European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 news updates buses desegregated Pretoria South Africa apr City buses in the South african administrative capital were opened to All races saturday. Local municipal buses had pre a piously been reserved for Whites in Pretoria bus service in other major cities such As Cape town Johannesburg and Durban already has been desegregated non racial transportation in the rest of the country is expected to be introduced in october when the separate amenities act is repealed. The Law from the 1950s allows local governments to set aside Public facilities for certain races. In june the National party gov emment passed a Bill repealing the separate amenities act. The Bill will not become effective until october giving people time to adjust the government has said. La. Death penalty Baton Rouge la. Apr the states electric chair is being retired now that Louisiana has decided to execute inmates with lethal injections. The change comes from legislation signed into Law by gov. Buddy Roemer. State sen. Donald Kelly pushed the Bill through the legislative session that ended july 9, saying the electric chair is too cruel. The chair will be retired As of Jan. 1, 1991. Louisiana has executed 19 men since the 1976 . Supreme court ruling allowing states to resume the death penalty. Compensation of d Moscow apr the byelorussian legislature has approved compensation for 1.8 million people living on land contaminated by the 1986 chernobyl nuclear Plant Accident Tass has reported. The decision was made after the legislature declared the Republic a a National ecological disaster zone a the official soviet news Agency said. Everyone living on land contaminated above a certain level will receive $25 per month beginning in August Tass said. Byelorussian took the Brunt of the radioactivity spewed from the chernobyl Plant in the neighbouring Republic of Ukraine. Romanian trial Bucharest Romania apr the trial of 24 former top communist party and government officials who served under deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu opened saturday but was adjourned following a defense request that the chief judge be replaced. The 24, All former members of the communist party politburo Are accused of having backed Ceausescu a orders to shoot at peaceful demonstrators last december As the revolution against the former dictator began. The defendants face maximum sentences of life in prison. Shortly after it opened the trial was adjourned following a defense request for the president of the five member military tribunal to be replaced. Defense attorney Mircea Stan Culescu asked that maj. Gen. Ion Nistor be replaced because he was one of the five judges who conducted the secret trial against Ceausescu and his wife Elena. They were executed dec. 25 after being found guilty of genocide and ruining the National Economy. The stars and stripes monday july 23, 1990 Israel to test launch missile developed with . Funding Jerusalem apr Israel will Likely launch within two weeks its first test of a .-funded anti missile missile the commander of the israeli air Force said saturday. The Arrow missile is being developed with . Strategic defense initiative funds to combat Short Range ballistic missiles. The . Program is better known As a Star  in Washington the . Defense department announced Friday that it would pay for the second phase of the Arrow program Washington provided 80 percent of the $158 in lion in the first phase of the project and israelis defense ministry supplied the balance. Israel is seeking about $200 million from the United states for the second phase of development. Air Force commander maj. Gen. Abihu bin nun speaking on Israel radio said. The Arrow cobia be operational within five years. When asked if the first test would be launched within two weeks he said a this is a Good  the Arrow which has already undergone three simulated ground tests is designed to defend against ballistic missiles with a Range of 600 Miles Orless. Pin nun said the Arrow was needed because of efforts by Iraq and Syria to develop chemical and nuclear warheads rescuers _ Baguio Philippines a foreign Rescue teams on sunday gave up looking for More survivors in the ruins of buildings but the philippine government said it would continue the search six Days after a killer earthquake. The government says the official death toll stands at 1,014 people. The earthquake measured 7.7 on the Richter scale. Others were feared dead in scores of landslides across Northern Luzon Island. In Nueva Vizcaya province a landslide dammed up a River and water was threatening to spill Over into nearby villages. British and other foreign Rescue teams abandoned the search sunday after failing to find signs of life in the Hyatt hotel where about 60 people were believed unaccounted for. Hopes that some victims were still have faded after rescuers could  longer hear tapping sounds on Walls near the hotel basement. British rescuers said they feared the last of the survivors died saturday when aftershocks shifted the rubble either crushing victims or depriving them of  a the analysis of the foreign experts assisting in the Rescue operations in Baguio City is that the chances Are nil for finding anyone still alive in the wreckage in various buildings in the City a a government statement said. A while we would Welcome a continuation of their working with us we leave it to them whether to continue their operations in Baguio. At any rate for the work me Aquino issues apology for earthquake giggles Manila Philippines up a president Corazon Aquino said sunday she was sorry if she offended filipinos for giggling after the killer earthquake struck last week. The incident was broadcast around the world. A if there Are those among our people who were Hurt. I am asking your forgiveness because i did not mean to laugh at such a painful event Quot Aquino said in her weekly radio talk show. Aquino said she was unaware of the extent of the destruction As she emerged laughing from a Palace meeting with aides and senators moments after the temblor hit monday. She had told reporters that she had on the advice of an aide ducked beneath a table during the quake. Then they have already done the filipino people will be forever  the statement said philippine recovery efforts would continue a was Lone As safety  British and other experts had said earlier they believed the Hyatt offered the Only Chance of finding survivors. 6 reports on sunday said at least 104 she said Quot what the coup was not Able to do the earthquake  television cameras captured that moment outside the Palace. Some overseas networks broadcast the incident toward the end of their accounts of flattened buildings and mangled bodies being pulled out of the ruins. The television reports Drew criticism in Manila where Aquino a behaviour was described As  Aquino 57, has crushed six coup attempts since she took Power in 1986. She has a pending libel suit against a philippine columnist who reported she hid under her bed during a coup attempt in August 1987 people were killed in Nueva Vizcaya villagers said Many of the dead Wert children who were entombed while play Mon hillsides after the quake struck. Presidential spokesman Horacio Paredes said experts believe trapped victims would not be Able to survive past l tuesday and officials will soon have to decide whether to abandon Rescue efforts. Nixon Library has edited version watergate a smoking aunt Tern Yorba Linda Calif. Apr exhibits at the new Richard m. Nixon Library amp Birthplace contain a heavily edited version of the a smoking gun Quot tape but a Nixon aide said the a most incriminating portions Quot have not been deleted. Other exhibits on the watergate investor Ilion that led to Nixon a resignation take jabs at some Nixon critics. Text accompanying part of the museums exhibit claims that the late sen. 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