European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday january 27, 1992armed group attacks haitian leaders port a Prince Haiti a armed attackers stormed a meeting of top haitian politicians saturday beating participants and killing a bodyguard of prime minister designate Rene Theodore witnesses said. The attack by suspected rightists was clearly intended to derail an International plan to form an interim government to allow the return of president Jean Ber Trand Aristide ousted in a sept. 30 military coup. The witnesses said the attackers were dressed in civilian clothes but referred to a Superior officer in the National police forces anti gang unit. Right Wing nationalists including some factions in the armed forces Are vehemently opposed to the return of Aristide a 38-year-old activist roman Catholic priest who remains popular with Haiti a poor masses. It was the second attack this month on the Headquarters of Theodore a movement of National reconstruction Haiti a communist party. No one was injured in the first incident. The meeting called by Theodore to discuss the political crisis included former presidential candidate Louis Dejoie or. And other prominent figures in the is land nation. Witnesses said five heavily armed men forced their Way into the meeting room and hustled the politicians into a courtyard at gunpoint. They ordered the officials to lie face Down and threatened to kill anyone who moved witnesses said. A second group of about 10 armed men arrived calling out the politicians names and kicking several of them including Dejoie and Theodore in the body and head witnesses said. One attacker spotted Theodore a bodyguard Yves Jean Pierre standing off to one Side. When he Learned of Jean world Pierre a status he shot the bodyguard in the Chest and head. Uniformed police arrived and guarded the politicians until the arrival of Gen. Raoul Cedras Haiti a military commander. Cedras said he had been notified of a a problems at the meeting and promised an investigation. Pressured by a devastating embargo imposed by the organization of american states haitian leaders Are considering an Oas plan to name a prime minister who would work toward Aristides return to Power. Icy warm up Friedrich Richcr 53, drinks hot co face while submerged Cher 53, who chops a Hole in the ice for his daily dip in an icy Pond saturday near Bremen Germany. Is hardening up for a bicycle tour of Northern Norway. Bogus $100 Bills hard to detect pose growing problem paper says London up a crime experts warn that fake $100 Bills a called a super dollars Quot a have become an International problem because counterfeiters find the Monotone . Currency relatively easy to copy a newspaper reported saturday. The Pony Bills virtually indistinguishable from genuine greenbacks have been circulated in several countries the financial limes said. The $100 counterfeits Are so hard to detect that distributors May get up to 70 percent of the face value it said. L he report demoted police sources As saying the fakes Are of such High Quality that they May be produced by a government. A . Treasury official in Washington d.c., told the newspaper some series of notes had been traced Back As far As Middle East terrorist groups but the groups May not have made them. Similar High Quality counterfeits of the american Money surfaced in Egypt last month. Lebanon Israel and the far East were among the suspected sources the report said. Scotland Yard warned that any suspect $100 Bill should be inspected at a Bank. It added that detectives believed the a super dollars had not originated in Britain although the notes were popular among forgers a in some american states $100 notes Are not very easily spent and yet Over Here they seem to be one of the most common Dollar notes Quot said superintendent Chris Newman of Scotland Yards counterfeiting squad. Charles Black an expert former counterfeiter who now helps police told the financial times he saw a Sample of the a super dollars and found All the dollars Security features expertly reproduced. Kidnapped businessman still alive police say Manila Philippines a an american Busi is executive kidnapped in Manila nine Days it was still alive a police official said sunday. From wire reports Manila Philippines a an american business ago maj. Gen. Gerardo Flores philippine National police Deputy chief said that the executive Michael Barnes was still alive and that police were working on the arrests of two suspects. Barnes 41, of Long Beach calif., was working for philippine geothermal inc., a subsidiary of the .-based firm nocal when he was seized at gunpoint in the Makati financial District Jan. 17 and bundled into a waiting jeep. So far no one has claimed responsibility. Move to Berlin costly Berlin a moving Germany a parliament and government operations to the capital of Berlin from Bonn will Cost an estimated 35 billion Marks in transport improvements alone a newspaper reported saturday. The Berliner Zeitung newspaper citing an internal government study in Bonn said the transport ministry had submitted the estimate of 35 billion Marks $22.6 billion for improvements that include building a new High Speed rail connection Between Hannover and Berlin. Parliament voted last june to move government operations from Bonn the temporary capital established after the War Back to the country a traditional capital of Berlin. Anti racism rally held Milan Italy a tens of thousands of demonstrators marched saturday to condemn racism and intolerance toward immigrants. The peaceful protest came after a string of attacks against foreigners in Italy and widespread debate Over How to handle rising immigration. An attack on two North africans Early last week by a gang Yelling a get out of Italy a has caused an uproar in Italy. Quake shakes Border Kelowna British Columbia a a a Small earthquake was Felt on both sides of the Canada-. Border saturday but no injuries or serious damage were reported. Some residents of Oliver British Columbia reported broken windows. The 5 30 . Temblor measured 3.5 on the Richter scale said an official at the Pacific Geo science Centre in Sidney. It was entered Between Keremeos and Osoyoos in the South Central part of the  attacked during Village s annual Goat toss ritual manganese de la Polvorosa Spain apr villagers who open a religious festival by dropping a Goat from the Church Belfry attacked police who tried to Block the tradition saturday. According to custom the annual festival of St. Vincent a the towns Patron Saint a cannot begin unless a Goat is thrown from the 45-foot Belfry is caught in a Tarp and walks away safely. This year the Goat complied but police and journalists at the scene did not fare As Well said witnesses in the town 135 Miles Northwest of Madrid. Bowing to pressure from animal rights activists the government banned the Goat toss. But when police tried to prevent the act residents in the town of 1,300 at tacked them and their vehicles. The villagers apparently angered by bad press also turned on journalists at the scene smashing camera equipment and slightly injuring two photographers said Daniel Beltra a photographer. The townspeople who had been threatened with a Fine of $5,000 for every Goat tossed eventually reached an Accord with authorities allowing the ceremony i proceed. After one botched attempt i which the Goat was Hung briefly by rope the animal was successfully Toast into the Tarp below. Origins of the ritual Are murky but a cording to one legend a priests Goat whose milk fed the poor a accidental fell from a Belfry and was saved by town people holding a Blanket