European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages the stars and stripes monday May 22,1989 Britain . Each expel 11 nationals Moscow a Britain ordered the expulsion of 11 soviets and the so Viet Union responded by ordering eight British diplomats and three journalists out of the country for alleged espionage the British embassy said sunday. It s a Mirror image act of Retalia Tion British ambassador Rodric q. Braithwaite told a news conference. Rodric Lyne. The embassy s political Counselor said Braithwaite was summoned to the soviet foreign ministry saturday night and told that 11 britons would have to leave Moscow within 14 Days. On the previous Day. Soviet ambassador Leonid Zamyatin was called to the British foreign office in London and told by sir John Frt twill the Deputy per manent undersecretary that 11 soviet citizens were engaged in activities in compatible with their status and had to leave within 14 Days a British foreign office spokesman said in London. The spokesman speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom said Britain had not planned to make Public the expulsions and did so Only after the soviets retaliated. The spokesman refused to say what the soviets were accused of doing but the charge he mentioned incompatible activities is diplomatic jargon for espionage. Lynn said the britons expelled from Moscow were embassy second Secretary Michael Anderson second Secretary Adam Noble third Secretary Paul Sharp vice Consul Helen Pickering naval attache capt. Christopher Meyer it. Cmdr. Christopher Watson an assist ant naval stat acc maj. Nigel shake Spear an assistant military attache and warrant officer Laing Murfit of the de sense ministry staff. Jeremy Harris of the British Broad casting corp., Ian Glover James of inde pendent television news and Angus Roxburgh of the sunday times of Lon Don also were Given two weeks to leave the soviet Union. Lynn said. Roxburgh called the action ludicrous almost too silly to comment  the foreign office refused to identify the soviets that were to be expelled. Brit Ain s in radio reported the soviets were caught spying on military installations. Press association the Domestic Brit ish news Agency quoted unidentified diplomats As saying that soviet journalists were among those expelled from Britain. The expulsions of British and soviet nationals Are the first since the two coun tries expelled 31 of each other s citizens four years ago. The 1985 dispute began when London ordered 25 soviets to leave after they were identified As secret agents by soviet defector old a Gordievsky. In addition to the 11 britons ordered expelled saturday Lynn said three Brit ish diplomats who had already completed their Tours of assignment in mos cow last year were declared Persona non grata by the soviets meaning they can not return. Zamalin also was told Friday that three former staff members at the soviet embassy in London could not come  to Britain Lynn said. Lebanese Unity ceremony representatives of humanitarian organizations in moslem West and Christian cast Beirut meet at the line that divides the to sectors to Exchange units of donated blood a Symbol of the desire for lebanese Unity. The nation has been plagued by 14 years of civil conflict. Saturday s Trade of numerous filers of moslem and Chri Liun blood followed More than two months of shelling duels Between opposing forces that killed 359 people and wounded 1,393. Greaf Pyramid of a a reopens Giza plateau Egypt a the great Pyra mid of Cheops the most famous of ancient Egypt s Royal tombs was declared Safe for tourists and re opened saturday for the first time in nine  dutch woman and an american student were the first of scores of tourists who waited under the hot egyptian Sun to tour the  August workers had been sealing cracks reinforcing Limestone slabs for safely and Clearing ver min from the inside of the Structure which now boasts television  restoration project was the first step in a five year plan to transform the Pyramid area including the Sphinx into an open air  after the 155-foot climb to the King s chamber. Sophie d Lang of Rotterdam Holland said she and her husband were spending the Las Day of a vacation in  did t think we had a Chance to Sec inside Cheops said d Lang who waited More than three hours to readmitted. I think what they be done is  Michael Salon of Dayton Ohio said he waited out hours adding for me the Pyramid has special meaning because of the Way it s built. It s  the great Pyramid is Egypt s top tourist attraction an tourist officials protested when it was closed aug. 15. But the egyptian antiquities organization prevailed with the argument that newly discovered cracks in blocks lining Interior passages and a half Inch layer of Salt on inside Walls had to be fixed without interruption by tour  a base of 13.1 acres the great Pyramid stood at 481.4 feet when it was built 4,600 years ago. Today it is 31 feet Shorter after losing about a dozen layers and it capstone. It also has lost almost All of its outer facing of hard White Limestone which was stripped off for use in Stone Bridges irrigation canals houses Walls and buildings. Zahi harass director general of the pyramids area said nothing had been done to restore the Pyramid s Interior since it was opened in the late 1830s.hawass said that when restorers removed Salt from the Limestone Walls they found that the Rock had cracked throughout the  the grand gallery harass said 500 Limestone blocks were restored and 16 Granite slabs reinforced with stainless steel  lid less red Granite sarcophagus soiled by the touch of generations of tourists was cleaned of soot grease and other filth harass said. He said insects and rats which had invaded the Pyra mid were exterminated. Television monitors were in stalled to ensure that visitors behave themselves. During the renovation rubble was cleared and lighting added to a chamber that winds Down 396 feet and ends beneath the Pyramid. The chamber was opened to tourists for the first time. Of the monuments listed As the seven wonders of the world by greeks of the 2nd Century b.c., Only Cheops and the other two Large Giza pyramids remain intact. The remaining monuments on the list the hanging gardens of Babylon the statue of zeus in Olympia arte mis Temple in Ephesus the colossus of Rhodes the mausoleum of Hali Cazassus in Asia minor and the pharos or Lighthouse in Alexandria Egypt were destroyed. World today two rare Picasso works stolen from Rio gallery Rio de Janeiro Brazil a thieves broke into a modern Art gallery in South America s largest City and stole two rare Picasso works each valued at More than $50,000, a gallery director said saturday. Horacio pc Nicado director of the association of friends of Modem Art. Said thieves broke into a Small gallery in downtown sap Paulo the continent s largest City Early Friday morning. He said they stole an etch ing and a Ceramic figure by Pablo Picasso from an 80 Picicc collection of 20th-Century Art. He said the etching Goat s head on a table and the Ceramic piece called the Dove were completed in the 1940s by the Spanish surrealist. The works were donated to the Art association in the 1950s by count Francesco Matarazzo then one of Brazil s richest men. Anti whaling protester claims responsibility for fire Nottingham England a a Blaze damaged a supermarket and warehouse saturday the fire department said and a caller claimed it was set to protest the Sale of fish from Iceland which Hunts whales de spite International  Nottinghamshire fire department said it knew of no one injured in the fire although 21 workers were reported in the bakery and warehouse in Carllon near Nottingham in Central England when it broke out. More than 40 firefighters fought the Blaze. The fire caused an estimated $810,000 in damage to the Tysco Chain store including All the Stock in the warehouse. Later a caller to a British broadcasting corp. Radio station claimed responsibility for the Blaze saying it was in protest Over Tysco s policy of stocking icelandic  environmental group Greenpeace which has protested Tysco s policy of buying icelandic fish be cause of Iceland s whaling Industry condemned the attack. A spokesman said Greenpeace was not involved. Reagan will visit Japan $2 million fee reported Tokyo a some of Ronald Reagan s greatest admirers arc in Japan and the former president will visit them in october for a week of speeches and other  have been reports of a bidding War to sponsor events during the Reagan  York times columnist William Safire said he was told the former president s fee for the week would be about $2 million. He did not give the source of the  companies involved have denied the re port. Sudan now restricting news on military moves Khartoum Sudan a the military has imposed virtual censorship on All news about army activity and threatened to take Legal action against non abiding publications. A statement issued by the army and published in the military Magazine Ai guat Ai mus Alaha said that revealing activities of the armed forces or publishing information about the Southern rebel Sudan people liberation army would be firmly met