European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes monday. February 22,1988page 2b of Florence closes City Center to most traffic Florence Italy up City officials closed the historic Center of Florence to traffic saturday to fight dangerously High noise and air pollution Levels an protect its priceless heritage of Renaissance Art and  Florence breaths banned most Auto Mobile and bus traffic from an area of almost 692acres that once was enclosed within town Walls. 11 is the largest pedestrian tone in Italy officials  busts taxis and two wheeled vehicles were exempt and each household within the so called Blu zone where 150.000 of the City s 600,000 residents live will be issued a permit 1o drive directly to work or school and  methane fuelled minibuses wiil shuttle tourists to and from the City  Cioni he City councilman in charge of traffic Laid the ban is permanent but the cily to pre pared to make adjustments in its enforcement if Nec fall goes Ai it should he said in March the ban will be  is in a bowl surrounded by tie tuscan Hills Renaissance monuments. The noise level has at limes reached v decibels 24decibels above what a. Considered tolerable officials said. Officials told a Newt conference that one automobiles registered for every 2.04 residents of Florence and there Are 2.7 automobiles for each  addition thousands of workers from surrounding areas drive to work in Florence every Day and 4,200tourist buses arrive every month Tram March through , parked or in motion cover 741 acre of the 2,471 acres of Florence Styli and  up end to end they would Tretch for 74 Miles the officials said. Rain loosened Boulder smashes into Rio Hospital Rio de Janeiro Brasil up torrential Rimini loom cd a giant Boulder atop a Hil Liidi Law Deal through a Hospital and up Licals and medical staff member were buried in the rubble and feared dead officials said saturday. Unofficial reports said Rio s citywide death loll in two Days of heavy Rains and flooding could reach Iso flooding in Rio de Janeiro state ear Lier this month killed More than p c of the Hospital Wash i if Trimay night during  that underline disc Illel jul Der High on the Hills Ilc and sent it crashing through part of the build ing. One Wing of the Hospital was Demol defense and fire department Rev. Or hours from Liing he cent unblocked Fay landslides on the eventually they were Al Force  . Hwat Cresa District is built aver a Hillside close to the Center of rip de Janeiro. It contains Many old Coloni Al Era buildings and is a Bohemian and artistic  the first bodies recovered were those of four children killed in the Rio Complido District when their slum houses collapsed. At least 14 be Formiga  a i 10tons of sliding Jned All of its volunteers uncivil defense officials  amphibious vehicles to reach Accident Sites in the Fiat Northern areas of the City. The Rains Friday hailed traffic on Rio s major freeway for seven hours. Police deployed three army companies to prevent the tooting of stores and Homes and the mugging outranked to  of downtown and sub Rio a City of 7 million people driven Waich cd helplessly As their can floated along streets and smashed into lampposts. Some Drivers lied their cars to tree and posts. " Ding came Only Day after  which brought hundr3otmmmmn f tourists into the  said the latest Down pour was caused by a cold front and was Likely to continue through the weekend. Shy to not expecting breakthroughs in Moscow Helsinki. Fis shr  of stale arms and each Side blames the other. J "ljmisf?., of George Sulu. On the final the strategic arms talks said saturday that cup Kcf any breakthroughs in his Moscow talks Shultz who was scheduled to Fly to Moscow Earl sunday for two Days of talks with soviet Leader Mik Hail Gorbachev and foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze conferred with his staff in Helso Elj f a and met with finnish president a Bric Courtesy Visil at in a news  said there is a sense on both iha4prnraamerican sides that there has been in the Geneva talks on reducing strategic Arm each Side blames the other. Said what i m going 1o try to do. Is to try to Jim Myja is of completing an i strategic i the Rinrin " tit pruno rules for Molt agreement is not being violated by the other Side. The intermediate nuclear forces treaty now before the Senate has the most elaborate verification proce dures in arms control history involving at least six layers of inspection and spot checks. Israel from Page 1 a cd because of the tear Gas and an israeli captains arched the building for rioters but found none the doctor said. Salni said Ataya was shot in the forehead at  he said a second demonstrator was treated for a slight wound