European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday january 12,1989 world today mozambican rebels kill 7 villagers in Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe a mozambican rebels shot dead seven villagers including fou children in an attack in northeastern Zimbabwe police said wednesday. Three other people were wounded when right Wing Mozambique National resistance guerrillas opened fire with automatic rifles at a Remote Village about five Miles inside Zimbabwe a police spokesman said. The spokesman who by custom was not identified said an unspecified number of rebels crossed into Zimbabwe several Days ago rounded up villagers they accused of being govern ment informers and opened fire indiscriminately. Among the dead was a 3-year-old. The rebels returned to Mozambique with clothing and cooking pots seized at the Village the spokesman added. Mozambican rebels also known by the Portu Guese acronym rename routinely Cross into neighbouring Zimbabwe to steal food and sup plies. Canadian robber Calls to thank Bank for service Vancouver British Columbia a a robber called to say thanks after taking an Undis closed amount of Money from a Branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia police said. Ten minutes after he had hit the Bank he called up and thanked them for their service and told them that the Money will be Well spent detective Bjorn Bjornson said tuesday. At first he presented the Teller with a withdrawal slip for $400, but it was illegible and he was asked to fill in the account number clearly. Then he produced an envelope bearing a badly written note. The Teller got the message and filled it with  there was no sign of a weapon but the officer quoted a Teller As saying that a gun might have been mentioned. Danish museum purchases surrealistic masterpiece Copenhagen Denmark a Den Mark s National Art museum has acquired the surrealist artist Max Ernst s painting two Fig ures without sex or chimera the state run institution said tuesday. Museum director Villads Villadsen bought the 1933 masterpiece from a Paris Art gallery. Villadsen declined to reveal the Price. But the Copenhagen daily newspaper Ber Linske Tidence said Carlsberg brewery s Art foundation had donated up to $857,000 to the museum toward the acquisition. The painting which depicts Blue and yellow abstract figures with intermingled breasts an buttocks against a Bright red background was part of a major exhibition of cubist and surrealist works in Copenhagen in 1935. Art authorities had Long hoped to obtain two figures because it was an important source of inspiration for danish surrealists in the 1930s, Villadsen said. Lance missiles in Germany need upgrade Scholz says  West Germany a defense min ister Rupert Scholz says Short Range . Nuclear mis Siles in West Germany will have to be modernized despite improvements in East West relations a mag Azine reported wednesday. In an interview with Munich based Bunte mag Azine Scholz was also quoted saying that a total elimination of Short Range missiles was out of the question. His comments come As the Bonn government struggles to appease a population that has increasingly warmed to soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev s professed innovations in pursuing arms reduction. The United states has been urging West Ger Many to agree to the modernization of the aging Lance nuclear missiles but has met with Public resistance and a reluctance of officials in the Bonn government to take a firm stand on the Issue. The associated press attempted to Contact a de sense ministry spokesman to confirm the com ments Bunte attributed to Scholz but was told no spokesman was immediately available. Scholz was quoted As making the comments when he was asked if the upgrading of .-built Larice weapons would be a Campaign Issue in Feder Al elections next year. You Are talking about Short Range nuclear weapons. There is no Way to indefinitely get around modernization of these weapons he said. A third Zero option in addition to that of the medium and longer Range missiles can t be considered Scholz was quoted As saying of the Lance missiles. The Zero option Calls for the elimination of a category of nuclear missiles on both sides such As that provided for under the .