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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 r the stars and stripes saturday october 8,1994 at a glance South african president Nelson Mandela prepares to blow a kiss to the . Congress before address ing a joint session thursday. He urged the United states to focus on eliminating a tyranny instability and poverty Quot across the Globe. See Story on Page 6. Gunman killed a six hour hostage standoff in Belvi Dere iii., ended when police shot a Security guard in the head after he tackled and choked his sex Girlfriend and then aimed a gun at the officers a Page 5 $1.6 million stolen a former Engineer with the Bureau of engraving and printing has pleaded guilty to stealing More than $1.6 million in test currency. A a v a a a Page 7 a shot at safety smoking guns can by hazardous to your health. That a Why All guns sold in Georgia s biggest county will soon carry warning labels. A Page 8 embassy institution father Bill is a familiar face in the american Community in Bonn Germany Small wonder a retired chaplain William l. Travers has been serving the embassy Parish for 17 years a Page 11 film stars on wheels the Bat Mobile the Back to the fun Ture time machine and the Gadget studded James Bond car from Gold. Finger were among the attractions at thursday s Start of the Paris motor show. A. A Quot Page 16 Index a. 1 Abby Ann Landers a a 21 classifieds. 24 �?�29 comics. 22 �?�23 commentary. A a a 15 crossword. A a Quot a 21 faces a no places. A m m 12 focus. 17 �20 Horoscope. A a a 27 Jumble. A a 27 letters. A m a 14 Money matters. I 16 religion. A a 4 11 o co �36 to stings. A a a 35 weather. 1 13 . Planes bringing Aid hit by gunfire in Sarajevo Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina apr a gunfire hit two . Planes at Sarajevo a Airport Friday jeopardizing a vital Aid Airlift that bosnian serbs Only grudgingly had allowed to resume after a two week shutdown. There were no injuries and both aircraft returned to Zagreb Croatia. But the shooting was certain to heighten tensions around the besieged bosnian capital following the discovery thursday of the corpses of 16 serbian soldiers and four nurses killed in a commando raid by government forces. Bosnian serbs Are furious Over the incident and the government is angry at the . Response. . Spokeswoman Claire Grimes said the Airport was on a state of Alert it was Uncertain whether the Aid Airlift which had restarted earlier Friday would be suspended. Grimes said two planes of. The . Protection Force were hit by gunshots As they taxied for Takeoff at about 4 . One was struck in the Tail the second in the cockpit area. Grimes said it was not known who fired the shots. On mount i Mari Southwest of the Airport meanwhile . Troops worked into the night to dear government soldiers from a demilitarized zone near the area where the 20 serbs were killed. Bosnian president Alija ize Begovic criticized the United nations and demanded a Public apology from the top . Official in former Yugoslavia Yasu Shi Akashi who said thursday that the serbian corpses had been mutilated. A emr. Akashi slandered the army of Bosnia Herzegovina in his Hasty statement a ize Begovic told reporters Friday evening. The United. Nations retracted the mutilation comment Early Friday. But . Spokesman Paul Risley at Akashi a Headquarters in Zagreb said there a will be no  said Akashi had reacted promptly because a the feared very much that bosnian serbs could use this incident As a pretext for a  the incident raised concerns that bosnian serbs would again close the Airport which they had shut Down for two weeks in retaliation for a nato airstrike on one of their tanks sept. 22. At least four . Planes landed Friday with food and supplies. From Page 1 As big As the invasion Force that took Over Kuwait in 1990. A confrontational tactics will prove no More successful now. Than in the past a the state department said referring to the 1991 persian Gulf War in which the United states and Allied nations forced Iraq to reverse its annexation of Kuwait. At the Pentagon Perry said the iraqi troop movements a Are not routine and Are not typical of what we be seen in the past and therefore cause us  r during several hours thursday night and Friday morning Perry and army Gen. John m. Shalikashvil the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff reviewed the american forces in the persian Gulf Region. A a a a ? a a. Earlier in the Day Pentagon officials cautioned that the latest military troop movements could be a form of attention seeking bluster or even Normal rotations among top of the line iraqi units. A leading iraqi dissident said the troop movements followed the suppression of an uprising in the iraqi armed forces against Saddam. Later during a news conference with South korean officials Perry adopted a Stern Crone. The defense Secretary said the United states has a a very substantial capability in the area and would be ready to make any