European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes monday september 16, 1991 germans hostility rising Over foreigners poll says Berlin apr a poll revealing that one third of All germans can understand Why somebody would be a right Wing extremist sent tremors through the nation saturday. The problem of increasing hostility toward foreigners particularly in the five states that former East Germany has become dominated weekend radio talk shows. A there is an alarming tension in the new German states a said Cornelia Schmalz Jacobsen general Secretary of the centrist free democratic party. She was speaking on Saarland state radio. But a Public opinion poll commissioned by the respected weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel indicated a troubling undercurrent of empathy for right Wing extremism in both parts of Germany. The poll based on interviews with 2,000 Western germans and 1,000 Eastern germans indicated that 34 percent had a measure of a a understanding for right Wing extremist views on the Issue of foreigners in Germany. The Survey conducted by the Enid Institute for Market opinion and social research found that 64 percent could not understand Why anybody would have extremist views on the Issue. Perhaps most surprising when respondents were asked which political party has a the Best concept for dealing with foreigners 11 percent said the far right Republican party. The republicans who advocate a Germany free of foreigners have rarely drawn More than 1 percent of the vote in National balloting. The left leaning social democrats Drew 26 percent and the conservative Christian democrats of Chancellor Helmut Kohl Drew 22 percent. Twelve percent said no party had a Good concept. Asked whom they would vote for if the National elections were held sunday 40 percent said the social democrats and 39 percent chose Kohls party. Der Spiegel did not say when the poll was conducted nor did it give a margin of error. Man knocks off part of toe on Michelangelo s David by the new York times Rome a Michelangelo a David arguably the worlds most famous sculpture was damaged in a Florence museum saturday when a Man hammered off part of a toe. The Man said he had been ordered to do so by a 16th Century venetian painters Model. Officials at the galleria Detle Academia museum said the physical damage to the Renaissance masterpiece was reparable since All the fragments from the shattered toe had been collected. But the museums director Antonio Paolucci added a the moral Impact remains. The worlds most famous statue has been  the 13-foot-High statue was carved from a single Block of Marble Between 1501 and 1504. While a replica is displayed in a Florence Square the original is kept in the museum. A it is not possible to put every work of Art in Italy under bulletproof Glass a said Francesco Sisinni director general of Italy a culture ministry. A but one cannot express the deep sorrow Felt because of the disfigurement of the most celebrated statue in the  according to police the statues attacker 47-year-old Piero Cannata hid a Hammer under his jacket and entered the museum. Then the unemployed italian struck at the statue breaking the second toe of the left foot they said. Other patrons held Cannata until the police arrived. According to the italian news Agency Ansa the Man said his action was part of a a Story of spirits connected to a 16th Century venetian  police said the attacker had been charged with dam the White a and damaged a part of David stands on on the statues Darker and undamaged foot. Age to Italy a cultural Patrimony. The last attack on a Michelangelo work occurred ii 1972, when a hungarian born geologist Lazio Toth took a Hammer to the Pieta in St Peters Basilica ii Vatican City. The attack disfigured the face of the Madonna and shattered an Arm. The assailant was ordered to an italian insane Asylum where he spent two years and the reconstructed Pieta is now shielded from visitors to St. Peters behind u Wall of Glass. Saddam fires moderate minister Nicosia Cyprus apr Saddam Hussein has dismissed iraqis prime minister apparently retreating from a postwar pledge of democratic reforms by sacking the advocate of broader based politics. Iraqis ruling baath party officially dismissed prime minister Saadoun Hammadi the highest ranking shiite Muslim in Saddam s Cabinet at a party conference Friday iraqi Media reported. The iraqi news Agency said Saddam was also reelected president and Secretary general of the baath party a signal to observers that he remains in firm control perhaps even tightening his grip on Iraq despite the devastating persian Gulf War defeat. The report also said key hard liners remained in Saddam a lineup. They included Deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz Well known