European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday january 6, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world drug Bosses investing in Europe report says from wire reports Hamburg Germany a a German Magazine reported saturday that South american and asian drug lords Are investing their ill gotten profits into european businesses. Citing what it said was a confidential intelligence report to Chancellor Helmut Kohl Der Spiegel Magazine said the drug Bosses Are acquiring economic footholds in Western european businesses by investing in Banks insurance companies newspapers and television stations and starting up their own transportation operations. It cited no Concrete examples. German intelligence has indications drug Bosses have also targeted former East Germany As an area where they can increase their influence and control the Magazine embassy reopens Bern Switzerland a the Swiss embassy in the iranian capital of Tehran reopened sunday after being closed for one week because of a diplomatic Row Between the two countries. The Swiss charg6 do affaires in Tehran Walter Haffner said the visa and foreign interests sections were operating normally. Neutral Switzerland represents the United states and South Africa in Iran. Haffner said in a Telephone interview that iranian police were allowing free Access to the building. Switzerland decided to shut the embassy dec. 29 after iranian authorities temporarily confiscated the passport of a Swiss Diplomat Christa Felder As she was about to depart on a honeymoon. The movement of other officials were also urges protests London a the Leader of Britain a newly formed Muslim parliament saturday urged his supporters to flout Laws not in the interests of followers of islam. A let us make it Clear that muslims in Britain will oppose and if necessary defy any Public policy or legislation that we regard As inimical to our interests a said Muslim parliament Leader Kalim Siddiqui a former Fleet Street journalist. One of the groups first actions was reported to be the calling of a tax strike in a fight for More islamic schools in Britain. But the British government has said a tax strike would be breaking the Law. A people who done to pay their taxes Are breaking the Law a they must abide by our Laws a warned Angela Rumbold British Home office bus crash kills 4 Sydney Australia a a a tourist bus crashed into a Bridge near Tamworth in Northwestern new South Wales late saturday killing four passengers and injuring nine others police said. A total of 54 people including the operator and an alternate Driver were aboard the bus when the Accident occurred police said. The vehicle was in route from Brisbane in Queensland to Melbourne in Victoria when it hit the Eastern approach of the Wangaratta Bridge just West of Tamworth 250 Miles Northwest of Sydney. Croats react cautiously on 2nd Day of cease fire Zadar Yugoslavia apr businesses reopened saturday in towns that have become battlefields in Croatia a civil War and people ventured from bomb shelters. But shelling was reported late on the second Day of a cease fire. Even before the report of shelling Many people doubted whether the truce would hold allowing the United nations to Send up to 10,000 peacekeepers to Yugoslavia. Fourteen previous cease fires have collapsed but the major players in the 6-month-old civil War in secessionist Croatia have said they were determined to make this one stick. Croatian radio reported shelling saturday night in Eastern Croatia according to the British broadcasting corp. The report attributed to a regional croatian military command said the shelling took place at the Village of Nus tar. No casualties were reported in the attack which the command was quoted As calling a the first serious violation today of the cease fire in the Region. In Zadar a Dalmatian City 120 Miles Southwest of the croatian capital of Zagreb some restaurants and cafes were open saturday for the first time in Days. Businesses that had taped Over their windows to protect against damage also were open. But people were wary. There were few residents on the streets of the City of 60,000 despite Balmy Spring facing the storm marlins Hitz fends off Stormy winds with her umbrella As she walks along the Elbe River near Hamburg Germany on sunday. The ship in the background ran aground several years ago. Fierce winds also battered the East coast of the United states. Details on Page ii. Like weather sunny skies and the first Chance to come out of bomb shelters in More than two Days. A fighting has continued to rage despite past ceasefires a said a croatian guardsman. Fighting began after Croatia declared Independence on june 25. It pits croats against serb led Federal forces and Allied serb irregulars most of them members of Croatia a serb minority who