European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday july 30,1990novice takes Peru a Helm in rough seas Lima Peru apr Alberto Fujimori the Novice politician whose election shocked Peru a Power brokers was sworn in sunday As president of a country beset by staggering political and economic problems. Fujimori assumed Power from departing president Alan Garcia in an elaborate ceremony in the capital. Earlier in the Day government helicopters flew Over Lima and thousands of police officers and soldiers patrolled City streets. Despite the Security measures rebels blew up two electrical towers late Friday to Black out most of the City for  consecutive night. Earlier in the week guerrillas fired two rocket propelled grenades at the presidential Palace. Recent fighting in the country a andean mountains and amazonian Jungle has left hundreds dead. Peru a Economy has become increasingly unstable in the Days leading up to Fujimori s swearing in to a five year term. Many Banks have run out of Money and workers cannot Cash their checks. People must wait hours to buy rationed gasoline and bread. The dollars value jumped More than 75 percent in one week. Daily inflation topped the 6 percent Mark by the end of the week the private economic firm cuanto said. Until last week daily inflation was running around 1 percent. Fujimori has proposed harsh but unspecific measures to bring Peru a Economy under control. He said he wants to end Price subsidies sell off Many government companies and impose an emergency tax on the wealthy. Fujimori plans a devaluation of the peruvian inti that will make the Dollar Cost 300 percent to 400 percent More. He has already met in new York with the Heads of the International monetary fund and the world Bank. Peru has been isolated from world lenders since Garcia Cut ties with the two institutions in 1986. But the new president will have Little to work with. The government is bankrupt and paralysed by strikes. Four of five people Lack steady work. The country is $20 billion in debt. Peru Stop Export is coca the main ingredient in cocaine. Politically Fujimori a Small change 90 party is nearly isolated. Since his landslide Victory Oyer novelist and free Market advocate Mario Vai As Lisa on june 10, Fujimori has Cut Many ties with the left and Center left parties that supported his Campaign. Garcia a populist has called on workers to resist any economic Quot Shock program. But Peru Scenter right parties have also shown Little desire to Aid Fujimori. Peru a military however has been less reluctant to work with the new president. An unprecedented three Cabinet positions a defense Interior and fisheries a will be held by military officers. The presence of a general heading Peru a powerful Interior ministry suggests a stepped up Effort to combat the count refs two main guerrilla groups analysts said. Peru a police Force is controlled by the Interior ministry. The move comes As the maoist shining path and the to cuban tupac Amaru revolutionary movement ave stepped up attacks. More than 19,000 peruvians have died in political violence in the past 10 years. E i news update bizarre Case stalled _ Sydney Australia apr a the bizarre Case of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain seems destined to drag on forever. A government official has indicated that the couples claim for compensation is at an impasse. The chamberlains Are seeking $4.3 million for Legal fees and personal hardship in connection with their wrongful convictions in the 1980 death of their 9-week-old daughter Azaria in one of australians most infamous cases. A mrs. Chamberlain was jailed for three years after being convicted of murder in Azarias death. She always has said a Dingo one of australians native Wila dogs carried the child off in the Middle of the night from a campsite near Ayers Rock in Central Australia the child a body was never found. The Story was made into a movie Quot a cry in the dark Quot starring meryl Streep As mrs.  Driver killed new York up a a cab Driver was shot to death in the Bronx bringing to 19 the number of Drivers killed in the City this year police said sunday. The Driver described As a 31-year-old Man was shot during an apparent robbery said sgt. Tina Mohrmann a police spokeswoman. The shooting took place at 11 23 , saturday in the Melrose Section of the Bronx Mohrmann said. A Quot two men were in the car and they shot him in the head Quot Mohrmann said. A the car travelled about 30 feet and then crashed into a parked  Mohrmann said the two men jumped out of the car when it crashed and fled.29-year-old Soldier drowns during Outing Augsburg West Germany a a 29-year-old Soldier assigned to c Btry 2nd in 77th Field arty regt drowned saturday evening at Kussee near Augsburg a Community spokeswoman said sunday. The drowning occurred during a family Outing 1st it. Sonja Smith said. The name of the Soldier is being withheld until relatives in the United states Are notified. A memorial service will be held at 2 . Tuesday at the Sheridan Cavern Chapel. Interim Council needed to govern until vote nations say Jakarta Indonesia apr the association of Southeast asian nations and the United states agree that a National Council should be formed to gov Ern Cambodia until elections . Retail of state James a. Baker Iii said sunday. Quot the cambodians who compose that Council will of necessity be committed to free and fair elections a Baker told a news conference at the end of an annual meeting Between Asean and its largest