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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, July 17, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday july 17,1991china enlists students to fight against floods Beijing up a China called tuesday for a. Nationwide mobilization of students to spend their summer vacation fighting floods that have ravaged the country. In addition it warned of harsh punishment for any bungling or corruption in Relief efforts. Nearly two months of torrential Rains and flooding in East and South China have devastated Homes crops and Industry forcing the government to Issue a worldwide Appeal for disaster assistance reported injured stricken provinces. Direct economic losses attributed to the weather totalled $7.5 billion Zhou said. He said nearly 7 million acres of crops were destroyed and 42 million acres were seriously damaged. Rescue work has been complicated by treatment of the Large numbers of injured by millions of people left stranded or homeless and by the Onset of epidemics caused by poor sanitation and tainted food. Despite the danger the state education commission issued a flier calling on universities nationwide to mobilize the not Ion a 2 million students to a join the  tens of thousands of soldiers have already been deployed. The commission said a fighting floods and disaster Rescue provide a great classroom for social practice so the social practice activities of schools of higher learning this summer vacation should Center on the  since student led democracy protests at Beijing a Tiana men Square were crushed in 1989, the govern ment has revived the once discredited maoist practice of sending students to farms and factories for a social practice teaming. The Peoples daily the communist party a newspaper also quoted a statement from the Central commission for discipline inspection that demanded a a socialist spirit of cooperation in the Relief Effort. The decree warned of a severe punishment without mercy for any local official who diverts or embezzled Relief supplies and the same for those who disobey government orders a a bungle Rescue plans or a sneak away at critical  in the flood areas an official in the City of Hangzhou in i angst province said by Telephone that a dam on the Chang River a formerly called the Yangtze a burst to the South of the City monday night inundating villages with water As High As 6 feet. Government figures showed that More than 14,000 people had been injured in the hard hit provinces of a Hui Hubei Hunan and i angst while thousands of medical facilities were damaged. Quot the most urgent problems Are housing and medical treatment a said an official in a Hui province who said an army doctor checks a chinese woman whose Home was destroyed by flooding last week. 3.2 Mill Jan people were still awaiting evacuation from flood areas. A Hui and i angst authorities were taking emergency Steps to save Grain already harvested with some supplies damaged or ruined by flooding at storage centers. Large amounts of Grain Are stored outdoors in China because of a Lack of covered facilities. Five cities in i angst province set up task forces to assist factories in resuming production. As much As half the Industry in several cities has ground to a halt because of the floods. A South China also continued to suffer. On Hainan Island where a typhoon struck during the weekend officials said 24 people were dead or missing and More than 3,700 Homes Nad been  bomb injures turkish Diplomat Athens Greece apr turkeys charge do affaires was slightly injured tuesday when a Booby trapped parked car exploded As his car drove by police said. The attack came two Days before president Bush was to arrive for a visit. The Diplomat s Driver the wife of the turkish vice Consul and a passer by were also slightly Hurt in the blast that damaged several other cars and shattered windows in the posh Athens suburb of Palco psychic police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but police said the method appeared similar to those of the greek Urban terror group november 17. Some recent attacks on turkish targets in Europe have been blamed on the turkish terror group Dev sol. The charge do affaires was identified As Deniz Boluk Basi and the woman As Nilgun Kececi the wife of turkish vice Consul Adnan Kececi. Police said the injured were taken to a nearby Hospital and released after being treated mainly for Shock. The explosion came just after Bolukbasi left his Home for the turkish embassy police said. World soviets finish removal of Navy from Germany from wire reports Sossnitz Germany a the soviet Union ended its naval military presence in Germany on monday As the last two destroyers left Harbor and headed East. A with a German naval Honor guard leading the Way the destroyers