European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday tuesday july 4/5,1994 world the stars and stripes Page 15french plan rwandan Safe zone Paris apr France on sunday began evacuating hundreds of rwandan children threatened by rebels and announced plans to set up a Safe zone to protect masses of refugees fleeing the fighting officiate said. A French officials insisted the actions part of the week old operation Turquoise would remain Clear of the fierce fighting Between the ethnic Tutsi rebels and Hutu government forces. Meanwhile a . Peacekeeper was wounded by Cross fire As a bitter mortar and Small arms Battle raged sunday in Kigali the rwandan capital which the advancing rebel army reportedly has surrounded. A constant mortar fire has been hitting the City since last night a a . Military spokesman maj Jean Guy Plante said sunday by satellite phone from the . Base in Kigali. Plante said the . Soldier was shot when a burst of machine gun fire riddled two ,.trucks clearly marked with the International body s Blue and White logo As they tried to approach the government held Center of Kigali. The Soldier whose name and nationality Plante did not know was rushed to a Hospital behind rebel lines for treatment. In the Southern town of Butare where rebels were advancing a we Are considering proceeding with the evacuation of 600 children during the Day today if possible in Liaison with . Peacekeeping forces a a French government source said sunday. A rebel agreement to the operation was obtained through . Peacekeeping officials said the source speaking on condition of anonymity. The rebels have seized More than two thirds of Rwanda since War broke out in Early april. An estimated 200,000 people have died in the blood Bath most of them Tutsi civilians at the hands of Hutu militias. A French Soldier lifts a child onto a track saturday in Kag Biro Rwanda. The child smother is a Hutu whose Tutsi husband was killed. On saturday night France notified the said the letter by French . Amassa would include the cya Gugu and Pikong . Security Council that barring an in Dor Jean Bernard me Irnee. Oro districts and half of the Kinuye Dis mediate cease fire it planned to establish the refugee wave could reach neigh t16 Kinuye Sitarama Axis to a a humanitarian Safe zone where the Boring countries a namely Burundi a the Indaba pass said the letter to the population would be sheltered by the pm of Iii a Rit Atka Trotte Era Sikyr i if Ortelt calling operation tur combat know Well a merim6e said. ,.,. T Luoise an indirect Means of propping up tens of thousands of. Civilians were there exists a Strong risk of new Mas Gay go maj Gujt have threatened to at fleeing the fighting creating a a situation acres added foreign ministry any French forces in their path. That in a Short period of time will be in spokeswoman Catherine Colonna. France says it has rejected pleas from the controllable on a humanitarian level a the Safe zone Iii Rwanda a South government for military support. Japanese Ope before his visit Tokyo apr a Remote town in Southern Japan opened a civic Center dedicated to Jimmy Carter on sunday four Days before the former . President plans to visit the town. About 230 people watched As local and National legislators Cut the ribbon on the three Story Jimmy Carter civic Center said Kazu Hiko Ogo a staffer at the Center in Konu on the southernmost main Island of Kyushu. Photo and video displays at the Center document the presidency and subsequent peace activities of Carter who is in Japan this week with his wife Rosalyn. Hours earlier Carter Jimmy Carter had breakfast in Tokyo 600 Miles to the Northeast with foreign minister Yohei Kono who Tolu him japanese policy would not be affected by the apparent instability of its Days old government. _ Carter plans to speak at the civic centers dedication ceremony in Konu on thursday. It will be his second visit. He went there in october 1990 to set up a student Exchange program. Cambodia foils coup attempt phenom penh Cambodia apr the government suppressed an attempted coup sunday arresting one of the leaders and forcing the other a a son of King Norodom Sihanouk a out of the country. Sin song a former Interior minister who confessed to planning the coup was under House arrest Interior minister you hockey said. Sihanouk s son Prince Norodom Chakra Pong was forced onto a malaysian airlines flight nine hours after the attempted takeover. The two men led a failed secessionist movement after their cambodian Peoples party lost .-sponsored elections by a Small margin in May 1993. They also led two earlier insurrections suppressed by the government. A the important thing about this incident is that a democratically elected government has survived against some kind of threat a . Ambassador Charles Twining said. A the government elected by the people has overcome the  sin song was Interior minister under the previous Vietnam installed government. . Investigators and human rights groups have accused him of involvement with death squads assigned to assassinate opponents during last years Campaign. Earlier this year the state department was criticized by cambodian legislators for granting sin song a visa to attend a Washington prayer breakfast. Chakra Pong was Deputy prime minister in the previous government. Officials Learned of the coup attempt when about 100 soldiers in a dozen armoured vehicles were spotted driving toward the capital late saturday said a senior official who spoke on condition of anonymity. Government troops stopped the group arrested the officers and sent the soldiers Back to the Western province of prey Veng he said. Security forces then went to sin songs House where he was placed under House arrest you hockey said. Soldiers found Chakra Pong at a hotel in the capital where he had been staying for several Days. Twining was called to the hotel where chair Apong strip to Malaysia was negotiated. Twining said he tried to ensure chair Apong a human rights were protected. Man kills wife self at women s Haven Lucerne Switzerland apr a 36-Ycar-old italian opened fire at a Barbecue in a women a Refuge killing his estranged wife and injuring several other people before shooting himself police said sunday. Lucerne criminal police chief Jorg Stocker said the incident happened Early saturday evening when about 100 women and children were gathered for an open air party to Mark the 10th anniversary of the Home for battered wives. He said the Man who was not identified approached from the Street and fired twice Over the Garden Fence w ill a Shotgun. A Stocker said the Many a estranged wife died immediately. Lucerne City authorities said four people were injured two of them seriously. A fifth person was released after treatment. A a bullets flew through the air and we panicked a one Helper at the Refuge told sonntag Blick newspaper. Quot it was chaos. Children and women fled into the House for safety. Then we heard a single  this was when the Man committed suicide the tabloid said ,. Newspaper reports said the couple had a 4-Ycar-old child who was with the Mother but was uninjured