European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday december 9,1988 Seine Way to beat the strike parisian commuters frustrated by a strike of trans port workers manage to ret where they want to go by using rubber boats on the Seine River. The waterway transport three inflatable boats shuttling Back and Forth was organized by a private Paris radio station to amid huge traffic jams Between join ill Lepont East of Paris and the Austerlitz train station in inc capital. Argentina jails Man convicted in Netherlands of War crimes Buenos Aires Argentina a authorities on wednesday arrested a Man convicted in the Netherlands of handing Over resistance fighters to occupying nazi forces in world War a a news Agency reported. A dutch court tried 78-year-old Jan Olin in absent a and sentenced him to 20 years in prison said the dutch foreign ministry in the Hague. Olin arrived in Argentina in the 1950s and worked for the National Oil company and a a police officer. According to the news Agency that reported his arrest Noticia arc ruins. Pending an extradition request from the nether lands Olin was being held in Moron n town about smiles West of Buenos Aires the Agency said. Last week a Federal judge approved West Germany s request for the extradition of Josef Schwamm Burger accused in the killings of at least 5,000 people mostly jews at forced labor Camps in occupied Poland. Schwammberge 76, has appealed extradition. Afghan Mig Pilot defects to Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan a an afghan Pilot landed his soviet built Mig-21 Jet fighter in Pakistan on thursday and surrendered to authorities the offi Cial news Agency announced. Associated press of Pakistan identified the Pilot Only Scalp. Asadullah. A government official speaking on condition of anonymity said the plane landed at Miram Shah in Paki Stan s North Wesl Frontier province 10 Miles from the afghan Border. Attempts to Telephone Miram Shah were not successful. I about five afghan pilots have defected to Pakistan during the 10-year civil War Between the soviet backed marxist government in Kabul and moslem rebels according to authorities. Pakistan is a pipeline for mainly arms to the rebels and is Host to some 3 million afghan War refugees.1 morale in the afghan air Force reportedly has been Tow because of inc danger of Hying attacks against the rebels who arc armed Wilh american and British anti aircraft missiles. Soviet forces which intervened in the War in 1979, Are Halfway through a withdrawal which is 10 be completed by next feb. 5 under a Accord. World today burundians return Home after fleeing massacres Bujumbura Burundi up More than 50,000 bunk indians who fled tribal massacres to neigh Boring Rwanda have came Home and the remaining refugees arc expected Back before the end of the year the in i cd nations said thursday. The vast majority of the Hutu tribal refugees were resettled in their Homes in Burundi and Given food and farming equipment the . S High commission for refugees in Bujumbura said. About 60,000 Hutu crossed into Rwanda in August after the ruling minority Tutsi tribe and the Tulsi dominated army turned on the villagers in the Wake of tribal clashes. From 5,000 to 15,000 Hutu were slain. Belgium to buy 46 copters from company in Italy Brussels Belgium a Belgium on thursday decided to buy 46 new army helicopters from the ital Ian company Grappo Aguila for about 1305 million officials decision ended months of speculation whether inc government would chose Agusta s a-109 or its French competitor the dec Treuil of Aero spatial a. Belgian defense minister Guy coerce had said earlier he prefers the Agusta Lickli Copler because it has a belter Price Quality comparison. The Aguila is slightly cheaper. Agusta has promised to spend 73 percent of the contract Here compared to Aero spatial s 70 percent. Sudanese talks delayed on cease fire in civil War Khartoum Sudan up talk Between the sudanese government and Southern rebels on a cease fire and terms for ending the civil War have been postponed but will be held soon it was reported thursday. Quoting sources close to the government the South Ern owned Sudan times newspaper said administrative delays in both Khartoum and the ethiopian Capi Tal of Addis Ababa where the talks were to be held prevented the foreign and defense ministers from trav Eling there on wednesday or thursday. The Christian led Spla has been fighting troops of he overwhelmingly moslem arabic speaking North for five years demanding wider autonomy for the South and the abolition of All islamic Law in Sudan. Dutch trying to locate containers with chemicals the Hague Netherlands a the dutch coast guard wednesday tried to locate nine containers with dangerous chemicals that have been adrift in the North sea since last weekend a dutch transport ministry spokesman said. One of the containers which were Tost late sunday night As a storm buffeted the French Roll on Roll off ferry Aquila is filled with Copper oxide which is Letha to Marine Micro organisms according to spokesman Mcnno Bruggink others contain chemicals that Are highly flammable according to Bruggink who added however that therein no immediate danger of any explosion since the containers Are believed to be in Good condition. The Aquila which is owned by the Union Indus Brielle Al maritime of Marseille France was on its Way from West Germany to an unidentified British port when it lost the containers 37 mites off the Northern dutch coast Bruggink chernobyl radiation rising in some mouse Stockholm. Sweden a More than two years after inc chernobyl nuclear Accident radiation in some swed ish Moose is going up rather than Down puzzling scientists and frustrating Hunt ers. The Moose the largest land animal in Northern Europe is Sweden s most important game animal. Some businesses arid even entire villages close Down while the men go off for the traditional Hun during the shortening Days of late fall. This Winter some freezers will be bar of the prize meat. To Thelander spokesman for the swedish Hunting association said Hunters were reluctant to go out in areas where High contamination Levels made the meat inedible they like their Moose and do not want to shoot if it s not for meat the Lander said even though the swiftly growing Moose population should be thinned out. ,. -.". Fallout from the 1986 Accident drifted Northwest on a freakish wind contaminating a Bell in North and Central swe Den. The problem was acute for Northern Reindeer Farmers whose stocks grazed on Lichen which retained High Levels of Cesi us. Thousands of animals were destroyed a we did t think Moose were at risk but ii turned out that Levels were two to three times higher than last fall the Larder said. He called it inexplicable the radioactive half life of cesium137, one of the main pollutants from chernobyl is 30 years. Thai Means it would take that Long for the radiation to decay by half. Still according to Rea son the radiation should be than increasing. A level of 1,500 acc quarels per Kil Ogram 2.2 pounds is the threshold for meal to be sold. A Becquerel named after Antoine Henri Becquerel French physicist who discovered radioactivity in uranium is a measure rays emitted by a radioactive substance. Hans Longsjo head of research at the radiation ecology department at the agricultural College in Uppsala said the Moose May have been eating Mush rooms which absorb cerium from the ground even though mushrooms Are not their favorite food. Deer often have High Becquerel Levels from the Mush rooms Longsjo said. Levels in game vary during the year with the forage. Last june Levels were Down but they climbed sharply in late summer Afler the grazing season he said. The Hunting association sent out Leaf lets to members detailing the risks of eat ing Hiah Becquerel meat. In humans accumulating 50,000 Becquerel a year is considered dangerous increasing the risk of cancer. Cerium contamination is particularly dangerous for the Muscles spleen and liver. "., a experts say a baby Boom among Moose increased the around -100,000 in 1970 to More than 4so.ooo Early this decade. It has since been culled to under 400,000, with 176,000 animals shot in one year alone