deployment should it be necessary. At the state department spokesman Michael Mccurry said in a statement that iraqis revolutionary command Council must not be allowed to intimidate the . Security Council and iraqis neighbors the state department suggested Iraq hoped to get . Sanctions lifted through threats of Force but that Baghdad had been informed such tactics would not succeed. A to achieve the lifting of sanctions Iraq must comply fully with All . Security Council resolutions a it said. A Pentagon official speaking on condition of anonymity said it Isnit exactly Clear How Many iraqi forces have moved southward but they were Republican. Guard units a which Are supposed to be top of the line divisions. Even though some guard divisions were smashed in the Gulf War some units never even entered the fray. Iraq massed troops on the Border of Kuwait in the summer of 1990. The inva Sion of the tiny desert kingdom sparked the War in which a .-led coalition Defeated Iraq and drove Saddam a forces from the Small emirate. / on thursday Baghdad had warned it would prevent , monitoring of its military facilities unless the . Security Council eased its four year embargo on iraqi Oil sales. The Council convenes next week to discuss whether Iraq has complied with . Conditions to lift the embargo a second Pentagon official noted that if administration officials care to display some muscle in response to the iraqi moves the aircraft Carrier George Washington is currently in the Adriatic sea and could be shifted to the Gulf Region. At present there Are about eight Navy ships in the persian Gulf Region including an amphibious ready group headed by the amphibious assault ship Tripoli that includes about 2,000 marines. One of a series of military exercises with . Army troops is also slated to occur later this month in which 1,350 . Troops were slated to join forces with kuwaiti forces in a Field exercise. The United states has maintained a Large amount of military weaponry and supplies in Kuwait that troops on exercise use to train in the desert. Cult from Page 1 bodies found in Canada were suicides. The couple was alive when the fire started and doors to the duplex had been barred police said. They said Friday that the other three had Stab wounds a a we re sure they were murdered Quot said police Constable Michel Brunet. He said the woman was British and the Man Swiss and their baby was 3 months old. The fair Ilys s car amp As found at a nearby Airport in Mirabel a town about 25 Miles Northwest of Montreal. Police said the killer apparently drove it there then took an International night the destination of which was not Clear. It was not known if Joref a belgian doctor was dead or alive. Thomas Krom Pecher chief pathologist at Lausanne University Hospital said Friday that Only five bodies had been fully identified and that neither Jouret nor Dimambro was Mong those identified another investigator in the Case said evidence a a clearly indicates some of the victims in Switzerland were executed he said 20 victims had Bullet wounds in their Heads and evidence indicates they could not have shot themselves. A there was certainly another person who put several bullets into the Heads of these victims a investigating judge Andre Piller said thursday. However Piller said the bullets could have been a a coup de Grace intended to finish off victims who were still alive. No weapons were found near the bodies a Piller said documents also show that there had been a dispute with cult leaders Over Money. Still authorities were not discounting a mass suicide by the cultists who were believed to be Swiss French and Canadian Haiti from Page 1 a your Force level is now about 19,000, and we have begun to draw Down assault elements for example the 1,800 marines at Cap haitian Are being  by the end of october the . Force will be Down to 15,000 and in four to six months a we will Transfer to a United nations Force a Slocombe said. By then the . Force will be about 6,000. Slocombe said Pentagon officials Are wary of making any policy changes hat would expand the . Mission in 1 1 Del i a. 1 a we arc very conscious of Mission creep Slocombe said. A a we Are very conscious of the risk of getting sucked into things that look like Good ideas at the time that get us in deeper and  ,. Alexander Watson assistant Serif to i of stale for inter american affairs s he committee that despite continuing hazards facing the . A min a a care Well on the Way to achieving our Basic  the resolutions approved by the House and Senate also directed the Secretary of state to report by Jan. 1 on human rights violations by both the Aristide government and the military led regime that overthrew him in 1991. The votes followed hours of debate in both Chambers marked by Republican sniping at Clinton a Haiti policy and democratic warnings that legislating a deadline for the Mission posed a danger to american soldiers in the Field  
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