European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 17, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Thatcher vows to continue As conservative party Leader a prime minister Margaret Thatcher Speaks before the House of commons. World today i the House of commons on thursday. A after three general election victories. T a a Hiu a1aa� Mal Latafi Neshe said to cheers from the conserve at foe benches and jeers from the labor Heseltine officially filed his candidacy to oust Thatcher a poll of 240 of the 372 tory legislators by the press association news service showed Only 19.2 percent saying they would vote for him in the secret ballot scheduled tuesday against 53 3 percent for Thatcher. Of those surveyed 27.5 percent refused to say How they would vote. To win the candidate must have at least 187 votes and also a margin of at least 56, to win on the first ballot under the party rules. A Runoff if there is one would be held the following tuesday. Heseltine has targeted Thatcher since he walked out of her Cabinet As defense minister in protest in january 1986, after losing a Battle Over whether the Westland helicopter company should be taken Over by a european consortium or the american Sikorsky company As Thatcher wanted. All of thatchers original Cabinet members have since departed. Sir Geoffrey Howe who resigned two weeks ago As her nominal Deputy was the last serving member of her first 1979 Cabinet. She had dismissed him As foreign Secretary in mid-1989 after he and the then Chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson threatened to resign if she did not give a firm commitment that Britain would tie the Pound closely to the european currency system. Lawson resigned a Tew months later. In a bitter speech on tuesday Howe called for her replacement As party Leader Zurich Switzerland a authorities say it May take several months before they can establish the cause of an italian jetliner crash that killed All 46 people including seven americans aboard it. Officials on thursday cited Pilot error and technical failure As possible causes of the wednesday night air disaster which occurred As the a italia dc-9 approached Zurich International Airport in route from Milan Italy. Radar data showed the plane was flying 0 feet too Low before crashing officials said. A italia and Swiss officials this Ere was As a no explanation for villagers near the crash site about 12 Miles Northeast of Central Zurich said the Pilot seemed to gun the planets engines just before Impact. A it sounded like a sudden Roar a one Stuttgart Germany a Daimler Benz Germany a largest conglomerate and the maker of Mercedes Benz luxury cars warned thursday that the fall of the to liar could harm the German Economy. The company said in its third Quarter report a a further decline of the Dollar would continue to have a visible influence on the competitiveness of the products made m  because of what he called her negative attitude toward the european Community. Heseltine a nomination submitted thursday to the backbench conservative members committee that runs the leadership election was proposed by a former sports minister sir Neil Macfarlane and seconded by sir Peter Tapsell a frequent critic of Thatcher. Heseltine spent thursday giving television interviews explaining How he would move to change the unpopular a poll tax woman said. A but then there was a thud and it turned deathly quiet. I shouted to my husband a that a a plane  a a i shudder every time i think How near the Village the plane crashed a said another woman in Stadel less than a mile from the crash. Rain on thursday hampered investigators inspecting the debris and about 300 Rescue and police officials recovering bodies. Police reported eight bodies still trapped in the wreckage 24 hours after the crash. Since victims were burned beyond recognition positive identification could take weeks Zurich police spokesman Hans Rudolf Suter said. Police said the the jets two flight recorders were found thursday and will be sent to an English lab for evaluation. One the report said. The Dollar has steadily weakened Over the past several weeks and is trading in the 1.45-Mark Range. Daimler Benz with holdings in electronics and aerospace production in addition to its car and heavy vehicle branches system a per capita payment plan Thatcher has imposed for municipal government services. He said he would a find a Way of making the poll tax reflect a persons ability to pay instead of leaving it the same for everybody in each local government District. The a Community charge a As it is officially called went into effect in England and Wales this Spring at an average of $726 a person. Recorder tracks flight data the other tapes cockpit conversation. Swiss transportation department spokesman Ulrico Sieber said investigators May need several months to compile and publish their report on the inquiry. The plane crashed into a Steep wooded Hillside broke up and was gutted by fire. Zurich police official Eugen Thomann said All victims Likely died on Impact. Those aboard included 12 italians including the Crew of six eight Swiss seven americans five spaniards two japanese and two germans according to preliminary information the airline said late thursday. One passenger each was from India Lebanon the Netherlands France Finland and Britain according to Al italian a count. The nationalities of four passengers were still unknown. Employs around 376,000 people worldwide about 304,000 of them in Germany. A falling Dollar cuts profit margins for German companies exporting to Dollar markets especially to the United states. The report said that Daimler Benz had sold 420,000 automobiles during the first nine months of the year nearly 56,000 of them in the United states about equal to last year for the same period. Romanians protest i High food prices i by the associated press 1 Brasov Romania a tens of i thousands of romanians rallied i against the government thursday i turning an anniversary of the first i major protest against communist i dictator Nicolae Ceausescu into a i denunciation of his successors. I the rallies across Romania con i tinted late thursday night. I they were fuelled by unrest Over i government reforms that have i tripled food prices and by resent i ment Over president Ion Iliescu a i having served As a communist offi i Cial years ago under Ceausescu. German police Battle radicals Berlin a thousands of riot troops raided a barricaded neighbourhood with bulldozers and armoured trucks wednesday and smashed a defiant Community of anarchists in the heart of Berlin. Officers burst through the makeshift barriers after Daybreak. As commuters watched they battled the radicals for hours before driving hundreds of them from a Row of tenements in former East Berlin. At least 325 people were arrested and 70 officers and protesters were injured including one squatter who was shot in the foot when an officers warning shot ricocheted police said. One officer and 15 squatters were hospitalized they  Fry planned 2 years Moscow a the Man who tried to shoot at soviet leaders during last weeks revolution Day Parade had been planning to kill president Mikhail Gorbachev for More than two years news reports said thursday. Alexander a. Simonov a 38-year-old unemployed Man from Leningrad was charged with attempted terrorism in the nov. 7 shooting in red Square. Police say he managed to fire two shots but they prevented him from aiming at Gorbachev and other soviet leaders who were watching the i traditional military Parade from atop Lenin a mausoleum. No one was  toll 4 in new zealand Dunedin new zealand i the death toll in the county a a i worst massacre Rose to 14, include i ing the gunman thursday when a a ice found the remains of two ies in the debris of a House the killer set ablaze before opening fire on his neighbors. The remains were believed to be those of two 11-year-old girls missing in the 23-hour siege that ended wednesday in the South Island Seaside Hamlet of Aram Ana. Discovery of the two bodies raised to 13 the number of people slain by 33-year-old David Gray before police killed him in a shootout. Gray began his killing spree tuesday night by setting a neighbors House on fire then opening fire on people who arrived to try to extinguish the Blaze. Pilot error May have caused Jet crash 7 americans aboard Low Dollar threat to Germany firm says a far reaching consequences could be expected for Germany As a manufacturing Center and thus for employment Levels