European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes world wednesday August 24,1994 German officers guilty of abusing 4 vietnamese from the associated press Leipzig Germany. A German court convicted four police officers monday of mistreating vietnamese refugees and sentenced one of them to prison. All four officers denied the charges. The state court in Leipzig found them guilty of causing bodily injury illegal detention and robbery. One policeman was sentenced to three years an nine months in jail the other three were fined up to $2,900. Two of the three fined officers received suspended sentences. The four were convicted of roughing up four vietnamese refugees and a Young German after taking them to a Remote abandoned mine Las summer. The vietnamese were allegedly involved in Selling smuggled cigarettes and one of them was robbed bythe police officers. Thousands of vietnamese who worked in communist East Germany remained in German after unification. Azerbaijani beaten kicked Bonn Germany an azerbaijani was beaten and savagely kicked by two right Wing extremists in the East German City of Gotha police there said sunday. The 41-year-old male victim was hospitalized with severe injuries after the saturday night attack police said. The assailants hit the azerbaijani and then kicked him with their heavy paratrooper Botsas he Lay on the ground police said. Two right Wing extremists have been arrested inthe assault a police officer said. Pool of trouble for teens Kuala Bumpur Malaysia four teen age robbers were caught with their pants Down literally police said tuesday. Police said the four had broken into a House aug.7 in Johore Bakhru 180 Miles South of Kuala Bumpur but could not resist a splash in the Home spool in the nude. On a tip off police raided the House and arrested the four in the Pool Johore police superintendent Zakaria Musoh said in a Telephone interview. Further information was being withheld pending an investigation Zakaria said. They will be charge soon he said. Police found valuables Worth about 6,000 ringgit $2,362 in the teens car. The four Between 17 and 20, Are wanted for 12 robberies in various parts of Johore state in the Pas two months Zakaria said. Hundreds die in China Hong Kong a typhoon triggered landslides and flooding in China s Eastern Zhenjiang province killing More than 450 people a chinese new Agency reported monday. Typhoon Fred also whipped up record tidal Waves when it slammed into the province sunday said the China news service in Hong Kong. The typhoon which weakened into a tropical storm monday affected More than 30 cities and towns the news Agency said. Packing winds of up to 118 Mph the storm battered Taiwan on saturday leaving three people dead child Dies in bomb blast Nicosia Cyprus a child was killed and 13 other people were wounded monday when a Booby trapped car blew up near the offices of a state run newspaper in Baghdad Iraq the official iraqi new Agency reported. The explosion caused extensive damage to five houses and several vehicles but Only slight damage to the Al jump Uriah newspaper office Ina said in a dispatch monitored in Nicosia. It gave no other details or indication of who could have planted the bomb beyond blaming it on agents of Iraq s enemies. There have been several bombings in the Iraq capital Over the last few years. Not All have been officially reported by the state run Media probably because the regime did not want to publicize the attacks. Most of the known attacks Are believed to have been carried out by opponents of Saddam Hussein s repressive regime such As shiite muslims and kurd. Mexico s top party wins As rivals launch protests Mexico City a president elect Ernesto Zedillo insisted that mexi co passed the test of democracy in its weekend elections but angry opposition candidates accused the ruling party once again of foul play. Most groups representing 82,000 Domestic and foreign election observers said however that the election was largely fair. Zedillo a  economist and candidate of the ruling institutional revolutionary party known As Pri vowed to stick to the free Market re forms adopted by departing president Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Salinas is constitutionally barred from seeking a second consecutive term and leaves of fice dec. 1. Sunday s election tested the ruling party s resolve to support the bold eco nomic changes of the North american free Trade agreement with a new re Spect for the vote. The government spent $730 million to overhaul voter registration and Issue photo identity cards. The people have expressed their will Zedillo said monday. The to Mexico s president elect Ernesto Zedillo smiles after giving a speech ment has come to leave behind our Dif in me pc cily on monday  but leftist candidate Cuauhtemoc Cardenas who maintains that the Pri