European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 a the stars and stripes monday july 16,1990 news updates hungarian probe Budapest Hungary up a the chief prosecutors office has ordered a full scale investigation of former hungarian officials who May have supported the notorious Carlos in conducting terrorist activities in the 1980s, the news Agency Mai said. The office pinpointed at least four crimes committed by the venezuelan born terrorist and his gang just before coming to Hungary and during their stay. The allegations about Carlos whose real name is Illich Ramirez Sanchez surfaced last month during a session of parliament in which a government minister revealed that members of the previous regime a and possibly even the late communist party Leader Janos Kadar a were apparently involved in harbouring the terrorists. Chilean grapes Santiago Chile up a the president of the chilean Asso Calion of exporters. Ronald Bown has blamed the . Food and drug administration for the poisoning of two grapes that led to a temporary ban on Sale of the product in the United Stales. Quot the two grapes definitively were injected with cyanide in the United states or to be More precise in the Laboratory of the Federal food and drug administration a Bown told journalists while interviewed in the hallway of the finance ministry. Bown said he has asked the ministry of agriculture to sue the United states for $350 million in damages for Banning the Sale of chilean grapes for 32 Days begin ing March 14, 1989, after the two poisoned grapes were discovered. The ministry has not yet commented on Bowns complaint. Bown has declined to explain Why somebody in the Fra would want to Poison the chilean grapes or what evidence he has to support his allegation. Eagle scout Mannheim West Germany a Kent i. Palmer has been promoted to Eagle scout the highest Honor in boy scouting. The member of troop 27 has been involved in scouting for 10 years. For his Eagle scout project Palmer set up information centers on Absentee voting and distributed voting information kits. The 18-year-old is the son of Robert and Judith Palmer. To earn the Eagle scout award a boy scout must fulfil requirements in leadership service and outdoor skills. This includes earning at least 21 Merit badges and completing a Community service project. By Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart West Germany a the american red Cross faced with the need to restructure itself in the event of . Troop withdrawals has  maintain services As Long As americans in Europe need them. The organizations priorities will be to strengthen its Field units maintain round the clock emergency services and support selected programs a red Cross management team decided at a special meeting last week at its Stuttgart Headquarters. A was Long As we have dependents we will have volunteers. When they re All gone they re All gone. We re not going to do anything prematurely a said George Georgakakos the senior regional manager at the american red Cross european Headquarters in Stuttgart. As some stations close with the departure of the troops they serve other stations May grow larger said Virginia Holmes a Volunteer Deputy National chairwoman for Europe. The red Cross already is experiencing that sort of change As the United states closes hell Nikon a in Greece. The red Cross station there will close late this month. A locally hired assistant station manager working on the Island of Crete will replace the Helle Inikon station manager and will cover most of Greece. Other organizational changes wont occur until after the military announces its troop reduction plans. The red Cross depends primarily on the maintenance of Good military communication lines to do its Job in Europe properly Holmes said. The organization forwards about 118,000 messages annually through military centers. Georgakakos said that if some military installations Cut their communication Back to daytime service Only it will pose a hardship for red Cross clients faced with a death in the family or a similar emergency. Because of the difference Between . And european time zones three fourths of the message traffic from the United states originates after Normal european business hours. Holmes said demand for red Cross services May be greater than Ever As troops Start to pull out partly because the withdrawal will split up some families temporarily. The european Branch also has alerted .-based red Cross chapters that they should be available to help discharged service members adjust to civilian life. A the Only thing we want to emphasize is that Well be Here until the very end a Holmes said of the european operations. The american red Cross in Europe employs a paid staff of about 325 and enjoys the services of some 10,500 volunteers Holmes said. The european Branch has a $6 million operating budget for the july 1990-june 1991 fiscal year about the same As during the budget year that just i ended Georgakakos said. Red Cross donors in the United states provided about 80 percent of the funds with the rest coming from combined Federal Campaign contributions. Given warning to . Condon apr a London newspaper reported sunday that . Authorities have warned . Airlines of a threat to blow up a pan am Jet on a flight from