European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday May 24,1987 Fiji s shops reopen As racial tensions ease Suva Fiji a shops opened Here saturday for the first time in a week As ethnic indians apparently resigned themselves to the overthrow of he government they voted into office and the establishment of a fijian caretaker administration. Although racial tensions cased Australia and new zealand prepared Contin gency plan to evacuate their citizens in Case new rouble broke of on this South Pacific Island. Australia ordered a com Pany of to soldiers to the tiny austra Lian Possession of Norfolk Island and a second new zealand military ship was on its Way to Suva. Fijian troops patrolled the capital s streets which appeared at their calmest since the army toppled the Indian dominated government of Timocin Savadra on May 14. On wednesday gangs of fijian youths rampaged through Suva and beat up at feast 50 indians. Coup Leader it. Col. Sitiveni Rabuka governor general Ratu sir Panaia Gani Lau and the great Council of chiefs reached a Compromise Friday on the nation s future. Rabuka allowed Tanilau to remain As head of state and titular head of a 19 member Council of advisers while Rabuka was made commander of the police and army. Rabuka id he launched the coup to prevent violence Between fijians and ethnic indians who Are the descendants of labourers brought to Fiji by the British. Indians make up 49 percent of Fiji s 715,000 population while 47 percent Are ethnic fijians. After his election last month Savadra named Fiji s first Cabinet dominated by indians. Traditionally indians have con trolled Commerce while native fijians have prevailed in politics. Indian shop keepers shut their businesses to protest the coup and some indians fled the is land. A committee drawn from the 19-Mem bar Council of advisers will draft a new Constitution to guarantee the political dominance of ethnic fijians. Elections arc expected in about six months. Savadra and his Deputy prime min ister Harish Sharma were nominated o the advisory Council but they refused to serve three indians were named to the Council. The embassies of Britain. New Zea land and Australia asked tourists and residents to Register in Case evacuation is necessary. An australian Navy ship the Stalwart entered Suva s Harbor and new zealand announced that a second ship was expected in Suva later sat urday. The new zealand Navy frigate Wellington entered the port last week. Australia also ordered a company of 110 soldiers to the Liny australian pos session of Norfolk Island about 900 Miles from Fiji to assist in any eventual evacuation. But most tourists were in resort hotels far from Suva and they a card Lilc affected by events in the capital prime minister David Lang of new zealand said an evacuation would be unlikely. The new zealand Community in Fiji can remain assured that the contingency plan for evacuations Are in place in the highly unlikely event of thai being required said Lang. Rabuka and Tanilau met saturday to discuss the administration of the coun try and the tourist Industry moved quickly o restore International flights and counter a flood of hotel room cancel lation. Fiji depends heavily on tourism for foreign Exchange. Tasmania Chicago Toute map Graves from the Black death an archaeologist works on one of Downs of Graves uncovered on the site of the old Royal mini in Lon Don. The Graves Are bettered to contain the remains of Many who died in 1349 during the Black death when bubonic plague wiped out nearly half of the dry s population. The million Pound $1.6 million excavation mid to be the late so and Moat important in England is located near the Tower of London and is expected to yield More than 1,000 corpses. The skeletons Are being Analysed to determine sex age and height As Well As any tracts of disease and will be rest tried at a graveyard in East London. World today West German counter info gence arrests 2 alleged communist spies Bonn a two suspected spies for communist intelligence services have been arrested separately in West Germany this week a spokesman for the Federal prosecutor s office said Friday. Spokesman Alexander prec Clel speak no in a Tele phone inic View from his Karlsruhe office declined to give further details. He said he did not want to hinder continuing investigations. But the Bonn newspaper pie Welt said one sup Cal allegedly worked for tie soviet Kab and the other for East Germany s secret service. Die Welt said a Vest Germany s service caught the two East bloc agents within the past 48 hours. It said the Kab suspect identified As Alwin 1c," a 42-year-old former anti tank gunner in the Wesl Ger Man army was arc Slid in lower Saxony state. The Kab us Sci had gathered military intelligence in West Germany for the soviet secret service since the mid-19705, said die Welt which cited no sources for its report. Die Welt identified the suspected East German spy As Gerhard k.," a 30-1 car old doctor and said he was nabbed during a conspiratorial meeting with a con tact in the Northwestern City of Aachen on the belgian Border die Welt gave no More details on the a Vilies of either suspect. The newspaper also reported that Wesl German authorities Hud arrested 43 soviet bloc agents Tost year 26 of them suspected members of East Germany s intelligence service. Raf Jet hit by lightning makes emergency Landing Hong Kong a a British Royal air Force vc10 with 88 passengers and Crew on Board made an emergency Landing at Hong Kong s Kai Tak International Airport Friday after it was struck by lightning authorities said. A government spokesman said the plane left Hong Kong for Katmandu Nepal at 10 37 . Local Lime but returned after an hour to Check for damage after lightning struck the plane. There were no injuries and the plane was not dam aged except for a lire that bunt during the emergency Landing according to a spokesman for the British forces m Hong Kong who spoke on condition of anonymity f tie military spokesman said the plane s 7fi Passen were mostly Nepal use gurkha soldiers and their pics. Chinese traffic fatalities increasing paper reports Beuing a about 40,000 chinese die in tray tic accidents each year and another 40,000 Are injured a chinese newspaper reported Friday. In an ankle calling for More education about Craitic rules and regulations the liberation daily said Statis tics far the first four months of this lycia show that in the City of Shanghai alone. 254 people have died in traffic accidents. The figure is a 24 percent increase Over the same period last year the paper said. The liberation daily is published and distributed in Shanghai. Migration Agency alters name to fit worldwide role Geneva a the intergovernmental commit tee for migration founded in 1951 to help refugees and displaced persons resettle in postwar Europe said Friday it plans forename itself International Organiza Tion for migration to reflect the Agency s worldwide Rote. The name change must be approved by two thirds of the Agency s 33 member governments an ice statement said. The Agency s Council unanimously endorsed the proposal at a in vat meeting wednesday it said. Since its founding ice has helped in the processing and rest tement or some 3.6 million refugees and migrants including soviet jews allowed to emigrate to Israel or other Western countries. The Agency was originally named intergovernmental committee for european migration but dropped the european reference in 1930
