European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages j the stars and stripes tuesday septembers 1987 Reagan May have been terror target paper says Rome a president Reagan while in Venice for last june s Summit May have been a target of Ara terrorists according to investigators of an International weapons trafficking ring. La Republica newspaper reported on sunday. The seizure of a lebanese flagged ship carrying arms and drugs off the Southeastern coast of Italy last week resulted from a probe involving the Middle East Iran Spain Portugal Greece and France As Well As Italy according to authorities. Our work is Only at the beginning ii Tempo Rome newspaper quoted prosecutor Augusto Lama As saying. We arc investigating along several directions we will turn half of Europe upside Down the italian news Agency Ansa reported that injure the ship then under a different name and nag was anchored off Venice before and during the meet ing of leaders from seven industrialized nations. La Reub Ifica a Rome based National paper re ported without identifying its sources that the arms aboard the ship were destined for an assault during the Summit with Reagan the target it implied that the attack would have come while Reagan was flying in a helicopter Over the Lagoon City on the Northeast coast. Found aboard the ship were a missile a grenade launcher and an Ami tank Bazooka authorities said. La Republica said the ship was supposed to Anchor off the West coast near la Spicia but the red alarm went off implying that he Venice attack plan was scrapped at the last minute for reasons it did not spec Ify. A duly officer at the . Embassy in Rome said that no one was available on sunday to comment on the report. Corriere Delia Sera a Milan based National daily reported without naming its sources that the arms found in the ship would have soon left their bloody signature in Europe. The Middle East terrorists were in fact preparing a series of attacks against important objectives.1" prosecutors said the terrorists appeared to include followers of Abu Nidal who has been accused of masterminding the massacres at Rome and Vienna air ports on dec. 27, 198$. The investigation began As a probe to learn just How the arms used by the Airport terrorists arrived m Italy investigators say several shipping related companies off the tuscan and Ligurian coast which includes la Spetta were involved in arms trafficking. The investigation is being coordinated by Magis trates based in Massa on the tuscan coast. By the end of last week. 43 arrest warrants had been issued and 32 of those named had been taken int custody in connection with the investigation. Going Home an italian firmer and his cow make their Way tick to the Home they Here forced to abandon Tiro weeks ago. Some 20,000 residents of the Alpine Val Tellina Valley Here evacuated Aon. 24 when a heavy Down pour caused the newly formed Val Pola Lake to Rise. Authorities feared in would flood the Valley below. World today bus plunges off Mountain killing 20 Taiwan tourists Taipei Taiwan a a bus packed with Tai wanese tourists plunged off a Mountain Highway into a deep Valley killing 20 people and injuring 22, police  in  a scenic1 mountainous area in a Taipei suburb said Itic bus carrying 41 passengers and a Driver plunged into a 200-foot Valley. Police said 14 passengers were hospitalized in serious condition with head injuries. The others were in satisfactory condition with bruises and fractures. Police said an investigation was under Way to deter mine the cause of the Accident. Two e. German Brothers escape in boats to West bad Bramstedt Germany a two East German Brothers in rubber boats paddled 12 hours across pan of the Baltic sen on Friday and escape safely lowest Germany police said saturday. At least seven other East germans escaped their communist Homeland lowest Germany last week. A West German ship picked up the two Brothers off the coast of Sehl swig hoist it said Helmut Scholz Border police spokesman in the Northern West Ger Man state. The Brothers Ages 21 and 22, were in two separate rubber boats Scholz said. He declined to provide More details or to provide their names in accordance wit Security regulations. By official count about 130 East germans have crossed into West Germany this year. Tourist faces greek trial for codeine Possession Athens Greece a a 30-year-old Australia tourist jailed for possessing 16 tablets containing co Deine which is banned in Greece has been freed on bail pending trial an australian embassy spokesman  tourist Gillian Catherine Bert whistle of Bris Bane was arrested at Athens Airport eight Days ago on charges of import no illegal drugs. Codeine is commonly used for the Relief of pain and is a component of several australian brands of head ache and cold tablets. It was banned in Greece in 1982as an opium derivative. The embassy spokesman who asked for anonymity said that Bart whistle had put up 20,000 drachmas about is 50 for her bail Amsterdam Gay activists dedicate first Monument Amsterdam Netherlands a this nation Small but vocal Gay rights Community took another step toward Public recognition saturday with the inauguration of the Netherlands first Monument to homosexuals. Some 1.000 people watched the inauguration Cere Mony a collective Effort by about 40 Gay men and women attended by Deputy health mini scr Dick decs As Well As by Amsterdam mayor de Van Thijn. The dutch government and the City each Pul up about o Quarter of the 400,000 Guilder about 1200,000 Cost of the Monument designed by sculptor Klrin  Monument sited next to til is dutch capital s historic West Church consists of three triangular slabs of Pink Marble meant to symbolize inc past present and future of the Gay rights  s t t m a him Luigi a i m try i Fiuta for uttti4tm4-thousands Bock Rural Solidarity polish court sentences f off Czestochowa Poland a thousands of Farmers on an annual Post Harvest pilgrimage to this Southern shrine cily sunday voiced their support for the outlawed Rural Solidarity movement applauding As a Union Leader urged communist authorities to re Spect the rights of private Farmers More than 100,000 worshippers filled a Large Field in front of the Jasna Cora monastery Poland s most re Vered roman Catholic shrine to take part in an out door mass culminating the weekend pilgrimage by Pri vate Farmers from throughout the country. Before the mass a priest read aloud a Telegram of greetings to the Farmers from the polish born Pope John Paul ii who offered prayers that there be no shortage of bread in Poland. Afterwards Wladyslaw Piksa a Rural Solidarity Leader from Southern Poland urged the Farmers to rebuild their now outlawed Independent Union As he presented the traditional first loaf of bread from the Harvest for the Church s Blessing. May the creation of the provisional National Council of Farmere Solidarity activate he Union activities of Farmers he said drawing applause from the Croud. May regional provincial and county councils be created this is our sacred right and duly. Mother of god ,. Bless our Solidarity of people of villages and cities said Piksa. Former officials of Rural Solidarity formed the National Council last november to Campaign openly to seek the restoration of an Independent Trade Union to defend the interests of Poland s 3.9 million private Farmers. The move followed a government amnesty for political prisoners. Private Farmers till about 75 pcreen1. Of the land under cultivation in Poland. 2 Danes on spying charge Warsaw Poland a a polish military court on saturday convicted two danish men of spying Foric danish intelligence service and sentenced them to seven and nine years imprisonment a danish embassy official said the two men Jens Elle Kaer Ufi a Copenhagen Busi Nessman and Reserve officer and Niels Hen Mingsun 22, an economics student at Copenhagen University were found guilty of taking pictures of military installations in Northern Poland last april said of Pohl a danish embassy official in Warsaw in a  "thi1 two danish Cili los were found guilty on All the Points in the  said Pohl who received a report from danish diplomats in the courtroom. The defendants were very moved when the verdicts were read