European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday november 21,1990 world today water Relief promised to Aid stranded hippos Johannesburg South Africa a the government has announced it will bore holes in a Small dam to provide water for hippos stranded in a drought stricken Section of South Africa. The department of water had earlier refused to take action to save the hippos living on a Patch of land near the Limpopo River saying releasing water from the nearby dam could Hurt Industry in the area. But it announced a change of heart and said experts would begin the project in the Northern Transvaal. Private donations will cover the Cost the department said. The entire country has been hit by a severe drought and higher than Normal temperatures and wild animals have been invading farms in search of water. The Northern Transvaal in the northeastern part of the country is among the areas hardest hit. Forecasters say no significant rainfall is expected soon.25 Tunnel workers injured when train rail car collide san Gatte France apr a work train loaded with construction materials for the Channel Tunnel collided with a rail car monday injuring 25 workers. Officials for contractors working on the ambitious Tunnel to link Britain and France said six of the workers were injured seriously and hospitalized in Calais. The others suffered cuts and bruises and were treated on site at san Gatte the main construction site for the French Side of the Tunnel. Eight workers were injured in a similar Accident oct. 30, the Day workers sent a 2-Inch probe through the last 100 Yards of Chalk separating the British and French halves of the projects service Tunnel. The linkup effectively ended Britain a Island isolation and marked a turning Point in the financially plagued project. The Channel Tunnel is scheduled to open to rail traffic in 1993. In All eight workers have died on the project seven on the British Side and one on the Crew finds Wii bomb near Prague 4 Prague Czechoslovakia apr construction workers in a town Northwest of Prague found an unexploded . Bomb from world War ii on monday forcing authorities to evacuate residential areas the ctr news Agency said. The 1,000-Pound bomb was found in soil brought to a construction site from the outskirts of the town of most about 50 Miles Northwest of Prague. Experts placed the bomb on a truck loaded with Sand and were transporting it to a military site near Mimon about 45 Miles North of Prague to be defused ctr said. Experts said the bomb contained 660 pounds of int with a chemical detonating device. Last missile parts removed from site in Mut Langen by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Mut Langen Germany there Are no missiles in Mut Langen. Countless thousands of politicians demonstrators control negotiators and even . Soldiers have striven for the Day when that six word sentence could be uttered. The moment came about 8 30 . Tuesday As soldiers of the 37th trans group drove the last truckload of Pershing ii missile components out of the a Mut Langen missile storage area about 35 Miles East of Stuttgart. The site has had a tumultuous history especially during the Zenith of missile protests in the Early 1980s. Unresolved charges against protesters who blockaded the installation s Gate still have a stranglehold on local German court calendars. By comparison the unpublicized departure of the last three convoys of missile components and erector launchers in the morning rain was Anticlimactic. Maj. Gen. Roger bean commander of the Ever dwindling 56th Field arty come watched the trucks Roll out As did a couple of German police officials a Small Cluster of reporters and a few other soldiers. Nobody else was there. One protester showed up about 9 30 . With a battered dual language picket calling for the removal of weapons that were by that time Well on their Way to Weierbach near Ramstein a. There they will await Transfer to the United states for destruction according to the 1987 intermediate Range nuclear forces treaty which eliminates All . And soviet ground launched missile systems with a Ranee it 311 to 3,416 Miles. Be of the battalion that controlled the missiles 2nd in 9th Field arty is scheduled to be i cacti. Rated in late january. The command headquartered in nearby Schwabish Amund once had custody of 108 Pershing ii missiles distributed evenly among 12 missile batteries at three Sites. The last missiles at Camp re leg in Heil Bronn were removed in april the command still operates one Active site with 27 Pershing ii missiles near Neu Ulm. The treaty mandates removal and destruction of All missiles and their erector launchers by May 31. Tuesdays withdrawal began a about 5 . With an initial con Voy of nine truck like erector