European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. October 30, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 tramp s elusive Corpse starts Lively feud irreverent artist has a barrel of trouble with out raged City Council b j. Kim cric or . Bureau a few Days after halloween last year n 72-Tcar-old who lived in a barrel on a rubbish in Plymouth died. As the first anniversary of Edwin Mckonic s death approaches City officials want to find his body. Which a local artist threatened to Coal with acrylic and Dis play nude in his Library As a memento Mon latin for remember that you must after having Mckinie s body embalmed artist Robert Len Micwicz was quoted As saying he envisioned his late Friend s role As something like a Large paper but his plans did not sit Well with the Plymouth City Council. It invoked the Public health control of Dis ease act. 1984, and threatened the artist with Lega action. Or. Len Micwicz assures us that displaying corpses in people s Homes is a custom around the world in pm pcs like Mexico and Italy Michael Fox the City s environmental health officer said six weeks after Mckenzie s death. But this is not Mexico or Italy. This is Fox said this week that City officials have completely lost track of Mckenzie s body. I Renkiewic won t Lull us what has happened to the remains Imi we Dnn t know where they Are he said. We written u him and asked him to surrender the remains to us. Bin has been very Eva Sive. Says thai he has entrusted the body to a Friend and has instructed the Friend to not Tell him where it is so that he can t be forced to disclose its location. Unless we know the body is in Plymouth where we have jurisdiction we can t do anything about it Fox said. It s really a waiting Fox said he regards the affair As an important test of what the Public health act Means by suitable arrangements for the disposal of bodies. I m told that Lenkiewicz had problems with the acrylic and the body has been painted with a Clear lacquer instead Fox said. He said he Hopes the dispute will go to court so the Law can be clarified. The Law is rather vague regarding the disposal of bodies so we Don t know what the outcome would he said. Fox suspects that the Painter had Mckenzie s body buried and that Len Micwicz who is in his 40s, thought up the macabre idea to get publicity for his work. Fox said the artist faked his own death Complete with an obituary in the times of London a few years outrage ago. He said s most recent Public artwork in pm Mouth a Large mural in the barbican the City s old port area ins generated a great Deal of publicity. All the figures in the mural arc naked and arc said to depict local characters and shopkeepers Fox said. Our local paper is running a Competition now for its readers to try to identify All the people in the i Raser Murphy the reporter who thought up the contest for the Western morning news said the mural of k8 nudes has prompted the City s biggest guessing game. It s a Large mural about 30 feet Long and about 6 feet High and it s been there nearly three weeks now Murphy said. There is nothing really offensive about it. There Are lots of breasts and buttocks but no Guni Talia showing. Whenever you go by it there arc knots of people standing around trying to figure out who is who in it. One of the characters depicted in the mural is another tramp a fellow known As the Bishop and he wants to be embalmed just like Diogenes Zenkic Wicz s nickname for Mckenzie Murphy said. He carries a slip of paper around in his shirt pocket with instructions that on his death his remains arc to be handed Over to no grounds Tor probe info acts of . Troops Affer plane interception sicilian Otticia says Rome not a sicilian prosecutor said monday that there Are no grounds for a formal investigation of the behaviour of . Soldiers after the interception of an egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. Sicilian prosecutors let it be known Over the weekend that they were looking into possible crimes committed by . Military forces during a standoff with italian sol Diers at is Gonella a near Catania Sicily on the night of oct. 10. But Dolcino Favi the assistant prosecutor in Syracuse Sicily said by Telephone that a study of an exhaustive police account of the 22 hours the egyptian plane was on the ground at is Gonella found no cause to continue inquiries. Nothing emerged that would mandate a further urgent investigation Favi said. But he said he would not Rule out an investigation based on new disclosures. Italian prosecutors have a Large degree of Independence from political forces and their decisions have often embarrassed political leaders. Prime minister Bettino Praxi told parliament when his government collapsed on oct. 17 that italian forces had surrounded the egyptian plane when it landed at Sigo Noclla but that they in turn had been sur rounded by United states troops who share the base with the italians. The United states after forcing the plane to land sought to seize the palestini ans aboard and take them to the United states for trial. But the Reagan administration bowed to italian demands that the hijackers be kept in italian custody. The possibility of an investigation of the american troops behaviour had startled government leaders Here. It threatened to reopen wounds in Italy s relations with the United states Over the Achille Lauro hijacking that had been carefully closed by the two countries in recent Days. The possibility emerged As the sicilians in another