European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday april 4, 1989 legionnaires1 victim Dies bringing death toll to 6 Onoon a a Man suffering from legionnaires disease has died a Hospital official said sat urday bringing to six the death loll from iwo separate outbreaks of the times newspaper said the victim was the first to.,. Die from an outbreak in the knights Ridge area of Ion Don it said had been reported there. Another outbreak of Floc disease in Central Londo killed five people and sickened 31 others. An official a St. Mary s Hospital in West London confirmed that a Man died Friday of the disease but refund to give further details. I m not. Denying in said the official. Who spoke on condition of anonymity. I would t be talking to you Ifil had t happened but we have nothing to add. airlifts food supplies to isolated guatemalans Guatemala City a the. . Embassy said saturday that two . Military Ucli copiers Cliv Rcd food medical supplies and doctors to guatemalans living in an isolated Mountain area. A Ubassy spokesman Joh Treacy said the guatemalan military asked for the helicopters to transport sup plies to More than 1,500 people in quiche province i Del Miles North of Guatemala City. Thousands of people remain in the isolated area to. Which they fled in the Early Elsos to avoid fight eng Between Security forces and rebels. The Guatemala Militan says leftist guerrillas 51.11 operate in the area. Trea cd said in in Guatemala on Marth 26 and returned a Honduras three Guys later after carrying food Medicine construe lion Maier Taland medical personnel to United Stales agreed 16 the guatemalan request because there Are no roads into the area and the Guate Malan army did not have the helicopters to move the needed supplies he said swedish firm finds signs of major Baltic Oil Deposit Stockholm Sweden Ai j a swedish satellite company has found signs of a major Oil Deposit in a Kaiue sea area that Sweden won from the soviet i inn in a territorial claim last year he estimated is 10 million cubic meters enough to prone 10 percent of Sweden s Oil needs for a decade if it is commercially retrievable said Ben Lund Kraii. Manager of satellite exploration a. I Unguren told the National news Agency to that his company s Parent firm. I Clr scan a would apply for a drilling permit this fall along with International Peyrolo a corp of Canada and another swedish company. Signs of the Oil Reserve were found East of the Baltic Island of Gotland in an area thai had been disputed by Stockholm arid Moscow for 19 years. Ape rips off forearm of boy reaching into Cage Folkestone. England a a caged Chimp an ice Tore off the forearm of a 2-year-old boy when the youngster reached in to pet the animal Ai a 700, authorities said. ,.,surgeons were unable to re attach Matthew Mcdaid s Ami a spokeswoman for Queen Victoria Hospital said adding that the child was in satisfactory condition Matthew was with i parents and grandparents .11 me port la nine zoo Park near the Southeastern coastal Eny of Folkestone when he approached the Cage thai contained Hima a 28-year-old male and other put his left Arm into the Cage and bus Tun grabbed 11 with such Force n was torn offal the Elbow aug Holics said. Zoo spokesman Tom Begg said the Hoy Llain Ero sved the safety Barrier to eel 10 the Cage. Land prices in Tokyo Rise at slower Pace in 88 Tokyo re l land prices grew Al a slower Rale in to Taouil increased More sharply in other areas n f Japan the Gin eminent reported Sai Bidav the National land Agency s annual report showed Ihrl resident us land Knees in 1 Okyo Rose by 0 j percent in i y�8. Alter soaring 68.6 percent the previous land prices in Tokyo Rose by a sharply lower average of 3.0 percent in the past year compared with 61.1 percent in 19s7.the nationwide Survey showed a Strong upward Liend m land values West of Tokyo in the cities of Ovid. Mara and Nagoya. In Osaka As rage land prices increased by almost 33 percent in 1988, com tured with is 6 percent in 1987. Perfect Takeoff the wind is a Petit and the Kite begins in Beijing. The chinese flirt is one of hundreds of Grade school students who lout it Tinubu a of perfect weather to by their Kiln in tie gunmen Square. Iraqis elect Many newcomers paving Way for political reforms Baghdad. Iraq a iraqi voters swept Doy ens of first time candidates Inlo the 2io-member National Assembly according to results announced sunday in an election that opened the Way Tor political reforms. The state run radio did not give in immediate breakdown of the results but said thai new faces would predominate when the new Assembly meets for the firs Lime Lacr this month. A Tola of 910 candidates ran for election. Including Many veterans of the now suspended eight year a with Iran and More than 250 members of the ruling Arab Baal socialist parly. There were 61 women candidates officials said that the turnout was relatively High among the country s estimated 8 million Vot ers but the government Commilee overseeing the poll did not give any figures. The Assembly elected for a four year term is expected to endorse a new cons minion and a new Law establishing some form of multiparty system after 20 years of Rule by the a allots a referendum must he held to approve the con i Tulion which will replace an Merim Charier approved in 1969. One year Aller the baathist is Sci de Power in a bloodless coup. Diplomats and analysts Hac said he election of a substantial number of non Han lusts to Llie Assembly could mfg Genie government policy in the future by enabling to pwn n bigger Rule in the Depinon Maling process but no timetable has been set for the promised reforms and they Are not expected o reduce i Ren Tledni Saddam Hussein s . The Assembly holds a iwo month session twice yearly h shares Power with the Heath isl revolutionary command Council which must ratify new Laws and also Hasiec loppers the official iraqi news Agency quoted , lion committee As saying the poll wus historic. Because in represents a Campaign to develop Omo Crolic life and expand he base of popular represent " the Commilee headed by Tizzan Ibrahim Deputy chairman of the command Council also reiterated the government s goals of a permanent Constitution and expansion of the multiparty system the news Agency said. The senior political personality in the election Saadi Mead Saleh. Baath parly chief in Baghdad won his scat it a constituency in the capital the radio said. Bui the Only cab incl minister running Hashim Hassan Aqwan kurdish stale minister failed to win election it sail. Two sex Cabinet ministers won scats. They Are Halim Abdul Rashid a former Light Industry min ister and Hashim Hassan Tawfiq who served As finance minister analysts Aid that Rashid 43. An american Edu cried economist who is close to Saddam is expected to play a major role in the new Assembly. The elections originally were set for last aug. 30. But were postponed until March 3 after a cease Are sponsored by the United nations look effect in the Gulf War aug 20. The second delay was to allow More independents to run the government said. Stage technician crushed by falling opera scenery London at a 31-year-old stage technician Vas Fla Fly injured at London s Royal opera House when heavy scenery fell on him following a rehearsal the Lianag Emcil said. The evening s performance of Giuseppe Verdi s Don Carlos was cancelled m sympathy for the family of the dead Man Greg Bellamy and the audience Gol Iti Money Back said Ewen Balfour the , Public trolley full of scenery was being moved across the Sunc after a rehearsal of la Clemenia i Tito when in toppled Over and or. Bellamy was so Jed
