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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 11, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 7 american among 3 injured in Bull run from the associated press Pamplona Spain a three people including one american were injured by fighting bulls sunday in a run through Pamplona a cobbled streets during the towns festival. The three injured brought to 24 the number treated at local hospitals for injuries during Bull runs in this years festival of san Ferrin. The run was the fourth of eight in the nine Day festival. Hospital officials in Pamplona identified the american As Mitchell Sobolski of Tiburon Calif. He suffered two deep leg wounds and a broken leg when he apparently was caught by a bulls Horn. He was described in serious but stable condition. The two other injured runners were spaniards. A. Soccer fans held the Hague Netherlands police arrested 20 soccer hooligans Early sunday in disturbances following the Netherlands 32 world cup quarterfinal defeat by Brazil in Dallas. One police officer was slightly injured when he was hit with a bottle while trying to make an arrest said a spokeswoman. There were no reports of injuries to the soccer fans and the City was quiet later sunday morning. Kurd teen mourned Hannover Germany a about 15.000 people took part in a memorial ceremony saturday for a kurdish youth killed by a police Bullet last month in Hannover. Police say Halim Dener 16, was accidentally shot late june 30 As he and others were pasting up posters for the pkg the kurdish workers party which was banned last year in Germany As a terrorist organization. On saturday police estimated some 15.000 people marched past the victims closed casket we Rich was surrounded by Flowers. Police said the crowd remained peaceful although Many of them shouted slogans and others carried signs protesting the shooting and Germany a ban of the pkg. Fire blamed on ape Sydney Australia a officials say a fire that damaged a zoos orangutan quarters sunday was strictly a Case of Monkey business. Firefighters were called to the Laronga Park zoo after shredded paper bedding caught fire in an area shared by females Wanita and Willow. Paul Davies manager of the zoos primate division said he believes Willow poked a strip of cardboard from her bed through her bars and into a Wall Heater sparking a Blaze. Senior keeper Lisa Naylor smelled smoke and moved the primate pair. Cosmonauts at Home Moscow a two cosmonauts returned to Earth on saturday after spending six months on the orbiting station Mir leaving behind a colleague who is nearly Halfway toward his goal of breaking the space a endurance record. Viktor Afanasyeva and Yuri Asa Chev landed As planned at a russian space Agency site near Arkalyn Kazakhstan the itar Tass news Agency said. Another cosmonaut who blasted off with them Jan. 8,51-year-old physician Valery Polyakov intends to remain on Mir a record 429 Days. A fresh three cosmonaut Crew is due to arrive in october at the 8-year-old space station which is to remain in service until 1996. Kiev Ukraine a ukrainians went to the polls in Rainy weather to choose a president sunday settling a hotly contested Runoff contest Between incumbent Leonid Kravchuk and a Strong pro russian challenger. Kravchuk a slight favorite Over Leonid Kuchma was buoyed by Western leaders endorsement late saturday of $4 billion in Aid for Ukraine. He appeared upbeat at the polls saying he was a voting for a Happy  Kuchma on the other hand was in a sour mood after voting in Dnepropetrovsk where he was once director of the worlds largest missile factory. He said he had left Kiev to escape the a hostile atmosphere being whipped up against me in the  turnout was sluggish in the first few hours but was expected to reach the 50 percent figure needed to make the result valid. It was 68 percent in the first round of voting june 26, when Kravchuk and Kuchma finished 1-2 in a seven member Field. In an acrimonious Campaign Kravchuk warned of threats to the former soviet republics infant democracy and Independence and said he alone is capable of maintaining political stability in the nation of 53 million. Kuchma a former prime minister under Kravchuk dismissed his rivals repeated forebodings As a cynical ruse. Aimed at deflecting voters focus from the nations economic miseries. He pledged to restore close links with Ukraine so great neighbors Russia As a cure for Ukraine a economic malaise. But the timing of the announcement from the group of seven Summit in Naples Italy was a blow for Kuchma. He has argued that Ukraine so a natural ally is Russia contending a the West Isnit going to Rush to our  the Aid package approved by g-7 cad ers is strictly conditional on the introduction of a Market Economy in Ukraine which lags far behind Russia and other East european states in embracing reforms. Kravchuk a former communist Boss who was elected in 1991 after aligning himself with Ukraine a Independence movement says he wants reforms but has been blocked by the hard line parliament. Kuchma also favors reforms but advocates economic Union with Russia first. In a telling reflection of state Jedi a a solid backing for Kravchuk state television rushed out the news of the Aid announcement and hailed it As a Clear support for president . Families assails divorce wound7 Castel Gandolfo Italy a Pope John Paul ii continuing his discourse on family morality decried the a open wound of divorce sunday and urged couples to put their marriages ahead of personal troubles. The pontiff has used his weekly addresses recently to denounce abortion and contraception and to Appeal for stronger families. The comments Are directed at building opposition to some aspects of a . Population conference in september. The Vatican fears the meeting in Cairo Egypt will endorse abortion As a method of birth control. The Pope noted that the Church goes a against the current by its belief in the Indi solubility of marriage but said it must take such a stand to preserve the Sanctity of wedding vows a the open wound of divorce unfortunately is widespread a the Pope told the crowd outside his country residence Southeast of Rome. He urged parents not to forget that a divorce often harshly affects their children whom he called a the first victims of the drama of  the Pope conceded that some couples have a extreme difficulties and to try to keep a marriage together can be demanding. 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