European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday december 15, 1990 strives to Avert Ottawa up1 a prime mini sir Brian Mulroney seeking ways of preventing Quebec s secession moved thursday to Speed up constitutional changes and give canadians a bigger voice in the process. A special parliamentary committee will report by july 1 on alternatives to the process of amending the Constitution. The committee will hold televised Public hearings and travel across the country. Under current Laws certain constitutional changes require the approval of All 10 provinces. The requirement led to the defeat last june of the Mccu he Lake Accord a constitutional amendment aimed at keeping Quebec in Canada by giving it among other things special Powers to promote and preserve its French language and culture1 two provinces refused to ratify the amendment. Essentially Mulroney wants the provinces to relinquish their veto Over future constitutional changes a More flexible Way of amending the Constitution a one that would require the consent of a simple majority of provinces a would allow him to give the French speaking province what it wants in return for staying part of  said the group will examine How canadians can become More involved to constitutional changes perhaps through National referendums and whether the three year period for ratification by the provinces should he shortened. Any alternatives to the current process however would be difficult for any province to endorse if it meant surrendering the political might of a veto. Quebec has already said it will not abandon its veto Mulroney said Canada should follow the example of Europe which is headed irreversibly toward a new form of federalism. A Why would we swim against the tide of history by abandoning our Federal system a he said. By Steve Taylor Munich Bureau v Munich Germany Esso which honors . Military gasoline coupons is planning to open its first service station today in what was once East Germany. The station is near Potsdam on the westbound Berlin autobahn ring said Alexander Geek an Esso spokesman a second station will open next week off the eastbound Lane. The company intends to open 30 More stations in 1991 in the Eastern portion of the United Germany Geek said. The company already had stations in West Berlin but not outside of the City. A fes e Uro be cont Rac to with Esso for tax fre e gasoline for service members. Those benefits will apply to All the new stations said Bill Dunn a fest senior merchandise manager until Loyy there were no stations of any kind in the East outside Berlin that could accept coupons Dunn said. Geek said the exact number of stations to be opened in 1991 May change depending on the Progress of negotiations with local municipalities for permission to build the outlets. Essow a Long Range plan is to open 40 to 45 stations in the next 18 months. V Dunn said by and Avia which already have opened stations in Eastern Germany cannot accept coupons because those stations Are not on the autobahn. Only by and Avia stations on the autobahn can accept coupons. However coupons Are Good at any Esso station. The old East German autobahn stations had been run by a state Agency they Are being taken Over by aral and other Oil companies none of which is under contract with cafes to accept coupons Dunn said. Essow a new autobahn stations Are separate from the old East German network Geek said. Japan May give More for bases Tokyo up a the japanese government has agreed to increase its share of the payment of costs of maintaining . Military bases in Japan from the current 40 percent to about 50 percent a japanese new spa per reported Friday. A. Japan s business daily the Nilion Meizai Shimun reported that Japan has agreed to pay the bases Gas water and electricity Bills and the salaries of All japanese employees working at the bases. . And japanese officials would not confirm the re port hut a High level american delegation was discussing the Issue in talks with Japan thursday and Friday. Japan will sign a new agreement concerning base support with the United states in january the newspaper said. A. Japan s increased payment of . Base expenses will be pan Sedan from october 1991 to 1995, the report said. By 1995, Japan will be paying for 50 percent of the total costs of maintaining . Bases in Japan the re port said. A Japan provided $3,3 billion to support the . Bases in fiscal 1990, which ends March 31,1991. Germans drop Low flying for squadrons Bonn Germany a the German government has temporarily lows cd its Low flying limit for two . Air Force squadrons based in Pitburg and Hahn a spokesman for the German defense department said Friday. The change took effect thursday the spokesman said and allows flights As Low As 500 feet Over the entire territory of the former West Germany. Under a germ an american agreement flights May not be conducted lower than 1,000 feet without special permission. The squadrons which Are being deployed to the persian Gulf will be exercising from last thursday through next Friday As Well As dec. 27 and 28 and Jan. 2 through 4�?