European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 4,1995 the stars and stripes Page 5 we must get involved women say Huai Rou China a with Only a Sliver of the world s jobs in government women still have Little say in government decisions that shape their lives speakers said sunday at an International gathering of women s rights activists. Many of the 23,000 women attending the meeting of non governmental organizations want to influence delegates from the world s governments who will attend the fourth world conference on women beginning today in Beijing the smaller  conference will draw up a platform of action for women s advancement. But Jacqueline pita Nguy of Brazil expressed a widely held concern to fact be cause the non governmental organizations have been forced to meet in a town an hour s drive from Beijing they will have problems getting their message to the two week . Conference in the capital. We Are facing the danger of this forum becoming invisible said pita Nguy. A deeper problem she suggested was that the governments that carry out the decisions made at the Beijing conference Are dominated by men. Pita Nguy said she doubted decisions taken in a governmental conference would go far unless the powerful Dis course from Huai Rou is heard. Women hold 6 percent of Cabinet posts and 11 percent of legislative seats world wide said Rounaq Jahan of Bangladesh who organized the panel. Yet changing the nature of political Power was More important than increasing the number of women in government she said. She called for challenging the rules of the game the influence of Money Vio Lence and manipulation that dominate our political life and Are the real Obsta cles for women gaining decision making  ugandan lawmaker Miria Tembe said women could Best improve their lives by entering government. Participation of women in politics and government is Low she said. Yet Power lies at the Center of politics. If you continue to remain Low in politics we Are not going to achieve  v women need to get elected rather than wait to be appointed Tembe added. They never want to appoint the troubleshooters like Tembe Here she said drawing applause and appreciative laugh Ter. Governments would much rather appoint ladies who sit there and participate in their Structure and Don t shake their authority she said. For the King Zulu King Goodwill Zwy Alithini greets White Maidens on saturday at the annual Reed dance ceremony in Ngoma Kwa Zulu Natal in which virgins Are paraded before the King from whom he May choose a wife. The traditional ceremony was opened for the first time to All South africans and White girls danced As proof of peace. Environmentalists lawmakers continue anti null Cir protests Papeete Tahiti a a third Greenpeace ves reel replacing two seized by French commandos cruised sunday off muru Roa while the environmental  French nuclear Plo Matic trouble in or eight tests Australia and hoi group said it could try again to testing under the South Pacific. Meanwhile France faced f. As it prepared to stage the fir breaking a 3-year-old morale. _ land demanded explanations Lor the seizure by French commandos of the Rainbow Warrior ii and the my Greenpeace on Friday. President Jacques Chirac has said France will stage the underground tests Between september and the end of May to update its nuclear Arsenal and develop Simu lation but Paris has not disclosed exactly when the tests would occur. The testing is planned on the muru Roa and Fanga Taufa atolls 750 Miles Southeast of Papeete the capital of French polynesia which has become the focal Point of the anti nuclear movement since France announced the  Greenpeace ship from san Francisco the Man Tea arrived at muru Roa on saturday with a group of american peace activists aboard joining other yachts in the peace flotilla picketing the test site it is possible that we will make other attempts to enter the atoll Greenpeace spokeswoman Penelope somites said in a Telephone interview in Paris. It s Clear that what we want to do is to impede the  we Are representing Man millions of people from Australia and new zealand Art International contingent Here today in Solidarity with the local people to say no tour Chirac Ian Cohen australian member of parliament attention shifted Back to the flotilla after saturday s protest in Papeete by about 3,000 Flower bedecked pro testers and about 100 foreign lawmakers marching to chants of Chirac  an additional smaller protest in Papeete was planned on sunday. We Are representing Many millions of people from Australia and new zealand an International Contin gent Here today in Solidarity with the local people to say no to or. Chirac Ian Cohen an australian Mem Ber of parliament told associated press television on saturday. Organizers said about 5,000 turned out saturday though that was one third the figure they had expected at the protest. Many in Tahiti depend on the testing program for work. Iraq May used Cher Nicols Docu me its Shew Washington a Iraq might have used some chemical weapons during the persian Gulf War a mag Azine reported saturday citing newly released Penta gon documents. _ v i the Pentagon has said in the past that no such weapons were found in the War zone. But documents obtained by . News and world report say traces of chemicals were found on the Battlefield. In recent weeks Iraq has turned Over documents that prove Iraq had been concealing biological weapons including anthrax and Botu Iii. The iraqis also had produced 78 Gallons of a toxin that produces gangrene a discovery that United nations sources said they will reveal this week according to the Magazine due to hit Newsstands  United nations is demanding that Iraq fully Dis close All its efforts to produce weapons of mass destruct Tion before it lifts the Oil embargo that was imposed along with Trade sanctions in 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Iraq has complained that the sanctions Are wreaking havoc on its Economy and people. . News also said iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein has been negotiating with the North african country of Mauritania for political Asylum for himself and his entourage. Citing unidentified intelligence sources in Mauritania . News said Saddam s minister of jus Tice Shabib Lazim Al Maliki flew to Mauritania in mid july to meet with president Mayo Hiya quid Sidi Ahmed Taya. The mauritanian Leader was said to have responded favourably according to the Magazine. Last month egyptian president Hosni Mubarak said he offered Saddam Asylum if it would help to end Iraq s tur Moil. ". 7-."" Hijacker captured a Boa re French Jet Geneva a a spaniard quoting the ten commandments and protesting against French nuclear policy was arrested sunday after hijacking a plane with about 300-people-on Board. The 33-year-old Man was overcome by police who rushed into the plane s cockpit about 90 minutes after he forced the French air inter air bus to land at Geneva Airport. The plane had been on its Way from the Spanish Island of Mal Lorca to Paris. The Hijacker earlier had released some 290 passengers unharmed. There were no injuries among the nine Crew members. The Man surren dered without a struggle authorities said. Jean Phillippe maitre president of Geneva Airport authority said the Man had Given a flight attendant a note denouncing the planned re sumption of French nuclear testing in the South Pacific and what he saw As Spanish complicity. The Hijacker threatened to blow up the plane with a Remote controlled device which subsequently turned out to be a Mobile Telephone with batteries sticking out. No explosives were found on Board maitre said