European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday March 2, 1992 Stasi kept East Germany Safe sex chief maintains Berlin apr East Germany a former Security minister on sunday defended his vast and once feared Empire of secret police agents saying they managed to make the streets Safe at night. Erich Mielke on trial for allegedly killing two police officers in 1931, gave a rare interview to the Berliner Zeitung from his Berlin prison cell. The 84-year-old former chief of the ministry for state Security known As the Stasi said the Domestic intelligence network kept the peace in the former communist nation. A Calm and order ruled there a he was quoted As saying. A and the people could really walk the streets at night the women and Mielkey a Security apparatus used intimidation torture harassment and false imprisonment to keep the communist party in Power and the people in Check. Besides More than 80,000 official members the Stasi employed an even larger network of informants who spied on their friends and neighbors. Any connection experts gather to help Sphinx save some face Giza plateau Egypt apr Egypt has opened a global conference in Hopes of solving the age old Riddle of How to Stop the Sphinx from crumbling. For four Days 90 delegates from Egypt and around the world will examine the Monument and sift through the opinions of scientists historians geologists chemists and conservation experts. The difficulty of their Challenge was brought Home in saturdays opening session. Delegates sat Down to graphic images of Salt eaten Rock avalanches of Stone deep craters and a review of Many failed attempts to save the Sphinx. The Sphinx a crouching body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh was sculpted about 4,600 years ago from both Good and bad Limestone that had been stacked at the base of plateau As the pyramids Rose behind it. A this statue was in terrible condition when the first True restoration occurred under pharaoh Tut Mosis in a thousand years after the Sphinx was built a said Zahi a Wass head of antiquities for the pyramids and Sphinx. A Sand would cover it. But each time the Sphinx was pulled free it was found to be in terrible condition. Inside the statue rocks Are split As though the Sphinx is in two but he said a each generation saw it As special and tried to save restoration after restoration left the Sphinx with new rocks that did not quite fit with the old. Thus its appearance had changed remarkably by the mid-20th Century from the original harass said. Bruce Midkiff a Stone masonry expert at the Rochester museum and science Center of Rochester n.y., advised participants it was time to Stop using techniques that would a produce further damage for future London up1 a British soccer fans protesting a proposed ban on standing sections As a Way of reducing Spectator violence charged onto the Field in at least two cities saturday halting both games and injuring a referee. An estimated 200 fans at each game ran onto the Field toward the end of matches in Birmingham and London causing delays in both contests and forcing the players in Birmingham to Complete their game before a nearly empty Arena. Referee Roger Wiseman and some of the 100 police officers who broke up the Melee at the Birmingham Stoke match were injured and about 125 people were arrested officials said. The violence was described by commentators As the worst in several years at British soccer matches which have been heavily policed since a series of violent incidents at games in the 1980s. A 15-Ycar-old fan was killed in the stands of a game at Birmingham in May 1985. The violence saturday came ironically As protesters with the Stasi now carries a stigma that has destroyed hundreds of careers. The Berlin Justice ministry has come under fire for prosecuting Mielke on an old Case stemming from the Days when he was a communist dissident during Germany a Short lived Weimar Republic. Prosecutors under pressure to prosecute Mielke for crimes committed by the Stasi they say the old murder Case is the Best one they have. A police file alleging that Mielke gunned Down two officers during a protest was found in the former Security chiefs old office. In the interview Mielke said that if the file were accurate he would have destroyed it Long ago. A i was enraged when i heard about the charges a he said. Among other things Mielkey a Stasi controlled Border troops carried out the infamous a shoot to kill orders that resulted in the deaths of at least 200 people who tried to flee former East Germany. A Zahi harass left talks with one expert Mark Easton of Washington d.c., near the crumbling Sphinx. In the Long run he said a it would be Good to preserve the Sphinx in As near As possible to its original or at least its present a Many problems need to be solved a said Shawky Nakhla chief of restoration for the egyptian antiquities organization who led the delegates on an inspection of the Monument. A the Northern Side is bad. The head and neck Are weak. We need this conference to give us at games across the country sought to demonstrate against the governments proposal to ban standing Only stadium sections As a Way of preventing such trouble. At London a Upton Park fans of West Ham United marked the opening of their teams game against Ever ton by throwing More than 10,000 balloons onto the Field in support of standing sections. Those in seats stood up and those in the standing Section sat Down. But with about 13 minutes left in the game and West Ham losing 2-0, a fan ran onto the Field grabbed a Boundary Marker Flag and planted it the Middle of the Field. Before police could move in some 200 More fans joined him on the grass forcing a three minute break before play could resume. In Birmingham the disruption by some 200 fans broke out when Stoke scored a goal to tie the Home team with about one minute left in the contest. Wiseman was reported hit in the face by at least one Spectator in the chaos. Some of the 100 police officers were injured and about 125 patrons were arrested officials said. World britons held hostage say Money not enough from wire reports London a a group representing britons held hostage by Iraq during the persian Gulf War complained saturday that a . Compensation plan was inadequate. The United nations set a ceiling of $5,000 for a claim related to being taken hostage including mental and physical abuse and $15,000 for the family of an individual who died in Captivity. A to offer these amounts is nothing Short of an insult a chairman Andy Charles said at a meeting of hostages of the Middle still Active Manila Philippines a authorities warned residents living near mount Pinatubo of renewed mudflows sunday and said the Volcano which erupted and killed More than 600 people in june remained Active. The philippine Institute of volcanology said in a statement that it recorded 15 a High frequency volcanic earthquakes in a 26-hour period near the Volcano indicating magma movement kills four Prague Czechoslovakia a an explosion in an apartment building killed four people in a City West of Prague czechoslovak radio reported saturday. Four people died and one person was seriously injured in fridays blast in Karloy vary according to the report. Police in Karloy vary a spa about 75 Miles West of Prague said a Gas leak was probably the cause of the explosion at the three Story protest fare Rise Bombay India a angry commuters set fire to coaches and hurled stones at suburban trains saturday to protest a fare increase forcing the suspension of some rail services in indians largest City. The protests disrupted life for a second Day in Bombay where half the City a 10 million people depend on the state run railway. A spokesman for Central railway said All 1,030 of the systems trains were stopped after mobs damaged eight trains and burned three coaches. No serious injuries were exodus feared Tirana Albania a thousands of people were reported massing in murres on saturday in an apparent Effort to commandeer ships and flee this impoverished country after the latest outbreak of food riots. Radio Tirana said that one youth was killed and 20 people including 16 police officers were injured Friday As rioters looted and burned two food warehouses in suffocate in fire Naron Spain a four Young children and their grandmother suffocated Early sunday when a fire broke out in their apartment news reports said. Spanish state news Agency efe said 56-year-old Amalia Corral was baby sitting the children aged from 6 months to 5 years while their parents were at a discotheque celebrating Spain a carnival weekend in the Northern town 32 Miles from la Coruna. Police have not yet determined the cause of the fire which started at 1 45 rejects trial offer Stockholm Sweden a Sweden has turned Down a request from Libya to play Host to a trial against two libyans accused of blowing up pan am flight 103 Over Scotland a foreign ministry official said saturday. The swedish government declined because it a adheres to the principle that one should be prosecuted and sentenced in the country where the crime was committed a said foreign ministry spokesman Claes Jema us. Soccer fans storm Fields protest plan
