European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday May 6, 1990 philippine rebel murders . Marine armed philippine soldiers provide Security for american troops around the . Seafront a rest and recreation facility in Manila. A Manila Philippines a a peeled communist guerrilla fatally shot a . Marine near an american run Bai prompting cancellation of off base leave for All . Military personnel in the country officials said saturday. The Friday night attack near Subic Bay naval facility came after authority said they had evidence that communist guerrillas planned to kill americans be fore talks begin this month on extending the base s lease. 6 gunnery sgt. John s. Fredette 34 of Buena Park calif., was slain in the Liberty town of Olon Gapo near the base about50 Miles West of Manila according to a spokesman for the Subic facility. Fredette was assigned to Marine fighter attack Squadron 323, which is on temporary duty in the philippine from its base at the Marine air station in Eltoro calif., said spokesman Petty officer John Moore. A police investigator. Romeo de Guz Man said Fredette was walking along a Side Street in Olon Gapo when one of five suspected communist new people army members shot him once in the neck with a handgun. The five escape Don foot after the shooting. Latvia to restore own currency to bolster Independence drive Riga. . A latvian economists move quickly saturday to bolster the Republic s declaration of Independence by announcing plans for a currency that could be traded internationally. The Republic s legislature on Friday joined neigh Boring Lithuania and Estonia in declaring Independence from the soviet Union 50 years after the Krem Lin annexed the three Baltic republics. However Latvia took a More gradual approach than Lithuania saying full Independence would come Only after an indefinite period of negotiations with soviet authorities. Latvian president Anatoly Gorbunov said Low level talks Are expected to begin May 15. Everything is ahead he said after the vote Friday. This is Only thievery very  soviet leaders had no immediate reaction to Latvia s move. Gorbunov said at an evening news conference that the latvian government has received a proposal from estonian president Arnold Ruutel to Start immediate coordinated actions on the two republics drives for Independence. Economists of the new Latvia fund on saturday told a news conference in Riga the Republic s capital that work is under Way to restore the pre soviet latvian currency the lat. The fund created last month plans to immediately Issue Bonds and lottery tickets that can be sold abroad for $11 million to finance the creation and printing of the new currency they said. The lat May enter circulation coexisting with thenon convertible soviet Ruble As Early As next year. Fund members predicted. This is not theory. This is a Concrete step to Independence said Jazeps Barkans director of latvian television and a fund member. In addition to voting 138-0 for Independence latvian lawmakers also decided on Friday to drop the words soviet socialist from the Republic s name making it simply the Republic of Latvia. Their Call for a gradual break with the soviet Union however contrasted with the lithuanian decision on March 11 to immediately declare Complete Independence. Gorbunov said he could not predict what the Sovi ets would say but he added that the latvian govern ment has tried to make it Clear that there is no cause to close the door on dialogue and Start setting Ultima  about 300 people gathered in Riga s Cathedra Square saturday morning to hear speakers mounted on an army truck say the Independence declaration was illegal and should be revoked. The rally was organized by inter front. Which includes ethnic russians another non latvian residents. The Independence Bill was championed by the pro Independence latvian people s front that dominates the legislature. In his comments Friday Gorbunov said Latvia could offer its Solidarity but had few resources for economic help. In Washington lithuanian prime minister Kazi Miera Prunskiene appealed on Friday for Western backing. She said a Strong declaration of support could be decisive in Lithuania s drive. Latvian supreme soviet chairman Anatoly Gorbunov leads a ceremony saturday in Riga celebrating Independence. World today running of the bulls in Mexico cancelled Tecate Mexico a Mexico s run Ning of the bulls will not be staged any longer because of accidents rowdiness and animal abuse complaints that have plagued the 10-year old event Tecate s mayor said. This is not the kind of event that we  Adame the mayor of this City on the .-Mexico Border said Friday in announcing his decision to indefinitely suspend the Bull run. Modelled after the famed event in , the Tecate festival was started in 1979. It takes place Over several Days each summer an attracts up to 20,000 spectators most from the United states. Heroin Worth $32 million seized by police in Italy Monza Italy up police announced thursday that they seized 154 pounds of brow sugar heroin in a single operation against smugglers near Milan. In the Climax of the action by Carabiniero paramilitary National police based in Monza. Six Miles Northeast of Milan police arrested an ital Ian and two turks on drug smuggling charges. Police said the heroin was Worth $32 million on the Street Market. The police found the heroin in 138 plastic bags stuffed into a concealed cavity behind the Driver s seat of a heavy truck that was officially supposed to be taking a Load of polystyrene to Prato near Florence. Scientific research award split by spaniard honduran Oviedo Spain a a Spanish biochemist who specializes in human genetics research and a honduran pharmacologist working on treatment for hardening of the arteries Friday split the 10th annual Pence of Asturias prize. It is awarded for scientific research in the Ibro american world. Biochemist Santiago Grisolle Garcia head Rotthe Valencia Institute of cellular research and pharmacologist Salvador Moncada head of the wellcome research laboratories in London and visiting professor at Kings College there will share the 5 million peseta $47,000 prize named after the heir to the Spanish  jury of the Prince of Asturias foundation was headed by Spanish Nobel Medicine prize laureate severe Ochoa. Grisolle 67, was lauded for his work on enzymes that allow haemoglobin to carry oxygen throughout the body and Mon Cada 43, for his research relating to the trea ment of arteriosclerosis and other arterial Dis eases affecting the heart