European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 2, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Forum protests barriers to Equality for women Huai Rou China a the largest International gathering of women on Friday tackled three key obstacles to Equality few women in government male control of economic Power and violence against women. One speaker after another at the non governmental organizations forum on women attacked the United nations and demanded governments shift priorities from military might to social development. Twenty two women from around the world delivered moving accounts of abuse of women by governments and by their menfolk the audience responded in horror when Noma Neuse said sexual abuse of children is widespread in her native Zimbabwe because a Many believe that having sex with a child is a cure for  croatian women rights activist Visna Kesic speaking at one of the main panels said 30,000 women have been raped As a part of the ethnic cleansing in former Yugoslavia and 4 million people Are displaced the majority of whom arc women and children. A a women a bodies Are once again battlefields for big ideas. And the ultimate proof of male dominance Over his male enemy and his property a she said. On Friday 10 tibetan women staged a silent protest against chinese Rule in their Homeland. Wearing a traditional Long dark dresses with brightly coloured aprons nine of the women fastened White gags Over their Mouths and marched 1,000 Yards. They held hands and stood for 10 minutes in front of a Pavilion at the conference grounds in Huai Rou 30 Miles North of Beijing. French commandos Board protest ship Papeete Tahiti a French Navy commandos boarded Greenpeace a Rainbow Warrior ii on Friday As the ship entered territorial Waters around a French nuclear test site in the South Pacific the environmental group said. The boarding came hours before the time that japanese and French Media had said the urst of at least seven nuclear blasts would come. The Rainbow Warrior ii crossed the 12-nautical-Mie limit into the territorial Waters of muru Roa atoll at Dawn Greenpeace spokeswoman Stephanie Mills told associated press television from aboard the ship. A a the commandos boarded after activists refused a request from the French warship Pra irial to turn Back she said. Greenpeace which is spearheading an International Campaign to get France to halt the tests has organized a a peace flotilla near the testing site. A earlier Friday French military officials said Greenpeace activists had launched eight inflatable rafts into the Waters off muru Roa. On july 9, in the last confrontation Between the Greenpeace flagship and the French military the Rainbow Warrior ii was rammed by a French Navy tugboat As it neared muru Roa atoll. The boat was then boarded by commandos who tear gassed the Crew and detained them briefly for  Rainbow Warrior ii is the Succes Sor to the Greenpeace protest ship bombed and sunk by French Security agents in new zealand a Auckland Harbor in 1985. Fridays confrontation came hours before France reportedly was to begin the tests. Koken Nosaka a japanese government spokesman cited a a reliable source who said the first test could come at 2 . Edt japanese and French Media reported. The  International physicians for the prevention of nuclear War also said it believed the test would come Friday. Clashes mar Ira Accord anniversary from the associated press Belfast Northern Ireland the Irish Republican army expressed a deepening disappointment with a Britain but gave no hint of a return to violence Friday the first anniversary of the Ira cease fire. But protesters clashed with police outside army Barracks in Catholic parts of the province. Demonstrators were demanding that Britain push for negotiations Between the Ira Allied sinn fein party and pro British protestants. V v Britain has resisted pressure to Start talks among Northern Ireland a factions arguing that protestant leaders wont sit Down with sinn fein before the Ira disarms. A. To s i m Cle Ric is a i n Beirut Lebanon a two suspects have been arrested in the killing of a sunni Muslim cleric and an unknown group claimed responsibility for the assassination which dealt a blow to Lebanon a postwar stability. Sources close to the Interior ministry said Friday that the two suspects were lebanese men. They  in Beirut hours after masked assassins gunned Down Sheik Nizar Al Halaby on thursday. Ai Halaby 43, was a Leader of the sunni fundamentalist Habashi group. It is Allied with Syria and is an influential political Force. The an Nahar newspaper in Beirut said an Anonymous caller claimed thursday night that the Usama Kassas organization killed the cleric. The group is unknown and the caller refused to answer questions. Pilot of after crash Tokyo a a . Marine fighter plane crashed near Okinawa Japan on Friday but its Pilot was rescued unhurt police said. Okinawa police officials said that the plane was an av-8b Farrier and that it crashed into Waters off Tori Shima Island in Okinawa prefecture state about 1,000  of Tokyo. The fighter plane took off from Iwakuni a in northeastern Japan taking part in air to ground assault exercises when the Accident occurred the Kyodo news service said. 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