European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday May 28,1987 wbm8sss Milan citizens take free ride offer literally a photo. It was Good idea that the City officials of Milan Italy had but it his the officials who unfortunately got taken for a ride. In ill Effort to reduce traffic in inc inner City the offi Dils decided to pro vide bicycles for citizens to Ose free of charge. At left 1,000 bicycles stand ready to use at the Sforza so Castle on sunday the first Day of the program. However by tuesday Ai the photo on the right reveals there was no evidence the bikes were being used and no evidence of the Bliex them Serhei. Offi Cial reported a Uuie of the Bike were mining Only Boms after the Oner Tim began. Israeli Cabinet members assume responsibility for Pollard s spying Jerusalem up1 Israel s Cabinet accepted the findings of a government panel wednesday by Tak ing collective responsibility for the espionage Pollard an american jew who sold . Secrets to Israel. The Cabinet decision to accept the findings of a two Man committee appointed by prime minister Yitzhak Shamir came Only hours after an Independent parliamentary committee released a Simitar recommendation on the Pollard affair. A go Ernie no spokeswoman confirmed Attiat de spite objections from some Cabinet ministers the 10 member inner Cabinet agreed 10 accept the recommendations of the Rolyn Streili tour report named for lawyer Yehoshua Rotenstreich and a former chief of staff Vitsur. It is our opinion that the government must Shoul Der All the responsibility since every minister fulfils a certain function but is part of the government Rotenstreich told Israel radio tuesday. A second investigating committee headed by Stales Man Abba Eban also urged the government to accept responsibility for the spy scandal. The government has contended it was Noi responsible for the affair which it claimed was pan of a rogue operation that worked without official Sanction. But Eban claimed government leaders ultimately were responsible for the actions of subordinates. Eban whose panel spent 10 months investigating the Case and examined some 3,500 pages of testimony criticized former defense minister Moshe Arena and defense minister Yitzhak Rabin for not exercising any supervisory functions Over the personnel involved. It was not a rogue operation at All because Al though those involved were not members of govern ment the fact is they were official people Eban said tuesday in releasing the report of his special investigating committee of the Knesset or parliament. They were All integrated into the bureaucracy especially the defense system. Because of this we say Here is responsibility on the government he said. The report also suggested the government of is Rael would act wisely if it would say wholeheartedly and frankly that Israel acknowledges full responsibility and will continue to work toward correcting the injury that has been 2nd girl has heart lung transplant London a a second French girl. 10-Yenr old Delphine Barr Ouillet. Has undergone a successful heart and lung transplant in a London Hospital a hos Pital spokesman said wednesday. Bar Rouiller was conscious and progressing satisfactorily at the private old court clinic after her opera Tion monday night said a Hospital spokeswoman smoking on condition of anonymity. The Hospital would not release any further details about the girl or her donor. The operation a performed by a team led by a Ejob one of Britain s leading transplant sur Geona. The spokeswoman said. Yacoub also supervised the life saving heart and lung transplant carried out on i Lycar old Helene Cis Eck of Mon plier France at Brompton Hospital on saturday. Ciszek is doing very Well making very Good Prog Ress Hospital spokeswoman Karen Turner said wednesday. She s even eating and drinking a Little Ciszek has been taken off the ventilator that was helping her breathe. Turner said. She was suffering from a progressive lung disease that has not been fully diagnosed. It has also struck her 5-year-old sister Ocean. 4 accused of starting huge China Blaze Beijing a authorities have accused four people of starting the biggest fire in communist China s history a Blaze that killed 191 people in a 20 Day March across the Northeast before it was extinguished the forestry ministry said thursday. Vice minister Liu Guangxun said the four were arrested for alleged work violations but he did not say when or give details of the charges. Leu also told reporters that satellite photos showed recent Forest fires in the soviet Union have affected ares three times As Large As those involved in the chinese fires which ravaged 2.47 million acres in Heilongjiang province. He said the soviet fires North of the Heilongjiang amur River dividing the two countries had been put out but a soviet fire still posed a threat to China s inner Mongolia to the Southwest. Liu said the Forest fire China s worst since the communist takeover in 1949, began May 6 in five places. In two areas fires were sparked by Brush cutting machinery operated in violation of regulations he said. In two other areas the fires began from the Smol Dering cigarettes of temporary workers. The cause of the fifth Blaze was not yet known he said. Liu said there remained a danger of underbrush being reignited by High winds. World Voclav soviet officials discuss food spoilage problems Moscow a despite improvements in food processing and storage up to 20 percent of All food products still spoil before reaching soviet Market officials Here said the official discussed the problem at a communist party Central committee meeting conducted by Yegor Migachev the second ranking party official the Tass news Agency said. Party general Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev u on an official visit to Romania. Ligi Chev said Gorbachev s emphasis on initiative and reducing bureaucratic red tape Are improving Agri cultural production especially animal product but Many problems remain. Fifteen percent to 20 percent of the foodstuffs continue to be lost on the Way from the Field and farm to the store counter. They Don t make it to the Popula Tion he said. Beijing train station extends smoking ban Beijing f a Beijing railway station on june i will become China s first rail terminal to ban smoking entirely on its premises. In an unprecedented move China s largest train nation banned smoking in March from two of its wailing rooms. The response by Many travellers and govern ment officials was enthusiastic the people l daily newspaper said tuesday. The station will go one step further starting next month when smoking will be prohibited throughout the station including All wailing rooms the main lobby and All hallways and corridors the paper said. The paper said violators of the smoking ban will be fined but it did not say How much. Alleged baby Selling ring broken with arrest of 22 Naples Italy a Twenty two people were arrested tuesday As police smashed a ring that allegedly sold infants for As much As $38,000 each to Middle class couples who assumed medical costs officials re ported. Italian news Media said the ring was entered in a clinic outside Naples and that investigators had con firmed the Sale of at least 10 newborns to couples in various italian cities. Those arrested included two gynaecologists in obstetrician the natural mothers intermediaries and the parents who bought the babies the reports said
