European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 22,1989 tribesmen kill born free naturalist Nairobi Kenya a conservationist George Adamson and two assist ants were slain by bandits near the wild life Reserve where Adamson and his late wife born free author Joy Adamson. Taught Lions raised in Captivity to live in the wild. Adamson. 83. Was killed sunday As he drove head on into a group of somali bandits who had robbed and beaten his assistants. Shift or roaming bands of somali tribesmen Are believed responsible for most of the animal poaching in Kenya. Adamson and his wife helped popular ise wildlife conservation. Joy Adamson was killed in 1980 by a Young servant in a wage dispute. After hearing gunfire Adamson and three workers drove about a mile fro the Kora National Reserve to help the assistants. Director of wildlife Richard world today Leakey said at a news conference on monday. Leakey went to Kora to investigate the attack. Arriving at the scene of the attack Adamson ignored pleas to Stop fro Mother occupants in his car put his Foo ton the Gas and drove straight at the bandits Leakey said. Adamson and two of assistants in his car died in the barrage of gunfire. George was a Brave Man Leakey said at a new conference. He said about 150 Security personnel had been deployed in the re Gion since the attack and an area of an 80-mile radius around Adamson s Camp had been cordoned off. During his lifetime Adamson refused any additional Protection and did not want to be removed from Kora. Where he Felt Well protected by his 16 Lions and More than half dozen assistants Leakey said. It was due largely to activism by Adam son who leased Kora from a county coun cil in 1971, that the government made the area a game Reserve. As a result of encroachment by no Madic somali tribesmen and their herds. Adamson pressured Kenya into calling in paramilitary anti poaching troops to drive out the somalis. Adamson was game Warden for Kenya s Northern Frontier District in 1944 when he married Joy an austrian bom artist whose books would thrust him into Fame. After living apart from her husband. Joy moved to Kora in the late 1960s to work with leopards. In 1956, her husband brought Home three Motherless lion cubs. One which they named Elsa. Became the Central character of born  Adamson served As technical director for a film adaptation of the Book. That Book and its sequels living free and forever free described the Adamsons unique and controversial practice of taking Lions born in Captivity and teaching them to survive on their own before freeing them. The government stopped the practice in 1980 after a mauling incident in Kora that same , whose shoulder length hair and Goatee gave him a lion like appear Ance kept a modest Camp in Kora and lived off a pension interest from a Trust fund set up by his wife and donations from supporters. Norwegians stage protest Over traffic conditions Oslo Norway a environmentalists disrupted monday s Rush hour traffic by Locking themselves onto an Anchor Chain stretched across the capital s main Highway. The protesters were urging better Public Tran sit that would encourage citizens to leave their cars at Home and reduce inner City pollution. Traffic snarled for 35 minutes while police re moved the Chain and the 15 demonstrators hand cuffed to it said police duty officer Tor Thomson. Politicians preach environmentalism but Oslo Cut mass transit by 10 percent and in creased prices 20 percent. They talk about the environment but build More roads instead said per Eugen Christiansen 20, one of 10 activists detained and released. Swedish Wildcat strike stalls most of rail traffic Stockholm Sweden a railway traffic was brought to a standstill in most of Sweden monday by hundreds of train Drivers on a Wildcat strike Over pay and plans to raise their retirement age swedish National radio  officials of the state owned states Jar Vagar said 1020 percent of the nationwide network was kept in operation. Manila wedding unites Bride and dead Groom Manila Philippines a Evangelin Guico said her marriage vows sunday then sprinkled holy water Over her Groom As he Layin a casket. Guico 21, who is two months pregnant Wasto have wed 21-year-old Marlon Manalac on sept. 26 after a three year courtship. But Las week Manalac was found shot to death by an unknown assailant in a Manila  s father police maj. Alfonso Mana Lac decided to go ahead with the unusual Cere Mony which took place at the family residence. A minister of the Agli Payan Church a philippine denomination that broke with roman catholicism agreed to officiate after the Roma Catholic Church refused to Sanction the mar Manalac s brother stood in for him at the cer Emony. Greece puts Bounty on Forest fire arsonists Athens Greece a the government announced a Bounty on arsonists sunday after several wildfires devastated forests throughout  Tzannis Tzanetakis made the announcement during a visit to fire ravaged areas of the Peloponnesus Peninsula where More than 4,900 acres were destroyed in one fire. Several other fires were still out of control but forestry officials declined to say How much land had been burned. Fire and smoke sweep the Mazatlan a mexican passenger ferry thai was sailing in the Gulf of California. Mexican ferry sailing from a a explodes 355 on Board rescued Topo Sobampo Mexico a a passenger ferry crossing the Gulf of California caught fire 26miles from port sunday and began sinking but All 355 people on Board were rescued officials said. There were 299 passengers and 56 Crew on Board the Mazatlan when an engine overheated and exploded. Antonio Rosado Echanove director of the National ferry service told the government news Agency Noli Max. The ferry was on a 130-mile crossing from la Paz in Baja California sur to Topo Sobampo on the mexican Mainland Rosado Echanove said. He said the passengers and Crew escaped the Burn ing ferry on life rafts and were picked up by another passenger vessel. Survivors interviewed by Noli mex in Topolo Bam to said panic broke out on Board As passengers saw the smoke and flames and began Rushing for the life rafts. We could t breathe we were almost asphyxiated by the smoke passenger Fermin Camacho Lopez was quoted As saying. Firefighting boats from the mexican Navy and the government Petroleum company Lemex tried to put out the Blaze but Rosado Echanove said there was no possibility of saving the ferry. He said there were 33 vehicles on Board. Everything has been lost including the Luggage of the passengers he told no Timex. U.s., Vietnam end joint Effort to find remains of 1,700 mias Bangkok Thailand Jap the United Stales and Vietnam have ended a joint search to try to resolve the Fate of about 1,700 americans still listed As missing in action in Vietnam according to a report sunday. Radio Hanoi said the search conducted by . An vietnamese specialists in three Central provinces began july 31 and ended  search was the seventh and last under a pro Gram to obtain information on 70 priority cases in accordance with an agreement reached by the two countries in August 1987, the broadcast said. It said the teams operated in the provinces of Quang Binh Quang Tri and thua  broadcast on saturday was monitored and made available by a Western embassy on sunday. Radio Hanoi s report said the . Side highly valued the effective cooperation Given by Vietnam especially the administrations and people in localities where these joint teams had come to perform their  it did not mention any results of the search or say if further joint efforts were  has increased its searches for american mias since the 1987 agreement and has turned Over the remains of 212 sets of remains believed to be that of . Servicemen. At the time of the i0th delivery of remains on june 21,the . State department said 2,353 americans were listed As missing in action in Vietnam Cambodia lao Sand China with 1.719 of those in Vietnam alone. A breakthrough on the Issue came when retired Gen. John Vessey a special representative of then president Reagan met with vietnamese foreign minister Nguyen co Thach in Hanoi during the summer of1987. An agreement was reached on a program of joint  and Vietnam do not have diplomatic relations. Some private american groups claim Vietnam is still holding americans As prisoners. Vietnam has repeatedly denied the allegation