European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 02, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday june 2,1989 world today zoo s Snow Panther cubs won t be shown for weeks Paris a two baby Snow panthers the first bred in Captivity in France won t be receiving visitors for at least a month a zoo official said thursday. We leave them alone with their Mother said Pierre Thomas director of the zoo in the Brittany town of Pont i Don t see them for More than three minutes a Day when i take them food and if we tried to take the cubs away the Mother would scratch our eyes out he said. The rare and delicate cubs were born May 21 to a set of Snow panthers who came to the French zoo three years ago Thomas , the female was born in West Germany while her mate. Tensing was raised in Switzerland. A few Hundred wild Snow panthers still live in the upper reaches of the Himalayas. Women being kidnapped sold to chinese Farmers Beijing a thousands of women arc being kidnapped and sold to Farmers in Heb i province where hundreds of people arc getting Rich through the illegal human Trade an official newspaper reported in Quyang county have paid from 50 Yuan $13 to 5,000 Yuan $1,337 for about 5,000 women abducted from More than 10 provinces to become their wives the English language China daily reported. More than 1,000 people Are engaged in the lucrative business including one who built a five room House with his earnings the report said quoting China s women s news. Wounds kill american caught in burmese fighting Mae Sot Thailand a a . Citizen working for the Magazine Soldier of Fortune died wednesday of gunshot and shrapnel wounds after he was caught in fighting on Burma s Border with Thailand police sources Eugene Motley 32, was brought to Mae Sot Hospital tuesday night and died wednesday morning medical staff at the Hospital said. His Hometown was not said Motley apparently crossed into Burma three Days ago with Karen rebels and went to Luicir Camp at Kaw Moo a. Which has been besieged by burmese troops since May 18. 2 lebanese to attend . Military academies Beirut Lebanon a two lebanese were among the foreigners selected this year to study at both the . Military Academy and the . Naval facade my the . Embassy announced wednesday. Both military academies Reserve just 10 places for foreigners in their entering classes of about 2,000. The embassy said Karim Hage Ali a shiite moslem will gel a four year scholarship to the military facade my at West Point Catholic track Chbeir will get a similar scholarship to the naval Academy in Annapolis my. After they graduate the two will return to serve in the lebanese armed forces the embassy said. Leb anon s armed forces have split along mainly Christian moslem lines during the 14-year-old civil War. It said 65 lebanese were among the 500 foreigners from 80 countries competing to participate in the pro Gram sponsored by the department of defense. Residents of san Miguel Arren Lina overwhelm Kun verment officials distributing free food from a truck Argentina tries to curb unrest As death toll from riots hits 1 5 Buenos Aires Argentina a the death toll from three Days of food riots Rose to 15 thursday As authorities sought to curb further unrest by Argentina s working class Over raging inflation and the Lack of purchasing Power. Police said the owners of a supermarket in suburban Moreno shot and killed three looters on wednesday and 9-year-old Roberto Segovia succumbed in a Hospi Tal to injuries suffered in looting the night before. Eleven people died in Rosario and Buenos Aires on monday and tuesday. Scattered looting was reported wednesday in the Industrial suburbs of the capital and in the provincial capitals of Corrientes and Mendoza. In some Buenos Aires neighbourhoods vandals briefly blocked streets with burning tires and threw stones at police. By late wednesday however Interior minister Juan Carlos Pugliese declared Calm reigns throughout the in Rosario Argentina s second most populous City and its meat packing Center 3,000 paramilitary police and members of the National guard and coast guard patrolled City streets to enforce the peace and protect stores. The government Effort to forestall further violence involved arresting looters and delivering free food to families hardest hit by Argentina s protracted economic crisis. The unrest began last week in the Interior cities of Mendoza and Cordoba after three months of devaluations left the Argentine currency the Austral Worth one tenth of its previous value against the Dollar. On monday president Raul Alfonsin declared a state of siege in a bid to quell the unrest. Inflation meanwhile has raged on and economists say it is expected to hit 70 percent for the month of May alone. According to the conservative Center for a new majority real wages arc now Worth 35 percent of what they were in december 1983, when Alfonsin took of fice to end a seven year military dictatorship. Alfonsin met wednesday with president elect car los Menem who won the May 14 election and observers wondered whether an unpopular lame Duck Alfon sin government can implement another austerity program in an All Empl to curtail inflation and the Bud get deficit. Menem indicated to reporters thai he did l want to Lake office before inc scheduled dec. 10 inauguration "1 Don t want to interfere with the desire of president Alfonsin to serve out his More than 2,000 people have been arrested Over the past nine Days Ai least 100 have been shot an wounded some by rubber bullets and dozens More have been injured by tear Gas. Sticks flying Glass and rocks during the riots. Pugliese claimed a faction of the everyone for the fatherland movement and other if tills Inci cd the riots though he offered no evidence. The everyone for the fatherland movement was linked with the bloody assault on an army base Jan. 23 outside Buenos Aires. The assault left 27 people dead. In Santa pc province which includes Rosario 180,000 quarts of milk were distributed for free wednesday As Well As the first of 90 tons of food. In la Plata capital of Buenos Aires province Bas Kyls containing a quart of milk 2.2 pounds of flour and sugar packages of noodles and Beans and a Box of Rice were delivered free to needy families. Disney shows 6 rare anti nazi films at festival Annecy France a Walt Disney studios screened six anti nazi films made in 1942 and 1943for the first time in More than 40 years during an International animated film festival wednesday. The six clips starring Mickey mouse Donald Duck and other Disney characters have been care fully preserved and locked up at the Disney studios since the War. The 1943 clip Victory through air Power based on a Book by maj. Alexander de so Vorsky depicts the importance of Sara logic air bombing to he Allied cartoon shows Donald Duck dreaming i is condemned to live in nazi Germany. And in Donald gets drafted the famous Duck and his Friend Pete join the . Army. The clips will be shown again at a retrospective exhibition in London in november before they Are returned to the studios for safekeeping. Disney is aware of the extremely Valiona Islic con tent of the clips and their use of stereotypes. It is absolutely acceptable to pc Send Icse films from the War period to professionals to people Able to appreciate this Lype of animation in us con exl bul in would t be right to reproduce them on Cas Stelcs or to edit the for the Public Disney studios senior vice president paler Schneider Lold the associated would not reflect the spirit of Disney today he added. Walt Disney has always had progressive image and one must Silva la these clips in i hair right con exl which is during a special War time period he said. Only a thousand people will be Able to Sec the one Lime screening of inc six cartoons. The festival officials received More than 3,000 requests mostly from professionals to attend the event. According to Jean Lux i Bra director of the Annecy festival the presence of Disney films in such an Evanl is an event in itself. Except for retrospectives Disney has never accepted he said. Schneider said the studio s presence at the invitation of the organizers is part 9f a new policy and in would participate in other similar festivals. The animated film festival ended thursday. This year 215 films were Sci Eclid out of More than 900 for the Competition
