European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday May 14,1989 Dustin Hoffman on fight to save Sofia Lespeare site London a Dustin Hoffman and other celebrities arc urging the government to halt an of fice project on the remains of a 16th Century theater where William shake Speare once acted. In a letter to the Independent news paper Friday Hoffman joined 15 actors and directors in calling for the site of the Rose playhouse to be designated an ancient Monument to ensure its preservation. Without the designation the recently discovered remains will be irrevocably damaged by construction work scheduled to Start monday they said. The remains include part of the stage and collapsed Walls of the Eliza Bethan theater where Shakespeare acted in 1592. The development company involved said the remains of the Rose would be Prelec Ted and preserved be Neath the building with minimal damage but the Royal Shakespeare company said the assurances did not go far enough. In addition to Hoffman the Signa tories included Simon Callow Dame Judi Dench James Fox and Peter Hall. Hoffman is in Britain to play shy lock in Shakespeare s the merchant of Venice this month. Archaeologists Nurk Friday on the Rose playhouse site in London. Briton feared kidnapped in West Beirut Beirut Lebanon a an elderly British Citi zen has disappeared in syrian controlled moslem West Beirut and is feared kidnapped his wife said saturday. It is the second reported kidnapping of a foreigner in less than two weeks in the terror plagued country. The briton was identified As Jack Mann 83, a retired former Pilot with Middle East airlines Lebanon s nation Al Carrier. He left his apartment at 11 . Friday heading on foot for the British Bank of the Middle East which was 12 blocks away said his wife sunny. Employees at the Bank say he never got there. I Don t know for sure if he s been kidnapped but 1 presume so said mrs. Mann a horse Riding Trainer at West Beirut s turf club. After his retirement from the airlines in the Early 1960s, Mann worked for 10 years As a bartender at the Pickwick pub in West Beirut. The British embassy s vice Consul. Sue Tucknott said by Telephone that the Mission has no information beyond a report yesterday from mrs. Mann about the disappearance of her  the report of the suspected abduction of Mann came nine Days after a West German Relief worker Marcus Quint was kidnapped in the Southern port of Sidon. Up to the time of Mann s disappearance 16 foreign ers including nine americans and three other britons had been believed held hostage by lebanese extremists Loyal to  longest held captive is Terry a. Anderson 41, of Lorain Ohio chief Middle East correspondent for the associated press. He was kidnapped in West Beirut March 16, 1985. Who waiting till 90 to decide for.2 accused soviet spies Issue of Palestine s membership tic Etc Italy a italian Iii rec in Friha. Italians Issue warrants Trieste Italy a italian judges on Friday charged two soviets with spying in a Case that officials a threatened nato military secrets and Italy s National Security. Police said the judges had issued International arrest warrants for the soviets but it was Likely they had resumed to the soviet Union. The charges were levelled against Alexandrovic Vitaly Popov 56, a Counselor at the soviet embassy in Belgrade Yugoslavia and Nicolai Kir Ikovic Smetan Kin 44, said a police investigator speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity in the northeastern City of Trieste. Also charged was an italian electronics technician Giorgio Stancich who was arrested in february when police said they broke up a Kab ring operating in Trieste. Stancich and the soviets were suspected of working with a Kab ring seeking information on a highly advanced electronic warfare system known As Calrin. The project still under development but considered one of Hij most sophisticated systems of its kind and destined for use by nato involves computer systems capable of directing an entire Battle according to ital Ian newspaper reports. U.s., Spain Italy planning to step up anti drug drive Madrid Spain a the United Stales Spain and Italy have agreed to increase their cooperation to thwart drug trafficking an italian Interior ministry source said Friday. The agreement came during a meeting in Madrid Between . Attorney general Dick Thornburg i and officials of the Spanish and italian Interior ministries the source said speaking on condition of anonymity. 10,000 ., thai troops to stage annual exercise Bangkok Thailand a about 10,000 . And thai soldiers will take part in an annual exercise to test their readiness in Case of an invasion of North Eastern Thailand. Radio Thailand said Friday. The joint exercise code named cobra Gold 89, will take place May 23 to june 21 in Baan darn Lakhoi District in the Northern province of sukh thai about 225 Miles North of Bangkok the station said. Geneva a under . Prodding the world health organization has deferred until next year a decision on whether to admit the Plo s self declared state of Palestine As its 167th member. Palestine liberation organization head Yasser Arafat completing a visit to Zimbabwe on saturday accused the . Of using pressure blackmail and threats to prevent the Plo move. But an israeli offi Cial said the vote showed that International organizations were not prepared to accept the Plo s state of  Plo vowed it will continue its struggle for membership of the declared state in United nations  who annual Assembly voted 83-47 in a secret ballot Friday in favor of a Resolution co sponsored byline Western and third world countries. It coupled the deferral with a Call for More Aid to residents of israeli occupied lands where a palestinian uprising began 17 months ago. Twenty members abstained. The group had earlier refused to consider Nicara Guan amendments that would have turned the proposal into a Call for the Plo s immediate admission. Under the deferral Resolution who director Gen eral Hiroshi Nakajima is charged with studying the application of Palestine. And its implications for the work of the who and reporting on the Issue to the 1990 Assembly. In Washington the state department hailed the a  vote dashed Plo Hopes of winning voting rights in All major . Agencies this year after its legislature in Tunis Tunisia last november proclaimed the stale of  the United states has warned it will seek 10 Stop funding any . Agency that fully admits the self declared state which currently has non voting observer  Rar Slawi chief of the Plo Mission in Geneva said the outcome of the conspiracy against this request by the stale of Palestine. Will give us More Power to continue our diplomatic struggle. We will insist to get into All the International organizations and we believe this is our  called its dialogue with the United states an other matter and said it would continue. Sex rebel reveals mass philippine Graves Manila Philippines a soldiers aided by a for Mer communist rebel have found three mass Graves where the remains of scores of people killed by guerrillas arc believed buried a military spokesman said saturday. Col. Tranquilino Aspiras said the Graves in two prov inces just South of Manila arc believed to contain the bodies of about 100 people killed by the new people s army in a purge of suspected military spies in their ranks following the arrests of ranking rebel leaders last year. We have discovered communist killing Fields Aspi Ras said. These atrocities have been left unreported be cause of the secrecy of the killings. The murders must be  a former rebel who surrendered in january Secrino Ranonda disclosed the Graves location Aspiras said. Reporters who accompanied the soldiers said they counted 28 bodies including six women in a mass grave in the town of Kavin i in Laguna province. Most of the remains were Bones but others appeared to have been killed recently. Aspiras said digging was hampered by rough terrain we have discovered communist killing  Tranquilino Aspiras and soldiers were still Clearing the area of Trees to allow helicopters to deliver supplies and additional men. The soldiers were preparing to move on to two other mass grave Sites in nearby Quezon province. In another development police said 10 government militiamen were captured wednesday by rebels posing As soldiers in the Man dug District on the outskirts or Davao a City about 610 Miles Southeast of Manila the rebels released two who reported the incident to authorities said police la. Danily Corral. Corral said the rebels also took five m-14 rifles and a two Way radio from the  communists have been fighting the government for 20 years