European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes monday october 10,1988 state department official confers with Genscher Wiesbaden West Germany a  Secretary or stale John Whitehead slopped Here saturday for talks with West Ger Man foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher. Neither Man spoke to the press after their meeting. But diplomatic sources said that in their discussions Whitchead and Genscher agreed that intense efforts should be made to end the cur rent East West conference on european Security and human rights in Vienna Austria by late november. One source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the two men agreed that the Confer ence should close with a substantial and balanced document so that Natch Warsaw pact negotiations on reducing conventional weapons in Europe can begin this year. While cad stopped in Wiesbaden on his Way to Romania. He is on a tour of Warsaw pact countries. 40 people die when bus crashes into Indian Pond Guy Amati India up a crowded bus attempting to pass a car hurtled off a Road Sun Day in the northeastern state of Assam and crashed into a Pond killing 40 people leaving10 missing and injuring 20, police said. Police said the Accident occurred near Chaba i a Village about 20 mites Northwest of the state capital Guy Amati the bus packed with an undisclosed number of passengers was travelling from Guy Amati to the Southern Assam town Ono Bari. The Driver was attempting to pass a car and the bus went out of control plunging off the Road and into a Pond police said. Ukrainians in . Urge soviet religious Freedom Washington a an estimated20,000 ukrainian americans marched from the Shadow of the Washington Monument to the soviet embassy to deliver on Appeal to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev for religious Freedom in the Ukraine. The protesters who walked the 2.7-mile route to the strains of a world War ii ukrainian free Dom fighter s March carried signs that said free our churches in the  Park police estimated the crowd at 20,000. The March was one of several events Over the weekend in the United states and Canada commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of christianity in the Ukraine where followers were baptized in the City of Kiev in 988, according to National ukrainian millennium committee official Bohan Futey. First soviet aids fatality is pregnant prostitute Moscow a the soviet Union on Sun Day reported its first aids death that of a preg Nant prostitute from Leningrad whose clientele according to authorities consisted of foreigners. The 29-year-old woman died sept. 5 of pneumonia following a 26-Pound weight loss chronic tonsillitis and bronchitis and a serious decline in the count of her immune system s to coils the labor newspaper trud reported. All arc common symptoms of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the newspaper noted that epidemiologists were upset because the woman s doctors had failed to diagnose aids before she died. They Are now trying to locale the victim s sexual partners to determine who else might be infected with the deadly disease. Authorities arc considering publishing the woman s photograph to Alert her partners. She was registered As a night school student and As worker at a factory but police said she earned her living As a prostitute for foreigners. Soviet officials say they have identified 83 aids carriers but Only one person who has developed the disease. However they say thai other cases May have been diagnosed incorrectly. . Officials kept from two who handed out Mia funds Bangkok Thailand up . Officials have not been granted Access to two americans arrested last week after entering Laos to publicize a $2.4 million Reward for the Safe return of american prisoners of War a . Official said sunday. Ross pelting . Embassy spokesman in Bangkok said the laotian government has notified the slate department of the arrests but requests for consular Access have been delayed by a jurisdictions dispute Between provincial and Central government authorities. The two americans Donna Long 45, and Jam Scopp 43, were arrested oct. 3 and taken to the lao Tian provincial capital of Paksec about 75 Miles North East of the National capital of Vientiane. Four other members of the Mia group Catling itself the North Carolina crazies were briefly detained on the Mekong River on Friday by a thai Border patrol. Laotian police arrested Long Copp and their thai Boatmen after they landed on the laotian Side of the River and distributed $2,000 in vietnamese currency attached to fliers that offered the Reward for the return of any american service member listed As missing inaction during the Vietnam War. The $2.4 million Reward has been pledged by 21 . Congressmen and three other americans in an Effort to win the release of american prisoners of War who they believe Are still held in Indochina. In addition to Long and Copp the activist group includes Bruce Adams of Wyoming whose brother Stephen has been missing in action for 22 years Lynn Hampton a nurse from Florida who served in Viet Nam Bill Sullivan a former Marine from North Caro Lina and Ted Samply a Vietnam Veteran also from North Carolina. A thai naval patrol Friday briefly detained Sam Pley Sullivan Adams and Hampton when they floated Reward notices and 11,300 Down the River. The