European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday december 31, 198b soviets Cut quake dead estimate 50% Moscow soviet official s indicated thursday that inc final death toll from the armenian earthquake will he about half the previous estimate of 55,000 people. Yuri Tchaplygin a spokesman for the Council of Minimi it the soviet Cabinet old reporters thai 24.s54 people were confirmed dead As of wednesday. Two Deputy armenian premiers Yuri loj Amiryan and Vardges Arl Runy Esti mated that Only about 100 More bodies remain buried under the rubble of the dec. 7 earthquake thai devastated North Western Armenia. Other officials said the work would continue until All the bodies world today Toyota plans truck Plant in California journal says Tokyo us Toyota motor corp Japan s lop automaker will invest Ahful $250 million to build t pickup truck Assembly line Spring Al its joint Ven Ture Willi it Terai motor corp. In Fremont calif., a journal reported Friday. Lie Nihon Kimii slip Nhun said the company will hire 7ix Mym bars of the United Audi workers Union fur the line the newspaper a the japanese Fum Pany plans 10 produce pickup trucks ii year at the facility starting in the summer of 1990. Egyptian judge orders Falcon Crest off the air Cairo. T g it al1 a Provini i Wurl has or dered the information minister to Lake the american series Falcon cram off egyptian television on ground it undermines Public morals a newspaper re ported thursday. The. Series usually aired once a week draws millions f egyptians i television Seis. Al wafd. Org Iti of a centrist apposition party of the same name. Jul Ilie ruling was issued by a court in he Nile Valley town of Shiuhin cd Kom in a Case brought lawyer identified As Mustafa Hamed Al Khalifa. Me argued that scenes i Falcon Crest Are against morality and the Constitution and incite do baud ii lil i if said. Ii said that in finding for the plaintiff chief judge and win in Hammod also ordered information minister Sawai cd Sharif in charge of stale television and radio to pay court costs breweries must use freshness labels. Mun1cfi, West Germany of West germans world champions in per capita consumption of Beer will be gelling a guarantee of freshness with every Glass next year. Beginning sunday the nation s 2,500 breweries must stamp a freshness Date on each Container and stand by the product s Quality until that time the bavarian Interior ministry announced thursday.1drawer violating the new consumer Protection code could face fines of up la 15.000 Marks is 4,700the ministry reported bavarian who make up nearly q fifth of West Ger Many s population consume an average of 220 liners 57 Gallons of Beer each year earning the distinction As the Beer Drinker s Beer Drinker among their country men -.-. Harrods to Stop Selling Ozone damaging aerosols London apr harrods and 65 sister depart men stores will Stop Selling aerosol the Earth s Ozone shield the store Chain announced thurs Day. Mohamed Fayed chairman of the House of Fraser Chain that owns harrods said he hoped other Busi Nesses and industries would the preservation of the environment is the re non. Sib Lily of every one of us he Saij he did not announce a Dale by which the aerosols would be off the shelves. Marks and Spencer pc a Large clothing and food. Retailer that purchased the . Brooks Brothers Chain this year already has vowed to Stop Selling aerosols . Are recovered. The number is decreasing with each passing Day hoj Amiryan sail in Yere Van he armenian capital during a news conference televised for Moscow based reporters. As of today we still do not have a final number for the dead. We do think Ihal around 100-150 bodies arc still lobe extracted from the estimates of the death toll from the armenian earthquake have varied widely. Initially soviet officials estimated 40,000-45.000 died. On dec. 13 soviet foreign ministry spokesman Gennady i. Gerasimov gave a figure of 5 5,000. Hoj Amiryan said confusion accounted for the inaccurate initial estimates. When the earthquake had just taken place there was an impression that there were More victims. That s Why at first we cited the figure of 40,000-45,000," he said after repealed questioning by report ers about discrepancies in the death toll the armenian officials repeated the Fig ures they had Given for the number of bodies recovered and those remaining in. The rubble. We expect maybe 100. 120 addition Al dead people will be found in the buildings that have not been cleared Cyl said Artsrun a Deputy Premier in charge of construction. This is o very big number of victims. We Are nol exaggerating or underestimating. We arc treating these figures very Eduard Aykazyan. He armenian government s representative in Moscow told reporters that the Early death loll estimate was based on the percentage of buildings destroyed by the quake. Soviet officials have said poor communications and transport in the devastated Are where at least 700,000 peo ple lived made tic task of counting the dead difficult. In addition the precise population of the Region was nol Clear because thou Sands of refugees from ethnic violence in Azerbaijan had arrived recently. Home at last and Vir Ronli Deli Jim Art Back in France after spending 13 months As hostages to Lebanon. The two Urr nil lit a military Airport near Marseille France thursday evening with their father Pascal Ftp till. Front die Airport the girls were taken to a Hospital for checkups. On Friday their Hometown of Olli Oules was dressed up with Bannock and the French Tricolour to Welcome the Girta with ii belated Chatma Celebration. Strife involving african students Berino al1 demonstrations involving african students Hare spread to a second chinese City wish Afri cans at a University in Hangzhou proles line suggestions they were carriers of he deadly disease aids. About 65 africans attending Zhc Jiang agriculture University in Hangzhou have their dormitory since monday boycotting classes ant demanding to leave China a student from Cameroon said Friday he said University officials have blocked attempts to leave the Eastern chinese City. the student sneaking of anonymity said University officials had implied they were carriers of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. They treat us like criminals he said. Further details of the dispute were because of a faulty Telephone connection. University officials were not available for comment Hou is about 143 Miles Southeast of banking scene of five straight Days of Ami african demons Lra. Lions Hemming from a Christmas eve fit Between african students and chinese officials have isolated about 140 african Stu dents and foreign sympathizers in a Remote guest House outside the City to protect them from chinese protesters who Are demanding that africans responsible for injuring 11 chinese in the Brawl be brought to Justice. The chinese Side has refused the africans request to leave banking and Only those students who agree to return id their schools arc being allowed to leave the guest House. the africans say they fear foe their safety and will not return to the City. The Xinhua daily banking s leading daily ran a front Page Story for the second straight Day Friday expressing understanding for the anger of the chinese youth. It said the troublemakers a minority of for. Sign students will be punished. Africans come from developing countries and Are the article said this is nol easy. But China will not forgive those students who break China s -.,--the Story also appealed for Calm and quoted profs sets Troni banking teachers College As saying,1 we must t turn a school s problem into a social Vang Ruijun president of , said in an interview thursday that no chinese would be Pun fished for breaking windows and destroying property at the african students dormitory in 1 lie aftermath of the. Christmas Brawl at Mehai Yang said seven or eight africans were being investigated for a Ltd involvement in the fight which began when africans refused to Register he names of their chinese girlfriends they were taking to a Campus party. There arc an estimated 1,500 africans from 40 nations studying Al chinese universities
