European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page b the stars and stripes tuesday october 11,198b ancient Skull helps experts Model head of King Midas London a British experts have used a2,fifi4-year-old Skull to reconstruct inc head of King Midas who according to legend turned everything he touched into Gold he sunday times reported. Or. John prag. An archaeologist at the Manches Ter museum and Richard Neave an Illustrator in the department of Medicine Ai Manchester univer sity used the latest knowledge about distribution of skin tissue on Bone to produce the plasm or and Cla head. Inc newspaper said. Midas ruled pry fila in what is now Central tur key from 738 , until 696 . And was consid ered the most important member of the phrygia dynasty. According to mythology Dionysus the god of wine granted Midas the Golden touch and the King s food and even his daughter turned to Gold. He overcame the curse by bathing in a River. The legend was apparently inspired by Midas great wealth. In 1957, american archaeologists found what was believed to he Midas Tomb in Turkey the Skeleton was lost Lite sunday times said but last month Turkey invited prag and Neave to make a plaster cast of the Skull and attempt the kind of reconstruction they made in 1983 of the head of King Philip ii of Macedonia father of Alexander inc great the iwo experts drilled Liny holes in the plaster cast inserted matchsticks Al strategic Points and smoothed on Clay to he appropriate thicknesses the newspaper said. Photos accompanying the times Story showed a Long narrow face with a sharply hooked nose Small deep set eyes a Down turned Mouth and prominent lower lip. A Cave was quoted As saying thai inc striking Fea Ture of Midas head was that it was deliberately elongated by bandaging in childhood because Long distorted Heads were considered attractive at i clime. Or. Ellen Kohler. One of the american archaeologists who discover red the Tomb in 1957, was thrilled when shown a photo of the reconstruction the newspaper said the face is quite striking she was quoted As Sayin Cin Philadelphia. It fits in with the one Terra Cotta figure of him that  Shi was quoted As saying that the now missing Skeleton was of a Man 5 feet 3 inches tall who had died Al the age of 65. Legend also has it that Apollo god of music gave Midas the cars of an ass after Midas judged a music contest Between Apollo and pan the god of Fields and forests and found in favor of pan. The sunday times quoted prag As saying that if Midas suffered from a malformation of the car cartilage called Darwin s tubercle it might splain the legend. Reconstruction of the head of King Midas. We arc pursuing it from a medical Point of View Anil our colleagues in Turkey arc going to get in touch with anthropologists and geneticists to see if the condition is Stilt prevalent in Central Turkey the newspaper quoted prag As saying. The times said Midas is believed to have been killed or to have committed suicide when his King Dom was devastated by a barbarian tribe called the cimmerian and some argue he would therefore Noi have been Given the Rich sort of burial indicated by findings i the Tomb. Professor Rodney Young who led the american expedition thought the lomb was of Midas predecessor. King Wordios the newspaper said. But today Moil experts including other members of the learn believe in was thai of Midas in said world today tamil guerrillas suspected in deaths of 47 villagers Colombo sri Lanum a sup cycled tamil rebel fighting for an Independent Homeland killed at least 47 sleeping villagers in Northern sri Lanka officials said monday. Two bombs exploded in the suburbs of Colombo injuring tour people including two soldiers police said. In inc South the army opened tire on anti government demonstrators who attacked a police station. Five people were killed and four others injured police Aid businesses closed on other Paru of the Island to protest the government s peace overtures to the insurgents. The government imposed a 48-hour curfew beginning at 6a.m., and dosed schools in Many districts. A military official in Colombo said about 75 tamil rebels attacked the Village of ulu Kalama about Iso Miles Northeast or the capital on sunday night and killed 47people, including 13 women and 18 children. Spain France approve new anti terror measures Leon Spain a Spain and France approved stricter anti terrorism measures sunday As hey closed a two Day Sun unil thai French foreign minister Roland Dumas described As  Spanish foreign minister Francisco Fernandez Ordo Nez said the meet ing in the Northern Spanish City was held within the framework or excellent relations Between the two countries. Dumas likened the meeting to the treaty of Friendship signed by King Juan Carlos and French president Francois Mitterrand in july 1935, eight French Cabinet ministers and seven Spanish counterparts attended a news conference Al which Dumas and Fernandez Ordonez said officials would hold another bilateral meeting in Paris. The november Summit in the French capital will be attended by Mitterrand and prime minister Michel re Cord and Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez. Police confirm journalists beaten after chilean vote Santiago Chile ljp1 a police official said Jour Nal iils were beaten during two nights of protests after the defeat of Gen Augusta Pinochet in a plebiscite became they tailed to obey orders to disperse according to new reports published sunday. More than 20 reporters and photographers were beaten by police some to the Point or unconsciousness thursday and Friday in protests against Pinochet the 1973 coup Leader who lost a plebiscite last week. Pinochet had asked fora new eight year term As president reporters said Violice intentionally attacked them after dispersing demonstrators with water cannons and tear Gas. But col. Tvan Gonzalez chief of the National police in the Santiago area told several newspapers Many times journalists Don t obey orders they Are Given earn believe was thai of Fidas in said he san go pm Sev Ralin Maz 1 journalist t Bhutto proposes to shape future denies desire to avenge the past by the los Angeles times their Homes  about How she would Lead Pakistan in Karachi Pakistan declaring Bhutto 36. Is widely seen As the cad the next  Denuir Bhutto. Let s Bury the past1 let s Bury the pail opposition Leader Binazir Bhutto said sunday that she is seeking no vengeance against the govern ment that ordered the execution of her father and the persecution of her family. She also indicated thai her party will confine its targets during the National election Campaign to the damaged institutions left behind by the Laic president Mohammad Zia i Haq. In her first Public appearance since giving birth 10 her first child two weeks ago Bhutto blamed the interim govern ment that took Power after Zia died in an aug. 17 air crash for hundreds of deaths in violence and flooding absolutely no preventive measures have been taken by the administration either in Punjab or in sind Bhutto said of the two provinces most seriously affected by the floods and widespread eth Nic violence. Together icy have left More than 300 dead in the last week. People arc now so terrified that Theydon t know whether they can return to thei Bhutt oing opposition figure in parliamentary elections scheduled for nov. 16. She made her comments during news conference at her Home in Karachi. Pakistan s largest City and the Center of its political opposition. Aides said