European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news updates the stars and stripes wednesday. August 23,1989 Hirohito s estate Tokyo a tax authorities announced monday that the late emperor Hirohito left 1.86 billion yen $13.06 million in tax Able property. Ii was the first time authorities disclosed the amount of an Emper or s taxable estate an official in the Koj Imachi tax office said. Until the end of world War ii emperors were regarded As living gods. Hirohito died of cancer on Jan. 7 at age 87, and Akihito his eldest son. Immediately succeeded him. Hirohito s wife. Naga co became Empress dowager. Rockefeller museum North Tarrytown . A the North Tarrytown Board of trustees has approved a zoning change that clears the Way Tor turning John d. Rockefeller s Home into a museum. But it will be at least a year be fore the Public can tour the four Story georgian mansion in the to Tantico Hills area said Robert Snyder. President of Grenrock corp. Which manages the Rocke Feller family s estates. The 86-Acrc property is part of the 250-acre Rockefeller Park which was designated a National historic landmark in 1976. The mansion houses an Art collection and has an outdoor sculpture Gar Den and a coach barn. Nelson Rockefeller left the property to the National Trust for historic preservation when he died in 1979 and stipulated that a plan be developed to open it to the Public and preserve its history. Colombia begins extraditing suspected drug figure to . Bogota. Colombia a colom Bian police said tuesday they had started proceedings to hand Over to the United states the reputed financial chief of a cocaine Cartel. The action tests an emergency plan to extradite suspected narcotics traffickers. Eduardo Martinez Romero arrested Over the weekend in the Northern depart ment of Sucre is wanted in the United states in connection with the laundering of vast sums of cocaine profits. Col. Oscar Carmona. Chief of the National police Force s judicial investigations division said proceedings for Martinez s extradition began tuesday morning. The new extradition program is part of an emergency drug crackdown launched by the government Friday aftera wave of assassinations. Carmona said notes were sent to the Justice ministry and the . Embassy informing them of the detention of Martinez a 35-year-old economist. A . Embassy spokesman had no immediate comment on Martinez s arrest. According to col. Alfonso Arellano the police commander for Sucre Marti Nez was caught in a raid on a Rural estate in the Caribbean coastal town of Tolu about 340 Miles North of Bogota. There was no resistance really be cause of the Surprise with which they police agents acted Arellano said in Canadian forces name reservist killed by train Lahr West Germany is a pedestrian who died thursday when a train struck him was Canadian reservist Cpl. Stephan a Ouellet 19, of Sherbrooke Quebec a Canadian forces spokesman said tuesday. Of Cullel was walking on Railroad tracks South of the City about i . When the train hit him. He was one of 350 Canad an militia members in West Germany to participate in the four week fallen a never that begins saturday. Survivors include his parents Viateur Ouellet and Ginette Sency both of Sher Brooke. Our Lect s body will be flown to Canada on Friday. Beach boys concert in Munich Riem cancelled Schwabach West Germany the Beach boys concert scheduled for saturday at the reit station in Munich Rich has been cancelled because some stage equipment will not arrive in time from the United states promoters said tuesday. Promoters Are hoping to reschedule the show for mid september. Tickets for the cancelled show May be used for the Beach boys concert sept. 14 in the Schleye Halle in Stuttgart West Germany or they May be saved for the possible rescheduled show in Munich. They also can be refunded at Points of Purchase. All other Beach boys concern Are expected to go on As scheduled. An interview broadcast monday night by the private National radio network radio Caracol. The Bogota daily Al Timpo reported monday that Martinez when arrested had none of the heavily armed body guards that customarily accompany drug lords. Martinez jailed in Bogota declared his innocence the daily said. At no time have i had links to the my Dullin Cartel and i Don t know any of its  he was quoted As saying. Authorities said Martinez was in charge of finances for the powerful drug Cartel in Medellin an Industrial City that serves As the world s principal trafficking Center for cocaine. The raid was among More than 300 carried out nationwide since the govern ment s crackdown began late Friday. It came in response to the assassination by cocaine cartels of a presidential Candi Date a police colonel and a magistrate. More raids have been reported regularly. According to the defense ministry on monday More than 11,000 people had been detained in continuous raids across the country. More than 1,000 cars and trucks also were confiscated. Scores of helicopters and Small plane were impounded at airfields nationwide but police said it was impossible to give a precise figure. In Many cases they said aircraft were Only being grounded until owners could prove the planes had been legitimately purchased and were used Tor Legal activities. As part of the crackdown. President Virgilia Barco also signed a decree empowering his government to extradite suspected traffickers