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Fuming over satire
BONN: Chancellor Helmut Kohl is fuming at a national television network over a satire that made fun of him and is making veiled threats to pull tlje plug on the public channel, reports AP.
The ARp network broadcast a satirical sketch at the end of a political magazine called "Monitor" Thursday evening.
Koh) and Russian President Boris Yeltsin were shown "talking" on the telephone and discussing the conflict in Chechnya. ' . t
The broadcast used old film of Kohl and Yeltsin. With .a voice over by saUrist Thomas Freitag.
In the saUre. ’Kohl" asks ”Yeltsin" if his "friend" do something to reduce the number of corpses strewn on the streets of Grozny because "it doesn't give a good fmpression."
Al the end of the "conversation." ' Yeltsin" hangs up and comments "What an idiot.”
Kohl, who has boasted of his friendship with Yeltsin, has been assailed in the German media for what they say are, meek attempts to use his influence with Yeltsin and stop the ivar in Chechnya.
In a letter to ARD chairman Albert Scharf Friday. Kohl said ARD used the suffering of the people In Chechnya as "an instrument of its failed attempt at satire.-" ’
The chartcellor said the programme was the "bottom level of bad taste." and that he might not be able to explain to viewers why rfhey should pay more for the monthly fee charged by ARD.
Brutal sacrifice
NEW DELHIv Three children aged between two and five were murdered at a Hindu temple in western Incka ina ritual sacrifice to appease the local deity, press reports said Saturday, reports AFP
The temple priest in the district of Surendra Nagar found the bodies of the two boys and a girl when he opened the shrine Friday, domestic news agencies said.
They were killed Thursday night at the temple to the goddess Meladi after elaborate rituals to appease the goddess, the reports said.
Poli& recovered a blood-stained butcher's knife from the temple and launcned an investigation. The children were not kb nulled and no suspects were mentioned.
Child sacrifices are a common occurrence in India, stem-suing from a superstitious belief that the offer of human blood would lead to divine blessings.
Most are carried out to appease various incarnations of the . goddess Kali in her role as a fertility divinity.
’Fact of life'
WASHINGTON: Five rtf the approximately 450 women serving aboard the alrcnift carrier USS Elsenhower have been sent ashore due to pregnancy, something Defense Secretary William Perry says Is a fact of life' and will not Impair the ship's mission, reports AP.
The Navy reported Friday that the five women were part of a group of 35 crew members taken off the ship due to unplanned medical reasons" since it began six-month deployment last October.
The carrier issthe first US combat ship to go to sea with women as part of the permanent crew.
Navy policy is to put women on shore duty once a pregnancy occurs, and the five sailors have left the ship over the past three months.
Some of fhe women may have been pregnant before the ship left its home port of Norfolk. Virginia, said a Navy spokesman. Cmdr Steve Pletropaoii.
Three of.the women left the Eisenhower shortly after it set sail from Norfolk, and the two others left more recently. Pletropaoii said. ,
The aircraft carrier has been touring the Mediterranean region in recent weeks, and is currently on a port visit to Naples Italy
The ship has a crew of 5.000 sailors and pilots, and the average age of enlisted crew members is 19
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