European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday. March 12,1s87 much of Greece buried under 6 feet of Snow Athens Greece a More than six feel or mow buried parts of Central and Northern Greece on wednesday As a we Csc Oid cold wave continued 10 grip the country. Officials said about 500 Mountain villages were Cui off by the new snowfall which blocked country Roods triggered Power blackout and Cut Telephone tines. Shortages of Healing fuel and animal feed were reported in Many regions. Snow Felt wednesday evening in he greek capital Tor the seventh time in nine Days. Tem Para arcs dipped to -28 degrees fahrenheit. The worst March weather in Over 30 years has been blamed for at least 15 deaths nationwide. 500 italian Navy cadets stricken with dysentery Taranto Slaty up an epidemic of dysentery has stricken 500 italian Navy cadets at a Southern training school the defense ministry said tuesday. Doctors said they believe the infection at the san Vilo Navy exercise Center was caused by polluted drinking water Rathe than by Navy rations. The cadets All of hem training to be officers or noncommissioned officers Are being provided with Mineral water and specially delivered fresh water instead of tap  local Navy command spokesman said the Camp s water Supply probably was polluted As a result of pipes bursting in Freak Eold weather. Some tourists in India must be tested for aids new Delhi India up tourists visit ing India for More than one month will be required to undergo aids tests and foreign Itu dents seeking to enter Indian universities will have to prove they do not have the disease a Cabinet minister said wednesday. Human resource development minister , Narashimham Rao told the upper House of parliament that beginning in the 1988 academic year foreign students will have to submit to acquired immune deficiency syndrome Examina Tion when they sit for admission tests. Rao said any student found to have the Dis ease would be denied entry to Indian education Al institutions. Foreign students currently studying in India Are already required to undergo aids tests and have been told they would not be allowed to sit for Scholastic exams if they refuse. 4th-Quarter Trade deficit jumps 3.3%, . Says Washington a the nation s Mer Chandise Trade deficit from october through de Cember swelled to $38,4 billion the largest quarterly imbalance on record the government said wednesday. The Commerce department said the deficit was up 3.3 percent from the 137.1 billion deficit posted in the third Quarter of 1986, the record deficit in the fourth Quarter helped to push the merchandise Trade imbalance for the entire year to a record is 47.7 billion 18.7 per cent higher than the $124.4 billion deficit registered in 1985, the new report confirms parallel figures re leased earlier that put the quarterly deficit at 141.9 billion and the annual Trade deficit at is 69.8 billion. Saudis set death penalty for smugglers of drugs Riyadh saudi Arabia a the govern ment has ordered the death Penally to be imposed on convicted drug smugglers and it decreed that drug traffickers would be publicly flogged. The orders were announced by Interior min ister Prince Nayef bin Abdel am based on a religious ruling by a panel of moslem clergymen. Nayef said the new Penally will be a warning and a deterrent to smugglers and traffickers. Saudi Arabia previously had no established penal code for such crimes and punishments were left to judges in individual cases. Israel appointing 2 to probe Pollard spy affair Jerusalem aps the Cabinet wednesday decided to appoint two people to investigate Israel s involvement in the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy affair the panel will cooperate with the parliamentary intelligence subcommittee investigating the Case Laid Cabinet Secretary Eliakim Rubinstein the two people chosen Tor the investigation will be announced soon officials  announcement came after a tit hour meeting of 10 key Cabinet members five from prime minister Yizhak Shamir s liked bloc and five from foreign minister Shimon Peres labor party. The decision to investigate came despite Shamir s reluctance to probe the affair further. It appeared aimed at improving ties with the United  israeli officials have mid they fear . Sanctions against Israel following the conviction of Pollard a former . Navy analyst sentenced to life in prison last week for Selling . Military secrets to Fra of. The secrets Pollard sold to Israel included information on Israel s Arab enemies and details that reportedly helped Israel in its 1985 raid on Palestine liberation organization Headquarters in Tunis. Foreign ministry political director Yossi Beilin said the two person team would Only be empowered to make recommendations to the government Israel television said one of the commission s main tasks would be to investigate the roles of two israeli officials in the affair and consider whether they should be punished. The announcement also noted Israel had expressed regret for the spy affair soon after Pollard was arrested in november i9bj. Israel also took the unprecedented step of cooperating with United slates authorities in investigating he Case Rubinstein said. This was done in View of the special relationship Between the two  two israeli officials linked to the Case Viem sclera and Rafael Eilan were