European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 a a a the stars and stripes monday december 17 1990 news updates Gorbachev s prize Moscow a president Mikhail Gorbachev received the Nobel peace prize medal and Cash award in a Kremlin ceremony and said he would give the Money to medical centers the Tass news Agency reported. The diploma medal and. Cash were Given to Gorbachev by first Deputy foreign minister Anatoly Kovalev who had travelled to Oslo Norway to receive the prize on behalf of the soviet president. Gorbachev said he decided to donate the $715,000 Nobel prize Money and the $450,000 from Italy a Piuggi prize Given him earlier this year to children a medical centers a a i think the Money should be spent on health promoting activities for children first of All in ecological disasters a Tass quoted Gorbacheva saying. Gambling License Las vegas up1 japanese billionaire Masao Nang Aku has won unanimous approval from the Nevada gaming control Hoard for a permanent gambling License at the dunes hotel and country club on the Las vegas strip. Nang Aku 72, whose Minami group owns More than 50 companies worldwide purchased the dunes hotel out of bankruptcy in 1987 for $157million in Cash. He initially was granted a limited two year Nevada gambling License which will expire this month. The Nevada gaming commission will meet in Las vegas on dec. 20 to take final action on the control Board recommendation for approval which followed 16 hours of hearings Over a two Day period. Nang Aku speaking through an inter or ctr warned the Board that he might lose interest in the hotel Casino which employs 1,800 people unless he received a permanent gambling License. Murder conviction monitoring vote in Haiti former president Carter checks ballots sunday at a polling site in port a Prince during the first free elections in Haiti a history. The voting place at the capitals Argentine school was the scene of a massacre that forced the end of elections three years ago. Carter is heading a delegation of election observers that includes his wife Rosalynn background a ians sex Detroit a a Man who slowed his car into a crowd of basketball fans Cal crating the Detroit pistons Aba Charn Pion ship last Jirine has been convicted of four counts of murder. V. A a Detroit recorders court jury Blind Bruce b. Thomas 41, of Warren guilty of tour counts of second degree murder and a one count of assault Vitha. Intent to. Do great bodily Larni. Lie faces up to life in prison when sen fenced. Jan. 4, / Thomas steered his 1978 than Derbins intone Row d o f 1 a n s dancing and Colebr a t ing in Detroit a streets on june 14, police said. Four people died and a fifth suffered a broken leg anti other injuries. Prosecutor Kym worthy said the absence of skid Marks from Thomas car showed that lie never tried to Stop. Defense attorney John Scavone said Thomas accidentally hit the people and fled in a panic. \ a i done to think the evidence supports the murder verdict he said n Jerusalem up a defense minister mosh Arens indicated sunday deportation orders for four palestinians could be the Start of a series of harsher measures to quell increasing Arab Vio Verice within Israel s pre-1967 Borders. I lie four a a strip residents received their deportation orders during mass arrests saturday night of palestinians the military sup cute of membership in the outlawed islamic fundamentalist move me it known by its arabic acronym Hamas t he military accused them of incitement and other illegal activities. Quot i think the deportations that were do cycled yesterday Are not the last deportations Quot Arens said implying that More palestinians could be deported As part of the crackdown in violence that has erupted within israelis pre-1967 Borders which have been relatively quiet during the palestinian uprising. In a Lea Fiat distributed Sun Dave lamas. Praised the fatal stubbing Friday of three. Jews in t he israeli town of a near Tel a i a a n Deal Ted. T lie a it a cd a a a Quot hero i c e n e ration a two Day strike to. Protest the mass ils Ridi Owers in territories.-. Quot. Army radio reported Flam As do for the slayings Bui the leaflet did a the a direct ind Lac in the -. Attack. A a we Quot wiil com in Ueth e j in n d holy War until All Palestine will be returned to islam from the River to the sea Quot life Hamas leaflet said. Since Friday night israeli Security forces arrested approximately 900 palestinians suspected of being Hamas activists in the West Bank and Gaza strip on Issue of talks Soweto South Africa a the african National Congress concluded a major conference sunday by threatening to suspend talks with the government unless the White authorities meet several key demands by the end of april. The three Day conference produced no major policy changes by the Anc the country a leading