European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday february 25,1989 Boom or bust a Mun Surucu Indian listens to his Boom Box while attending meetings being held by Amazon tribes to organize the fight against brazilian plans to build two dams in the Amazon. The tribes meeting in Altamira Brazil say the new dams will flood their tribal lands. ., Mexico round up 500 Border suspects Tijuana Mexico a . And mexican authorities with horses All terrain vehicles and helicopters have rounded up about 500 suspected illegal aliens and drug traffickers on both sides of the Border news reports said. About 50 . Agents swept Down to the North Bank of the Tijuana River s Concrete lined Channel the san Diego Union quoted . Officials As saying and took about 350 suspected undocumented aliens into custody. Meanwhile officers from City state and Federal police departments in Tijuana waited South of the Border As hundreds of people fled up the South Bank and through holes in the Chain link Border Fence the paper said thursday. Mexican police arrested about 150 suspected alien smugglers and drug dealers the paper quoted capt. Fernando Jimenez of the Tijuana police department As saying. Authorities carried out the raids near the san Ysidro crossing about six Miles West of the proposed site of a Border ditch that . Officials say would help Stop illegal Border Crossings. The plan has fuelled controversy in the United states offended Many mexicans an aggravated Border relations. A temporary shortage of . Border patrol agents has led increasing numbers of immigrants to Cross atthe River Channel Border patrol officials said. Authorities found no drugs or weapons said Frank Wernsing agent in charge of the Imperial Beac Border patrol station. An official said thursday that most of the 350 suspects would be processed As undocumented aliens an released in Tijuana overnight. Jimenez said Many of the 150 suspects arrested in Tijuana were held by the Federal judicial police for questioning on drug charges the newspaper said. Swiss court sentences Hijacker of air Frique Jet to life in prison Lausanne Switzerland a a militant Leb anese shiite moslem was sentenced to life imprison ment Friday for the 1987 hijacking of an air Frique jetliner in which he killed a French passenger and seriously wounded a flight attendant. Switzerland s highest court convicted Hussein Hariri 22, on All seven charges against him including Mur Der attempted murder and hostage taking. The ruling by the five member Federal criminal court after a four Day trial matched the demands of the prosecution which called Hariri a killer blinded by defense attorneys had sought a conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter claiming Hariri acted on reflex when he fatally shot Xavier Beaulieu 28. They said testimony did not disprove their Contention that the victim had made a threatening move. Hariri commandeered an air Frique plane on a flight from Brazzaville Congo to Paris on july 24, 1987, to press demands for the release of lebanese and palestinians held by France West Germany and Israel. After gaining control of the plane Over Northern Italy he demanded to be flown to Beirut Lebanon but agreed to a refuelling Stop at Geneva s Airport. Hariri shot Beaulieu after his deadline for fueling the plan expired. Swiss police stormed the plane and arrested the Hijacker after Crew members overpowered him and Pas sengers began fleeing the aircraft Over safety chutes. Flight attendant Jean Pierre Louma was seriously wounded by a shot from Hariri s pistol when he jumped the Hijacker. World today Unicof reports Selling record number of cards Geneva a a record 135 million uni Cef greeting cards were sold last year earning the Agency about $40 million mainly to help the world s children the United nations said Friday. West Germany accounted for the most sales in 1988, 15 million followed by the United states with 14 million and France with 12 Mil lion a . Press release said. Spain and the Netherlands reported the great est jump in annual sales. Luxembourg Switzer land Norway Finland and Denmark led in per capita purchases of cards. Almost 25 million cards were sold in latin America and Asia last year with Brazil and India showing the greatest interest according to Unicof the . Children s fund. Unicof said it has sold More than 2.5 billion cards since the Agency was founded in 1949. 2 face jail Over posing of Model on a Buddha Bangkok Thailand a an american photographer and a Model who posed in her under Wear while sitting on a Buddha May face up to seven years in prison after they were arrested on charges of desecrating a statue police said Friday. The two were identified As photographer Sante Maria d Razzio 33, of new Jersey and Model Kara Ruth Young 23, of California. Their hometowns were not available said poli Celt. Manuey . D Razzio was photographing the Model for the French Magazine Vogue when local people who were worshipping at the Temple complained to police the officer said. The americans were arrested sunday after the picture taking session inside Chung Len Buddhist Temple in the Southern Island resort of Phu Ket Manuey said. The pair said they did not know they were breaking the Law Manuey said. Thailand is predominantly Buddhist country. 