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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                World nazi markings sprayed on death Camp memorial. From wire reports Bergen Belsen Germany a the memorial at the former nazi concentration Camp Bergen Belsen in Central Germany was smeared with nazi symbols Over the new years Holiday an official said thursday. The memorial a Stone Wall with several inscriptions on it was set up in memory of the approximately 50,000 people who died there during world War ii. The former Camp is outside the towns of Bergen and Belsen North of Hanover. British forces found up to 10,000 corpses at Bergen Belsen when they liberated the Camp in april 1945. Most of those who died there succumbed to typhus during the closing months of the War officials say. Many of the victims were jews including Anne Frank the German girl whose diary of the Days she spent hiding from the nazis in Amsterdam was published after her  travel rises Madrid Spain a tourism Rose worldwide last year despite the persian Gulf War and the yugoslav civil War figures released thursday by the world tourism organization indicated. The Madrid based to said tourism in East Asia and the Pacific Region grew at the fastest rate with arrivals up 6.4 percent to 54 million Over 1990 figures while Europe remained the top destination for tourists worldwide. The to said tourism in Europe was up 2 percent Over 1990 figures. Tourism to the Middle East affected by the Gulf War dropped 26.3 percent or 7 million arrivals Over 1990  Falls 11 stories Rennes France a a 38-year-old woman survived a fall from her 1 Ltd Story Balcony police said thursday. The woman Annick Lecam lost her balance while shaking out a Bedspread wednesday and fell about 100 feet hitting a parked car and then the pavement according to police. She was reported in serious condition at a Hospital with a broken Arm and possible internal injuries.16 die in Avalanche diyarbak1r, Turkey a an Avalanche crashed into a Mountain Village before Dawn thursday killing at least 16 people the sem official Anatolia news Agency said. Rescue teams pulled 10 injured people from the wrecked houses in Krabey a Village near the town of Wiik Sebkova officials said. The Village is in Hakkari province a rugged Region in Southeastern Turkey that Borders Iraq and Iran. Three of the injured were in critical condition gov. Necati devel Oglu told  s car pulled Over Copenhagen Denmark a Crown Prince Frederik spent part of new years eve in a police station after a Friend who was driving him Home from a party was stopped on suspicion of Drunken driving news reports said Friday. The 23-year-old Frederik was a passenger in a Royal car driven by Marie Louise Aasmund when they were stopped by police in Copenhagen the newspaper Ber Linske Tidence said. Frederik accompanied Aasmund described by the tabloid press As a Model to a local police station where she was Given an alcohol test the report said. Police found no record of a Drivers License for Aasmund the paper said. The police report mentioned that the Crown once a was heavily under the influence of Alco Iol Quot the paper said. Members of the Royal family Are immune from prosecution. A normally we do not comment on alcohol cases but i can confirm that there exists a Case against the woman in question a Copenhagen police chief Poul Eefsen was quoted As saying. E Stasi s files allow citizens to see who spied on whom by John tagl1abue the new York times Berlin a the secret police files kept on Eastern germans by their former communist government were opened for Public inspection on thursday but the storm of interest that Many had predicted failed to materialize. Only a trickle of people a mainly artists writers and human rights campaigners a showed up at the Gray Stone building in Berlin that houses the Agency responsible for granting Access to the files. Those files were kept by the former East German secret police known As the Stasi. The files which were opened by a Law passed by the parliament in Bonn in november will Tell them which neighbors and friends perhaps even relatives were reporting their actions Over the years to the Many tentacled Stasi which employed about 85,000 agents and perhaps a half million informal collaborators As a Means of preventing assaults great and Small against the communist system. A recurring theme in Many commentaries is the damage to friendships and kinship that the opening of the files will produce. Moreover the Shock hits Eastern germans at a time when society is suffering from High unemployment rising crime rates and other problems. But Rainer Eppelmann a protestant pastor who was the last defense minister of last Germany before unification in october 1990, said that perusal of two volumes of his file on thursday revealed the identities of some of the 40 people recorded As having informed on him. Most were Given cover names like Otto or Sirius he said but the True identities of some were included in the dossiers. Joachim Gauck who runs the Berlin based Agency that has custody of the files said Ordinary citizens had picked up about 3,000 applications for Access to their files. Gauck has predicted that the Agency would have to turn Over an average of 70,000 files monthly to interested germans but a Pirvey by German television in several Eastern German cities showed Little initial interest. An Eastern German office worker said he believed people were so fed up standing in lines for All kinds of other forms for health care social Security and unemployment payments that they would take their time seeking Access to their files. Blizzard buries Middle East residents of the Village of Bahamon near the Beirut to Damascus Highway shovel Snow off their vehicles on thursday. A new years Day storm that hit much of the Middle East left roads clogged with Snow Cut communications and forced schools and shops to close. The storm left at least five people dead and More than 200 injured voice of the nation radio said in Beirut Friday. The deepest accumulation was in Jerusalem and nearby parts of the occupied West Bank where up to 19 inches of Snow fell in the City of Hebron. Sixteen inches were measured in Jerusalem. The storm also played havoc in Jordan dumping up to 2 feet of Snow in places. Traffic death toll in Spain climbs to 230 people Over Holiday period Madrid Spain a Spain lived up to its reputation for dangerous driving this Holiday season when Highway accidents claimed 230 lives. Seventy people died in the 55 fatal Highway accidents during the three Days ending at Midnight wednesday according to the government traffic office. The accidents left 73 people injured 35 of them seriously and brought to 230 the number of Highway deaths since school vacations began on dec. 20, the Independent Europa press news service reported. Among those killed was one of King Juan Carlos bodyguards who died in a collision in route to the Madrid Hospital where the Monarch was recuperating from knee surgery after a skiing Accident on dec. 28. Between dec. 20, 1990, and Jan. 7, 1991, 312 people died in Highway accidents that left 279 injured traffic officials said. The office had no totals for the dec. 20-Jan. 1 period. A thirty to 50 percent of fatal accidents have to do with alcohol a said one office spokeswoman citing a recent study. Last Spring a european Community study found Spain the third most hazardous dec country in which to drive following Greece and Portugal  
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