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Red Deer Advocate from Red Deer, Alberta, Canada • 24

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Red Deer Advocatei
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3 J2 Rl DITR ADVOCATE Thursday, Novembei 11, 1993 Three more children die in Sarajevo Kuwait, Iraq skirmish peacekeepers couldnt determine who fired till' moilar rounds. But they calculated that they came from a direction where both Serb and Bosnian government troops operated. Momcilo Krajisnik, chairman of the self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb parliament, claimed the Croats launched the attack on the school from Croat-held Kiseljak, about 250 kilometres northwest of Sarajevo, in retaliation for a Bosnian army crackdown on Croat units in the city. Meanwhile, the Muslim-led Bosnian government called off at least until today the evacuation of 150 Serb civilians from Sarajevo in apparent retaliation for continued detention of two Croats abducted by the Serb army. About 350 Serbs, mostly women, children and elderly, left Sarajevo on Monday in the long-delayed first phase of an accord allowing limited evacuations.

stop using (lash bulbs, learmg tin1 light might aid snipers. For months, funerals in Sarajevo have been held alter nightfall Ix'cause snipers lired at daytime services. he children of Bosnia are being killed, and yet they are innocent, the hod.a told several dozen mourners. After the sendee, the hoda asked most ol the mourners to stay where they were in a protected dip in the terrain while relatives walked to the burial area carrying the three small bodies on wooden hoards covered with sheets. Sarajevos mayor, Muhammed Krosevl-jakovic, visited the school Wednesday, touring a classroom in which two pupils and a teacher died and 22 students were wounded.

lie suggested that the classroom, bloodstained and ripped apart by shrapnel, he left unchanged as a memorial to the victims. Id. -Col. Bill Aikman, a UN spokesman, said SARAJEVO, Bosnia I hu'egovuiu (AIM -Tlirt't1 moii children won' lulled Sarajevo on Wi'ilncsilay, and mourners gathered after dnrk to bury oilier youngsters who died in a mortar attack on a sehool. Wednesday's death toll in the illy rose to eight, with 25 wounded, Sarajevo government radio reported, as shelling and sniping reached a new pitch.

The injured included 15 children. It wasn't immediately known how the three children were killed. On Tuesday, at least nine people died, including several children, and at least TO were injuri'd in the worst shelling of the capital almost a month. Sniper fire buzzed over mourners heads Wednesday evening at the funeral of three of the children killed 'Tuesday when (wo mortar rounds landed beside their Sarajevo school. 'The Muslim cleric, or hod.u, presiding at the1 ceremony asked news photographers to No firing incident took place with the Kuwaiti side, an Iraqi spokesman said.

Abdali is in the borders highly sensitive northern sector, where Iraqi farmers will shortly be required to leave a number of farms defined as being inside Kuwait under a UN border demarcation carried out earlier this year. The demilitarized zone straddles a newly drawn border that Iraq has refused to recognize. Iraqi troops were expelled from the affluent oil-exporting emirate by a U.S.-led coalition in Operation Desert Storm in February, 1991. Wednesdays reported incident occurred a week after one of the most serious border clashes between the emirate and its former occupier since the 1991 conflict. An Iraqi policeman died Nov.

3 after he was shot in an exchange of pistol fire with a Kuwaiti civilian in Kuwait. KUWAIT (Reuter) -Kuwait reported un exchange of heavy fire between Kuwaiti and Iraqi forces Wednesday, a week after one of their most serious post-Gulf War border incidents. Iraqi denied any shooting took place. The Interior Ministry, in a statement carried by the official Kuwait News Agency, said Iraqi forces opened heavy fire on a Kuwaiti observation outpost east of al-Abdali. The (Kuwaiti) outpost returned the fire after calling in reinforcements, it said.

No casualties were reported. The ministry said Kuwait had informed the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission stationed in the demilitarized zone established between the two countries following the 1991 Gulf War. Iraq called the Kuwaiti report completely fabricated and groundless. Government ruled illegal Peeping Tom photos rift fixed by papers LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuter) Nigeria faced a constitutional crisis Wednesday after Lagos high court declared its military-appointed stop-gap government illegal. he government appealed for calm and said it was immediately appealing the court verdict.

