European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 17, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world trains crash in Taiwan killing 29 passengers from wire reports Taipei,.Taiwan a two trains collided near a railway Tunnel Friday killing 29 passengers in the worst train Accident in Taiwan a history. Railway officials said 102 other passengers including seven japanese were hospitalized for treatment of broken Bones and bruises. They did not specify the patients conditions. Police said the Accident occurred at 4 . When a Taipei bound train slammed into an oncoming train bound for Kaohsiung 223 Miles South of Taipei near the  get correspondent Mainz Germany a Germany Szof television network said Friday that it is opening a Bureau in Latvia claiming it is the first foreign to network to have a permanent correspondent in the Baltic. Adf said that starting monday Dietmar bar Sig will report on Latvia Lithuania and Estonia from the latvian capital of Riga. The Baltic states gained Independence from the soviet Union in august.409 whales found dead Buenos Aires Argentina a More than 400 Young Pilot whales have been found dead on a tiny Island off Argentina a South coast the environmental Protection department said. No explanation was Given for the beaching and deaths of the whales. The Island is near Bustamante Bay near the City of comodoro Riva Davia in Hubut province. The 409 whales were found by ecology specialists studying Marine life. As Spring approaches in the Southern hemisphere whales and penguins Are returning to the area in great  crashes into Crane Nottingham England three people died and eight others were injured Friday when a commuter bus smashed into the swinging Crane of an excavator that had become wedged beneath a Low Bridge on a Busy Road in the English midlands police said. The excavator was being carried on a flatbed truck when it collided with a Low railway Bridge and became stuck police said. The Crane of the excavator swung out of control and smashed into an oncoming bus. Bus passenger Simon Hill 20, credited the bus Driver with preventing More casualties. �?o1 think the Driver did a great Job to swerve partly out of the Way. Otherwise it would have hit us head  police said two men and a woman from the Leicester area were killed in the Accident at Tollerton near Nottingham 120 Miles Northwest of London. A Nottingham Man was seriously injured and seven others were  s hat auctioned London a Winston Churchill a famous hat a a Homburg with his initials embossed in Gold a sold for 6,600 pounds about $11,750 Friday auctioneers at Christie a said. A the bidder wants his identity kept secret a said a spokeswoman for the auction House. Britain a wartime prime minister wore the hat during state visits and other formal occasions. Yeltsin delays fund cuts for 80 soviet ministries Moscow apr russian president Boris n. Yeltsin ordered a two week delay Friday in a move to strip the Central soviet government of revenues and authority Yeltsin ordered the cutoff of his Republic s funding for about 80 ministries and agencies in president Mikhail s. Gorbachev a government starting dec. 1. The cutoff had been scheduled to take effect Friday. But Yeltsin decided to give the ministries another two weeks to adjust said Alexei a Lukanev an aide to Yegor Gaidar russians minister of economics and finance. The delay came a Day after a majority of the 12 republics agreed to a decentralized political Union. Yeltsin also suspended licenses for some soviet Petroleum exports the Kremlin a main source of hard currency. Coal Gold and Diamond exports soon will be placed under russian control As Well officials in Russia said. The moves expected for weeks will Force Many Central ministries to close and others to slash their staff and budgets by years end. Their functions will be assumed by Russia and the other republics under the Union treaty tentatively reached thursday by Gorbachev Yeltsin and leaders of six other  s a dog s life has new meaning in stressed Japan Tokyo apr Japan a pampered pets already enjoy water Beds flush toilets and Gold jewelry. Now for those Days when they get up on the wrong Side of the litter there is stress therapy. Veterinarians say the stressful lives of hard working japanese owners often affect their sensitive cats and dogs. The answer a new treatment for animal anxiety called music for healthy pets. A cheerful but Serene music is Good for dogs and romantic music is Good for cats a said Norio Aoki a 49-year-old veterinarian who selected the tunes after experimenting with dozens of pieces on More than 100 cats and dogs. The music developed by Nippon Crown co., a record company that also produces stress Relief