European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 20, 1994 world 1 the stars and stripes Page 9 n. Koreans Jam streets to mourn Seoul South Korea apr a Flower Laden Hearse bore the body of Kim ii Sung on a funeral journey through his stalinist capital tuesday As hundreds of thousands of North koreans crowded streets and squares to weep and Wail for their fallen Quot great  1 a the whole country is enveloped in the bitterest grief Ever in the history of the nation spanning 5,000 years a the North a official news Agency proclaimed. Kim 82, died july 8 after nearly five decades of absolute Rule Over his reclusive state. Only top communist officials including Kim a son and successor Kim Jong ii were permitted to attend the secrecy shrouded funeral ceremony at the presidential Palace outside Pyongyang the capital where Kim a body had lain in state All week. But what followed could not have been More Public. Official North korean Media said 2 million people crowded the streets while a Hearse with Kim a coffin a draped in a red party Flag and piled with White flow eds a was driven slowly through the streets. That was in keeping with korean tra. Dit Ort which dictates that the Hearse be driven past Sites and buildings associated with the dead persons life. A picture taken from North korean television tuesday shows a huge portrait of the late Leader Kim ii Sung mounted atop a Hearse driving through the streets of Pyongyang. By custom bereaved family members offer food and wine to Comfort the souls of the dead. State television showed scenes of a family dressed in Black and White mourning clothes wailing before a table Laden with what appeared to be offerings of fruit and liquor. In carefully selected official footage from the North shown on South korean television Farmers in Rice paddies passengers on an ancient looking train and party cadres with Lapel pins bearing Kim a likeness All offered tearful eulogies to Kim. A i just cannot believe that you Are gone  woman wept As she clutched a companions hand. A you have been our heaven our teacher our  the North a official Media clamped a strict blackout on the hour Long funeral ceremony reporting nothing until it was  a solemn ceremony was held. To bid Farewell to the great Leader president Kim i Sung a the official korean Central news Agency reported tersely. Baby s mercy killing Amsterdam Netherlands apr a doctor who admitted to the mercy killing of a severely deformed Newborn was charged with premeditated murder monday in a Case expected to test dutch euthanasia Laws. Or. Hank Prins was charged in the 1993 death of baby Maartje said Prinsy lawyer Eugene Sutorius. The 4-Day-old infant was born with hydrocephalus Spina Bifid and leg deformities in Pur Merend nine Miles North of Amsterdam. Dutch guidelines require that patients who receive euthanasia must be suffering from in believable pain and ask for death repeatedly and lucidly. Doctors must seek professional consultations before proceeding. The Law makes no provision for cases in which patients cannot ask to die. Euthanasia is technically illegal in the Netherlands but physicians can expect immunity from prosecution Warsaw Poland apr Germany a defense minister Volker Rishe said monday that Poland could join the North Atlantic treaty organization by the end the decade. Rishe is in Poland for talks with his polish counterpart Piotr Kolodziejczyk and French defense minister Frangois Leotard on natos partnership for peace program. In september Poland will play Host to the first exercises under the partnership plan to be held outside the territory of the Western military Alliance. Rishe said Poland a nato membership would de the funeral proceedings were closely watched for clues to the North a new political Hierarchy. In the official list of those present at the ceremony there was to mention of Kim a Stepmother Kim song a or his half brother Kim Pyong ii. Both were edited out of official video footage last week prompting spec  elation that he had purged his political rivals. Kim Jong ii 52, is believed to have cemented his sue cession and a formal announcement of his ascension was expected soon. South korean officials said last week that they believed he had already been anointed at a secret meeting of the North a communist party. Mass rallies to mourn Kim were scheduled for today but observers outside North Korea believed they would be less a tribute to the fallen Kim a and More an homage to the rising one. It was not known where Kim a body was taken following the funeral and the procession. There has been speculation that his remains would be preserved and displayed or placed in a sarcophagus at the presidential Palace or elsewhere in the capital. But North Korea has announced no plans. When they follow the guidelines and report