European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes world wednesday july 27,1994 elephant mounted troops Hunt tribal rebels in India from the associated press Gauhati India a soldiers on elephants searched in a Tiger Reserve for tribal rebels who massacred 69 Muslim refugees police said tuesday. The Federal government sent 3,000 troops to the northeastern state of Assam to quell ethnic riots and to scour the Jungles for guerrillas of the outlawed Bodo Security Force. India has asked Bhutan for permission to pursue the guerrillas across the Border if necessary. Police in the meantime arrested 50 suspected Bodo rebels during separate raids on hideouts around Carpeta United news of India reported. Riots erupted this month for the fourth time since october Between indigenous Bodo tribe people and muslims who have been migrating for years from Bangladesh into the tribal area. Air controllers return Paris a air traffic controllers in Southeast France returned to work monday after a three Day strike that stranded tens of thousands of travellers on one of the busiest summer weekends. Delays of 25 minutes were reported for air planes flying Over the Region a minor irritant after the five to six hour Waits and thousands of cancelled flights from Friday through sunday. The strike by controllers at the Aix in Provence regional Cente r affected not Only French Domestic flights but planes flying Between Northern and Southern Europe. _ flights linking Germany Britain and Switzerland with sunny Spain Italy Portugal and Tunisia were badly affected. The controllers hoped to meet transportation ministry officials tuesday or today to negotiate their demands for More staff members and better benefits. A they already have unilaterally Cut their working week from 36 hours to 32 hours part of the reason for the continuing delays monday civil aviation authorities reported. 4 hungarian soldiers killed Budapest Hungary a four soldiers were killed and six injured when a mortar exploded during a military training exercise the state news Agency Mai reported tuesday. An army Captain a sergeant and two other service members were killed immediately when the barrel of the mortar exploded at a military Camp in Var Palota 50 Miles Southwest of Budapest the report said. A. Hungarian defense minister Gyoergy Keleti told hungarian radio that the Accident was caused by human error. 25 die in truck plunge Villahermosa Mexico Brake failure apparently caused a truck to skid off a Mountain Road and crash into a tree in Southeastern Tabasco state killing 25 passengers and injuring 44, police said. V about 70 Oil workers were on the truck when it crashed monday near the town of Tea a about 40 Miles South of the Tabasco state capital of Villahermosa a state police report said. The truck was in route from Tea a to it Acomita a in neighbouring Chiapas state. Germans quell jail riot Kassel Germany a police commandos. Subdued 39 inmates monday after they seized a prison guard and held him hostage for 22 hours lost of the prisoners were algerians awaiting deportation. No one was injured in the standoff which ended As the inmates were trying to Board a bus they had demanded for a trip to another jail. The inmates Saia they were trying to publicize overcrowded inhumane conditions at Kassel jail and were protesting deportation. The inmates who included moroccans and poles also slated for deportation took the 39-year-old guard hostage sunday morning. Later in the Day they set a fire in the jail and about 135 inmates were transferred out of the facility before the Blaze was extinguished. The inmates had demanded that a lawyer translator and two members of the news Media accompany them on the bus to another Hessen state jail. The police commandos surprised the inmates As they tried to Board the bus. Arafat hails but will peace pact it Israel and Jordan ended 46 years of hostility monday with a pact that paves the Way for economic political and cultural cooperation. Some key Points a a state of belligerency Quot has ended. A the nations will cooperate on Trade banking and finance. A police from both countries will work against crime especially drug smuggling a israeli prime minister. Yitzhak Nabirt and Jordan s King Hussein will broker a formal peace plan the players Gaza City Gaza strip apr a beaming Yasser Arafat welcomed the new warmer relations Between Israel and Jordan. But Many palestinians fear the rapprochement will undermine their struggling Economy and claims to Jerusalem. A a in a sending my congratulations a said Arafat Leader of the palestinian self government in Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho. By terminating the state of War Between them Jordan and Israel took a step monday a in the Long March to achieve a comprehensive peaceful solution in the whole area Arafat said. But reflecting the unease among palestinians the Palestine liberation organization Leader invited palestinian notables from Jerusalem to his Gaza City Headquarters to discuss the