robbed him of a presidential Victory in 1988 accused the party of wrongdoing again. A colossal fraud has been committed he said. Cardenas summoned some 20,000 protesters to a demonstration monday in Mexico City s vast Central Square and called for nationwide protests. The struggle my comrades is simply beginning. We will not have six More years of intimidation he shouted. Protesters unfurled White flags emblazoned with red fists and chanted democracy now the vote was manipulated Rebecca Parilla 50, declared at the demonstration. We want peace. We want change. But this election was a tragedy however Adolfo Queseda a businessman passing by the Square scoffed that the protesters Don t represent most  the Pri has not lost a presidential election since it founding in 1929. Financial markets soared on news of Zedillo s Victory. The mexican Stock Market climbed to its highest level of the year monday while the mexican peso climbed against foreign currencies. The Stock Market had fallen More than 13 percent in presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. The wide margin of Zedillo s Victory was Likely to weaken accusations of vote fraud. With More than 45 percent of the ballots counted tuesday he had 48 per cent of the vote the Semi autonomous Federal electoral Institute said. Diego Fernandez de Cevallos of the Center right National action party was in second place with 30 per cent followed by Cardenas of the democratic revolution party with 16 percent. Fernandez a former congressman protested the re sults but appealed to his largely Middle class followers to abstain from violence saying he would protest through Legal channels. There was no immediate response from the Sapatis to rebels who stunned Mexico by launching a new yearns Day uprising in Southern Chiapas state. At a meeting earlier this month their supporters voted to organize nationwide protests if the voting was t fair. The Pri pinned its presidential Hopes on the previously unknown Zedillo after Blosio was assassinated March 23 at a Tijuana Campaign rally. Sunday s voting was largely peaceful but shortages of ballots at Many of the 687 special polling Sites for a ,7. R a a Micout a i m to / special Point sue to Aown ass z3sss2touched off sea ered protes s vandalism new concern Felt about Pope s Heo Fth Rome a clutching his stomach and leaning on his papal scepter to walk Pope John Paul ii has prompted renewed concern about his health. Plans for a papal visit to Sarajevo next month were already tentative enough because of the obvious Dan Gers of a trip to the besieged bosnian capital. However the Pope s apparent pain made the sept. 8 trip All the More Uncertain the latest speculation about the 74 year old pontiffs health flared up sunday during the Only Public appearance scheduled for his 10-Day Vaca Tion in the Western italian Alps after More than two hours of ceremony at an out door mass in the Village of Cogne the Pope was about to leave the canopied altar when he pressed his right hand to his Abdomen apparently hit by a Flash of pain. A prelate moved to support him. The incident was captured by a private television network which broadcast it monday. Italian newspapers suggested he was in pain from hip replacement surgery april 29 following what the Vatican said was fall in his bathroom. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro dismissed the no Tion that health problems could prevent John Paul from going to Sarajevo a certainly it won t be the leg that cancels the trip Navarro said after the mass i �t1ce a Daft Nagano said the Pope walked an hour late sunday and for 90 minutes in the mountains Mon Day. Navarro turned defensive when journalists persisted with questions about the Pope s  re seeing journalists Navarro quoted the Pope As  them if they have Ever had a Gri Mace of  6 Waldheim s wife receives award from Vatican Vienna Austria a another papal Honor has been accorded the Waldheim despite criticism Over the papal Knighthood granted to the former austrian president and world War ii German officer. Papal Nuncio archbishop Donato Squicciarini awarded Kurt Waldheim s wife Elisabeth the pro ecclesia it Pontifice Cross for her services to the roman Catholic Church an austrian newspaper said sunday. On july 6, Waldheim was awarded the distinguished award of Knighthood in the 147-year-old order of Pius " Waldheim s Honor raised no Waves in predominantly roman Catholic Austria. But it angered jews and others in Israel and elsewhere. Waldheim has been accused of complicity in War crimes because of his service with a German army unit in the Balkans blamed for atrocities. He has denied any involvement. Israel has asked for Vatican clarification of theaward. In Rida award to Elisabeth Waldheim was Dart of50th wedding anniversary celebrations for the couple in Nussdorf a Village near Salzburg