European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday january 23,1990 sues e Elizabeth City of Elizabeth charging the acc the Arthur kill r front and Pollut River. This represent be setback in a clean up the wat front said City xon j. A Theis sued Exxon t Oil spill int aged its water the Elizabeth a terrible Terri-7-Ycar Effort to health director j the Superior seeks in special and punitive Dai also has sued sex Surmay said property have$500.000 to $4 both has swoon the Arthur separating new new York City  567,1 ing of spilled ini1-2 when a pipe in  lawsuit compensatory is. New Jersey  Mages to City n estimated a million. Eliza is of waterfront ill. The waterway Lersey from the rough of Staten Gallons of heat the Channel Jan. In ruptured. The pipeline linked Exxon s Bayway refinery in Linden to its distribution terminal in  was stiff seeking to deter mine the rupture cause. Alcohols Les up Reykjavik Iceland a the consume Tia of alcohol shot up More than x percent in ice land last year Aifer the nation lifted a 73-year Bah on the Sale of Strong Beer according to figures released by the mate alcohol monopoly. Father of Haiti s Constitution among political leaders filed port a Prince Haiti a the Man considered the Wier of Haiti s Constitution was forced inh file Sun Day by the military govern Euta Day after it imposed a state of siege mar rested dozens of its critics. Or. Louis Roy was carrying a smal suitcase kissed the ground two times and mounted the stairway to exile relative told the associated press. Roy 74, founder of the haitian Redcross boarded a Miami bound Commer Cial flight a Day after prominent conservative Leader Hubert de Ronceray was forced into exile after police and Soldier rounded up dozens of opponents in citywide sweep saturday that follow the slaying of an army colonel identified gunmen. Max Bourjolly second in command of the haitian communist any was arrested at his Home sunday said party Leader Rene Theodora who added that police phoned Bou filly s servants and told them to Pray Sec his passport an belongings. / the police told the servants the would nerf see Max again Theodore nuke near i Ine. G ant had meltdown Many Hamburg. W Isi Germany a East Germany a Power Accident i been As Devasini Byl in the soviet Magazine said us East German closed the Polcyn incident. Der spin Ted a major nuclear976 that could have i the one at Chorno Ion a West Germany Ici als have not Dis i seriousness of thei said. Ilace in 1976 at the Clear Power Plant e Plant is near Thein Northern East Ger the Hamburg a cd Magazine said the incident tool " la Sovil designed called Lublin. Town of grif Sramany. Quoting a form Engineer from the Plant. Der Spiegel bid careless manipulation of an electrical grounding system by one of the Plant electricians resulted in a major fire that destroyed most of the Cable network. The fire disabled in water pumps forthe Block i reactor it the Plant and five of six backup Pun Fps were also inactivated Der Spiegel i d. It was Only thru High Luck that one of the backup pumps 1 inc toned because it had been Accident y hooked up to the electrical system of lock ii at the Plant the Magazine reputed. The electrical system at Block ii was functioning. If the one Emer nay pump had no functioned a meltdown As devastating As the 1986 chernobyl Accident could have occurred and would have spread radioactive fallout Over much of Northern said adding they Are going to Banis him.  All appeared quiet in port  sunday. Residents went to cd Orch no army patrols could be Secor tend Public transport was operating dozens of political carers and Mili ils were Rounder up saturday wit no Muaid. Abji Flo including socialists were released after being , do Sylvain Jolibois of the smart Radical Jear Jacques Dessalines pinup Abby Brun ont be Center Lef Congress of democratic Futey cents and about 30 militants of that Octy remained in custody sunday Sai senatus the party s co Leader. Critics said the arrests beatings banishment and state of siege indicated haitian ruler it. Gen. Prosper Avri plans to turn his regime into a dictatorship and renege on promises toehold free elections this year. On saturday night the government said on state to that under the state of siege four articles of the Constitution were suspended including one that for 5ids the forced exiling of  rights activist Jean Claude Bajeux said sunday he believed Avril use the killing Friday night of col. Andre Neptune As a pretext to round up critic Sand abort plans to hold free election scheduled for , his wife and servant were gunned Down in suburban ,100 Yards from de Ronceray s House As they were driving Home. The motive forthe killing was not known. Roy had been banished in 1957 by dicta Tor Francois papa Doc Duvalier. He As Well As de Ronceray spent several years i exile in Montreal before returning to Haiti after the end of Duvalier s  was a co author of the 1987 con ution approved by 99 percent of Vot Tref plebiscite. Do to Kray who has urged Avril to resign also la key