European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes remains sunday August 18, 1991arrive in for reburial Potsdam Germany apr 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 4ined the wooded Road As horse drawn carriages 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 Frederick 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 it his 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. Horse drawn wagons in Potsdam Are readied to carry the remains of two prussian Kings for reburial. 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. 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 a 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 tips 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. 70 arrested at rallies marking Hess death Bayreuth Germany a police arrested 70 people saturday during opposing rallies marking the death four years ago of Rudolf Hess Adolf hitlers Deputy who flew to Britain on a secret Mission in world War 11. Police in this bavarian town 25 Miles from the Hess burial site in Wun Siedel said they had detained about 40 protesters armed with a variety of homemade weapons and tear Gas. Thirty other armed protesters were taken into custody in Wun Siedel police said. It was not Clear whether those seized by police were Neo nazis or left Wing radicals. Both had called demonstrations for saturday and police estimated the size of the crowd in Bayreuth at around 500. Right Wing extremists had been barred by a local court from commemorating Hess death in Wun Siedel. So they moved their rally to Bayreuth. However left Wing radicals opposed to the show of rightist extremism called an opposition rally. Last year More than 1,000 right Wing extremists had marched through Wun Siedel for the anniversary. Hess convicted during the Niernberg War crimes trial died on aug. 17, 1987, after 46 years in Span Dau prison in Berlin. Officials said the 93-year-old Hess had hanged himself. India Jet wreckage found 14 Miles off flight path Imphal India apr the wreckage of an Indian airlines plane that crashed in Eastern indians Lush tropical Forest killing 69 people was found scattered 14 Miles off its flight path officials said saturday. Police and airline officials said they had no explanation for line crash or Why the plane strayed off course on its approach to this capital of Remote Manipur state which Borders Burma United news of India quoted Nara Singh a Manipur state minister As speculating the extent of damage could indicate a midair explosion. Early reports by news agencies quoted villagers As saying the plane went Down in flames. Paramilitary forces who trudged Uphill across thick undergrowth for seven hours in Remote Eastern India recovered 55 bodies from the wreckage of the Boeing 737-200 jetliner that crashed on Friday. A there is no sign of survivors a said . Liddle Imphal police chief. The airline had reported that All 63 passengers and six Crew members were killed. The 13-year-old plane flying in heavy rain on a flight from Calcutta crashed roughly 22 Miles Short of the runway in Imphal. . Goswami the top bureaucrat of Manipur said after flying Over the crash site that the plane hit the Peak of a 6,900-foot Hill scattering Metal Over a wide area about 1,400 to 1,900 feet Down the slope. A everything is in Small splinters. The plane has just disintegrated. All i could see was the Tail and pieces of wreckage he said. Air marshal . Ramdass chairman of Indian airlines said Low Clouds Hung Over the mountains around Imphal Airport at the time of the crash Normal Tor this time of year. A visibility was almost Zero a he found one of the two flight recorders