launchers that had been assigned to the battalions Btry c. That Battery a nine missiles already had gone to Weierbach last week. Then components of Btry a a nine missiles the last on the site left at 8 30 . Finally just after 9 ., the Convoy of Btry a a erector launchers hissed Forward on the Slick curved Access Road North of the installation. The erector launchers will be destroyed at the a equipment maintenance Center in Hausen a suburb of Frankfurt. . Pershing missiles have been deployed in the Schwabish a mind area since 1963, starting with Pershing i. Pershing a replaced it in 1969, then the Pershing ii began arriving in november 1983. The missile was designed As a counterweight to the soviet ss-20 nuclear missiles. A amps map German police stage 2nd raid on greens seize anti Gulf fliers Bonn Germany up a police raided the Green party scentral offices tuesday for the second time in less than a week and confiscated pamphlets urging German soldiers to desert if they Are sent to the persian Gulf. A we see no reason Why the pamphlets should be confiscated but consider that a deployment of German troops to the Gulf would be illegal a said greens spokesman Norbert Frank flanked by a uniformed policeman As he spoke. Nine officers from the Bonn police and state prosecutors office raided the greens Central office in the capital City searching for an estimated 150,000 pamphlets calling for the desertions. The German government claims that its Constitution prevents it from sending armed forces to the Gulf because the area is outside the immediate nato theater. But Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said on several occasions that he will soon seek to Amend the Constitution to allow for a German military deployment in crisis areas under . Auspices. The greens have strongly protested the proposal and have distributed pamphlets calling on soldiers to resist a Gulf deployment. Honecker says cronies conspired against him Berlin apr Erich Honecker accused soviet officials and communist party rivals of cooking up a conspiracy that toppled him As East Germany a Hartline ruler according to comments published tuesday. Honecker 78, ousted during last years peaceful revolt for democracy said his removal was actually a the result of Large scale Maneu vers whose manipulators have still kept themselves in the a i am the victim of a conspiracy a he was quoted As saying. Honecker a remarks came from an unpublished Book that was excerpted in Ber in woche Post a weekly newspaper pub shed in former East Berlin. It was the latest in the aging sex leaders diatribes about the sequence of events that ended his hard line grip on Power opened the Berlin Wall and led to German unification last month. Honecker a former associates removed him in an Effort to placate huge crowds of protesters and an exodus of East German refugees to the West according to the newspaper Honecker blamed unnamed soviet advisers and High ranking East German parly members for hatching a yearlong conspiracy to remove him from Power. A a a he accused former state Security chief Erich Mielke of being a a Helper in the conspiracy. He blamed Mielke head of the secret police known As the Stasi for developing a system that a contradicted All decisions1 made by Honecker. The German authorities consider the pamphlet a direct Call to desertion which is illegal under German military Security Laws. A we Are not concerned with a deployment of troops to the Gulf a said Peter Ivand a speaker for the state prosecutors office. A your Job is simply to determine if the pamphlet is an Appeal for soldiers to police bad already confiscated 70 of the pamphlets when they first raided the party a office last week. A police officer conducting tuesdays search declined comment and would not say How Many pamphlets were seized this time. In the Southern state of Bavaria Green party deputies urged the wives of . Servicemen to Boycott sex unless their husbands refused duty in the Gulf. The Call was dubbed a action Lysistrata a a reference to a play by ancient greek dramatist aristophanes in which Lysistrata and the women of her Village withheld their sexual favors from their husbands to prevent them from going to War. A if the men do not go there cannot be a War a said Claudia Seifert Campaign manager for the bavarian greens. Honecker also said his immediate successor Egon Krenz worked closely with the Stasi Krenz was ousted shortly after taking Over Honecker a duties and was replaced by comparative reformer Hans Modrow. Later tuesday Honecker a lawyer Wolfgang Ziegler was quoted by the German news Agency adn As saying that we authors had not received Honecker a permission to publish their conversation win him. Ziegler said Honecker would take Legal action
