European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday. January 17.1990 news update chernobyl victims Tel Aviv. Israel apr fifty one soviet children who were injured by radiation in the chernobyl nuclear Accident arrived in Israel monday Tor a month of medical tests. Last month a group of 52 children from the chernobyl area spent three weeks on vacation in Israel. The visits Are part of a thaw Between the two nations which have not had foil diplomatic ties since the Kremlin broke relations in the 1967 Arab israeli  airlines Brussels Belgium apr passenger traffic on european airlines increased 11 percent in the year to year period ending november i9b9, mainly on a surge in demand on european routes the association of european airlines announced tuesday. The november gains coincided with a slight decline in flight departure delays. The 21 member association said the passenger traffic growth figure in the annual period was the highest since March 1988. European passenger traffic grew by 13 percent in november while traffic on the North Atlantic Rose by 11 percent the first double digit increase for 20 months the association said. Air freight Levels grew by 9.1 percent with the largest increases in traffic to latin America and the Middle  settlement Danbury Conn. A it a Union Carbide corp. Monday said a j470 million settlement for victims of the 1984 Gas Lack disaster in Bhopal India remains binding even though the country s new government has d disavowed the settlement. Quot we Are confident the settlement will stand. There is simply no basis for overturning  Joseph e. Cog Han. Union Carbide vice president and general counsel said. Last week the new government of prime minister . Singh said its predecessor was wrong to agree to absolve Union Carbide of criminal liability in the Gas disaster. It also called the settlement inadequate. Justice minister Dinesh Goswami said the new government would support the Gas victims and activists m supreme court petitions challenging the right of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi s government to Settle the Case. At least 3,598 people were killed and another 20,000 injured when Methyl is Cyanate Gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide Plant on dec. 3.1984. E. Germans who sacked offices of secret police May be charged Berlin apr prosecutors Are considering criminal charges against protesters who ransacked the capital s secret police Headquarters National police chief Dieter Winderlich said tuesday. The announcement came hours after East Germany s ruling communists said the storming of the building monday showed the country s Quot Street revolution could gel out of hand. Winderlich said protesters also had broken into the building s Section for counter espionage activities but did not discover the identities of the Section s workers. He said the protesters caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to the eight Story building the building tuesday remained under control or an opposition led a a citizens committee regular police officers and government representatives. Also tuesday workers at a stale owned factory in the City Orgera staged a politically motivated warning strike to Snow their dissatisfaction with the communists according lowest berlins r1as radio station. In Bonn Wesl Germany the conservative daily newspaper die Welt said soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was expected to visit East Berlin in the next two or three weeks. Die Welt quoting Well informed sources in East Berlin said Gorbachev plans a Quot massive show of support Quot for his Long time Friend. East German communist Premier Han Modrow Dirk Bachmann Hast Berlin s police chief said opposition groups Calls for restraint had prevented injuries during the storming of the secret police building. The protesters demanded the ouster of the communists and expressed anger at the government for not moving faster to dismantle the secret police and Cany out reforms. Three months after a peaceful popular revolt toppled old hard line communist leaders the parly still essentially controls the government Media Economy and bureaucracy. The communist party daily newspaper a cuts deutschland said in a commentary that the organizers of protests like that at the secret police Headquarters must accept responsibility for the consequences. Quot responsibility also Means having a Clear idea about consequences before calling for a demonstration so that things Don t get out of hand Quot the newspaper said in a front Page editorial it added Quot the cab for no violence which has marked the Street revolution front the Start becomes a farce when emotions break through the Bounds of  opposition Leaden called fac Calm and an end to the destruction. A Day earlier the new forum opposition group Calvd for the protests to oppose Whit it called the a restoration policy of communists seeking to gain on advantage Beucie the May elections according to the official news Agency adn the cab was answered by hundreds of thousands or people including those who stormed the secret police Headquarters. Leader of Albania rejects reforms Vienna Austria apr the Leader or Albania accused the Western news Media of concocting false reports of unrest in his country and rejected the democratic Reform movement gripping the rest or Eastern Europe. Communist party chief Ramiz Alia said in a speech monday to factory workers in Tirana the albanian capital that the reports of upheaval were a lies and  his remarks were distributed by the official news Agency at a. A recently in continuation of the events that occurred in the countries of the