European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes sunday april 6, 1986 suspected . Activists expelled in French drive la today Paris a France has expelled two North african men and ordered two libyan diplomats to leave the coun try in connection with possible attacks against american targets in France and other countries in Europe the French Interior ministry said saturday. A Man reached by Telephone at the libyan embassy who identified himself As an official spokesman but re fused to give his name said the embassy formally de Nied that any libyan officials had been expelled. French press reports said two lebanese nationals also had been expelled in connection with a general investigation by French counterintelligence into potential anti american attacks. The Interior ministry spokesman said he could not immediately confirm that report. But he did confirm that in addition to the libyan expulsions two men identified As Fethi Cherif of Algeria and Roubini Hedi Benah of Tunisia had been expelled from France april 2 after being judged liable to commit attacks against american interests in  press re ports said both men were expelled for participating in a logistics and support group formed to carry out anti american attacks. The Interior ministry spokesman who under official ground rules is never identified by name said the libyan diplomats had been invited to leave the National territory France after having been found to be in Contact with individuals liable to commit attacks against american interests in  he said he was unsure whether they already had left or would leave later saturday. The two libyans were not identified by name but the spokesman said both had diplomatic status at the libyan people s Bureau or embassy in Paris. . Officials in Paris were not immediately available for comment. Toll from drinking tainted wine rises in Italy with 4 More casualties Milan Italy a four people have died after drinking Low Grade wine tainted with Methyl alcohol bringing to 19 the number of victims in the wine scandal that has hit Italy newspapers reported saturday. Vincenzo Pasceri 61, died Friday in san Martino Hospi Tal in Genoa after drinking tainted wine the Rome daily ii Messaggiero reported. Pietro Dessy 64 and Carmine Giuseppe Tufo 62, died two weeks ago in Genoa it said. After relatives gave investigators bottles of wine that the deceased drank from tests showed the wine contained 100 times the Legal limit of Methyl alcohol ii Messaggiero added. The fourth victim Francesco Artuso 73, died at the beginning of March. An examination revealed Large amounts of Methyl alcohol in his blood the paper said. Police said they Are looking into the reports. Methyl alcohol which can cause coma blindness and death if consumed in Large quantities was illegally used by some italian wine merchants to raise wine s alcohol con tent. Seven people have been arrested in the Case and charged with multiple manslaughter criminal association and Ille Gal adulteration of wine. In Salerno South of Naples one Man s condition was described As serious in the first reported Case of poisoning in Southern Italy. The newspapers also said hospitals throughout the pen insula have been visited by thousands of frightened ital ians seeking checkups after drinking wine. A photo checking suspected wine. Turin expert analyses contents of bottles Spain to promote tourism of its jewish culture heritage Madrid Spain up the tourism ministry has launched a Campaign to put the Spain of the jews on the country s tourist route a ministry official said. Pamphlets outlining a six City tour that takes in the most important Sites and landmarks of jewish culture will be distributed to tourist Points and agencies in Spain and abroad. The tourist Trade has entirely neglected jewish culture in Spain said Manuel Saenz de Miera a press spokes Man at the tourism ministry. The Franco regime associated jews with communist subversion and did nothing to promote the country s immense jewish  he said 90,000 pamphlets titled the Spain of the jews and describing jewish culture in Toledo Cordoba Seville Barcelona Gerona and Majorca have been published in four languages including hebrew. Some 600,000 jews lived in Spain until their expulsion in 1492. Reduction ordered in number of London policemen with guns London a Scotland Yard has ordered a Cut in the number of its officers in London authorized to use guns following widespread criticism of accidental shoot Ings by police one of which last year sparked a major riot. The Yard said in a statement that it was cutting the number from 3,780 to 2,970. London s metropolitan police Force has a total of 27,165 officers and there Are another 105,000 policemen in the rest of Mainland Britain. Most perform their duties unarmed carrying Only a Billy stick for Protection. London police have More Call to carry guns than others elsewhere in the country because they protect the British Royal family in the capital visiting dignitaries and foreign missions in London. 