European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page b the stars and stripes sunday. September 4,1988 big Blimp to Ballyhoo Beer reminiscent of monstrous airships of earlier Days this huge Blimp we photographed it he Essen Airport Friday before been it shipped from Germany to Japan. Built in West Cerr Roiner it the request of japanese Linn it has dimension hut make it one of the largest n existence. Two Ito Borse Paner engines propel the 800-foot-Long Airship. The Airship which can travel it 60 Mph will be used to advertise Beer in Japan. World today right Winger s crematory joke sets off condemnation in France Paris a French politicians jewish organizations and civil rights groups saturday condemned extreme right Wing Lender Jean Marie be pen for malting play on wards linking a Cabinet minister s name to creator 1 comment made Friday Al a rally of be pen s National front in Cap d age in Southern France set olt a firestorm of criticism from across the political Are things one cannot let 30. There Are words with which one docs not make jokes said Alai Juppe Secretary general of the conservative rally for the Republic . La pen is showing what he is Al heart a racist and an anti semite said Jean Jack que Cyranne spokesman for the Soe insist party the leftist newspaper liberation and the rightist la Figaro used identical front Pajic headlines saturday be pen does it last year be pen Drew Strong criticism for calling the nazi Gas Chambers a detail of world War ii Histo he has denied repeated accusations thai he is anti semitic on Friday be pen ridiculed Michel Dur four min ister for the Public service in the Cabinet of socialist Premier Michel , a centrist who served As a Cabinet min ister in conservative governments in the 1970s, a greed to join Reward s government in part to counter la pen s rising influence on the French right. Be pen won 14 percent of the vote in the first round of the presidential election last april 24. In his speech be pen made several sarcastic references to Dur four culminating by Catling him the French word for oven is four and the crematoriums of nazi death Camps arc called in French la pen carried away by his fantasies did not Hesi Tate to insult on memory of the victims of nazism said Henri Bulaw Fco vice president of the representative Council of jewish organizations of France the anti racism group sos racism issued � statement saturday saying be pen continues to blow on the flames of anti semitism in our i can see he regrets the passing of the Good old Days of la c nazis and wishes he could Sec them come again Dur four said. I have an infinite amount of contempt for or. Be Fen was unrepentant at a news conference sat urday saying of his play on words everyone can judge for himself whether it was in Good taste or not. It s not my be pen claims to have been Active in the French resistance As a teen Ager in his native Brittany Al though some published reports have said no support Coult be found for his assertion. 2 Union Carbide officials charged with negligence Bhopal India a police have filed Nee licence charges against two Union Carbide corp officials after a worker was injured Al the company s Pesti cide Plant police said Friday. Bhopal superintendent of police Panna Lai said the Case was filed against the company s maintenance superintendent k. Sridhar and the shift supervisor John Lolo. Doth Are indians if charges Are proved each could Fate up to six months in prison Faiz Ahmed suffered acid Burns on his body and in his eyes wednesday while cleaning pumps adjacent to two Chlor sulphuric acid tanks id the factory a Union Carbide spokesman who declined to be identified said the worker was not wearing protective gloves and a mask. Austrian Man acquitted of inciting anti semitism Oraz. Austria a a court acquitted a 66-year old Man Friday who walked through the streets of Graz cursing jews and raising his Arm in the nazi Salute. Witnesses said Rudolf Hofer had shouted anti semitic remarks the Austria press Agency reported. It said the incident occurred this summer but did not give a Date. Hofer also said "1 am going to finish off All jew with my id Man unit and two hand grenades wit Nesses testified. He was challenged by two passers by who called a policeman. According to the news Agency report the judge Saida jaw against anti semitic incitement did not apply because Lew people were present at the time. The prosecutor appealed. An austrian Soldier was fined two months ago for making anti semitic remarks in a bar. Burma has private paper for first time in 26 years Rangoon Burma a Burma s first Legal privately owned newspaper in 26 years began publishing Friday and it said it would present the True and unbiased in its four pages the people s View printed photo graphs and accounts of demonstrations in Rangoon against the authoritarian government and of student protests last month outside the burmese embassies in Thailand and Bangladesh. It also carried the full text of president Maung Maung s address to the nation thursday in which he rejected Calls for an interim government to cod Burma Back to democracy which ended with a military coup ini9fi2. Widespread smoking ban now in effect on Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus a a Law Banning smoking in buses taxis libraries nightclubs museums Jospi tals and foodstuff factories Wen into effect ibis past week on this Mediterranean Island nation. The official Cyprus news Agency reported that the Island is among the top nations in the world in adult smoking with an average Rale of 25 cigarettes a Day for men and in a Day for women. No one in Cyprus can feel proud of this negative record or. Andreas marked to director of medical services and Public health was quoted As saying. Police altered maps. Soviet official says Moscow a the secret police ordered roads Rivers and towns deliberately moved or removed from soviet maps far the past half Century the soviet Union s chief cartographer says people did t recognize their own Homeland on maps Viktor r. Yashch Ralto told the government newspaper i Zeilia in an interview published Friday. Tourists in Tain tried to Orient themselves to locutions Yashch Tilto head of the government s main directorate of geodetic and cartography said the inaccuracies Are being corrected quid new atlases and Rups will be released soon. He Slid the falsifications begin in the 1930s, under now disgraced dictator Josef Stalin and continued Uultt thin year. Stalin s policy of revising historical records to sail his political need s by been severely criticized under soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev but Yashchenko implied criticism of every successor of Stalin in saying that skew ing of Mips continued even after Gorbachev took Power in March 1985. Gorbachev has promoted policy erf glasnost or openness thai has uncovered previously boo subjects known it the soviet Union As Blank spots Yashchenko said the Blank spots on maps were overwhelming and begin when his Agency was put under the control of the a kid the predecessor of the Kab stale Security apparatus. The atmosphere of mistrust and espionage was reflected on the production of cartographers As Well he told Izvestia orders would come Down for cartographers to re move from maps certain locations or change those of others he recalled. Under Stalin so brushing to remove the frees of purged enemies of the people we routine Tut references to such disgraced figures were removed from books newspapers us magazines. Yashchenko said even tourist maps Wen highly inaccurate. Many foreigners in Moscow use a Cia produce map of the capital because soviet made maps Omil Many streets. On the tourist map of Moscow the contours of the capital Are Only partly True the map expert mid. He said the Absurdity of inaccurate Tapi has in creased in recent times since the soviet Union now has extremely detailed photographs taken by satellites in space
