European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes flooded out a a sudanese woman moves her possessions from a flooded Village in North Khartoum to an islamic red Crescent tent Camp set up for families who lost their Homes in the recent storms. The North Section of Khartoum Sudan was one of the hard est hit areas of the City. Saturday August 20,1988 Burma gets first civilian Leader in 26 years Bangkok Thailand a Burma s attorney general Maung Maung Friday was named chairman of Burma s ruling party and president state run radio reported. The american educated lawyer is the coun try s first civilian Leader in 26 years. Student leaders rejected the Choice and called for a nationwide strike to press for an end to one party Rule a Western Diplomat in Rangoon said. Burma s official radio Rangoon said that Maung Maung 63, was selected during emergency meetings of the Central committee of the Burma socialist pro Gram party and of the people s Assembly Burma s parliament. The radio was monitored in Bangkok. Students have called for a nationwide strike on monday the Western Diplomat said by Telephone from Rangoon the capital. They re agitating for abolition of one party Rule. The More militant student leaders Are  he said students called for the strike in leaflets circulated during a peaceful rally in front of Rangoon general Hospital. Japan s Kyodo news service reporting from Rangoon said 15,000 people took part in the rally. Maung Maung is one of Only two civilians in the top ranks of the government Hierarchy. His selection was a Surprise. Most Burma watchers had predicted the new party Boss would be chosen from among the clique of Active and retired top Mili tary officers who supported former Leader be win s system of rigid socialist economics strict military control and International isolation. Maung Maung is considered a relative moderate. It was thought he was More acceptable than other figures to the burmese who took to the streets in Waves in the past two weeks to topple hard line president Sein Lwin and press demands for an end to a Quarter Century of military dominated authoritarian Rule. Sein Lwin was both party chairman and president for 17 Days until his resignation aug. 12, following five Days of bloody Battles Between Security forces and anti govern ment demonstrators. At least 95 people were killed. A Western Diplomat in Rangoon said the capital was Calm but that military forces were deployed around the Pyi thu flu thaw the parliament building in Northwestern Rangoon. Poce assailed in crime spree Bonn West Germany a West German Media said Friday that if police had moved sooner they might have prevented the deaths of three people killed in a 54-hour hostage drama by a pair of Bank robbers and an accomplice. The two gunmen and a woman left a Trail of terror across West Germany and the Netherlands before police captured them thursday in a shoot out near Bonn. Authorities said they were "99 percent certain that a Bullet fired by a Bandit was the one that killed an 18 year old captive during the shoot out. Did they have to die should t the police have moved in much earlier the mass circulation Bild newspaper asked in a front Page editorial. One gunman Hans Jurgen Rosner 31, was shot in the thigh said Reinhard Schmidt Kintzel a sp9kes Man for the nor Rhein westfalen Interior ministry. The other gunman Dieter Degowski 32, and Marion Irma Oblich the accomplice were not injured. Police delivered two getaway vehicles and hundreds of thousands of dollars in efforts to persuade the group to free their hostages and surrender. The shooting sprees and car chases left at least five people injured. A random Telephone poll by the respected Wickert Institute in tub Ingen said 93 percent of the respondents could not understand Why police did not act sooner to end the situation. Journalists were criticized for on the scene inter views with bandits giving the gunmen a nationwide Public forum. An 18-year-old woman Silke Bischof died in the shoot out that ended the ordeal. The other hostage in the getaway car also a woman was injured. Earlier a 15-year-old italian boy held hostage and a police officer died in the bizarre drama that started with a Bank robbery tuesday in glad Eck 50 Miles North of Cologne. The gunmen escaped with two Bank employees and $227,000 in a car provided by authorities. World today budget cuts Force recall of 23 ugandan attaches Kampala Uganda a the government is recalling All but four commercial attaches in its 23 diplomatic missions for Lack of funds the ministry of foreign affairs said  of missions have been instructed to recruit account clerks locally said Ernest Rosita the ministry s permanent Secretary. The change will Cut costs