European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pagi the stars and stripes tuesday december 27,19b8 go ahead is in a so iridium. An alien spaceship. An elaborate design fur it Lollipop Container no it s a Model of u Dihedral dts uned by Swiss bom Dalian u cell cart Mono Bolla that is scheduled a completed by 1993 in Kory South of Paris Tiff Cathe dral which will hold 930 worshippers will com More than 1,000 Square Yards and Rise More than soft fact decline reported in rights abuses Geneva not a . Investigation human rights violations in Cuba demanded Reagan administration this year has conclude such abuses have declined diplomats and official the , team which visited Cuba from sept25, found evidence that Only 121 Long term a political prisoners were still being held in Cuba. A it also received complaints of human rights violations from about 1,700 cuban citizens. More Han Hal of these however were from people saying hey could not leave the country and Many of the others con cd Rcd harassment of protestant denominations including the seventh Day adv lists. Atthe Siv member team brought Back lilt evidence of torture or inhumane conditions in cuban prisons and detention centers these diplomats and of finials said. In August 1987 the Reagan administration estimated that 15,000 political prisoners were being held in Cuba. Amnesty International the human Rigow roup said then that it thought the number of political Jan toners m Cuba was from 430 Loas Many As several  diplomats attributed the improvement to the human rights commission s dec Jon in March to investigate prompting Cuba to Imp Roc compliance with . Universal declaration Jon human rights before the team arrived. Of. As a result they said the Rettan administration achieved its Central goal of increasing respect for fundamental human rights in ? Japan claims superiority in fast computers Tokyo not a i Crinan and japanese Manu Fae Turcus have been a Fig for years to dominate the growing supercomputer Industry and they have traditionally relied on  of their machines to assert superiority. The Lead has frequently see sawed in the arcane world of gig flops and floating Point calculations. J the americans fave been ahead lately but the Japa Nese Are claiming the title again based on the latest supercomputer from Fujitsu us the company recently introduced its new machine asserting thai a is faster than us american competitor Cray research of Minneapolis Fujitsu s at supercomputers were clearly designed As a Rispon to Cray s amp the powerful machine announce twas february. They of is the last Cray machine inspired by Steve s. Chen the computer de signer who left Cray is months ago and formed a Compi manhat is designing a machine for International business machines corp. Fuji flu s new machine gains raw Speed by inc Orpo Raling Var Fasler components in just two processors. In combast Cray has moved More quickly in devel Oping multiprocessor machines they my has eight processing units that share the Burden of Complex Cau Oblations j we wanted to develop the fastest single processors in. The world Keiichiro Uchida who headed the de clop mint at Fujitsu said in an interview at the com Pany s Headquarters. That is what we  by supercomputers Are the essential tool of engineers Aulo and aircraft designers molecular physicists,0 atomic bomb makers code Breakers and analysts for intelligence agencies. The machines can perform in seconds calculations that would otherwise take months or even years and they can graphically simulate enor Mously Complex Phenomena like the flow of air Over a Wing without conducting an Experiment. The machines Are made Only in the United suites and Japan and among the japanese who have about a " of the world supercomputer Market Fujitsu is ._., the most successful. It has sold 76 machines though most have stayed in Japan. American Access to the japanese supercomputer Ricl and japanese Access to America s have been a tint source of friction so the relative standing of or computer enterprises in both countries takes led importance. In present Fujitsu s new machines will be sold Only in he japanese Market company officials said. And eve japanese customers Wilt have to wait the first of Foj Juzsu s new vp-2000 line Willnow be commercially a Vatable until Early 1990. A second group which comb ies two processors will not be sold until later that Yea Tor Early in 1991. .-.