European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 0 the stars and stripes Friday december 28,1990 world today moroccan courts sentence 124 to prison for rioting Fez Morocco of a moroccan courts sentenced 124 people to prison terms of up to seven years for rioting during a general strike ibis month officials said wednesday the sentences were the most severe so far in dozens of trials following mid december unrest in Morocco that killed at least five people. Forty people in Fez Drew sentences late tues Day and wednesday ranging from one to seven years in jail on charges of rebellion destruction of property carrying Arnis and attacking the Liberty to work. Twelve were acquitted. Seven people aged 18 to 29, were sentenced in Meknes North Central Morocco to terms of six months to one year in prison on similar charges. In Tangier 40 people were sent to jail for three months to one year for their part in the violence. In trials last week courts in Tangier and Sidi Kacom sentenced 37 people in All to prison terms ranging up to one year. Garment factory fire kills at least 25, injures 100 Dhaka Bangladesh apr fire raced through a garment factory in a Dhaka suburb thursday killing at least 25 people police and Hospital sources said. About 100 other people suffered Burns. Police said most of the bodies were found on the third floor which houses a cutting room where cloth is piled before being made into garments. Survivors said the room usually was kept  workers  smuggle anything out of the factory. Twenty four charred bodies were pulled from the rubble police said. At least 14 were women. Another victim a 9-year-old girl died in the Stampede As the 500 employees fled the flames the police said speaking on condition of anonymity. \ a it was not immediately known whether the third floor cutting room door was locked when the fire started but other workers said the factory a main Entrance on the ground level was locked. Desertions of soviet in re rising Berlin apr a top National police official says soviet troops in Eastern Germany Are deserting at Art increasing rate a newspaper reported wednesday. The head of the Federal police office Hans Ludwig Zachert was quoted by the daily die Welt As saying 15 to 30 soldiers arc deserting weekly. The report appears As Many germans have tried to boost morale of the 360,000 soviet troops in former East Germany by inviting some of them to Christmas dinners or sending presents to soviet military Camps. On Christmas eve some German families were seen with uniformed soviet soldiers in unprecedented strolls in West berlins shopping District the soviet Union is to withdraw its troops by 1994 according to a treaty that was part of the package of German soviet agreements permitting the unification of East Germany which was Allied with the soviet Union with nato member West  among soviet units is dangerously Low according to a series of German news reports published since East Germany a Borders opened and the situation in the red army Camps became better known. In october Stern news Magazine said extortion terror and unexplained deaths had been occurring among the Low paid soldiers. Die Welt also quoted Zachert As saying police Regis Ter daily 20 to 30 Legal violations attributable to soviet troops mostly thefts and traffic violations. Zachert said the red army troops were a growing problem for Domestic Security in Germany the newspaper said. Christmas Day fire damages housing area in Sembach Sembach Germany a a Christmas Day fire in base family housing caused an estimated $60,000 in damage officials said thursday. The fire occurred about 4 15 . In apartment b-3 of building 36, master sgt. Timothy Markley the base fire chief said. There were no injuries. However residents of the building were evacuated and housed overnight in billeting facilities. Quot damage is estimated at about $30,000 in government property and $30,000 in private property in addition to property damaged in the Blaze there was smoke damage to the apartment above the one in which the fire started and water damage to the apartment below local German and base fire fighters responded to the Blaze. Base fire officials Are investigating the cause of. The fire. V Price for cafes fuel coupons to drop for buyers in Italy of Naples Italy a amps the Price of gasoline and diesel fuel coupons will drop tuesday for military customers in Italy a the new Price will be $35 for 100 liners and $70 for 200 liners of leaded or unleaded gasoline As Well As diesel fuel. Previous prices were $41.50 and $83. The reduction of More than 15 percent is due to a slight drop in the Price of Oil on the Lallian Market according to cmdr Michael Atiagan Supply officer for the Naples naval activity. R Quot panic is reducing a Little in the world fuel Market at least for a while a he said thursday. With the latest decrease the Price per gallon for the three fuels will drop to about $1.33, the prices of other Petroleum products in Italy re main unchanged a Hummer of a Beard when Leung Chun Hing wants to give someone a sting keeper for 40 years displays his buzzing Beard at a ing rebuke he does no to have to say a word a his Beard Bird insect and fish show wednesday in Hong Kong will do the Job for hint Leung who has been a Bee he said he s been stung too but does no to mind it m Siena Italy apr a two seater italian air Force plane crashed into a Vineyard while on a flight Over Tuscany on thursday killing the pilots authorities said. The air Force said the plane was an Derma Chi m.i3. 326, the same kind of aircraft that crashed dec. 6 into a school on the outskirts of Bologna killing 12 students. The italian made Craft was on a a a Normal training flight from the Airport at Grosseto in Western Tuscany the air Force said. A witnesses reported seeing the plane go Down in a air Vineyard in the Countryside outside Siena and then burst into flames the a i news Agency said. No one was immediately available at air Force Headquarters in Rome to give details about the planets Mission or a possible cause of the crash the Pilot of the plane that crashed Pec 6 bailed out minutes before the Craft slammed into the school. The cause of that crash has not been determined. The plane was taking part in an exercise to test radar