trading partners the United states Japan Canada the european Community Australia and new zealand. Asean and the other participants at the meeting agreed that a cambodian National Council representing a Broad spectrum of opinion must be formed to act As interim authority in the country. They said the Council should hold cambodians . Seat until elections can be organized under . Auspices. Baker said there should be a no role in a supreme National Council for anyone who wants to pursue Power through the Battlefield rather than the conference table. That is what the National supreme Council is All  he said such a Council should be composed of individual cambodians acceptable to one another. Indonesian foreign minister Ali Alatas who led the meeting said Asean a made up of Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Thailand the Philippines and Brunei a wants the Council to be established before the . General Assembly in september. The United states has decided to withdraw recognition of the . Seat held by the three member cambodian resistance because it includes the Khmer Rouge. The guerrilla faction is blamed for killing hundreds of thousands of cambodians when it ruled the country from 1975 to 1978. On tuesday meanwhile Asean ministers issued a joint statement criticizing the United states and Vietnam for their positions on vietnamese refugees. The statement said Asean countries would resort to rebuffing refugees and withdrawing offers of temporary Refuge. The dispute centers on a comprehensive plan accepted by 35 nations last year to Deal with the outflow that began shortly after the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Asean members Vietnam and the United states signed the plan which provides for Asylum and resettlement of refugees in Western nations and repatriation of those found to be economic migrants rather than victims of political persecution. A Hanoi and Washington opposed the compulsory return of migrants who did not qualify As political refugees. Baker said Friday that the United states has paid its share of the refugee Bill resettled those it promised to take in and pledged to accept More. Quot the United states is not a newcomer to these responsibilities Quot he said. Quot since 1975, we be resettled 900,000 of 1.7 million Southeast asian refugees and taken 120,000 More through the orderly departure program with  fire knocks out Power to Chicago up a a fire at a Commonwealth Edison generating station caused a blackout in much of the City a West Side Early sunday triggering looting and another Blaze that killed three people fire and Power company officials said. The Blaze at Edison s Crawford station broke out in a Coal fired transformer around 10 . Saturday. The fire knocked out Power in an area that roughly covered 60 City blocks stretching from the hear West Side out to the Border suburb of Oak Park Commonwealth Edison spokeswoman Leslie Koczur said. The exact number of Utility customers affected was not known she said. A we have no Way to estimate How Many people Are without Power Quot she said. Quot we re in the process of getting people Back up using other Edison lines to pick up the Load. We Hope to have All customers Back on line by this  the fire was extinguished about 4 30 ., but reignited about 6 30  And was quickly put out again she said. No injuries were reported. Part of the problem in getting the area damage assessed and Power restored was that firefighters were ventilating the station and would not allow employees to enter Koczur said. A fire in a West Side Home that reportedly killed three people and injured three others was apparently started by candles that had been left burning throughout the night said sgt. Edward of Donnell of the bomb and arson squad. Three other people who were in the Home were being treated for injuries at Loretto Hospital Hospital spokeswoman sue Robinson said. Police reported scattered instances of looting in some West Side business districts. About 60 people were arrested for looting Marquette District commander Joseph Delopez said. No injuries were reported he said. More than 100 Marquette District officer were sent out to patrol the streets during the night patrolman Jeff Bybee said. The outage also affected two hospitals and the Cook county jail but officials at All three facilities said they had switched to backup generators and had not experienced any difficulties. Jewish Graves in Stuttgart vandalized Stuttgart West Germany apr police on sunday were looking for suspected right Wing radicals who ram aged through a jewish cemetery Here Adly damaging gravestones and Spray painting them with nazi symbols. No arrests have been made yet in the cemetery vandalism that occurred saturday. More than 60 gravestones were desecrated at the Stuttgart jewish cemetery police said. Nazi is symbols and slogans such As a jews out Quot and a the gassing never happened Quot were Spray painted on some stones police said. More than 6 million jews were killed in the holocaust Many of them in concentration Camp Gas Chambers. Right Wing extremists Are believed to be responsible for the damage estimated at More than $ 125,000, according to police. Late saturday night Heinz Galinski head of the German jewish Community expressed outrage Over the desecration. Galinski demanded better Protection for jewish cemeteries. Just two weeks earlier unknown vandals caused similar damage at a graveside for victims of Adolf hitlers nazi regime in tub Ingen about 31 Miles South of Stuttgart