European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 08, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday january 8,1990 switchman arrested Sangi. Pakiela a police have arrested a switchman in connection with Pakil m s wont rail disaster which Kilt 307 people and injured 700, official i said and c spokesmen said remained Hospital Han Medica Lut 345 peopled 98 in Crit ical or serious Cone lion following thursday s accede i in which passenger train p awed int standing freight Ira railway spokesmen said an improperly set switch apparently sent an express train loaded with sleep ing passengers erasing into the freight train Early thursday at the Rural Sangi station. J students released the govern eased three to jailed for Beijing a ment has quietly n Beijing College stud taking part in the spi no democracy movement and q Nese source said Friday that of ice activists also have been release i , they said do not indicate chinese leaders of the release softening opposition to democratic said additional soldiers were brought into betting after the romanian revolution last month prompted protest attempts her and illegal posters at everal Beij ing campuses. Most soldiers Are Iside walled compounds in the any and Mili tary bases in the sub lbs. And the increased presence could not be detected. First lady s treatment Washington a first lady Barbara Bush has undergone the second of 10 radiation treat ments for Eye irritation caused by her immune system 64-year-old first lady received the 10-minute radiation dose at Walter Reed army medi Cal Center. She suffered no aftereffects and returned to the White House for her Normal daily activities said her press Secretary Anna . Bush is undergoing 10 consecutive Days of radiation treat ments in Hopes of eliminating swelling behind her eyes that has caused her double vision and tearing for Eye problem results from Graves disease a condition i which the thyroid gland becomes overactive. An earlier radioactive treatment and drugs rendered the thyroid inactive. Noriega s pen pal Negaunee Mich. A the 12-year-old who picked Gen. Manuel Noriega to be her pen pal says she stands by the fallen dicta Tor no matter Don t think he will get a fair trial Sarah York said. In the first place everyone believes everything that was said against him and then on the news today i heard that they weren t even going to listen to what he had to say about secrets about George bus hand the Noriega surrendered to . Authorities and was brought to Miami to face drug trafficking charges. Sarah daughter of a prison guard began writing to Noriega following his 1988 indictment inthe United states. She visited him twice As his guest in october1988 and on her own with her father a year later. On the last trip Noriega lauded her As a Merito rious daughter of Panama. Shunning of Iran ship May Force crude Oil Transfer on High spas Rabat mover de joined four saturday in closing aged iranian Oil Lan action raises the up caper Atlantic nations Waters to the dam Harg 5. That ability that the crude Oil aboard the vessel May have to be transferred on the High cons shipping sources said. Morocco Spain. Portugal sad Senegal closed their territorial Waters touch Tanker Friday forcing salvages to to it to Ward the Remote Cape verde islands officials said. But the government of the Atlantic Ocean archipelago and former por Guise Colony located 400 Miles West Senegal also shunned the vessel. The government said it was undesirable the sources said. 200,000 ions of crude Oil still aboard 10 second waiting iranian Tanker the Shir Koch in International Waters when theseas Calm sufficiently. The Tanker last was charted about 360miles from the moroccan coast off inc portuguese archipelago of Madeira. Lat Friday the portuguese Navy ordered the Shir Rod out of portuguese territorial Waters around Madeira As it was on its Way toward the Harg 5. The shipping sources said. Anti pollution experts said the Tanker which has spilled 70,000 tons of Oil into the Atlantic since an explosion ruptured its tanks dec. 19, was no longer gushing crude into the sea. 4 officials said three Salvage tugs were vowing the Tanker at an average Speed of m a Lutc the Situa he did not be african a hat North the Only option remaining to the Sal team appeared to be to try to end French environment minister Brier the Odyssey by transferring some last Ndoc who sent French anti pollution experts to Morocco Tulion said thursday live the coast of Ilion was in danger Lalonde said me experts had deter mined that Oit Slicks caused by the 70,000 tons Grtrude were breaking Tadj threat of environmental damage to of moroccan khat s s tanks were ruptured by an cd plonk on the night of dec. 18-19while i was 50 Miles off the moroccan coast Bond of the Canary had pushed a huge Oil Slick to within 12 Miles of Oua Lidiya Morocco on wednesday threatening Oyster Beds Ana sardine fishing and prompting France to place hundreds of Anli poll tron specialists on Alert to help clean up the moroccan shores if necessary. King fahd of saudi Arabia donated$50 million to Morocco to help clean up the spill Riyadh radio said