each Case. Prins has said he acted to relieve the infant girl from overwhelming pain after medical treatment proved futile. Maartje Prins said would have survived several months at the most. With the parents approval Prins injected the girl with a muscle paralysing drug that stopped her breathing. Maartje died in her mothers arms 15 minutes later Prins said. Sutorius the country a leading defense lawyer in euthanasia cases said the Case would define the Law for doctors who Are a compelled to kill in the course of treatment. The prosecutors office has refused comment on the Case. There Are an estimated 2,700 euthanasia cases in the Netherlands every year. Pend on the country a activeness and a energetic work a Poland can become a nato member before the end of the Century he said. H fearing instability in the former soviet Union polish leaders originally received the partnership plan which offers military cooperation with nato As lacking a timetable for joining the military Alliance and stopping Short of extending Security guarantees. However Poland recently became the first former East bloc country to sign the individual partnership plan with nato. Somalia gunmen kill 2 in attack on . Convoy from the associated press United nations a somalian gunmen ambushed a . Convoy in Mogadishu on monday killing two malaysian soldiers and wounding two others a . Spokesman said. Eleven peacekeepers were abducted including the two wounded but All were freed at 2 . Tuesday local time said spokesman Joe Sills. The bodies of the slain malaysians were returned the reconnaissance party included nine malaysians three italians and one new Sealander Sills said. The attack took place near checkpoint pasta the a scene of numerous previous skirmishes Between gunmen and . Troops. Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali a condemns the Wanton attack on the peacekeepers Sills said Reading from a prepared statement. A it is unpardonable that the attackers should turn against those who have come to help them a he said. . Forces arrived in december 1992 to help Somalia recover from famine and anarchy that claimed.350,000 lives that year. It turned the operation Over to the United nations the following a May . V a exporter to Iraq jailed Augsburg Germany  German businessman convicted of helping Iraq build the. Scud missiles that blasted Israel and saudi Arabia during the persian Gulf War was sentenced tuesday to 5>/2 years in Pris Nanton eerie 70, was convicted of breaking Germany a arms Export Laws which were tightened after the 1991 Gulf War amid embarrassing revelations about the Large German component of iraqis missile and chemical weapons programs. Further the bavarian state court in Augsburg found that eerie had smuggled rocket Detonator parts to Iraq through Yugoslavia and Cyprus after the United nations aug. 6, 1990, embargo on arms sales went into effect. Eerie blamed the illegal exports on his managers two of whom were sentenced to two year terms earlier in the year danish Queen has surgery Copenhagen Denmark a Denmark a Queen Margrethe ii underwent a Hysterectomy monday for cancer of the uterus. The 54-year-old Queen was expected to leave aarhus Community Hospital in a few Days to conv Alesce in Mars Lisborg Castle her Home in Jutland about 175 Miles West of Copenhagen. Surgeons removed her uterus fallopian tubes and ovaries after a test confirmed the Early stages of cancer in the mucous membrane of the uterus a Palace statement said. 2 die in portuguese crash Lisbon Portugal a two people were killed and 36 injured monday when a bus carrying soldiers slammed into a truck in Northern Portugal. The bus Driver Franklin Amaral and Rui Ferreira a Soldier were killed when the bus swerved into a Lane of oncoming traffic and crashed into the truck on the Highway near Aveiro 155 Miles North of Lisbon a police official said speaking on condition of anonymity. The 36 other people injured in the Dawn Accident included the truck Driver who was among 12 victims listed in serious condition. A aluminium paste explodes Wagenveld Netherlands a two 26-quart cans of aluminium paste exploded at a storage depot at a paint factory monday raining soot Over nearby houses a police spokesman said. Nobody was injured in the blast which occurred late in the afternoon at the Sikkens factory in this Central Netherlands Village. The factory is owned by Azo Nobel one of Europe a biggest paint manufacturers. Firefighters called to douse a fire sparked by the explosions brought the flames quickly under control said the police spokesman who declined to be named. The cause of he explosions and the value of the damage was not immediately known by the a -.company. A it just Burnt a Small Hole there a said Azo spokesman Edward Hirschfeld. Poland told it May join nato by 2000