-soviet intermediate Range missile treaty signed in december 1987. There Are 88 Lance missiles in West Germany faced off against 1,365 modern soviet built Short Range missile systems. The Lance missiles have a Range of 75 Miles compared to the soviet missile Range of 180 Miles. Modernization of the Lance rockets would entail making them faster or even lengthening their Range. Scholz was also quoted As saying he would rather have peace without any weapons but i am a real is. We need a minimum of nuclear deterrence to be secure against a Surprise conventional attack with tanks and  Western officials say that even with Gorbachev s Promise in december to slash soviet conventional forces by 500,000 troops and 50,000 tanks the Warsaw pact will still outnumber North Atlantic treaty forces two to one. A copy of the Bunte interview scheduled to appear in the Magazine s thursday edition was provided Early to other news Media. Nurse called Angel of death on trial in killing of 17 patients Wuppertal West Germany a a nurse whose colleagues jokingly called her Angel of death because elderly patients died during her shift went on trial tuesday on charges of killing 17 patients with lethal doses of Medicine. Michaela Roeder is accused of killing the patients Between february 1984 and february 1986. The accused Felt her self the mistress Over life and death. She decided who was allowed to live and allowed to die prosecutor Karl Hermann Majorowski told the court. Majorowski said Roeder told some patients who were Able to understand that they were about to die. Alone in 1985, 11 of the patients were murdered he said. Roeder he said Roeder used the drug cat Presan which can reduce patients blood pressure to fatal Levels or Cali Chloride which can cause heart failure. Roeder admits giving fatal doses to six elderly patients but says she did it to spare them pain. Her attorney Siegmund Benecke said Roeder at least in one instance accidentally killed a patient when she administered the wrong injection. Majorowski demanded that Roeder be tried for murder on All counts but the court said a lesser charge of manslaughter had to be considered in each instance. Roeder on tuesday testified about her childhood difficulties with her Mother. My Mother once told me the Day i was born was the blackest Day of her life she said. Roeder said she Felt nursing was my vocation and that her ability to get along with patients was one reason she was assigned to the intensive care Ward at St. Peter s Hospital in Wuppertal about 37 Miles North of Bonn. She faces a possible life sentence if convicted. The Case has gained National attention because the killings almost went unnoticed by police. On a tip from a Hospital employee authorities had the bodies of 28 former patients exhumed and examined. Roeder who began working at the Hospital in 1978, was arrested in March 1986. Most of the 17 patients she is accused of killing were in intensive care following operations for ail ments ranging from appendicitis to cancer West German news Media have reported. The court which has scheduled 26 sessions Over the next several months is expected to hear Testi Mony from at least 40 witnesses and eight medical and other experts. Greek Sfa Fesman criticizes scandal Ridden nation Athens Greece a Constantine Caramanolis Greece s elder statesman broke his Long silence on wednesday and described the country As a boundless Madhouse As multimillion Dollar banking and arms scandals rocked the ruling socialist government. Caramanolis a conservative who played a prominent role in Greece s political life from 1955 to 1985, had refrained from making political statements since he resigned As president in March 1985, when the socialists decided not Toback him for re election. A terse one sentence statement issued through his office and attributed directly to the 80-year-old Caramanolis said the unprecedented events which Are occurring lately in our country create the impression that Greece has been turned into a boundless  the harsh statement came in the midst of an investigation by a parliamentary committee investigating the Bank of Crete scandal in which some $300 million were either allegedly mismanaged or embezzled by its former chairman George Koskotas. Koskotas fled Greece last november and flew to the United states where he was arrested and is awaiting extradition. The investigating committee is also seeking a connection into illegal arms sales by the state owned greek arms Industry Toiran and Iraq during their almost 8-year old conflict. A  cease fire was put into effect last year. The Pasok dominated 30-memberparliamentary investigating committee wants to Call Caramanos As a witness in a apparent attempt to implicate him. There was no indication on whether Caramanti would agree to appear before the commit tee. Lawmakers from new democracy an the major conservative opposition party founded by Caramanolis in 1974, have boycotted several sessions of the investigations to protest Pasok s wit Ness list. Pasok refused to include a witnesses an arms dealer and senior government advisers whose names have been mentioned As playing prominent roles in the banking and arms scandal. And s Leader Constantino i Tsitakis has charged the ruling socialists with at tempting to Whitewash the investigation and to implicate former political personalities who have had no connection whatsoever with the scandals