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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, August 16, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 world today China police arrest who Cut Down Trees illegally peking a China arrested More than offenders last year for cutting Down Trees illegally at a time when the government is trying to restore forests denuded Over the we cannot tolerate Man destroying the Dep Uty forestry minister Dong Zhiyong said in an interview published in the official English language China the newspaper said China now has armed forestry police to patrol major forests and apprehend those caught Felling Trees without some of those arrested have been last the communist party disciplined local officials for sanctioning illegal Dong said the governments afforestation Campaign has increased tree cover to percent of chivas land compared with percent in 1949 when communist Rule incorrect Stamps to be withdrawn by Britain London a postage Stamps printed in Britain for Tanzania Are to be withdrawn because they Are shoddy and got the Queen mothers title authorities each of the four Stamps in the honouring 85year old the Mother of Queen Elizabeth refers to her As Hrh her Royal the Correct title is he her the colors vary and the perforations Are said a statement by Crown the corporation which handles Britain government government it said it had asked that these Stamps should not be issued and All stocks be and tanzanian authorities had confirmed they were suspending their Issue but thousands of sets have gone on Sale in and they Are expected to skyrocket above their nominal 24 Pound Price because their withdrawal makes them collectors Poison Gas leak injures 3 at Swiss waste recycling Plant la Switzerland a three workers were hospitalized after a Cloud of Poison gases caped from an Industrial waste recycling police following the a toxic Cloud formed around the Cisa catalyse Indus Rielle Swiss radio warned residents of this Industrial town near the French Border to keep windows shut and stay the Cloud dissipated about one hour after the according to Neuchatel Canton state three workers were taken to a City Hospital for Obser vation after they were exposed to the nitrogen Xerox police said they expected them to be released investigators said the leak occurred when a chemical solution was improperly treated and the reaction sent the Poison Gas into the lower grape yields expected from damaged Swiss vineyards Switzerland a last Winters severe cold has dealt a blow to the 1985 Swiss Vintage As growers in Many areas expect reduced yields from Frost damaged an agriculture newsletter hardest hit by the deep freeze was Eastern where the grape Harvest is expected to plummet to less than half of an average years the agriculture information service said in its latest Young vines were among the most damaged in Schaffhausen Canton where Only on Quarter of a nor Mal crop is the newsletter in Western a 10 percent lower crop is foreseen in the Geneva a major Vaud the country second largest suffered minor Frost dam age and a Good Harvest is expected the newsletter n3a too saner wow pee dip a Job spas w 1 Jit the sign on the coffin roughly Here lies the Mosel he was killed by bad wine German winemakers protest Bonns handling of scandal Mainz a five thousand West German wine makers took to the streets wednesday in a noisy Demon stration against the accusing it of failing to crack Down on tainted wines until a scandal the West German Federal health ministry has listed 27 German and 803 austrian wines found to contain i ethylene a potentially lethal chemical used to make automobile More than million Gallons of wine laced with the chemical have been impounded in Austria and West Ger Many this West Germany issued an urgent warn ing to Consumers not to drink austrian the added to sweeten the also has been found in some grape austrian authorities have arrested 33 people in connection with the scandal and Are investigating More than Iso the winemakers demonstrated in the main Square of site of the government offices that supervise wine Quality and they whistled and shouted and carried antigovernment one placard read Here lie the last Mosel River dont give in to your said Guenther Schartz of the president of the Farmers and wine growers Union of Rheinland Nassau at the end of the go Home Schartz accused the government of not taking seriously Early warnings that some wines were tainted with die thy Lene he said the spreading scandal has threatened the exis tence of countless West German wine Schartz levelled his criticism both at the Bonn Federal government and officials in Rheinland Pfalz Mainz is located in a major win growing in a related Industry officials in Bonn announced wednesday that Taiwan had lifted its ban on West German wine class i of tainted austrian wine Heidelberg lists of tainted German and austrian wines Are available for examination at class i army and air Force spokesmen a Usa eur class i spokesman said that contrary to some the lists Are not being distributed to but he said the lists Are available for copy class i Headquarters had promised Only that the list would be distributed to All 80 of our he and that is being he explained that because the list of tainted wines is Long and growing reproduction costs to distribute it to All customers would be customers can Check out the list and have it reproduced each army class i store receives five we sent out another updated list thursday he an air Force spokesman said the list was also available at air Force i stores for customers to look Over and the wine list also can be obtained from the German health requests should be addressed to the  2 Kenne Yallee 5300 German official urges quarantine for aids victims Bonn up aids sufferers should immediately be quarantined to prevent them from spreading their deadly the head of West Germany giant Public health insurance Agency proposed wednes Day in a newspaper the rights of the individual must be shunted aside when it come to the common Wilhelm chairman of the Century old All Gemeiner  ask that insures the country working told the Bild asked by Bild what must be done to combat the rapid spread of acquired immune deficiency Heitzer said authorities must require every Case to be re ported and the infected people must be the diseased people must be isolated As was once the practice with to Heitzer that would be the Only Way to really prevent the spread of aids As Long As no vaccine or other effective treatment is Avail unless mandatory reporting and quaran Tine Are he aids can become a plague in two or three years that will Cost the health insurance Industry Bil the insurance contributions would then have to be drastically he every aids sufferer costs an average of Marks he West German Federal health authorities say 230 people Are currently known to have the including 12 women and two they expect the number of cases to double in eight Many More peo ple Are thought to be infected with aids causing virus without showing Clear sym they authorities said the infectious disease has Long since spread beyond the initial High risk groups Haemophiliacs and heroin addicts among whom it was first diagnosed Only five years ago in the United aids is a time bomb for health said  
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