Black opposition movement. But it revealed divisions Between Anc moderates who appear ready to negotiate relatively soon with the White led government and hard liners who believe they can Force concessions through protests economic sanctions and other confrontational methods. Quot the overwhelming majority of our people and the delegates Here support negotiations Between the Anc and the government a said the Ancus Deputy president Nelson Mandela who is considered a moderate. But Anc official Joe Slovon who also Heads the South african communist party and is considered a hard liner said Quot it seems to be the Clear View of the conference that in order to get negotiations proper going much much More has to get done by the government. The Anc said it would continue periodic talks with the government that began in May on dismantling apartheid. But unless All barriers to full scale constitutional negotiations Are removed by april 30, 1991, the Anc said it would consider we shall not hesitate to recommend. To suspend talks Quot said Chris Hani head of the Ancus military Wing and one of the groups most m militant leaders. The new year Quot will be a year of mass a Clio n for the e Trank be f o f Powe r to the e people a Hani said to the wild applause of 1,600 Anc Delegate sat in Soweto the huge Black township outside Johannesburg. A a. The e. A n c a s ivs i 1 m i b e fore form a 1 constitutional Negoita can begin the government Mui release political prisoners allow Yome-.2ot0o exiles to. Re turn Home end v political Quot trials and scrap Security legislation. President fax. Do Klerk has agreed to the first Throe d pm anus and has pledged to review Laws that have been used to restrict political activity. However implementation has been delayed Between the Anc and the government Over details. Hundreds of Polit ical p i so ners re main in j ail few exiles have returned and some trials involving Anc activists accused of violence Are still before the courts. Berlin apr the nations last soviet designed reactor once on a blacklist of nuclear plants prone to catastrophe is being switched off to end an atomic Power Era in former East Germany. The four reactor Power station near Greif Swald on the Baltic sea was to be shut Down Over three Days beginning saturday. It had supplied 10 percent of the electricity used by the 16 million people of East Germany but its closure became certain soon after the Berlin Wall fell a year ago and West German experts examined it. The last of the four reactors had been working at Low output for months Only because it also provided hot water heating for 45,00.0 people and scores of factories. While the reactor is gradually turned off a hastily built Oil fired Plant will be put into operation to Supply hot water heat. The reactor will be completely shut Down tuesday Plant spokesman Peter Baier said Friday Greif Swald the sole nuclear Power station in former East Germany is not the Only old soviet reactor creating worries in Eastern Europe. Among other cases Austria wants Czechoslovakia to close a two reactor Power Plant at Boh Unice 75 Miles Northeast of Vienna. Austrian Chancellor Franz via Nitzky said his country would Supply electricity at its own expense. Czechoslovakia lacking alternative Power sources refuses to shut the Boh Unice Plant immediately but has promised a reassessment from a new government commission by Pec. 31. An International commission spent four months examining the Boh Unice Plant and concluded that Quot a serious uncontrollable Accident must be expected at any the commission said it could not exclude the release of radioactivity on the scale of the soviet unions 1986 chernobyl disaster that killed at least 31 people cast fallout Over much of Europe and is stil causing serious problems in the soviet Ukraine. Similar alarms were raised about Greif Swald Early e reactor this year and the two Jermany cooperated in an investigation of safety conditions White reactors 2, 3 and 4 were taken out of operation in february and March. W it h a 19 6qs s Ovi e t de sign g r e if Swai Dos 440-Meg Awatt ra9tors went into service Between in i and 1979, four More soviet designed reactors were being built there but no. 5 failed during its break in period m Early 1989 and never went into full service. It was three years behind schedule because of safety changes introduced after the chernobyl catastrophe. Construction was halted on the other three reactors at Gre Siswald 160 Miles North of Berlin and also at Stendal about 75 Miles w est of Berlin. There Are no plans to build any other nuclear plants in Eastern Germany the Ronny supplied electricity to make up for this Yea 61 Greif Swaldo a Power was reduced Early t he reactors meant jobs to almost 5,000 people and about As Many were working on construction for the expansion of the station
