European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes sunday August 18,1991remains arrive in Potsdam for reburial Potsdam Germany a ignoring a wave of criticism German leaders and yesterdays Royalty welcomed Home saturday the remains of prussian King Frederick the great for reburial at his magnificent summer Palace. After an overnight train ride from Southern Germany the bodies of Frederick the great and his father arrived in Potsdam on the 205th anniversary of Frederick the great a death. About 10,000 people including protesters with signs that read a Bury militarism and Small bands of people carrying flags of old Imperial Germany lined the wooded Road As horse drawn Carriage pulled the coffins from a railway station to Frederick a Sanssouci Palace. Frederick died in 1786, but the prussian monarchy ruled until 1918. Prussia formed the basis for the German nation that emerged in 1870. It became a state in Germany but was abolished by the allies in 1947. The plan to re Bury Frederick and his father Fredr ick Wilhelm i has created a dispute within the nation. Critics used Chancellor Helmut Kohls attendance at the reburial As Well As the presence of a military Honor guard to recall Adolf hitlers solemn trip to Potsdam in 1933. The nazi dictator had just taken Power and paid his respects at the Tomb of Frederick the great. A this is a Day that requires Cool Heads a Brandenburg state gov. Manfred Stolpe said in remarks prepared for delivery saturday afternoon to an elite audience in the new Palace part of a Complex of prussian Royal buildings in Potsdam. Present along with Kohl were National state and City politicians and a clutch of people descended from the Royal Hohenzollern family. German soldiers carry the coffin of Frederick the great of Prussia onto a railway car in Hechinger Germany the two monarchs were originally buried in the 18th Century in Potsdam. Moved for safety during world War ii they ended up in a Hohenzollern Castle in Southern Germany. On saturday morning antique Imperial rail cars brought them Back to Potsdam a City just outside Berlin fulfilling the plan of Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia 83, current head of the Hohenzollern family. Carriages drawn by four horses transported the cof fins to the Rococo Palace that Frederick the great built and called Sanssouci a meaning a without cares in French the language he preferred. Quot a the Opportunity will never come again to see the burial of a German King a said Hahlbohm Hauke 23, who had come from Bremerhaven in Northern Germany to see the spectacle. Police mobilized about 1,500 officers to handle a crowd that was expected to number about 100,000.extortion threat made on products in Australia Sydney Australia up the Colgate palmolive co. Was operating a 24-hour hot line saturday to handle thousands of Calls from concerned customers following an extortionists threat to Poison its products. Geoff Walsh Public affairs manager said the hot line was receiving around 30 Calls an hour from Consumers concerned about the safety of products they had bought. Colgate palmolive also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on full Page ads in 16 major newspapers throughout the country Friday reassuring the Public that no poisoned products had reached Market shelves. Sydney newspapers reported the extortionist set tuesday As the deadline for his threat to Poison More than 100 Colgate palmolive products with potassium cyanide and place them in stores throughout the country. Although police have refused to reveal details the daily Telegraph said the amount of Money demanded was the equivalent of $200,000. The extortionists demands and threat were contained in a note accompanying a parcel of six of the company a Best known products sent to its Sydney Headquarters tuesday All of which were confirmed to contain cyanide. Police confirmed the note also said poisoned toothpaste had been placed on shelves in two stores one in Sydney and the other in Perth. But upon recall the articles were determined not to have cyanide Content although police said there was discoloration in some of the products indicating the tops had been removed and replaced. The Sydney morning Herald reported saturday that police were trying to make Contact with the extortionist before tues Days deadline by placing discreet advertisements in selected newspapers. Walsh said that because consumer products were so vulnerable to terrorists the company was moving As quickly As possible to introduce tamper proof packaging. In the meantime both the company and police urged Consumers store managements and staff to look out for tampering. The items threatened to be poisoned were toothpaste shampoo soap Dis washing liquid Mouth rinse and skin lotion. Composer writes requiem for victims of flight 7 03 Edinburgh Scotland a the composer of a requiem for the victims of pan am flight 103 found her inspiration in part among the gravestones of Lockerbie the town hit by the airliners wreckage. �?o1 have tried to make it positive and not something about death and destruction a said Karen Wimhurst composer of the 45-Minutc songs for the falling Anuci it is to premiere today at the Edinburgh International festival. A when i was composing the last part which is about regeneration 1 visited the graveyard at Lockerbie and found Flowers had been put there the Day before Quot the 30-year-old composer said in an interview. A the Label with them said a no matter what fire we invent to destroy us ours will have been the brightest world Ever to exist a that was very moving for me As i was searching for How to write the final song which is about life and Hope in times of tragedy a Wimhurst said. The work remembers the 259 people aboard the Airliner and 11 residents of the Little Market town who were killed when the Boeing 747 was blown apart on dec. 21, 1988. Most of the dead were americans. No one has been charged in what investigators said was a terrorist bombing. Or. Jim swire whose daughter Flora was on the new York bound flight has promised to be in today a audience. He has led the British families Campaign for a thorough inquiry and improved airline Security. Pilot of India Jet that crashed failed to radio he was Landing new Delhi India up the Pilot of a Boeing 737 that crashed in a Ball of fire and killed All 69 people aboard failed to radio the Airport Tower he was coming in for Landing a ranking aviation official said saturday. While the cause of fridays crash was unknown civil aviation minister mad Favrao Scandia said the Pilot of the ill fated flight did not give air traffic con trailers the Standard a i am inbound signal even though the plane had begun its Landing approach. The state run Indian airlines Boeing 737, piloted by capt. Eckhar Haidar lost Contact with the Tower 10 minutes before it was to land and crashed on a Jungle Hill at noon after one of its wings struck the ground and broke. The press Trust of India news Agency quoted officials As saying witnesses saw the plane hurtling Down in a fireball. Scandia said crash investigators were looking for the planets Black Box or flight recorder. The crash of flight 257, which took off from Calcutta killed All 63 passengers aboard and six Crew members. In the latest count saturday rescuers had recovered 48 bodies from the wreckage site in Imphal the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Scandia said officials had been Able to identify Only six of the 48. Many bodies were charred beyond recognition. A team of 200 paramilitary personnel and police was scouring the area to recover the rest of the remains the news Agency said. The dead included Ompok Singh a former Deputy chief minister of the state and Bira Singh a former state minister of education. Scandia announced compensation o the equivalent of $19,300 to the family or each passenger killed in the Accident. Indian airlines operates a Fleet of 27 Boeing 737s and three of the crap Why been involved in fatal crashes since 19/4
