European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes Friday june 1,1990 world today Hospital releases begin after pneumonia treatment Jerusalem apr former prime minister men Achim begin was released thursday from a Hospital where he underwent treatment for pneumonia for the past two weeks officials said. Begin who won a Nobel peace prize for his role in making peace with Egypt was brought to Shaari Zedek by ambulance on May 16 after complaining of weakness. He was later diagnosed As having pneumonia. Begin who bacame prime minister in 1977 As Leader of the right Wing liked bloc abruptly resigned in september 1983 and has since lived in seclusion in Jerusalem. Aides said at the time that begin was depressed Over the death of his wife Aliza and Over israelis failed War in Lebanon. While prime minister begin suffered several heart attacks. In 1986 he underwent prostate surgery.6 killed when train hits truck crossing track Cairo Egypt apr six men were killed and 54 civilians injured when a passenger train travelling to the Mediterranean City of Alexandria crashed into a truck crossing the track newspapers reported thursday. The Cairo paper Al Akbar said the Accident occurred wednesday afternoon at the Village Railroad crossing in Tush about 25 Miles North of Cairo. It said the Grade Crossings Slop signal was lighted but the Driver of the vehicle a truck carrying stones and pebbles ignored it. The Driver and five policemen Riding with him died on the spot Ai Akbar said. The paper said the Impact derailed three cars of the train and 54 passengers were injured. Most were hitchhiking on the cars roofs Al Akbar  gunmen kill two policemen in Medellin Bogota Colombia apr gunmen killed two policemen in the cocaine capital of Medellin thursday bringing to 42 the number of Law officers killed in that City this month police said. Security forces in Medellin also found an abandoned car containing nearly 80 pounds of dynamite a metropolitan police spokesman said in an interview. A series of bombs exploded in Medellin and several other cities in the two weeks preceding sundays presidential elections killing 37 people and wounding about 350. Authorities have blamed the powerful Medellin cocaine Cartel for the bombings and assassinations of policemen. The Cartel has offered to pay $4,300 to anyone willing to kill a policeman. The Bounty for a member of colombians elite police corps a group specially trained to fight drug traffickers is said to be As High As $10,000. The police spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity said the two policemen were killed by unidentified gunmen in two separate attacks thursday in Southern Medellin. So far this year 324 policemen have been slain in Colombia an average of two a Day police said. On sunday colombians elected Cesar Gaviria 43, of the governing Liberal party to be their next president. Of the four major candidates Gaviria took the toughest line against drug traffickers. He said he favors extraditing them to the United states and opposes negotiating with them. He takes office aug. 7, when president Virgilio Barco Steps Down. Fear of Price hikes triggers run on East German stores Berlin apr East germans Are Clearing store shelves and filling their refrigerators because they fear massive Price increases when the nation converts to a free Market officials said wednesday. East germans Are making a run on canned goods meat soap sugar and a everything that can be stored a said Commerce ministry spokeswoman Christian bos chek. Food distributors also Are sitting on Large stocks of meat and other goods creating shortages apparently while waiting for the july 2 economic merger with West Germany the government said. Unification of the German states economies is expected to bring higher prices and massive unemployment. Government spokesman Matthias Gehler said subsidies on food will be scrapped july 2 and prices will be set by the free Market rather than the state. But subsidies for utilities rents and Public transp ration will remain at least until dec. 31, when the government will assess the effects of capitalism on the country Gehler said. A we cannot have half a marriage. We want to enter into it entirely a he said. Prices of Many products already Are rising As West German goods begin filling East German stores. Boschek said people she called a Hamster buyers were purchasing As Many goods As they can. Gehler said More than 100 inspectors will be sent around the country to investigate reports that East German food distributors and producers Are intentionally keeping products off the Market until july 2. On that Date they can be paid in convertible West German Marks. The Centrepiece of the economic Union is the conversion of East German currency to West German Marks. Under a treaty Between the Germany most East germans will be Able to convert up to $2,400 to West German Marks at a 1-1 rate. Amounts above that will be converted at a 2-1 rate. Salaries and pensions also will be converted at a i i rate. The government will begin passing out applications next week to East germans for converting their Cash. East germans now have 440 billion Marks in savings accounts said Wolf rid Stoll vice president of the East German Staat Bank. That includes 25 million accounts held by 16 million East germans and hundreds of thousands held by enterprises Legal entities and foreigners. Stoll said Banks would stay open longer and personnel would be reinforced to handle the expected crunch. He urged East germans to remain a Calm and levelheaded when the droves of people begin descending on East German Banks. He said East germans Are expected to open Between 1.5 million and 2 million new accounts in june alone in anticipation of the economic Union. East germans must have their Money in Bank accounts to convert their currency. The government will begin passing out West German currency to stores in the Days before the economic Union is official. East germans will be Able to buy products in East German Marks and get their change Back in West Marks at a 2-1 Exchange rate. Just a Little Spra Ful fun while West German Farmers in the area around their crops two Young girls turn the irrigation Frankfurt worry about the drought threatening hoses into a refreshing  executions continuing papers say Beijing apr the chinese government has executed 20 people including a Man convicted of destroying an air Force jeep during last june a pro democracy uprising chinese newspapers reported. Sundays edition of the official Sichuan daily seen in Beijing thursday said courts in the capital of Sichuan province last week sentenced nine people to die including convicted arsonist you Yingchuan. All were immediately executed. The newspaper said you led others in overturning a jeep and setting it on fire during rioting that broke out in the Capi Tal Chengdu on june 5, the Day after the bloody military suppression of the pro democracy movement in Beijing. The official press has reported the executions of at least 20 participants in antigovernment disturbances that too place last june although the number of actual executions is believed to be substantially higher. You is the first reported Case since a Beijing court last december sentenced two men to die for killing a policeman on june 4. The official Beijing daily also reported thursday that a local court ordered the execution of 11 criminals the Day before. The court cited the need to ensure social stability for the asian games to be staged in Beijing in september. The condemned convicted of murder robbery rape and a hooliganism a were immediately taken to an execution grounds and shot to death the daily said. Beijing municipal intermediate people s court chief i Shuhan in handing Down the verdict said the City must a severely attack criminal elements to ensure the Security of the asian games and october 1 National Day the Beijing daily said. The Sichuan and Beijing trials followed another mass execution in Zhengzhou Central China on saturday when 11 train robbers were put to death. China does not release capital punishment figures and Many executions go unreported in the official press. However recently the press has carried numerous reports of death sentences and condemned men have been paraded before mass rallies to emphasize the governments Tough stance toward crime. A Shanghai court last week sentenced 10 people to die on various murder and robbery charges. In Canton last month 10 people were executed for Selling tainted liquor and 11 others were put to death for robbery and murder