European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 23, 1991 the stars and stripes q Page 9u.s. Man slain by turkish terrorists from staff and wire reports Istanbul Turkey a a turkish terrorist group claimed responsibility for fridays slaying of a second american employed by a company that provides administrative and support services for the . Military in Turkey. The victim was identified As John Gandy manager of the Istanbul office of Vinnel Brown and Root a . Embassy spokeswoman in Ankara said. Gandy a death marked the third time in two months that Dev sol a marxist terrorist group had claimed responsibility for armed attacks on americans. Gandy was shot to death about 12 15 . After three men one Clad in a police uniform entered his office and overpowered him and three employees the spokeswoman said. The intruders bound and gagged the three employees and then took Gandy a retired air Force chief master sergeant into another room and killed him. The killers left behind a written statement signed by Dev sol revolutionary left before escaping from the office in the Yesil Koy District near Istanbul International Airport. According to turkish news reports the statement read a we Are sending president Bush along with turkish president Turgut Ozal another  Johnny is the nickname Given americans by some turks. Ozal who has been a staunch . Ally during the conflict with Iraq flew to the United states on Friday for a weekend meeting with Bush at Camp David my. In the two other attacks a Bobbie Eugene Mozelle 44, another employee of Vinnel Brown and Root was shot to death feb. 7 in Adana Turkey. A a a a a a a a a. A . Air Force it. Col. Alvin Macke was shot in the face on feb. 28 by two gunmen in Izmir Turkey. Macke 44, was taken to Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center in Germany. His condition was unavailable late Friday. Moze lie s killing was the first slaying of an american in Dev solos 13-year history. The organization has claimed responsibility for More than two dozen bomb blasts in Turkey since the Start of the persian Gulf War. Most were directed at offices belonging to Western companies or institutions. Dev sol has said it attacked to protest the War and a Western  Gand. Who was born in 1939, had worked in Turkey for the past three years. His wife and daughter live in the United states the embassy spokeswoman said.  \. A a a Vinnel Brown and Root is based in Fairfax  youth knocks nose from Stalin bust Moscow apr a teen Ager attacked the bust of Josef Stalin that Marks his grave on red Square knocking off its nose to show his hatred of the dictator a newspaper reported Friday. The 17-year-old vocational school student who was not identified has been charged with desecrating a grave which is punishable by up to three years in prison according to Komsomol Skaya pravda. The nose which was not needed for the investigation reportedly was handed Over immediately to the Kremlin com world mandant a office presumably so the bust could repaired. Acts of protest at Lenin a mausoleum the holiest of soviet shrines Are rare but not unheard of. There have been instances of protesters trying to immolate themselves on red Square or throwing firebombs at the Marble Structure where the Corpse of soviet founder Vladimir Lenin is displayed under Glass. The news paper reported a second recent act of Defiance saying someone threw a Pepsi Bot tie at the mausoleum last week. Because of the 24-hour Honor guard and other unseen Security officers however such demonstrations bring rapid arrests. The defacing of the bust occurred sunday when the student vaulted a Short decorative railing in front of the Lenin mausoleum and ran behind the Marble Structure to where Stalin and other soviet leaders Are buried the newspaper a said. A a a. A a a a a a a a a he chose the moment at the top of the hour when the changing of the Honor guard occurred so there was no time to Stop him the newspaper said. Using an unspecified heavy Metal of Jeet the youth struck the bust with a Cou Pic of heavy blows then dropped the tool and surrendered peacefully to the guards who rushed up to detain him Komsomol Skaya pravda said. The youth told investigators that he wanted to display his hatred of Stalin a and draw Public attention to the fact that the butchers ashes continue to lie at the Kremlin Wall a a the newspaper said. After Stalin died in 1953, his body was displayed alongside Lenin a inside the a mausoleum but it was removed in 1956.Ira says it shot widow of policeman it killed from wire reports Londonderry Northern Ireland a the Irish Republican army claimed responsibility Friday for shooting and wounding the widow of a policeman who was slain by the group four years ago. Margaret Cooke suffered multiple gunshot wounds in thursdays shooting which occurred As she sat in her car at a traffic Light close to the Londonderry police station where she worked police said. Police said another woman and her 4-year-old daughter barely escaped being hit. Cooke underwent emergency surgery at Atna Gelvin Hospital where officials described her condition As a serious but  her husband police sgt. Tom Cooke 52, was slain by the Ira in a shooting at the Derry City Golf club in april 1987 according to a spokesman for the Royal Ulster constabulary. The Ira telephoned local Media organizations claiming responsibility for the attack. The British broadcasting corp. Reported the Ira had warned civilians not. To work for the provinces Security forces. Greece s population shows Only slight gain Athens Greece a Greece a population showed a Small increase Over the past 10 years according to provisional figures released Friday. A nationwide census showed the population stood at 10,256,464 As compared to 9,740,417 in 1981 a an increase of 516,047. The census is taken every 10 years. According to the census females outnumber males by 204,908 totalling 5,230,686 to 5,025,778. National statistics service general Secretary Manolis Kontopirakis said tie Daf Atrom sundays nationwide census was provisional but that the final figures to be published soon would vary Only slightly. The service gave no explanation for the Small increase in the Overall population. But greeks have been emigrating abroad in Large numbers Over the past 10 years mostly to North America and Australia and producing smaller  report Given on flight 103 London apr pan am and British transportation officials failed to take sufficient precautions to prevent a bomb from being smuggled aboard flight 103 in a piece of unaccompanied Luggage an official inquiry reported Friday. Sheriff principal John s. Mowat in a concluding report on a fatal Accident inquiry said that such precautions might have prevented the deaths of the 270 people who died in the bombing on dec. 21, 1988. The report also criticized the Reliance on a rays which cannot detect plastic explosives to Check Luggage Mowatt a report contained the conclusions of an inquiry in umphries Scotland where the planets wreckage landed. He presided Over the inquiry which ended feb. 13, As chief judge of the  fatal Accident inquiry was not charged with identifying who carried out the bombing and did not address that Issue. Mowat said in his report that the bomb was in a suitcase in the baggage hold of the pan am Boeing 747, which was in route from London to new York when it exploded Over Scotland. He said the suitcase probably arrived in Frankfurt Germany aboard an airline other than pan am and a was loaded onto and allowed to Fly on flight 103a without being identified As an unaccompanied  flight 103a was from Frankfurt to London. Mowat said it would have been a a reasonable precautions to have a system for identifying baggage As belonging to passengers on the flight both in Frankfurt and in London. A such a precaution might have avoided the deaths a the report said. Confrontation an israeli Border patrolman in Arab last Jerusalem confronts a palestinian who obviously wants to go where the patrolman does no to want him to  Law makes swedes feel no pain Stockholm Sweden apr swedish workers became healthier overnight when a new Law Cut Back on sick leave insurance officials said Friday. Until March 1, swedish workers received 100 percent compensation from the government for every sick Day. In the first cutback to the swedish welfare system in More than 40 years the government said that As of March 1, workers would receive Only 75 percent of their pay for the first three Days they Are sick. For longer periods the insurance pays 90 percent of the salary. Sick Days suddenly fell by 20 percent said Agneta Mattsson of the National social insurance Board. A studies showed swedes were the sickest in Western Europe taking off an average 25 work Days per year. Critics said the sick insurance policy encouraged people not to work damaged Sweden a productivity rate and inspired businessmen to invest abroad. From 1986-90, an average 227,000 people registered sick in the first week of March. This year fewer than 182,000 called in sick during that period. Mattsson said More than 223,000 workers were too sick to work the week before the Law went into effect