European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 thai stars and stripes saturday december 7,1991 Qadhafi refuses to release suspects to ., Britain Cairo Egypt up a libyan strongman foam mar Qadhafi under pressure to extradite two libyan intelligence officers charged with blowing up a pan am Airliner said in an interview published Friday that he would never hand them Over to Britain or the United states. He did confirm however that the two men were under arrest in Libya. Qadhafi who said he was not a terrorist but a revolutionary said his country was no longer a shelter for world liberation movements because they no longer existed after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The libyan Leader said that because of his intervention kidnappers in Lebanon did not execute anglican Church envoy Terry Waite. He also called for a multinational fund to compensate the families of passengers killed when airliners were shot Down or blown up. Qadhafi a a remarks published in Friday editions of the Cairo daily a1 a ram came after the Justice department and Scotland s lord advocate charged two libyan intelligence agents a Abdelbaset Aji Mohamed Al Mezrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fahimah a with Britain a worst Case of mass murder. France has also accused libyan agents of blowing up a French Airliner Over niger in 1989, apparently for French assistance to Chad which at the time was trying to Ward off a libyan invasion. The scottish charges said the two libyan agents who were both allegedly working under cover at libyan Arab airlines ordered electronic timers capable of detonating explosive devices from the Zurich based company memo a. They then tested the devices at the special forces training area at Sabha Libya and planted them in a suitcase smuggled aboard the ill fated pan am 103 via Malta and Frankfurt. An ensuing explosion Over Lockerbie Scotland killed 270 people in december 1988. Villagers examine the huge Crater left by the explosion of a world War if bomb in Leholtz Germany. Wii bomb explodes hurting 3 Leonitz Germany apr an unexploded bomb from world War 11 blew up wednesday night ripping a Crater 20 feet deep and spewing debris As far As 300 Yards in this Village near Berlin police said. Two people were injured seriously and one suffered minor injuries while numerous houses were damaged a police spokesman said. The blast increased worries that other bombs buried deep in the Earth might be reaching the Point of explosion after almost a half Century of corrosion and chemical decay. Rudi sonntag a police spokesman in the town of or Nienburg said Friday that the 550-Pound bomb was under a Street and exploded without warning. The or Nienburg area 15 mites North of Berlin was heavily bombed by the allies in late 1944 and Early 1945 because munitions factories were located there. It is one of Many regions in Germany where specialists aided by old Aerial photographs taken by the allies to assess bomb damage Are searching for unexploded bombs. World report contradicts chinese on child labor from wire reports Beijing a a government newspaper acknowledged Friday that child labor is partly responsible for students dropping out of school in China contradicting recent denials. The report in the English language China daily concerning government efforts to ensure education said Only 2.4 percent of the school age children in China dropped out of school last year the lowest level in four decades. But the newspaper quoting an official of the state education commission said around 4 million children were still leaving school each year most of them elementary school pupils. A Large proportion of the children a 83 percent a was girls it said. The reference contradicted recent government denials of child labor in which officials have said child labor no longer exists in China simply because it is kills three Toronto a an overnight storm that dumped nearly a foot of Snow across Ontario has claimed at least three lives officials said Friday. Three other people were seriously injured in traffic accidents North and East of Toronto. The storm began crossing Southern Ontario on thursday afternoon. By Dawn it was entered in the Ottawa Valley heading for Quebec said environment Canada spokesman Ron Miller. Enough Snow has fallen so far at Toronto a Pearson International Airport in november and Early december a about 16 inches a to match average snowfalls for both months. Another storm is expected to Cross the great lakes leaving up to 4 inches of Snow woman named Moscow a National lawmaker Galina Semyonova has been appointed an adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev a the first woman Ever on the soviet presidents staff a newspaper reported thursday. Semyonova the former longtime editor in chief of Krest Yanka peasant woman Magazine will advise Gorbachev on family marriage and women a issues said Moskovskaya workers strike Athens Greece a employees of state owned Public Utility companies Banks and the National airline walked Oft their jobs thursday to protest government privatization plans. Greece a two largest unions have called for a nationwide strike by their nearly 2 million members on . 17 to protest the privatization Bill and the conservative governments proposed budget cuts for 1992.female priests rejected Melbourne Australia a the australian anglican churches highest court refused Friday to authorize the ordination of women priests. The anglican primate of Australia Melbourne archbishop Keith Rayner said the appellate tribunal had ruled out individual Bishops ordaining women and individual diocesan authorization of such around world take note of Mozart s death from wire reports Vienna Austria a pilgrims bedecked Mozart a Tombstone with Flowers thursday and cathedrals across Europe resounded to the haunting requiem thai the composer called his own Dirge shortly before he died 200 years ago. Scores of newspapers eulogized the musical Genius. But As a year of Mozart celebrations Drew to a close dozens of dailies also criticized a sour note a attempts to Cash in on his name. A the months of junk eting leading up to today a bicentenary of Mozart a death have induced a condition perilously close to Mozart fatigue a wrote the times of London. Mostly though europeans observed the anniversary of the austrian composers death with music. The great austrian composer died in Vienna on . 5, 1791, and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave. He was 35. A six hour concert on two continents was broadcast live by satellite to millions of radios listeners. The commemorative concert titled Mozart live from Vienna to Vienna began at 9 . On the stage of the barns of Wolf trap the National performing arts Park in the Countryside of suburban Vienna va., 20 Miles West of washing ton . The concert ended at 3 . After a two hour performance of Mozart a requiem performed by the Vienna philharmonic at the cavernous St. Stephens Cathedral in Vienna Austria under the Baton of sir Georg Solti. Both performances in Virginia and Austria were beamed by satellite to National Public radios 440 stations throughout the United states for broadcast to their 6 million listeners. The concert was broadcast As part of a pro a performance today program. Princess Diana and other British royals attended a requiem performance wednesday in London a St. Paul Cathe dral timed to end approximately at the hour of Wolfgang amadeus Mozart s death at 12 50 . Thursdays Pope John Paul ii was to attend a special performance in Rome. In Milan Italy Ricardo Muti was to conduct it at the famed la Scala opera House. Lisbon Portugal and Athens Greece staged requiem performances while dozens of other cities presented lighter Mozart fare. The German City of Dresden also unveiled a reconstructed Mozart memorial destroyed by Allied bombers in world War ii. And the Welsh College of music and drama staged a mock funeral