East the fantasy regarding Albania has been diversified. Such a fantasy is reflected in some organs of the Western press a Alia said. The tide of Reform elsewhere in Eastern Europe has left Albania As Europe a Iasi bastion of stalinism. Referring to a report by the yugoslav news Agency Tan Jug that special measures in Albania resembled a stale of emergency. Alia told the workers a with such filthy things does the yugoslav news Agency nourish world Public  a a we say. That a state of emergency demonstrations unrest and killings arc found nowhere in  accounts in the Western Media have told of gunfire and possibly deaths in some albanian cities. Foto Cami a member of the ruling party politburo said on slate radio and television Friday butt the report of unrest were Quot slanders Quot and a anti albanian  on saturday Ata quoted a Man it identified As Paolo de Nicola an italian Diplomat As calling the reports a groundless. Alia said monday a we Are sure. The anti albanian Campaign. Will end like a soap Bubble because it is based completely on lies and falsity a your people have chosen their own Way of development and Only they and no one else know and decide on what should be done end what Steps should be taken what changes Are demanded by time and the process of socialist development and How Quot they should be achieved. Services planned for teacher in wiesbaden3rd-Grade teacher in Mainz Dies of cancer Mainz Wesl Germany a a third Grade teacher at Mainz elementary school died monday in a West German Hospital in Wiesbaden Elenor Wilhelmi had been battling cancer a for some time a a school spokeswoman said. She was 59. Wilhelmi was bom in Sharon a and earned a Bachelor of science degree from Penn state University in 192 and her master s degree from the same institution in 1958. She taught at Mainz for 19 years. She is survived by her husband. Gerhard who resides in Lomheim. A memorial service has not been scheduled. Clarification a weekend article implied that All patients would be charged is Tor flu shots at air Force medical facilities. The fee applies Only to civilian employees and their families. Wiesbaden Wesl Germany a a memorial service will be held Jan. 26 for a Wiesbaden Middle school Leachjr who died saturday in Claremont Calif. Jane Myers had entered a Claremont Hospital during the Christmas vacation for heart bypass surgery. She was 63. Myers began her department of defense dependents schools career at Wiesbaden Middle school in 1976. She previously taught in Lebanon ind., and in Albuquerque n.m., where she was named the states Best Earth science teacher. Meets developed Wiesbaden Middle schools eighth Grade Earth science and seventh Grade life science curriculum during the 1977-78 school year. She received four National science foundation Grants for graduate work during her tenure at the school. In 1985, she worked for Ball state University at the overseas schools Earth science summer workshop in Bamberg. She was nominated for the 1987 presidential award for excellence in science and mathematics teaching under the auspices of the National Center for Earth science teaching. She chaired the Middle school s science department for 11 years and served on two school system wide curriculum textbook selection committees. Myers earned her bachelors degree from Macmurray College in Jacksonville fla., in 1949. She earned a master s degree in education from Eastern new Mexico University. She is survived by her Mother to Johnson of Claremont three daughters Jamie Bell of Albuquerque Joan Padilla of Newbury Park Calif., and Patti sole of big rapids Mich and a son Thomas Myers of Rio Rancho n.m., a graduate of Gen. . Arnold High school in Wiesbaden. The memorial service will be at 2 30 . At the Caincr Borg Chapel. 10-year-old girl Dies after fall from horse san Vito Dei Normanna Italy a amps a the 10-Ycar-old daughter of two air Force sergeants died sunday from injuries received in a horseback Riding Accident. Patricia l. Tucker was thrown from the horse Al 1 30 . Sunday and was rushed to an italian Hospital in nearby Brindisi. She was pronounced dead at 5 10 ., an air Force spokeswoman said tuesday. The girl died of cardiac arrest caused by internal bleeding and a coma said staff sgt. Ann Kennedy. The fifth Grade student at Brindisi Al Omen Lary school had gone Riding with friends at a stable in Ostuni about 15 minutes from the base. She is survived by her Mother. Staff sol. Catherine Bortle the operations and Supply sergeant for san Vito s 6917th electronics Security come father tech. Sgt. Michael w. Tucker of the 3390th tech training group in Reston a. And sister Angela Webb 5, also of san Vito. A memorial service will be held at 3 . Thursday in the base Chapel. Blast prompts evacuation at Pattonville Ramseck. West Germany s&5 a a basement fire broke out monday night in a residential building at the Pattonville housing area a spokesman for the Stuttgart military Community said tuesday. Spokesman George Zucllig said conflicting reports prevented him from providing other details about the incident in building 951. The building was evacuated about 6 45 ., but people were Able to return by 8 30 ., said a resident who lives in one of the building s is apartments. The resident reported seeing fire damage in two storage rooms several Yards apart and the locked up windows in each room had been broken open. The resident said several other fires have occurred at Pattonville in the past two weeks including two in basement storage areas near building 9 51, a basement fire of undetermined origin also caused about s50,000 damage dec. 18 in a 19-unit Paxtonville apartment building