European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday novembers 1990 Low and dry Sis Jim Der Freim a Weatherman a forecast of showers does no to faze this come rain Hail or sleet the pint sized pedestrian can youngster waiting on a sidewalk in Luxembourg City. Count on Complete coverage. Political foes break with Singh to form new party in India military Roundup maj. Gen. Closne takes command of of Reserve Robbins fab a. Maj. Gen. John j. Closner Iii has become chief of the air Force Reserve. Closner formerly served As the Deputy to the chief of the air Force Reserve. He assumed the new duties from maj Gen Roger p. Sch car who  Telephone numbers announced for 2 agencies St. Louis to a officials with the army Reserve personnel Center and the Federal records Center have announced some new Telephone numbers. Existing commercial phone numbers beginning with 263-6xxx will change to 538-2xxx and existing numbers beginning with 263-7xxx will become 538-3xxx. The last three digits of these numbers will remain the same As will the area code 314. The first four digits of most defense switch network numbers will also change. Existing numbers 693-6xxx will become 892-2xxx and 693-7xxx will change to 892-3xxx. These changes begin nov. 12. The toll free numbers at the centers have not  world War ii Veteran from air Force to retire Washington a the air forces last world War ii combat Veteran will retire Friday after serving 45 years of Active and Reserve duty. Col. Or Thomas c. Cock began his military career in May 1943 As an aviation Cadet. During the War he flew 25 combat bombing missions in the b-24 Liberator. After the War he pursued a medical career which included an assignment to the air Force Hospital in Wiesbaden Germany where he was involved in the care of the american hostages following their release from Iran in 1980. His current assignment is at Randolph fab Texas. World today Arafat orders pay cuts for Plo officials troops Cairo Egypt up a Palestine liberation organization Leader Yasser Arafat ordered his officials and troops sunday to take cuts in pay of up to 30 percent to compensate for the halt in Arab Aid to the organization Cairo radio said. The state owned radio quoted Arafat As saying the pay cuts would be enforced immediately and had become necessary after persian Gulf states such As saudi Arabia the United Arab emirates and Kuwait suspended payments to the Plo. The Gulf states halted payments to the Plo after the organization backed Iraq in the current Gulf  of mad cow disease discovered in Switzerland Bern Switzerland apr Switzerland has reported its first Case of a mad cow disease a the cattle killing sickness that caused a scare in Britain last summer. The Swiss economics ministry said it will ban exports of infected or suspicious beef if More cases Are found. The Case was diagnosed in a milk cow from the Bernese Jura an area in Northwestern Switzerland an official statement said. The disease a kind of encephalitis afflicting cattle got its name because it causes shaking and cramps in the animals before they die. It previously was diagnosed Only in Britain. There is no evidence humans can catch the disease which is transmitted among cattle through their feed and excrement the statement said. Mad cow disease caused a scare in Britain this summer when several cats died from cat food that included tainted  s to hold auction featuring turkish Art Istanbul Turkey apr rotheby s of London which is helping restore a historic ottoman building will also auction 40 paintings by contemporary turkish artists an official of the auction House has said. The paintings selected from among More than 140 entries will be offered to the Public at a Charity auction at Yildiz Palace in Istanbul next weekend according to John Carswell soothe by a islamic department director. New Delhi India apr prime minister . Singh a party split apart monday throwing the government into disarray in a country already rocked by hindu moslem violence that has claimed hundreds of lives. A Large faction of Singh a janata dal party deserted him Ana chose a new Lehder Chandra Shekhar a Veteran politician with socialist leanings. The dissidents include seven ministers from Singh a 38-member Cabinet. Shekhar said he would seek to become prime minister. The party withdrew its support for Singh a coalition government depriving the prime minister of a parliamentary majority. Singh appears Likely to lose a parliamentary vote of Confidence scheduled for wednesday. The political crisis has been triggered by a Campaign by fundamentalist hindus to replace a mosque with their own Temple in the Remote Northern town of Ayodhya. The stage was set for new confrontations Between indians hindu majority and moslem minority when a hindu fundamentalist Leader vowed to dismantle 3,000 mosques throughout India and replace them with hindu temples. Meanwhile a strike called by a right Wing hindu party opposed to Singh brought the capital of new Delhi to a near standstill. Activists from the Bharatia janata party blocked traffic by deflating the tires of trucks and buses that ignored their strike Call. Many shops were closed.2 . Men run for Bangkok Thailand up a two american runners one a disabled Vietnam War Veteran completed a a Friendship run Quot from phenom penh to to Chi Minh City a run organizer said sunday. The run covering about 200 Miles Between the two communist capitals took five Days and was completed saturday without incident said Mickey Grant the filmmaker who helped organize the run. The two runners were Stan Cottrell a Long distance runner and Patrick a Clebe Quot Mcclain a Vietnam War Veteran who lost an Arm and an Eye in the War. A we were greeted by thousands and thousands of smiles All along the Way a a Grant said a it was a very pleasant  Grant said the biggest problem was the boiling Tropi police were deployed on major streets. Most parents kept their children Home from school fearing trouble. The Bharatia janata party was protesting the killings by police of at least 22 hindu fundamentalists who were shot last week while trying to build a hindu Temple on the site of the mosque in Ayodhya. Nationwide More than 300 other people have been burned stabbed shot or hacked to death in hindu. Moslem riots or when police opened fire to disperse rampaging mobs. The upsurge in religious violence began oct. 24 when police arrested Lai Krishna Advani the Leader of the Bharatia janata party while he was leading a caravan across Northern India to rally support for building the hindu Temple in Ayodhya. Harmohan Dhawan a spokesman for the janata dal dissidents told reporters that 82 of the party a 178 parliamentary deputies declared their support for Chandra Shekhar at a meeting on monday. But foreign minister Inder Kumar Gujral a Singh supporter said 113 janata dal lawmakers had met separately in parliament and voted unanimously to Back the prime minister. The figures Given by Dhawan and Gujral totalled More than the Overall strength in parliament and the conflicting claims could not be reconciled. Chandra Shekhar said he will seek the support of the opposition Congress party of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to form a new government Friendship in Nam Cal temperatures. But people were very helpful pouring water Over the runners a he said. My Qawiy told reporters the run had brought a rediscovery of Vietnam for him and led him to wonder what average americans could do for cambodians people who Are still plagued by a guerrilla War Quot the whole Point was to develop Friendship a Grant said. He said the american runners and film Crew had no problems despite massive . Support for the anticommunist governments in both Cambodia and Vietnam during the War. S a videotape of the run would be marketed to . And British television stations