music for humans was composed and performed by professional musicians especially for the project. The compact disc for dogs contains six slow and Calm instrumental tunes. The seven cat numbers arc Bounder and More rhythmic. A when they appreciated the music pets approached the speakers and tilted their ears. About 20-30 minutes later some cats even fell asleep a Aoki said. Nippon Crown which introduced the $17 cd last month has already sold 10,000 copies said company spokesman Katsuhiko Kasai. Sony music entertainment Sells cassette tapes containing stress Relief sounds for cats including the sound of buzzing flies and Johannes Brahms hungarian dances no. 5, performed with cat sounds Woven in. Aoki said pet owners should be concerned not Only about their own stress but also about the effect of that stress on their pets which Are heavily influenced by people. A my idea was to create sounds that can be shared by despite the delay the once powerful ministries of foreign affairs and foreign Trade began Friday to feel the squeeze. They will be merged and half their employees fired. Foreign minister Boris Pankin told the state news Agency Tass. The staffs of soviet missions abroad will be Cut a rather substantially Quot and Trade missions eliminated Pankin said. Together the Trade and foreign ministries employ about 4,000 people. The 80 ministries and agencies that could be affected by the cutbacks employ about 37.000 people. Meanwhile a major German Magazine reported Friday that Yeltsin says there will be an uprising in the huge Republic if Western nations done to help ease shortages there. A there will be a Mutiny Quot if the people no longer get enough food Der Spiegel Magazine quoted Yeltsin As saying in an interview which will appear in the weekly a monday edition. Der Spiegel which is published in Hamburg. Germany also quoted Yeltsin As saying that his Reform efforts in Russia would fail without Western help. Mitsugoro a 4-year-old cat living in Tokyo listens to music from her favorite Perch in her owners Home. Veterinarians say the stress he lives of hard working japanese owners often affect their sensitive pets. Humans and their pets Quot Aoki said. A the Best thing is to listen to. The music  Many japanese fear their pets suffer from loneliness during the Long hours they spend alone while their owners work As Well As Claustrophobia in cramped City apartments. To compensate Many give their cats and dogs water Beds toilets Gold jewelry and bathrobes. Meals for cats and dogs include a variety of canned gourmet meat and fish food supplements and even Energy drinks. Purified drinking water for pets is also  bans Neo nazi meetings in Wake of ruling Madrid Spain a a timely Urt Victory by a jewish survivor of the Schwitz concentration Camp prompted government to break from Lon stand and ban Neo nazi meetings this while some spaniards Hail the constr ional court ruling As an anti racist id Mark others say it damaged constr i Naify protected free speech. The decision set a precedent in Spain Lich unlike most Western european entries does not have Laws specifically Nal izing people who incite racial or Bic hatred. Spanish Neo nazis plan to defy the ban and go ahead with the meetings which Are expected to attract participants from Britain France Germany Switzerland and Italy. The court ruled that former is officer Leon Degrella had impugned the Honor of Violeta Friedman in a 1985 Magazine interview in which he questioned the existence of nazi Gas Chambers. Although she was not named in the article Friedman contended that she was personally harmed and filed a lawsuit against Degrella. In its decision the court said Tho constitutional right to dignity could curtail the right to free speech. A neither ideological Freedom nor Freedom of expression extend the right to make racist or xenophobic statements expressions or campaigns Quot it said. The court did not award Friedman any damages and did not punish Degrella. Friedman and her attorney said they were satisfied with the moral Victory. Two Days after the ruling Madrid civil gov. Segismundo Crespo used the precedent to prohibit weekend speeches by Degrella and Ernst Zundel. The two revisionists were expected to deny the exis tence of the nazi holocaust in which an estimated 12 million people were killed a half of them jews. Crespo also banned a homage saturday to nazi Condor legion members who died fighting with Gen. Francisco Franco in the 1936-1939 Spanish civil War. At the same time Crespo permitted today a traditional rally by other right Wing groups to commemorate the 16th anniversary of Franco s death. A we done to want Madrid to turn into a meeting place for nazis and fascists Quot he said