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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday december 1,198b world today ancient warehouse found with Well preserved foods Haifa Israel a archaeologists have uncovered a Bronze age port on the israeli coast with a warehouse stocked with raisins peas and olives dating to Aboul 1,200 years before Christ the director of the excavation said. Professor Michal Artzy of the University of Haifa said in an interview that the port site uncovered at Tel Nami Aboul 12 Miles South of the modern port City of Haifa could be the oldest Man made port Ever found. Researchers found evidence a Channel was Cut Between the Mediterranean and a River to form the pan Artzy said. She added that the port appeared to Date to Al least 2000 ., but that further research was needed to confirm the Date. Foodstuffs found in the warehouse were Well preserved because a fire in about 1200  Apparently caused a roof to collapse blocking oxygen from reaching the food and damaging it she said. Kurd protest presence of turkish Leader in Paris Paris a about 60 kurdish demonstrators were arrested wednesday during a protest against a visit by turkish prime minis Ertugrul Ozal police said. Aboul 100 people rallied outside the Crillo hotel where Oil was slaying despite an official ban on the demonstration. Police said those arrested were being questioned and were no immediately charged. Turkish kurd like their counterparts in neigh Boring Iran and Iraq have been battling for in creased autonomy. They accuse the Ankara govern ment of harsh repression of hair movement. Ozal was to leave later wednesday at the end of a three Day official vis Itlo France. Premier Michel Ricard. After his meeting with oat on tuesday said the visit marked a restored climate of Confidence Between the two countries. He said p7.Al had made very real Progress on human rights issues in Turkey. Snowball in the face catches thief on the run Zurich Switzerland a Early snowfall this year in Switzerland was a Blessing in Dis Guise for a 60-year-old woman who used a Snow Ball to foil the getaway of a Man who robbed her shop a Swiss newspaper reported wednesday the mass circulation Blick newspaper said let men robbed Kathy Cibel t store in a Vil Lage near Lucerne on tuesday forcing a shop assistant to empty the Cash Register of some 3,000 Swiss francs $2,000. It said we incl recognized that the two were amateurs and carried Lake weapons. She ran out Side after them and prevented one from escaping on his motorcycle by throwing a snowball in his face Blick reported he tried to escape by foot but the shopkeeper an after him through the Village Blick reported. Police were Able to capture the Man and later his accomplice because we incl had noted Down his License plate number it said French army trucks Roll out to help stranded commuters Paris api commuters climbed aboard military trucks for an unusual ride to work wednesday after the government called out the army to carry people stranded by a bitter transit strike. Two of four regional express train lines were Par Al Zed for a third straight Day by a maintenance work ers strike called by the communist led general con federation of labor. Disruptions have spread to the metro and City buses. But most metro lines were functioning normally and the transit Agency reported about 60 percent of the buses were running. More than 3so military vehicle cud 1,000 old Jofs. Were on hand to help get people to work but even with up to 25 people crammed into each truck the Fleck can Only carry a fraction of the capacity of the express trains. I feel like a ,".5aid computer operator Hou Ria Benda manc after a two hour ride from the suburb of St. Germain in Lay West of Paris. We were Well assisted but frankly it was not too comfortable. It was cold and Windy and Wel commuters arriving in trucks at the Porte d Orleans at the Southern Edge of Paris said it look 90 minutes on clogged highways for what is normally a 30-minute ride on the train. An estimated 600,000 people normally commute from the suburbs daily by train. These Are military trucks usually used for logistical transport but we re trying to make them As Comfort Able As possible Jean Pierre de Valence spokesman fur the military governor of Paris said on French radio. I m sure that with Good humor everyone will understand it s something  at the Porte de Vincennes in Eastern Paris soldiers who just finished working the morning Rush hour re ported a cheerful atmosphere. People took it very very Well. There was joking and Story Selling Between the passengers and the sol Diers said Patrick a Soldier who refused to give his last name it lifted everybody s morale More military vehicles were headed to the capital and officials said several Hundred private buses were also being chartered to replace Hie missing trains. Michel Rousselot head of the Paris autonomous transit Agency said Early wednesday after 14 hours of meetings with representatives of the Tabor federation