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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday september 30,1987 world today chinese getting a taste of Finger Licking fast food Beijing a about 100 chinese tourism and poultry officials got their first taste of Ameri can fast food tuesday As Beijing s new Kentucky Fried Chicken served up an inv Lalion Only pc opening luncheon. They had original recipe Chicken buns coleslaw said store manager thaw Swice Khwarg. Most of the comment is Good. They finished  the three Story Glass and Brick restaurant behind Beijing s Central Tien an men Square is the first Western fist Rood outlet in China. It also if believed to be the world s largest fast food restaurant with 500 scats. Yellow fever outbreak kills Many in Zaire town Kinshasa Zaire a a new outbreak of Yel Low fever has claimed Many victims in he town of Bonobo i so Miles North of the capital Kinshasa government officials reported monday. The officials provided no other details saying Only that the new cases came just six months after a similar outbreak in the Region claimed 42 lives. An emergency team has been sent to the area o Inocula la the population in an Effort to Stop the spread of the disease the official said. E. German court gives sex nazi officer life term Berlin a a District court in Dresden on monday sentenced a former nazi secret police and Waffen is officer to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in connection with the Roundup and deaths of 720 jews the state run East German news Agency adn said. Henry Schmidt 74, was convicted of leading at least two of 10 Roundup operations that transported jews in the Dresden area to ghettos and death Camps adn said. Adn said Schmidt a former nazi secret police and is lieutenant colonel was bund guilty of knowingly participating in atrocities against jews Between 1942 and 1945. Schmidt went into hiding after 1945 and was arrested in 1986, adn said. It did not give details. Soviets gritting Teeth Over latest shortage Moscow a soviet Consumers arc Long accustomed to shortages but they arc none Loo pleased by a Lack of toothpaste that the official press says has resulted mainly from bureaucracy and bad planning Why is there no toothpaste the government daily Izvestia asked with seeming incredulity monday. Can it really be that this item is now on the list or goods in Short Supply according to inv Csira demand Tor toothpaste in the soviet Union will exceed Supply by so million lubes this year while last year there was a shortage of 100 Mill Ion lubes. New trains Cut travel time Between Rome Milan Rome a the first of four new super rapid trains departed from Rome and reached its final Desti nation of Milan in a speedy 4 hours and 55 minutes. The new Rome Milan trains travelling at speeds of up to 124 Rrt rih shave about an hour off he 393-mile rip in an Ordinary rapid train previously the fast est Way 10 travel Between the two cities. The new Rains depart Rome daily Ai 7 . And 5 55 . And from Milan Ai 7 50 . And 6 55 . The j7s one Way first class ticket includes lunch or dinner in one of two restaurant cars and various other supplementary charges. Three hostesses offer newspapers magazines and Coffee to passengers in their seats. Tanker crashes into dutch truck cleanup teams Clear debris from a vehicle crash near Stuttgart Gem Tony Early tuesday. A German tinker background crashed into a dutch truck the had Appl Kho been parked on the Shower of he highly. One person a kilted and two others were Sci Only injured in lie Accident. Greek exhibits Mark destruction of Parthenon 300 years ago Athens Greece a Greece on monday marked a sad anniversary in its cultural life with exhibits showing How the Parthenon Temple was destroyed 300 years ago by a missile fired during a Vene Tian led siege of the acropolis. The displays at an american funded Library and at a newly opened greek museum beneath the acropolis Hill recalled just what happened on the night of sept 26-27, 1687, when a turkish Gunpowder store in the Temple exploded blasting huge lumps of Marble into the sky. That explosion destroyed the most Beautiful Monu ment of ancient Creek Art the Parthenon was the perfect classical Temple said professor William Cool son director of the american school of classical stud ies in Athens. Fit had t happened it s very probable the Temple would have survived until our Day he added. At the Gennadios Library attached to the american school colourful engravings and rare books illustrate the disastrous explosion. The opening of the Makriyiannis museum in a renovated 19th-Century Hospital was limed to coincide with the anniversary. A roomful of detailed drawings shows the Impact of the blast. We were quite determined to open on this anniversary since the museum will also be a research Center for the Parthenon and other acropolis temples said Evi Touloupas director of the acropolis site the Parthenon built in the mid eth Century b.c., was decorated with Superb sculptures designed by Phi Dias and dedicated to Athena Patron goddess of Athens. It later served As a medieval Church until the turks occupied Athens in the 1460s. They built a mosque inside the Temple and in 17lh Cep Lury engravings displayed in the exhibits a Swirn minaret can be seen rising unexpectedly from in Classi Cal columns. A turkish Garrison manned the acropolis when venetian in. Francesco Marasini arrived with 10,000-Slrong mercenary army to Crown h a Conquest of Southern Greece by recapturing the ancient City. We be recorded Al least 700 hits on what s left of the Parthenon s West facade which gives you some Indica Tion of the intensity of the bombardment said Corne Lia Hadji Aslani an architect working on the acropolis restoration team. Under a full Moon a Fluke mortar shot crashed through a Gable window in the Temple with enough Force to ignite the Gunpowder inside. The explosion Tore the Temple apart and killed More than 300 turks. Fire raged for two Days on the Hilltop and Athens was evacuated it s hard to believe the besiegers did t know the Gunpowder was stored there. They had 10 be aiming at the Parthenon said Hadji Aslani who recently re searched the bombardment for an anniversary lecture. The turks quickly surrendered but Morosini and his quarrelling mercenaries decided to pull out of Athens two months later. But first Venice ordered the general to remove same of the Parthenon sculptures and ship them Home As Booty. His tackle collapsed and a huge chunk of sculpture from the West pediment of the Parthenon Tell to the ground and was smashed to pieces. Morosini s wrecking of the Parthenon left it a use less ruin. Thai waa the Basic cause of ail the later Plush Dering of ancient Art from the acropolis Hadji Aslain said. Press cools off party plans in Arctic Stockholm Sweden  
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