European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2/ the stars and stripes tuesday july 17,1990 news updates a a a hungarian probe Budapest Hungary up a the chief prosecutor a a office has ordered a full scale investigation of former hungarian officials who May have supported the notorious Carios in conducting terrorist activities in the 1980s, the a tows Agency Mai said the office pinpointed at least four crimes for titled by the Ven Czuczan born terrorist and his gang just before coming to Hungary and Durini their stay. The allegations about Carlos whose real is jape is i Lulich Ramirez Sanchez surf Ppd last month during a session of parliament in which a government minister revealed that members of Pfyl previous regime a and possibly even the late communist party Leader Janos Kadar a were apparently involved in harbouring the terrorists. $ a chilean grapes Santiaco amp Chile up a the presiden of the chilean association of exporters Ronald Bown has blamed the . Food and drug administration for the poisoning of Jwo grapes that led to a temporary fan on Sale of the product in the United states. A the two grapes definitively were injected of Tveith cyanide in the United state or to be More precise in the Laboratory of the Federal food add drug administration a Bown to Ltd journalists White the hallway of the try. He has asked the culture to sue the it a $350 million in ining the Sale of r 32 Days begin interviewed in finance mini Bown said ministry of of United states damages for by chilean grapes 1. _ ing March 14, 189, after the two poisoned grapes Jere discovered. The ministry ills not yet commented on Bowns complaint. Underground fire Centralia a up a the underground mine fire that turned Centralia into a virtual ghost town is now raging below a Rural Road East of the Borough. Officials from Pennsylvania a environmental resources department said the fires Advance across big mine run Road in Conyngham township had been anticipated and there was no cause for alarm. A there is no immediate health or safety threat to area residents a said James Grace the departments Deputy Secretary. The department also said that drilling and temperature monitoring in late april and Early May had verified the fires spread. The drilling found temperatures ranging As High As 600 degrees from 10 to 50 feet underground in an area where big mine run Road crosses a former strip mine. The fire has raged in abandoned Anthracite Coal mines under the Columbia county town in northeastern Pennsylvania for 28 years. . Red r1, in Europe 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 resolved to maintain services As Long As americans in Europe need them the organizations 1 priorities will be to strengthen its Field a units maintain round the clock emergency services and support selected Proznik a red Cross management team decided at a special meeting last week at its Stuttgart Headquarters. A a was Long As we have dependents we will have volunteers. When they re All gone they re All gone. We re not Al going to do anything prematurely a said George Georgakakos the senior Region Lianag or at the american red Cross european Headquarters in Stuttgart. As some stations close with the departure of the troops they serve other Sta tons May grow larger said Virginiia Holmes a Volunteer Deputy nation pm 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 hell Nikon station manager and will cover most of Greece. Other organizational changes wont occur until after the military announces its troop reduction plans. A the red Cross depends primarily on the maintenance of Good military communication lines to do its Job in tune que properly Holmes said. The organization forwards about 118,000 messages annually through military centers Georgakakos said that if soap fee military installations Cut their communication Back to daytime service ply 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. Holm i said demand for red Cross services Tattay be greater than Ever As troops atari 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 Tytle discharged service members adjust to civilian life. Quot a the Only thing we want to emphasize is that Well be Here until the very end Quot 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 199 fiscal year about the same As during the budget year that just 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. Faa has give warning to . Airlines student will carry comb report says London 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 Stu. T _. Dent with a Canadian passport May be semtex plastic explosive the newspaper duped into carrying a suitcase containing was quoted As saying a bomb onto a pan am flight from either it did not say How it obtained its info Frankfurt or  Quot the Faa issues hundreds of by Pic threat warnings to airlines each year and the newspaper quoted the bulletin As say liability of the individual that originated the to great in formation a the amp newspaper also said the bulletin was issued tuesday to All . Airlines and seized airports. It Qto a the bulletin As saying the student was reportedly studying at the sort Onne in Paris and is now touring eur Fope. Huf destination and Date of departure Are unknown it said. The student Quot allegedly has a Middle Eastern Boyfriend who Wilt give her a suitcase contacting a bomb made of the mation. A bomb concealed in a radio cassette recorder blew up i pan am Jet Over Lockerbie Scotland in december 1938, ing that a there Are doubts about dec re killing Alt 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 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 a Volence began when a car bomb exploded in front of the Medellin police Headquarters killing a 19 Kear old pedestrian. Police have blamed Medellin a a cocaine Cartel for similar attacks in the past two hours after the car bombing a group of unidentified gunmen drove into terrorist one of the City a northeastern neighbor hoods and killed seven youths according to a police statement. Tiyo other youths were wounded. Three More youth s were killed in Medellin a san Javier neighbourhood when a group of assailants broke into a parly and began firing. Three people were wounded in the attack police Laid. 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  killed 6 injured As lightning hits hut Lone Pine Calif. Apr lightning struck a hut crowded with 13 hikers at the Summit of mount Whitney on saturday killing a 26-year-old Man and injuring at least six others authorities said. The hikers had gathered inside the 12-fool by 12-foot Stone Cabin at the Summit of Cal i Fomia smallest Mountain during a thunderstorm when the Boll hit said it. Jack Goodrich of the Inyo county sheriffs department. Five injured climbers were plucked from the 14,496-foot Peak by a . Forest service helicopter As darkness enveloped the Sierra Nevada. At least two injured men were left on the Mountain Goodrich said. Army National guard officials planned to Fly Acyl 47 Chinook cargo helicopter from Stockton to carry hikers off the Mountain said staff sgt. Phil Jordan a spokesman in Sacramento. The five were flown to Southern Inyo Hospital in Lone Pine where one of them was declared dead at 9 09 . The victims name was being withheld until relatives could be notified Goodrich said. Another Man was admitted to the Hospital and was listed in stable condition Early sunday said nurse Debbie Plemmons. Three others were treated and released. Aside from injuries caused by the lightning strike other hikers were suffering from hypothermia and Altitude sickness Goodrich said. By1 Chance the Rescue Effort began within three hour of the 3 30 . Lightning strike after several Hikens racing Down from the Summit for help met the someone with a two Way radio Goodrich said. The emergency. The controllers in turn notified Inyo county authorities Goodrich said. Even experienced mountaineers usually take two Days to hike the roughly 16 Miles to mount Whitney a Summit from the Trail head at the 9,000-foot Elevation near Lone Pine. The Peak is about 170 Miles North of los Angeles