European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world wednesday june 22, 1994canada lifts ban on Aid to Cuba Ottawa apr Canada restored Aid to Cuba on monday ending a 16-Ycar ban on help for the islands communist regime. Christine Stewart Secretary of state for latin America and Africa told cuban authorities that Canada would provide the Caribbean Island nation with about $720,000 in Aid this year. Stewart who is attending a conference in Havana said cubans continued isolation is unhealthy. The government also recently approved $360,000 in emergency food Aid through the world food program for Cuba which is suffering ill effects from the collapse of the soviet Union and other communist governments. A the cold War is Long Over a foreign affairs minister Andre Ouellet said in a statement monday. A the people of Cuba Are suffering from food shortages brought on by economic crisis and canadians want to help  sources in Canadas government and Aid groups said last week that Canada would resume Aid programs this week. Canada Cut direct Aid to Cuba in 1978 to protest its involvement in angolans civil War a the change in policy Means that Aid groups and companies will be Able to use Money hey receive from the Canadian International development Agency to support development projects in Cuba. Several Aid organizations including care Canada recently sent staff members to Cuba to study the country a needs in anticipation of the policy change. In the year before Canada Cut off Aid Cuba received about $10 million in credits and technical assistance. Despite the Aid freeze Canada never completely severed relations with Fidel Castro a government in Cuba. Cuba is Canadas second largest trading partner in the Caribbean Central american Region after puerto Rico the foreign affairs department said. Two Way Trade in 1993 totalled about $220 million. Sweden apologizes to 40 Baltic soldiers it deported from wire reports Stockholm Sweden a forty eight years ago the swedish government forced 146 Young soldiers from the Baltic states to Board a soviet ship and face an Uncertain future in siberian labor Camps. On monday 40 of the now Gray haired men returned As guests of the swedish government and got an official apology from foreign minister Margartha of Dugglas. They also Shook hands with King Carl Xvi Gustaf. A i have survived i am a guest Here and i done to feel any anger a said Elmars heirs. The soldiers were mostly boys and Young men who said they had been forced to fight for nazi Germany against the soviet Union. They joined about 40,000 civilians who fled from Estonia Latvia and Lithuania across the Baltic sea to Sweden in the Spring of 1945 to escape advancing soviet forces. Despite protests from swedish citizens the. Government handed Over the soldiers to soviet authorities in january 1946. Two of the Young men killed themselves before the group was forced to Board a soviet ship and the 40 survivors visited their Graves in a Stockholm churchyard monday. Killer quake hits Iran Athens Greece a a Strong earthquake hit the Southern iranian City of Shiraz and surrounding areas in the Zagrous mountains on monday killing at least two people and flattening three villages the official iranian news Agency Irna said. The quake measuring 6.1, hit Shiraz at 1.40 p.m., causing landslides on the mountains outside the City damaging roads and blocking tunnels. An Irna dispatch monitored in Athens said that there were no immediate reports of casualties in Shiraz but that at least two people were killed and 50 injured in Meymandi South of the City. The quake flattened the villages of Moradabad Ebrahim Abad and Esmai Labad and heavily damaged four others said an official of the red Crescent society Iran a equivalent of the red Cross. The seismological Center at Tehran University said inc quake was entered about 400 Miles South of Tehran Between Shiraz and Firuz Abad in a mountainous Region notorious for its killer earthquakes. Germans to sell tanks Stockholm Sweden a the swedish army monday agreed to buy 120 Leopard main Battle tanks from a German arms maker. The $790 million Deal included an option for an additional 80 state of the Art Leopard 2-s tanks at a future Date. Swedish negotiators also agreed to buy Between 120 and 200 used tanks from Krauss Mallei Weh Technik a Mph the bavarian based company that makes the Leopard. The exact number and the Date of that Purchase were not specified. Sweden also will buy 800 armoured personnel carriers from supplies of the former East German army As Well As 350 russian surplus vehicles. Splashing belly up into summer Bear at the zoo in base Switzerland Abandons to the Cool Cool water As Spring turns to sum a Polar himself 2 Saida Lebanon apr a court on tuesday acquitted two palestinians charged with slaying a libyan dissident in Germany 10 years  three Man tribunal cleared Yasser Shreidi 34, and Ghassan Ayoub 38, in the attack on Mustafa Ashek in West Berlin on March 29, 1984, for a Lack of convincing  both Shreidi and Ayoub who Are believed to be linked to terrorist Mastermind Abu Nidal remained in jail despite their acquittal to face other charges of murder and attempted murder in Lebanon. Neither was present when the verdict was read at a Brief session of the criminal court in Saida. A there is not sufficient evidence to convict either of the two defendants or both in the murder of Mustafa Ashek a according to the verdict. A the two defendants Are consequently cleared of this charge but they still face other charges for which they will stand trial soon a the verdict said. No trial Date has been set however. Mer and the Mercury rises. Nothing delights a Polar Bear More than beating the heat. Of 84 Killi Shreidi is also accused in Germany of tile 1986 bombing of the la Belle disco in Berlin which killed two american soldiers and a turkish woman. But he maintained his innocence in the disco bombing during his trial before the criminal court in Saida Southern Lebanon a provincial capital. He was tried with Ayoub Only in the Ashek murder Case a i am a Normal palestinian. I did nothing. Not la Belle. Not Ashek a Shreidi told a court session two weeks ago raising his handcuffed hands and flashing a v for Victory. The april 5,1986, bombing prompted then president Reagan to order air raids against Libya Host and main Backer of Abu Nidal one of the worlds most wanted terrorists. Germany has asked Lebanon to hand Shreidi Over for trial in both cases but the two countries have no extradition treaty. Lebanese Law allows trials of resident foreigners including palestinians for crimes committed outside the country. Amerasian flock to seek citizenship Olon Gapo Philippines apr scores of Accra sians abandoned by fathers in the . Armed forces registered tuesday for american citizenship. By midday 183 men and women had registered with . Consular officers at the former Subic Bay naval base. An additional 100 were waiting in line. About a third of the 183 were rejected because they lacked papers to substantiate claims they were children of american service members. Naty Sara Sci of the Pearl Buck society said there Are an estimated 1,250 amerasian in Olon Gapo. The . Embassy in Manila 50 Miles to the East said such surges in registrants happen from time to time but gave no further explanation. A a in a so excited a said Arnold Flores 31, who said his father Isaac Smith lives in Miami. A was soon As i get there Ril work and get my  Sheila Boone 19, said she Hopes to meet her father Allan Boone of Memphis tenn., As soon As she reaches the United states. Under current Law filipinos of american parentage can receive . Citizenship Only if they can prove their fathers were american. The . Navy operated the Subic Bay naval facilities until 1992 after the philippine Senate refused to extend the lease