European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday april 17,1990 maker denies tubes for Iraq could be joined into weapon London apr eight huge steel tubes seized while in route to Iraq could not be joined together to form a giant gun or make part of a space satellite launch system their manufacturer said sunday. A spokesman for Sheffield forge masters reiterated that the company had contracted Only to Supply Iraq with forged steel tubing for a petrochemical Plant. British government sources were quoted late saturday As saying the pipes match the specifications for a satellite launch system designed by or. Gerald Bull an american ballistics expert killed in Brussels Belgium last month. Press association the Domestic British news Agency quoted the unnamed sources As saying they had correspondence linking British Industry with the Brussels firm space research projects which Bull owned. Press association did not name the government department of the sources but the sunday Telegraph the sunday times and the observer All carried articles quoting customs sources on the same subject. The pipes were seized last week by British customs officials who suspected they were parts for a massive gun barrel a nobody seems to have taken on Board the fact that those eight pieces do not join up to form one piece a said forge masters spokesman Tony Peck. A they Are random selections of tubes from a consignment of 26 which added together measure 156 meters 170 Yards. They cannot join them  Sheffield forge masters says it agreed to Supply 52 sections of the steel tubing and had delivered 44 to the ministry of Industry and minerals in Iraq. Iraq has also claimed the Metal tubes were pipes for a petrochemical Plant. Arms experts have Given conflicting opinions about whether the steel sections could be used As parts of a weapon. Peck said the company had permission from the department of Trade and Industry to manufacture the tubing and sell it to Iraq. The department refused to comment sunday. Britain banned All arms sales to Iraq and Iran after the outbreak of their eight year persian Gulf War. Despite the 1988 cease fire the embargo remains. Bull 62, a Canadian born american citizen was slain March 22. Belgian police said he was shot twice in the head. They said the gunman used a Silencer and the motive was not robbery since $20,000 was found in the victim s pockets. Bulls company was engaged in space and military research and International arms sales. Protester Dies during attack on Kab office in Armenia Moscow apr protesters attacked a secret police office in armenians capital with stones and torches Over the weekend and one demonstrator was killed the official news Agency reported. In the incident a crowd of people broke off from an environmental rally in Yerevan on saturday night and headed for the Kab office in the Southern Republic Tass reported sunday. Tass said the crowd apparently was angered by the arrest of four armenians on charges of stealing weapons from a military unit. The attack lasted about two hours but the crowd was unable to get inside the building and eventually dispersed Tass said adding that Kab officials inside did not open fire. The victim was killed when a homemade grenade he was carrying exploded Tass said. One resident said tanks and armoured personnel carriers later were deployed on the outskirts of Yerevan but not inside the City. Eduard Shakhnazaryan of the armenian news Agency Armyn press said monday that authorities a had every right to Sanction opening fire and the attackers could have been shot like sitting ducks from the rooftop of Kab Headquarters but no such measure was resorted  he said residents believe the attack was provoked by forces a interested in creating chaos in the City with Long reaching  but he did not elaborate. Shakhnazaryan said none of the attackers was arrested. Alexander Arzumanyan a spokesman for the armenian National movement said his group believes the attackers were actually plainclothes Kab agents circulating at the environmental rally to instigate action by the crowd of  the rally began As a protest against the Narit chemical Complex where an explosion occurred earlier in the Day and spewed noxious fumes into the air Arzumanyan said. Vladimir a. Kryuchkov National chief of the Kab on sunday called the attack a an onslaught by  in a message to the Agency a armenian Branch he praised the men inside the building for their restraint. However the Post Actium news Agency quoting a Leader of the armenian National movement reported that movement members had rushed to the scene and persuaded the protesters to leave. Since armenians strained relations with neighbouring Azerbaijan worsened this Winter and armed ethnic clashes grew common militants have staged dozens of raids on armenians arms depots to obtain weapons to Battle azerbaijanis. Attacks against Kab government and party buildings have generally increased around the Southern soviet Union in the past year. Some Are aimed at taking arms from police and Kab stocks and others have been intended to Force political change. Scores die when leaking canister of Gas ignites