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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and strip6s wednesday december 21,1988 world today gunmen Rob postal coach on Swiss express train Winterthur Switzerland a masked gunmen staged a Holdup aboard the Zurich St. Gall express train monday night and stole 15 parcels or undetermined value police said. The gunmen entered the postal coach of the train just after it icel the Zurich Airport station tied up the two Post officials and Cut open the postal bags according to police. Two other gangsters armed with a Summa Chine gun held the passengers of the adjacent first class coach at Bay and also used tear  passenger was slightly injured police said. The gunmen left the train when it stopped at Winterthur North of Zurich at 9 35 . Police immediately launched a Region wide manhunt. Discovery of Wii bomb snarls Frankfurt traffic Frankfurt West Germany a about 5,000 residents were evacuated and traffic was snarled for hours monday after workers uncovered a world world ii Era bomb police said. A Frankfurt police official who asked not to be identified said an entire neighbourhood was evacuated after digging Crews discovered the in Cpl Odd 1,000-Pound bomb in the suburb of Sachsen Hauson. About 90 patients were moved from a nearby Hospital and trains and traffic were rerouted around the area police said. Bomb disposal Crews were to begin work on defusing the device later monday Afler the area had been cleared police said. Frankfurt was a major target of Allied bomb ing raids during world War ii. India moving to lower voting age from 21 to 18 new Delhi India up parliament s upper House tuesday approved a Law to reduce the voting age from 21 to 18 and Grant some 50 million Young indians the right to vote in Gener Al elections that must be Helof within one year. All 210 members present in the Raja Sabolia or upper House voted unanimously for the 62ndconstitutional amendment Bill. Poll shows half of belgians vote because Law says so Brussels Belgium a if voting was made non compulsory about half of the voters would not go to the polls on belgian election Days according to the results of an opinion pol published tuesday. Under an 1893 Law voting is mandatory1 Inthis nation of 10 million. If voting were not compulsory 55.7 percent of voting age belgians would cast a ballot in local and 46.7 percent in National elections according to the poll commissioned by the Brussels daily newspaper met Laatsc Neuws. Firefighters use Hook and ladder trucks to Shower water on monday s Blaze at Dingle s store in Plymouth. Opponents of fur sales claim responsibility for store attacks London up animal rights activists protest ing the Sale of furs claimed responsibility tuesday for firebombing four exclusive department stores including harrods. No one was injured in the four explosions police said. But one store was gutted and the three other were damaged. Two other bombs were defused. The Manchester evening news received a Telephone Call from a Man claiming to represent the animal liberation front who said the group was responsible for monday night s bombings and warned that More bombs had been planted. The caller said a bomb was planted in Rackham s department store in Birmingham 118 Miles North of London. Police found the bomb and defused it. Police also defused a bomb at the London offices offer review Magazine. Animal rights campaigners previously have fire bombed London stores to protest sales of furs. A series of fir bombings by the animal liberation front in1986 forced the closure of the fur department at alld or s in Croydon South London. The first firebomb went offal 9 . Monday on the third floor of harrods the prestigious department store in London s fashionable Knight abridge area. A Spok woman for Scotland Yard said the store was closed and that the blast caused Only slight damage. In Plymouth the Dingle department store was gutted by a Small incendiary device Plymouth police said. A total of no firefighters battled for six hours to cutout the names. At one Point Walls of the building collapsed Send ing an estimated 25 tons of rubble crashing onto fir engines. Nobody was reported injured. Police chief inspector Roger Mcchan said it is one of the worst fires i have Ever seen in the City  the fire broke out late monday after the store s 450 Mcm bar staff had gone Home. Plymouth is 215 mile Southwest of London. The stores owners said it would take two years and millions of dollars to rebuild the store. Dingle s will Rise again. The Luftwaffe could not Stop us. The misguided people who did this will not Stop us. Said Robb Hamsun managing director of the House of Fraser stores which owns Dingle s and harrods. Two other Fraser stores also were targeted by the extremists. A bomb caused minor damage at Howell s in Cardiff Wales 180 Miles West of London and police defused explosives at the House of Fraser in London. Selfridge s on London s Oxford Street also was slightly damaged in a blast. Scotland Yard said that in the fires at harrods and Selfridge s an incendiary device had been hidden Down the Side of a sofa in the furnishing department. Boy As is Santa to help earthquake children sme Santa has Tols of Litile friends with big hearts this year do. Sudduth from Baum older West Germany tells Santa that he d like some army ams and his Little sister wants a doll. But. 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