European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes ,may31,19ba the syrian fre lighter Zanoma Untim at Genni sunday wild its Carfo of Loxly be in be incinerated. Ship of poison1 gets approval to unload deadly cargo in Italy Genoa Italy a for 15 months the freighter known As the ship of Poison roamed inc seas trying to find a port thai would dispose of its 2.200 tons of italian produced tonic chemical wastes. Djibouti Venezuela Syria and Greece were tried and refused. Now the syrian freighter Zanobia has come full Circle. Ii docked sunday after officials in Genoa agreed to accept and incinerate the toxic cargo. The condition of my Crew is very bad Cape. Ahmed Trabajo said after the ship Doc Ltd. For three months we have not entered a port. Now we arc All nauseated and sick to the  lawyers for the ship s owner Tambalo shipping say two people have died possibly after suffering contamination by the wastes. One was a boy in Venezuela and inc other a Zanobia crewman. Port official Gigue pc Telmon said officials would begin a chemical analysis monday to determine what is in the approximately 11,000 Drums of waste and How to Deal with ii. Workers meanwhile were to begin unloading he ship. The freighter which the italian press is calling the ship of Poison arrived in inc Genoa port seven hours after leaving the Northern italian port of Carrara. It had been moored outside that port since april 26. Seeking permission to unload the cargo Orgl Nally ship Ped from Carrara in february 1987. Officials said the Zanobia docked in an isolated area of Genoa s port and will be monitored Day and night As a precaution against fire or the spread of toxic fumes. Giuseppe Francesc. The. Port commissioner in Genoa decided Friday that inc Zanobia could unload in Genoa. He said Genoa is inc Only italian port Llinat can safely unload and incinerate the chemicals. The regional ministry of civil Protection gave its final approval saturday. All 18 members of inc ship s Crew made the voyage sunday including three who Lead been Hospital Rcd saturday near Carrara with symptoms blamed on exposure to the wastes. Two other crewmen were released from the Hospital this month. A doctor from the port s health Sun ice went aboard the Zanobia on sunday afternoon to examine the Crew. Francesco ranuio a lawyer for Tambalo shipping said a group of italian chemical companies paid the Milan based company Jelly Wax about 36 cells a Pound to dispose of the waste. He said the company instead shipped the waste out of the country. The waste was sent first to Djibouti in East Africa and then to acne Urcla Syria and Greece before re turn ing to Italy the cargo was unloaded in Venezuela bul a Young boy died reportedly after playing near an open drum and inc government ordered the waste shipped out of the country a lawyer for the Zanobia s owners said. It was sent to Syria and then on to Greece. After being refused in both places i Reship sailed o Carrara. A Zanobia crewman died during the trip from Greece to Carrara and lawyers for Tambalo shipping have asked italian prosecutors to tile charges against Jelly was if the death resulted from contamination. Franecs the Genoa porn commissioner said the wastes will be burned Ai a local incinerator. Port sources said that will Cost 72 cents to 11.86 a bound. Pakistan s Leader Colls elections invites opposition to participate Islamabad Pakistan ai1 opposition leaders said monday that they thought they might finally be Able to Field candidates in elections ushered in by president Mohammad Ziaul Haq s Surprise dismissal of the government Zia on sunday dissolved the National Assembly fired prime minister Mohammad Khan Junco and dismissed Junco s 33-Mcrnber Cabinet he said they had failed to maintain Law and order and promote an islamic society. The president did not elaborate on his reasons for disbanding the government an action he announced just minutes alter Juricko returned from a tour of China South Korea and the Philippines. In the 1984 elections political parties were not Al Lowed to Field candidates and opposition names boycotted inc voting but Zia an army general said sunday that new elections will be held within 90 Days and political parties will be allowed to propose their own candidates for Assembly scats. The pledge indicated that for the first time since Zia seized Power in a bloodless 1977 coup opposition panics will be allowed to participate. The 64-year-old president was to address the nation later monday to announce a caretaker government. He said sunday that the Senate the upper House of parliament would remain intact. Binazir Bhutto Leader of the opposition Pakistan people party was quoted monday in the English Lan Guage newspaper the Muslim As saying the welcomes Zia s move but still has