European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes saturday april 20, 1991 professor ordered to pay for stance on holocaust from wire reports Paris  history professor who denies that Gas a Chambers were used in world War ii nazi concentration Camps was convicted thursday under a new Law that prohibits Public denial of the holocaust. I be was ordered to pay the groups that brought suit against him. In an unusual move the court criticized the Law it used to convict Robert Faur Isson As  new limit on the Freedom of expression and  the Case was the first brought under a Law enacted last july that forbids contesting crimes against humanity As they Are defined by the world War ii War crimes trials at Nuremberg. Faur Isson was Given a Fine of $18,200, which. Was suspended by the court. He also was ordered to pay about $3,60.0 to each of 11 groups whose complaints led to the charges against him. 7 killed in Greece blast Patras Greece a an explosion that apparently was caused by a package bomb ripped through the offices of an air courier service on Friday killing seven people and injuring at least eight one seriously police said. The blast shattered the ground floor offices of air courier services killing five men and two women according to fire officials. A fire official said the explosion apparently was caused by a bomb in one of the packages at the office. An anti terrorist squad left Athens for parts 110 Miles away the building also housed the a. Tras appeals court however police said they did not believe it was the target. Police said they had no initial indication who might he responsible. A a kidnapper seeks Ransom new Delhi  kidnapper abducted the daughter of a Bahrain Diplomat from a school in Bombay acid later demanded a Ransom of $4,030, the press Trust of India said Friday. The kidnapper identified As an Arab gave the principal of the . Somani High school in the Western port City a letter thursday purporting to have Beech written by Jafford Ahmed Hayhal the Bahrain Consul general. It requested permission for Quot his daughter Quot to be allowed to leave the school with the bearer of the letter and this was granted because the principal believed the Arab was an employee of the Bahrain Mission pal said. A Giraffe Barbecue criticized Joi Ian Nesburg South Africa a plans for what a is believed to be the worlds first Giraffe Barbecue have drawn protests from animal rights groups according to a report thursday.  newspaper said a social group called die afrikaner Klub plans to roast a 2,800-Pound  a 6-Yard Long spit on May 4. It said it would take.20 hours to Cook the animal Charles Harper chairman of the club said there was Strong interest in the event and that the dub had already sold 300 tickets at $40 each. Several animal rights groups denounced the plan. The groups said it was irresponsible to kill a wild animal As Quot a  Hamburg Germany apr Mathias rust who stunned the world by Landing an air plane on Moscow a red Square in 1987, was convicted Friday of attempted manslaughter for stabbing a student nurse. The Hamburg state court immediately sentenced the 23-Ycar-od daredevil Pilot to two years and six months in prison. Rust refused to speak to reporters after the verdict and prison term were read. A no comment nothing More and please leave a rust told reporters. The prosecution had demanded an eight year sentence but the defense rust claimed that drugs rust had been Given during his soviet Captivity diminished his culpability. Spanish police Basque terrorist arms rust stabbed and seriously wounded student nurse Stefanie Valura in november 1989 at a Hospital where they both worked in Hamburg. He attacked her after she spurned his advances. The defense claimed that rust suffered from personality disorders. In announcing the verdict chief judge Juergen Schunck called rust  strange person but a certainly not mentally  Schunck also said rusts actions May have been triggered by something Valura said. Manfred Valura the stabbing victims father angrily denounced the sentence As being lenient. A anything less than six years should have been out of the question a said Valura. The victim has filed separate civil charges against a rust. A . A on May 28, 1987, rust flew from Finland to the soviet Union in a borrowed Cessna 172, Landing in the Middle of red Square. Barcelona Spain apr police have seized a vast Arsenal of explosives arms and a prepared car bomb linked to the Basque separatist group Eta in a key anti terrorist operation a Barcelona police  Friday. The action marked a Strong setback for Etas so called commando Barcelona unit which has been Active in this Northwest City and its environs. The group has been seeking greater publicity in Advance of the 1992 Barcelona summer olympic games the spokesman said on condition of anonymity. The Arsenal hidden in a Field and of abandoned