European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday March 2.1989 icelanders spill out As ban on Beer ends Reykjavik Iceland a Bret flowed freely in Iceland for he first Lime in 74 years As the last vestiges of prohibition came loan end wednesday. Lines formed outside or me of Iceland s 17 stale liquor stores and there was applause As the doors of the Snorra Braul ranch in Central Reykjavik swung open for business at 9 . Icelanders voted for prohibition in a 1908 referendum. I became Law in 9ii and look effect three years later when ii was assumed that the last booze on the Island had been drunk the Han was repealed in 1933, Bui through a Legal quirk Beer with  Content above 2.25 per. I Cal remained under prohibition. The Island s pow Erful Temperance lobby kept it that Way until last May when the lathing the icelandic parliament. Voted 13-Btolifl he prohibition effective March i. The Siale liquor stores it Ich have a monopoly on the Sale of spirits put the Beer Supply out to bids and opted for Budweiser from he United slates danish Tubor Gand Kaiser of Austria plus four brands from local breweries. This is a truly historic moment in my life and the Lite of this nation said pall Sherri soon. A cabdriver we i was one of he first to buy a 12-can Case. This is what we. Have been fighting for and this is what we have been dreaming of for so  Many restaurants and bars reported that their tables had been booked weeks in Advance by custom ers planning to Celcer Alythe Day in Stylc. The luxury does t come cheap. With inc govern ment levying a hefty tax the state liquor stores Are charging up to 2,880 crowns s57.60 for a 24-can Case of imported Beer. A Glass of Beer in a bar costs 195 to 240 crowns s3.90 to $4.80. Education minister Svarvar Gestsson. Who campaigned against lifting the ban accused the Media of hyping the occasion and said efforts to educate peo ple on the dangers of drink have proved in vain against this terrible flood.". The Reykjavik police chief Bodvar Branson said his Force is on heightened Alert for Drunken Drivers. It was the second major landmark this year for the North Atlantic Island. In january the statistical Bureau of Iceland announced that the population of Iceland had reached 251,743 the first time ii has Ever risen above the Quarter million Mark. 4,000 chanting serbs protest persecution in yugoslav province Litlo Raof Yugoslavia a about 4,000 Koso in serbs and their children converged on Belgrade wednesday to protest alleged ethnic persecution by the majority albanians in the impoverished Southern Region Thi stale Tan Jug news Agency said. ,. The Flap carrying chanting serbs jammed Sirc Cis and interrupted traffic As they walked from the Railroad Sta Tion to the downtown parliament. Tax i Drivers brandishing pictures of the popular Serbi an party chief Slobodan Milosevic gave free rides to the elderly. Speaking to a rally in the capital tuesday that Drew an estimated 500.000 people Milosevic vowed to arrest the organizers of protests and strikes by ethnic albanians in Kosovo an autonomous province of the serbian Republic. Serbs who support Milosevic believe the albanians in Kosovo which was ancient Serbia s Hocq Tolland. Want  unite the province with neighbouring Albania. About 90 percent of Kosovo s people Are ethnic  ethnic nationalism has  greatest threat to yugoslav Unity since the. 1980 death of president Tito whose leadership held the disparate nation of 23 million people together a. An economic  combined with the resurgence of ethnic and religious rivalries to threaten the Loose con. Federation Oasis republics and two provinces. The republics of Slovenia and Croatia support de mands by ethnic albanians for guarantees that Kosovo autonomy will not be restricted. Hie two arc Yugoslavia s. Most Liberal find economically advanced republics. Macedonia supports the serbs the largest ethnic group , Kosovo was outwardly peaceful tuesday except for skittered serbian protests under emergency measures in Pend monday Niter a week of unrest among the prov Ince s  million people. Official yugoslav Media said about 1,000 slavs had announced plans to leave Kosovo immediately alleging harassment by ethnic albanians. Meanwhile. 