����.". A / a a. The permission was granted to show a Solidarity with our american partners a the spokesman said. World today record $38,600 paid for antique Gold thimble London apr a 16th-Century Gold thimble believed to have belonged to Queen Elizabeth i was bought by  jewellers thursday for 19,800 pounds $38,600a record Price for a thimble auctioneers said. The i Inch Long thimble had been expected to sell for about 5,000 pounds $9,750. The previous record Price for a thimble was 7,500 pounds $14,600. A a. A set with tiny rubies and paste sapphires the thimble was probably part of a gift from the Mogul Empire in India to the Queen who was noted As a a Needle woman Royal a for her skills. The thimble was later Given to one of her ladies in waiting. It was purchased thursday by Asprey and co. Jewellers a a. A a a a a a /. It was auctioned by Phillips auctioneers in Knowle near Birmingham from the estate of the late Dorothy Silvester. She inherited a collection from her Mother Dorothy Howell once described in a collectors guide As a the. Queen of  2 demo sales cancelled Wiesbaden Germany officials with the defense re utilization and marketing office have cancelled two retail sales. The Augsburg Sale scheduled for thursday dec 20, will not be held. The Kaiserslautern demo Sale set for Friday dec. 21, also will not take place. However sales will be held monday and wednesday of next  victims will found Jerusalem Apas world War ii reached its end the last 47 jews in Chemno concentration Camp wrote a co elective will v they had nothing to bequeath but love for their families and the Hope of being posthumously avenged. Ten Days later the soviet army arrived and All but two of the prisoners had been shot. The will Lay in a soviet Archive for 45 years until a israeli historian discovered it this week among a delivery of thousands of pages from Moscow. A armed soldiers stand around us. What can i do please Tell my Brothers Yitzhak Lazer and Mordechai Motek and my sister Hava in Moscow of my Fate. I have another sister Regina in America. Please Tell them my last wish before 1 die ,. To avenge my death and. The death of All the Many jews who were murdered like animals a write 16-year-old Berek Ilii Gelfarb. A Zimelfarb was among the last to die of the More than 300,000 jews murdered by the nazis at Chemno in West Central Poland. \. Quot a a a. A. A a a Shmuel Krakowski chief archivist of the had Washem holocaust memorial said the final group was kept alive after the mass murders ceased in the summer of 1944, to work As servants of the is officers arid obliterate All traces of the extermination. A the existence of the will is their Victory Over the germans a Krakowski said. A they were hound with shackles and it was the Only thing they could do a not to allow the germans to cover up their crimes. And to see that the world know s about their crimes a he said. The will signed by 10 of the prisoners was written on Jan. 9, 1944 a eight Days before they were murdered. The 7th division of the 1st byelorussian front libera Ted the Camp three Days later on Jan. 20, a one of the polish peasants found it we done to know How anti he gave it to the first russian soldiers he met when they entered the Camp a Krakowski said. In a Telephone interview thursday Krakowski said he found the will among thousands of pages of material brought to Israel by Ilya Altman of the Central state archives in Moscow As part of a cooperation agreement reached with had Vas hem a year ago. The will had been translated from polish into russian. It opens by saying it is being written in the name of the last 47 prisoners at the Camp. A attention the fortunate person who discovers these papers please read them diligently and Tell it to everyone and our relatives who have remained alive Quot it says. It describes the machinery of external-1 nation at the Camp and then presents individual testaments from prisoners who apparently came from nearby Lodz. A your hearts Are hardened with the . And British governments they could have if they wanted stopped most of the German massacres and prevented the murder of hundreds of thousands of jews in this terrible death i must end because my eyes Are burning with tears and i must lie Down on the floor i beg you fortunate people you must avenge us and our families a a wrote Yitzhak Sydelman. Himelfarb wrote a when i see How they murder thousands of innocent jews my heart is torn. I am Only 16 and they have put shackles on my feet like a criminal.�?�. A two of the 47 escaped including Tavel Srebrnik who testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Eichmann the head of the Gestapo a jewish Section was hanged in 1962 for War crimes. The will also lists the names of the German officers and soldiers in the Camp. Twelve Chemno is men were sentenced in a trial in Bonn in 1963 to one to 20 years imprisonment. /