European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday May 18, 1991 Angels of the sea Paten a. Bangladesh apr thousands of starving bewildered bangladeshis screaming a Faresta a the Bengali word for Angels a jammed River Banks thursday As the first . Marine corps Relief workers came ashore. Cyclone survivors Many gaunt from Lack of flock and untreated diarrhoea ran to the Karff Apuli River to watch the arrival of the hovercraft of the 5th Marine expeditionary brigade doctors deserted their medical tents and mothers stopped nursing babies As the Craft came ashore in a Spray of seawater throwing up mud and giving Hope to survivors of the april 30 storm. The marines were from an eight ship flotilla anchored 30 Miles from Shore in the Bay of Benoial to help in Relief operations for 10 million people affected by the Cyclone that killed at least 139,000 people. As the marines brought humvee jeeps and communications and Road repairing equipment out of the hovercraft bangladeshis surged Forward to touch them. Some thinking the wooden packing cases contained food sat in circles with their hands outstretched. Some held out aluminium plates anticipating a meal would be served. The tens of thousands of bangladeshis world displaced by of kids and storms every year routinely carry plates with them in Case Relief workers arrive with food. Mothers held up frail babies to attract the marines attention. Two marines supervising the Beach were not enough to control them. Bangladeshi soldiers were summoned to control the 5,000 people. As word of the marines arrival spread through Chittagong a the port of 3 million people located about nine Miles South of where the Karnap huli empties into the Bay of Bengal a people travelled to Paten a. A the Angels have come a said Mohammad Iqbal a labourer. People around him took up the chant of a Faresta a and within a few minutes thousands of people were chanting a Faresta Faresta a a they Are the Angels of the sea a said thana Mia a 70-year-old resident of Paten a one of the areas worst hit by the Cyclone which ravaged coastal areas and offshore islands of Southeastern Bangladesh. More than 4,000 of Patent a a 20,000 residents died in the storm. A it is great to be Here doing the reverse role of a Soldier Quot said Navy cmdr. Joe Ilu Gill 42, of san Diego. A people think soldiers Are trained Only to kill. That is not  a . Marine gets a helping hand from a bangladeshi after a fuel can fell Oft his humvee vehicle while disembarking from a Navy Landing Craft in Chittagong thursday. A Marine task Force is assisting the Cyclone Relief Effort in Bangladesh. Marcos shoe collection showed Thrift not waste from wire reports Manila Philippines a former first lady Imelda Marcos says the thousands of shoes she left in the Philippines while escaping with her husband during a revolt in 1986 were a Symbol of Thrift not extravagance. A you see you go to anybody s closet you find shoes a Marcos said in a pro taped Telephone interview from new York aired Friday on local television. A thank god when they opened Imel Days closet they found shoes and not  she said the shoes piled up because she was Thrifty and because most were gifts from shoe fairs she attended As governor of metropolitan Manila. Marcos bed to Hawaii with her husband Ferdinand Marcos during the 1986 popular uprising that toppled his 20-year authoritarian administration. He died in exile in september 1989.. Removes Mustard Gas Honiara Solomon islands a . Bomb disposal experts Friday began removing 115 a world War la Era Mustard Gas shells for incineration after the Solomon islands demanded they be shipped out. The shells left in the Solomon islands by . Troops during the War will be shipped to the . Chemical weapons destruction Plant at Johnston atoll located about 500 Miles Southwest of Haw Aii. The shells were discovered in 1987, and some were exploded by a munitions disposal team unaware that they contained the Gas. It will take 10 Days to do the delicate Job of moving the rusting shells from Roussel Island in the Central province of the Solomon islands to Johnston  Bill delayed Warsaw Poland Liberal veterans of Solidarity and former communists on Friday managed to sidetrack a Bill that would have imposed one of Europe a toughest bans on abortion. A final parliament vote on the Church backed anti abortion Bill was put off at least until mid june after the planned visit of Potish born Pope John Paul la Here june 1-9. The Sejm or lower House voted for the delay 208-145 with 14 abstentions. A vote on the antiabortion Bill in the Sejm has been delayed repeatedly since a similar measure was adopted by the Senate last september. Polls show that the majority of the Public opposes the Bill that would impose two year prison terms on women who undergo abortions and doctors who perform them. Gorbachev bans some strikes offers More profits to workers Moscow apr president Mikhail a Gorbachev banned strikes in key industries but offered workers More of their company a profits in an Effort to prevent economic chaos he says could throw millions of soviets out of work. Gorbachev announced the ban thursday after his prime minister revealed some details of an a anti crisis program that Aims to mesh the Kremlin a reforms with those of the republics to halt further economic and political collapse. Prime minister Valentin Pavlov said 13 of the soviet unions 15 republics had agreed to the anti crisis program. Independence minded Estonia and Georgia boycotted the negotiations. A the situation Calls for special  Gorbachev said in a statement thursday night. Gorbachev using emergency Powers granted him by the National legislature threatened criminal proceedings against those who instigate strikes in the Coal Oil natural Gas chemical and petrochemical industries. It was unclear How Gorbachev could enforce the order or whether it could prevent a planned walkout by air traffic controllers next week. The measures Are the latest attempt to halt the collapse of the soviet Economy which has been hit by rising exists declining production shortages of Basic consumer goods and strikes. Coal miners this month ended their two month walkout which the government said idled Many factories. There is no shortage of bad news about the soviet Economy and prospects for recovery. In Washington the Central intelligence Agency told Congress the soviet Economy is Likely to become a radically worse Quot this year especially if Gorbachev does not Speed the transition from a centrally planned to a mar bomb destroys Yeltsin office Moscow apr a bomb blast wrecked the Headquarters of the democratic Russia Reform group which housed petitions supporting Boris Yeltsin a candidacy for the russian presidency the official Tass news Agency reported Friday. Moscow police said the explosion late thursday night destroyed the Entrance part of the roof the basement and an outer Wall of the single Story  were shattered in a building across the Street and bricks and other debris were hurled up to eight Yards said Vladimir Vershkov Deputy head of the police press office. Vershkov said the last bombings in Moscow he can remember occurred just prior to the 1980 olympics. Tass said the room in which the bomb was planted contained petitions signed by thousands of citizens supporting Yeltsin a bid to become president of the russian federation. The first direct elections for the new Post Are scheduled for june 12. Ket Economy. Tass quoted Gorbachev As saying the soviet equivalent of Gross National product has dropped 10 percent and that strikes and other economic disruptions a threaten to Stop thousands of enterprises which w ill have to Lay off millions of  concern grows Over n. Korea Plant Seoul. South Korea apr scientists in South Korea Japan and the United states continued to investigate . Data showing unusually High ground temperatures at a North korean nuclear fun Eiliv officials said. . Official said the temperatures probably weren to related to an underground test because seismic activity had t been noticed. But they said officials were on the Krak out Lor signs of a fire or a breakdown. The United states the soviet Enon. China and Japan have expressed concern about communist North Korea s refusal to allow International inspections of its nuclear reactors and the Jison s potential capability to produce nuclear weapons. Itie ministry of science and techno lock in South Korea said Friday that . Satellite data first showed ground temperatures at the North a Yon Byon nuclear reactor shoot up before Dawn tuesday. Temperatures Rose briefly from a Normal 50 to 59 degrees to 95 degrees. Officials said. . Officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said there had been no reported seismic activity As an underground explosion would have produced. They said that japanese sensors were monitoring the atmosphere to try to determine whether there had been a ground fire or an operational breakdown. The ministry of science and technology said Friday it issued orders to increase efforts in Seoul and seven other South korean cities to detect radioactive air particles