European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes tuesday May 1,1990 world today Japan airlines offering diners food without flight Tokyo apr Japan airlines is offering a new alternative to in flight food a no flight. Its new restaurant in Osaka has a full size replica of a Jal Boeing 767, a Cabin Crew videotapes of travel information and seats in executive or first class sections a for some people airline food is an oxymoron a said airline spokesman Geoffrey Tudor. A but we thought there was a group of people who did t think so. We re aiming the restaurant at people who maybe done to travel very much but want to try out the grounded diners have quickly been reserving scats at the restaurant since it opened at the International Garden and greenery exposition in Osaka officials say. Before the meal customers Settle into a Row of air plane seats in a lounge to watch a five minute videotape of Jal in flight service and travel information. A real Jal Cabin Crew is on duty a to add a touch of authenticity a Tudor said. In concessions to Comfort tables take the place of the plastic fold Down stands and diners done to need a seat Bell. Pope beautifies 11 martyrs killed in Spain in 1930s Vatican City apr Pope John Paul ii on sunday beatified 11 people executed in Spain in the 1930s during the asturian conflict and the Spanish civil War. The Pope also beatified the Rev. Filippo Rinaldi an italian who led the Salisian order from 1922. Until his death in 1931. Beatification is a step toward possible sainthood in the roman Catholic Church. Thousands of faithful Many from Spain attended the solemn beatification ceremony in St. Peters Basilica. The rite was Concile braced by 1 7 Spanish Bishops. All ii martyrs were born at the end of the 1800s or Early 1900s. Iraq reports Malta fever widespread in animals Baghdad Iraq apr Malta fever a serious bacterial disease transmitted to humans by Domestic animals and their products is widespread in Iraq and could cause severe damage to the country a livestock the government run Baghdad observer newspaper said sunday. The English language daily reported that an International conference on the disease known in medical parlance As brucellosis ended recently with a Call for urgent action to eradicate the disease. Humans can be infected by drinking unpasteurized milk and Dairy products or poorly cooked meat. The paper quoted an unidentified source at the conference As saying the disease has reached epidemic proportions in some areas of Iraq. Basque group plans attacks to disrupt olympics and fair a. A. J 1. _ a Madrid Spain up a police say Basque extremists plan bomb attacks on Spanish railroads to disrupt the 1992 olympic games in Barcelona and the worlds fair in Seville a newspaper reported sunday. The Madrid daily Abc said Henri Parot a French Basque accused of collaborating with the Spanish Basque separatist group Eta has told police that Eta plans to bomb train lines that run Between Madrid and the cities of Burgos Seville and Barcelona. Perot was captured in Seville earlier this month during a failed attempt to set off a car bomb at the Headquarters of the civil guard Spain a police Force. The aim of the attacks the paper said would be to Force the government of prime minister Felipe Gonzalez to negotiate with Eta whose acronym is made up of the Basque letters for Basque Homeland and Liberty. Eta has killed More than 500 people including More than 200 civilians since it took up arms in 1969 to fight for an Independent and marxist state in the Basque Region of Northern Spain Perot reportedly told police officials that Eta Leader Francisco Mugica Garmendia planned the blasts to occur Early enough in 1992 to deter tourists who plan port of video showing Ceausescu us deaths was faked scientists say Bordeaux France apr a romanian go Mem ment videotape purporting to show the execution of romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena is faked in part forensic experts Here believe. After examining a 90-minute tape shown last week on French Tel Yvion the scientists doubt the official claim that the couple was killed by firing squad. Instead they say the couple was apparently killed hours earlier with gunshots to the head. The communist dictator and his wife were tried and executed dec. 25. Or. Loic be Ribault director of a private criminal science Laboratory in Bordeaux said sunday that the Only signs of fatal wounds on the bodies were in the right temples indicating the Ceausescu had been shot in the head. In the tape the Ceausescu hands tied behind their backs appear in the video to have been gunned Down with automatic weapons. But the camera Angle is too Low and the Lens is obscured by gun smoke. Later footage shows a medic