in the wrist and released. An army spokesman said a Border no " jeep ran into a Roadblock of rocks in a Ramallal Alley and officers were pulled by stones building blocks and empty bottles thrown from roofs by local residents. The policemen tried to extricate themselves by fir ing tear Gas and rubber bullets the spokesman said speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with army regulations. According to the army version a Border policeman cocked his Rifle was hit by a Rock and the gun  killing Ataya. Elsewhere the military spokesman reported a Clashin ban Nairn a Village cast of Hebron 20 Miles South of Jerusalem. He said three demonstrator were wounded by gunfire after dozens of protesters attacked an army patrol. The Palestine press service reported to people wounded in Bani Nairn. Some were taken to Alia hos Pital in Hebron and others to East Jerusalem s my Kassed Hospital the Agency said. In Jerusalem a police spokesman said a firebomb was thrown at a restaurant frequented by jews. There was no damage. In the West Bank Village of tubas protesters set up roadblocks and hurled stones at soldiers. The troops responded with gunfire wounding right Pic army said. Inside Israel four soccer players were injured when israeli arabs from Taibe Village stoned their bus at an intersection near Tel Aviv police said. They re stirring Hrisi alien philosophy said. So there Are quite Ait bears  have to recognize that i Iii relationship is going to be compe Lilic and adversarial so we have to ask of do we manage a relationship like Shutlz is  ii Day to spend one Day in the United Slaw in  Middle East to try .10 mediate a sctt Lemert leading to limited self Rule Lor the palestinians and a partial is cacti withdrawal from the occupied territories. Flagship from Page 1 cargo boats and tankers in the Strait of Hormuz Friday and saturday. They were allowed to proceed after they were found not to be carrying cargo bound for Iraq the communique said. The Coronado which arrived in the Gulf four Day Sago and the la Salle were moored near each other at a Jelly in Manama s Harbor As transferring of supplies and equipment continued throughout saturday. When the Job is completed probably Early this week naval sources said the 16,912-ton Coronado will officially become the floating headquarter for the . Navy in the Region. Rear adm. Anthony a. Less is scheduled to replace rear adm. Harold j. By men As Middle East Force commander in ceremonies aboard the Coronado on feb. 27. Arrests from page1 in medias. Seven Miles non Casl pc know them All by name now said. Arnal militiamen and . Peacekeeping trons have scaled off a 300-Square mile area around Tyre searching through Cav 4irewn valleys and Olive and Citrus Groves. Higgins 43, Heads a 76-Man . Observer team that monitors violations of a 1549 Armi Between Lebanon the group Ciiab Stried to the 5.800.mcm-Ber . Firm Force in Lebanon or unif1l, deployed in 1978 after an Israel incursion into South Lebanon. The pro iranian organization of the oppressed on each on Friday claimed responsibility for Wiggins abduction accusing him of being a Cia spy. American and 1. Officials denied the charge. A tampon said Higgins of Danville ky.,  aids to for mar Secretary  Wein Berger but that his abduction major Security risk to the unil the first  thekidnappiiuuam0nilruay in a Call from a  for a previously in group the islamic revolutionary  sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Many of the 40 me detained have links to the iranian backed Hezbollah or part of god an umbrella organization . Hezbollah s voice of islam radio station based in Baalbek in East Lebanon claimed saturday that 150 Hezbollah member were rounded up in House raids in the Tyre  said Higgins abduction was carefully thought Oul staged. Ibi off Long the detainees were assigned to Monitor Higgins move hey have confessed thai they knew foti7il3fphbmethal he was com ing 10 Tyre on cd Neap Higgins was driving from Fil headquarter in the Border Lown of Zoura wheel gunmen blocked the Highway with their car and seized him. The kidnappers ran into a Chain of snags after the abduction. Their first car Abrown Volvo got stuck in the mud. They made a Bulldozer Driver push them out but the eth aus was broken and they had to move Higgins to a White Peugeot Daoud  second car collided with Higgins to a re Mercedes and fled to their unknown hide out Daoud added. These snug Cost the kidnappers about1 y hours during which we managed to Seal offal aits from the Tyre Region Southof in Lilani River Daoud said. I am 60 a Enxel certain that Hranj Isth of the Liloni la it very of Fichtl us juggle him Oul on Foo through in Tab  we re keeping his in r