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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 1, .1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 " " ,4 injured in arson attack on foreigners housing from the associated press Ludwigshafen Germany two women and two children needed Hospital treatment Friday after an arson attack damaged a building inhabited by foreigners police said. Police said the attack could have been the work of rightist extremists but also could have been the result of a family dispute. The fire was set by burning paper in the lobby of the two Story House in Western Germany about 1 30am., police said. A romanian woman and her two children age 8and 15, and a woman from former Yugoslavia were taken to a Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. On wednesday a handicapped ethnic Albania Wornan from the serbian province of Kosovo anther brother were killed in an arson attack on temporary Home for refugees in the Northern German town of Herford. Authorities said that attack was not the work of rightists and arrested two turks in what they said appeared to be a personally motivated crime. But the two suspects have since been released and investigators Are not sure about the motive. Several Hurt in Belfast clash .-.-,. Belfast Northern Ireland a crowd of about so people in a Ira stronghold in the Belfast area hurled rocks and bottles Friday at a Security Force patrol that fired plastic bullets Back. Police said two of the Ira supporters were Hurtin the clash with the joint army and police patrol and taken to a Hospital. The extent of their injuries. Was not immediately known. Police said four soldiers and twp police officers were slightly Hurt in the predawn scuffle in the North Belfast Ardoyne area. Of. Irish Republican army supporters have demanded the withdrawal of Security forces from the Ardoyne area and other staunchly Republican districts following the Ira cease fire that began sept.1. -.",-v.u. N. Convoy fired upon United nations somalian gunmen fire Dat a . Convoy near the port of Mogadishu Somalia thursday wounding three India peacekeepers. The Indian soldiers returned fire and there were preliminary reports that several somalis were killed and wounded . Spokesman Fred Eckhard said. _ attacks on or peacekeepers have increase since us. And most other foreign forces withdrew earlier this year. The . Mission s mandate expires at the end of this week and the Council is Likely to extend it for Only one month instead of the customary six months. German train crash kills 5 bad Bramstedt Germany two commuter trains collided head on thursday i Northern Germany killing at least five people and seriously injuring 20, police said. Firemen used torches to Cut some of the injured out of the twisted cars. The most seriously Hurt were flown to hospitals by  addition to the 20 people hospitalized 40 were treated for lesser injuries such As bruises and cuts the Accident was near the town of bad Bramstedt about 25 Miles North of Hamburg. The two locomotives piled into a Pyramid but did not derail drug sub a crude submarine found last week near Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia May be part of a Fleet used by drug traffickers to ferry cocaine authorities said wednesday. The 40-foot, two passenger Craft painted Blue for camouflage consists of a sealed boat Hull with a car engine and air conditioning system. Police believe drug dealers Are using the vessels to haul drugs to off Shore boats that then sail for other countries. Extremely tired Yeltsin skips meeting with Irish Leader Shannon Ireland a a travel weary Boris Yeltsin failed to get off his plane Friday leaving the prime minister a military band and Flower girls standing on the Tarmac the russian president pm his Way Home from meeting president Clinton in the United states was to have lunch with Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds at Shannon Airport in Western Ireland. Instead Yeltsin sent Russia s first Deputy prime min ister Oleg Sosko Vetz to meet Reynolds in the terminal building. The plane took off for Moscow after the 70-min-Ute Stopover with no sign of Yeltsin. He is extremely tired Sosko Vetz said. He has been travelling for�17 , who had planned to Brief Yeltsin on the cease fire called by the Ira in Northern Ireland said Heddin t feel snubbed i completely understand Reynolds said or. Yeltsin was acting on the orders of doctors who said it would be better for him not to get off the  suffers from High blood pressure. When a Man is ill a Man is  and his wife Kathleen waited by the red car pet on the Tarmac at the head of a welcoming  minutes after the Ilyushin Jet landed the party strolled off with Sosko Vetz to the terminal building. Sex French Premier charged in scandal Paris a former Premier Laurent Fabius was charged Friday with complicity in poisoning the High est ranking official to be charged in a scandal involving the contamination of Haemophiliacs with aids tainted blood a. /,., about 1,200 Haemophiliacs were contaminated with the aids virus in 1985 and More than 400 have died. As Fabius left court Friday Joelle Bouchet the Mother of a Young infected Haemophilia a yelled at him you have blood on your  Fabius 48, was the third former socialist to minister charged this week. The others Are former health min ister Edmond Herve and former social affairs minister Georgina Defoix. R " r 7 die a decision has not yet been made on whether to bring them to trial. The charges carry a maximum 30 year prison sentence a. All three were charged by the court of Justice of the Republic created a year ago and the Only forum empowered to prosecute government officials for crimes allegedly committed while in office. A in a statement after his four hour hearing Fabius said he viewed the Case with great compassion for the sick and their families and with great determination that the truth be  _ the decision to charge the former  two years of campaigning by Haemophiliacs and their families seeking government accountability. _ be crashes Moscow a an overloaded cargo plane carrying 19 people and tons of vegetables crashed Friday while trying to take off from an Airport in Russia s far East authorities said. Seven people were killed. It was the second fatal plane crash in Russia this week. There have been More than a dozen aviation disasters Over the past year and a half in the former soviet Union and More than 500 people have  twin engine Turboprop Antonov-8 went Down at the Cha Iburha Airport inthe Khabarovsk Region said Anatoly Streltzov a spokesman for the russian ministry for emergency situations. Sir Eltsos said the plane was unable to get off the ground sped off the runway and plunged into pit there were 12 passengers including four children and seven Crew members aboard. The plane also carried 6 tons of vegetables the inter fax news Agency re ported. All of the survivors were taken by Heli copter to a Hospital in the nearby town of avens Streltzov said. Six people were killed immediately and a seventh later died in the Hospital. Five of the survivor were in extremely grave condition a doctor told the itar Tass news Agency. Aviation experts said the plane s Maxi mum carrying capacity was 6.6 tons. Rus Sian flight Crews often take on extra Pas sengers and cargo to boost their meager salaries. Itar Tass said the plane belonged tothe Arsenyel aviation unit. The flight originated in Khabarovsk and was in route to ,.with a Stopover Incha Iburha. Khabarovsk is More than 3,700 Miles East of Moscow. On monday 28 people were killed a passenger Jet smashed into a re Mote siberian Forest. A Lack of Money for plane maintenance and salaries a been blamed for declining safety standards in the former soviet Union. The International airline passenger association based in Washington has advised travellers to avoid flying to or in Russia. Russian aviation officials have said the warnings Are exaggerated and insist the accidents do not indicate system wide problems  
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