for weeks around St. Paul and Ste. Famille roman Catholic churches in Central Kigali. They have become easy prey for the Hutu militias that have waged pogroms against Rwanda a Tutsi ethnic minority. The lightly armed . Force had hoped to take convoys of trucks into the Camps Friday but Advance teams turned Back because of the heavy fighting. Rwandan government forces who maintain a precarious hold on downtown Kigali but arc largely surrounded by rebels told the United nations that rebels had launched an offensive overnight from the South of the capital. They said the rebels had attacked around the refugee Camps and killed a military policeman but they did not say if any refugees had escaped with them. About 200,000 people have been killed in Rwanda in the past nine weeks. Most victims have been Tutsi civilians killed by government trained Hutu militias. The . Hospital ship Comfort converted to a processing Center sits off Jamaica after taking 35 haitians aboard. American employees leave Haiti from wire reports port a Prince Haiti a some american employees and their wives some with babies in their arms left the . Embassy bound for Home thursday before next weeks cutoff of . Airline service to Haiti. Marines loaded bags onto a bus in the driveway As ambassador William swing bade Farewell to the dozen americans at a Brief ceremony on the Steps of the Seaside embassy. The. Scene was Calm and there was no sense of desperate flight from the country whose military leaders seized Power in september 1991 and Are said to be behind an estimated 3,000 political killings. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager called the repatriation of the embassy personnel a a prudent move before flight service is halted next Friday. Swing said the decision to Cut staff a was driven largely by the air and financial sanctions and not by Security worries. President Clinton declared the ban on commercial flights and a halt to most financial transactions with Haiti in an attempt to put further pressure on its military coup leaders to step Down and reinstate the ousted elected president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Clinton a actions came several weeks after the United nations imposed a total Trade embargo May 21 in its efforts to restore democracy to Haiti. Meanwhile the first shipboard processing of haitians applications for Asylum under the administrations new policy began on thursday aboard a Navy Hospital ship moored at Kingston Jamaica. At 9  Thursday 35 haitians picked up from Leaky wooden sailboats were put on Board the . Hospital ship Comfort. Center prods Argentina on Hunt for nazis Buenos Aires Argentina apr the Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging Argentina to step up efforts to locate suspected nazi War criminals who found a Haven in the country after world War ii. The los Angeles based Center said thursday that it has sent a letter to president Carlos Menem asking that he set up an office to coordinate government archives containing information on nazis. A a what a needed is a government Agency a group of experts that could weave its Way through Federal state and local files a said rabbi Abraham Cooper the centers associate Dean. The request comes As a Federal judge considers Italy a request to extradite Erich Riebke a former is Captain accused of taking part in a massacre of 335 italian civilians in 1914. The Center a foundation dedicated in part to tracking Down nazi War criminals had sent a letter to the foreign ministry in november asking if the ministry could help determine whether eight suspected. War criminals were in Argentina. Though it refused to release the names the Wiesenthal Center said most of the suspects were lithuanian or yugoslav and were believed to have entered Argentina from 1948-50. Carlos Dellepiane director of the ministry a archives told the associated press that nothing was found in his Agency a files but archives of other government agencies were not checked. In february 1992, Menem ordered government agencies to make available to researchers All records related to suspected War criminals  
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