500 ethnic albanians in the Trepca Lead and Zinc mine in Kosovo continued their strike to protest serbian plans to change the Constitution in a bid to win a Ater control Over their province 0n monday 1,300 ethnic albanian miners came out from pits after an High today sit in hat forced the Rosig nation of three Kibo up communist party leaders they consider pro serbian. Doctors from Croatia said the exhausted miners would be unable to work for at least a week. Tan Jug said peace prevailed wednesday morning in Kosovo s capital of Pristina where additional military vehicles and soldiers had been sent on . In Sarajevo capital of the Republic of Bosnia stubs carry a yugoslavian National Flag try Uliey state heir protest March in Belgrade. Herzegovina 2,000  support to Milosevic s drive for More control Over Kosovo and demanded that the three leaders resignations be rescinded. Thousands of workers in Macedonia also sided with serbians in More protests wednesday and sen Mes sages of support to Belgrade students saying Sarajevo is with of and Slovenia is lying,1 Tan Jug said. About 1,000 slovenian intellectuals held an anti scr but an protest tuesday in Slovenia s capital Ljubljana and about 100,000 slovenians hate signed a petition against the emergency measures in Kosovo. World today East German manufacturer defects to w. Germany Bonn West Germany Cap the head of communist East Cre Many s Meissen porcelain factory has defected to West Germany Security sources said tues any. .,.-. For several years Weinhard i Choc had been director of one of inc most famous porcelain companies in the world. Meissen porcelain hns been known for its Artis tic  for More than 200 years. Earlier. Tuesday the mass circulation newspapers Hild and Hamburg abcs Oblatt reported that i Choc bad remained in the West after attending a Frankfurt Trade fair / British Church group urges new sanctions on is Africa London up the British Council of Church. Is tuesday urged prime minister Margaret Thatcher to impose harsher economic sanctions against South Africa including bans on air links and exports of High technology and military Ciui Plieni because of South Africa s apartheid policies .-.". The Council crib ii cd Britain s attitude and policy on racially divided South Africa As confused out  with other countries  Germany France and the United states and unlikely to bring about real change. The joint study by the Council s division of in Ierna Lional affairs and Christian Aid said urgent action is necessary because die situation of Blacks in South Afri Ca has worsened in the past year. The study cited inc bans of 32.anli-Iiparthcid organi7ations, the treason convictions of four people who were working to change race Laws and inc bombings of churches and Trade Union offices. Nobel winning scientist Konrad Lorenz Dies Vienna Austria a Konrad Lorenz the world renowned scientist and author who won a Nobel prize far his pioneering work in the Field of human and animal behaviour has died at us the Academy of sciences said tuesday Lorenz who died of kidney failure monday night was famous both for his research and for the Best sell ing works on behaviour that won him a worldwide reputation As a humanist. In science Lorenz was known above All for his Dis covery of a process known As imprinting or the rapid and almost irreversible learning process that occurs in Early childhood bonding animals to their biological mothers. Iran executes 50 linked to drugs blast mis panamanian Nicosia c Prus a fifty people convicted on drug  were hanged in Jan on wednesday. The official iranian news Agency reported. The islamic Republic news Agency said he 48 men and to women had been found guilty of Possession and Sale of More than 70,000 pounds of narcotics. Some also had been convicted of other crimes such As arms smuggling and theft according to the Repon monitored in Nicosia Irna said 14 executions took place in the capital Tehran. The others occurred in Kerman Tabriz ham7 Dan Sab Zawar Nch Avend so Siraz Botn Nei Shapur Golnabad sift Ihui Birjandi. Mashhad and Ulvi tharan. The executions arc part of a nationwide crackdown on drugs. Since an anti drug Law went into effect Jan. 21, Iran has reported 225 executions of drug smugglers. The new Law carries the death sentence for posses Sion of Small quantities of drugs and gives addicts six months to kick the habit or face prison. Tehran radio also monitored in Nicosia reported recently that 1-,750 addicts were  in Iran s Western provinces in a 24-hour period. It said 7,358 addicts had been registered since the drug Law took effect. Iran s official Media have estimated there arc 1 million drug addicts in 1 ran which has a population of 50 million. Unofficial estimates Pul the figure at 2 million addicts. Who entered . Base Panama City Panama up three panamanians who entered a . Military installation Acci dentally set off an explosion killing one of the three and slightly injuring the others the . Southern come said. The panamanians stepped on arid accidentally Duclo or itch explosives on he Empire Range military install Ulion which is off limits to unauthorized personnel the statement said the two injured panamanians were treated at a local Hospital and released the statement said. No other details of the explosion were immediately available. Military authorities arc conducting an investigation