European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday april 25,1990 world today oldest citizen of Switzerland Dies at 109 in Home for aged pully Switzerland apr Switzerland a oldest citizen Suzanne Monney Perrin is dead at age 109. She died at a Home for the aged the director of the Home said. A passionate Reader she consumed More than 60 books a year before her eyesight failed when she was 106. But Monney Perrin retained her interest in Day to Day affairs and had a newspaper read to her every Day said the director Pierre Vermeil. A native French speaker she surprised Well wishers on her 104th birthday with a speech in German a language she had hardly spoken since learning it As a Young women he said. She lived most of the first half of the Century in Marseille France where her husband had been transferred. After his death in the 1940s, she returned to  finds stranger buried in plot she bought for herself Kuala Bumpur Malaysia apr City Hall is trying to help an elderly woman who went to visit a cemetery plot where she planned to be buried alongside family members Only to discover it was already occupied by a stranger. Yong you min 78, said she purchased the plot at Cheras Catholic cemetery from the Kuala Bumpur City Hall in 1962 and that she had hoped to be buried there one Day alongside her sister and two Brothers. A few Days ago she discovered that her plot was occupied by the remains of a Man unknown to her. The malay mail daily published her Story on monday under the headline a there is someone in my  a City Hall official said the Man in the grave died in 1987 and was supposed to be buried in the nearby protestant cemetery. Funeral directors put his body in plot no. 1865 in the Catholic cemetery instead of plot no. 1865 the protestant one she said. She said she did not understand Why there had been no complaints until now but that City Hall would try to resolve the  imposes death penalty for goods hoarders profiteers Nicosia Cyprus apr to combat consumer shortages Iran a parliament has approved the death penalty for people convicted of hoarding profiteering and Black Market dealings Tehran radio reports. In a broadcast monitored in Nicosia the radio said a if profiteering or hoarding is meant to counter the islamic republics establishment the profiteer and Hoarder will be  iranian officials and the Media Call such individuals a economic  motorists warned on elephants crossing Kuala Bumpur Malaysia apr anticipating heavy traffic during a moslem festival the Public works department has suggested How to Deal with elephants crossing malaysians East West Highway honk the Horn but not too much. A a done to honk unnecessarily As this will excite or annoy the elephants a cautions Yap Teong aun the departments senior superintendent. If one or two honks done to drive an elephant off the Road he advised tourists to seek help from Public works maintenance Crews or army posts along the Highway linking Penang in the West and Kota Bharu on the East. Yap said elephants Are fond of a a wallowing on the Highway. So far no one has been reported Hurt by elephants crossing the Road sometimes in herds. The departments warning was issued for the islamic festival of Vidil fit i. The festival concludes Ramadan the holy month during which moslem fast from Dawn to dusk. E. Berlin officials gather up plenty of Money a to Burn East Berlin apr East Germany has sent tons of its own Money to the trash Bumer to make room in its Treasury for the Crisp West German currency that it Hopes will bring Prosperity. Soldiers stuffed sacks filled with old out of circulation East German currency that had been taking up space in the main Treasury in East Berlin. The Marks were carted off to the incinerator on monday so the government will have room for the new currency that is expected to begin officially circulating in the country by july 2. The monetary Union is a major step toward reuniting the two German states. A the East German Mark will not be needed with the introduction of the monetary Union a said the Treasury a chief cashier Horst Boettcher. Critics in West Germany complained that Chancellor Helmut Kohl was the one acting like he had Money to Burn. The old Money was removed on the same Day that the West German government announced it would offer East Germany a Basic 1-1 Exchange rate on wages salaries and pensions. The 1-1 rate also would apply to savings accounts of up to 4,000 Marks or about $2,300, said Kohl spokesman Dieter Vogel in Bonn. Savings Over that amount would be traded at a rate of two East German Marks for every West German Mark. There had been reports that West Germany was considering the poorer rate for most savings. The government later said Kohl and East German prime minister Lothar de Maiziere would meet tuesday to discuss the remaining differences Over reunification. The East German government had demanded the 11 rate to protect workers from higher living costs in a unified Germany and the loss of huge subsidies that existed in the former socialist system. East German politicians applauded the wage Concession but criticized the limit on savings accounts. West Germany opposition parties said the plan would