European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripers tuesday january 3,1989 cruise ship officer Calls for w. Germany capsizes 5? aboard k/7/ed m to seek nuke arms abolishment Rio de Janeiro Brazil a cruise ship jammed with new year s Rev Elers bound for a fireworks display a Copacabana Beach capsized and Sank after ignoring an order to return to port officials said sunday. At least 51 people died and others were missing. The top deck was so crowded you could hardly move a brazilian woman told Brazil s to Globo. The boat was completely full including lots of Chil Dren. Then everything began shaking Back and Forth. People were shouting it s going to flip Over " the sightseeing ship was carrying at least 131 people 31 More than capacity and Sank in 65 feet of water in Rio s Guanabara Bay about 11 45 . Saturday authorities said. Authorities said a search for survivor was continuing. Some were believed trapped in the Hull of the vessel said col. Jefferson Cardoso de Bern chief of the maritime group. He said he had no accurate number of survivors or the number missing because several boats in the area took part in Rescue attempts and survivors were taken to hospitals throughout the City. Among the dead was the boat s Captain. The double decked ship Bateau Mouch Sank Between sugar loaf Mountain and a Small Island As it rounded the Bend on the Western Side of Guanabara Bay and pre pared to enter the Atlantic Ocean. The boat a popular tourist attraction that offers daily cruises of the Bay was to Anchor in the Ocean so passengers could View the Midnight fireworks display at Copacabana Beach. The vessel was so crowded that naval vessel ordered it to return to port but it ignored the order said Irineu bar Roso chief of Rio s 10th police precinct. Survivors confirmed this account. This was not an Accident Fabricio Calo 38, a businessman from Sao Paulo said in a interview at the Bateau mouche s mooring station. No Effort was made to control the number of passengers who got  eur6peari Vve athe r Hamburg West Germany a an influential West German Admi ral wrote in a Magazine article that West Germany should Stop acting As Washington s Model boy support abolishment of Short Range nuclear arms and seek peace with Moscow. In an article written for the latest Issue of Stern weekly Magazine . Elmar schmaeling promoted policies he said would Lead to withdrawal of foreign troops from West Germany and other european countries. About 400,000 foreign troops including 250,000 from the United states Are stationed on West German territory. A spate of crashes of nato warplanes this year has heightened Public controversy Over the troops. Schmaeling serves As chief of the West German armed forces office for studies and exercises a think tank. He has made comments in the Pas similar to those in the Stern article. He wrote in Stern that it was time to re examine the foundations of our postwar policies because of changes in the soviet bloc. He argued that the United states believes conflict with the soviet Union i inevitable. In contrast he wrote West germans want to overcome confrontation with the Warsaw  the goal is an International system of common Security in Europe he wrote. Schmaeling said that for too Long we have been playing the role of Mode boy to appear reliable Friendly and grateful friends of the United  the United states owns the Short Range or tactical nuclear weapons stationed in West Germany. The soviet Union keeps such weapons in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Nuclear weapons should be a Lowed to be stationed Only on the Terri tory of the country that also has them at their disposal schmaeling wrote. He called for Pursuit of disarmament policies that would Lead to end of the unnatural situation of foreign troops on one s own  a seeded up process of Mutual disarmament and the dismantling also of conventional invasion weapon must Lead to military structures that Are purely defensive in All countries he said. When this is mutually done military alliances with integrated forces can be  defense minister Rupert Scholz and other West German officials say for eign troops and Short Range nuclear weapons Are needed Here to offset what they View As a soviet threat. Apparent bombing Accident kills 4 at Home of Brazil embassy worker Bethesda my. A the Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms is investigating an explosion that killed four Maryland teen agers who were apparently experimenting with explosives. Ann Evans spokeswoman for the Montgomery county police depart ment sunday said evidence had Bee recovered from the scene of the explosion and was taken to the Rockville Laboratory of the Bat. She did no expect results until the end of this week. There is a Strong suggestion that four boys were experimenting with some Type of explosives Evans said saturday. The teen agers were killed before Dawn saturday As they apparently were attempting to make a bomb in a garage at the Home of a brazilian embassy employee police said. Two of the victims were killed in stantly by the blast while a third per son died a Short time after being rushed to a local Hospital Montgomery county police sgt. Harry Geehreng said. The fourth teen Ager died sat urday evening. The Washington Post reported on sunday that three of the Young men were described As close friends and said that the four were science oriented students who attended Wal Whitman High school in Bethesda. The victims were identified As Samir Gafasi Dov Fischman and Bruno per Rone All College freshmen whose age Sweren t available and Gustavo Macha do 15, the son of a brazilian attache. Geehreng said investigators have ruled out any terrorist connection. Gafasi and Fischman were killed in stantly by the explosion authorities said. Machado and Perrone died later after being taken to suburban Hospi Tal. Machado died about 8 30 . Sat urday while Perrone died following eight hours of surgery. Temperatures recorded saturday 4am 4pmadana, 34 57 Copenhagen i Amsterdam c