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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 03, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes world sunday septembers 1995 Denmark no Haven for Neo nazis Copenhagen Denmark a banned in Germany and chased world wide Neo nazis had planned to base part of their european network in this open minded nordic country. But when uniformed european Neo nazis demonstrated twice this summer in Denmark they marched across Danes tolerance threshold this Liberal nation is  rightists on notice Denmark is not the play ground Neo nazis had imagined. And it is making the Point through Public pressure and protests without having to draft new Laws launch police crackdowns or. Curtail  liberties. R on Friday a danish court quashed american Neo nazi Gary Lauck s last at tempt to avoid extradition to Germany making Clear Denmark would not. Provide him a Refuge. And in the past year pro testers have pressured rightist leaders Meinolf Shonborn and Thies Christophersen to move out of the country.  open debate without restrictions of the Freedom of speech can strip off the nazis clothing remove their martyrdom s saints Cross and ridicule their pathetic cowardice Birthe Roenn Horn Bech of the opposition Liberal party said last week a. ,./ v legislators this yeat added propaganda activities to the l Law Banning racist statements but they have no plans to tighten the Law further. Banned in Germany the extremists have built up bases in Denmark Sweden the Netherlands and Spain. Their appearance has alarmed people in Den Mark where the anniversary of the end of world War ii in May stirred regret Over passivity toward the nazi occupiers. That inaction 50 years ago looked like collaboration and we hate ourselves for it said Frede Farmand. A Asemissen a researcher of danish right Wing groups. In the past year the sound of. Neo nazis v. Boots again. On the pavement brought Danes into the streets. When Neo nazis marched through Hillerod North of Copenhagen in june for the first time since world War ii waving Hitler Era flags and symbols angry citizens gathered to Challenge them peacefully. Writer Bents Hansen said she would t be Able to face her grandchildren if she did t voice her protest against Neo nazis today. We did t do it in 1930s and 1940s.",. Danish anger boiled Over last month when some 150 european Neo nazis Hon ored Rudolf Hess Adolf Hitler s Deputy with a Parade in . Risk Side residents hurled stones and. Bottles at the extremists forcing them to. Flee. Police were overwhelmed keeping protesters separated and made no arrests. We live in a country where everyone has the right to speak including me said Matte Olsen 43, a librarian Demon Strating against the Neo nazis. Year join russian princess7 on tour Moscow a he s More than 2,000 years old and. They Call him the horseman when Russia s master pm bar Mars get through with the ancient Nomad hell  to hit the Road again. After More than two millennia locked in the Frozen Earth of Siberia he now lies in a thick Glass tank in. Moscow soaking in a chemical cocktail much like the one that preserves Lenin. In about a year scientists Hope the horseman will be ready to go on display throughout the world with another Well preserved ancient from the same Corner of Siberia a elaborately tattooed woman called the Princess. The horseman had been Given a ceremonial burial in his fur coat and High leather boots alongside his horse in a log lined chamber in the Altai mountains. He also had his a quiver and Dagger.  who died about 2,500 years ago the horseman was in great shape when archaeologists found him last month under More than 7 feet of ice near the chinese and mongolian Borders. More than 6,500 feet above sea level the Uskok plateau is blanketed by a thick layer of rocks that helps keep the ground Frozen year round. It s like a natural fridge said Anat  Derevyanko head of the russian Academy of science s Institute of archaeology and ethnology in Novosibirsk. The area is Rich in ancient burial rounds and teams from the Institute have worked there for the  Summers. In july 1993, the plateau yielded the Princess its first major Mummy. She also is Esti mated to have died some 2,500 years ago. The Princess was a spectacular find by any Standard. But they almost lost her. Her flesh fair and firm when she was found began to Darken and shrivel when exposed to heat and Light. _ the desperate archaeologists turned to the biological structures research Institute which tends Lenin s preserved re Mains even though Back then the lab unique embalming process was reserved for communist leaders. It was still considered half secret atthe Lime recalled Derevyanko. It was t so easy to persuade them to tackle a russian scientist recently shows the braided hair of the horseman a 2,500- ear old Warrior found in the Frozen Earth of Siberia in july. A Job so new to  it took almost a year but True Era b aim ers saved the Princess. They reversed some of the thaw damage and even Man aged to lighten her skin so that the or Nate tattoos of winged dragons Deer and goats  clearly visible the Princess is now on tour most recently appearing in an Elj ibid pm ancient asian cultures in Seoul South Korea. It is Likely the horseman eventually will be exhibited with her a Prospect that moved several tabloids to dub him the  for a Mummy the horseman is in even better shape than the Princess. Most of the flesh on the exposed parts of his body his face and hands is gone but the rest of the horseman is still there right Down to his toenails muscular legs Long braids and an elaborate Tattoo of a Deer draping Over his right  horseman was buried lying on his right Side with his Knees Bent on a plat form covered in Black Felt Derevyanko said. He was dressed in a heavy coat of Lambskin lined Marmot fur pants and High leather boots Derevyanko said he believes the Princess and horseman were scythian an ancient nomadic culture that flourished along the Black sea but vanished without any written record. The legendary amazons Are said to have been scythian Warrior women. Wounded n port a Prince Haiti a in the first violent attack on a member of the .. Military mis Sion an unidentified assailant shot and critically wounded a French military police officer a French Diplomat said Friday. Quartermaster Christian Margi Nier 36, was shot twice at 9 55 . Thursday the Diplomat said on condition of anonymity. He said the attack occurred at Garginier s quarters in Petit gave a town 40 Miles West of port a Prince the capital Frida y morning Garginier was evacuated in critical condition by ambulance plane to Miami Jackson memorial Hospital. He was being transferred to the neurosurgical in Tensive care unit Friday night Fol lowing surgery the Hospital said. Garginier had just returned to his seafront room and was closing the window thursday when the shots were fired hitting him in the right Eye and the Chest the Diplo mat said. " the motive for the attack was not known. " a 20,000-member,  binational Force intervened in sep tember 1994 to disarm and Dis Mantle the army that ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide three years earlier. Aristide re turned from exile oct. 15. There were Only two serious incidents involving the Force last year. A . Soldier was ibo t and killed in an Exchange of gunfire with a former haitian army officer and another was seriously wounded when a haitian Soldier shot him in the Abdomen. The, military Mission with 6,000 soldiers and 900 police offi cers took Over March 31. It is scheduled to pull out of Haiti after Aristide s successor is sworn in As president feb. 7, 1996. Tanker suspected of having iraqi Oil impounded Manama Bahrain a . Navy ships enforcing a. Embargo of Iraq have impounded a Tanker suspected of trying to smuggle iraqi Oil a spokes Man said Friday. Cmdr. T. Mccreary. Spokesman of the . Navy s 5ih Fleet said the Saint Vin cent and the grenadines flagged fair sky was turned Over to a Friendly nation in the Region which will determine its Dis position along with the. Sanctions  he did not name the vessel s original destination or the country to which it was diverted. Mccreary said the fair sky came out. Of Iraj Tuters and was believed to be i diesel when . Navy is intercepted it in mid August. He said the Navy had gathered sub Stantial evidence that the Tanker was carrying iraqi Oil before impounding it. The 5th Fleet is part of a multinational. Maritime interception operation. He said the fair sky was the first ship caught since May in october the Fleet . The. Sanctions have been in Force since Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and occupied the emirate for seven months. The embargo has deprived the iraqi government of Oil sales its main source of income. It also has caused widespread shortages in Basic commodities leaving Many iraqis threatened by. Hunger and poverty. I n  
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