European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 16, 1991 the stars and stripes b Page 9 new kids leave Berlin teens screaming until they drop Berlin apr they pushed shoved and just Plain screamed themselves sick. When the new kids on the Block concert turned Melee was Over nearly 1,000 Young German fans needed medical treatment. Police said no one was seriously injured but the red Cross said three people were taken to nearby hospitals. The american pop group took Berlin by storm and caused a storm among Young girls in the process. A panic a was the headline on the front Page of berlins by newspaper Friday morning. A thousands went crazy. Emergency tents. One child clinically red Cross officials confirmed that doctors had treated a fan who stopped breathing. A there Hasni to been anything like this since the beatles a said the mass circulation Bild newspaper. Teeny toppers started lining up outside the huge Deutschle Avanalle concert Hall at 4 . Thursday about is hours before the show started. As the crowd outside the locked Hall swelled to several thousand by mid afternoon Many of the excited Young fans started pushing and shoving. A even after the concert there was plenty for the police to do a a police summary said. A because of undisciplined behaviour of the fans streaming out the traffic came to a partial standstill near the deutschland Halle the chaos Wasny to cleared up until Midnight Long after the new kids had stopped singing. Police said 949 fans needed medical help during the Melee a but fortunately none of them the injuries was serious a police said. Red Cross officials said hyperventilation was the most common ailment among the Young girls. A too much oxygen in the body because they shrieked screamed and breathed too quickly Over a Long period of time a the red Cross said. In other words the teeny toppers went crazy for the group that tries to project an All american image. Many of those needing medical help had to be passed Over the Heads of other concert goers because the shrieking audience was packed so tightly. Ii i a.an-fev.,,s so Dan Kohl talks to reporters after starting a hunger strike to protest living conditions for elephants Nike and Shiva. Fired zoo keeper protests conditions Stockholm Sweden apr a fired zoo attendant has refused to leave the elephant quarters and started a hunger strike to protest the animals living conditions news reports said. A i will not leave the elephants Nike and Shiva voluntarily. The police will have to carry me away a Dan Kohl told the National news Agency to on thursday. Kohl demanded that Justice minister gun Tellvik inspect the Skansen zoos 100-Square-Yard elephant House and the 475-Square-Yard paved elephant run to said. She declined. The zoo dismissed Kohl in a dispute involving his complaints about conditions. Zoo authorities agree the area is too Small but say they Lack funds for an alternate site. They want to sell the two elephants. Kohl wants to keep them. A if someone wanted to separate you from your kids How would you react a he said. Plans to move Nike and Shiva to a Large animal Park South of Stockholm were dropped after one of the Parks elephants accidentally squeezed a keeper to death. World3 americans nabbed for wildlife smuggling from wire reports Sydney Australia a three americans have been ordered to stand trial for allegedly trying to smuggle rare Bird eggs and a Lizard from Australia. Prosecutors allege Joseph Fred Demaio 21, and Matthew Salvatore Pisciotta 24, both of new York and Ronald Martinolich 24, of Florida were part of a multimillion Dollar wildlife smuggling operation. The Trio ordered thursday to face trial were arrested on sept. 16 at Sydney Airport As they tried to Board a plane to los Angeles. Martinolich whose Hometown was not immediately available was allegedly carrying a Lizard in a hidden Pouch in his underwear. Demaio and Pisciotta allegedly were each carrying 36 cockatoo eggs concealed in modified attack families Leipzig Germany a Neo nazi skinheads burst into the apartments of two vietnamese families smashed their belongings and stabbed one of the occupants police said thursday. The separate attacks in the East German City were the latest and among the boldest in a surge of violence against foreigners in Germany. Six intruders on wednesday kicked in the door of one apartment beat and kicked the husband and threw him in a cellar where he was stabbed with a knife. Police said the 43-year-old Man was hospitalized with serious injuries. Also wednesday four thugs broke into another apartment and threatened the vietnamese couple inside with baseball bats and Gas pistols and demolished the apartment. The couple was not Victoria Speaks London a a faint voice on a 103-year-old recording device May be the Only record of Queen Victoria speaking author Paul Tritton believes. A i think its More Likely to be her than not a Tritton said wednesday. The science museum where the Wax coated Cylinder has been stored for More than 60 years is putting on a special display of the taping the times of London reported. Only nine of about 40 words Are recognizable a greetings. The answer must be. I have never forgotten a the times said. Tritton discovered it while researching a Book about l Lenry Edmunds a supporter of the graph Aphone a recording device of the 1880s.wwi remains found Paris a archaeologists have unearthed human remains in a Woods in Eastern France that May be those of Henri Alain Fournier a promising writer killed at the Start of world War i officials said thursday. In 1913, the 27-year-old Alain Fournier wrote a highly acclaimed novel la grand Maul pcs about life in a Small French town. On sept. 22, 1914, As a lieutenant commanding an infantry company he was killed during a Battle with German soldiers near s anti smoking proposals Stoke protest Paris apr French smokers disdainful of what they regard As an Ameri an style obsession with clean living Are fuming Over government proposals to limit where they can Light up. Their grousing while Short of a Rush to the barricades has prompted Premier Edith Cresson a already unpopular government to Retreat from immediate imposition of the anti smoking measures. A for me its an attack on Liberty. In France we have Liberty. This Isnit America a said Laone Peralta 56, puffing on a Gau Loise the pungent National favorite Brand at a Haze filled cafe near the champs Elysee. The gallic Ideal of Liberty fires both sides of the argument. Non smokers who Are increasing in number demand the Freedom to breathe clean air. But smokers demand the right to their vice. At Issue Are health ministry proposals that Are in line with a Europe wide trend to curb smoking. A we have to go step by step in a country like this. It can to be like a police state or there will be a counter reaction a said or. Helene Bost hour tech of the French National league against cancer. The health ministry proposed that a restaurants Reserve 50 percent of their tables for non smokers until 1995, and 70 percent thereafter. A trains be composed of 50 percent no smoking cars up from 30 percent. A smoking be banned on Domestic air line flights in rest areas at private firms and from waiting lines at Post offices and other Public buildings. A fines of up to $445 be levied for multiple violators. The proposals Drew the Wrath no Only of smokers but restaurant owners fearful of losing their smoking clientele. Media commentators wondered whether police would enforce the Law and accused the government of overstepping its Bounds. A a we re a latin country and we done to like constraints a said Bost Ilour Tacq. A where there Are rules they Are generally followed. But i done to foresee police patrolling the uproar forced Cresson a govern ment one of the most unpopular since world War ii to backpedal. She returned the proposals to the health ministry for review. The ministry is negotiating the Issue with labor unions that support the governing socialist party. Non smokers welcomed the proposed measures As overdue. A Paris is one big ashtray a remarked Chris Jones 28, a Canadian studying in the capital. A a in be never seen a place where people just smoke on the Street like about 66,000 French citizens die of smoking related disease each year Bost hour tech said. The social Security administration estimates the health costs related to smoking at $3.6 billion a year