Leader of the opposition to  who took War in a september 1988 revolt by soldiers is promised to hand Over Power after election this year but political and human rights leaders arc increasingly sceptical. Thousands of ukrainians hold hands to Mark 1918 Independence Kiev . A tens of thou Sands of ukrainians joined hands Sun Day to joyously commemorate the Brief existence of a United Independent Ukraine 72 years ago. Organizers said the human Chain stretched for some 300 Miles from the ukrainian capital of Kiev to Lvov in the Western part of the soviet Republic. About 100,000 people took part said the leaders from the popular movement Rush. Their statement could not be con firmed but Block after Block of Down town Kiev was lined with smiling ukrainians holding hands and waving yellow and Bluc National flags. Many greeted each other with Long live the Ukraine and raised three fingers in imitation of the Republic s three pronged Crest. Kiev is located in the Central Ukraine and there was no Effort to make the Chain stretch to the Eastern More Russi fied pan of the soviet Union s second largest Republic. The Chain appeared to be Rush s mos successful show of strength. An Esti mated i million people turned out for similar event organized in August by popular fronts in the Baltic  Chain marked the anniversary of the 1939 nazi soviet pact that led to annexation of the Baltic. Rush officials said they hoped their event would highlight the Ukraine s past Freedom and cultivate support for greater sovereignty even Independence. It organized the Chain because we Felt the hunger for  said Vladimir be Torisky one of the movement s  needed to feel we Are a people we Are a nation United against the problems of chernobyl economic problems eco logical problems and the party  on Jan. 22, 1918, amid the shifting boundaries that followed the collapse of the russian and Austro hungarian empires a Central ukrainian Council declared that Western and Eastern Ukraine were newly United and Independent. The new state lasted Only a few week before succumbing to bolshevik troops and three years of War followed Amon various groups vying for control of the Ukraine. But Rush spokesman Viktor Linchevsky said the state s existence Al though Brief was historically important. When they created the Republic the founders knew it was doomed to fail ure he said hut they wanted a  official soviet histories have traditionally considered the Western and East Ern Ukraine s unification to have occurred in september 1939 when under the nazi soviet pact the red army took Over the Western Ukraine from Poland. Kiev authorities sanctioned sunday Schain and a later rally showing far More willingness to cooperate with Rush thanin the past. Rush meetings frequently have been suppressed in Kiev unlike Lvov which is considered the Center of ukrainian nationalism. Pontiff will visit Czechoslovakia before National Electie a Fri june Denmark the ing the Engineer said army was called in which was repaired ration four months Germany. Swede Magazine said. Der Spiegel that the East Gei to clean up the i and put Back into later. The report which is to appear in the weekly Magazine s monday edition was provided in Advance to other news Media. Vatican City apr no Ope Johnpaul ii has accepted an invt in to visit Czechoslovakia and his spokes Man said sunday the trip would Takt place before the country s elections injure. Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said the Pope had accepted with gratitude the invitations from  Vaclav Havel and Cardinal Fra tick Tom sek the roman Catholic primate of Czechoslovakia a Navarro said the visit ill last two or three days.4 he said the Date Rad not been deter mined but the the visit would take place before the elections scheduled june 8. Generally the Pope avoids vis iting countries at the time of an elec Tion he added. " the czechoslovak Gove pylent said thursday that it Wantje renew Diplo tic relations Wjt he Vatican which c been suspended for 40 years. Change is possible now be cause Tolar revolution recently oust  s Bard line comm list leaders Leacin Fecjo Broad democratic reforms that have my Ltd More religious Freedom.  Vatican spokesman said off cml would have to find a break in the Pope schedule which includes a trip to five african countries from Jan. 25 to feb. I a May 6-14 visit to Mexico and a May 25-27 trip to Malta. The austrian Catholic news service Kat press citing unidentified Vatican sources reported Friday that the pop would Visil Czechoslovakia on april 21 22. The Rome daily ii Tempo also said the trip would be made on those dates. Navarro said those could be reason Able dates. But for the moment there is no pre Cise indication when the Pope will travel to Czechoslovakia. The Pope formally accepted the invite min after meeting with archbishop Jan  Tamava archbishop Frantisek Vankat of Mouco and a czechoslovak government legation that include first vice pres Lcarl Jan Carnogursky vice president Joser Hromadka and for eign minister Jin Dinst birr