European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday october 10.1988 news updates search confirmed woods1de, Calif. A Federal agents searched the estate of Ferdinand Marcos son in Law allegedly looking for artworks an evidence of illegal Money transfers out of the Philippines officials have confirmed. Fri agent Harry mount in Washington d.c., said that Federal agents had searched the estate who is married to Marcos daughter Irene but he refused to provide More information. The Only thing i can Tell you Isle did execute a search warrant at that address mount said. Hirohito s condition Tokyo up emperor Hirohito who has been in serious condition for three weeks with severe internal bleeding remained in stable condition sunday his third Day without a blood Dis charge a Palace spokesman said. Hirohito s vital signs were virtually unchanged throughout the Day but doctors gave him a trans fusion of about half a pint of blood his 25lh transfusion in 21days, As a precaution said pc Fiji Maeda of the Imperial household , 87, has discharged blood almost daily since sept. 19,when his current health crisis began. But in the past three Days wit the emperor on a different anti biotic his blood discharges have slopped Mazda said. Funds for Haiti port a Prince Haiti a the United states is releasing $15 million of Frozen funds for it food for peace program in Haiti the . Embassy said saturday it is opportune that an agreement has been reached now when the haitian government needs Money . Press attache Stuart King said of the Accord which ends 11 months of negotiations with four haitian govern in program gives food to inc haitian government which Sells stat Low prices to the poor he said. Critics said the program was run inefficiently and corruptly under the dictatorial regime of Jean Claude Duvalier who was Over thrown in february 1986. Yugoslav Leader threatens to Call state of emergency piously jeopardizing the integrity constitutional order and Security of inc country Tan Jug , Yugoslavia a president Usif Dizdarevic sunday warned thai a state of emergency would be impose throughout the country if protests Over financial hardship and ethnic issues did not Slop immediately a grave looking Dizdarevic called an emergency session of the Federal government and ordered it to to acc new Steps touring Down inflation which is 217 percent. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets ear Lier sunday and students in the Southern Republic of Montene Gro began a hunger strike to protest police violence and de Mand the ouster of communist Leaden. Residents reported a heavy police presence and Roadblock around tit Grad the capital of Montenegro 280 Miles South West of Belgrade. Club wielding riot police broke up an Over night rally there against local communist party leaders Early people were reported hospitalized in Niksik 15 Miles Northwest of til Grad where police fired tear Gas saturday to break up a crowd. The state news Agency Tan Jug quoted local authorities assaying the situation fit Niksic was extremely serious and said thousands of workers at a local steel Mill put Down their tool sunday and marched to protest police actions. It is the final hour to turn things around Dizdarevic said at cd line 42 Miles North of til Grad authorities also in creased Security at workplaces and in Public places. In tit Grad students went on hunger strike to protest the police violence and demand that local communist party Lead ers resign. In an unusually outspoken demand for democracy the official communist youth organization also called for direct and secret elections to get waders the people would supp about 20,000 people attended a rally in Serbia s Southern autonomous province of Kosovo where the serbian minority alleges harassment by the ethnic albanian majority. Police did not report any incidents at the rally in 145 Miles South of Belgrade. At dozens of similar rallies in recent months serbs have railed against the ethnic albanian communist leaders in Koso , in an apparent Effort to prevent ethnic violence in Kosovo albanian Halit trn Avci told the crowd that serbs an albanians had forged links through the centuries in Kosovo and should not allow these ties to be 10,000 More people rallied in Subotica a town on the Border with Hungary in Serbia s other autonomous province Yugoslavia Wake up Don t let yourself be Tor the presidency of Bosnia another of Yugoslavia s six republics issued a statement saying violent protests Are most be israeli soldiers search for agitators As Arab uprising enters 11 the month Jerusalem a soldiers swept through villages in the occupied West Bank searching for agitators sunday a palestinians held a Genera strike to Mark inc Start of the 1 it i month of the uprising against israeli Rule. Israeli troops wounded at least 22 palestinians in clashes with troops Arab Hospital officials said. A palestinian Manas shot to death in a skirmish with an israeli Security guard the army said. Most of the casualties