for his wartime defense of iraqi policies and Ali Hassan Al Majid a Cousin of Saddam known As the a Butcher of the kurd so for a suspected chemical weapons attack in 1988. Saddam who rules through the party a revolutionary command Council attended the con conference and signed the decree replacing Hammadi with his Little known Deputy Mohammed Hamza Al Zubaidi. Last March with Saddam s control of Iraq Uncertain alter kurdish and shiite Muslim uprisings Hammac was appointed in a Cabinet reshuffle seen As Saddam answer to promised reforms a after nearly 12 years c autocratic Rule. Hammadi is an american educated economist Fror Southern Iraq focus of a shiite Muslim insurrection crushed by Saddam after the Gulf War. His Choice a seen As an attempt to appease shiites who make up 5 percent of iraqis 17 million people. Iraqi politics Are dominated by the baathist regime controlled by the minority sunni muslims. Hammadi was regarded at the time As a leading advocate of hoped for reforms to broaden iraqis one party politics. The iraqi news Agency which was monitored in Cyprus quoted iraqi television As saying Saddam presided saturday Over the new command Council which has 1 members in addition to Saddam. World drilling of new Oil Wells starts in ravaged Kuwait from wire reports Kuwait a Kuwait started drilling new Oil Wells saturday to replace those damaged or set ablaze by iraqi troops a Kuwait Oil co. Spokesman said. Ali Murad said Santa be a kuwaiti company will Drill the Wells in magma Field South of Kuwait City. Murad gave no details about the number of Wells but Oil minister Hamoud Al Ruba said last month that 24 new Wells will be drilled by the end of the year and 100 by july 1992. Murad said that As of Friday fire Crews had capped 429 Wells More than half of the 732 that iraqi troops set on fire As they retreated in late february after a seven month occupation. The Al Watan newspaper also quoted Al Ruba As saying Kuwait would seek to retain its pre invasion quota of 1.5 million barrels a Day at a saturday meeting of the Gulf cooperation Council in Riyadh saudi Arabia. Kuwait currently produces 170,000 barrels a Day. Its Overall production is expected to reach 400.000 barrels a Day by the end of the year and 800.000 barrels by  statue stolen Moscow a a 1,400-year-old statue of the greek god Dionysus valued at $170,000 has been stolen from Leningrad a Hermitage museum a news Agency said saturday. Officials say the statue of the mythical god of Fertility was stolen during the night sept. 11-12. The report did not say where the statue was at the time How it was stolen or Why it Wasny to noticed missing for two weeks. The stature stands 8.6 inches tall weighs about 11 pounds and had been dated to the third or fourth Century the news Agency  Leader loses bid Warsaw Poland a parliament on saturday rejected prime minister Jan Bielecki a request for special Powers to implement economic reforms and rein in a budget deficit. The vote raises the likelihood that the $22 billion deficit will Rise further this year As economic reforms a including privatization of Enterprise a Are put on hold until after an oct. 27 parliamentary election. Despite the backing of president Lech Walesa the proposal mustered Only 196 votes 19 Short of the 215 required. Ninety four deputies opposed and 32 voted to  Jet catches fire Mexico City a a cuban jetliner apparently lost a Landing gear and slowed off the end of a runway at Mexico City a International Airport saturday losing a Wing and bursting into flames. One of the 112 people on Board was injured breaking a leg during the evacuation of the plane. The soviet made Tupoljev 154 apparently lost a Landing gear As it touched Down on the runway then careened into a Field about 200 Yards from a Busy Highway said Angel Hernandez an Airport spokesman. All 100 passengers and the Crew of 12 were evacuated safely said Alida Escobar Cubana a manager in Mexico. Most of the passengers on Board flight 464 from Havana were mexican tourists returning from vacations in  general ousted the Hief of the Zamanskaya 1 Ank div involved in the deaths of three protesters during last months failed coup was fired saturday minutes after meeting a visiting French delegation a report said. Maj. Gen. Valery Marchenko had finished displaying his equipment and had bid Farewell to French officials when he was handed defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov a order relieving him of his duties the russian governments news Agency reported. Shaposhnikov a predecessor former defense minister Dmitri Yazoo had ordered the division along with others to surround the russian federation s parliament on aug. 19, the Day after Yazoo and other top ministers temporarily deposed soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev