European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world today the stars and Stripe thursday november 22,1990water Relief promised to Aid stranded hippos Johannesburg South Africa apr 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 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 French. I Navy Liberty boat hits sinks Small italian fishing boat la Maddalena Sardinia a amps a a Small italian fishing boat Sank saturday evening after colliding with a Navy Liberty boat off the Island of Santo Stefano a Navy spokeswoman said tuesday the 76-foot Liberty boat was returning passengers to la Maddalena when it struck the unlit fishing boat about 500 Yards North of Santo Stefano it. . Judy Call said. 3 the 14-foot fishing boat Sank immediately and its 61-year-old occupant was promptly pulled from the water by the Navy boats three Man Crew Call said. Claudio Aversano a retired Carpenter who was pleasure fishing was released after observation at a la Maddalena Hospital where he had been taken by a Navy Hospital corpsman. The collision took place on a moonless night with Calm seas Call said. There were no injuries aboard the Navy boat said Call who did not know How Many  aboard. Santo Stefano is the Home port of the Navy submarine tender Orion. Italian and . Authorities Are investigating the incident. 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 arms 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 army 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 installations 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 Feuerbach 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 the battalion that controlled the missiles 2nd in 9th f5s arty is scheduled to be s rated in late january. The command head Quad Rene a Sci Isch Amund once had custody of Ofifi Pershing ii missiles distributed evenly among 12 missile Batter res 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 if missiles near Neu Ulm. The treaty mandates removal and destruction of All missiles and their erector launchers by May 31. Tuesdays withdrawal began a about5a.m. 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 install a Tion. I the erector launchers will be destroyed at the army a equipment maintenance Center in Hausen a suburb of Frankfurt. I . Pershing missiles have been deployed in the Schwabish Amund area since 1963, starting with per Shing i. Pershing 1a replaced it in 1969, then the per Shing ii began arriving in november 1983. The missile was designed As a counterweight to the soviet ss-2o nuclear missiles. German police stage 2nd raid on greens seize anti Gulf fliers Bonn Germany up 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 Capi Taii atty 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. The German authorities consider the pamphlet a i. Rect Call to desertion which is illegal under Ger Ranal military Security Laws. I a we Are not concerned with a deployment of troops to the Gulf a said Peter Ivand a speaker for the Statel prosecutors office. A your Job is simply to determine if the pamphlet is Aid Appeal for soldiers to  1 police had 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 def duties 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 refer Jence to a play by ancient greek dramatist aristophanes in which Lysistrata and the women of her Village with held 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 Quot said Claudia Seifert Campaign manager for the bavarian greens. Pair sentenced for using air mails card in spree by Dave Diehl Ella tue cart Tan mail in id it i a i by Dave Diehl . Bureau Raf Lakenheath England a an air Force couple were sentenced to jail for charging up to $5,700 on another airman a credit card. Sei dior airman Bethany r. Isbell was found guilty monday by a jury of eight officers at the end of a four Day general court martial. She was convicted of larceny conspiracy and making false statements to air Force investigators. She was sentenced to 10 months in jail reduced to the rank of airman and ordered to forfeit All pay and allowances for 10 months. Isbell worked in the paediatric Ward at the 48th tac fighter Wing Hospital at Raf Lakenheath. Her husband of seven months airman 1st class David j. Wiederkehr pleaded guilty on thursday to stealing the credit card and using it with  judge air Force col. Michael b. Three Vear Wiederkehr to a Maier the 48th tac fighter wings Chiel discharge h a conduct of military Justice. The card belonged to and ordered 1 Zvir an Basic senior airman Bobbie Joe Erwin who allowances Ftp a f the48ih component Rej a with the 3rd air for com p3bout three weeks it the pair j on a shopping spree at More than t stores in England and rang up More tha 80 transactions Schochenmaie said. Isbell and Wiederkehr were arrested after an airman with whom they were Law ing accidentally came upon the Creoli card and reported the discovery. Mander Wiederkehr will serve Only two years in Exchange for his guilty plea. Exponent repai/lqf"61 a he 48th attend my said capt. Dre Chen