European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes wednesday March 4, 1992 pulling docks from Subic brings philippine protest Manila Philippines apr president Corazon Aquino a government denounced the United states on tuesday for deciding to remove three dry docks from a naval base that the Philippines ordered closed this year. A the americans Are hard hearted a press Secretary Horacio Paredes said on state run radio. A the dry docks Are old and they cannot be brought to Guam a shallow Waters. Why can to they just bequeath them to us a the Philippines had been hoping at least one of the dry docks would be left behind to facilitate the conversion of the Subic Bay naval facilities into a commercial shipyard before the americans leave this year. Relations Between Washington and Aquino who will leave office june 30 after nearly 6v2 years in Power have faded notably in the past year. The Issue of the dry docks is widely seen As a test of american support for the Philippines As it adapts to the departure of . Military bases and a reduction in american Aid. On monday . Assistant defense Secretary James Lilley told Aquino that All three dry docks will be removed from the Subic Bay base by june. Last year the Philippines rejected a new 10-year lease for Subic and Aquino ordered the americans to leave by the end of this year. Subic is the last . Military base in the Philippines. The americans turned Over five installations including the Volcano damaged Clark a last year. Aquino a Rise to Power in 1986 was widely supported by the Reagan administration and Congress which increased american assistance after the ouster of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. . Military jets flew air cover for the government during a coup attempt in december 1989. But relations have soured recently. . Officials have complained that the Aquino government has squandered millions in economic Aid. Indignant jews from Britain Belgium and Switzerland Pray at a building site where jewish Graves Are located. Orthodox jews protest plan to build mall Over cemetery Hamburg Germany apr wearing traditional Black clothes and Side locks orthodox jews prayed and demonstrated monday in Hopes of blocking a shopping mall Over a jewish cemetery site. A that s our ancestors that a the Only thing which we still have in this country a said belgian rabbi Israel Weingarten. So far though the Hamburg controversy has been of interest mostly outside Germany especially in countries such As Britain and the United states. Thirty six members of the . Congress wrote to the German government last month saying the building plans a have caused a great Deal of consternation among Many of our  Cornelius Walsh spokesman for the . Embassy in Bonn said ambassador Robert a Kimmitt and other . Officials have raised the Issue with German officials in both Bonn and Hamburg and Quot expressed our desire that a Resolution of the Issue reflect the views of concerned  a half Century after the holocaust which killed 6 million jews construction at or near Sites linked to the nazi terror remains a sensitive Issue. In the 1930s, the nazis ransacked the Ottense cemetery which dates Back to the 17th Century. Nazi officials later built two air raid shelters on part of the land. After the War the jewish Community sold the site into private hands. Much of it was covered with Asphalt and a department store was built there. Yet the approximately 100 jews who came from Britain Belgium and Switzerland on monday said that Sale was invalid. They also said that under jewish Law a cemetery remains a cemetery forever. A the Graves under the Asphalt layer Are preserved. They Arentt destroyed a Bey so Rosenberg a lawyer from Zurich Switzerland and a Leader of the preservation Campaign told a news conference after the peaceful protest. He indicated that a Compromise was possible such As raising the shopping Center off the ground to allow the cemetery preservation underneath. Weingarten who also spoke at the news conference at a hotel in Hamburg said Germany contains More than 5,000 jewish cemetery Sites. The rabbi from Antwerp said they form the Only link Between this country and jews in Many other nations. Quot we want them to stay and be in peace a Weingarten said of the people buried there. The demonstrators wearing their wide brimmed Black hats argued that the postwar jewish Community in this Northern port City did not have the right to sell the land. The area measures about 1 i acres. . To seek movement in accounting for pos from wire reports Bangkok Thailand a a senior . Official said monday that he would press vietnamese leaders this week for a More positive movement in efforts to account for american service members missing since the Vietnam War. Richard Solomon assistant Secretary of state for East asian and Pacific affairs arrived in Bangkok on sunday in route to Hanoi where he will become one of the most senior . Officials to visit Vietnam since the War ended in 1975.egyptian statue stolen Cairo Egypt a a half ton Black Granite statue of the ancient egyptian War goddess sek met was stolen Over the weekend in Southern Egypt the Al ashram press service reported monday. The Large statue snowing sek met with the head of a lioness and a woman a body was discovered missing saturday morning when the guards took Over from the overnight shift aps said. The sek met statue dates Back to around 1500  Twa fares rejected Bern Switzerland a the Swiss government on monday forbade Twa to offer cheap round trip flights to the United states. The $430 fare violates a .-Swiss air travel agreement said Peter Furer a spokesman for the Federal Bureau for Ovil  replica to be shown Piraeus Greece a a full size replica of a trading ship that sailed the Mediterranean in the Days of Alexander the great was loaded onto a modern freighter monday to be shipped to Spain. The Yrenia ii will be displayed by Cyprus at the expo �?T92 Trade fair at Seville from april to  jets collide 2 die Dijon France a two French Jet fighters collided monday Over Eastern France killing the two airmen aboard one of the planes police said. The Solo Pilot aboard the other plane ejected safely. The Mirage-2000s collided about 1 30 . Near their air base in Dijon police  suicide try fails Moscow a a 32-year-old Man who set himself on fire in red Square was listed in stable condition monday in a Moscow Hospital the itar Tass news Agency reported. The Man identified Only As a construction worker was driven to the act by poor living conditions and a Low salary the Agency said. He poured gasoline on himself and was Hilly ablaze sunday when police managed to extinguish the fire it  collide in Russia Moscow a a passenger train hit a freight train head on about 200 Miles West of Moscow Early tuesday killing the Crews of both trains and leaving at least 10 passengers dead the russian state news Agency itar Tass said. Itar Tass said the two trains collided before Dawn in a marshy area West of the town of Neli Dovo in the Tver Region on the rail line Between Moscow and Riga  carnival climaxes Rio de Janeiro Brazil a Brazil s renowned carnival burst into dance music and color monday As tens of thousands of feathered and sequin Clad dancers frolicked in Samba parades on the third Day of the pre lenten Bash. Eight a Samba schools a neighbourhood groups from riots poor mostly Black slums marched Down the six Block Long runway with elaborate floats dancers and percussion bands from 7 40 . Sunday to 7 . The following morning. For most of the country the pre lenten Blowout ends on Ash wednesday when Banks shops and offices reopen