European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday january 11, 1992antarctic toxic dump under the slow of the Midnight Sun German Greenpeace scientist Sabine Schmidt on thursday inspects a Crater scarring the surface of Antarctica a Ross ice shelf. The . National science foundation at Mcmurdo station exploded hazardous materials creating the depression in a blast that was Felt seven Miles away. Greenpeace has formally protested that method for disposal of toxic wastes. World3 officers slain by group trying to escape from Cuba from wire reports Mexico City a a group of cubans who tried to steal a boat to flee the Island nation shot three police officers to death the mexican government news Agency no Timex in a dispatch thursday from Havana said the shootings occurred wednesday at the Tarara naval base near the cuban capital. It attributed the report to the cuban Interior ministry but gave no further details. The attempt to flee apparently failed. No Timex said the cubans had not been identified. Cubans by the dozen have been trying to flee abroad in recent months As living conditions deteriorate under president Fidel Castro a government one of the worlds few remaining communist  says airspace violated Rome a Libya has accused the . Military of violating its airspace but the Navy Fleet in the Region denied the charge Friday. Libyans civil aviation authorities protested to the International air transport association accusing the . 6th Fleet of violating the a Aerial zone of Tripoli libyans official news Agency said Friday. The Agency a report monitored in Rome did not say when the alleged violation occurred or give any other details. It. Greg Smith spokesman for the 6th Fleet based in Gaeta Italy said the Only . Military Craft in the area is the aircraft Carrier America. It a is conducting routine flight operations in International airspace in the Central Mediterranean a Smith said. A no violation of any nations airspace has occurred a Smith said. He said the Carrier which is based in Norfolk va., has been in the Central Mediterranean on routine deployment since Early december. Commonwealth states meet German drug deaths climb on control of military assets Moscow apr the foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent states met Friday on the contentious Issue of dividing up the former soviet military. Control of the powerful and prestigious Black sea Fleet already is a major Issue Between Russia and Ukraine the two most powerful former soviet republics. Dividing up the huge military has preoccupied the Commonwealth states since the soviet Union dissolved last month and has prevented them from devoting their full efforts to developing new political systems. Fridays meeting was closed and details were not available. Up until now the biggest struggle has been Over the Black sea Fleet. The Armada consisting of 45 surface warships and 300 smaller vessels has Long been the Pride of the soviet Navy and of czarist Russia. Russian president Boris Yeltsin reaffirmed thursday that he had no intention of giving any of the ships to Ukraine. A the Black sea Fleet was is and will be russians a the Tass news Agency quoted him assaying. Ultimately ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk put the dispute on hold by announcing a six month postponement of his demand that the Fleet switch allegiance to Ukraine Tass and russian television reported. Kravchuk said Ukraine would agree to put the Fleet under the control of the Commonwealth As Long As the ships carry nuclear weapons. But after july when the last of the nuclear weapons is scheduled to be removed from the ships the Fleet must belong to Ukraine Kravchuk said. In other developments a russians government announced that starting Friday items in Short Supply such As certain food alcohol tobacco fabric shoes and household appliances cannot be sent to other former soviet republics that have restricted exports to Russia. A Moscow mayor Gavriil Popov thursday accepted the resignations of most of the City a officials and gave his vice mayor two weeks to form a new government. Bonn Germany a the number of drug deaths in Germany Rose dramatically in 1991 to a record of 2,026 people Federal police said thursday. The figure represents a 37.7 percent increase from the 1,491 drug deaths in 1990. It was the first year in which drugs claimed More than 2,000 lives in Germany. Only two of the deaths were registered in Eastern Germany where the Market is largely dominated by so called a a soft drugs the statement said.24 killed in ferry explosion Moscow a an explosion and fire aboard a Caspian sea ferry killed two dozen people and injured dozens More As the vessel was Docking at Baku Azerbaijan news agencies said thursday. The cause of the explosion on the Ovetskaya Kalmy Kiya ferry was unknown. But the inter fax news Agency and the newspaper Izvestia citing unidentified sources reported that an explosive Detonator had been found. The ferry was crossing the Caspian sea from Krasno Godsk Turkmenistan to the azerbaijani capital Tass said. Catholic group denies founder defended Hitler Rome apr t he head of a roman Catholic organization Lias sent a letter to jewish leaders denying allegations that its founder soon to be beatified defended Adolf Hitler. The letter was made Public by one of the leaders italian Tullia Zevi on thursday. At the Center of the controversy is Josemaria Escriva a Spanish priest who founded the conservative opus Dei organization in 1928. He died in 1975, and Pope John Paul 11 declared last year that there was proof of a Miracle through Escriva a intercession. Beatification the last formal step before canonization is set for May. Newsweek in an article questioning Escriva a fitness for sainthood quoted Vladimir Feltzman a former opus Dei member As saying Escriva a told me that Hitler had been unjustly accused of killing 6 million jews. In fact he had killed Only 4  Feltzman now is an aide to British Cardinal Basil Hume. Opus Deil a members most of whom Are Lay people take vows of chastity and obedience. Among their most prominent members is Joaquin Navarro a spaniard who is the Popes spokesman. Opus Deil a vicar monsignor Javier Echevarria wrote to Zevi the head of the Union of italian jewish communities a i can assure you in no Uncertain terms that our founder loved the jewish Community and manifested it publicly on very Many  a your founder condemned in the most precise Way the terrifying holocaust Echevarria wrote terming the Media reports a a pure , Radical group fail to reach concert Deal Johannesburg South Africa apr hours of meetings thursday Between Paul Simon and a Radical Black group failed to defuse threats of violence at the musicians upcoming concerts. Simon and the president of the tiny Azania youth organization gave differing views of their talks to a crowded new s conference two Days before the Start of Simon a two week six show tour. The youth organization awing of the Small Black nationalist Azania Peoples organization has threat ened violence to try to Stop Simon so born at the right t Imez tour in South Africa. The tour would be the first by a major american artist since leading Black groups endorsed the lifting of cultural sanctions last year after the government began dismantling its apartheid regime. The african National Congress and inkatha Freedom party the two main Black opposition groups and the White led government have endorsed the concerts. But the Azania organizations want sanctions and Boycotts against South Africa to remain in place until the Black majority rules the country. In his version of the talks with the Black group Simon said a the last statement we All made is that nobody wanted to see any violence at the concerts. They do not intend to provoke violence at the concert. But Thami Mierwa president of the youth organization gave a different  there is no guarantee that my organization no Given to Paul Simon about violence a Mierwa Sui a we have always pointed out that should his show go on there is the potential for