European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday May 29, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 world Toda Guatemala gets $1 million from . For drug fight Guatemala City Guatemala a the . Government will give Guatemala $1 million this year to combat narcotics trafficking the . Embassy earlier this year allocated $400.000 to Guatemala. The embassy announced it would give the Central american country an additional $600,000 to fight drug runners. Guatemala and the United states arc found ing members of an organization of american states commission to fight drug trafficking. The fight against narcotics trafficking met with Success in the last months said Roberto Vallec Valdizon guatemalan Interior Secretary. Moslem rebels step up Campaign in Afghanistan Islamabad Pakistan a moslem re Bels sunday announced a renewed offensive against the afghan City of Jala Labad saying they have captured several military posts and killed or wounded at least 70 radio Kabul in a conflicting report monitored in Islamabad said afghan forces re pulsed a rebel attack and gained new ground around the embattled Eastern afghan City. Radio Kabul said 55 enemy elements were killed and 46 wounded. Rebel sources who were not identified re ported their own losses at approximately 10 dead in an offensive launched saturday on All four sides of report could be independently verified. Tropical storm takes heavy toll in Vietnam Bangkok Thailand a at least 52 people were killed 37 injured and 100,000 left homeless when tropical storm Cecil Tore through Vietnam s Quang Nam Danang province Viet namese radio said storm razed 36,000 houses and Sank or dam aged 700 vessels As it hit the Central coastal province wednesday and thursday the voice of Vietnam said in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok. It said torrential Rains on Nguc Tinh and Binh Tri Thien provinces just North of Quang Nam Danang on Friday and saturday caused heavy material losses. Everest Avalanche kills four polish climbers Katmandu up a massive Avalanche instantly killed four poles attempting to climb mount Everest and another of their party died of his injuries saturday an official of the tourism ministry said sunday. A sixth climber Andrej Marciniak 30, is seriously injured and has been stranded on the higher reaches of the 29,028-foot Peak since wednesday. Bad weather was hampering Rescue efforts. Andrei Hainrich 51, Miroslaw Dasel 26 Miroslaw Gard Zielewski 35 and Waclaw it Reba 50, were killed instantly when the massive Avalanche rolled Down the Side of the world s larg est Peak wednesday crushing the climbers with tons of Snow and ice. Eugeniusz Chrobak 30, Leader of a 19-Mem bar International team that also included Ameri cans died saturday of his injuries. Mathias rust sits with his Mother Monika on saturday in the family s Home in Wencl West Germany. Life settling Down for flier who landed in red Square by Carol j. Williams Wedel West Germany a two years after his Fli m to red Square triggered a Kremlin shake up and Drew a soviet prison sentence Mathias rust s interests Are More Down to Earth. He rides a horse. Back at Home in this Hamburg suburb life is nearly Back to Normal for the West German youth who thought his May 28, 1987, stunt would earn him a meeting with soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev. The Crew Cut he wore upon release from Moscow s Lefo Tovo prison in August has grown Back As has the grass around his family s Brick apartment House after repeated trampling by journalists and curiosity seekers. But rust now 21, has had to change roles from aviator to equestrian because local authorities refuse to reinstate his Pilot s License. I Don t like places where there Are so Many people on so Little space said rust seated in the tiny dining Alcove cluttered with Memorabilia from his moments in the limelight. That s Why i bought my horse to get away while i m not Able to the 8-Ycar-old Black Mare Torina is a Champion jumper and was bought with Money Stern Magazine paid rust s family for the rights to their Story. The West German press labelled rust the daredevil Kremlin flier when at age 19, he flew a single engine Cessna through heavily guarded airspace and landed in Moscow s red Square. The act was a prelude to the ouster of soviet de sense minister Sergei l. Sokolov and air defense chief Alexander Kordunov because soviet air defences took no action to halt the flight. But despite self Confidence about his abilities As an aviator rust is no adventurer. The unlikely hero s political rationale for making the flight has perplexed More than impressed those who initially took his flight As reckless derring do. It was my direct goal to speak to Gorbachev to explain that our people also want better relations rust said. It was impossible at that time in any other Way so i made the flight. I do not regret the flight because in the end this incident helped to better relations Between East an West and to clarify the differences and similarities Between our societies he said. Expressing disappointment that Gorbachev never granted him an audience rust said he Hopes to meet him on a tourist visit to the soviet Union. He cannot get a visa however until his four year sentence expires Insp Lembur 1991.rust was convicted in Moscow on charges of Violat ing incr National air safely regulations illegal entry into the soviet Union and malicious hooliganism. He was released in August on what soviet authorities said were humanitarian grounds. He initially faced charges in West Germany but they were dropped late last year by inc Hamburg slate prosecutor s sole Sanction still in Force is the revoked Pilot s License. Rusl cup acis to earn in Back some Day and Fly for one of Hamburg s air charter services. In inc Mca Lime he is spending the summer at Home Wilh his parents Monika and Karl Heinz rust and his 17-year-old brother Ingo. This fall he will Coler the civilian service the pacifist alternative lowest Germany s compulsory military service. Rust said his experience in Moscow where he claims to have befriended guards prosecutors and Kab agents solidified his opposition to any use of armed will instead spend his 20 months in the civilian service at a local Hospital and get the training he needs to be a health care worker in Case his Pilot s License is not family s crowded four room Home has been transformed into a virtual shrine to rust s soviet , newspaper clippings artists sketches and cartoon lampooning his unauthorized flight from Helsinki to Moscow cover much of the Wall space in the dining and living rooms As Well As Over the bunk Beds in what his Mother soil Calls the children s a poster of Gorbachev has stared across the in trance Way since the first of the family s seven trips to Moscow to visit the jailed flier. Between rides on Torina stabled at a farm four Miles away rust said he is at work on a Book and a screenplay to explain his Moscow Mission. The Book progressing slowly is being penned by hand because rust said computers and typewriters Are intimidating and thousands clash in London anti Rushdie March London a thousands of moslem on saturday fought among themselves and clashed Wilh police Dur ing a March to demand Brilain change it blasphemy Laws and allow them to Chal Lenge the satanic verses in court. Police said 84 people were arrested and six policemen were injured during the March Mosi in so real Bailies in from of the houses of parliament. An estimated 20,000 demonstrators waved banners denouncing author Sal Man Rushdie and shouted slogans such As Rushdie must die As icy a an their March in Hyde Park. An effigy of Rushdie hanging from Gal lows was thrust High into the air. Rush die a British author wrote the satanic verses a that some say is insult ing to Keith Vaz of the oppose lion labor party called on Rushdie and his publisher Penguin to withdraw the novel from circulation in Britain Home to an estimated 850,000 moslem. Proc stars then marched to prime minister Margaret Thatcher s office at 10 Downing st., where representatives handed in a petition demanding change in Britain s ancient blasphemy s rarely used blasphemy Law makes it illegal Only to insult inc Chris Tian state Church of England. Moslem want it extended to reded Britain s Multi clinic society saying this would give them Legal grounds for opposing the satanic Al their next Slop in parliament Square thousands of protesters blood under big Ben and blocked traffic As fighting broke out among crowd Mem Bers. Riot police poured Inlo the area to break up the clashes and Force pro testers onto Westminster Bridge out of the Scotland Yard spokesman said fighting broke out among younger Mem Bers of the demonstration for reasons Best known to he said the demonstrators at first re fused to move but they resumed the March after proc so organizers announced Over a Loudspeaker that police had assured them the arrested people would be released. After the skirmishes inc proc stars continued their March to their final pcs Lina lion in South London s Ken Ringlon where icy dispersed
