European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Ethiopia appealing for tools Addis Ethiopia a after a month of drought quenching the ethiopian government has appealed for a new kind of Aid for its millions of famine victims seeds and tools to enable them to leave refugee centers and Plant unless we provide the people with the needed kinds of farming we Are going to have this crisis next Dawit Wolde head of the govern ments state Relief and rehabilitation said the rain has he told a news but insufficient fertilizer and transport had been donated to enable Farmers to Start Long March toward self sufficient rain has fallen almost daily Over most parts of this East african country for a the first time in three years that Normal Rains have drenched the parched nearly 6 million of Ethiopia 42 million people live in 225 Emer gency feeding one million people have died in the according to unofficial the government has not released official Dawit thanked the International Community for extremely generous Aid during the past six but he said it was not most of the estimated million Worth of assistance he mentioned has come from Western not Ethiopia soviet bloc gathered in the various distribution and feeding Cen ters Are people who have become dependent on Relief he the regime wants the people Back on their but it will not Force them to Dawit he said the forced eviction of More than people from the i net feeding Camp was a and that local authorities had ordered an he urged International support for the governments controversial program to resettle million people this year from the drought ravaged North to the More sparsely populated lowlands of the South and Dawit said people had been moved since no Western governments and International Aid agencies arc reluctant to support the they argue that it is ill that some people Are being forced to move and that the government seeks to depopulate Northern whose residents Are sympathetic to rebel guerrilla Nigeria preparing to Deport stranded aliens Nigeria a hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens unable to meet a deadline to leave the country remained stranded in Nigeria and the Mili tary government said it was preparing to Send them Home by plane or the deadline for aliens to leave Nigeria passed at Midnight but state controlled Lagos radio reported that the military government already had the Borders six hours Lagos news reports said Only about a Quarter of the aliens had a Western who spoke on condition he not be identified by name or said had made it out of aliens still in Nigeria would be taken to Surtala Mohammed Airport outside Lagos for the first stage of their Lagos radio the military government Here said ear Lier that illegal aliens remaining in the winked slyly pouted san a its no mean feat competing with a dark and Stormy but the creator of the winking the first female ape in took a mighty pen in hand with the worst of Martha Simpson of was named Friday As the 1985 grand Winner for the fourth annual bulk Erly ton fiction contest at san Jose state which asks writers to submit opening lines to the worst possible the countdown stalled at minus 69 seconds when the first female ape to go up into winked at me slyly and pouted her rubbery lips unmistakably first of Many such advances Dur ing what would prove to be the and most space voyage of my Ca Simpson the prose was so in that it could Only have been inspired by Victori an literary has been lord Edward Bulwer who gave the world such phrases the great unwashed and it was a dark and Stormy Simpsons entry was selected from nearly entries from All 50 states and 40 foreign she won a personal com the brainchild of san Jose state English professor Scott was inspired by the opening line to Bulwer Lyt tons novel Paul which it was a dark and Stormy night the rain fell in torrents except at occasional inter when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets for it is in London that our scene rattling along the and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the country after the deadline would be taken to a Camp near Lagos and then sent Home by ship or in this West african nation suffering the depressed aftermath of an Oil the aliens Are seen As depriving nigerians of they also have been accused of Caus ing High crime rates in Ghanas stat controlled Accra radio said Friday night that thousands were stranded at the Nigeria Benin Border when the Border was Accra radio said Friday night that gha Nas ambassador had appealed to Nigeria to extend the deadline to avoid or reduce hazards and i dont know what i am going to said Benjamin a 30yearold Baker from who arrived at the Border town of seme in a Van with his pregnant my wife May have her baby any and we have no no food and nowhere to Nigeria has said it will not extend the but that it will not use against those who could not meet Accra radio said reports from Lagos indicated nigerian immigration authorities Are now making things very difficult for the they Are demanding tax clearance certificates for the past three years from own ers of private cars and Small buses before allowing them to Cross the it the immigration office in Lagos has also stopped issuing necessary documents needed at the Border this has made the situation at the Borders Accra radio earlier reported that five ghanaian died and 70 others were Hurt when the truck bringing them from Nigeria was in an Accident in it added that three returnees drowned while trying to Board a ship in Lagos to return to Lagos press reports Friday said seven other departing foreigners were injured when a truck overturned on the freeway out of Lagos to the Benin men women and children in battered cars and trucks drove along the freeway Many of them singing and Nigeria closed for two years in a Campaign against currency smuggling and have been open for Only 10 Days in most the bbl said in a report from neighbor ing Benin that the Border Between that country and Nigeria opened less than a week and stringent Border checks mean Only a fraction of the aliens expected to Cross into Benin managed to do the estimated ghanaian Leav ing Nigeria must travel West across Benin and Togo to return 7 Krzysztof Wolczak of Vienna is still hang ing in there after playing a piano bolted to hanging in there the Wall for 12 hours and five minutes for what he claims is a world most of the music played by the 33yearold pianist was of his own