European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday March 18,1969 holy cat a Luminous eyed cat in an attitude of silent prayer sits near the Entrance of a Buddhist Temple in Kuala i Bumpur Malaysia As it has done Day after Day during he past year. Now the word has got around among religious or superstitious Temple visitors that the animal is a reincarnation of a human being. Statues of the prayerful cat Are being cast and sold to souvenir Hunters. Soviets resume Airlift of arms to Afghanistan Kabul Afghanistan a the soviet Union said thursday thai it has resumed flying arms to Afghanistan because of a guerrilla offensive around Jala Labad the first major Battle since the red army completed its withdrawal feb. 19. Moslem guerrillas claimed thursday that they had shot Down two aircraft in heavy fighting for Jala Labad a strategic Eastern City that is the nation s third largest. The communist government claimed 470 insurgent were killed in the past 24 hours. Soviet ambassador Yuri Vorontsov said the Airlift resumed wednesday a month after the red army left the Afghanistan government to fight the insurgents on its own. He said the weapons included medium Range scud missiles which Are said to have been fired from Kabul at guerrilla positions around Jal Babad 75 Miles to the cast and 40 Miles from the Pakistan Border. Sources said at least 40 Ilyushin-76 transport planes had landed at the Kabul Airport since wednesday with military supplies and food. Vorontsov accused Pakistan of sending hundreds of its own soldiers with the guerrillas in the 10-Day Battle for Jala Labad.  Pakistan supports the guerrillas along with the United states but denies any of its soldiers Are fight ing in Afghanistan. The foreign ministry called Vorontsov s allegation fictitious. In Moscow the official news Agency Tass said Paki Stani forces were coordinating the attack on Jala Labadan forcing teen age refugees to take up. Arms. A separate Tass dispatch from Kabul accused Pakistan intelligence officers of coordinating the guerrilla attack. Moslem guerrillas began fighting in Afghanistan after a communist coup in april 1978. Soviet military forces arrived in december 1979, and an estimated 115,000 were in the country when the  began May 15,1988. Observers believe a guerrilla Victory at Jala Labad along the main Highway from Pakistan to Kabul could Lead to the fall of the capital. The guerrilla run afghan news Agency said insurgents downed a helicopter gunship near Jala Labad s television station and an air plane outside the City on wednesday. The latest guerrilla claim brought to seven the num Ber of government aircraft reported destroyed during the week in the fight for Jala Labad. Leaders of the  guerrillas have predicted an Early collapse of the government in Kabul in the absence of its soviet backers but president Najibullah has insisted his forces Are Strong enough to survive. Romeo Juliet love Story stirs passions on divided Cyprus Warnaca. Cyprus a the Romeo and Juliet Romance Ofa 16-year-old greek cypriot schoolgirl and a 17-Ycar-qld turkish settler has stirred political Pas Sions on this divided cast Mediterranean Island. The love Story has underlined the deep rooted Divi Sions that plague Cyprus 15 years after Turkey invaded and seized the Northern one third of the Island and even though the Young Man was deported this week by greek cypriot officials the Story in its Small Way symbolizes Hopes of reunification As leaders of the rival communities try to find ways to bring them together. There was an uproar in the greek cypriot South in september when the turkish moslem Vengis co Sun Shytan and Alexia chronic a Christian were married in a widely publicized moslem ceremony in the North. Alexia was Only 15 at the time. She is Only the Sec Ond greek cypriot girl known to have married a Turk since the 1974 invasion. Her family is pan Ofa Small isolated greek Community in the Karpas Region of the North following the flight or expulsion of 200,000 greek cypriots after the invasion. Greek cypriots were incensed not just that one of their own would marry a Turk but one of the 50,000 Mainland turks shipped to the North to increase the turkish cypriot population which is outnumbered 4-1 by greek by plots. The greek cypriots demand the withdrawal of All the settlers and about 30,000 turkish troops from the North before a settlement can be reached on reunification. Hard line greek cypriots alleged the girl had been kidnapped. The greek cypriot press angrily demanded action by the . Force which supervises the living conditions of the greek cypriots left in Karpas to Rescue Alexia. High school students staged demonstration demanding . Action. . Officers reported that they found no evidence of coercion and that Alexia was Happy. Greek cypriot called that a cover up. Anger was fuelled when turkish cypriot television seen in the South broadcast the marriage of Shytan and Alexia and announced that turkish cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash had Given the couple an expensive wedding present. Greek cypriot newspapers claimed the marriage was a turkish attempt to prove to the world that the main land settlers were being assimilated and were even acceptable to greek  february when Alexia crossed to the South she claimed she bad indeed been kidnapped and forced to convert to islam before being pulled into marrying seitan. A few weeks later Shytan slipped across the so called Green line that divides the Island to become a Christian so he and Alexia could live in the More prosperous South. He was immediately arrested and held in jail on charges he had kidnapped Alexia and entered the re Public of Cyprus illegally Alexia then changed her Story saying she had been forced by her own family to concoct the kidnapping Story to save them from the humiliation flier love fora Turk and conversion to islam. Nonetheless the greek cypriot authorities ruled that he should be deported As an illegal immigrant. They carried out the order tuesday. He was flown to Athens Greece and then to Istanbul Turkey.  said she does t know what she will do but has no plans to go to Turkey. World today Strong quake rocks Aegean sea Island Ier Petra Greece a a Strong Earth quake rattled the Southern tip of this Aegean sea Island Friday but caused no damage or injuries authorities said. The quake which measured 5.4 on the Richter scale occurred Friday morning about 240 Miles Southeast of Athens according to heathens seismological Institute. Some people Felt the Earth shake a bit but no one was worried said a local police spokesman. The Richter scale is a gauge of the Energy released by an earthquake As measured by the ground motion recorded on a Seismograph. Every increase of one number Means that the ground motion is 10 times greater. A quake of magnitude 5 can cause consider Able damage in populated areas and a quake measuring 6 can cause severe damage in populated areas. Construction blasting protested by hungarians Budapest Hungary a hungarian environmentalists on Friday criticized the continuation of blasting work at the site Ofa controversial Power Plant and dam project Independent groups said. Premier Miklos no myth recently Promise parliament that he would consider demands that irreversible work be temporarily halted on the a bub River at nag Maros. In a statement read to journalists the Danube Circle environmental group and other Independent organizations said the hungarian Public had noted the profound Shock. The total interference of nature being continued at the site where the Power Plant has been under construction. Hungary is building the project with Czecho Slovakia and much of the construction work on the hungarian Side has been undertaken by aus Trian companies. 2 soviet women to enter Taiwan Beauty pageant Taipei Taiwan a Taiwan s foreign ministry announced thursday that it is allowing two soviet women to participate in an International Beauty pageant on this staunchly anti communist Island next month. The two women will be the first soviet Citi Zens to receive entry visas for Taiwan ministry officials said. The ministry said it decided to reverse a Deci Sion and Issue special visas to the soviets allow ing them to attic Ipac in the miss wonderland International pageant on april 20 after carefully considering Public opinion. Pageant organizers and news Media had criticized the ministry s earlier denial of the visas saying the government should try to remove historical hatred by allowing civilian exchanges with the soviets. 1,363 suicides in Finland reported for 1987 highest rates among t disclosing suicide figures the Central Bureau of statistics reported thursday. The Bureau said 1,363 people killed them selves that year 50 More than in 1986, and the equivalent to 3.7 cases every Day in this nation of 4.9 million people. Finland continued to be among the top five or six countries in the world said Hilkka Ahonen a Bureau official. Hungary is the leading suicide country according to the world health statistical annual published by the world health organization. In 1986, 66 men and 26 women per 100,000 people killed themselves in Hungary. The corresponding figures for Finland were 43 and ii. Austria Sweden and Switzerland also were High on the. List. In the United states 21 men and five women committed suicide per 100,000 in 1986, according to who figures. ,