property in the nearby bedroom Community of Barb Era Del Valles included More than 440 pounds of explosives seven rocket fired grenades and boxes of 9 my pistol rounds frequently used in Eta attacks he said. Police discovered about 200 pounds of explosives packed in the trunk of a stolen car prepared As a car bomb and parked near the Barbera Del Valles train station the spokesman said Eta seeks Independence from Spain for the three province Northern Basque Region and has killed nearly 700 people in attacks carried out since 1968. Eta seeks to manipulate the Madrid governments concerns Over Security for the summer games and potential damage to Spain a image abroad. Interior minister Jose Luis Corcuera recently reject cd any kind of negotiations with Eta. A Cache of Eta documents seized in southwestern France last now 17 in the arrest of four alleged top Eta leaders turned up internal documents indicating the organization aimed to focus attacks in the Barcelona area through Date this year and Early 1992 before slacking off As the summer games near. / the Madrid government plans to deploy 15,000 police officers to guarantee Security during the games scheduled for july 25-aug. 9, 1992. The Barcelona police spokesman said the capture of the Arsenal stemmed from stopped up surveillance in the aftermath of an Eta claimed car bomb attack in december Madrid up a the Canary islands became the first Region of Spain to ban bullfighting responding in part to tourists who objected to the blood sport the regional parliament in Tenerife on thursday approved the prohibition a covering the Holiday islands off the coast of Morocco. Previously Only a Small town in northeastern Spain had a local Law forbidding bullfighting. A _ a. Bullfighting is not a major sport in the Canary is-., lands but promoters have been trying to boost its popularity especially among the  foreign tourists who lock there every year.1 yet it was the tourist Trade that helped bring about the new Law. Last fall an animal Protection Bill failed to get through the regional parliament and Spanish animal lovers appealed to tourists to deluge the islands politicians with protests. The response was enormous. Jose Garcia National coordinator of Spain a Small but growing animal defense association said a thousands upon thousands of letters poured in from Scandinavia Germany the Netherlands and Britain. A a Many of those who wrote said they had been on vacation to the canaries but would not return if the Law was thrown out a second time. Their action was vital As these islands depend . It really made the politicians sit up and  Jose Barcelo president of the National bullfight organizers association described the new Law passed on Tenerife the main Island As  a bullfights can be a Little rough sometimes but you cannot associate them with cruelty. Anyone who really knows anything about bullfighting realizes that a Matador would never be cruel to the bulls a he  threatened by soldering Volcano v Tonila Mexico apr soldering Colima Volcano was concealed in a Haze of Ash and burning sugar Cane Fields near the Central Pacific coast As the government prepared thursday Lor a possible evacuation grading roads and passing out dust masks. Colima Volcano 50 Miles from the coast and 300 Miles West of Mexico City began spewing lava Down the slopes of its 12,600-fool Cone wednesday. The lava Hows seismic movements and resulting avalanches were the greatest activity since it erupted in 1913, said Volcan Logist Servalo de la Cruz of the National University. Quot the Volcano is now at its most dangerous Point a Michael Sheridan a Volcan Logist at the state University of new York at Buffalo. The activity appears to be the Start of a phase leading up to another major eruption that could occur soon or months from now he said. By thursday the Peak was hidden in smoke produced from the Cone and sugar Cane Fields set . Rivers of lava the Day before. Quot it was throwing out red hot lava last night toward Yerba Buena and san Antonio Quot to the Southwest Tonila mayor Antonio retolaza Zuniga said thursday. A Light dealing of Ash and Fine Sand fell earlier on Tonila a town of 3,71 0 people nine Miles Southeast of the Crater. So. Far none of the communities around the volcanoes base had been evacuated but escape routes were being upgraded to Speed any exodus retolaza said. Quot on orders of the state government the roads Are being repaired Quot retolaza said. Quot it once took two hours to reach Juan Barragan the Village closest to the Volcano. Today it look 22 minutes Quot he said. Juan Barragan a town of 105 residents about nine Miles from Tonila on the Eastern Side of the Volcano was intermittently showered with Ash and Sand on thursday afternoon said Pedro Soto Islas assistant director of Jalisco state civil protect Ion services. United states Colima to Volcano sits Susan Harr s