European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes thursday january 21.19bb Veteran Diplomat Rowell named envoy to Portugal Washington a president Reagan filled a Posl that had been vacant for More than a year by appointing Edward Morgan Rowell ambassador to Portugal the while House announced tuesday. Rowell who was named Deputy chief of Mission in Lisbon in 1978. Has been the ambassador 10 Bolivia since i�r5. He will fill the Post left vacant when Frank Shakespeare was appointed the . Envoy to the vat ican in the autumn of 1986. Reagan named Rowell 10 the Posl by a recess appointment which Means Rowell con serve until the adjournment of the next session of Congress without action by the Senate. Since 1956, Kowell has served in a Varilly of slate department posts in Brazil Argentina and Honduras. While in Washington he has worked As a foreign service inspector and in the department s office of iberian affairs and also headed the office of West european 1983 to 1985, Rowell was a Deputy assistant Secretary for consular affairs. The absence of a . Ambassador in Lisbon Lor to lengthy period had miffed the portuguese who consid ered the administration s inability to nil the Post a Lap in the face to a Loyal ally. The delay came about after the administration failed in in attempt to place Richard Noyce Viets in the Post when his nomination ran into opposition in the Senate. Just before Christmas Viels nomination was returned to the president without Senate approval. Leading figure in India s fight to drive out British Dies at 98 Islamabad Pakistan a Ali us Ghaffar Khan. Admired in Injia for fighting to drive the British from the Indian subcontinent but reviled in his Homeland because he opposed the measures involved in creating its Independence died wednesday. He was 98. Graf lbs Khan died at 6 35 . Local time in the Brit ish hum lady Reading Hospital it Peshawar 100 Miles Northwest of Islamabad doctors at the Hospital said. He suffered a stroke last july and spent his last Days slipping in and Oul of consciousness a Hospital administrator said. Ghaffar Khan a moslem joined Mahatma Gandhi Ami Jawaharlal Nehru in leading India to Freedom from British colonial Rule. Known As the Frontier he opposed the 1947 partition of he subcontinent into predominantly moslem 1 Kislan and predominantly hindu India. Hii nickname referred to his close association with Mohandas k. Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian apostle of non violence and the fact thai git alter Khan came from Peshawar in Pakistan s North West Frontier province. A member of he Pathan Warrior tribe living on what is now the afghan pakistani Border. Chaffer Khan founded a group called the helpers of god 10 seek Independence from Britain. He preached nationalism non violence and social Reform to the thousands of pathans on the Frontier. Re Riith colonial rulers jailed him for advocating free Dom for the pathans. Chi after Khan Ofin used Gandhi style civil disobedience against the British. He walked thousands of Miles All Over the subcontinent beseeching people to join the Politi Cal struggle for Freedom in 1930s and 1940s. But he chose to live in Pakistan where he spent 15 years in prison for nol cooperating with the government. Abdul Chaffer Khan anal snore drug effective inventor says Belgrade Yugoslavia a a chemist says he has invented an anti snoring medication that works More than half the Lime. N the drug patented under the name of Boc sleep is based on 12 natural components that have no Side effects the Zagreb chemist Franjo Kajfez quoted As telling the a Jeusnik newspaper. I have been told that people who planned a divorce shelved their separation plans after using Boc sleep Kaif i told Ihu associated press in a Telephone inter View from Zagreb. Kaif i was quoted by a Jeusnik As saying thai the drug is based on the presumption Hal a healthy person snores mostly because the mucous membrane in inc nose becomes dry As the result of breathing through the he told a thai Boc sleep was had components found in other widely used medication but he would not disclose the ingredients. Kaif said he tested the drug on 1.000 Snoren and si8 stopped snoring a Jeusnik reported. In is to be marketed in Yugoslavia in april. About 200 people who did not respond to his treat men had colds bronchitis and other Throat related illnesses Kajfez Lold a do you snore he was asked. Who does to Kajacz replied. Face lift work starts in pyramids area Giza plateau Egypt a bulldozers and dump trucks creaked and rumbled through the pyramids area tuesday the first Day of a planned yearlong face lift for one of the world s great tourist Alurac Lions. Officials Sam president Hosni Mubarak ordered inc come rehabilitation and landscaping Hal will reshape the plateau that has beckoned foreign sight seers for More than 2,000 years. Or. Ahmed Kadry head of he egyptian antiquities organization Lold a news conference the sweeping changes Are necessary 10 provide tourism facilities these changes could bring about a More devel oped controlled civilized and studied system on the plateau Kadry said. The project ii expected to Cost 3.9 million egyptian pounds j1.8 million financed by the egyptian Jov eminent. Iranians on Stopover flight in Ireland request Asylum Lubun. Ireland up twelve iranian ten a Havana bound soviet Airliner during i re fueling hop at Shannon Airport tuesday nip and asked for political Ai Lurn in Ireland authentic Laid wednesday the group which included three cd Hdrica were passengers on an Aeroflot flight from hot Row to Havana and approached immigration of Ricioli during a refuelling top at Shannon far port on Ireland s wot government spokesman in Dublin Laid the situation was being reviewed la Tec if the Irani ant qualified for refugee Latus. The group a under the care of the red Cross. Protesters fire rockets at Tokyo s new Airport Tokyo Dpi five Roe Keli were fired at Tokyo s new International Airport apparently by Radical opposed to the facility but there was no damage police reported tuesday in the attack polio la Dooe rocket flew Over the runway and landed in a nearby parking lot while investigators were marching Fourour Othra. The official said the attack was believed to lie the work of extreme left Isle who have vowed to Force the shutdown of the Airport in Nanta about 40 Miles East of Tokyo. Experts vow to save extinct wild cattle nearly Bangkok Thailand a Eperu from eight nations met recently in Vietnam and vowed to capture and save inc Kou Prcy a species of wild cattle believed to be one of the world j rarest animals said a United states scientist. Or. George b. Schiller on tuesday said delegates to a workshop scheduled Jan. 15 to 26 Inganni Hitt Noh that of uie Konorev lies and a Mailer of the gravest urgency the Kuprey a Large homed animal discovered in 1937, is believed to exist in Small numbers in areas of Vietnam Cambodia and Laos. Hunting warfare and loss of habitat have brought in to the Brink of extinction scientists say. Baby born with 2 Heads Dies in s. African Hospital Cape town South Africa up a two headed baby girl born in South Africa on sat inlay has died in the intensive care unit of a care town Hospital officials said tuesday. The baby bom by caesarean Section in Paar. About 30 Miles Northeast of Cape town was being examined at Cape town s Tigerberg hos Pital to assess the possibility of removing one the baby s Mother 21-year-old Johanna to own was stir in the to spill in Paar tues Day. Passenger train hits tank in East Germany killing 6 Berlin a an East German passenger rain slammed into a soviet Lank near Potsdam killing is people and injuring 35 other the state run news Agency adn reported wednes Dayan said nine people suffered serious injuries in the crash which occurred late tuesday the collision destroyed the locomotive and derailed nine Coache. The news Agency Laid. Among the dead was the engine Dover Accord ing to the report adn did not say what happened to Crew members of the Soviel Lank or give details about the armoured vehicle. The tank was crossing the tracks when the collision occurred adn said. Immediately after the crash Aro balances and firemen raced 10 the scene with sirens Blanny to Rescue people from the wreckage. Adn Sal workers at the scene included soviet and East German soldiers police firemen and railway and civil defense employees the report said. The train was travelling Between Leipzig and East Berlin when it rammed the Lank at about s50 p.m., the news Agency nid