7 killed when plane crashes while Landing Helsinki Finland a a twin engine plane crashed at the end of a runway while try ing to land killing seven of the eight finns inboard officials said Friday. The Lone survivor of the crash at Helsinki International Airport suffered minor injuries and walked 400 Yards from the crash site before Rescue teams reached her officials said. The Fairchild metro aircraft went Down around Midnight thursday in Light fog they said. The plane was returning to Finland from Southend England. No cause of the crash was immediately Given. The government appointed a special committee to investigate. Shakespeare s ghost hovers Over Londo London a actor Ian Mckel Len climbed into a Large Muddy Hole thursday and cried out to think that the voice of William Shakespeare echoed from these around him archaeologists scraped at the foundations of the newly discovered Rose theater on backside where the Bard made his London debut As an actor in 1592. The puzzles of the centuries Are being answered Here we Are finding out what the elizabethan theater really looked like. It was All Guesswork until now because when Oliver Cromwell closed the Heaters in 1642 they vanished into the mud Mckellen said in an interview. Duck boards Lead to the site at Rose Alley which commemorates the name of the Thea Ter nearly 400 years after it was demolished. Traffic crossing the thames River thunders along Southwark Bridge where passers by Idle to stare at the diggers below. Mckellen was joined by 17 other shakespearean actors and actresses supporting efforts to preserve the remains of the Rose summoned by Roger Rees who had the title role in the London and Broadway versions of Nicholas when i heard about it i could t be Lieve that the site of the first commercial theater in Central London had Bee found Rees said. The troupe saw the Chalk foundations 6 feet below the modern surface col lapsed Walls and the presumed site of the sloping pit beyond which May still be the stage buried under tons of soil. The dig has yielded thousands of hazelnut shells the elizabethans pop Corn and Clay pipes one with a bowls Small As an Acorn. That comes from the 1580 level when tobacco was in its first years of import to England and very expensive said archaeologist Patricia Price. We also found these bits of pottery this wig curler this Stem of a Glass Goblet Bones of sheep and masses of Oyster shells she said displaying a Box. There were no Dustbin men garbage men then and All the rubbish was museum of London experts who located and uncovered the remains after an office building was torn Down two months ago said thursday that they had Only until the end of next week to dig before quitting the site to allow the construction of a new building to go on. But after meeting with developers imry merchant securities Harvey Shel Don the museum s archaeological office for greater London said some time had been gained. The new building will go ahead but we will have an Extension to evaluate the site to see what Best can be done he said. Perhaps some of the remains can be preserved. Scholars from abroad Are coming to London to see How the discovery matches the argument that has gone on for generations were the Heaters round or Many sided the Rose was thought to have been octagonal in shape but the dig suggests it had 16 or 18 sides or was elliptical a design never hinted at in contemporary maps or descriptions. Backside contains the Sites of three other historic Heaters of the elizabethan and Early Stuart times the Globe the Swan and the Hope All close together near the Rose. The Globe is the most famous because Shakespeare s finest plays were first per formed there in his lifetime. His Friend actor Richard Burbage believed to have been the first Hamlet Othello and Lear built the theater and Shakespeare was a part owner entitled to a percentage of the gallery takings. He de scribes it in Henry Vas this wooden american actor producer Sam Wana maker who is reconstructing the Globe As a Shakespeare performance and study Cen Ter joined the preservation Campaign. In a letter from los Angeles published thursday in the Independent newspaper Wanamaker urged that the whole of backside be protected As a heritage Are and not built Over. He called the Rose find the "20th Cen Tury s most important discovery regarding the Cradle of the great elizabethan Suzanne Bertish who has acted in London and new York with the Royal. Shakespeare company said As she sur i eyed the site i think we Are in danger of being very negligent about our great Art Suc tradition if this is not