fire on Indian train new Delhi India apr a leaking Gas Cylinder sparked a raging fire on a moving passenger train in Eastern India monday burning at least 71 people to death and leaving 50 injured officials said. News agencies reported higher death tolls. Press Trust of Ndia said at least 80 people were killed United news of Ndia said the toll exceeded 100. The train was passing through Patna 500 Miles Southeast of new Delhi when the fire broke out at 9 30 . The Blaze swept through two cars of the 16-car train before firefighters could extinguish it said District magistrate . Sharma the lop civil administrator in the Patna Region. He said 71 bodies were found in the burned cars and 50 people were hospitalized with bums. Quot the heat was so intense no one dared to enter the train for at least a half hour after the fire a a Sharma said. Quot the outer Shell of the bogies cars was intact but the inside was  Mathew John the director of safety for the Federal railway Board in new Delhi said two cylinders of flammable Gas caught fire. He said one of the cylinders was leaking and apparently ignited when someone lit a match. Sharma said a Cylinder of oxyacetylene Gas used in welding operations was found in the burned cars. Press Trust of India said Many bodies were buried under soldering wooden berths and heaps of Luggage. The news Agency said 10,000 people converged on the site in Patna capital of Bihar state one of the poorest of indians 25 states. The train which was travelling from Mok Ammeh to Arrah is widely used in the mornings by workers commuting to the state capital. More than 10 million people ride Indian trains every Day and major disasters Are reported every year. Trains Are jammed with people often Riding on the roofs. Indians 38,320 Miles of tracks form the worlds third largest rail network after those in the soviet Union and the United states. World today gifts from foreigners to iraqi officials banned Baghdad Iraq apr the National Assembly passed a decree Banning government officials from accepting gifts from foreigners a newspaper reported sunday. The 250-member Assembly approved the new legislation said Al thaw a the official newspaper of the ruling baath party. The Law orders government employees to hand Over any gift from a foreign person or organization to the government within seven Days after receiving it. The paper said employees who violate the new Law could face imprisonment and a Fine ranging from $1,600 to $22,400. The newspaper did not specify the prison sentences for violators. But a lawyer said the sentence would Range from one Day to five years in prison. Government employees who receive bribes from foreigners in return for providing specific services can be sentenced to death under iraqi  threat leads firm to recall Medicine Paris apr a drug company has halted production at its factory and ordered its products removed from drugstore shelves after tests indicated that an extortionist had contaminated some of its Medicine with sul uric acid. Smith Kline amp French said tests uncovered contamination in a bottle of an anti parasite Medicine called zentel after threats were received from someone trying to extort $ 1 million. The company a subsidiary of the . Company Smith Kline Beecham sad it was suspending All exports of zentel which is sold in Many african asian and South american countries under the name Albenda Zole. Efforts would be made to recall zentel stocks shipped overseas since the first threat was made in Early april the company  steal animals intended for research Marseille France apr animal rights activists raided a Hospital and look away rabbits and dogs destined for use in experiments officials said sunday. A local newspaper said an Anonymous Telephone caller claimed responsibility for the raid on behalf of the friends of animals a group opposed to animal testing. The raid occurred saturday night As local police had their hands full with a major soccer game Between olympic Marseille and its biggest rival Bordeaux. Large police contingents were at the stadium to Avert possible disturbances. About 20 rabbits 15 dogs and several documents relating to the hospitals animal experimentation program were taken Hospital officials said. Police said no arrests had been made by sunday  to beautify Man during May visit to Mexico Mexico City up a the first religious act of Pope John Paul ii when he visits Mexico will be to beautify mexican Juan Diego who saw the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe nearly 500 years ago. Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada. Speaking at a news conference said the Pope Woupio carry out the beatification May 6 during his first Public act after arriving in the mexican  of Wii Shell kills teen Ager in France Bethune France apr a teen age was killed and another wounded when a world a a ii artillery Shell exploded after they found it m ditch officials  youths found the partially buried sheir and Olivier Delarive 17, was killed when tried to pull it out. His companion cd Stop a Blanc 15, suffered leg injuries Ancl was vitalized in Bethune near the City of line Northern France