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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world b the stars and stripes tuesday March 26, 1991 All 28 aboard killed it in India plane crash from wire reports Bangalore India a an Indian air. Force transport plane crashed 30 seconds after Takeoff and burst into flames monday at a military base near this Southern City killing All 28 people on Board military officials said. The Indian made Avro had a three Man Crew and was carrying 25 airmen on a training Mission designed to familiarize them with flying Wing commander . Kamal said. He said the plane plunged to the ground 30 seconds after taking off from the Yel Hanka air Force base and training Center 12 Miles North of Bangalore. The plane caught fire when it hit the ground beside a runway. Kamal said preliminary information indicated the deaths were caused by the fire rather than the crash Impact. Ski lift Cable kills woman Flims Switzerland a a German woman was fatally injured when she was struck by the Loose steel Cable of a ski lift sunday and 16 other peo pie were injured in the Freak Accident near this Alpine a sport. Police said a 300-Yard Section of the Cable came off its supporting Rolls on one Pylon and lashed the ground underneath shortly before a noon. R a a a. A a a. The woman died of serious head injuries before a fescue helicopter arrived at the scene. Two of the injured were flown to a Hospital at nearby Chur with serious injuries. Others received first Aid treatment at the scene we were immensely Lucky that there were not More .deaths,1�?T Armin Tanner a manager of the company operating the lift told reporters lie said the lift had been installed Only four years ago and had been serviced regularly. Authorities ordered an inquiry into the Accident a. A a. Vav Quot a a indonesians sentenced Jakarta two indonesians have been sentenced to seven months in jail for Selling state secrets to  companies the official news Agency Ankara said sunday. Cherul Amri 39, and Achsan Umar 41, were found guilty of leaking the state secrets by Selling up to 7,000 Aerial Survey photographs to two . Companies a Esco and Freeport Indonesia inc. A District court in Bandung meted out their punishment. \ v the court said the photographs were regarded As state secrets because they could give details of the Mineral potential of a resource Rich Eastern province of the asian nation of islands irian Java a a a a. \ it a / a therefore those photos could be released Only with Security clearance from the military authorities a the court said. A Freeport Indonesia inc. Is a .-indonesian joint Copper mining venture and established in 1967, Lefebvre Dies split with Vatican Geneva apr archbishop Marcel Lefebvre whose crusade against Vatican reforms led to the first major split in the roman Catholic Church in More than a Century died monday. He was 85. Lefebvre died at the Martigny Hospital one week after undergoing emergency surgery for a cancerous abdominal growth. Martigny is hear his Seminary in the Western Swiss City of Econe where his International traditionalist movement was bom More than two decades ago. The French born archbishop organized a separate Catholic movement and ordained priests in his fight against what he denounced As the a satanic influence of a no modernist and Neo protestant tendencies in the Church. V yet  y v a a a your future is the past a he once said. His movement rejects Many reforms introduced since the. Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, including the replacement of the latin mass with a simplified Liturgy. His St Pius x fraternity of priests was named for the Pope who condemned modernism in a 1907 encyclical.  a fight against the Vatican culminated july 30, 1988, with his consecration of four traditionalist Bishops at Econe. The Vatican reacted swiftly by a communicating Lefebvre the four new Bishops and a prelate who had assisted the archbishop in the consecration. Pope John Paul ii warned that Lefebvre a followers would also be ejected from the Church unless they broke with him. The break became the first formalized major split or schism in the Church since the old catholics broke with Rome because they opposed the doctrine of papal infallibility proclaimed by the 1870 Vatican Council. Traditionalist catholics venerated Lefebvre with Fervour us a representative of the a True  critics viewed him As an incorrigible reactionary who admired Spain a fascist Leader Francisco Franco and would have liked to see the monarchy restored in France. There is no firm estimate on the number of Lefebvre a Active supporters. A according to the Rev. Franz Schmidberg or the titular head of the fraternity since 1984 the movement includes More than 200 priests Many of them ordained by  a a a a. A a. A a a a a a a. The fraternity a theological schools in Switzerland the United states Australia and France  enrolment of almost 300. One year after the excommunication a Vatican official said the movement was growing fast in the amt de states and expanding As Well in France Australia and South  Independent reports have estimated that one out of four practising catholics sympathizes with traditionalist ideas. The mainstream roman Catholic Church has about 850 million members. It Lefebvre was born in Tourcoing France on nov. 29, 1905, the son of Middle class parents. Four of his seven Brothers and Sisters became