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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 8, 1994

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday augusts 1994 the. Stars and stripes Page 5 Haiti presses civilians into military show port a Prince Haiti a a dramatic show of Force intended to warn Washington against invading Haiti turned into More of a farce saturday with a ragtag group of civilians Labouring through military exercises. The army marched hundreds of civilian defense recruits into the capital s main Square grim faced the teen agers Gray haired old men and even a couple of women sweated As they ran jumped and crawled under the morning Sun. We Are waiting for the foreigners. We will eat the foreigners the civilian soldiers chanted As they marched. Haiti is bracing for an american led inva Sion aimed at ousting the military leadership and restoring deposed president Jean Ber Trand Aristide. Aristide Haiti s first popularly elected president was overthrown by the army in september 1991 and has been living in exile. Argentine and colombian diplomats closed their missions saturday and left the haitian capital for the neighbouring Domin ican Republic after the argentines said they received telephoned death threats. Argentina has expressed support for a possible  military intervention while Colombia was involved in an initiative by several latin american countries to negotiate the departure of the army leaders. It. Gen. Raoul Cedras the haitian army chief said in an interview with Cable news network conservative commentator Robert Novak that he believes an invasion is inevitable and he is preparing to fight. It s been decided to invade. And we Are getting ready Esdras said. Readiness was apparently the reason for forming the group of patriotic resistance and putting its members on Public display saturday. I. Members of the haitian army carry old style rifles As they March past the presidential Palace in port a Prince Haiti on Friday. The haitian government rounded up civilian defense recruits for a show of Force on saturday in the capital. The recruits All in civilian clothes ran in formation past the White presidential Palace in port a Prince chanting and singing. � among them were Many members of the front for the advancement and Progress of Haiti an armed right Wing pro military party often accused of intimidation torture and assassination of civilians. Menacing commandos dressed entirely in Black with Black hoods Over their faces and new weapons in their hands watched through the slits of their masks. The recruits broke into about 15 platoon sized groups and spread out through the Central Park. Drill instructors some in uni form but most in civilian clothes shouted waved their arms and blew whistles. Many of the recruits seemed bewildered. Forming straight lines seemed a difficult task and the training seemed to emphasize the techniques of crawling. English Harvest world s curiosity about crop circles Alton priors England a what causes strange shapes to appear in the heated Plains of Southwest England bored drunks aliens Energy from another dimension or maybe just an enterprising tourist Board the people who come to View these prodigies of Lawn mowing Don t really care it s a piece of the magic to let you know it s real said Shawn Randall a los Angeles metaphysics teacher Here for a three Day conference on crop circles Thos and strange visitors from other planets. Randall stood Friday on wheat flattened into the shape of an Eye a Quarter acre in size. Other visitors sprawled spread Eagle on the Grain that crackled under blazing Sun meditated in the Lotus position or pursued electromagnetic Fields with dowsing rods. Farmer Tim Carson said he s certain that two of the three crop circles on his 1,500 acres Are hoaxes be cause he caught men with Oil Drums tamping Down the wheat Early one sunday morning. But he wonders about the giant Eye it appeared it a i inv in two we a a. A septic sagas he herded Black and White cows. Neat swirls of flattened crops ranging from a few feet to a few Hundred feet appear each summer on the farmlands of Southwest England mainly in the county of Wiltshire Home of the prehistoric and truly mysterious stonehenge.,_0 crop circles were first recorded in England in 1678. In other countries circles have been reported in Sand Snow Rice paddies and Fields. The patterns have been variously attributed to whirlwinds witches magnetic forces animals hoaxers and spaceships. Whatever causes the crop circles people flock to see them. On a dirt Patch alongside a narrow country Road germans French russians and americans parked their cars to walk through the giant Eye. This year we be Only had hundreds of visitors said a huge crop Circle looms in the background As cows Graze in a Field near Alton priors in Southwest eng land on Imp Way Carson. He said that 1990 was just but of hand really ,000 people came.". The conceded the attention is Good for the local tourism Industry. Mostly people Are brought by curiosity. I m Here to get a deeper insight said Hen Vanbeusekom of the Netherlands. I m really quite emotional about the whole  Margaret Pinyan a retired Book editor from Sedona ariz., said she is searching for evidence that aliens Are responsible it is frustrating to everyone that you can t say hey you Guys come on Down and let s talk about it " Turk reportedly implicates Vatican in 81 Pope attack Rome a a Turk acquitted twice of involvement in the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul ii has told italian investigators that High level Vatican officials ordered the attack a newspaper said sunday a Vatican spokesman dismissed the report As a  the Milan daily la Voce reported that Oral Celik. Who was extradited to Italy last year told two Magis trates in Rome that noted italian figures As Well As very High level Vatican officials were involved in a plot behind the shooting in St. Peter s Square on May 13,1981.the paper said the prosecutors demanded to know names and other facts so they could verify Celik s  la Tell you All that i know la Voce quoted Cylik As saying. It said he went on to give names and precise dates and places allegedly linked to the shooting but the newspaper did t identify any of them. Rai state television quoted Celik s lawyer Michele Gentiloni Silver As denying that his client implicated High level officials of the holy see. But the to report said the lawyer did t Rule out that Celik had implicated High level prelates in the purported plot. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro commenting on la Voce s article was quoted As saying by the ital Ian news Agency Ansa this daydream too ridiculous and hardly Clever does t even deserve to be taken in  the shooting during a Public audience seriously wounded the Pope. Another Turk Mehmet Ali Agea is serving a life sentence in an italian prison for being the actual gunman in the attack. Last december after Celik s extradition from France for a drug trafficking conviction Rosario Priore one of the investigating magistrates who has been probing the shooting for years said he would interrogate Celik. La Voce reported that Cylik told the investigators that Aga was a formidable Marksman. If he wanted to that afternoon of the shooting he really would t have missed such an easy target at that distance. The truth is something else Aga was t supposed to kill the pontiff. His task was to do just what he did wound him. That s just what those persons at the holy see who organized the attack   
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