16 Hurt when anti aircraft gun misfires aboard Canadian ship Halifax Nova Scotia a an anti aircraft gun on the Canadian destroyer Saguenay misfired during a test outside Halifax Harbor slightly injuring 13 sailors and three technicians. Rear adm. Fred Mifflin Deputy head of maritime command said that the 16 were wearing safety Coats at the time and that injuries were restricted to Burns around the eyes. The ship has two 3.5-Inch guns mounted Side by Side on the Bow. The Crew loads Aims and fires the guns from inside an enclosed plexiglass housing. The gun is a rapid fire weapon but in this Case it was being fired one shot at a time during routine testing. The gun fired its projectile normally but Mifflin said something malfunctioned during the ejection of the Shell and exhaust gases poured out the Breech. Canada s worst postwar naval mishap occurred off eng land in 1969, when a Gearbox exploded in the engine room of the destroyer Kootenay killing eight sailors and injuring 44 others. East bloc refugees resettling Japan non commit Fufai on Osfar wars in West Germany up Fromi Munich a thl a Mhar of Nonnia Frt Tokyo a Japan will make a careful decision on whether to join the United states in Star wars research prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone told defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on saturday. Weinberger said after the meeting that the combination of . And japanese technologies could be one of the most promising deterrents to the soviet military build up. Speaking in an address to the Japan National press club he did not however make detailed comments on Japan s possible participation. We think there is great technological Genius in Japan and we invite countries including Japan to participate in any Way they decide would be Best for them Weinberger said. Nakasone thanked Weinberger for welcoming a Japa Nese technical group that is visiting the United states to study the matter said a foreign ministry official who attended the meeting Between the two men. Japan has been expected to decide within a month whether to enter joint government and private company research into Star  but an american official said the japanese have not sent any real signals on when or what the decision would  the foreign ministry official said Nakasone told Wein Berger that Japan would make a careful decision on whether to participate. According to the foreign ministry official Weinberger also told Nakasone that the United states would support an agreement with the soviet Union for drastic cuts in nuclear arms but he emphasized that such an agreement should be verifiable. In his press club address Weinberger praised Japan for its economic accomplishments. He said that by contrast the soviets have tried to make up for their economic fail Ings by increasing their military might. Why else would they have recently deployed atomic cannons in Sakhalin Weinberger asked. A . Defense department official said several can Nons capable of firing nuclear warheads As far As 16 Miles were first observed in Sakhalin 25 Miles from the tip of hokkaido in october 1985. Homemade liquor kills 10 new Delhi India a ten people died an several others were hospitalized after consuming Home made liquor in Western India the United news of India has reported. The deaths occurred wednesday in Ajmer in Rajasthan state the news Agency said. All License liquor shops were closed for the Day and the victims reportedly visited illicit liquor outlets. Munic a the number of people from communist Eastern Europe resettling in West Germany has risen by More than 1,000 in the first three months of this year com pared with the same period in 1985, authorities say. The Bavaria state social affairs ministry said 8,000 East europeans More than half of them poles resettled in West Germany Between Jan. 1 and March 31 this year. Polish immigrants led the influx with 4,961 persons com pared with 3,992 people in the first three months of 1985. The bavarian ministry is responsible for reporting such statistics for All of West Germany because the country s Center for processing East european immigrants is locate Din Bavaria. Soviet paper reveals death of cosmonaut 25 years ago Moscow up a newspaper has disclosed that Aboy Iet cosmonaut died in a training Accident 25 years ago Only 20 Days before a colleague Yuri Gagarin became the first Man in space. Valentin Bondarenko 24, died in a fire fed by an oxygen Rich atmosphere an Accident reminiscent of the one that killed three american astronauts during a simulate launch six years later. A group photograph published in the government news paper Izvestia showed the doomed cosmonaut seated next to Gagarin shortly before his death raising the possibility that he had been intended to make the historic first flight in space