doubts. We will Wail until the rules of inc game arc spelled Oul she was quoted As saying. Her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a prime min ister toppled by Zia and hanged in 1979 on a murder conspiracy conviction. Ethnic riots in Southern sind province and the port City of Karachi have killed hundreds of people Over the past two years after Zia lifted martial Law in i9b5 and handed limited Power Over to Junco s Muslim league government the first civilian Cabinet since 1977. The government dismissal came less than two weeks before the Assembly was to debate a new budget in which Zia was  to request substantial increases in military spending. In an editorial the pro Muslim league newspaper the nation whole monday that the dismissals came its a total Surprise and As an ironic anti Climax to or. Junejo s ardent speeches to foreign audiences about How Well the country was doing and democracy thriving under  other English language newspapers quoted opposition Leaden As being surprised but optimistic. One Western Diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity said he was stunned by the president s moves although he had heard rumours the past few Days of a possible government shake up. Junco. 56, his Cabinet and the National Assembly were scheduled to remain in office until 1990, they were elected in the non party elections boycotted by the opposition in dec 19b4. World today Hong Kong s Peak Tram Marks 100th birthday Hong Kong up the Peak Tram Hong Kong s most popular tourist attraction celebrated its Loolah birthday sunday. Opened in May i bus p carry merchants and government officials from the Central business District to their Homes on Cool and Breezy Victo Ria Peak the Tram Row mainly transports sight seers. Climbing 1.296 feet in Abnusi in minutes the Green Swiss built cars carry about 7,400 people a Day 70 per Ecol of them visitors up Ami Down the Steep incline making it Hong Kong s no. I tourist attraction. During its Century of operation the Tram also has compiled in enviable safely record without a single injury or death recorded Stephen Stone general manager of Peak tramways co. Ltd., snid. Foundation to raise funds for aids research in China Beijing Al j China which has been Al most untouched by aids has set lip a foundation to raise funds for aids Sci March and prevention an official report said saturday. The English language China daily said the aids research foundation of China would be led by Llic president of the chinese Academy of preventive Medicine Chen dimming and will seek to raise funds to prevent Hie fatal disease from spreading among China s More than t Bil lion people. Only three confirmed deaths from aids have Ren reported in China an Are nine tourist a chinese Man who Hod  new York and a 13-year-old Haemophilia a boy who report edly was infected by a blood product imported from the United states. The China daily said a lire other chinese including two children have tested positive for the aids virus but have not developed the Dis ease. Angolan rebels claim 56 died in Convoy ambush Lisbon Portugal a rebels said Sun Day they killed 56 government soldiers and destroyed two Lank in a six hour Battle following an attack on a Supply Convoy nor the Central angolan . The National Union for the total Independence of Angola or Unita said in a statement distributed in Lisbon that ill forces on Friday attacked a Convoy that was carrying supplies to angolan and cuban soldiers in Cumba. Unita claims government forces Are using Cumba in Central Bic province As the base for an offensive aimed at recapturing the rebel held town of Mun Hanco on the strategic bin Gula Railroad. The rebels Saij an army battalion that came to the Aid of the Convoy also fell into a Unita ambush. Unita said eight rebels were killed and is  rebels supported by South Africa and the United states have been fighting since 1975 against the soviet and cuban backed angolan government communists Post gains in san Marino s election san Marino a the communists and the Christian democrats who have governed together in this tiny Republic the past two years both posted gains in general elections according to official returns announced monday. The Christian democrats the latest party in the world s oldest Republic polled 44.1 percent of the vote up 2 percent from the last election in i983j the final returns from the 21,139 ballots cast sunday showed. The communists made bigger gains advancing from 24.3 percent to 28.7 percent election officials reported. Christian Democrat Leader gab ride Gam who is Secretary of stale for foreign affairs said the results signalled voter approval of these rious politics conducted by this government in the Hilltop Republic of 23 Square Miles sur rounded by Italy near the Adriatic