European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday november 38,19b8 Rock rides a rocket the music of the British Rock group Pink Floyd is truly out of this world thanks in a soviet Cosmo naut Crew. Group members Nick Mason left and David Glamour stand by a soviet spacesuit at the Bai Konur scam Odom in soviet Central Asia to give a Send off to the Crew including a Frenchman hat was carrying the group s latest album into space sat urday. world today video posses started by shows ferret out 4 fugitives in Canada Toronto a the new reality based crime shows on . Television arc reaping benefits North of Hie Border where Canadian viewers have helped police track Down at least four fugal Ives in less than three months. Canadian press reported saturday that the latest fugitive to u urn that television signals Cross Borders was Michael Cooper 40, wanted on an Oregon warrant for rape kidnapping and robbery. Cooper had been living in the Vancouver area for More than a year under an ass timed name cd said. Police were tipped on to his Whir Dubouis by a viewer who saw Liis picture beamed into Canada by a Tacoma Wash television station showing Fox broadcast ing s syndicated show America s most wanted the news Agency said. A week ago a Man wanted in the rape and murder of two to can age girls in Tennessee was arrested in Lon Don Ontario. Cd said Joseph Shepherd 35, was detained alter a local resident watched Abc s unsolved mysteries. ,.". Shepherd had been on the run since a 1978 shootout with . Marshals and had been living and working in London under a false name for at least four years along with his wife and three children up said. On sept. 22, America s most wanted helped Chalk up the arrest of Frederick Merrill. The 41-year old Connecticut prison Escapee and rape suspect had been living in Toronto but fled to new Brunswick after a Toronto area resident recognized him on the pro Gram up said. Two weeks earlier convicted Philadelphia killer Joseph kind Eralso was recaptured in new Brunswick it said. the subject of a protracted extradition tussle before he escaped from custody in Montreal also had been living in Toronto and was found Accra broadcast of America s most the Agency said. The closest Canadian version of the genre is the crime shoppers to series which has resulted in More than.14,000 arrests across Canada since its inception in i9s2. " -. Typically. America s most wanted screens re enactments of crimes together with pertinent details of the fugitives. Viewers Are invited to phone police if they have information. Unsolved mysteries follows a similar format. " 10 men rescued from ship supplying North sea rigs Aberdeen. Scotland a ten men were rescued saturday by helicopter from heir North sea Oil Rig Supply ship after a fire erupted on Board the vessel officials said. None of the Crew was injured but Al were Given routine medical checks at Aberdeen Royal infirmary. The ship s Captain was detained for observation because he inhaled smoke a statement from the ship s owners offshore sup ply association said. The ship the 2,750-ton fold Cantor was being towed to this Northeast scottish City the statement said japanese news executive implicated in Stock scandal Tokyo a an executive of yom Iuri Shimun Japan s largest newspaper has been implicated in a multimillion Dollar Slock profiteering scandal involving the questionable sales of shares in a real estate firm the newspaper revealed saturday. A yom Iuri spokesman said Iwao Maruyama 67, vice president of the nationally circulated newspaper bought s,000 recruit Cosmos shares in the fall of 1986 before they were offered to the Public. E. German work called Stone age socialism Hamburg West Germany a a High ranking West German official has denounced communist East Germany s policies As Stone age socialism a newspaper reported sunday. Ottfried Hennig a state Secretary in Bonn s ministry for Infra German relations was quoted As saying that East Germany was striving for a lost cause the final Victory of orthodox communism.1 East German Leader Erich Hon Cockcr has resisted the economic reforms promoted by soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev saying they were unnecessary in East Germany. In an interview with the Bild am sonntag weekly newspaper Honnig was quoted As calling for a Stop in daily oppression of East Ger mans by the country s communist government. Man in yugoslav consulate shoots teen during protest Sydney Australia a police said a Man from inside the yugoslavian consulate shot and wounded a 13-year-old boy on sunday Dur ing weekend demonstrations Al the consulate that Drew about 1,500 protesters each Day. Yugoslav ambassador Boris i Zulj was summoned to the foreign ministry for an explanation. ?,e1j old reporters he was shocked to learn about the shooting. He declined further comment saying he had Only sketchy details of the incident. New South Wales police spokesman Wayne Bottom said the consulate had claimed Diplo Matic immunity in connection with the shoot ing. Police said the shooting occurred when about five youths tried to climb the Walls of the consulate in the Sydney suburb of woolly a. Another police spokesman said the crowd Oul Side the consulate became uncontrollable when the youths pushed their Way let the front and tried to climb the Walls of the building s compound. Deaf i toll in thai floods mudslides reaches 370 Bangkok Thailand a paramilitary troop ers have unearthed villages buried in storm triggered mudslides increasing the body count to 370 sunday in a disaster that May have killed 800 people officials said. -. Mudslides and floods from a week of heavy Rains hit 12 Southern provinces in the worst natural disaster to hit Thailand in recent decades. \ ,. Col. thai army spokesman announced the Rise in the body count to 370. He said 689 people were injured and.305 others missing. Tens of thousands were homeless. Ten army helicopters and 12 fall by Tom boats transported the troopers and Rescue teams sunday to villages in Nai Thori sri thammarat the worst hit of the provinces he said. Buschorn said planes dropped food and supplies to villages Cut of by flooding and some Relief efforts were shifted to coastal areas because water Levels in the int mor had v. .--.-.-. Buschorn said he believed at. Casl 800 people were killed half them in Nakhson sri thammarat s Pipoon District where mud and logs raced Down Barren Mil sides slamming into Homes and crushing people. Prime minister Chai Khai Choo Shavan visited the disaster areas on Friday and saturday and pledged 3 billion Bahl is 20 million in Relief Aid he ordered the agriculture minister to investigate the uncontrolled logging and mining that have stripped the Hill slides. On saturday the head of the office in Thailand of the . Agency for International development John r. Eriksson toured the battered areas in Nakhson sri thammarat with five other . Embassy officials and an official of the Canadian embassy. The . Tram san in Cable to Washington late sat urday recommending material assistance embassy spokesman Ross pelting said sunday. He said . Ambassador Daniel o Donohue would present sindhi a Check for 625.000 Bahl 125,000 i monday for Relief efforts. ,. Meanwhile the death toll from the flooding thai hit neighbouring Northern Malaysia during the same period stood at 31 sunday. Some 14,000 people remained in emergency Relief centers. About 60,000 people were in the centers at inc height of the floods
