European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 0 a the stars and stripes tuesday january 14,1992 shivering Day at the shrine prayerful worshippers some holding blocks of ice Are showered with frigid water during an annual ritual sunday at a shrine in Tokyo. Fifteen people be tween the Ages of 14 and 85, participated in the event. Many believe that bathing in the icy Waters brings a person Good health. Nazis had Quot Good and bad sides say 42% of germans in Survey Berlin apr forty two percent of germans surveyed for a new poll believe the nazis had their Good sides a newsmagazine reported sunday. The poll in Der Spiegel also said that 27 percent of those surveyed believed that Hitler if he had not started a War and massacred jews would have been a great German statesman. Sixty nine percent disagreed. The poll was conducted among 2,000 Western germans and 1,000 Eastern germans by the Enid Institute an opinion research institution. Asked whether the nazis had a Good Side 42 percent agreed with the statement that hitlers regime had a Good and bad  seventeen percent said the nazis Only had bad sides 36 percent said it had mostly bad sides and 2 percent said it had mostly Good sides. The Magazine conducted the poll to coincide with the Jan 20, 1942, anniversary of the wan see conference named for the Villa in Berlin where nazi leaders Laid plans to massacre millions of jews a huge exhibit on jewish life in Berlin also opened on sunday to Mark the anniversary. Crew says Bon voyage to ships retracing Columbus voyage 55 am it Jam put it Fri Pirn apr Pup int pro in Lff mini profit trs pc  a 41____ san Juan puerto Rico apr several Crew members of a Spanish flotilla retracing Christopher Columbus route to the new world gave up and took a fast voyage Home a aboard an air plane. The 23 disgruntled sailors were part of a flotilla made up of replicas of the Nina Pinta and Santa Maria the three vessels Columbus used in his first voyage. Columbus also had to handle a restive Crew 500 years ago As he sailed then uncharted seas in the Small cramped vessels. At a news conference in san Juan on saturday Sailor Santiago Clau Secta said the group complained of prob lems Over salaries vacations and benefits throughout their Law year voyage. He said they would sue the Spanish government the san Juan Star newspaper said. The group flew Back to Spain on saturday afternoon. The vessels carrying a Crew of 80, arrived in puerto Rico on dec. 14. They left the Island wednesday for St. Thomas in the . Virgin islands where they were to be used in a film about Columbus Days before the sailors had left their ships in support of Crew member Juan Arnau dismissed after abandoning his Post. World experts Rule out claims that Maxwell was killed from wire reports London a two of Britain s leading pathologists dismissed claims in the French Magazine Paris match that Robert Maxwell was murdered but added they could not Rule out suicide the sunday times reported. The mail on sunday said the 68-year-old tycoon a Clung frantically to the Side of his yacht in a desperate bid to save his life before falling and drowning in the Atlantic on nov. 5. Both newspapers based their reports on experts analyses of copies each paper obtained of a 130-minute videotape of an autopsy conducted in Israel before Maxwell was buried in Jerusalem. The mail said the telltale clues that Maxwell tried to save his. Life were a two badly torn Back Muscles a one in his left shoulder and one in his lower  the mail said it showed the tape to unidentified medical experts who said the Tom Muscles Are consistent with a Man of maxwells weight estimated at up to 300 pounds grabbing at the rail of his yacht As he fell to his . Korea oks nuke pact Seoul South Korea a prime minister Chung won Shik in a Brief ceremony monday signed a South North Korea joint declaration pledging to make the korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons. The signed papers will be handed to North Korea today at the Panmunjom truce Village 35 Miles North of Seoul in Exchange for similar documents signed by Chung a North korean counterpart Yon Hyong Muk. Next week the two korean leaders will meet again at the truce site to Exchange fully signed documents on the six article joint declaration for a non nuclear korean Peninsula. The declaration will take effect at the next round of inter Korea prime ministers talks to be held february in the North korean capital of Pyongyang where Chung and Yon will Exchange the ratified documents.9 killed in ferry Accident Shimono Seki Japan a a passenger ferry capsized sunday in rough seas 200 Yards off the coast of southwestern Japan killing nine people officials said. Twenty three people were rescued by fishermen or swam to Shore after the 5.5-ton vessel capsized while in route from an Island to Yoshimi near Shimono Seki said Tomohiro Kawano an official of the maritime safety Agency in Shimono Seki a City 500 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. Five people died in hospitals and four bodies were recovered from the sea said Kawano sex hostage Mann ailing Nicosia Cyprus sex hostage Jack Mann a briton who piloted Royal air Force fighters during world War ii was taken ill with pneumonia sunday and flown to a British military Hospital a spokesman said. A the is comfortable and responding to treatment a said maj. Rocky Hitchcock spokesman for the British Sovereign bases on this East Mediterranean  77, lives in the capital Nicosia with his wife Sunnie. He was flown to the Hospital at the a Sotiri base on the Southeast coast at 3 p.m., Hitchcock  seats empty for Simon s 2nd concert Johannesburg South Africa apr organizers on monday blamed the poor turnout at Singer songwriter Paul Simon s opening concerts which were attended mostly by Whites on threats of violent protests by Black militants. About ,000 people attended Simon s sunday concert leaving most of the 70,000-seat Lillis Park stadium empty. Huge Banks of seats in the Johannesburg stadium were empty. Hundreds of police stood guard sunday at the stadium but there were no protests. A Small group of Radical Blacks protested peacefully at the first concert saturday. Organizers had expected big crowds because Simon is the first International Star to perform in South Africa since the lifting of the cultural Boycott against apartheid. In addition his Best Selling Grace and album of 1986 featured a number of South african artists. Concert promoter attic Van Wyk said people stayed away from sundays concert for fear of violence. He said the rest of the South african tour in three other cutes would go ahead. 1 won t plan a two Day show again in Johannesburg until All political problems Are sorted out a he said. But those who did show up sunday appreciative of the american musician s performance cheered and danced. About 45,000 people attended the saturday concert. Promoters had predicted 120,000 people would attend the weekend concerts. Most of the people at the weekend concerts were White. Critics say the tickets were too expensive for Many Blac a tickets Cost up to $30 in a c0upttr3 most Black workers earn less than s3 month