unexpected action on saturday issued an arrest warrant for Mohammed Abbas the Palestine liberation front Leader whom the United states has called the Mastermind of the Achille Lauro Hijack ing. Abbas who was on the egyptian Airliner with the hijackers was allowed to leave Italy on oct. 12. The sicilian warrant was potentially awkward for prime minister Praxi. Who said when Abbas was freed that there were no Legal grounds to hold him despite . Demands for his detention. The italian news Agency Agi said the warrant charged Abbas with murder multiple kidnapping hijacking and illegal pos session of arms and explosives. Legal experts and Western diplomats Here interpreted the sicilian moves As an Effort to influence an imminent decision on a jurisdictional dispute with Genoa. Magis trates in Syracuse and Genoa both claim jurisdiction Over the investigation of the hijacking and the slaying of Leon Klinghoffer a 69-year-old new yorker on the ship. They Are compel ing for attention with Genoa a Veteran Diplomat said of the sicilian authorities. Italy s five judge court of cassation which decides matters of jurisdiction is expected to Rule on the matter this week. Genoa claims authority in the Case because the Achille Lauro began its voyage there Syracuse does so because the hijackers landed at is Gonella. The sicilian decision to Issue the arrest warrant for Abbas surprised magistrates in Genoa. Ginnaro Calabrise de Fco the chief prosecutor in Genoa said a warrant for Abbas arrest would have been issued there if we had any Concrete base on. Unite mate Scnill her inc Mer n w Nau an com Weic in Mono. 85 May be worst year of All time for air traffic safety Hamburg api this Vear Mav air plane is still the safest Mode of travel. Lufthansa the West German National airline. Scr said that Over the next j t. �. I i a i _ ii i Riczu in cia/1 up this year maj Lurn out to be the worst year of All time for air traffic safety the general Secretary of inc International air transport association said monday. Some 1,300 people have lost their lives in 13 major air plane accidents so far in 1985, Guenter Eser said in his report to the association s 41st annual meeting. Last year by contrast was the Best year Ever for air traffic safety scr said in an address to More than 350 delegates from 140 airlines around the did not say How Many deaths occurred in 1984. Despite the Many accidents this year the airplay Lufthansa chairman Heinz Ruhnau acting president of Iata told the Congress. In a reference to recent air plane hijackings. Scr said anyone who interferes in the free movement of civilian airliners should be brought before a court and asked his opinion of the . Move forc ing Down an egyptian Airliner carrying palestinian terrorists earlier this month Eser responded it is not the responsibility of Iata to criticize the United states. But if you listen carefully to my words you have the answer he added. Eser is a former member of the Board of Lufthansa All the Large european and North Ameri can and Many asian and african airlines arc members of 1afa, which represents 75 per cent of the world s regular passenger air traffic. Taken together the airlines in Iata made a profit of half a billion dollars in 1984, their first net gain since 1978, Eser said. In the preceding five years they lost $6.2 billion he said. Last year 435 million people used the association s airlines an increase of 4 per cent Over the previous year. The association expects a climb of about 5 percent a year until the turn of the Century. Est 10 years the airlines will need $150 billion to $200 Bil lion in capital to build 4,800 new planes. West German transport minister Werner Dollinger in a speech to the Congress said airlines should be Able to relax air fares within Europe without submitting the Market to a destructive Price War. Twenty two european in Iata have proposed a new air fare system that would include discount and deep Dis count fates up to 20 percent and 40 per cent off the Normal Price. In Europe air fares arc normally set by agreements be tween governments. 300 rebook of Asef crewmen get their till of res Faurand London a a trans world airlines jetliner flight to new York had to be cancelled after the co Pilot and night Engineer were locked in a London restaurant Over Naglit the airline revealed tuesday. Airline officials said the More than 300 passengers booked on Twa flight 703 from London s Heathrow Airport sunday morning had to be rebook cd with other airlines after the cockpit Crew failed to show up on time. There was an unfortunate incident involving two of our flying Crew said a Twa spokesman who refused to give his name. As there was no replacement Crew available passengers had to be put on other he refused to reveal the names of the two arc Mcm bars saying it would be unfair and May cause them the two men were among the last customers in an Indian restaurant in the Kensington District of London late at . Just before leaving they decided to use the restroom. But when they returned to their scats. They found that the lights were out the front door locked and the restaurant staff had gone Home. The spokesman said the flight Crew hammered on the door and shouted through inc letter Box but no one came to their Aid. It was t known whether there was a phone in the restaurant. Finally Early the next morning they attracted the at Tention of a police officer who contacted the restaurant manager the spokesman said. He returned with the keys and let the two men out at about 7
