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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes wednesday june 29, 1994chemical blast at Indiana Mill hurts at least 15thoughtful mates Gata Kamsky left May be America s top rated chess player. But facing world Champion Garry Kasparov of Russia on monday the 20-year-out might As Well have been the country s lowest ranked competitor. Playing a variety of the game called a Speed chess Quot Kasparov twice beat Kamsky of Brooklyn . The two raced off during a 16-Piayer, four Day Competition during which the games arc played with a 25-Mihute time limit. Indianapolis apr a fiery chemical explosion rocked an agricultural feed Mill Early tuesday injuring at least 15 people some with serious bums. Quot the whole sky looked like a big fireball a said John Mcgavock who was walking to his Home near the Central soya Complex. Quot i saw the explosion and it knocked me to the ground a the 12 30 . Blast was Felt five Miles away and ruptured a tank of soybean Oil which caught fire and burned for about three hours. A few smaller fires burned until nearly Daybreak. Four workers were hospitalized in critical condition with Burns and one was in serious condition. The explosion happened during a Transfer of the chemical hexane Between two tanks firefighters said. Some of the volatile hydrocarbon leaked and vapor from the spill was touched off by a spark or other Means Quot one of the theories is that an automobile. May have driven through the hexane Gas a said it. John Gammon of the City fire department. A car was found blown to the Side of the Road and its Driver was hospitalized in critical condition Gammon said. The injured included nearby residents including two children As Well As workers. About 100 people work at the Plant where soybeans Are processed into animal feed soybean Oil and meal. People from the neighbourhood were evacuated to a dormitory lounge at Marian College about a mile away. The Plant is on Indianapolis near West Side a few blocks from a minor league baseball Park. James Cowherd who lives across the Street from the Plant said he and his wife were walking nearby when they noticed a White Cloud along the ground. The Cloud smelled like cleaning fluid and Cowherd could feel the ground shake. A i looked around and i saw the fire a he said Quot i said a get Down because its getting ready to  we Laid there and our bodies were just shaking on the  save 43 nuns kids in Rwanda Goma Zaire apr French command of tuesday evacuated 43 nuns and orphans who were terrorized at a rwandan Convent for weeks by Young Machete wielding men staging mock executions. The 35 nuns a american belgian British and rwandan a and eight adolescent girls had taken Refuge in the Convent in the Western town of i buy when bloodletting started in Early april Between ethnic huts and Tutsi soldiers of the Hutu dominated government and extremist militias have massacred As Many As 200,000 people mostly ethnic Tutsi. Thousands in Kinuye who had sought shelter in the Church and stadium were massacred the nuns said. Occasionally the soldiers and militia members would Check on the nuns Quot it was the mean people of the Village the Young ones Quot said sister Emma a Tutsi. A they had machetes and clubs a Quot they had a list and now and then they a come to see if anyone was hiding with us a she said Quot we had to turn pc pie Over. It was sad but we had  tinder the urging of Mother Superior Mary Juliann head of the belgian based Sisters of the Virgin Mary order and originally of Buffalo ., about 100 French commandos were dispatched to the Convent sunday. The nuns were brought out at Daybreak by Road to a makeshift loading zone then helicopter red to Goma the zairian town on the rwandan Border that serves As the command Post for Frances humanitarian intervention in Rwanda. The evacuation was the first staged by the French since they started their military buildup last week. Up to 2,500 French soldiers arc to take part in a two month Mission France says is strictly humanitarian. Tutsi distrust the intervention because of French support for Hutu led government troops in recent years. The nuns were hesitant to discuss their experiences but a visitor to Kinuye said they had undergone several mock executions in which the militias put them against a Wall As if to shoot them. Quot that went on until last week Quot said sister Roberta Hesse originally of Munster Texas. Teen Salesman held of boy 9 in Milwaukee a a door to door Salesman is _ racing a 9-y body was found strangled a Block away from his suburb charged with murdering a 9-Ycar-old boy whose nude ban Home John James Smith 19, of Carol Stream 111., was charged monday in circuit court with first degree intentional homicide and child abduction in the death of Jesse Hubatch of Franklin. Jesse vanished thursday evening after leaving Home to visit a neighbourhood Friend. Smith was in the suburb South of Milwaukee on thursday Selling cleaning products. According to the criminal complaint Smith told Franklin police that after he met Jesse they talked walked around the neighbourhood and then went to a wooded area. Smith said he snapped and began strangling the boy with his hands beat his head against the ground removed the boy s clothing and dragged the lifeless body around before fleeing according to the court document. N the complaint said Smith slated that As Jesse died the boy Quot just kept staring at him a naked Blank stare that he could see death in Jesse he Bateha a eyes As he strangled  Smith remained jailed monday on 5100,000 bail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Friday. Motherwell Scotland a a reported confession by Prince Charles that he cheated on his wife did t appear to trouble people who turned out to meet him tuesday. A i think he should be King. There is trouble in every walk oflift1, and it should be private not made Public a said David Hooper 78, one of490 people who saw Charles at a scottish housing project British news report said Charles in a television documentary to be shown today admitted that he cheated on Diana the Princess of Wales. Independent television news sold the documentary interviewer asks the heir to the throne if he had been Faithf tit to Bis wife. In said Charles answer is Quot yes a and then he pauses and adds Quot until it became Clear that my marriage had irretrievably broken  Charles reportedly does t say with whom he was unfelt Huftil but Britain a tabloids zeroed in on former Girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles. Tuesdays tabloids variously described the reported admission As Quot devastating a a astonishing Quot or Quot a Bombshell that would Quot stun the  say who cares it did t have that effect in Motherwell. Quot we did t ask him about Camilla and it does no to bother me a said Lyn Collins 31, who brought her 18-month daughter Laura along to meet the Prince at the forge Wood estate 12 Miles Southeast of Glasgow. A it s up to him a she said. Quot i think he should be King a Why not a press association the British news Agency said construction worker Lindsay close 31, was t bothered by Charles reported infidelity. Quot Why not everybody else does it a press association quoted close As saying a i think he will make a Good King. I done to feel sorry for i Camilla As Queen she is too  a us Kingham Palace said the reports about the 159-Mmute documentary were  a spokesman for Central television which made the documentary refused to comment on its Content or congram the accuracy of the reports. Charles and Diana who turns 33 on Friday separated in december 1992. They have two sons Prince William 12, and Prince Harry 9  
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