European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 news briefs the stars and stripes Friday August 25,1989 drug lords launch War on Colombia officials Bogota Colombia a drug traffickers thursday bombed the Headquarters of two Polit ical parties and set fire to two politicians Homes in my Dullin. Declaring War on the government in retaliation for a crackdown on the narcotics Trade. Police said one person was killed in the bomb ing of the Liberal party offices in my Dullin an Industrial City that serves As a base for the world s biggest cocaine Cartel. Also bombed was the conservative party s Headquarters and the weekend retreats of two prominent politicians former finance minister Edgard Gutierrez of the Liberal party and conservative sen. Ignacio Velez Escobar police said. Officials said they also found powerful bombs left in suitcases at the my Dullin offices of two National radio networks Caracol and radio Ca Dana Nacional. Bomb experts defused them. The wave of attacks occurred Between mid night and 4 . It follows a Roundup of suspected drug traffickers and suspects in the slaying on Friday of sen. Luis Carlos Galan a leading presidential candidate who was a foe of Colombia s drug lords. 19 Hurt As trains collide in town near Darmstadt Darmstadt West Germany a a passenger train rammed into a stationary freight train near a depot outside Darmstadt on thurs Day injuring 19 people officials said. The Accident occurred about 200 Yards from the train station in the town of Ober Ramstadt a Darmstadt suburb. Five of the freight train s 16 cars were jolted off the tracks and several cars of both trains were damaged a police statement of the 19 people injured was seriously Hurt police said. Summer from Page 1 has experienced the most extreme warm and dry weather while Southern Bavaria has been cooler an much Wetter than Normal. Ramstein has had less rain than Normal every month since May but got twice Smuch As usual in april. In the United kingdom Starr said the period Start ing june 1 also has been the warmest there since 1983, and the summer has been relatively dry As Well. After a Normal june precipitation ranged from Only 15 per cent to 70 percent of Normal in july across Wales and Southern England and Only 20 percent to 90 percent in August. Much of rain that did fall came in sudden intense showers that did t percolate the soil he said. I think we re expecting a bumper crop of grapes Starr said calling that ironic because we re not re know cd for Starr said the British press has been full of stories about air conditioner sales. The big problem is is it really Worth the invest ment when a hot summer happens Only once every Romany years he said. It is the same question we have in Britain about whether to buy conli.but.n5 to tin report halt Wrai Candida Samone m Aptos. Italy Mazowiecki elected Leader of Poland in landslide vote Warsaw. Poland a lawmakers on thurs Day elected Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki Ashe East bloc s first non communist prime minister handing him a historic mandate to Lead Poland out of economic ruin. Mazowiecki a former political prisoner was approved by a 378-4 vote in the scam the lower House of the National Assembly. There were 41 abstentions. Members of every party including the communists supported Mazowiecki. The vote was greeted by a standing ovation an Mazowiecki immediately Rose to say i am very touched at this moment. I thank you High chamber for this great proof of Trust. I am counting on cooperation with the scam and Senate. This moment shall become an essential moment in order for us to raise up Poland Lech Walesa the Solidarity Leader said i will do everything so that my Premier my child our child passes the test before speaking to reporters in Gdansk Walesa called the election an event without precedent and wished Mazowiecki Luck in transforming our country from a totalitarian system to the scam alone elects the Premier. Thirty seven members of the 460-Mcmbcr chamber were absent for the vote. After Mazowicki s election 15 communist Law makers submitted a proposal to drop from the Constitution a clause that mandates the communist party be the leading political Force in society. Deputy Jozcfa Bogusz told the state Pap news Agency that the proposed amendment was in connection with the new political situation and historical there was no indication when the proposal would be put to a vote. Mazowiecki had been recommended for the office of prime minister by Walesa and nominated on sat urday by communist president Wojciech Jaruzelski who accepted Walesa s once inconceivable proposition to form a non communist government in the soviet Union s largest and most strategic East bloc ally. Jaruzelski did not attend the scam session. But Mazowicki went to Belvedere Palace for a 30-Minutc meeting with Jaruzelski after the vote the state Pap news Agency said. No details of the meeting were disclosed but at a news conference later Mazowiecki said his initial contacts with the president led him to expect full respect in Moscow a soviet foreign ministry spokesman Yuri Grimit sikh greeted the election with equanimity. The soviet Side takes the decision into account and we shall regard Comrade Mazowiecki