European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 2, 1994 world the stars and stripes Page 11 to use of Geneva a the . Children s fund and the red Cross mounted a new Campaign monday to ban the use of child so Saiers but conceded that there was Little Chance of Success soon. Tens of thousands of children Are in Active service especially in civil wars in Africa. No one knows the pre Cise figure. The organizations want to change International Law to raise the Legal age limit for military recruits from 15 to 18 and to Clamp Down on the illegal use of Young fighters. A . Working group is meeting la discuss ways to tighten an  on the rights of the child. But there is opposition from the United states Britain and some developing coun tries to raising the age limit. Children some As Young As 7 or 8 years old have been forced or incited to commit horrific atrocities against the civilian population even against their own friends and family said Samir Basta head of the Unicof office in Geneva. The problem seems to be growing said Guy Good win Gill who was commissioned to research the Issue. Wherever a conflict emerges children sooner or late find themselves caught up in  his study. The role of children in armed conflicts said the main rationale for using children was that they were expendable and exploitable. � in the Iran Iraq War children were sent Over mine Fields to Check the Way ahead for regular troops. Many were blown to pieces. Rebel forces in Mozambique  for kid napping children and then using terror arid physical abuse to turn them into killers said Goodwin Gill Alaw professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. The red Cross tried to persuade governments to in corporate the 18-year-old age limit into the 1989 convention on the rights of the child. The move was blocked by such developed countries As the United states which accepts 17-year-Olds As volunteers into the army. Britain which has a tradition of Cadet schools and a few other Industrial countries also opposed the move. Their views remain unchanged. Oil Supply Deal turns sour after Cuba cuts sugar deliver Moscow a Russia has suspended Oil shop ments to Cuba because the former soviet client state has run out of sugar to repay its debt a news Agency re ported tuesday. Russia was to deliver 2.5 million tons of Oil to Cuba and receive about 1 million tons of sugar in return itar Tass said. So far this year Russia has sent 1.5 million tons of Oil but received just 500,000 tons of sugar the news Agency said quoting Russia s minister for foreign eco nomic relations Oleg Davydov. Cuba enjoyed close relations with the soviet Union which sent credits cheap Oiland experts to the Island nation. But since the soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia has decided it can no longer afford to subsidize Cuba and other former soviet allies. Libaniel Casas director of the Gal eras. Volcano Observatory in Colombia stands saturday beside the Crater of the dangerous Volcano which according to an american scientist is spewing a Pound of Gold per Day. No at Volcano expert asserts on the Summit of Gal eras Volcano Colombia a the indians once called this vol Cano Mountain of fire. Now after an american scientist announced last week that the Volcano was spewing a Pound of Gold per Day into the sky and that its Crater was partly lined with Gold it might be tagged Gold Mountain. But standing amid swirling mists on the Summit of Colombia s inst volatile Volcano Libaniel Casas sees no Gold Only a dreaded vision of hordes of prospectors and adventurers on the slopes finding death instead of riches. Luckily since Fraser Goffs study was reported Friday there has been no sign that anyone has come to the Mountain looking for Gold. It has been closed off for several years for safety reasons. Just in Case the military plans to double the guards at a Roadblock partway up the slope and in crease patrols to keep adventurers out. If one Pound of Gold is being expelled into the air each Day As Goff asserts the Gold is of molecular size said Casas who escorted an associated press team up the Mountain by jeep saturday. Casas is the director of the government s Gal eras Volcano Observatory and the Man responsible for the safety of the Quarter million people who live at the Mountain s base. He knows Well the lethal Power of the Volcano. He stood beside a building that looked As though it had been hit by an artillery bombardment it was. The artillery shells were refrigerator sized boulders that the Volcano blasted out of its Crater March 23,1993. That eruption sent rocks crashing into a Brick and Cement House while a half dozen soldiers cowered inside. One Boulder obliterated the front door and took out a Large Section of an adjacent Wall. The House living quarters for soldiers guarding military communications towers on the Summit has since been abandoned two. Months earlier nine people including six scientists were killed on the Volcano in another eruption.-. ,.,. ". A Gal eras is dangerous because it is prone to erupt ing without warning unlike other volcanoes that rumble for a while before blowing up. Casas said another Vulcan Logist Maria Lucia Calvache discounted Goffs reported assertion that he had found a Gold vein last year. Calvache theorized that the Gold Goff found probably had been carried there by an Avalanche news of Goffs report was broadcast in pasto an agricultural City of 260,000 at the base of the 14,000 foot Volcano. It mainly elicited derision and fear that some Foolhardy people will endanger them selves looking for Gold. It s a dangerous Volcano. Boys could wind up going there and getting lost falling into a Crevasse said Angela Maria Villota during an Early morning stroll through a Park in downtown pasto. Mexican gets 42 years for killing candidate Mexico City a the admitted Assassin of the ruling party s presidential candidate was convicted monday of premeditated murder and sentenced to 42 years in prison. The motive for the killing of Luis Donaldo Colosio remains unclear. Judge Alejandro Sosa Ortiz imposed the sentence on Mario Aburto Martinez a 23-year-old factory worker at the High Security Alm Oloya prison West of Mexico City. The Federal attorney general s office which wanted the maximum 50-year term said it would Appeal the sentence. Mexico has no civilian death penalty. Aburto was seized moments after shooting Colosio during a Campaign rally March 23 in Tijuana. Aburto almost immediately confessed but said he had Only intended to wound Colosio to win news cover age for his views about social ills in Mexico. He claimed he acted alone. Investigators said Aburto who called himself the Eagle Knight had suffered from paranoid delusions and was hostile toward authority figures. Prosecutors at first insisted that he was a Lone gunman then accused seven alleged Cor conspire tors and finally again said that he appeared to have acted alone. Three men linked to Colosio s Security detail remain imprisoned on charges of involvement in the crime despite prosecutors Retreat from conspiracy claims. Colosio s murder com Aburto ing on the heels of a new year s Day uprising by Indi an rebels in Southern Mexico shocked a country that had not experienced a major assassination in decades. Polls showed that Many mexicans believed Aburto was part of a larger conspiracy suspicions that gained strength after the sept. 28 assassination of an other politician Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu was linked to a group of disgruntled politicians. Many in Mexico believe the assassinations the rebel lion and other recent violence Are part of an attempt by drug traffickers old line politicians or other shadowy figures to destabilize the country. Colosio was immediately replaced As candidate for the ruling institutional revolutionary party by Ernesto Zedillo who handily won the aug. 21 election called by Many the fairest in mexican history. Meanwhile rebellion still simmers in the Southern state of Chiapas where the Zap Atista National liberation army Rose against the government on Jan. 1. A cease fire was declared after 12 Days of fighting left 145 people dead. The rebels broke off contacts with the government oct. 10 and threatened to renew their uprising if the government party s candidate for governor is inaugurated this month