European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 01, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday february 1,1990 a Man snaps a picture of he statue of . Lenin hat was overturned by vandals in Woronin Poland. World today French rail strike cuts train service by 75% Paris a French Railroad workers reduced train service nationwide to about 25 percent of Normal Levels rail officials said wednesday. Six of the seven unions representing workers at the social a Nalion Alc pcs Chc mins do per Francais called a 36-hour strike. They were protesting the in cos plans to reduce its number of employees to 181.550 by the end of 1994. Compared with 205.830 now. The strike limited suburban service in Paris and brought it to a Hall in some provincial cities. About one in four scheduled trains was running on the main inter City lines and on the High Speed Tov service. Sniper shootings leave 10 dead in pakistani City Hyderabad Pakistan a snipers cruising by car and Motorbike killed 10 people and wounded nine others officials said tuesday As they clamped an indefinite curfew on this volatile pakistani City. Police fled when a mob set fire to a police station to protest the attacks. Authorities immediately declared an indefinite cur few on the City s 300,000 residents and enforced it with army and armoured police patrols. It appeared to be the latest outbreak of tension be tween native Sindis and immigrants from India called Mohajir which left 23 people dead last month. Authorities said a three week Calm was broken tues Day when gunmen in a car fired on a crowd in Scroghan District killing two and wounding  vandals in Poland dissident soviet bring Lenin s statue to its Knees Warsaw. Poland up another Lenin statue bit the dust in Eastern Europe tuesday. The official news Agency Pap said wednesday in Woronin. The Mountain town where . Lenin spent several months in exile unknown perpetrators using steel cables and construction gear pulled Down his Monument. Police were investigating the incident which Hap de scribed As an act of  for several weeks a local citizens committee had called for removal of the Monument and for turning the nearby Lenin museum into a peasant culture Center. Polish television showed the Black bigger than life  Metal statue lying on the ground with a steel Cable around its neck with two policemen standing nearby. The director of the museum said the statue will not be placed Back on its Pedestal until the matter is re solved. It will be stored in the museum. In May 1913. Lenin was expelled from the soviet Union by the Czar and went to live in the Foothills of the Tara mountains where he continued to conduct his revolutionary activities. He stayed in Woronin. Or in nearby Krakow until he went los Wir Carland in August 1914. Lightweight with a heavy profile French workers appeared to be carrying a soviet tank on their shoulders tuesday. Actually the 176 Pound tank is an inflatable replica of the soviet t 72. The $44,000 co which transmits the same radar linage As the t-72, is used to train the French soldiers in ii Neais in Western France. To return for 4 concerts Moscow up Milislav Rostropovich who turned his Back on the soviet Union in 1974 and was stripped of his soviet citizenship is to return in february with the . National symphony orchestra the official Tass news Agency said tuesday. The dissident cellist held to be one of the greatest conductors of the 20th Century will Lead the orchestra in two Charity concerts in Moscow feb. 13 and feb. 14, and in Leningrad on feb. 15 and 16, Vladimir Panchenko announced. Panchenko director of the soviet Union s music management organization Poskon sort said the proceeds of the concerts were to go to acquired immune deficiency syndrome charities and one performance will be televised. The four performances Are being supported by both soviet and . Sponsors he added Rostropovich left Moscow in 1974 shortly after his Friend writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Was forcibly expelled from the soviet Union. Number of aids cases in Switzerland up sharply Bern Switzerland a the total number of aids cases reported in Switzerland Rose from 702 to1,159 last year an increase of nearly two thirds the Federal health office said tuesday. Homosexual and bisexual men continued to form the largest group of victims accounting for 547 cases. A further 375 victims of the deadly disease were drug users the office said. The office said acquired immune deficiency syn drome had claimed 595 lives by the end of 1989. I said 13.219 people were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus or his although they had not Al developed full blown aids. Swit Carland has the highest rate of aids in Europe relative to its population of6 million. European Community oks emergency storm Aid Brussels. Belgium a the european Community said tuesday it approved $2.13 million in emergency Aid for the victims of the storm that claimed 93 lives in Western Europe last week. The Aid. Aimed to guarantee priority needs for fam Ilies affected by the storm shows the Solidarity of the  a statement said. The 12-nation Trade bloc earmarked $738.000 for Britain which was hit hardest by the storm 1409,000 for the Netherlands. $328.000 for France $250.000 for Belgium and West Germany and $164,000 for Den Mark