European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday september25,1990 coca cola denies helping Atlanta win 96 olympics Athens Greece apr coca cola on sunday rejected accusations by greeks that it helped secure the 19% olympics for Atlanta its Home City. The company in a full Page statement published in several sunday newspapers said it a played no role in the decision on the City that would Host the 1996  coca cola headlined the statement a a let a leave events to speak for  greeks reacted angrily to Atlanta a 51-35 win Over second place Athens in a ballot by the International olympic committee in Tokyo last tuesday. Politicians Public figures editorial writers and speakers on radio Call in shows have linked Atlanta a Victory to massive funding by coca cola for the City a publicity Campaign. Some of the barbs were aimed at the olympic committee for allegedly bypassing tradition. Others said the committee was seduced by big business. Cash strapped Greece was the Birthplace of the ancient games launched in 776 . In the City of Olympia. Athens Host to the modern revival of the olympics in 1896, based its claim for the Centennial event on tradition. Critics of the Atlanta Choice have not cited specific instances of any alleged foul play by the company or the committee. But the company countered insinuations saying a the coca cola company has always maintained a Neutral stance in the whole candidacy  _ coca cola said there was a no reason for the International company to Back any City a bid whatsoever before the decision of Fth International olympics  for the past 12 months coca cola cans in Greece have carried the Olive Branch Motif used in Athens olympics Campaign. In addition the company took out full Page advertisements in greek newspapers saying a Athens you know you can do  Many greeks appeared to interpret the moves As specific support for their capitals candidacy. New Rushdie Book hailed As children s tale for adults London apr Salman Rushdie a first Book since Iran called for his death is a fairy tale for children acclaimed by critics sunday As a charming and lighthearted work with a serious message for adults As Well. Reviewers marvelled that Rushdie could write with such mischievous humor despite 19 months in hiding under police guard during which he has moved frequently and become separated from his wife american novelist Marianne Wiggins. Most critics however also saw signs of pain and desperation in the prose of Quot Haroun and the sea of  the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for Rushdie a death after the authors novel a the satanic verses was deemed blasphemous to islam. The new Book tells the talc of a hindu storyteller whose Talent is suddenly destroyed by a fanatical dictator who poisons the Springs of his inspiration. His Brave son Haroun eventually defeats the enemy of stories and restores his fathers gift. Rushdie dedicates the Book to his own son with these lines Quot As i wander far from View read and bring me Home to you a British writer Anthony Burgess reviewing the Book in the observer newspaper said the dedication a Renews rage at a the stupidity of the islamic death mongers burning a Book they do not have the intelligence to  Burgess called it a a great tribute to the resilience of  beleaguered spirit that he should write so charmingly funny a  a it is a Book to enjoy and not to explicate but if we wish we can take it As a piece of Swift Ian outrage at human Folly disguised As a children stale a Burgess wrote. Rushdie a British citizen born into a moslem family in India was sentenced to death feb. 14,1989. Even after Khomeini a death last year the sentence was not lifted by iranian leaders. Rushdie has since published poetry and several essays and reviews but a Haroun and the sea of stories is his first Book since he went into hiding. It will be published by Granta books in Britain sept. 27 and in the United states next year. Graham lord literary editor of the sunday express said Rushdie a has managed during his awful Captivity to write a remarkably lighthearted almost mischievous children a  world to Daylong drought leaves Bucharest Short of water Bucharest Romania apr water has joined the Long list of scarce commodities in the capital and authorities announced sunday that water would Only be available for a few hours a Day because of an extended drought. A municipality statement said water a could Only be assured at the Normal pressure for 8vi hours a Day. It did not specify the degree to which water will be available at other  officer offers amends to War torn town Beauvais France api a former German army officer Rode his bicycle Back to the French Village he helped destroy 50 years ago to apologize and a make peace with his conscience before dying a Village officials said. Helmut Eckhoff 76, Rode his Bike for six Days to cover the 600 Kilometres from Aachen West Germany to Crape Dumesnil in the Oise Region North of Paris. He arrived to a welcoming crowd stayed a nother d a then Rode his bicycle Back Home. The Village spent three Days under fire in june 1940 As the 41st Panzer division advancing toward Paris confronted the 109th French infantry regiment. Crapeau Mesnil was completely destroyed. A since then i live with the memory of that Battle How we set everything afire and How we wronged the inhabitants and their defenders a Eckhoff a Captain at the time wrote in an August letter to Village mayor Hubert detavernier.3 guatemalan soldiers held in american s death Guatemala City up a three guatemalan soldiers Are being held As leading suspects in the june slaying of a 49-year-old american tour guide in Northern Peten province an army spokesman has said. Armed forces spokesman col. Carlos Duran said three soldiers none of whom Are officers Are being held As suspects in the murder of Michael Devine a . Citizen originally from Belleville 111. Devine had been living in Guatemala for 18 years and was working As a tour guide at Petenes historic Sites when he was kidnapped by five men june 8. His beaten and decapitated body was found the next  set for mrs. Mandela in beatings anti apart cd Leader Nelson Mandela accompanies his wife Winnie to court monday Johannesburg South Africa apr Winnie Mandela looking grim and tired was arraigned monday on charges of assault and kidnapping stemming from a 1988 incident when four youths were allegedly taken to her House and beaten. Mrs. Mandela holding hands with her husband african National Congress Leader Nelson Mandela said nothing As she arrived at a City magistrates court. She stood silently in the courtroom As her lawyers conferred with the magistrate. A trial Date was set for feb. 4. Mrs. Mandela was greeted by about 30 cheering and singing Anc women supporters As she left the court. A Winnie Winnie a the women chanted As they tried to touch mrs. Mandela she smiled briefly before being whisked away by lawyers and aides. One youth was killed in the 1988 incident. The former head of mrs. Mandela a bodyguards Jerry Richardson has been convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the same Case. The sentence is being appealed. Mrs. Mandela has denied any wrongdoing. B White and Black leaders fear the trial will Strain relations Between the Anc the leading anti apartheid group and the White fed government As they try to Start talks on extending political rights to the Black majority. Mandela May be discredited in the eyes of militant Young Blacks who oppose negotiating with the government and will see his wife a trial As demeaning. Mrs. Mandela faces trial with seven members of her former bodyguard who have been charged on the same counts. Court officials say she faces four charges of kidnapping and four charges of assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm. Mrs. Mandela was freed on her own recognizance. Bail for the other defendants was continued. All eight will be tried together. If convicted mrs. Mandela could face the death sentence lawyers said. However that sentence has never been imposed for kidnapping they said. Mrs. Mandela has been plunged into a series of damaging Public exposures mainly linked to the actions of her bodyguards called the Mandela United football club. The group which had Little to do with soccer was composed of about two dozen aggressive teen agers. In december 1988, four Young Blacks were kidnapped from a Church Home in Soweto according to testimony at Richardson a trial. The four were taken to mrs. Mandela a Soweto Home and assaulted witnesses said. Tompie Weipei 14, was killed. The three survivors testified that mrs. Mandela participated in the beatings. According to testimony mrs. Mandela a bodyguards accused Weipei of being a police informer and the three others of having homosexual relations with the White minister