European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday june 4,1986 world today Waldheim supporters reject new charges by jewish group Down to Earth protest Ami military protesters simulating War wounded sprawl Long a Street in downtown Rome monday in the sane area where the italian armed forces staged a Parade sunday to Mark Italy s 40th year u a Republic. Afghan air Force general defects to rebels newspaper reports Islamabad Pakistan a an afghan air Force general has defected to anti government guerrilla groups and said the insurgents destroyed 40 aircraft in fighting in Afghanistan during the past year according to a report monday. The Pakistan times a government owned newspaper reported in a front Page Story in. Its monday editions that Brig. Gen. Mir Alam Khan recently defected to the rebel forces and crossed into Pakistan. The report which quoted afghan exile sources in the pakistani Border City of Peshawar said Khan commanded the afghan air Force s repair installation at Bagram air base North of Kabul. The facility repairs aircraft damaged in fighting and handled three or four planes a month. Khan said. Doctor says Many heterosexuals in Kampala May have aids virus Nairobi Kenya up1 studies suggest that up to 10 percent of the heterosexually Active population of the 500,000-Strong ugandan capital of Kampala May have the potential killer aids virus a senior doctor said Moo Day. How Many will eventually show aids symptoms and die from the disease snort for acquired immunity deficiency syndrome is anybody s guess or. J. Wilson Carswel said. I Don t like the words alarming or epidemic because they smack of panic. But what we have Here gives great cam1 for concern Carswell said. Coffee growers in Tanzania seeking higher prices from state dares Salaam Tanzania a Coffee growers in Tanzania Are pressing the state owned Coffee Market ing Board for higher producer prices following increased world Market Rales for the crop the official news Agency Shihata reported monday. Coffee is a major foreign currency earner for Tanzania a s near ruined Economy. The socialist state presently is negotiating with the International monetary fund for a multimillion Dollar loan. But the government is Balking at stringent if conditions that include increased producer prices for Farmers. Farmers have rejected a proposed increase of 5 cents a Pound and Are demanding a raise of 10 cents a Pound on the present Price of si.10 a Pound the Agency said in a report published in the government controlled sunday news newspaper. Vienna Austria a supporters of presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim have vehemently rejected new charges made on monday by the world jewish Congress that accused the former . Chief of being an amoral and unrepentant  wac president Edgar m. Bronfman told a fund raising dinner in London that Victory for Waldheim in sunday s austrian run off election would be an act of symbolic amnesty for the destruction of european jewry in the War. Waldheim has admitted serving in the Balkans in a wehrmacht unit that was implicated in a series of War time atrocities but he denied any wrongdoing or knowl Edge of deportation of jews to concentration Camps. Michael Graff Secretary general of the austrian peo ple s party backing Waldheim s candidacy called bronc Man s comments the Low Point so far in the slander Campaign purportedly conducted against Waldheim by the jewish organization. Graff told a news conference Bronfman s remarks were the culmination of baseness toward Waldheim As Well As toward outgoing president Rudolf Kirch Schlauger and the austrian people. He did not Rule out further defamation actions and the emergence of forged documents and other anti Wald him material in the last Days preening Ilic june 8 Runoff in which Waldheim is widely regarded As a favorite. Already on saturday Waldheim s Campaign office said Bronfman s statements were malicious and a vain at tempt to turn Waldheim into a War  it said Bronfman was continuing the defamation Campaign against Waldheim. In a television interview Broad cast late monday Waldheim Reite rated that if he should be elected president he would fully employ the moral authority of Federal presi j Dent while observing the provisions of the austrian Constitution. He said the need for fully exercising these constitutional Powers could arise in various areas Mcloud i ing the safeguarding of retirement i pensions and efforts to ensure Bronfman Equality of women. According to Waldheim the moral authority of a presi Dent is also necessary to strengthen direct democracy meaning support of referendum and other forms of Citi Zens initiatives on vital issues. But the conservative candidate declared he is a conciliatory Man who does not Bear a grudge against  referring to his excellent relations with state and government chiefs of this world Waldheim said he is con Vinced that if elected june 8, he will Avail himself of these contacts to soon do away with the critical comments from abroad still being played  he said the groundless Ness of the accusations against him is being proved by the fact that no government has officially taken a stand against him. He dismissed As private the criticism recently voiced in an israeli parliament session by foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir who called on Western leaders to jointly fight Waldheim. Italy will introduce new lira Worth i ,000 on present scale Rome a the government is moving to reduce the number of millionaires and billionaires in Italy. The Cabinet on tuesday approved draft legislation to introduce the lira Nova or new lira that will be equal to 1,000 lire in today s currency. The currency would also be broken Down into Cente Simi like us. Cents. Thus a Dollar that now buys around 1,500 lire would be quoted at 1 lire and 50 cents. The action would not reduce the value of the italian currency but it is aimed at implying transactions in a country where tourists Are baffled by restaurant Bills in thousands of lire where rents Are in the millions and the Public debt has reached an Eye opening 95 billion lire. The change is also intended to give a psychological boost in Italy s Battle to bring Down inflation that raged As High As 20 percent five years ago but is now running around 6 percent. The action is aimed at showing that a past characterized by High inflation and Sharp social tensions is really behind us said the Rome newspaper ii Messaggiero. The proposal will be presented to parliament and if it is approved the government will introduce the new lira in the Spring of 1987. It would be issued in denominations of 1,2,5,10,20,50,100,200,500 and 1,000 lire. British scandinavian jetliners pass very close very close7 near Iceland London up a  British airways jumbo Jet with 375 people aboard and a scandinavian airlines dc-8 carrying 198 people had a very Clou near collision Over the North Atlantic monday officials said tuesday. It was very close very dose a British airways spokesman said. He declined to disclose How close the aircraft came to each other but an Sas spokeswoman in Stockholm swe Den said the planes passed each other flying at the tame Altitude and flight path off the Southeast coast of Iceland. The British airways Boeing 747, in route from London to Seattle was flying at 33,000 feet off Iceland at 5 46 . Monday when the Pilot suddenly saw an Sas Airliner passing in the other direction officials said. The Sas dc-8, carrying 186 passengers and 12 Crew members had taken off from Sondre Stromford Field in Greenland and was bound for Copenhagen Denmark. Both planes were flying at 10,000 meters and bad passed each other before the pilots discovered they were flying at the same Altitude Sas spokeswoman Monika Backlund in Stockholm said. None of the passengers noticed what was happening which must have been a Relief for them she said. It was Loo late for any change of direction she Laid but they were not in a collision  Bac Tab said she did not know How close the planes were to each other but that they went far beyond the minimum safety  the minimum safety level for plane separation is 1,000 feet vertically and 5 Miles laterally. Both airliners continued on to their destinations follow ing the near collision. Dublin s garbage piling up during strike Dublin Ireland a a 9-Day-old strike by trash collectors has left Dublin with mountains of garbage. The refuse collectors walked off the Job just As the City of i million was getting into its tourist season. Some streets Are ankle deep in litter while uncollected trash is blocking drains and causing flooding. Plastic bags of trash have piled up outside buildings and apartment blocks. Waterworks and sewerage attendants also Are on strike and the Irish army has been mobilized to run the facilities. The 4,500 workers have rejected a government offer of a 7 percent pay hike staggered Over 18 months which would increase their average earnings from 155 pounds $200 a week to 165 pounds s2i5