by eliminating the travel housing education and med ical expenses for the attaches and their families. He said commercial attaches will remain in new York London Rome and Nairobi Kenya because those missions generate enough Revenue to cover the costs. Low Oil prices to continue in 1990s, study predicts Geneva a Oil prices Are expected to remain at their present Low Levels through the Early 1990s, according to a study published Friday by analysts of business inter National a Geneva based consulting firm. By then the organization of Petroleum exporting countries and within open the Middle East producers Are forecast to increase their share of the world Oil markets again after losing ground to non open Mem Bers since the Early 1980s, the study said. Open s Overall output would increase to 21.4 million barrels a Day in 1992, the study said up from an Esti mated 18.4 million this year. The current self imposed ceiling on the output of 12 of the open members is 15.06 million barrels a Day. Iraq the 13th member has refused to join in the quota sharing program since 1986. Thai fishermen released Vietnam charges poaching Bangkok Thailand a Vietnam will Send Home 257 thai fishermen allegedly caught poaching in its territorial Waters radio Hanoi said wednesday. The Domestic broadcast monitored by a Western embassy in Bangkok said the fishermen would be freed from Kien Giang and Minh Hai provinces on the Southern most tip of Vietnam facing the Gulf of Thailand. Securing the release of fishermen in communist Vietnam has been difficult because of the strained relations Between the two countries. Thailand backs guerrillas fighting the decade Long vietnamese military occupation of Cambodia. A thai foreign ministry official who requested anonymity said vietnamese authorities repatriated 10 thai fishermen on aug. 12, after the thai government paid $5,000 in fines. The fishermen were captured oct. 17, following a shoot out in which two thais were killed. Japan asks soviet Union to scale Down exercise Tokyo a the government asked the soviet Union to scale Down a planned military exercise in the sea of Japan beginning Friday foreign ministry officials said thursday. The request presented to the soviet government by the japanese embassy in Moscow on wednesday included shortening the duration and reducing the size of the soviet exercise officials said. The soviet Union earlier announced it would con duct the artillery exercise in the sea of Japan West of hokkaido Japan s northernmost Island starting Fri Day and lasting until aug. 30. Japan expressed fears the exercise could Hurt Fisher men operating near the exercise area. Beached shark has lips like Rudolph s nose Sydney Australia a a shark called a Meg month with lips that glow in the dark washed ashore off the coast of Western Australia and is Only the third such specimen to be found scientists said  this Day and age it is quite a remarkable find said or. Gerald Allen of the fish department of the Western Australia museum. Something like this does t happen every Day the fish which measured 13 feet in length an looks like a Cross Between a whale and a shark swam ashore on wednesday near the resort town of Man Duran. Resident pushed it Back to sea but it beached itself again and died. Allen said the Meg Mouth was first discovered in 1976 off Hawaii. A second spec Imen was caught in 1984 off the coast of Southern  s the first time a Meg Mouth has been found in the Southern hemisphere Allen said in a Telephone interview with the associated press. Allen said the fish lives at Depths of 660 feet to3,300 feet and has Bio Luminescent lips that glow in the dark to attract food like jellyfish Plankton an shrimp. We Don t know very much about it other than that it swims at great Depths apparently with its Mouth open filtering food said Allen. He said Megam Outhas a bulbous Bead with a Mouth measuring vhf feet across and tiny  s definitely a shark and it is not prehistoric Allen said. It is very exciting to find the third eve specimen. Yon Don t find new species or families of animals in this Day and  two previous specimens were slightly smaller. All have been male and Allen said it would be useful to have a female so we can find out about their reproduce tory  also noted that the Meg Mouth weighing about 1,500 pounds is very flabby to  s sort of like Jelly he said. That is because it does t need Strong Muscles or a hard Skeleton for the sort of environment in which it  he said the museum planned to display the Mega Mouth but would freeze the creature until advice could be obtained from South african fish expert or. Leon Ard Compagno at Rhodes University in Granam town. We need to get some sound advice on How to pre serve it Allen added