West Germany in the next 10 Days. In Washington Faa spokesman Fred Farrar refused to comment sunday. In new York pan am spokesman Jeff Kreindler also declined comment and referred All queries to the Faa. The sunday correspondent quoted a confidential Federal aviation administration bulletin As saying a a female student with a Canadian passport May be duped into carrying a suitcase containing a bomb onto a pan am flight from either Frankfurt or  the Faa issues hundreds of bomb threat warnings to airlines each year and the newspaper quoted the bulletin As saying that a there Are doubts about the re liability of the individual that originated the threat  the newspaper also said the bulletin was issued tuesday to All . Airlines and selected airports. It quoted the bulletin As saying the student was reportedly studying at the sorbonne in Paris and is now touring Europe. Her destination and Date of departure Are unknown it said. The student a allegedly has a Middle Eastern Boyfriend Quot who will give her a suitcase containing a bomb made of the semtex plastic explosive the newspaper was quoted As saying. It did not say How it obtained its information. A bomb concealed in a radio cassette recorder blew up a pan am Jet Over Lockerbie Scotland in december 1988, killing All 259 people on Board and 11 on the ground. The new York bound flight originated in Frankfurt and changed aircraft in London. After the crash it emerged that the Faa had issued a bomb warning to airlines and diplomats. The sunday correspondent said american intelligence experts believe the source of the latest warning could have been the israeli intelligence Agency the Mossad. It said they suspect the Mossad is attempting to disrupt the release of Irish teacher Brian Keenan who has been a captive in Lebanon since april 1986. The paper also said that the Mossad was also the source of a warning that preceded the Lockerbie bomb plot. It said that warning was dismissed As an israeli attempt to interfere with Plo Leader Yasser Arafat a overtures to the . Government. 40 killed in Medellin terrorist attacks Bogota Colombia apr a series of terrorist attacks in Medellin left 40 people dead including two police officers a Soldier and 10 youths police said sunday. Saturday nights violence began when a car bomb exploded in front of the Medellin police Headquarters killing a 19-year-old pedestrian. Police have blamed Medellin a cocaine Cartel for similar attacks in the past. Two hours after the car bombing a group of unidentified gunmen drove into one of the City a northeastern neighbourhoods and killed seven youths according to a police statement. Two other youths were wounded. Three More youths were killed in Medellin a san Javier neighbourhood when a group of assailants broke into a party and began firing. Three people were wounded in the attack police said. The police statement added that three additional people were killed by an unidentified armed group in another of the City a poverty stricken neighbourhoods. Assassins shot and killed two on duty police officers and a Soldier in three separate incidents in the City the report said. Medellin a police chief col. Jorge Fer Zero has attributed recent massacres in Medellin a poorer neighbourhoods to rival youth gangs working for the traffickers. But human rights activists have said that Many of the massacres Are the work of police officers retaliating for attacks on them. Patch Barracks commissary closing for repairs in Cru air i  re a. I _ Quot by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart West Germany a the Patch Barracks commissary will dose for two months beginning july 25 to replace the floor of the 2-year-old store. A Small commissary Annex will operate in the posts former class six store offering customers about 900 of the most commonly purchased items Stuttgart commissary District manager Sidney h. Powers said. The $7 million Patch commissary opened in May 1988, and the store s linoleum floor began to Bubble and Peel within Days of the opening. The troop support Agency will pay for the floor replacement Agency spokeswoman Denise Gomes said because contract specifications of what materials to use were flawed not the contractors work. The new floor will be made of Stone tile. Floors also separated and peeled at the $7 million Hanau commissary completed in 1986, and at the $8.5 million Robinson Barracks commissary in Stuttgart which opened in May 1988. Contractor error was the cause of the defects at both those stores Gomes said. The floor was replaced at the Hanau commissary in 1988 at the contractors expense she said. The Robinson Barracks problem stemmed from defects in the subfloor the moisture Barrier and the glue and rubber. The contractor paid the army about $80,000 in compensation. The troop support Agency has not yet decided whether to install a floor surface of Vinyl acrylic paint or Stone tile Powers said. A at this Point in time because of its size we done to anticipate closing it a Powers said of the Robinson Barracks commissary. He said the floor will probably be replaced in one store Section at a time. Since the flooring problems occurred Gomes said the army has contracted for installation of tile floors in All new commissaries including one scheduled to open aug. 7 in Erlanger