implications of the breakthrough. Samir Barghouti director of an agricultural company in the West Bank said the Impact on the palestinian Economy will be a worse than a a a a a. Palestinians fear Jordan will eventually Supply Israel with cheaper labor and flood the Gaza strip and West Bank with cheaper products. In addition the jordanians who have a better marketing system than the palestinians could undercut Job creating projects and put West Bank businesses such is pharmaceutical and Cement plants out of business. Palestinians Are also worried because the declaration proclaims israelis respect for Jordan so special role Quot in Jerusalem a Muslim shrines. A Israel will give High priority to the jordanian historic role in these shrines a the declaration said. Palestinians want East Jerusalem t6 be the capital of their hoped for Independent state. Israel which captured the City a Eastern sector along with the West Bank from Jordan in 1967, claims the unified City As its eternal capital. Khaled Salam an Arafat spokesman told Israel radio that the clause on Jerusalem violated the israeli Plo peace Accord that established autonomy in. The Gaza strip and West Bank town of Jericho two months ago a a. A a. Talks Are under Way to spread self Rule throughout the West Bank but Israel and the Plo postponed talks on Jerusalem until negotiations on a final peace settlement begin by 1996. Hus Seiil has always seen himself As guardian of Jerusalem Sal Asa mosque the third holiest site in islam. He recently spent millions of dollars to renovate the dome of the Rock part of the Complex that includes Al Asa and sits atop the Temple mount holy to jews. Palestinians fear that by emphasizing a religion based role for Jordan Israel May be weakening the palestinians claim for full control Over East Jerusalem. Rabin Hussein form a path to peace King Hussein the jordanian Leader 58, ascended to the throne in 1953. Has survived Many assassination attempts. Opposed the 1979 Camp David peace treaty Between Egypt and Israel but in the following years supported . Efforts to Foster Arab israeli peace. Yitzhak Rabin the prime minister 72, was once a jewish underground Leader and has been involved in israeli politics since the nation was established in 1948. Military commander in toe 1967 War. Took office in 1992 after replacing Shimon Peres As labor party Leader. A a a. Ap/s4s they worry Israel is trying to play jordanians off against palestinians. A Jerusalem has become a place for worshipping Only a said Hanna Amira a leading Plo supporter in the West Bank. A we want Jerusalem to be a place for palestinian in speeches to visiting delegations Arafat always stresses that palestinian seek jurisdiction Over not just Muslim and Christian shrines but the entire City. Israel has invited Hussein to visit Jerusalem a move that Arafat last week said violated palestinian rights Over the City. He then issued his own invitation to Hussein. Saab Ere Kat municipal affairs minister in the self Rule government said Jordan was accepting Israel too Early denying the arabs leverage toward achieving a palestinian state. A Israel is trying to jump and reach the fruits of peace. Without meeting the requirements. Withdrawal from All the occupied Arab territories including East Jerusa Jem Quot he said. Punishment urged for Neo nazis who rampaged at Buchenwald Berlin apr the israeli ambassador visited the Buchenwald concentration Camp memorial monday and a German government spokesman demanded Tough punishment for Neo nazis who threw stones and shouted a Sieg Quot Heil at the memorial. After touring the memorial ambassador Avi Primor said Many israelis had telephoned his embassy expressing astonishment that police had held Only one of the 22 Neo nazis detained in the bold excursion saturday evening. A people who profane such memorials Are a minority but this minority is dangerous a Primor said a in Germany Radical rightists Are bound up with the past they use the symbols of the past and they re government spokesman Dieter Vogel said in a statement issued in Bonn that firm punishment should be Given to the Neo nazis. A the government regrets this repulsive crime a Vogel said. The group of no nazis pulled up in a tour bus saturday evening at the memorial outside the City of Weimar some 120 Miles Southwest of Berlin arid threw stones breaking one window. They also shouted Quot Sieg Heil Quot and marched around giving Adolf hitlers stiff armed Salute. Forty police arrived within 12 minutes to Stop the disturbance said the science minister of Thi Ningen state Christian Faerber whose ministry supervises the Buchenwald memorial. But Adf television reported late monday that a police car had been following the groups tour bus earlier saturday and then lost it. The Only one of the 22 Neo nazis held by police was wanted on another arrest warrant. The others were questioned and released and May face charges of disturbing the peace causing property damage and threatening a woman working at the memorial o
