European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 b the stars and stripes thursday june 23, 1994six tourists four others Hurt in turkish bombing from wire reports Fethiye Turkey a two explosions at a crowded outdoor teahouse in a Mediterranean coastal town injured 10 people including six foreign tourists the Anatolia news Agency said wednesday. The simultaneous explosions occurred at 10 50 . Tuesday. The bombs were left under a table Anatolia said. Four germans a briton and an austrian were among the injured the dispatch added. Local governor Cengiz Horozoglou quoted eyewitnesses As saying that the explosions occurred three minutes after three people came into the teahouse left packages and drove away Anatolia reported. Horozoglou said the injured were in stable condition. There were immediate claims of slows trains London a for a second wednesday in a Row railway signal workers called a 24 hour strike disrupting travel for thousands of commuters. The rail maritime and transport Union said most of its 3,800 members participated in the strike called Over a pay dispute. British rail said about 1,000 trains 14,000 fewer than Normal were running on its 11,000-mile network. Some lines on London a subway system had service. But Tennis fans were Able to make it to Wimbledon after the London underground put its trains on British rail lines South of Central London. Additional bus services to the Tennis grounds were also running. The Union said it would Call another one Day strike next wednesday if the pay dispute was not gets new trial Vienna Austria a the supreme court has ordered the retrial of a convicted austrian Neo nazi on part of the original charges officials said tuesday., the new trial of Gottfried Kuessel was ordered because the jury received improper instruction they said. ,. Kuessel 36, was sentenced to 10 Vears in prison after a court last september found him guilty of a variety of Neo nazi activities. Two counts related to Kuessel a founding of and leadership in an organization propagating Neo nazi views. Five other counts concerned interviews he Cave abroad in which he praised nazi dictator Adolf Hitler denied the extermination of jews in nazi Gas Chambers and called himself a a National socialist a part of the official name of the nazi party before d during world War in a Irish can make a Toast Dublin Ireland a thousands of Irish soccer fans and bar owners heaved a sigh of Relief tuesday when striking bar workers in Dublin ended their three Day walkout in time for Ireland a world cup match against Mexico on Friday. Dublin a streets were deserted saturday As the pub strike forced Irish soccer fans to stay at Home to watch Ireland a 1-0 Victory Over Italy in the world cup soccer tournament in the United states. The walkout Over pay and overtime rates for about 3,000 Dublin bar workers prevented thousands of Irish soccer fans from watching Ireland a opening match in the capitals 650 pubs. A red Cross worker in Rwanda a capital carries a child who lost both Egeln Jgr among patients being evacuated earlier this week from the red Cross Hospital in Kigali to a facility in rebel . Vote gives France United nations apr the . Security Council has approved a French plan to Send soldiers to Rwanda on a mercy Mission despite opposition from rwandan rebels who have condemned the initiative As a a declaration of wednesdays vote on the 15-nation Council was 10-0, with five abstentions by China Brazil Pakistan new zealand and Nigeria. France says it could begin the deployment As Early As today of its 2,500-member Force with orders to save lives and set up Safe havens for refugees. The Mission is to last two months. The Council said it is deeply concerned by the continued Slaughter of civilians and by an expected delay of at least two months before All 5,500 , peacekeeping troops can be deployed. The French Mission will be under French command and the Force is not to intervene Between government and rebel forces. African nations May contribute troops and equipment and provide staging areas. As Many As 200,000 people have been killed in the Slaughter Between ethnic huts and minority Tutsi that began after Rwanda a president a Hutu died in an unexplained plane crash april 6, Britain and the United states supported the French intervention As did . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali. But the predominantly Tutsi rebels charge that France has Long favored the Hutu dominated govern mint and that the French government trained the Hutu Rwanda presidential guard which has been blamed for most of the killings. In 1990, French troops helped the government thwart a rebel offensive. In an interview published wednesday in the French newspaper liberation the Leader of the rwandan rebels said he feared French intervention would save the government once again. He warned that the arrival of troops would intensify the War threatening the very people the French want to protect. A if France intervenes militarily this War will change and stands to Worsen a said the president of the rwandan patriotic front Alex Kany Arenge. He spoke from rebel held territory near Uganda. In a letter to the United nations on tuesday Gerald Gumima a spokesman for the rebel front said the deployment of French troops a is a declaration War to us and we shall resist it in every Way French foreign minister Alain Juppo said wednesday however that rebel leaders had softened their opposition to French intervention. After three hours of talks Jacques Bih Zagara the rebels representative in Belgium said the French initiative a was commendable Quot though he did not explicit in approve the plan Juppo said. The rebels have seized two thirds of Rwanda. In a push wednesday for the Center of the capital Kigali rebels shelled government positions for More than 12 hours. Rebel reinforcements were seen arriving from the catching up in n., Ireland killing by James of clarity new York times Belfast Northern Ireland a protestant paramilitary groups have gradually replaced the Irish Republican army As the prime killers in the 25-year-old sectarian guerrilla War in this protestant dominated British province. British statistics show that since Laic 1991 the protestants of the Ulster Freedom fighters and the Ulster Volunteer Force have been killing More people in the War which has left 3,155 dead since 1969. Overall the Ira has killed More than half the victims. But the protestants Are catching up with the catholics. The police say that in the last 14 months they have brought 138 charges involving paramilitary actions against protestant groups and 83 against Catholic organizations mostly the Ira. On saturday the Ulster Volunteer Force shot to death six catholics including an 87-year-old, amp a pub South of Belfast As they watched Ireland defeat Italy in a world cup soccer game. The deaths brought to 25 the number of people killed by protestant gunners this year. The Ira and another Republican group the Irish National liberation army Are reported to have killed 17. Last year protestants killed 48, the statistics show and the Ira killed 38. British Security forces have not killed anyone this year nor did they in 1993. Experts on both sides said the reason for the surge in protestant violence is that an increasing number of protestants feel that Britain is preparing to abandon them. The protestants further think the British will agree with the Irish Republic to the South and with sinn fein the iras political Arm to have this province become a part of a United Ireland the experts said. Many protestants Point to the fact that Britain agreed to the Anglo Irish agreement of 1985, which gave Ireland a consultants role in the affairs of the province and the Downing Street declaration put Forward last december by the Irish and British governments. The declaration offers sinn fein a place at a negotiating table in return for a renunciation of Ira violence and a three month cessation of Ira attacks. The sinn fein president Gerry Adams said he would respond formally to the declaration in a week or so
