European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 m the stars and stripes january 1981 00 peking up a major earthquake rocked China killing More than 100 people in a Remote Mountain demolishing of Homes and disrupting Road traffic and the measuring on the Richter missed All major nearby population where 100 million people averting an even worse an official at the epicentre of the quake in the Remote Mountain Village of Dawn in the mountains of Sichuan province reported soviets ease press soaps of hostages Moscow up the soviet Union saturday dropped its charges about brain washing of the former american hostages at possibly in response to offi Cial radio Moscow instead broadcast commentaries about the iranian situation that blamed Banks and military leaders for a wave of anti iranian the ostensible reason is the allegedly inhuman treatment of the embassy who by the Way have returned from Iran in Good health and had made no complaints in earlier statements and inter radio Moscow the broadcast repeated soviet charges that the government toyed with the hostages lives by dishonest supposedly aimed primarily at gaining Mili tary advantage in the persian Gulf it omitted earlier allegations that the american returnees were being detained at the Wiesbaden military Complex for brainwashing to ensure that they would describe the conditions of their imprisonment in harsh the United states protested to the soviet Union Friday that such charges were absolutely now the so called hostage problem is blown sky High radio Moscow said with Calls to blame behind All this there the pres sure of powerful financial monopoly groups in the United states which refuse to release the wealth belonging to the iranian there is the obvious intention to maintain the american naval Armada in the persian Gulf area for an indefinite Peri riders in ski gondolas stranded up to 5 hours Squaw a 35 people were half of them up to five when a mechanical failure left a line of ski gondolas hanging officials there were no injuries in the according to the ski resorts marketing i Roger he said 14 or 15 peo ple were rescued from the gondolas by the gondolas Are separate from the Squaw Valley Tram involved in an Accident in 1978 in which a Cable sliced Down through a Tram killing four and injuring 30 the current Accident occurred when one of the four passenger gondolas became entangled in a communication possibly because of a Strong wind Heron wind also was a Factor in the 1978 Acci Heron estimated that the highest Gondola was possibly 100 feet off the new Azerbaijan Leader Moscow up a 48yearold Engi Gasman was appointed prime minister of the soviet Republic of a Erbai which Borders Tass by Telephone that in that town alone More than 100 persons were killed by the Earth he said two thirds of the Homes in the Village were also demolished by the he said there were also Many injured but he did not have any exact there Are other villages in the same re Gion and they apparently suffered some damage but probably not As seriously As an official spokesman in peking termed the Overall damage and casualties another spokesman said roads leading in and out of the mountains were cracked and Telephone communications to the thinly populated area disrupted for a initial reports indicate Only slight dam age but we Are still checking a spokesman said residents in the provincal capital of Chengdu did not even reel a slight we didst feel anything at All one resident said by i dont think there was any damage and no one was the quake came almost five years after one of the worst natural calamities in history one that measured flattened the Northeast chinese City of Tari Shan and killed hundreds of thousands of Tangshan is still mostly rubble and is being slowly the geological Survey in washing ton first reported saturdays quake and said it measured hats on for a Star actress Margaux Hemingway receives a tyrolean hat As part of the festivities of ski happening Tyrol More part in the Celebration at than 300 american ski instructors took photo Catholic courts reprimanded pontiff denounces easy annulments Vatican City a Pope John Paul ii saturday criticized easy and Hur ried marriage annulments granted by roman Catholic Church the that there has been an alarming increase in annulments in recent Vatican figures show the vast majority of these annulments have been granted to the addressing the Vatican High est tribunal the sacred roman Rota said annulments tend to weaken the institution of marriage particularly in the minds of Rogers says nato needs new strategy Miami a terming the soviet Union a the supreme Allied com said Here that nato countries need a new defense strategy to detente has different meanings in Dif Ferent Bernard Rogers told Miami business despite her Decla rations of peaceful the soviet Union will invade a Sovereign nation when it suits her and when the risks appear a Rogers said that the soviet intervention in Afghanistan spelled out the need for a new global strategy by nato nations and in its the United states needs to set an example of increased defense spending for Western european Young the Church does not accept an annulment is granted after a Church tribunal finds that a marriage was never failure to consummate the Union for be grounds for annul it would be a negative influence on preparation for marriage if pronouncements or sentences of annulment were obtained too the Pope said in his speech marking the beginning of the courts Judi Cial latest Vatican figures show that Church mostly at local granted annulments worldwide in up from in most of the cases were reported in the United where couples obtained annulments in up from in saudis urge United action against Israel moves saudi Arabia saudi Ara Bia saturday set the stage for the islamic Summit conference with a Call for United action against the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the israeli occupation of Arab the two together with the iraqi iranian War and inter islamic Are the main issues facing the leaders of the worlds islamic nations gathering in this resort town for sundays All moslem should unite to confront the soviet occupation of jihad holy War for Afghanistan is an islamic the saudi operated by the in a commentary on the priorities of the commentary said the worlds moslem should help the afghan rebels be cause communism was out to liquidate islamic ideology and saudi arabian information minister Mohammed Abdo in an interview published also criticized the soviet invasion of Afghanistan and repeated an earlier Call for an islamic holy War to lib Erate Jerusalem and the Israel occupied Arab political sources said while no differences of opinion were anticipated on opposing the israeli occupation of Arab the Afghanistan question could trigger heated debates among the leaders attending the