-,. That is goo Tiews for Cray and several of her Fujitsu rivals. In a rate Public appearance in november Cray s reclusive founder Seymour Cray said the first models of inc company s next machine the Cray Iii should be Deli cited at the end of 1989. Although inc company is rents cd for running into delays the machines he  once again leapfrog the japanese. \ still to be heard fron is Nec Fujitsu s crossbow rival which has also vowed to turn out the world s fastest processors. The cof Topany is expected to soon introduce its new models. Acid by 1991, Many expect to Sec the first fruits of Chen venture with ism the Only company that most cup cafe believe has the technological firepower to manufacture High Speed circuits comparable to those produced int plan. World today Canada of from or Toronto 1 voted Early saturday i . Free to Clearing the Way for operation As schedule the 141-111 vote Canada which had the United states Ihnut had rejected the n since the agric Sci by the United states scaled what the 1 baited As its most i the creation Over a free Market of 170 m 25 Hurt in o Tokyo Tea disco near a . A urday and 25 Peop Acde two critically about 200 Copl were in the second people began a shiite Gas said a polio picked he said. The official said the 25 people injure Down the stairs the lion were a Japan woman from Hong initially were Ridenti the two women being treated 3i a i threatening Condilis the injured were no Trade pact s dispatches e House of commons give final approval to the e agreement effective Lyric agreement to go into an Jan. 1. Asked a turning Point for Side Rcd free Trade wit times in the past Century pc each time. Has already been ratified he Canadian action also Gan administration Hasnal Trade breakthrough. Year period of a largely Ion people Nawa skirmish s was fired into a Crow Edrase on Okinawa on Sal were injured in the Stam ice said. Most of them foreigners Oor disco at 1 . When Down the stairs to escape official. The crowd pan me foreigners were amongas they fell or were pushed to people in critical Condi woman and a chinese Ong he said. Both Wom Endas japanese. Ere unconscious and were Ilal but were not in a lire police said. The names of mediately available. 46 die in China Accident Beijing an express passenger train slammed into a bus filled with peasants in North East China lulling at least 46 people official reports said. The train bound for Beijing was approaching a crossing in Liaoning province on Friday night when the bus began to Crow the trades the Xin Hua news Agency said. Two Rait ear overturned in the crash it said. National television said that 84 peasants were on the pus heading Home to inner Mongolia. The train began in the City of Dan Dong on the chinese Border with Korea. Xinhua said the crash took place in Central Liaoning near qing Hemen about 100 Miles West of the provincial capital of  to Beirut Lebano sunday to free two f 13 months with Ihei As a Christmas press world a kidnappers1 Walid Khaled Sot Radical Fatah Revol Tion said Marie a daughters of Jacque leased outside Ocba Fatah re in a St the girls would be r response to an  Gadhof Backer. Fatah re is Orist Mastermind a e released kidnappers promised Ich girls held captive for nether and five belgians for children around the Kiksman said sunday. Sman for the palestinian onary Council Organ Al re 7, and Virginia 6.le.valentc, would be re in but gave no Dale. Emend saturday had said eased within 24 hours in from libyan Leader col. Group s main financial jaded by palestinian Ler Nidal. Chinese Fry to base in Beijing a local govern minis in China faced wih growing peasant resistance to the one child pol icy arc trying 10 soften lie blow to families whose one child turns out to be a girl. ,-." a county in Southeastern China s Jiang i province has set up an old age insurance program Foh couples who have a girl and then agree to be sterilized the official people s daily re ported. The paper said a county in Guang Dong province has set up a similar pro Gram with the local government and parents of girls contributing to a pen Sion fund. ,. China seeking to control a Popula Tion that already exceeds  billion has mandated that most families May have Only one child. But peasant families want boys to help in the Fields and support them in their old age. For Cen Turies girls have been regarded As a Burden because once they become old enough to make Money they marry into another family. As China s economic reforms have made peasants More prosperous More of them Are willing to pay fines and have a so cold or third child if the first ones turn outdo be girls. The people daily said the Nowod age insurance lans Are designed to overcome the do advantages of having a girl. In the Jianguo vex local govern ments and industries have donated to a fund that will be irises cd and Par Enis of girls who arc sterilized can re a civic payments after they Vach age is in Huangdong families Cin draw on the pension fund after 25 years. Women Are under Strong pressure from their husbands and i a Laws to have sons. The official China daily recently reported that a Young woman in Beijing was thrown out of her House by her in Laws because she had a girl a Survey of nearly 300 Rural families in Central China s Hunan province found that More girls than boys were born from 1977 to 1984, but that since 1984 the number of surviving boy babies has been nearly twice the number of girls. An official report on the sur vey said the mortality rate for baby girls was higher among the surveyed families than that for boys