European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday january 12, 19h6 looking for clues in theft employees at Mexico City s no Tipul museum of anthropology and history Tine up id be fingerprinted saturday � tul Harlte try la discover who we behind the theft or 173 pre Calu Mbom artefacts from the museum. Authorities have few dues in us Moling of us Irti hits which Wen found to be missing on Christmas morning. The burglary has outraged Many mexican citizens and has disappointed tourists biting the museum. Administration officials oppose Bill to limit claims on missing artworks Washington up1 the United states could become a pirate s Cove for Art thieves if Congress approves 3 Bill restricting other nations train claiming Long lost masterpieces and  works in american collections administration officials warned. The Justice department stale department and is. Information Agency joined in opposing the Bill during a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing but two museum directors said the measure is needed to protect collections that have taken generations to build. The proposed Taw would bar any civil suit by a foreign government to recover property held in the United Stales for at least five years prior to enactment of the Law. The five year trigger is designed As a statute of limitations against foreign claims to artworks held legitimately in the United Stales. Bui the provision makes no distinction Between inno cent holders and holders who arc in complicity and or knowledgeable about the original theft Deputy assistant attorney general John Keeney said. Hence a thief who has stolen such property. Could not be sued by the foreign government to recover the property he testified. The department of Justice cannot supp Oil any legislation that makes the United Stales a pirate s  he said. Ely Maurer assistant Legal adviser for the state department testified that under the Bill if the Mona Lisa had been stolen from the louvre and. Hidden in this coun try for five years before the Bill was enacted the French museum would have no remedy.1 the Bill Wai introduced last year by Sens. Charles Mathias r-md., and Lloyd Bentsen a Texas w reduce the uncertainties inherent in the ownership of Art artefacts and other cultural property Mathias said at the Start of the hearing. A statement from Bentsen said the Bill became Nec Essary bal Atic of foreign efforts to exploit loopholes in a Texas statute of limitations. The recent suit by the romanian government against the Kimball Art museum in fort Worth to recover an Al Greco painting and the Blanket peruvian claim to All ire colombian artefacts Are examples of this practice Bentsen said. James Burke director of the St. Louis Art museum said in prepared testimony that american museums need a statute of limitations against claims by foreign  without such a a foreign governments can act capriciously or politically to remove artworks from our country no matter How Long they May have been in our collections or How legitimately they were acquired he said. Burke said the Bill would not shield thieves or Tomb robbers of archaeological Sites since those activities Are covered by civil Law and a Enesco convention adopted by the United states a few years ago Peter Marzio director of the Houston museum of Fine arts described the Bill As a fair and balanced median approach Between closing the doors of aur courts to for eign governments and opening the display cases of our museums to  if discloses $315 million loan to Mexico Washington a the International monetary fund said Friday it is making a special s3 is million loan to Mexico to help that country Deal with the aftermath of last september s earthquakes. The Money is repayable in five years at 7.87 percent interest. In a statement announcing the loan the fund said that because of the earthquakes Mexico May have had additional foreign obligations of As much As �700 million because of additional imports loss of income from tourism and reduced exports. It is Stilt Loo Early to assess the total Impact of the earthquake damage the fund added. Mexico already owes the fund Mare than $2.9 billion part of a total foreign debt put last year at j96.4 billion. It is Irving to borrow an additional s4.5 billion this year. Afler Brazil Mexico is the most heavily indebted developing country. It was Mexico s inability to meet its payments in 1982 that first Drew world attention to the continuing debt crisis in poor countries which now owe almost a trillion dollars. Although the government installed austerity programs and got additional Loans and for a time appeared to be recovering the drop in the Price of Oil Mexico s main Export helped put it into deep economic trouble again even before the earthquakes struck. Woman suing Republic airlines after being burned by Coffee Minneapolis a a disabled e Ray on i Zinb Republic airlines or s50.000 saying she wa3 burned Hen a Steward spilled Coffee on her. Marica Wolter. 83, who lives in a Waseca tuning Home and is an invalid stroke victim was burned on the ring cd Vorher body which is paralysed attorney Thorn Asi Mcany said thursday through a spokeswoman. The spokeswoman said a Patch of skin 2 inches by i inches peeled away from Hollcr s right thigh when her clothing was removed after the spill. According to the lawsuit filed this week in f Hennepin county Dis Friel court. Waller was on a night from min Neapolis to Seattle on sept. 4 when she was injured. As a result of said incident Hollcr sustained severe and painful injuries which Are permanent in nature the u1ft Public spokesman Waller hell Man said he was not familiar with the lawsuit and could not comment on it. 87-degree temperature sets new Jan. 10 record for la los Angeles a the City s 62-year-old High temperature record for Jan. 10 was eclipsed by a single degree when the thermometer peaked at 87 degrees. _ Friday s High at the civic Center also was the highest temperature in the nation the National weather service said. The previous highest temperature recorded by the weather service on Jan. 10 was in 1923, when the Mercury hit s6 degrees said spokeswoman Frankie Shaw. She said the lowest temperature in he nation Friday was in Gunnison colo., where it was a frigid 17 degree below Zero. At least 6 occupants killed in Early morning House fire Boyds my. Dpi fire struck a two Story Frame House in the Rural suburbs of Washington Early saturday killing at least six of the 11 occupants. Residents told police there was a loud explosion before the fire started about 2 30 a.m., and the House immediately filled with smoke. The six bodies were found before Dawn and four of the five survivors were taken to hospitals for treatment. There was no immediate information on their condition. The cause of the fire was being investigated and the identities of the victims were withheld until relatives were notified. Firm to recall snack mixes that might contain sulfite Washington a dried fruits and snack mixes distributed to 1,300 general nutrition inc. Stores nation wide May contain undisclosed Sulf Lle preservatives that could cause an allergic reaction in some people the food and drug administration says. The Fra said Friday the Pittsburgh company u Recal Ling the Golden Harvest Brand mixes from its stores be cause the labels do not declare the presence of sulfite is. The packages will be re labelled to indicate sulfite Are used the Agency said. Sulfa to preservatives Are not illegal and Are harmless for most people. But under Federal regulations their present Musl be declared on the product s Label. The Labelling is intended to protect the estimated 500,000 to 1 million people mostly asthmatics who arc sensitive to sulfite and May suffer an allergic reaction. While severe reactions Are uncommon they have occurred and in rare instances have been fatal. Florida based airline grounds pilots without required training fort Lauderdale a. A trans air grounded 39 pilots Friday because they each lacked two hours of required training forcing the airline to cancel 15 of 115 100 nights officials said. Most of the so passengers affected found places on other airlines said Jim Dent chief executive officer of the fort Lauderdale based airline which flies throughout Florida and the Bahamas. He said the Carrier has 116 pilots. ,. � a few n nos would cancelled saturday Ana we ii be running Al 100 percent by monday or tuesday at the latest Dent said. The grounded pilots would get the required training by saturday he said. The Federal aviation adminis ration discovered the insufficient training for the pilots during a routine inspection and would have issued an emergency suspension of r rans air s License if it had not grounded the pilots said Faa spokesman Roger Myers