Friday. Pacific stars stripes commander to be rep acc Kuby Marine colonel Tokyo a Marine col. Walter Forest has been named to replace air Force col. Edwin j. Montgomery As com Mander and editor in chief of Pacific stars and stripes the paper announced sat urday. It said the appointment was reviewed by the defense department and the ombudsman appointed last june to look into complaints that military editors had censored news. Philip m. Foisie the ombudsman is former executive editor of the International Herald Tribune and former for eign editor of the Washington Post. He visited Japan several times to examine the situation at Pacific stars and stripes and travelled to West Germany to assess its sister paper Ollre. Eulf clean Sta Sand stripes. Hll on management of the not Bee made Public. \ his appointment Pho cd a 1988 re port by the general Jakc counting office the investigative Arne fief Congress that said it found video ten censorship at the Pacific edition ant recommended that the top editor at each paper be a civilian. Evident of Canso snip was in conclusive at the Gao said. F several members of conness have said America troops have a nut to in censor cd no wac. \ the military editors of the papers de Nied cd Esq hip. T in of Ober defense department spokesman Pete Williams said the Penta gon would install civilians As chief editon when the current editors retired. Later he said no decision had been made. Do Forest the new editor of the Pacific edition is Deputy director of Public affairs for the Marine corps in washing ton and has a master s degree in journal ism from the University of stars and stripes said he would serve an internship on a commercial newspaper in the United states before taking his new of the papers Are a mixture of military and civilian journalists. Some civilians have said military commanders Stop publication of news that might Embarrass the armed services or offend Host countries. Shevardnadze vows to a pen Border with romanic provide of a for Winter Bucharest Romania a so Winters almost without heat and Lightvoet foreign minister Eduard Shevard Tor their Homes As he redirected raw adze pledged saturday to throw open of material imports to his pet Industrial the tight Border with Romania and for nation projects provide Oil and Gas to help the country out of economic woes forced on it by deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu Shevardnadze arrived in Buchante earlier saturday on a one Day Visi Lytfie spent More than five hours in j with his romanian counterpart in the interim government Sergiu Celaga pre Mier Petre roman and Ion Mitescu president of the National salvation front that is running the Couvrey until free elections Are held. The soviet chief Diplo that Moscow would not in Romania established am Cracy. Romania s interim expectations for the i senior soviet official was ousted dec. 22 Volt. The Kremlin id to the new to ural Gas and Oil Siradze confirmed promised Ere even if tip arly de ers had High the first by a ice cause scuba popular re already pledge Dinia including Nat pics and Shovard hat Moscow would provide Oil and jobs to help Romani through the Winter. Under Ceausescu Romania s 23million citizens suffered through Long Shevardnadze said the soviet Union would also accept that some products would no longer be delivered to the soviet Union. One of the first moves by the interim leadership was to Stop food exports and redirect food supplies to the coun try s 23 million people who suffered severe rationing under Ceausescu. The hard line communist who was executed with his wife Elena on dec. 25, exported vast quantities of food especially meat to the soviet Union to ensure Energy supplies from Moscow. At a 45-minute news conference after his talks Shevardnadze said the two countries would Start discussion on opening the Border so that people can go without any difficulties what Soever to make he said the soviet Union was As interested in this As Romania was in opening the Border. The Border had been one of inc most tightly closed in Eastern Europe and cultural and other exchanges had been severely restricted by frosty soviet romanian relations in the past. Romanians in he Border Region and m any soviet moldavian had hoped orc More open Border. Schict Moldavia consists largely of territory annexed from Romania by Josef Stalin in 1940 under a secret pro Tocol Twe Hitler Stalin pact. That put was recently declared in soviet Congress of peo whose spoken language romanian have been cased Independent end Romania s revolt speculation that they a a form of reunify valid by pie s dept Moldavia is identical calling for from Moscow Tion has Sparke could even push cation. Asked about the visibility of reunification Shevar Daou said that exist ing european Treatie ack the Territo rial integrity of All me countries of Europe and their exist flu Borders. That is something Wiat must retaken into account be id without elaborating. Sex mayor Steno the Dies new Orleans a Bechtel Landrieu the Mother new Orleans mayor Moon la former . Secretary of Hou Urban development died a Orleans Home. She was 86. Lorelta former leu and new
