European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 8 world today the stars and stripes Friday january 22,1988 chinese cracking Down on hardened gamblers Beuing a dozens Ofchar Mcnod Gambl ers have been Ancs cd and about 2,000 of their repentant cohorts have confessed to police in cast China s i angst province in Lias been reported. The official Xinhua news Agency a ruled Jinn us s Deputy governor Chen Hua you As telling a news conference thai gambling has be come a serious Public pest we arc going 10 Lay a heavier hand on Gambl ers especially on the professional ones it quoted him As saying european parliament asks turks to bar death penalty Strasbourg France a the euro Pean parliament thursday appealed to the Turk ish authorities to abolish the capital punishment and to commute All death sentences. In a Resolution sponsored by its left Wing members the dec legislature also called for the release of Michel Cara minol a French tourist guide jailed Tor pro kurdish propaganda. The parliament denounced the continuing violation of human rights by turkish military authorities and asked the government of prime minister Turgut Oval to step up  called Tor constitutional changes to abolish the Decalli sentence and for clemency for the 1s4 prisoners awaiting execution. Kill scheduled to reduce Mountain Bear population Prague Czechoslovakia a there Are so Many bears in Slovakia s mountains that 84 must he shot and two captured alive to Stop them pestering tourists and stealing food from local farms the slovak youth daily Smcnea says. The Smcnea report followed word earlier this week that roaming wolves Are becoming such a problem that slovak forestry officials Are considering drop Pine Protection orders on them. There Are about 800wolves in the Woodlands of Northern Slovakia the official news Agency ctr said tuesday. Smcnea. Received in Prague on thursday said that a limited number of bears Are shot each year. They have multiplied 10 such an extent however thai 34 More arc to be shot in 19b8 than the quota of 50 in 1987, it said. Two will be captured alive for zoos. Chinese expert confirms mount Everest is tallest Beijing api the head of China s National Bureau of surveying and mapping said thursday there is no question of mount Ever Cal s place As the tallest Mountain in the world and there is no need to Rem Basurc the height of the Himalayan . Chen Jun Yong told the official Xinhua news Agency that a 1975 Survey of Everest which measured he Mountain no 29,028 feel had a tolerance Range of less than 20 inches. Lie said another Survey would be meaningless until More precise measuring techniques Are de  s status As the world s highest Peak was challenged last March when an american expedition to k.-2 on the sino Pakistan Border said preliminary studies showed k.-2 speak said to be 28.250 feet above sea level was actually 122 feel higher than Everest s. Chernobyl tainted . Farms face extended restrictions London a restrictions placed on hundreds of British farms following the chernobyl nuclear disaster in the soviet Union May have o remain in Force for the next 30 years in parts of Britain a report said thursday the report by the country landowners association which represents Large landowners in Brilain criticized the government for underestimating the effects of the april 1986 nuclear Accident. The explosion and fire at the soviet nuclear reactor killed 3 persons in the soviet Union and sent radioactive rain Clouds sweeping across Europe. Many Upland areas in Britain arc Slit affected by the radioactive fallout and the movement and Slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Shcop Are still restricted. More than 600 farms in Britain Are affected by restrictions because radioactivity in i hair areas exceeds government safety Levels. John Wynne spokesman for the landowners body said two areas of North Wales May be the last citadels of chernobyl fallout with local sheep Stilt giving Radia Tion readings Over 1,000 Becquerel i in 30 years  a face Sucrel is a unit for measuring radiation contamination. The . Department of agriculture Stan Dard is that imported meat should contain no morn than 370 Becquerel a per kilo. He said cerium intake into the ground is Tilting place much More slowly than government Ocie Liju had forecast. The government s Institute of tent trial ecology said in would Lake two years for he cerium to become so bound in the soil it could not be reached by feeding animals. The report said the ministry of agriculture Hai earned a reputation for evasion and incompetence and called for a scientific inquiry to examine the prob lems of chernobyl. It s a prime primate achievement identifying a new