checking mrs. Ceausescu for signs of life As she lies in a Stream of blood pouring from a wound in her head. Be Ribault and others say the state of the bodies show the Ceausescu died hours before the medic checked them. The corpses were stiff with rigor mortis and there was virtually no sign of blood on Nicolae Ceausescu. Also the Bullet holes on the Brick Wall behind the couple Are too Low for a firing squad theoretically aiming at the Chest be Ribault said. A a it a technically impossible that this film was made immediately after the death of the Ceausescu a said be Ribault. A the fusillade. Is a simulation made solely for the Guy Nicolas another forensic scientist working for the French criminal courts said the evidence of a prior execution is not conclusive. A i done to think we can draw any definitive conclusions from such mediocre images a he said. To attend the worlds fair and the olympic games both to be held in the summer of 1992. Parot told police that Mugica Garmendia also known As a a Arzapalo a is convinced the attacks or even the threat of attacks would generate enough International pressure on Spain to drive the government to the bargaining table. The Eta has already moved against the worlds fair called expo 92. They recently mailed a letter bomb to expo 92 Headquarters in Seville injuring a Mai room clerk who lost a hand opening the explosive. About 1 million basques live in four Northern provinces of Spain and in adjacent areas of France and Are known for their fiercely Independent culture and traditions. However Only a Small number Are believed to sympathize with Etas violent methods and goal of total Independence from Spain. The Basque parliament a local legislative group in the pais Vasco province condemned the Eta s terrorism and pledged a maximum support to projects such As expo 92. Gonzalez a socialist government has made fighting terrorism a High priority. Record catch Dion Gilmore 21, sits astride a shark that weighs 3,355 pounds and is about 16 feet Long. After five hours of battling the professional Fisherman landed the monster off Adelaide on the South australian coast earning him a place in the guinness Book of world Canton firmly rejects letting women vote Appenzell Switzerland apr Switzerland a final bastion of male supremacy on sunday defiantly refused to give women the vote in local affairs. The All male sword carrying legislative Assembly of Appenzell Rhodes Interior a northeastern Canton overwhelmingly rejected a federally proposed constitutional amendment on local suffrage for women. Quot it does not mean that we think that women Are Worth less a said one Man who addressed the gathering. A but it would not make women happier. If they were happier in the countries where they have the vote 1 would immediately say the vote by a show of hands came two decades after Swiss women won the vote on Federal matters and 10 years after the Federal Constitution was revised to formally proclaim equal rights for both sexes. Swiss president and Justice minister Arnold roller a citizen of the Canton was a guest of Honor at the Assembly which was broadcast live on Swiss television. The 4,000 male legislators and residents at the Assembly wore traditional swords to demonstrate their voting eligibility. Beat Graf the newly elected chief of the cantons government had urged support of the proposed change but he was the Only speaker to do so. A lifestyles have changed Here too a Graf said. A we cannot forever refuse to join the development in the other the Cabinet of the neighbouring principality of Liechtenstein also attended sundays ceremony along with the ambassadors of Sweden and Spain. Thousands of tourists lined the Assembly Square and the streets of the picturesque Small town. A solemn colourful procession preceded the meeting. Appenzell Rhodes Interior is Switzerland a smallest state and one of its poorest. The mountainous Rural state has a population of 13,000 and is predominantly roman Catholic. The state has twice rejected women a suffrage once in 1973 and again in 1982. The Surprise decision was expected to leave the final say on the Issue to Switzerland a supreme court the Federal tribunal. Pending the Assembly the court had put off a ruling on a constitutional complaint filed by a woman resident of the Canton. She had invoked the Federal constitutions equal rights article. Appenzell inner Rhodes is the Only one of Switzerland a 26 Sovereign states or cantons that still denies women the vote on local issues ranging from budget questions to alcohol Laws. In a close vote neighbouring Appenzell outer rho Des granted the vote to women last year. A 1986-87 Survey of women in that state of 50,000 showed that Only 57 percent favored having the right to vote