Cost billions erode the West German Mark and Lead to inflation. West German stocks plunged to their lowest level of the year after the announcement. West German finance minister Theo Taigel said his country will spend $35 billion to $58 billion in the next two years on unification. The West German governments proposal is an a important contributions to ending the disagreements Between the nations East German government spokesman Mathias Gehler said. But Wolfgang Ullmann vice president of East Germany a parliament said a if this is the final decision there should be Sharp protest because a Large part of savings will not be considered  Many West germans who vote in National elections on dec. 2, Are worried they will Bear the Brunt of absorbing the crumbling East German Economy. Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine Kohls Likely opponent on monday accused the Chancellor of caving in to pressure from the East germans. He called the wage agreement a disaster. But the left leaning East German social democrats who Are Allied with their Western namesakes called the wage Exchange a a step in the right  in another step Forward to creating a single Germany government sources in Bonn said monday that the four world War ii allies a the soviet Union United states France and Britain a will meet with the two Germany for talks May 5 on International aspects of German unification. Great train robbery figure murdered at Spanish resort Marbella Spain apr a member of the gang that carried out Britain a great train robbery of 1963 was shot to death in this Costa Del sol resort police said tuesday. Investigators believe the killing of 58-year-old Charles Wilson May have been drug related a Marbel la police spokesman said. A gunman opened fire monday afternoon on Wilson after calling at the door of the britons apartment the spokesman said on condition of anonymity. Neighbors told police they saw a Young Man in a track suit fleeing on a bicycle shortly after they heard the gunshots the spokesman said. Another police spokesman in the Southern resort said that the motive for the shooting was not immediately Clear but that investigators believed it May have been related to drug trafficking. Wilson and 14 other members of a gang took part in what has been called the great train robbery on aug. 8, 1963, when they held up the Glasgow to London mail train near Aylesbury 40 Miles Northwest of London. % they stole 2.6 million pounds then Worth $7.2 million in Cash. At the time it was the biggest robbery in Britain. Police recovered less than $966,000, but Wilson and most of the other gang Mem-11 Bers were captured and jailed. Wilson was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1964 i and was released in 1978. I Spain a Mediterranean. Costa Del sol has been a Wilson Haven for suspected British criminals but in recent months Spain has sent a number of suspects Back to Britain. Wilson had lived in Marbella for several years. He was suspected of links to gangs that smuggle thousands of pounds of hashish from North Africa through Spain to Northern Europe every year police said. Throngs of armenians recall genocide Moscow apr hundreds of thousands of armenians flocked to a Hillside memorial in Yerevan on tuesday to Mark the genocide that devastated their people 75 years ago residents said. Armenians estimate that 1.5 million armenians were killed Between 1915 and 1923 by the turkish ottoman Empire. Beginning at Dawn tuesday streams of armenians coursed toward the memorial in the republics capital waiting up to three hours to Lay their Flowers near its eternal flame said Raffi Hovannisian director of the Yerevan office of the armenian Assembly of America. Black flags and red Orange and Blue armenian National flags flew from Many of the City a buildings he said in a Telephone interview. A these people Are looking into the past at the genocide seeing in some respect that its been repeated in sum Ait and Baku and elsewhere and yet still looking into the future a Hovannisian said. A a there a a combination of grief and  scores of armenians were killed in ethnic attacks in the azerbaijani cities of sum Ait two years ago and Baku this Winter. Sporadic fighting continues Between armenians and azerbaijanis in the disputed territory of Magorno Karabash. There Are currently some 3 million armenians living in the soviet Republic and some 1.5 million More abroad. Hovannisian said As Many As 2 million were expected to participate in memorial processions Ana ceremonies. Turkish officials dispute armenian accounts f the genocide saying that Only Between 300,0uu an 600,000 armenians died and most perished of ois ease famine or attacks by marauders during Torce deportation to Syria and Iraq from Eastern Turkey. The Issue dormant for decades was resurrected in the 1970s when armenian extremists began More Tea a decade of attacks against turkish diplomats a Quot a a saying they were avenging the massacre of their an tors. A fit the armenian Assembly of America is a n0ij Jurj a group that lobbies for armenians in Washington elsewhere. It also oversees some earthquake Reguei p jets in Armenia which was hit by a killer Quak december 1988