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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March id. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 chemicals feared in excavation at fort Spandau Citadel of be closed this summer a Tiff r Joe Mason if staff writer West rerun nagging tors of undiscovered world War it chemical weapons will mull in the Par tial closing this summer of Spandau Citadel a popular tourism Slop whose fortress Walls once held a chemical warfare research facility. West Berlin police said they will begin digging june 1 in the largest systematic search fihe for Tress grounds since mate rial stored inside was hastily disposed of in the closing Days of the War. Police officials Are hesitant w say Whit sorts and quantities of Chemi cals May be uncovered at j the site. Judging by sub stance traces identified locate police say they arc preparing to unearth a variety of toxics including phosgene lewisite Hydrogen in acid and nerve Gas. Phosgene Isa severe respiratory irritant lewisite is a skin irritant and Hydro Cnoc acid works on he blood. Detection devices on hand during two fortress excavations in 1984 uncovered traces of nerve Gas police said. Substances discus cd this summer will be trans ported from the Citadel in the British sector to a facility used for exploding uncovered world War ii explosives in nine Ward. A forested area in the . Sector. The material will  there until arrangements can be made 10 transport it to West Germany for destruction police said. A specially trained contingent of 400 police will work at inc site and officials say Llie project could last several years at an an Nual Cost of nearly $600,000. The site is visited by an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 people each year and is surrounded by in heart of the spa dim District with More than 200.000 inhabitants. Sigurd Hauff a Spandau District official who oversees the Citadel noted. About so Para no of the Citadel will be closed during the search i Buff said. Police officials said the number of visitors during the work week will be limited to so people during Normal working hours. Outside of those limn. 250 people will be allowed into the Public areas. The Gas Laboratory was set up by the German army in the mid-1930s to develop defences against a variety of chemical weapons. It was experimental Hauff said. Nobody except military personnel and chemical experts came in Herc and they tried out tilings for example with horses. To turn off begins at military Homes in Karlsruhe area Karlsruhe. West Germany is there s nothing on television in Many Karlsruhe military Community Homes tonight except dust. For th1.1 third year Karlsruhe elementary school students Are participating in a to turn off an agreement to shun television in favor of books every weekday until March 25. The project began monday. School Media specialist Charles Lellouche who organised the video dry spell with principal Lorraine Shanoski said the school sent each of its to students Home with a Standard form parents should sign if their children succeed in avoiding Iele Vibron. Also students in the lower three grades receive a paper footprint for each three hours the read As do those in the upper three grades for four hours of Reading. Lellouche said the Stu dents stick the fool prints to the school floor slowly mating a Trail o the Library. The first two to turn off projects featured Public readings at the school but Lellouche said that idea was  year we decided we d push for a Home Reading program he said. We. Ask parents and students to turn off the to and concentrate on Reading or wish Stcyr Sis Pototo by k on 0 to Ihori ties were notified As required by the United  Rinaldo said a second set of military exercises involving the Florida and puerto Rico National guards were scheduled to begin March 12 and continue until april 12. Bui he said these activities too were authorized and legitimate. Tuesday afternoon panamanian riot policy mar took to the streets of the capital to prevent a scheduled demonstration by opponents of Noriega. As a crowd o about 200 people gathered at a Church in the Mancia District the to turned water cannons on the beating some with rubber truncheons and firing shot guns Wajih Bir Shoi at others. As the protester bystanders and others fled Down Side streets they were pursued by the policemen who fired canister of tear Gas. At the foreign minister s news conference. De Metrio Fabrega an adviser to Abadia. Said a Pana Manian government investigation had also deter mined that millions of dollars in canal revenues Are being used for unauthorized purposes by the United states. But he produced no proof to support his accusations  
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