European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes sunday april 22,1990 a port official in Patras Greece prepares to close off the Cylinder after it was impounded by customs authorities. Greek customs seizes Cylinder linked to Mammoth iraqi Cannon Athens Greece apr greek customs officials have seized what they believe is part of a giant Cannon Iraq ordered from a British company. Customs officials in the Western port of Patras seized a British truck thursday that a was conveying to Iraq a part of an artillei7 system weighing 29.5 tons a the foreign ministry said in a statement. It said documents listed the cargo As a Copper Cylinder. Patras customs chief Sotiris Sotiriou said that Driver Paul Ashwell 25, from Northampton England had been arrested and would be charged with illegally importing arms into Greece. A British experts whom we called in have identified the cargo As part of the iraqi super gun a Sotiriou said in a Telephone interview. Another customs official speaking on condition of anonymity described the confiscated part As a Cylinder 17 feet in length. Press association Britain a Domestic press Agency later quoted David James chairman of Eagle Trust the Parent group of the cylinders manufacturer As saying that a second truck had been detained Friday at an unidentified turkish town. But turkish officials including the customs office director in the port of Mersin where the truck was rumoured to have been detained denied the reports. The manufacturer Walter Somers ltd., has previously said that the last of 12 steel tubes ordered by Iraq at a Cost of More than $1.6 million left the factory a by shipment on March 15. Customs investigators were believed to have been trying to intercept the Road freight for More than a week As it made its Way from Britain to Iraq. Weapons experts have said that a gun on the scale of the seized parts a 131 feet Long with a bore of nearly 39 inches a has the potential to lob nuclear or chemical weapons hundreds of Miles or even boost rockets toward orbit. British officials seized eight giant tubes on the docks of Middlesborough England on april 12. The greek customs officer said that the British reports of the alleged gun aroused their suspicions and they requested the help of the British government. An expert from Britain identified the trucks cargo As part of the alleged gun the officer said. The iraqi government has insisted the tubes were designed for a petrochemical Plant. British Trade and Industry Secretary Nicholas Ridley said thursday that the government believed iraqis gun project followed the designs of Gerald Bull a . Ballistics expert who was murdered March 22 in Brussels. A the government is entirely satisfied that these tubes form part of a gun and that the customs action was Correct a said Ridley. Anne Frank museum to grow Amsterdam Netherlands apr the Anne Frank museum which includes the cramped attic in which her family hid from the nazis will expand to accommodate surging popularity among tourists. A the space we have now is literally too Small for All the visitors a Marie Josee Rijnders coordinator of the expansion project said Friday. The museum is made up of two canal houses that have become the nations most visited historic landmark. The Young jewish girls writings during her time in hiding a the diary of Anne Frank a gained her worldwide Fame after her death in a nazi concentration Camp. Officials say a new building will be constructed next to the museum at a Cost of $3.2 million and will quadruple the exhibition area. The expansion is expected to take at least six years to Complete. Officials expect about 640,000 visitors this year 40,000 More than last year. An average of almost 2,000 visitors a Day Jam into the museum to see the cramped attic where the Frank family lived for two years before being captured in 1944 and sent to concentration Camps. Known to readers of Anne Franks diary As the a Annex a the apartment is entered through a door hidden behind a Bookcase. A panne Franks House is the most popular historical landmark in the Netherlands a said Amsterdam tourist Bureau spokesman Herman Ter balt. A a it a no wonder they re in dire need of More  before the nazis invaded the Netherlands in 1940, the building on the Princess canal housed the spice business of Anne Franks father Otto. The House next door was taken Over by the private museum foundation to add exhibit space. The hiding place is the museums focal Point. The rest of the Complex is devoted to exhibitions dealing with the ordeal of the Frank family and other dutch jews As Well As exhibits detailing other forms of racism. A the museum  just refer to the past a Rijnders said. A your aim is to combat present Day forms of discrimination anti semitism and  plans to add to the museum had initially drawn protests from neighbors and the National Monument preservation service but they were withdrawn when the foundation running the museum limited the expansion to a separate new building. The foundation had initially sought to rebuild a House next door into a viewing gallery from which visitors could look out onto the apartment where the Frank family hid. But opponents said the redesign would ruin the authenticity of the hideaway. World today swedish company to use robots to dispense Gas Stockholm Sweden apr a swedish Gas station Chain is introducing a robot pump that fills the tank while the Driver sits in the car a company official said Friday. A the robots movable Arm is guided to the fuel tank by a radar signal that reacts to a reflector on the tanks Cap said per Soderberg of the of Gas company. The robot is activated by a plastic credit card. A it Only takes 90 seconds to fill up 50 liners compared with about 3 i minutes when the Driver has to get out of the car open the tank fill up and return to the Drivers seat a he said. Soderberg said that a prototype has been in operation since october and that the robot will go into commercial use before the end of the year. 8 Stock investors arrested while protesting in s. Korea Seoul South Korea apr angry Stock investors denouncing the president and flinging chairs and books demonstrated Friday against what they charged was Lack of government action to boost a sagging Market. Police said they arrested eight people. The irate investors gathered outside several Stock trading offices housed at a building in Central Seoul witnesses said. The demonstrators shouted a Down with Roh Tae woo a South koreans president and about 200 hurled stacks of papers booklets flowerpots and chairs the witnesses said. At least two people were injured including a Stock Market official who needed 14 stitches to close a head injury after he was struck by a hurled chair. Several computers also were destroyed the witnesses said. The korean Stock markets composite Index the exchanges main measure has fallen sharply Over the past several Days and dropped further to 767.45 Friday the lowest since november 1988. 28-year political prisoner is pardoned in Yugoslavia Belgrade Yugoslavia apr Adem de Maqi believed to be Yugoslavia a longest serving political prisoner with nearly 28 years in detention has been pardoned a senior official announced Friday. The 54-year-old Demasi was among 108 political prisoners pardoned wednesday by the presidency said Stipe Suvar a member of the collective leadership. Another 190 political prisoners will remain in detention Suvar added announcing that impending amnesties will reduce that number to 70 before 1991. Australian group urges Boycott of aids conference Sydney Australia apr a Federal aids group said Friday that australians should Boycott an International aids conference in ban Francisco in june if . Authorities do not not travel restrictions by next month. The australian National Council on aids said it would ask the Federal health department to approach american authorities about customs and immigration Laws that could effectively prevent aids infected people from legally visiting the country. The Council condemned the . Travel restrictions which it said required a Public Knowledg ment on applications for medium Long term visas signifying that the applicant aids or was his positive and the Carrier of a a contagious and dangerous  it said the United states allows a waiver of travel restrictions for people attending con fences or business matters but notes their in Tion status on records held by both local a Federal government agencies