species of Lemur Frankfurt f a a Bamboo eating primal seen in a Remote ram Forest in Madagascar in 1986 has been identified As a new species of Lemur researchers say. The Lemur which has been named the Golden Bam boo Lemur was seen by Patricia Wright a primate Jug is from Duke University in Durham . She mistakenly identified it As a greater Bamboo Lemur a species so rare that researchers thought in might have become extinct new studies of the chromosomes of greater Bamboo lemurs and Wright s Lemur have now led a West Ger Man scientist Bernhard Meier to conclude that the Lemur represents a new species. I cannot say that i was the first person to see the Golden Bamboo Lemur but i was the first one to realize it was a different species be hard Meier said wednesday in an interview with the associated press. Professor Holger pre Schaft of the University of bochum said that various experts including Pat Ricia Wright of Duke University had verified the discovery. Wright could not be reached for comment. Her associates said she was meeting with . Officials in new York to discuss conservation efforts in Madagascar lemurs arc furry nocturnal creatures with Large dark eyes. They arc primates As arc humans and apes and they Are found Only in Madagascar an Island nation off he Consi coast of Africa that is about half the site of California Meier said adult Golden Bamboo lemurs Are about 31 /. Inches Long weigh slightly More than 2 i pounds and unlike other lemurs have 62 chromosomes. Meier named the new species for the Golden coloured fur surrounding its dark face. The researcher said the number of Golden Bamboo lemurs on Madagascar is Mill unknown. Alison Jolly of Princeton University in new Jersey a leading authority on lemurs said the Golden Bam boo Lemur certainly has t been seen by any Western  1 5 discovery has prompted researchers to redouble their efforts toward the establishment of a National Park in Madagascar to protect he animals. Jolly said. The really important thing is not just that scientists have added another species like stamp collectors but Benhard meter displays Pantos of the new specie. Thai they have taken on a Long term commitment to the animals survival she said Meier said that it required great patience to identify the Lemur. I stayed in a Mountain Jungle for seven months until the group of four lemurs i was studying got so used to me that they would come to within two Yards he mid from his borne in the Central West German City . They Are very shy creatures. But after i had been with Ihen Long enough. I was Able to take some dear pictures and 1 knew their sleeping and eating  december 1986, he suspected they were members of a new species they made different noises. Their cries were differ ent from others i had heard he said. Bonn finds no evidence of illegal nuke shipments Bonn a the West German government said wednesday it has found no evidence that German Compa Nies illegally shipped weapons Grade nuclear material to Libya or Pakistan. Chief government spokesman Fried Helm Ost told reporters that the Cabine thas investigated reports of alleged sales and has decided thai ail suspicions re mors and insinuations were found to be without foundation up to  Ost said in is Lime to put a final Slop to All unproven speculation to prevent further damage lowest germany1 inter National reputation. The Federal parliament however decided to set up a special committee to investigate the affair. The scandal broke out lost week when environment minister Klaus Topfer said there were suspicions that weapons Grade nuclear material May have been illegally shipped to Libya and Pakistan by two West German companies in Vio lation of a 1968 International nuclear Tion prolific ration treaty. The suspicions were voiced during a probe into illegal transportation and storage in West Germany of nuclear waste from a belgian nuclear research Center. The German firm that was named As being involved is Mol by trans Kulcar a Mph of Hanau. West Germany s largest Hauler of nuclear waste. The West Girt non government with Drew Tran Snulli a i operating License in december and last week shut Down Kero a Mph nuts nuclear l Parent company Over the nuclear waste after. Prosecutors probing the two Compa Nies said they found no evidence thit nuke or trans Kulcar bad diverted enriched uranium to Pakistan or Libya. Nuke a manufacturer of nuclear fuel denied allegations thai the Compa Nies had broken the non proliferation treaty. Ost said investigations by International nuclear watchdog agencies bad Al failed to confirm the suspicions nuke and trans nuclear remain under investigation for alleged irregularities in the hauling and storing of Nudera