European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday january 19, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 9 Seoul studies move to get Comfort girl compensation world newlyweds Sandra Van Tyck and Hans Van Wyk walk weds 6 months after Bulldozer rampage Beverwijk Netherlands a Hans and Sandra were finally married six months after he tried to win her Back with a Bulldozer. Their wedding thursday was almost As thunderous an event As the heavy equipment operators jealous rampage last summer through the neighbouring town of Heemskerk. Hans Van Wink 28, broke off his relationship with Sandra Van Wick 34, after he saw her with another Man on july 18. He grabbed his Earth mover and bulldozed everything in his Way along a four mile Trail to find her hiding in her Sisters House which he also rammed. The rampage caused about $1 million damage and landed Van Wink an 18-month jail sentence. He got thursday off for the in Bangladesh Tongi Bangladesh a tens of thousands of Pil rims streamed into the Industrial town of Tongi on saturday for an annual Muslim gathering believed to be the worlds second largest islamic meeting after the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. More than 100,000 men gathered on the Banks of the River Turah. Organizers said the number was expected to swell to 1 million by monday. Tongi 15 Miles North of Dhaka has been the site of the annual gathering since the Early 1960s.celebration ends in death Taipei Taiwan a two men born on the same Day in the same City were killed in a traffic Accident while celebrating their first meeting authorities said Friday. Police in Waitung 150 Miles Southeast of Taipei said Lee Hsi lung and Lai Yun Kun both born in Waitung on june 25, 1973, died when their car smashed into the rear of a truck thursday. Police said Lee and Lai were introduced earlier thursday at a party arranged by Mutual tourism up Rabat Morocco a about 3.2 million tourists visited Morocco in 1991, a 7.1 percent increase Over the year before the tourism ministry said Friday. The growth was less than in previous years because of reduced travel brought on by the persian Gulf War the ministry said in a communique. Two thirds of the visitors were from North Africa and the rest were mostly europeans the ministry said. Morocco earned $982 million from visitors.47 die in ferry Accident Lahore Pakistan a a ferry jammed with passengers returning from a religious festival capsized in the icy Jhelum River and at least 47 people were killed police said Friday. An additional 150 people were missing and feared drowned police said 50 people swam to Shore after the boat overturned late thursday in an isolated Region of Eastern Punjab province. Seoul South Korea apr South korean foreign minister Lee Sang of said saturday that South Korea May demand compensation from Japan for tens of thousands of korean women forced to have sex with japanese soldiers during world War ii. It was the strongest statement yet by the government on the subject. It came hours after japanese prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa left the capital of Seoul ending a state visit marred by protests demanding that Japan atone further for wartime atrocities. The foreign ministers remarks coupled with a Broad new investigation launched by the government seemed Likely to escalate the Issue of the so called a Comfort girls a and heighten anti japanese feelings in Korea. A unlike forced draftees the matter of a Comfort girls was not included in the discussions when South Korea and Japan concluded a Basic agreement normalizing relations in 1965,�?� the foreign minister told reporters. Bonn Germany apr a new poll published saturday on the eve of the opening of a major National holocaust memorial said one in every 10 germans is anti semitic. The polls results also come amid growing concern about violent right Wing extremism in Germany. The latest example is an arson incident Friday night at a Home for Asylum seekers in Southern Germany. Nine people were injured including seven children. The poll conducted by the respected Enid Institute found that 13 percent of All German adults were a anti semitic based on 16 questions asked of 3,000 people throughout Germany. Thirty six percent of those polled said they thought jews had a too much influence in the world 21 percent said jews were a a intolerant and 18 percent said they believed that a Many jews try to use the past to their when pollsters looked at How Many people had Given anti semitic answers they found that 52 percent showed varying Levels of prejudice and Only 48 percent were a free of historians say 70,000 to 200,000 Young korean women were forced into the Sci Szintai a corps that included sex slaves for soldiers of the japanese Imperial army in China Southeast Asia and Taiwan. A the first step is finding facts a a Lee said. A on compensation the government will explore All possibilities on what it can Japan apologized for wartime wrongs and paid $300 million in compensation when it opened diplomatic relations with South Korea a former Colony in 1965. Victims of world War ii forced labor Camps and others say it is not enough. Miyazawa apologized for War atrocities during his visit to Seoul and said the a Comfort girls Issue left him with a a deep sense of reflection and Tokyo has maintained however that the Legal settlement is finished. The poll commissioned by and published in the new Issue of der Spiegel Germany a leading news Magazine also showed that there was More anti semitism in the Western part of Germany than in Eastern Germany. Last week der Spiegel published the first part of pm Nidus findings which showed that 42 percent of germans surveyed believed that the nazis had Quot Good and bad Germany a first holocaust memorial with a comprehensive National scope will open today at the Villa in Berlin where High ranking nazis plotted the systematic extermination of european jews. On Jan. 20, 1942, the conspirators gathered in the wan see Villa and agreed to turn the killing of jews already under Way into a program of annihilation. That decision resulted in the a eats of 6 million jews from 18 countries. Chancellor Helmut Kohl in a statement saturday on the 50th anniversary of a that darkest chapter in our history a urged his countrymen never to forget their past and to make sure history was passed on to their children and their children a children. Protesting . Embargo Vivian Stromberg director of the United states women s association Heads for Iraq in a truck Laden with food and medical supplies. Before leaving Amman Jordan last week the new York City resident said her trip to Baghdad was being made to protest the . Embargo that has been in effect against the country.7 3 percent of adult germans Are anti semitic poll shows
