European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 news briefs the stars and stripes thursday August 31,1989 syrians christians Battle for six hours in Beirut Beirut. Lebanon a syrian and Chris Tian forces battled Tor six hours with artillery in Beirut wednesday and mortar rounds exploded near a meeting Between a French peace envoy and a moslem Leader. Police said one person was killed and 19wounded in the righting. The latest casualties raised the toll from the nearly six months of clashes to at least 803 killed and 2,287 wounded. The French envoy Francois Scheer drove from the Christian sector across Beirut s divid ing Green line into moslem West Beirut during mortar and sniper exchanges. He met with Sheik Mohammed Mahdi Sharris Eddine the senior shiite moslem cleric in Lebanon. Scheer travelled with an escort of two carloads of bodyguards. During a 45-Minulc meeting at shamed Dinc s second floor apartment in the tall thayal District five mortar rounds exploded nearby. Poll finds most s. Koreans want . Troops to stay Seoul South Korea a a government sponsored Survey found that More than nine out of 10 South koreans believe . Troops should remain to help defend their country and that 64 percent worry that North Korea May invade. The poll was conducted by Korea research an Independent polling organization for the ministry of culture and information. It found94 percent of those interviewed believed the 43,000 . Troops stationed in South Korea under a Mutual defense pact should stay the ministry said wednesday. Radical students and dissidents a Small but vocal minority have demanded the withdrawal of . Troops saying their presence hinders re unification with North Korea. Some . Politicians also have said Ameri can troops should be gradually phased out of South Korea because they consider the country Able to defend itself. Greek traffic death rate highest in common Market Athens Greece a even with the few est number of cars on the nation s highways when compared to other european Community members statistics published wednesday showed that Greece had the Community s worst traffic fatality rate. About 152 persons die on the average each month from traffic accidents with More than 20,000 injuries recorded in 1988. Greece has population of 10 million. The rest of the dec members with a total population of 274 million recorded 32,000 deaths from traffic accidents the statistics indicated. Greece has 12 cars per 100 inhabitants Only one third of the dec average of 34 cars. But twice As Many persons die on greek highways from traffic accidents As in the rest of the dec. A hellenic automobile association official cited four main reasons for the country s unusual High Accident rate poor roads bad sign posting nigh Cost of cars and parts and undisciplined Drivers. Cars in Greece Are taxed according to the size of their engine. A Small japanese made Suzuki with a 1,000-cubic centimetre engine costs$7,200. A Mercedes 300 runs about s 152,000. 3 More colombian judges resign following threats Bogota Colombia a three More judges re signed in Medellin the nation s cocaine capital after threats were made by drug lords seeking to halt a govern ment crackdown on narcotics trafficking authorities said wednesday. The resignations brought to 108 the number of judges who have quit since the traffickers vowed aug. 18 to retaliate against the government police journalists and others regarded As a threat to the drug Empire. The traffickers have said they will kill 10 judges forever colombian extradited to the United states to stand trial on drug charges. The Medellin magistrates who resigned on tuesday had been investigating slayings believed to have been ordered by drug traffickers. The government meanwhile was reported to be pre paring to extradite to the United states the first drug figure since the traffickers terror Campaign began two weeks ago. The Effort to extradite Eduardo Martinez Romero a alleged Money manager for the traffickers is seen As a key test of Colombia s will to Battle the drug Barons. He was arrested in the first Days of an unprecedented offensive against trafficking which began after gunmen hired by the Cartel assassinated presidential hopeful sen. Luis Carlos Galano Naug. 18. The syndicated to news program not Cicro 24horas" reported that the colombian government notified Martinez on tuesday of plans to extradite him to the United states. He was told he had five working Days or until next tuesday to Appeal. A . Narcotics official had said earlier that the paper work was going Forward on an extradition request for Martinez a 35-year-old economist who faces Federal charges in Atlanta in a $1.2 billion operation for Laun Dering cocaine profits. He is being held under heavy guard by Colombia s National police Force. The television did not cite a source for its report. Presidential spokesman said he could not give any information and the . Embassy refuses to comment on extradition proceedings. President Virgilio Barco re established the country s extradition treaty As part of a series of emergency Mea sures in the drug crackdown. In raids nationwide police have seized More than $200 Milken in real estate including luxurious Homes and office buildings and other prop erty such As air planes helicopters and cars. About 11,000 people have been taken into custody. Drug traffickers in turn have declared War on the stat and responded with a wave of bombings and burnings mostly in Medellin. 