As our part Ner in the relations that link our two countries he said. President Bush praised Mazowicki s election jewish him Well of course Bush said in Maine. It s a fascinating period in Eastern Jaruzelski agreed to nominate Mazowiecki after Solidarity earlier refused to participate in a government formed by the communists following parliamentary elections in june. Walesa argued that because Solidarity won the elections overwhelmingly it had a mandate to form a government that would win Public Confidence. In an initial act of support for a Solidarity led government workers on thursday suspended several Small strikes around the country at the Union s strikes included walkouts at four Coal mines in the Silesia Region and one at a trucking Enterprise in Kato Wice the state s Pap news Agency said. Poland is wracked by High inflation a shortage of Basic goods Low worker productivity and a $39 billion foreign debt. Mazowiecki said wednesday he planned to present a government within a week. He said he could not say How Many of the 19 government ministries would be offered to the communists or to Solidarity and it sallied parties. Market pushed to historic highs after takeover talk spurs buying new York up1 the Stock Market on thursday closed at its highest level in history with the Dow Jones Industrial average streaking ahead by 36.53 to 2734.64 in a late session buying surge. Soared 56.53 to 2734.64, according to the official tally. Other Market indicators also set new led declines 1,165-359 among the 1,964 is sues crossing the nose tape at 4 . Edt. Volume swelled to about 225,000,000 shares compared with Only 159,640,000 traded wednesday. Prices also Rose sharply in Active trading on the Ameri can Stock Exchange Stock prices began climbing right at the opening on the news that Holiday corp. Has agreed to sell its Holiday inns Chain to British brewery and hotel conglomerate Bass pc for $2.225 billion. Holiday also announce plans to spin off its gaming operations and other hotel chains into a separate said the takeover news sparked a rally among hotel and Casino issues which spilled Over into the broader Market. They also noted that stocks got additional support from stronger Bond prices which helped the do Industrial average rebound further from its 40.97-Point drop on monday. The rally stalled at midday leading some Market observers to wonder if it would resume. However computer aided buy programs kicked in later in the session driving Stock prices sharply higher across the Board traders Ichael Metz a Market analyst at Oppon Cimer & co., said investors who had been out of the Market since Mon Day s sell off began buying once they saw that a further correction was not Likely to happen As prices kept heading higher. Many investors were waiting for More bargain Hunt ing opportunities to occur. But the takeover news and Bond gains took care of that he the trading floor As of 3 . Edt first Bank system sex dividend was the most Active nose Issue up Mart a subject of takeover or restructuring speculation followed posting a Sharp gain. Phillips Petroleum which also was higher on takeover talk was was sharply higher As were other hotel and Casino issues including Marriott Caesars world Golden Nugget ramada and prime motor inns. International flavors & fragrances was sharply higher. Early in the session trading of the Stock was halted briefly after it rallied on unconfirmed rumours that two West German companies each were interested in acquiring the company Cyprus minerals greyhound and Carolina Power & Light were All higher. The three stocks were added to the Standard & poor s 500-Stock Index to replace Marion laboratories and prime computer which Are being acquired and Reading & Bates which is restructuring. East Germany defends 1939 Hitler Stalin pact Berlin a East Germany has acknowledged openly for the first time the existence of secret protocols in the1939 non aggression pact Between nazi Germany and the soviet Union. The communist East German leadership strongly defended the pact saying the treaty gave Moscow time to prepare for War. Communist party historian Hein Kuehnrich said in a newspaper interview wednesday that the pact which contained protocols that put the then inde pendent Baltic republics into the soviet orbit was essential to Moscow s defense strategy. The soviet Union gained territory forts defense against nazi aggression Kuehnrich told the Junge Welt newspaper a party Organ for Young people. On aug. 23, 1939, Hitler and Stalin divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. A week later nazi German invaded Poland. The soviet Union later occupied Eastern Poland. Less that a year later Stalin took Over the Baltic states of Estonia Latvia and Lithuania. That action is now an explosive Issue in the soviet Baltic Region. Western accounts say the pact pave the Way for the beginning of world War Kuehnrich called the interpretation nonsense that stands the facts on he denied that the pact set the Stag for War. The timing of the pact and the begin Ning of War has been used to trick people into believing that the soviet Union was party responsible for the War the Histo Rian said. Hitler wanted War not the soviet Union Kuehnrich said. \