say they would be persecuted in an Independent Croatia. Thousands of people have been killed and the serbs have taken control of about a third of Croatia. Tjie latest cease fire negotiated by . Envoy Cyrus Vance was potentially More effective than the previous ones because both sides have expressed the desire to have . Peacekeeping forces sent to Croatia. The United nations has said no Pecac keepers will be sent until the bloodshed ends. The people of Osieck emerged from their shelters after almost a week of incessant artillery pounding croatian radio said. Shops were open and Public transport resumed for the first time in 10 Days in Barlovac a strategic town 30 Miles Southwest of Zagreb which was heavily damaged by the fighting. In Zagreb friends and colleagues of Zivko Krsticevic a to cameraman killed by artillery fire in Barlovac on dec. 30, gathered for his funeral. He was the 22nd journalist killed in the actor Curt Bois Dies at 90 in Berlin Berlin apr Curt Bois a German character actor who fled the nazis and performed alongside Humphrey Bogart in the film classic Casablanca has died theater officials said saturday. He was 90. Bois who began acting at age 7 and played in Many memorable stage productions and More than 60 films died dec. 25, said a statement from berlins Schiller theater. Bois a native of Berlin had worked at the Schiller. The cause of death was not Given. Bom on april 5, 1901, he began in theater and cabaret in Germany and worked for the legendary directors Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator who revolutionized drama with his a a confrontational staging of works by playwrights such As Bertolt Brecht. In film Bois specialized in comic roles. He had a eared in 27 movies by 1933, when he fled Germany for Hollywood after the Rise of the nazis. Bois performed in 40 More films while in exile in the United states most of them Small but memorable roles As had waiters or pompous clerks. In Casablanca he played a pickpocket alongside Bogart a nightclub owner character Rick Blaine. He also had a role in cover girl starring Rita Hayworth and was in films that starred Gary Cooper Clark Gable Spencer Tracy and other greats. He is survived by his wife Dagmar. Be h City doing level Best to recover from depression Stassfurth Germany apr Stassfurth has fallen into a deep depression that cannot be measured by economic indicators. A tape measure might help though. Slowly but surely Stassfurth has been sinking for nearly a Century. The Adler pharmacy level with the rest of the City after world War ii today rests on the Bottom of a Steep Grade. Streets dip and Bank like Cobblestone roller coaster tracks. Parts of downtown Are lower than other parts of the City. City Hall was so crooked it had to be demolished. Residents recall almost boastfully that the Church Tower which also has been demolished outdid the leaning Tower of Pisa. Stassfurth is a City of 30,000 people about 90 Miles Southwest of Berlin in what used to be East Germany. While the Countryside is Flat As a Kansas Cornfield Stassfurth Rolls like san Francisco. Bad mining is to blame officials say. A a it a astounding a said Werner Zacha Rias a City administrator. A this town used to be Stassfurth sits on deposits of Potash and mining it has been the City a chief Industry since the Early 1900s. The communists who ruled East Germany intensified the mining after world War ii causing faults below the City Center. In the 1960s, the ground became so shaky that the government began ripping Down buildings. A since then 850 buildings have been destroyed Many landmarks from the 17th Century a said Martin Kriesel City manager. The rift under Stassfurth is about 3 Miles Long and 800 Yards wide. Some streets have fallen More than 22 feet. For some reason the communists pretended there had been no topographical changes. It Wasny to until the peaceful revolution of 1989 that Thev acknowledged the obvious and disclosed the reason. But residents always knew something was wrong. The Johannis Kirche Tower dubbed a the leaning Tower of Stassfurth was on the verge of collapse when it was Tom Down in 1966. City Hall followed the next year. Houses grew More Askew. Foundations resurfaced. Then in 1976, the train station was razed. A they destroyed a lot of Large Beautiful Homes a said resident Elvira Ludwig 31. A when they demolished the train station they keep it a secret any a although some sections still sink nearly an Inch a year Kriesel insists the slide has slowed. Since the 1970s, the City has been injecting Saline into the faults for support. Kriesel a former Engineer at the Potash works said City officials have sunk seismic equipment into the ground to detect new downward trends. Each hollow has been mapped. Stassfurth knows its faults and is learning to live with them
