European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday septembers 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 worm report still hurting German fish sales trucks supplying the Flash id clog traffic in Bren tharen saturday. Mchaven Bureau Bremerhaven a nationally devised report thai caused fish Wiles to plummet dramatically was a addressed tuesday night but without the apology hoped for by lie stricken German fishing Industry. After a tuesday segment chronicled recent developments in the television induced fish crisis Monitor Moderator Klaus Bednarz made a personal statement that he will continue to eat fish albeit with greater awareness. Monitor an investigative program similar to lbs "60 minutes had aired a report in july on fish Worms. As a closing., i found Bednarz s statement not bad. That was the most positive aspect of the segment said Erhard Kronschnabl a fish wholesaler in arc Mchaven. But Kronschnabl had hoped the pro Gram would go further in Clearing up the consumer controversy that caused him to Lay off nine of his 15 employees since the first Monitor segment aired. Sales drops of Between 30 percent and 8u percent prompted arc Mchaven mayor Karl Willms to declare a fish in which Drew Aboul 10,000 people saturday. Tempers have run High since the pro Gram aired a round table discussion in Bremerhaven Between the to producers and local fish Industry representatives was cancelled because of fear for the journalists safety. The North sea cities of Bremerhaven and Cuxhaven. 22 Miles apart define the heart of he German fishing Industry. Some 30,000 people work in fish related businesses according to an Industry Agency. The original Monitor report Chroni cled health hazards associated with a Nam Node parasite in fish stomachs. Improper processing of fish can cause the worm to leave the stomach and begin feeding on the fish carcass. Cooking the fish or using More Salt and vinegar in curing he fish will kill the parasites. I be been in business for 20 years and i have never seen a worm in our firm,11 Kronschnabl Elsaid. Withelm Chaump of the German Federal ministry for health and nutrition said the fish processors that worry him Are newer companies that set up shop further Inland in recent Yean. Up on the coast they Are specialists that understand the ins and outs of processing fish he said. His age icy began to take notice of the problem of fish Worms entering humans m the 1970s, after dutch authorities encountered several Hundred cases of fish Worms in people Chaump said. The dutch traditionally use less Salt in curing the fish. Bednarz said the show examined roughly 40 instances in which germans had suffered from fish Worms. Chaump said the Monitor claim was a reason Able figure for a period of several months. The health danger beyond diarrhoea is present Only when several Worms remain in the digestive tract. The Worms could Start burrowing into the intestine Walls Chaump said. However Folk Crl Marr of the German fish Industry and wholesalers federation said the emphasis placed on the 40 cases was out of proportion. West germans eat 1.5 billion fish Din ners each year Marr said. We have to admit because there have been these cases that some people have not followed Good commercial practice Marr said. But he whole Industry should not be made to suffer from the actions of a few Black sheep Marr said. He look Issue with the television pro cram for saying the Industry had done mile about fish Worms. In March guide lines were issued to fish federation Mem Bers that explained How to quickly freeze or gut fish in order o prevent the Worms from leaving the stomach lie said. Chaump said his Agency is preparing regulations to prevent fish worm infections. They should be in place by year s end. And Marr said his federation has asked the German government for Money in help in an advertising Campaign designed to restore the Public s impression that fish is Good food. Marr said German officials Latt no vember discovered a worm in a fish processed by a dutch company. That firm is now out of business he said. This was something that we thought could never happen to us because we have All these rules Man said. Revo of Onay Ces terror group says if show judge Berlin of the leftist revolutionary ceus terrorist group on wednesday claimed responsibility for shooting and wounding a judge who helped curb Grants of political Asylum in Germany. Two men on a motorcycle shot 61 year old Guenter Korbmacher in the legs tuesday morning As he Wai walk ing this garage in the West Berlin District of Lichter Clde. In a four Page letter to news agencies the revolutionary cells said it carried out the attack on Korb Macher because he represented the main address the court for carrying out Modem Asylum politics the letter s headline said Why we shot in the Knees the head judge of the Federal administrative court panel on Asylum Guenter ii was signed off with the words revolutionary Korbmacher was admitted to a Berlin Hospital. His condition was not life As head judge of the Federal administrative court panel handling political Asylum questions for West Berlin and Germany Korbmacher had been consid ered a possible target for a terrorist attack. Korbmacher panel ruled in december 1985 in Titi tamil refugees from sri Lanka have no general right to political Asylum in Germany or West Berlin. Human rights groups sharply criticized the ruling. In May 1986, the court ruled against six turks seek ing political Asylum. In that Case Korbmacher s panel ruled that people seeking Asylum on the grounds they had suffered or feared torture at Home had to prove the abuse was motivated by specific political goals. In a similar terrorist attack last oct. 28, iwo men and a woman thai and seriously wounded Harald hoi Lenberg the chief of West Berlin s foreigners office which registers aliens. A Day after that attack letters were also received by several West Berlin newspapers claiming responsibility by the revolutionary cells. Officials have said the revolutionary cells have close lies to Italy s red brigades terrorist group which have also carried out a series of so called Kneecap shootings. The revolutionary cells Are considered the prime sympathizers of the notorious red army faction gang that sprang up in Germany in the Early 1970s. The red army faction has been responsible for a decade and a half of attacks against civilian and Mili tary targets in Germany including murders bombings and Bank robberies. 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