Judge Dolapo Akinsnnya issued the ruling in case brought by thwarted presidential contender Moshood Abiola. The judge said military ruler Ibrahim Bahangida, who stepped down Aug. 2b, had no authority to install an interim government led by Ernest Shonekan in his place. It takes us one step closer to the establishment of government based on the consent of the people, Abiola said. 'This is a significant victory for the people of Nigeria.

Many people poured onto the si reels of Lagos calling for Abio-las installation in the presidency, which he is widely believed to have won in the June 12 election annulled by Bahangida. Nigeria has been in crisis since June over the militarys messy ending of its 10 year rub'. President Bahangida has no legitimate power to sign a decree after August 2(1, 1993, after his exit so the decree is void and of no effect, Judge Akinsnnya declared. She ordered that a civilian const itution, which was drawn up under Bahangida in 1989 hut never implemented, go into effi'et. lheay LONDON (Reuter) British newspapers mended a rift Wednesday over the tabloid Mirror groups publication of Peeping Tom photos of Diana, the Princess of Wales, in a bid to avoid tough new government curbs on press freedom.

Mirror Group Newspapers said after talks with the Press Complaints Commission, the industrys self-regulatory body, that it would rejoin the watchdog it quit in anger earlier this week and co-operate fully in the commissions work. The Mirror group, being sued by the princess for publishing shots taken of her by a hidden camera us she exercised in a leotard in a London CORRECTION NOTICE In our B10-2 Bay Day Preview flyer, 30 off Jackets on page 2 should have read Our reg. 79.99 to $299 Bay Day Price 55 99 to 209.30 Reversible faux fur Jacket on page 2 may not be available in all stores. Life-like trees on page 29 will not be available tor this promotion. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused fitness club, had withdrawn from the commission Monday after criticizing its chairman.

After Wednesdays talks, the Mirror withdrew its criticism of Lord MacGregor for condemning the Mirror and MacGregor withdrew his call for an advertising boycott of the Mirror. The Mirror groups decision to return to the fold may help Britains newspaper industry stave off threatened press curbs. The governments attitude on imposing media controls has steadily hardened in the past three years after a string of royal revelations, from phone-tapping to long-lens prying. Israel, Jordan peace near SAVE 35-50 On Arrow Dress Shirts SAVE 13 On our Entire Assortment of Ladies Sweaters 41 JERUSALEM (AIM Israel and Jordan have reached agreement in principle on a peace treaty, a cabinet minister said ednesday. Housing Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezor told Israel radio he could not confirm the details reported in an Israeli daily, saying they had not been brought to a cabinet vote.

But he said it. was possible Israel would agree to hand back land, and to some military co-operation, in exchange for peace. An agreement in principle is locked in and closed, Ben-Khzcr said. The Maariv newspaper said Wednesday that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Crown Prince Hassiin of neighboring Jordan initialed a pence treaty during a se cret visit by Feres to Amman on Nov. 2.

Other reports said a full signing could come Ibis week in Washington. Maariv said Israel agreed to return some territory iL seized around the Dead Sea and the desort south of it. agreed in exchange to lease the land to Israel for a symlxjhr price, it said The treaty also calls for economic co-operation and normalized relations, including an exchange of ambassadors, the report said. An understanding linked to the agreement says Israel would provide a "military umbrella to protect Jordan from threats from other countries, Maariv added. In Amman, Information Minister Mann Abu Nouwiir said government was not aware of an initialed treaty.

King Hussein told a news conference on uesday fie would not sign a pact before Syria does. Israels talks with Syria appear deadlocked. Israel and Jordan signed an agenda for a peace agreement hut not a full-fledged treaty Washington on Sept. 14, one day after Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed their peace accord. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabins spokesman, (lad Ben-Ari, said Jordan and the Jewish state were get mg closer, hut no plans exist for any agreements to he signed in the next few days.

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