European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday March 27,1990london�?Ts big Ben goes quiet for repairs London apr big bends hourly hell one of Britain a Best known sounds resounded Over Centra London at 8 . Monday for the last Lime for up to 12 weeks. The famous clock Over the houses of parliament will continue to Tell the time but its hourly Bong has been silenced for essential repairs. The Hammer  that strikes the Bell to sound the number of bongs for every hour is suffering from Metal fatigue and will be replaced by a replica government minister Christopher Chope said last week. The clock s Quarter hourly Chimes were also stopped for two Days while the Hammer is removed a spokesman for the government s property services Agency said. They will be stopped again for the two Days before the hourly Bong resumes. The British broadcasting corp. Which starts radio news bulletins with a live broadcast of the hourly Bells said it would substitute big Ben with the clock known As big Tom at St. Paul s Cathedral. Big Ben. Named after sir Benjamin Hall a government works commissioner. First sounded in 1859. It is normally silenced Only twice a year when the hands arc moved Forward one hour for British summer time in March a the equivalent of Daylight saving time a and backward to revert to Greenwich mean t the to october. Big Ben s longest silence was a it Davs in August 1976 when a Shaft supporting the clockworks shattered inside the clock room. It last stopped for three hours in october because of a mechanical failure. The name big Ben actually applies Only to the i3 ton Bell but it has become the nickname for the whole 20-Story Tower. Quot critics of planned Navy housing win election near base in Japan Tokyo apr opponents of a . Navy housing project have won a majority in a municipal Assembly election near an american base Southwest of Tokyo. All i 5 candidates who oppose the proposed military housing Complex in sushi near the Yokosuka naval facility won seals in the City a 26-Membcr Assembly. The results of sundays election were tallied monday. Housing opponents in the Assembly increased their strength from 12 seats said an official with mayor Kiichiro Tomino s office alter the Assembly convenes next month the opponents plan to introduce a Resolution asking the government to scrap the project the official said. In the last balloting in 1986, 14 Assembly candidates supporting the housing project were elected leading to frequent standoffs with Tomino and his followers Over budgetary matters including Money for the project. Tomino has opposed the project since its inception in 1984. Maintaining that the Ike go Hills site is a valuable wooded area that would be destroyed by the construction. The housing for Navy families is being built by the japanese defense Agency As part of the japanese-. Security agreement. Sushi is 30 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. Environmentalists and local citizens Drew National attention with a Campaign to defy the Central government s plan to build More than 900 apartment houses. Officials maintain the housing is needed to relieve crowding at Yokosuka. Sushi officials said 69.8 percent of 44.473 eligible voters turned out for sundays vote compared with 76.31 percent in the Prev ious election.4 americans die in Philippines crash Manila Philippines up a a Light plane crashed shortly after taking off from a Mountain resort North of Manila killing All four americans aboard philippine and . Authorities said monday. The Manila Rescue coordinating Center said the aircraft left Baguio 120 Miles North of Manila at 10 55 . Sunday bound for Clark a. It crashed about five minutes later after travelling about 30 Miles to the Northeast the opposite direction from the american base. Quot the area is forested and on a Mountain higher than Baguio. We done to know Why the plane headed that Way because Clark is due South of  said Jose Reyes Deputy chief of the Rescue Center. A we Don t know what the weather was at the time of the crash but it is usually foggy at that time  Reyes identified the victims As maj. Wayne Zodrow and Capi. George Kennedy and his wife. Chong and daughter Patricia. He said All were americans. A statement from Clark a said the aircraft belonged to the Aero club a morale welfare and recreation activity operated for Active duty service members. Defense department employees retirees and dependents. The cause of the crash is under investigation. A a i if h for Ltd  it no Barrier to conversation a Border guard Mike slips of Grano East Germany Peers through a Hole in the Berlin Wall As he enjoys a Friendly Chat with pvt. 2 Steve Rogers of Oakland Calif. Rogers is assigned to the 287th my co of the Berlin brigade. The two met As they were strolling along the Wall near checkpoint Charlie. World Toda Brazil arrests businessmen for a economic crimes Rio de Janeiro. Brazil apr brazils new economic plan has led to the arrest of about 30 business men and Bankers for a economic crimes and a police raid on a company that publishes a Book describing Lav shelters. Several of the arrested businessmen have been held in jail for Days without being charged and without a bail hearing. Some have been detained in cells containing people suspected of committing violent crimes. The incidents critics say. Show that president Fer Nando Collor de mellows new economic measures have resulted in serious civil liberties violations. A we Are heading for a dictatorship. The arrests arc a flagrant violation of rights consecrated in the Constitution a Legal scholar Gofredo de Silva Telles  firm sets record for 20th-Century Art sales Paris apr a 1918 Oil painting by Amedeo Modigliani was sold sunday for $11.5 million during a record breaking auction of 20th-Century Art. The drouot auction House said total sales were si07 million a record for Paris. The Modigliani painting. A the Beautiful shopkeeper a claimed the biggest Price and marked a record Sale in France for the italian artist. The identity of the buyer was not disclosed. A the fishermen of  completed in 1906 by Maurice de Vlaminck went for $10.5 million the second largest Sale. A 1953 Picasso a woman and dog playing. Blue  was sold for $4.4  find remains of Temple built by Cheops Nazlett Al Samman. Egypt a sewer workers have discovered the remains of a Long sought Temple that pharaoh Cheops built for his funeral 4.600 years ago. Egyptology its said the find confirms theories about the layout of Giza plateau for the 70-year period in which Cheops his son and grandson built their three pyramids and monuments nearby. They also expect it to yield clues to Cheops the mysterious pharaoh of the great Pyramid. Nazlett Al Samman lies at the foot of the plateau facing the Sphinx and sewage from the Village has often been mentioned As a cause of the Sphinx s dangerous deterioration.23 killed in Accident involving tractor Wagon new Delhi India apr a farm tractor and Wagon hauling 44 people to a funeral collided with a truck in Western India killing 23 people and injuring 26 others. Press Trust of India said. The collision happened near the Village of Moti Pura about 425 Miles Southwest of new Delhi in Gujarat slate the news Agency said. The tractor and Wagon were carrying 44 people to mourn a relative who had died to another Village. Press Trust said. It did not say How Many people were in the truck. Tractor pulled wagons Are often used to carry Large groups of people to weddings funerals and festivals m Rural India