group released a toy boat and the Cash filled bags from a Small hired boat decorated with flags and slickers proclaiming their belief that some of the 2,393 americans missing in Indochina Are still being held. The group targeted Laos because communist officials admitted holding american prisoners during the War although none was released after a cease fire was signed in Laos in february 1973. The . State department has said it has no proof that american prisoners remain alive in Indochina but also has said it docs not have sufficient information to Rule out the possibility. Sext plets born in Rome 1 Dies Rome a Sext plets were born in Rome sat urday but one died less than 24 hours later and another remained in guarded condition. The four other babies two boys and two girls were reported improving at various hospitals. The Mother Lucia Soma 26, was listed in Good condition sunday. The father Saverio Calapan 31, said saturday lie is a worker who earns a Little More than 1 million lire $714 a month and that he and his wife share one room in a House owned by his in Laws. Or. Costantino Romagnoli said the boy who died sunday suffered from underdeveloped lungs and had been placed on a Respirator. The boy who weighed Pound 7 ounces died at 2 30 . Sunday. The doctor said earlier that the babies had to sur Vive at least 96 hours before they would be considered out of danger. The boy who died and the boy in guarded condition were the Only two considered at immediate risk. Lorenzo Sommella vice director of health services at Gemelli Hospital where the sex Tuple were bom said thai the Mother who had taken Fertility drugs had carried seven babies but one died in the porno four weeks ago he said the Schlup less were delivered after seven months. Algerian from Page 1 that the final death toll could be much higher than 200. On thursday authorities imposed a state of Emer gency with overnight curfews and arrested More than900 people for looting. The official aps algerian news Agency gave a list of reasons for the mounting unrest crop failure the collapse of Oil prices the global economic crisis an Algeria s enormous population increase from 9.4 Mil lion in 1954 to More than 23 million. The unrest began about id Days ago when Industrial workers staged strikes for higher wages. The government said it would not break with its austerity plan and youths began rampaging in Algiers and other cities. The austerity plan is aimed Al resolving an economic crisis made worse by the fall in the Picc of Oil the nation s main source of Revenue. The plan announced in january Aims to line up food prices with world markets and Cut surplus workers in the state owned industries that dominate the Economy. The unemployment rate i estimated at above 40 percent in the capital and food prices have risen by As much As 40 percent since january. Algerian radio reported sunday that crowds of Youn people confronted tanks in outbreaks in the Kabyle Mountain Region cast of Algiers where about 2 million berbers claim they Are discriminated against for their non arabic language As Well As in towns in the South Ern desert the radio did not report casualties. In Bach Jarah in the Eastern suburbs of Algiers 30 people were reported killed and in the Western District of Babel ouch nine protesters reportedly died. Eiffel Tower strike grounds tourists Paris up dozens of tourists left the Eiffel Tower disappointed sunday after finding elevators to the top closed because of a strike by about 30 Tower employees. Elevator operators and Cashiers Al the 1,000-foot-High tourist attraction walked off the Job saturday vowing to keep the Tower closed until they receive a 5 to 6 percent pay increase and belter working conditions. Tourists seeking one of the Best views of Paris the City has to offer instead milled around the base of the Tower trying to figure out Why they could no get to the top. A spokesman said negotiations with the Tower management began sunday afternoon but he would not comment on prospects for a settlement. Tower director Christian mar Squier said Saturdayk-1 the demands presented by this category of thai unskilled workers Are totally  a Union representative said the average salary of lower employees is about the French minimum wage of 28.67francs j4.51 per hour not including benefits. German author Lenz wins peace prize Frankfurt West Germany a novelist Siegfried Lenz renowned for his insightful explorations of the German psyche and of the nazi Era. Received one of West Germany s most prestigious liter Ary awards sunday. The Hamburg resident 62, was Given the German Book Trade fair s peace prize at Frankfurt s St. Paul s Church. Other recipients have included German theologian Albert Schweitzer austrian philosopher Martin Buber and Swiss novelist Max Frisch. Lenz is the author of novels including Deutsch Sigunde the German Lesso Heimatsu scum Homeland museum and Das Cue Schift the lightship. He has won several literary prizes and critical acclaim Tor his More than four decades of work. Heikmat museum which tells the Story of a fictitious Young German whose life is upended by world War ii was made into a popular West German television ministries. West German president Richard von Weizsacker was among the luminaries attending sunday s ceremony As was Mohanon Meroz Israel s former ambassador in Bonn and a Friend of Lynis