and sin other unions thai the Agency was clicking to the salary offers the unions have rejected. Soldiers help Paris commuters Down from one of the army trucks taking them to work during the strike. The federation the dominant Union Al the transit Agency is demanding increased safety measure and across the Board pay increases of $ 170 a month. The transit Agency has offered immediate monthly raises of about $25 plus bonuses ranging from about s17 to $100 per month. For Cut year the Agency i offering an increase of 2.2 percent. The current average monthly salary is about 11,100. Dem an pfc s Appeal delayed for 6 months Jerusalem a the supreme court on wednesday delayed for six months the Appeal of convicted nazi War criminal John do Manjuk after the apparent suicide of one of his israeli defense attorneys is Rael radio reported. An employee of he court confirmed a delay in the hear ing originally scheduled for monday but could not rive the new Dale for the Appeal the court s official spokesman could not be reached  . In april Demjan Juk a retired aul worker from Cleve land was sentenced to death for committing crimes against humanity and against the jewish people. He was accused of being Ivan the terrible a brutal guard who operated Gas Chambers in the Treblinka death Camp where 830,000 jews were killed during world War. The 68-year-okl Dean Manjuk who Wei  to is Rael b l986, the postponement of hit Appeal coma one Day after Dov Stan a 53-year-Ou former Jutt who joined Demjan Juk s defense learn in August  15th floor of a High Rise office building in downtown  ruled the death a suicide but Aid evian left no note explaining his motives. Eitan was to have presented 60 percent of Demjan Juk Appeal according to Dseroj Anjavi son in Law Edn Nonic Thatcher drank is criticism for Banning Harper s London a the publisher of the newly banned Harper s mag Zirie joined about 200 prominent britons on tuesday in accusing prime minister Margaret Thatcher of violating civil liberties. John Mac Arthur president and publisher of the american Magazine distributed copies of the banned december Issue at the meeting which was convened to unveil a charter calling for a  Constitution and Bill of rights. / -. The Harper s Issue contains excerpts from the memoirs of Anthony Cavendish a former officer of the mi6intelligence service which British newspapers Are barred by a court order from publishing. The government says distribution of the Magazine which Sells 200 copies monthly in Britain would violate the injunction. Ii says it is trying to uphold in principle that an intelligence operative bound to secrecy for life cannot publish memoirs. V we object to censorship in Britain said Macarthur. He added that Harper s published the Cavendish Mcra oils As a cautionary tale to Alert americans to secrecy move by the Reagan administration. Believe me there is no cause for smugness in America he told reporters the charter accused Thatcher of eroding civil liberties during her nearly 10 years in Power. A process is under Way which endangers Many of the freedoms we have had. And it is now gathering momentum it said it indirectly referred to her Ami Union legislation limitations on suspects1 right to silence and a ban on broadcast interviews with groups supporting terrorism. The latter was directed at sinn fein the Legal Wing of the outlawed Irish Republican army. ,. Signers included novelists Margaret Drabble John fowls and Salman Rushdie pop musicians Peter a Briet and Pete Townshend playwrights Harold Pinter and Michael Frayn actors Julie Christie John geese Clenda Jackson and Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Nobel prize winning scientists sir James Black and professor Maurice Wilkins. Of a a. But. While blaming Thatcher s government for failing to defend civil liberties the Charier representatives said the problem is rooted in the British political system. It s not an attack on this particular government. Although this government with Iti overriding parliamentary majority has shown Bow any give Nunnel without checks and balances without any Chance of going to the courts or people May destroy liberties said Geoffrey Robertson a leading civil rights lawyer and key figure in the Campaign. Our unwritten Constitution is merely convention winks and nods bowing which if the government unilaterally decides can be snuffed out like that said Robertson v-1-he Aid he was also concerned thai because former British colonies still Kex to id Britain for Legal Price dents we re seeing British Law becoming supportive of repressive  " the Charier Calls for a written Constitution that enshrines civil liberties in a Bill of rights establishes Freedom of info nation and open government establishes an electoral system of proportional reprise no Tion turns the House of lords into an elected body provides Legal remedied Tor abuses of Power and guarantees equal distribution of Power Between local and National bodies  
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