sailed out of Sossnitz Harbor on Tigen Island in the Baltic sea and headed for the soviet Union. The naval withdrawal is part of the Overall end to the soviet military presence in what was once East Germany. Under agreements Between Bonn and Moscow that cleared the Way for German unification the estimated 380,000 troops in the Eastern part of Germany will be gone by the end of 1994. An estimated 50,000 have already left officials  splits jew s Skull Jerusalem a an israeli Arab armed with an a attacked a 60-year-old jewish woman at an Art fair monday splitting her Skull authorities and radio reports said. The victim Lola Goldfluss was hospitalized in serious condition. The Man cried a Falla he Akbar god is great and a hit her in the head and Cut it in half witness Shlomo a told the Israel radio. Police said two Volunteer civil guards in Neta nya had earlier stopped the a carrying Man on the City a Beach. But the 37-year-old Man escaped to the Center of the City in Central Israel and attacked an israeli woman a statement said. Israel radio said Goldfluss was attending an Art fair at a downtown Square when she was  terrorist stabbed Saa Brocken Germany a a lebanese terrorist serving a prison sentence for kidnapping two germans in 1987, was stabbed monday at a prison in Saarland state police said. Abbas Ali Hamadi who was convicted of kidnapping two germans in an attempt to free his jailed brother Mohammed Ali Hamadi received Only slight wounds in the incident with another inmate police said. He was treated at a local Hospital and returned to the prison police said. Mohammed Ali Hamadi Abbas younger brother is serving a life sentence in Germany Tor the murder of a . Sailor during the june 1985 hijacking of a Twa Airliner to Beirut on a flight from Athens Greece to  test criticized Wellington new zealand a new zealand bitterly criticized Frances nuclear testing program in the South Pacific on tuesday hours after the sixth test blast of the year. Mondays underground explosion at muru Roa atoll Frances testing site in French polynesia was estimated to have a yield of 35 Kilotons said chief government seismologist Warwick Smith. Eleven Days earlier the French detonated an nother explosion at muru Roa about 3,200 Miles Northeast of new zealand. That blast yielded less than half a Kiloton. One Kiloton has the explosive Force of 1,000 tons of  has easy time spying in Moscow Kab says Moscow apr soviet intelligence agents have a tougher time working in the United states than Cia agents do in the soviet Union a senior Kab official said in an interview published monday. Vadim Kirpichnikov told the communist party newspaper pravda that glasnost or openness has made it easier for american agents to make Contact with once fearful soviet citizens and collect information. Kirpichnikov first Deputy chief of the pkg by a foreign intelligence department accused the . Government of organizing campaigns against the Kab that make it More difficult for soviet intelligence agents to do their Job in America. A the . Federal government and special organs systematically organize spy mania campaigns and the press constantly reports on the work of the Kab etc.,�?� he told pravda the opening up of soviet society under Mikhail a Gorbachev after he assumed Power in 1985 and the easing of restrictions on travel and contacts has opened a whole new Range of sources for american snoops the Kab official claimed. A american diplomats and journalists and american intelligence agents among them have almost no difficulty in forming contacts with soviet people a Kirpichnikov said. The new working conditions have made it possible for . Agents to collect data for recently published Cia reports on the crisis in the soviet Economy Kirpichnikov said. The reports angered senior Kab officials who have accused the United states of trying to Force the soviet Union to abandon communism. Kirpichnikov said the reports were part of a deliberate Campaign to Force the soviet government to abandon key tenets of marxist economics such As Central planning and move toward a free Market Kirpichnikov said. The Cia reports Are a a signal for our leadership to act in a direction mapped out on the other Side of the Ocean a Kirpichnikov said. His remarks appeared to reflect an anti Western speech made by his Boss Kab chief Vladimir Kryuchkov to a closed session of the National legislature in june. In the speech Kryuchkov said the West was demanding fundamental reforms in return for a vague promises of a favourable attitude toward economic  Kirpichnikov acknowledged the West had very Good information about the soviet Union. He said the Cia had better electronic surveillance equipment and better scientific and technical equipment than the Kab  
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