Given promotions Sella a senior israeli air Force officer who allegedly recruited Pollard was elevated to commander of a major air base shortly before Pollard was sentenced. A . Grand jury list week indicted him on espionage charges. Euan who headed the now disbanded espionage unit in the israeli defense ministry became chairman of Israel chemicals co the largest slate owned firm after he was removed from he intelligence Job in 1983. Eitan a close associate of Trade minister Ariel Sha Ron was named in the . Indictment As an Unin diced co conspirator. The israeli government has maintained the spying operation was unauthorized and pledged that action would be taken against those responsible. Israel radio said the foreign ministry has prepared a position paper asking the government to take immedi ate Steps or face difficulties with the United Stales that would affect financial Aid and strategic cooperation. Service held at sea for ferry victims Zeebrugge Belgium a relatives of the victims of last week s ferry disaster prayed together wednesday in a ceremony at sea and tossed two me Morial wreaths on the water near the stricken vessel. About 2i relatives participated in the Brief ecumenical service aboard the belgian tug fighter. Four in the group survived the Shipwreck and All have relatives missing whose bodies Are believed trapped beneath debris on the boat. Leading the service in memory of the estimated 134 people believed dead in the Shipwreck were William Scott the anglican vicar of Canterbury Joe Doetsch the roman Catholic vicar of Dover and Johan Cal Berg chaplain at the ice Bruggy naval base. Some police officials and about 10 red Cross work Era joined the relatives and together All aboard read from the 23rd psalm the lord is my Shepherd i shall not  Peter Ford chairman of shipowner Townsend to Resen who also was at the shipboard service said the service was arranged at the initiative of relatives who came from England to identify their Kin. The relatives did wish this Ford said they decided it was something they would like to do earlier wednesday Britain s Prince Charles flew Over the capsized Herald of free Enterprise ferry and met with Relief and Rescue officials Here and with Vic Tims of the disaster in a nearby Hospital he landed at Zeebrugge naval base shortly after 10 . On a Royal Navy helicopter after flying Over the stricken ferry some 1,000 Yard offshore Kohl from Page 1 did not appear abstained cast an invalid ballot or voted against him. His coalition has 269 voting lawmakers in the bundestag a comfortable 20 More than Ine majority needed to elect the Chancellor. Later in the Day Kohl announced 19 his party Cau Cus the names of his new Cabinet ministers but there were Only minor changes. The Liberal free democrats who did especially Well in the Jan. 25 elections were Given a fourth Cabinet Post the education ministry at the expense of Kohl s Christian democrats. The education ministry will go to Juergen Moe Lemann the former no. 3 official in the foreign ministry. The outgoing education minister Christian demo crat Dorothee Wilms will move to the ministry for Intro German relations whose chief Heinrich wind Elen is resigning. The new Cabinet was to be sworn in on thursday. Like the old Cabinet it has 18 members plus the Chan cellar. Two of the ministers Are women. Kohl was re elected and sworn in As Chancellor in a renovated waterworks building on the Rhine River it is currently serving As the bundestag chamber while the main chamber is being renovated. The Chancellor made no speech standing simply and saying i accept the election he Ihen Shook hands with the leaders of his coalition parties and the opposition. It was Kohl s third election to the Chancellor s Post. Victory at nationwide polls on March 6,1983. Plane from pigs 1 about 6 Miles from the Border with Al Salvador and Job Miles West of the capital of Honduras Tegucigalpa. The Pilot was identified by personal documents As Joseph Bernard Mason and carried . And Panama Nian pilots licenses the armed forces said. A spokes Man at the . Embassy in Tegucigalpa speaking on condition of anonymity said details about Mason were being withheld pending notification of relatives. The other two people on Board remained unidentified As of Early wednesday. The detection of the aircraft caused the reaction of our air Force which immediately deployed combat planes said an earlier statement from the armed forces. The Crew of the plane did not identify itself it said because of that with Alt peaceful procedures exhausted the air Force carried out warning shots and Ihen shot Down the  the armed forces said the Crew also ignored orders to land on a specified Airstrip authorities said the plane bore a . Registration number 49454, on its exterior and the colombian registration hk313 on the inside. The statement said the plane s mule was similar to thai followed by a plane captured three months ago carrying two colombians and a Load of pure cocaine valued at an estimated $500 million. The twin engine propeller driven dc-3 is a favorite with South american drug smugglers. Buill during world War ii the plane can Fly Long distances at Low altitudes and land or Lake off on Short runways such As the Clandestine grass airstrips in Central America commonly used by smugglers flying from South America to the United states