European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes Friday March 15, 199114 motorists crushed Tokyo apr a 40-ton Section of an elevated Monorail under construction in Hiroshima fell thursday and crushed vehicles waiting at a traffic Light below killing 14 people police said. A a a a a a a a a a a a a a eight people were injured by the 200-foot Section of the monorails horizontal Frame which crushed 11 vehicles said police official Kiyomitsu Uma Koshi. The steel girder was being moved by construe Tion workers when it slipped off a support column and fell Uma Koshi said. Police were questioning workers to see if improper procedures had been used in moving the girder and determine Why they had not stopped traffic on the Road below Uma Koshi said.1 missing in ship mishap Copenhagen Denmark up a danish state railways ferry and a finnish cargo Vest set collided in the Baltic sea in heavy fog Early thursday Denmark a naval operative command reported. An Noc spokesman said the railway ferry drowning Margrethe with 30 passengers and 14 Crew on Board was involved in a collision with the finnish cargo vessel bore Brittania just after 4 . In the. Be morn Belt in Southern Denmark a Quot a a a Quot. A a a a a a a a one Crew member on the drowning Margrethe was washed overboard and was still missing the spokesman said. All 30 passengers on Board the ferry had been transferred to another vessel and were reported Safe he added.472 die in Malawi Blantyre Malawi a Flash floods that washed away roads crops and Homes near this Southern town killed at least 472 people including some refugees from Mozambique s civil War Malawi a official news Agency said. The floods set off by fierce Rains sunday affected about 20,000 residents of Mulane a Southeastern District near the mozambican Border regional administrator Stewart Winga was quoted by the Malawi news Agency As saying. Winga who is heading Rescue operations said 472 bodies were recovered by late wednesday and that thousands of people were left homeless the Agency reported. A a a a a a a. Storing weapons to evade cuts Jane s says London apr the soviet Union has shifted More than 10,000 tanks 4,000 other armoured vehicles. And 20,000 artillery pieces to storage depots to escape destruction under a conventional arms treaty Jane a defense weekly said wednesday. The Magazine said it got the figures from it. Gen. Harry Soyster director of the . Defense intelligence Agency. It quoted Hini As saying the soviets Are Quot preparing the equipment for Long term storage East of the ural  the equipment were kept West of the urals it would have to be destroyed under terms of the treaty. A this stockpiled equipment would potentially enable the soviets to fill out the lower strength divisions in the Atlantic to the urals during a crisis or War a Soyster was quoted As saying. Twenty one nations signed the conventional forces in Europe agreement in Paris last autumn providing for cutbacks in the area from the Atlantic Ocean to the urals. V a a a a a a a a a. A a. A a fears of soviet violations have held up the Start of new negotiations. Other signatories including the United slates have accused the soviet Union of moving tanks designating army units As Marine units and reassigning warplanes to preserve them despite the treaty. Paul Beaver Pubis a Wisher of Jane a defense weekly said syst cry a comment was the first announcement of the scope of the soviet Maneu vers. A a they re playing around Quot Beaver said. A a it a tax avoidance rather than tax evasion.,., they Are making every Effort not to destroy military equipment. It is sticking to the letter of the agreement but not the spirit of it. A a ,.vv.-v a a a but i done to think its that serious a he added. A the military people Are examining the Fine print and trying to sort themselves  / he said some Western nations particularly France were doing similar things on a smaller scale. A there Are indications that european nations such As France vill be scrapping older helicopters which have previously been armed Tiit which Are now being Given a training role. That allows them to keep the Best equipment in  Beaver said for example he expected France to do stroy older Louette Iii helicopters and the United states to get rid of Huey and cobra helicopters. A but the soviets Are doing things in a big Way a Beaver said. A they Are moving a lot of their most modern tanks including t-72s.�?� sole survivor of Canadian slide buried up to her Teeth in Snow Golden British Columbia apr the sole survivor of an Avalanche that killed nine skiers described a sudden silent slide that swept her Down the Mountain and buried her up to her Teeth in Snow. Limping and bruised Jocelyn Lang a new Sealander now living in Canada said wednesday she does no to know How she survived. A the slope just buckled a said Lang who was the skiers guide. A i did no to have time to see  she was swept 1,000 feet Down the slope in the Purcell mountains part of the Canadian Rockies in Southeastern British Columbia. A i was totally buried All the time a she said of the tuesday afternoon Accident. A everything was moving so fast. I remember being pounded and  when it ended she was buried her Mouth jammed with Snow. She worked one  free dug her head out and waited for rescuers. A a a a a. Lang believed to be Canadas Only fully certified female Winter Mountain guide was the Only survivor catching some rays Spring has sprung in Paris. People flock to the outdoors As a and tourists take a break wednesday on the Steps of the de Bright Sun chases the Winter blues away. Young and old couples sense Arch in the la defense Section of the City. Among 10 skiers dragged off by the Avalanche. Three other skiers in the party were untouched by it. The identities of the eight men and one woman who died were not released wednesday. They were from the United states Germany England Spain and a France a / a a a a a a a the Avalanche occurred about 15 Miles Southwest of Golden and near Bugaboo Lodge about 140 Miles North of the Border with Washington state and Idaho. The skiers had been staying at the Lodge. Before the tragedy a helicopter delivered them to the Remote area popular for its powdery Virgin Snow. Or. Philip Allmondinger a skier and heart specialist from Hartford conn., was among the first searchers at the Avalanche site. He said there was almost no Chance for any to survive such a slide. A the bodies were spread Over the entire area. Some had banged against Trees and others had Hung up on rocks. Some were on or near the surface and others were buried quite deeply a he  out poll British official London a a horse that last won a race 14 years ago is better known in Britain than the nation s top Treasury official according to a recognition poll released wednesday. The Gallup poll showed red rum a gelding that retired after winning his third grand National steeplechase in 1977, received a recognition rating of 94 percent 22 percentage Points higher than Norman Lamont Chancellor of the exchequer. Another horse desert Orchid the popular Light Grey that won the Cheltenham Gold cup in 1989, scored a recognition rating of 84 percent 12 percentage Points higher than  poll asked l,20 j people if they recognized the names of 10 politicians 10 British sports figures and 10 British race horses said Rob Hartnett a spokesman for Ladbroke bookmakers which commissioned the poll. It was conducted from feb. 21 to feb. 26. Prime minister John major had a 99 percent recognition rating Hartnett said. Lamont was appointed Chancellor of the exchequer after major succeeded former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in november. He will present his first annual budget on tuesday. There was no margin of error for the poll Hartnett said