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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 29, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 9armenians, azerbaijanis agree to keep cease fire from the associate press Yerevan Armenia a military authorities of a Yrmenia Azerbaijan and Magorno Karabash have signed a pledge to observe a cease fire in the. Disputed enclave of Magorno Karabash officials said thursday. The armenian foreign ministry issued a statement saying defense ministers of Armenia Azerbaijan and Magorno Warabak confirmed on wednesday their commitment to adhere to the russian brokered cease fire signed in May. A the sides also agreed to prepare another document which would determine conditions for deployment of International observers to Monitor the cease fire a the statement said. The War for Magorno Karabash a mountainous armenian enclave located inside Azerbaijan is the worst ethnic conflict in the former soviet Union. It began when Magorno Karabash sought. Independence from Azerbaijan in Early 1988. More than 20,000 people have died and More than 1 million have become refugees from the six years of fighting. Armenian forces last year drove azerbaijani troops from Magorno Karabash and seized a Large Swath of adjacent territory. They now control up to 20 percent of Azerbaijan a  to embalm Kim Moscow a russian embalmers who have a history of enshrining famous communist leaders a Are preparing to preserve the body of the late North korean dictator Kim ii Sung a newspaper said thursday. A team of experts from the Institute of biological structures was making preparations to leave for North Korea the weekly Moscow news said. Yuri de n Ison Skolsky Deputy director of the Institute is already in Pyongyang it said. The Cost of embalming Kim who died july 8 at 82, will be $300,000, the newspaper said. The Institute was responsible for preserving soviet founder Vladimir Lenin As Well As Josef Stalin and Vietnam Sho Chi  minister named Ankara Turkey a a a politician known for his pro iraqi views and his association with the turks occupying part of Cyprus was named foreign minister wednesday it Wasny to immediately Clear if the appointment of Mumtaz so Sal signalled a change in turkeys generally pro Western policies. His appointment was one of 11 changes in the 32-minister Cabinet carried out by the social democrats Junior partners in Premier Tansu cillers coalition. So Sal 65, opposes turkeys allowing a  Western air Force to use the turkish base at in Ciurlik to Monitor Baghdad a treatment of kurd in Northern Iraq. He also has urged Turkey to normalize ties with Iraq. So Sal was an adviser to turkish cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash for More than a  prices to increase Moscow a an anticipated Rise in the Cost of Grain will have a Nasty Side effect for russian drinkers the Cost of Vodka could triple by the end of the year. Vladimir Yarmosh who oversees russian alcohol production told the inter fax news Agency thursday that the Cost of a liter of Vodka will soar from about $2 to $7. Another Factor affecting the Cost of Vodka is a slump in Overall alcohol production Yarmosh said. In the past six months russians alcohol factories have produced 132 million Gallons of Vodka 61 percent of the output during the same period last year. Yarmosh blamed the drop on rising imports of foreign brands of alcohol from abroad including former soviet  s arrest sought Dhaka Bangladesh a a second arrest warrant has been issued against author Taulima Nasrin this time for a 1992 Book of essays that religious leaders consider anti islamic. Nasrin who went into hiding june 4 after a Dhaka court ordered her arrest was once again charged this week by a court in Chatak in northeastern Bangladesh with hurting religious sensibilities of the country a predominantly Muslim population. The memorial to the 1944 Warsaw uprising will be the site or commemorations or the 50th anniversary or the anti nazi Battles that ended in rail Urc and the deaths of about 200,000 poles. Of futile Warsaw uprising Warsaw Poland a with the dauntless spirit of adolescence Zofia Kurato ska set out at age 13 for what she thought would be a a great adventure a the Warsaw uprising of 1944. It was a bold but doomed Enterprise done in by a soviet decision not to Back up the resistance fighters. When it ended two months later 200,000 poles were dead a including Kun Ratowska a Boyfriend a and the City was in ruins. She wept bitterly when the uprising ended. Soon after she and her Mother were huddled in a freight car As the nazis shipped 700,000 people out of the City. Half a Century later poles Are holding solemn ceremonies and making sure the younger generations know what happened. Attending commemorations starting this weekend will be . Vice president a1 Gore German president roman Herzog and British prime minister John major. On aug. 1, 1944, the Date that Poland a government in exile chose to begin the fight to free the capital Poland had been occupied by the nazis for five years and the soviet army was nearing Warsaw a Eastern suburbs. Kurato ska who grew up to become speaker of the polish Senate said it was a a natural things to join the Home army the country a biggest resistance Force. Thousands of other youngsters Felt the same Way. At the outset of the 1944 revolt resistance fighters hoped soviet troops would support them. Instead Josef Stalin ordered the red army to halt on the East Bank of the Vistula River and let the poles bleed themselves out in futile Battles with the germans. When the soviets marched into Warsaw in january 1945, they found a gutted City whose population had been evacuated by the retreating germans. Poland then was to endure 44 years of communist dictatorship. The 40,000 Home army soldiers in Warsaw had great spirit but pitifully few weapons. Only about 10 percent had anything at All a Molotov cocktails rifles a handful of sub machine guns and scarce ammunition. They faced Well armed regular German troops and an elite is Panzer unit. Kurato ska recalled her daily rounds under fire crawling through basements and sprinting past barricades. A since i was 13 i did not fear anything but i had a feeling of a great adventure a she said. The Home army initially took control of much of the City but the germans soon regained the upper hand with brutal counterattacks and Public executions. By Early september Only part of Central Warsaw remained in polish hands the insurgents having been forced to flee the old town District through the sewers. Kurato ska remembers watching the Ocean of flames from her roof. One september Day Hope was revived. A it was a Nice sunny Day. We heard the sound of heavy transport aircraft a Kurato ska said. A suddenly the sky blossomed with hundreds or thousands of parachutes and crowds rushed to the streets to  it was the Only Daylight Allied Airdrop but most of the supplies missed the Mark and were seized by the germans. Stalin refused to let the americans and British use soviet airstrips to Supply the insurgents. The foreign ministry in Moscow branded the uprising a political adventurism Quot favouring the Kremlin installed polish administration in Eastern Poland. Most official history books published in Poland until the late 1980s blamed Home army commanders for sending thousands of people to a a needless  in a a. Jackson urges democracy in Nigeria Lagos Nigeria apr the Rev. Jesse Jackson tried thursday to coax nigerians military ruler to move toward democracy and thousands of angry youths took the same message to the streets looting and rampaging during a protest against the dictatorship. Meanwhile about 4,000 other people held a peaceful March to demand the release of Moshood Abiola the businessman who apparently won the june 1993 presidential election that was annulled by the military Abiola was arrested on treason charges after he declared himself president to Mark the first anniversary of the election. His trial was due to begin thursday. Jackson led a . Delegation dispatched by the White House to a meeting with the military ruler Gen. Sani Abaca and military sources said the meeting did not go Well. Government sources said the delegations suggestion that the military hand Over Power to a group of credible nigerian civilians was greeted coolly. Jackson who plans to meet next with opposition leaders said the . Expressed concern about the democratic process in  a a healthy and Strong Nigeria is a stabilizing Factor for All of Africa Quot he said  
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