European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday August 10,1988 world today dec approves Aid funds for Sudan flood victims Brussels Belgium a the european economic Community commission tuesday said it has approved 650,000 european currency units $712,000 in emergency Aid for flood Vic Tims in Sudan. The dec Aid will provide tents blankets another emergency equipment for people made homeless by the worst floods in 42 years in the african nation. It will further allow doctors to Fly to the stricken Region and help the estimated 1.5 million people affected by the disaster. The capital Khartoum had been almost paralysed by Power and water Supply cutoffs for several Days following torrential Rains last week. Students ouster demand brings Campus shutdown Cape town South Africa a Al classes at the University of the Western Cape have been suspended this week following confrontations linked to student demands for the ouster of a Law lecturer a school official said. The step was announced sunday night by Jakes Gerwel chief administrator of the pre dominantly mixed race University after meetings with senior administrators and faculty. Last week a group of students barged into the office of the Law school Dean to demand the ouster of a Junior lecturer who purportedly was considered unhelpful to first year Stu dents. Subsequently students at a meeting voted to launch a Campus wide class Boycott and there were reports that some students disregarding the Boycott Call were assaulted. Gerwel said classes were being suspended this week to give the University time to  chinese scientists search for legendary monster Beijing up chinese scientists Are Fly ing hovercraft Over a Remote Lake in Northwestern China in the latest Effort to solve the mys Tery of a horse eating water creature known As China s Loch Ness monster a news report said tuesday. For years Domestic animals have mysteriously disappeared in the Lake the official Xin Hua news Agency said. Locals believe there May be monsters in the  the Survey team from the Nanjing geography department and the Heilongjiang aquatic products Institute Are using hovercraft boats an fishing nets in the Hope of catching something in Remote Lake Karnack in China s far West Xin Jiang autonomous Region it said. Numerous local legends Are associated wit the monsters of Lake Karnack which is about 3,900 feet above sea level and is nearly 300 feet deep. Up photo gondolier Luciano Tagliapietra posed for the picture with another gondolier and his Girlfriend As passengers. Photo of Venice tourists wearing surgical masks revealed As fake Venice Italy up a press photograph of a gondolier and his passengers wearing surgical masks to protect them from a summer stench that afflicted the Venice Lagoon was a fake press reports said tuesday. The picture was published in most italian newspapers july 30 and later appeared in newspapers All Over the world. It dramatized a situation in which rotting algae caused by Industrial pollution spread a stench of Rotten eggs through the City at the height of the tourist season. Tourist officials complained that the wide Publica Tion of the photograph caused scores of tourist groups to cancel Advance bookings for Gondola Tours of the Venice Lagoon and canals. But the company that runs the Venice gondolas said gondolier Luciano Tagliapietra confessed that deposed for the picture with another gondolier and his Girlfriend As passengers As a favor to a venetian press photographer. I did it in Good Faith just As a favor to a Friend press reports quoted Tagliapietra As saying. Now the Gondola company has told me my action will be taken up by the disciplinary committee and probably i will be suspended for 10 Days no joke at the height of the tourist  that photograph has caused us a lot of problems said Roberto car rain president of the Venice tourist Board. There were a great Many cancellations of and Vance bookings. The Gondola is a Symbol of our  a fierce Bora North wind that swept through Ven ice last week coupled with intensive dredging operations to remove the rotting algae has cleansed the City of its offensive smells. But now Venice is enduring another plague thou Sands of gnats Are swarming through the City after Sunset. Venice ferryboat have installed special devices to attract and kill the swarming insects. On several Unin habited Lagoon islands White sheets have been spread out under floodlights to attract the gnats and helicopters Are then spraying them with insecticide. Fortunately for the tourist officials swarms of gnats Are hard to photograph. Israeli troops kill palestinian 14 Jerusalem a israeli troops shot and killed 14-year-old palestinian and wounded eight other arabs tuesday Hospital officials said. Israeli War planes destroyed a radio station in Lebanon that Alleg edly broadcast orders to the occupied territories. The latest fatality brought the palestinian death toll to 238 in the 9-month-old uprising in the occupied territories. Four israelis have been killed. Israel s 12th air raid on Southern Lebanon this Yea destroyed a palestinian liberation organization run radio station near Sidon and an ammunition store House in Southern Lebanon a military spokesman said. Police in Lebanon said three guerrillas were killed and 12 wounded in the attack. Commercial life was at a standstill tuesday in Ara beast Jerusalem and at least eight cities in the occupied lands in Observance of a general strike called by pro Plo underground leaders. Hussein Swei 14, was fatally shot in the head during West Bank clash tuesday Between soldiers and Doz ens of Arab youths hurling stones according to spokesman at a . Clinic in a Alilya. Thousands Mark anniversary of Nagasaki Tokyo a thousands of people gathered tuesday to observe the 43rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and its mayor urged the government to clarify whether . Ships Are bringing nuclear weapons into Japan. At 11 02 a.m., the moment the bomb exploded in a burst of blinding Light Church and Temple Bells tolled As Many people stopped on the City s streets and in shopping centers for a minute of silence. Nagasaki became the target of the world s second atomic attack the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima three Days earlier on aug. 9, 1945. Less than a week later Japan surren dered and world War ii was Over. At peace Park near the Point where the bomb exploded about 20,000 people gathered tuesday for an annual service. Under a fiercely hot Sun people poured water Over a memorial Tablet to recall the cries of victims suffering from thirst an Burns. Families presented a list of 2,295names of bomb victims who died during the past Vear bringing to 77,462 the number of people who died after the War As a result of exposure to nuclear Radia Tion. Their names Are inscribed on a vault near the Park s peace  estimate 27,000 to 70,000 people died immediately from the explosion and the accompanying firestorm and radiation. About 70,000 resident still suffer from radiation and other Side effects of the plutonium bomb doctor Sand social workers say. In the bombing of Hiroshima an Esti mated 70,000 to 140,000 people died. About 350,000 people in Japan hold certificates showing they were victims of the atomic bombings in the two cities. Since the War Japan has followed policy of three non nuclear principles no Possession manufacture or introduction into the country of nuclear weapons. Speaking at the ceremony in peace Park mayor Hitoshi Mot Oshima of Nagasaki criticized his government for Al lowing . Ships to Dock in Japan with out verifying whether they carry nuclear weapons. The japanese government should in Dependently Check whether . Ships Are carrying nuclear weapons when they Call on japanese ports and make Clear that it still is observing the three non nuclear principles Mot Oshima said. The bombing of Nagasaki destroyed almost everything within a radius of More than half a mile including 1,326 buildings and Homes. It also demolished 23,500 Homes and buildings outside that radius according to a report by the City. The ancient port City population450,000, has been rebuilt with modern office towers and tree lined avenues re placing the rubble strewn landscape