European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I thursday november 15, 1990 the stars and stripes pages Howe blast signals bid to oust Thatcher Ion Don a prime minister a i w i i w i London apr prime minister Margaret thatchers supporters in parliament Are preparing to fight for her political life following a stinging attack from one of her oldest allies. Sir Geoffrey Howe who resigned As Deputy prime minister on nov. 1, told the House of commons tuesday that he had found loyalty to Thatcher incompatible with Britain a Best interests. A the time has come for others to consider their own response to the tragic conflict of loyalty with which i have myself wrestled for perhaps too Long a said Howe who had been the last survivor of thatchers original 1979 Cabinet. A the Campaign i should say officially started with that statement a said conservative member of parliament Philip Goodhart who supports thatchers expected challenger former defense minister Michael Heseltine. Heseltine had until midday thursday to step Forward to oppose her As conservative party Leader and prime minister. A it was a vicious speech possibly intended to be a Teddy Taylor a conservative lawmaker who supports Thatcher said of Howe a comments. Heseltine who made no comment after Howe a statement appeared to have opened his Campaign against Thatcher last weekend when he released an open sir Geoffrey Howe makes his attack in resigning As Britain a Deputy prime minister. Medical personnel help an unidentified victim of a shooting spree in new zealand. New zealand police capture Man sought in slaying of 11 Del Mcnitt it. _ _ Dunedin new zealand apr in Seaside Village police on Fife a captured a gunman they inn at East 11 people in a shoot a rampa8e that was new zealand a worst massacre. Me said 33-year-old David Mal--9ray� who had fled to a House on in a a s a them Edge after being we Quot his own was shot in the head Tomid be 3 a so suffered a following a prolonged burst of gun so wifi out 5 45 p.m., police lobbed storm Tovena its nt0 the House and Winch a end big a 21-hour ordeal that the in no arly half the population of we Village of Aram Ana. 0r hours bodies Lay strewn about the House and a neighbouring Home that had been set on fire tuesday night said Dunedin police senior sgt. Bill of Brien. Police were unable to Check if the victims were still alive because the gunman was still inside. Later wednesday morning the firing stopped and an anti terrorist squad steadily tightened a cordon around the House before Rushing it at about 4 p.m., said Kaye Calder police spokeswoman. Calder said they had found eight bodies but the total did not include a police sergeant missing and presumed dead. Two other bodies were taken away tuesday night. The Hamlet which had a population of 25 before Gray went on the rampage is about 17 Miles North of Dunedin in rugged country on new zealand a South Island. The rampage started tuesday evening when Gray set his neighbors House on fire and began shooting at firemen and residents who approached to put it out according to neighbors. A Navy training vessel the Moa was brought in to evacuate residents who spent a terrifying night in the town huddling on the floors of their Homes with gunfire punctuating the silence. It appeared to be the worst massacre in new zealand. The previous worst occurred in 1941, when Eric Stanley Graham killed six police officers before being shot to death. Letter criticizing her combative style. A there is no doubt that there will now be a leadership Challenge a said David Howell a tory my who was fired from the Cabinet in 1983. Tory lawmaker George younger said the deployment of British troops in the Middle East made it the wrong time for such a Challenge. Thatcher has faced no serious Challenge since she ousted former prime minister Edward Heath As party Leader in 1975. The woman who faced Down rebellious labor unions slashed government spending and was known in the press As the a Iron lady has served notice that she will not go without a fight. Howe said he resigned because of a i fundamental dispute with Thatcher Over policy on Steps toward european Union an Issue on which Heseltine has also disagreed with the prime minister. Howe contrasted Winston Churchill a vision of a United states of Europe with a the Nightmare image sometimes conjured up by the prime minister who seems to look on a continent that is positively teeming with ill intentioned  Howe said he had Long tried to a persuade from within to change thatchers animosity toward the rest of the 12-nation european Community resistance uncovered in nato lands Brussels Belgium apr stockpiles of arms and explosives for hundreds of resistance fighters trained to counter a soviet invasion were hidden in North Atlantic treaty organization countries from the 1950s until recently officials said tuesday. News of the network raised concerns about whether some operatives with Access to the weapons caches May have been involved in terrorist acts. A former belgian army intelligence official and former network member Andre Moyen said on tuesday at least six arms caches were spread Over the Countryside until two months ago. In the Netherlands prime minister Ruud Lubbers told parliament on tuesday that the government is running a secret guerrilla organization similar to the groups whose existence was recently discovered in Italy and Belgium. He said in a letter that successive prime ministers and defense chiefs always preferred not to inform other Cabinet members or parliament on the organization. Former dutch defense minister Henk red Elm said the group set up arms caches around the Netherlands for sabotage purposes. Speculation spread in Italy whether the local network was connected to the right Wing terrorist attacks of the Early 1970s, which were aimed at the communists. Belgium is investigating any links Between its local Branch and the indiscriminate killings in supermarkets which killed at least 28 people in the Early 1980s. Authorities have linked the murders to right Wing terrorism. _ italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti last month brought to Light the Clandestine organization in Italy known under the codename Gladio sword. The operation set up in the Early 1950s during the cold War was designed to be an underground resistance network in Case of a soviet invasion in Western Europe. It mostly prepared communication networks escape routes and sabotage plans officials said this month