without approval by Colombia s judges Many of whom hive been threatened or killed by hit men. . Officials had been pressuring Barco to Lake the action since the supreme court in 1987 nullified a 1979 extradition agreement. In Washington a spokesman for the . Drug enforcement administration Frank Shults said As Many As 100 colombians Are being considered for Possi ble extradition including three Leaden of the my Dullin Cartel Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha Pablo Escobar and Jorge Luis Ochoa. The drug Cartel is believed responsible for bringing up to 80 percent of the colombian cocaine into the United states authorities have said. President Bush on monday praised Barco s measures and offered appropriate assistance As rapidly As possible White House statement said. It said Barco told Bush that the United states did not need to Send in troops. Officials in Washington said monday that the United states is preparing to Send a Small team of police experts to Colombia to advise judges magistrates and journalists on improving Security. Record haul of ecstasy1 seized in Amsterdam by the stars and stripes West German and dutch police have seized a record amount of the synthetic drug ecstasy from the cellar of an Amsterdam nether lands Flower shop a spokeswoman for the West German Federal police said tuesday. The authorities made the seizure Friday in the dutch City spokeswoman Brunhilde spies Mohr said. During the raid we confiscated More than 900,000 mama pills spics Mohr said. Mama stands for  mine. A statement released by the West German Federal police said the pills were part of a 1.3 million total produced by the Imhausen Chc Mic company in Lahr West Germany. About 375,000 of the 1.3 million pills have been tunnelled into the illegal drug Market spics Mohr said. The drug also has medical uses a police spokesman said. Ecstasy is an addictive drug that produces a High similar to cocaine. West German police said. Imhausen Chomic suspected of playing a key role in the building fan alleged Poison Gas factory in Libya was implicated in International drug dealing in february spics Mohr said. On feb. 16, West German police arrested an american lawyer atthe front door of the Imhausen firm for alleged illegal purchases of amphetamines from the company. We now believe the american is a key figure in an International ring of illegal drug dealers spics Mohr said. She refused to release the american lawyer s name. Explorers to use robot to probe 1975 wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald Whitefish Point Mich. A exp orcs set out for the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald tuesday planning to use an underwater robot to get new explanations for the Lake Superior disaster almost 14 years ago. The 729-foot steel freighter took on water and snapped in two Dur ing a storm in november 1975, sending it and All 29 crewmen to the Bottom of Lake Superior. No bodies were recovered. The search will test newly developed video equipment and its uses for underwater archaeology. Science aside the Carrot in there is wow we get to Sec the Fitzgerald " an expedition spokesman said. The wreck of the Fitzgerald ties about 17 Miles Northwest of Whitef ish Point on Michigan s upper Peninsula. The Fitzgerald was hauling More than 27,000 tons of Iron Ore from Superior wis., to Detroit when it ran into a Gale on the Eastern end of Lake Superior. The boat disappeared from radar without even a Dis Tress Call. The wreck was memorialized in song by Gordon Lightfoot and remains the subject of Public fascination. Army releases name of go killed in Accident Darmstadt West Germany the army on tuesday released the name of the Soldier killed in a single car Accident aug. 15 Between Babenhausen and Aschaffenbur. Spec. Robert 1. Staniforth 20, of shawano.wis., was assigned to Btry c. 1st in 27u Field arty regt in Babenhausen. He is survived by his parents Thomas j. And Beatrice k. Stanton a. Pfc. Michael w. Maher jr., 19, the Driver of the car was in stable condition tuesday at Frank furl army regional medical Center. Pal 2 bran Don a. Foote 19, a passenger suffered minor injuries and is Back with his unit. An investigation showed that the Driver apparently lost control of his car and Slid into a Large Highway sign All of the soldiers arc with the same unit. Is employee in Munich Dies while on vacation in . Munich West Germany is a longtime employee of the stars and stripes died aug. 11 of a stroke while vacationing in California. T Fco Daniel h. Mccaughna s3, was an accounting Derk at the regional circulation and sales office in Munich for the past eight years. He previously worked for eight years As a sales specialist Cash clerk and Supply cleric it the Munich office. A w Mccaughna was president of the military Community Tennis club. To. He is survived by his wife Margarct Mccaughna of Munich. Sailor aboard Coral sea Dies of heart lung failure Naples Italy is a 21-year-old Sailor aboard the aircraft earner Coral sea died of heart lung future Friday a Navy spokesman said tuesday y Seaman James Robert Mayhall of san Antonio died at 8 . Friday the spokesman said. Mayhall an administrative specialist assigned to at tack so 65, was found in his bed. Ahe is survived by Bis wife Jeanine l. May Hajj of Norfolk a. -.,- the Norfolk based Coral sea is on a routine deploy ment in the Mediterranean the spokesman said