priests or joined a religious order. Lefebvre was ordained in 1929 after obtaining doctorates in philosophy and theology. In 1932, he was sent to Gabon then a French Colony where he worked for 13 years As a. I missionary. After a Brief postwar Pell in France he re a turned to afr Ica As Apostol lie Delegate becoming the Popes personal represent i Active for All French speak Irig african regions. Pope John Xxiii made him a member of the commission that prepared the Lefebvre second Vatican coun cil. Lefebvre was one of the leaders of a group committed to a uphold the traditional Faith and refused to sign two of the councils 16 documents dealing with religious Freedom and. The Church in the modern world. He issued a declaration in 1974 saying his fraternity refused a to follow the Rome of Neo modernist and. Neo protestant  a he defied the Vatican by continuing to celebrate mass in the latin Liturgy the 16th-Century tridentine Fite. He dismissed As a Bastard rites the mass in the vernacular that took its place under the Vatican Council reforms. Y. A a by. A a a \ a a a by. A in 1976, Pope Paul i suspended him from his priestly functions telling him he took the action a because of the scandal caused to the Christian people by your  \ it meant he was barred from celebrating mass and giving the sacraments a Sanction Lefebvre ignored As  survivors include a sister Marie Christiane who opened a traditionalist Convent for nuns in the Lake Geneva  jewish extremists rid me new Leader Jerusalem apr followers of rabbi Meir Kahane introduced a Little known rabbi As their new Leader sunday four months after the ultraconservative was slain by an Arab gunman in new York. Rabbi Avraham Toledano 33, said his task was to continue Kahaney a work As Leader of the right Wing Kach party. A the head of Kach was and always will be rabbi Meir Kahane Quot the soft spoken rabbi told a news conference. V a american born Kahane who was assassinated in no vember on a . Speaking tour advocated the expulsion of Alt arabs under israeli Rule. He was elected to the israeli parliament in 1984 but was barred from reelection As a racist. Toledano said lawyers Are working to reverse the party a expulsion from parliament and that it would Field a candidate in 1992 because that was Kahaney swish. A with gods help we will be in the next government a he said. A no government in this land will be Able to Rule without our help. Our ideology is pretty Clear about what we Are saying jews to Zion and arabs to their Arab  the moroccan born Toledano lives in Kiryati Arba a Community of religious nationalist jews near Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Trained As a computer Engineer he is married with. Five children v Oswie Cim Poland apr a new inscription has been selected for the main Monument at Auschwitz Birkenas to acknowledge that most of the nazi death Camp s 1.3 million victims were jews. A y a a plaques along the base of a hulking Stone sculpture commemorate those murdered during world War. Ii at Adolf Hillerts largest extermination Complex the epicentre of the holocaust. But for 41 years under Poland a former communist government the Monument gave no hint that jews who historians say represented More than 90 percent of those killed were the primary victims. The omission had Long scandalized foreign visitors and some poles. Poland s first postwar non communist government a sensitive to charges of anti semitism a last june established an International Council to revise the memorial. A. A. A. Antoni Stanczyk manager of visitor services at the Auschwitz museum said in an interview saturday thab new inscription has been selected and that translations of it should be ready by june. The Council will then decide when to mount them. The inscription to be written in 18 languages will read Quot in memory of innumerable victims of nazi ideology to polish. Prisoners and the sons of other nations As Well As More than 1 million murdered men women and children in great majority jews from Many countries of  in addition the Monument will carry a passage from the old testament Book of Job. 16 18 a to Earth done to hide the wrongs done to me done to let my Call for Justice be silenced a the Bible text will be written in six languages including hebrew. From 1940 to 1945 hundreds of thousands of prisoners from throughout Europe were transported to the notorious death Camp in Southern Poland More than 90 percent never left their lives extinguished in Gas Chambers and their bodies stripped of valuables burned in the nearby crematoria. A soviet commission asserted after world War h that up to 4 million people died at Auschwitz and at Birk Nau the larger subsidiary Camp about a mile away. Recent studies indicate that the number of victims was smaller but with a \ higher preponderance of jews than originally estimated. Or. George wellers of the sorbonne University in Paris who scoured the surviving historical documents has substantiated that at least 1.3 million prisoners were killed. About 500,000 people a Many of them jewish a visit Auschwitz Birkenas every year. Julio Tenenbaum 22, an Argentine visitor whose Grandfather was a polish jew said that the new inscription will not reverse his feeling that poles Are . A they  us a he said. A if 1 say that in a a jew they w on to kill me but they wont talk to me and they wont help   
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