were reported incest Bank villages where the raids were entered. Dozens of palestinians were arrested witnesses said. They said troops removed Rock and barrel roadblocks an ordered anti israeli slogans washed from Village Walls. In the Gaza strip an israeli Security guard was attacked by a Man with a knife when he tried to Check the Man s identification aboard a bus entering the Bordertown Ofra Fah from Egypt an army offi Cial said. The guard opened lire killing the Manana wounding another passenger the official said speaking on condition of anonymity. He said the guard suffered minor Bead wounds. State run television identified the dead Man As a palestinian from Rajah the army later clamped a curfew on the town of 11,000 to prevent any backlash. The death raised to at least 292 the number of palestinians killed since the uprising was launched dec. 8 to protest israeli Rule in the occupied territories. Six israelis have died. Israel radio said the sweep was aimed at removing rioters and Stone throwers from the main traffic it quoted Arab sources As saying that dozens of palestinians were arrested. An army spokeswoman confirmed thai operation were under Way in the West Bank but declined to give strike called by the unified National leadership of the uprising close shops and businesses throughout the West Bank and Gaza strip palestinian sin inc territories launched the uprising last dec. 8 and arc now backed by the Palestine liberation organization. Israel has occupied the lands since the 1967middle East conflict. At least so palestinians suffered gunshot wounds on Friday and saturday according to Arab witnesses and Hospital authorities. The army confirmed 32 of inc Bullet curfew was imposed on the town of Zabalia to the North of Gaza City after firebomb was thrown. America s deadliest Blaze goes unmarked Peshtigo wis a most Peshtigo fir museum visitors have never heard of the conflagration the museum commemorates but it was Nort America s deadliest fire. It erupted 117 years Apo saturday and killed 1,150people, but it was overshadowed by the big Chicago fire the same Day. A lot of tourists go through Here and in surprises me most people Are unaware of the tragedy,1 said Stella Van began a museum curator. The museum s been open 25 years and this still goes it s something that people around Here remember. It s taught in elementary school classes said Peshtigo school superintendent George Fox. Still even in this Northeast Wisconsin Community of about 3,000, the anniversary will go unmarked the Small museum housed in a Church built after the Blaze has Only a Tabernacle and a few charred pieces of Wood to memorialize the inferno. Neil tothe Church is a graveyard where a Stone Marks a mass grave for about 350 unidentified victims. De Kautz of the . Forest service said the pesh Tigo fire roared through eight counties and caused $1 million in damage not counting lost Timber. But the fire that destroyed Peshtigo which took30 years to rebuild has become a footnote in history to a smaller fire. On the same Day oct. 8, 1871, the Chicago fire erupted. It killed 250 people during its four Day rampage. A draught parched northeastern Wisconsin Mostof the summer and fall of 1871. Despite that loggers continued to Clear the land leaving slash and other debris in continuously burning piles Railroad workers extending track and Farmer Clearing land also piled or bumped debris for acres. As Many townspeople were returning from an eve Ning Church service or eating supper the fire began. Historian Stewart r Holbrook wrote a South West wind blew flurries of White ashes on the town like a snowstorm. Then townspeople heard what sounded like the nimble of a train and then a Roar As the fiery Tornado descended on Pine sidewalks and houses were ablaze when Rush of Gale Force wind sent sheets of fire onto the town from the red glowing sky. The Tornado swept tire was preceded by blinding smoke. About 300 people were killed on a wooden Bridge after they ran onto it to file the Blaze but it collapsed and bumped. Some were wedged betwee the burning logs in the Waler. The intense wind blew fire like a Blowtorch fro the Banks to Burn the Heads of people who ought safety in neck deep Peshtigo Many people were burned to ashes that Teeth often were the Only Way to distinguish animals Amman survivors said. Others were killed by the Tornado suffocated after seeking Refuge in Wells or were trampled by terrified one Case a father Slit the throats of i four children and wife and then himself to spare them burning accounts indicated that the fire Lute Don hour in Peshtigo from 9 to 10 p.m., before mov ing on to other villages. Historians estimate that about Soo of ,700 residents were failed and at least 350 in the other communities die about 1,500 people were badly injured and 3,000 were left one knew of the Peshtigo fire for Day because Telegraph poles had bumped Down almost a Mont earlier in other Small Brush fires. Help did not reach victims for several Days