215 Miles North of Bogota and the base Lor the world s largest cocaine trafficking Cartel. Pablo Escobar Gaviria reputed Leader of the Medellin Cartel said Colombia s drug lords Are prepared for total War if the government refuses to make peace the French newspaper liberation said. He proposed ending the violence in comments Over the weekend to a government agent said the Paris daily which did not say How it obtained excerpts of the Pur ported conversation. According to liberation Escobar is in hiding in his Refuge in Magdalena Rio in the country s amazonian cocaine processing Region. He reportedly said drug traffickers would be willing to let the government keep All the properly it has seized if the drug lords were allowed to rejoin society. If the government declines the peace offer liberation quoted him As saying there will be some deaths always More deaths. I will give orders. Some journalists and some magistrates they will  tax from Page 1 for Dunn Cllon Hall that were allegedly extorted fro the Ria corp. While it was seeking a lucrative con tract with her Cleveland based Harley hotel Chain. Mack scr testified that Helm sly joked with him How Many More can i gel Many of the 44 prosecution witnesses helped pain the harsh personal portrait of Helm sly that emerged during the eight week trial. They described How she fired employees at the slightest provocation disputed Bills and always sought the lowest Price. The defense attempted to discredit the witnesses a disgruntled cd employ pcs who had a vendetta against Helm sly whom he described As Tough and abrasive. Helmsley s defense had argued that the Helmsle Yedid nothing wrong in Billing their companies for part of the expenses at Dunn Ellen Hall because they used the estate for business. The defense tried to explain away the phony Bills by saying that her employees devised the scheme to avoid Contact with Helm stay who Many times refused to pay contractors if she was not fully satisfied with their work. The defense repeatedly pointed out that  paid $57.8 million in taxes during the time period of the indictment. The defense presented testimony from four wit Nesses including two tax experts who said the Hal Sleys actually overpaid $591,000 in Federal taxes in 1983-85 by under reporting the depreciation of buildings in Helmsley controlled partnerships. Tests from Page tons circuit judge David b. Sent clue wrote for the three judge panel. The ruling was unanimous. The army thus is entitled to continue its periodic testing of civilian guards at random to detect those who May be drug abusers. Overall the army had been testing about 9,000 civilians nationwide under the plan it adopted in 1986.tuesday s ruling did not specifically uphold testing All of those but a lawyer involved said the army had won approval for the substantial majority of the 9,000. The circuit court s ruling explicitly upheld mandatory testing of urine samples from the army s civilian aviation workers and its Law enforcement employees. Those two categories included the majority of the9,000 workers subject to the tests 2,800 in aviation jobs and 3,700 in Law  addition the court ruled in favor of the army on testing its drug Counselor and others working in drug treatment centers but it blocked testing of other civil ians such As those who work at laboratories analysing urine samples. It said it did not have enough information at this time to Rule one Way or the other on testing of workers in still another category those whose jobs Are at site where nuclear materials and chemicals Are stored or handled such As nuclear reactor operators nuclear weapons specialists and chemical ammunition maintenance  told the trial court to take another look at that  upholding the mandatory testing of civilian guards the court said that Many of them arc station Din an extraordinarily hazardous  Congress from Page 1 49,638 votes or 53 percent to Rich Man s 43,759 votes or 47 percent. Turn out was 50.6 percent unusually High for a special  District covers Black neighbor hoods such As Liberty City most of Miami Miami Beach and Miami Springs and sections of Blue Collar his panic Hialeah and upscale Coral Gables and key Biscayne. According to unofficial returns pre dominantly latin precincts had turnouts of More than 60 percent and gave Ros Lehtinen 80 to 90 percent Richman a 48-year-old attorney and political Novice conceded that a Surpri singly Strong hispanic turnout tipped the  voted overwhelmingly said Richman who counted on heavy backing from Black and fellow jewish voters and the 30,000-plus Edge in registered democrats. We be got to get everyone in this Community to get out and exercise their right to vote. If that had happened we would have won  some of the cuban exiles at Ros sch Tinen s Victory gathering said that Al though her election is symbolic of their assimilation into the United states they still fee excluded from mainstream America. We have brought Ileana to office honour own with no support from others said Richardo Samiter sr., 55. We have been trying to Cross the Bridge that Sepa rates us but we Are treated like second class citizens. These things we do not forget  this is a very important step for cubans. One of us is in Washington now said Mario Esteves 49. She is our blood. She knows our mind. She knows our  " v. Ros Lehtinen faces re election in 14 months when Pepper s term would have expired. ,