European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 9, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world Lack of funds strands soviet ships in Suez from wire reports port said Egypt a two dozen soviet merchant ships Are stranded at both ends of the Suez canal because they cannot pay their transit tolls canal and other maritime sources said tuesday. The sources said the Holdup appeared to Stem from soviet economic problems including a shortage of hard currency. A tolls must be paid in a convertible currency in Advance of a ships passage through the 101-mile canal linking the red sea and the Mediterranean. The sources said the soviets owed More than $1 million. Their vessels have piled up Over the past few Days a 10 off port said destined for the red sea and 14 Mediterranean bound ships off Suez the sources said. All Are government owned cargo vessels or tankers.2 rail workers killed Caen France a a car train smashed into a tractor trailer truck stuck on a Railroad track in Normandy on monday killing the Engineer and a crewman authorities said. None of the 250 passengers aboard were reported injured. The train was carrying motor vehicles and their riders from Paris to Caen when the collision occurred at mid morning near the town of i Sieux. The passengers were taken to the Lesieux train station by bus and traffic on the Railroad line was halted for More than two hours Railroad officials said. The truck involved in electrical work on the rail line was abandoned by its two occupants before the collision authorities  building slowed London a the Channel Tunnel will open on time in mid june 1993 but with a limited passenger and freight service eur Tunnel chief executive sir Alastair Morton said monday. A that restricted service will be slightly less than the demand through the summer a Morton said. In France an Anglo French consortium of 10 contractors working on the Tunnel suggested there could be a halt to work on the Mammoth engineering project if agreement is not reached Over costs for mechanical and electrical installations in the tunnels and terminals the French news Agency Asp  underwear Whakatane new zealand a the Security camera did not clearly Register the service station burglars face. But it did capture the distinctive stripes of his underwear when he Bent Over to pick up dropped groceries. Police sgt. Tony Moller said tuesday that after several eyewitnesses identified the Man police went to question him. The Man at first denied having anything to do with the looting of the station and its food Mart. Then they asked him to drop his trousers. Moller said the evidence was evident and the Man admitted to the crime. Dissidents in Cuba urge communists to yield Power Mexico City apr dissidents in Havana Are demanding that cubans communist party end its monopoly on Power the mexican government news Agency no Timex said monday. The cuban democratic convergence a coalition also urged the party to Call general elections and Grant amnesty to political prisoners when the communist party Congress convenes thursday in the provincial capital of Santiago de Cuba. President Fidel Castro who has sworn to stay on the orthodox path no matter the Cost leads the list of 1,800 delegates. Coalition spokeswoman Maria Elena Cruz Varela told reporters she feared the Congress would produce Only cosmetic changes. She said the coalitions proposal was circulated among several delegates. Cruz Varela spoke at a news conference in Havana a a bold move in tightly controlled  official Calls amputation on men unlikely Islamabad Pakistan apr a senior government official said monday that the amputation sentence passed on two americans convicted of stealing is unlikely to be carried out. A a we re aware of the situation. Done to worry  be All right a Siddique Khanu minister of state for foreign affairs said after returning from a 12-Day visit to the United states. Without elaborating Khanu said the pakistani embassy in Washington and the state department had discussed the matter. Charles Boyd 29, and his 23-year-old brother Daniel were convicted last month by an islamic court of robbing $3,200 from a Bank in the Frontier City of Peshawar. They were sentenced to have their right hands and left feet amputated a a punishment the judge said was Laid Down in the Muslim holy Book the Koran. X the conviction and sentence have been appealed to pakistanis supreme court and a hearing is set for saturday. The Boyd Brothers who converted to islam while still in the United states said they came to Pakistan because they wanted to help an estimated 3 million afghan War refugees living across the rugged Northwest Frontier province. The Brothers Are the first foreigners convicted and no Timex said a . Diplomat attended the news conference held at the Home of Elizardo Sanchez a Well pcs City known dissident who spent Many years in cuban prisons. The no Timex dispatch monitored in me a did not specify when the conference was held. Cruz Varela said the cuban people want democratic change but without bloodshed. Cuban officials say the Congress will move to make the party More democratic but Ruie out any discussion of changing cubans one party system or its centrally planned Economy. After holding thousands of meetings with citizens across the nation in preparation for the Congress party officials suddenly decided to Convene behind closed doors. The decision was made after the failed soviet coup and Moscow a announcement it was pulling its troops out of Cuba. Daniel Boyd left and his brother Charles try to avoid photographers at a sept. 25 court appearance. Sentenced under a Law promulgated by the late Gen. Mohammad Ziaul Haq the military dictator who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an August 1988 plane crash. Some pakistanis have received similar sentences but All were overturned on Appeal. A the harsh sentence surprised even fundamentalist muslims. Islamic scholars said the judges interpretation of the Koran was erroneous noting the holy Book Calls for severing the left hand not the right but never for the first offence. It mentions nothing about cutting off feet for theft. Laos says Mia photo shows Farmer Bangkok Thailand up Laos has identified a Farmer of French and lao heritage As the subject in photographs initially thought to be of an american Serviceman missing in action from the Vietnam War the state radio said. The radio in a broadcast monday quoted foreign ministry spokesman Vanheung Vongvichith As saying a laotian government investigation was triggered by the publication of photographs said to show Navy it. Daniel v. Borah a . Aviator lost in Vietnam. A the investigation revealed that the person in the news reports is a member of the Mangson tribe of the lao Thung group. His name is Alao a Vanheung said. The broadcast said Alao no last name Given was half French and 66 years old. Vanheung said . Officials were taken to interview Alao in september. . Defense department spokesman Pete Williams told reporters last month that american investigators had spoken to the Man who said he had been photographed by a trader from Southern Laos. He said the investigators accepted the account and concluded the claims that the photographs showed Borah were  lands Jet in saudi Arabia but can t drive car there Dhaka Bangladesh up women Are not permitted to drive cars in saudi Arabia but they Are allowed to Fly Large jets. Captain Yasmin Rahman became asians first woman to Pilot a wide bodied Jet when she flew a Bangladesh airlines dc-10 from Dhaka to the saudi arabian red sea port of Jidida on sept. 27, the air Carrier announced monday. A controllers in the United Arab emirates saudi Arabia and others were quite surprised to hear a woman a voice identifying herself As the Captain of a bangladeshi dc-10,�?� said her Pilot husband capt. Ashfaque Rahman. A at first they thought Biman Bangladesh airlines had employed a Westerner on contract but they were soon congratulating her and welcoming her into their  an architect by education the female Rahman claims to be the Only architect aviator in the world. Proud of her employers she could not resist taking a shot at Bimanis major regional rival Singapore airlines. A even when asian air giant Singapore airlines discriminates against women Biman has a Liberal policy towards women a she said. Rahmann a Rise to the cockpit controls in such a male dominated profession is not Likely to cause any discomfort to male colleagues since she has More than 10 years of flying experience her husband said. A she has captained Domestic flights for three years now so she is Well established As a Pilot in her own rights a he said. A passengers on International routes Are not going to suffer from any Lack of Confidence because there is a woman at the controls  during her first dc-10 flight to Jidida Rahman experienced different reactions from air traffic controllers in Pakistan Iran and Arab countries but not in India where she is Well known in aviation circles. Bimanis first woman Pilot Oksana Rahman of no relation died in August 1984, when her aircraft crashed at Dhaka Szia International Airport while returning from an internal flight