European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 12, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 Gorbachev predicts doom if nations fail Gutersloh Germany a Mikhail s. Gorbachev warned tuesday of nuclear holocaust famine and plague if the worlds nations do not learn quickly How to live together and take care of the planet. The former soviet president has been wrapping up an eight Day visit to Germany where he was greeted like a hero and repeatedly thanked for allowing the country a reunification. A if we do not succeed in working together to find the Way to a new civilization. There is just one thing awaiting us to perish together a Gorbachev said at a news conference at the Headquarters of the Bertelsmann Media conglomerate. Bertelsmann is the sponsor of Gorbachev a visit which was to end wednesday. Since Gorbachev a arrival in Germany on March 4, the last Leader of the now dismantled soviet Union has been Given the red carpet treatment everywhere. The excitement has nearly matched that of when he was still a head of state. Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week arranged to have a German military helicopter ferry Gorbachev and his wife Raisa from Frankfurt International Airport to Bonn. Kohl let the pair stay at the Petersburg hotel Hamburg Germany apr fugitive East German Leader Erich Honecker has threatened to kill himself with cyanide if he is forced to return to Germany a newsmagazine said tuesday. The Hamburg based Stern Magazine said the German government had been informed by chilean sources that Honecker had obtained a potassium cyanide capsule and that he keeps it with him at All times. Honecker 79, has been holed up at the chilean embassy in Moscow since december when Russia threatened to expel him. Government officials in Bonn Are sceptical about the Chiavari Italy up a a pensioner who applied to local state medical authorities for an increase in his invalidity pension received an invitation to come for a medical examination two years after he died Italy s Ansa news Agency reported tuesday. The pensioner was identified As Beniamino Maiden Chi who died March 6, 1990, shortly after making his application for a pension increase in Chiavari in Northwestern Italy. On March 5 this year the medical office replied asking him to report for the examination at 2 30  cooperate the governments lavish guest House. Ordinary germans have also Given Gorbachev a big Welcome on his first trip abroad since the collapse of the soviet Empire. Gorbachev was smothered by waiting fans on a Street in the Northern City of Gaiter slow on monday and in the confusion lost his watch. Bertelsmann the publishing company treated Gorbachev like Royalty. A number of publishers including Bertelsmann Are wooing Gorbachev for his memoirs. Gorbachev had some dire words tuesday about the state of the world. He said the collapse of the Commonwealth of Independent states the soviet unions troubled successor would create a a socioeconomic disaster and reforms would a come to a  Gorbachev said All nuclear weapons should be banished from the Earth because otherwise a there could be nuclear War. And the end of  further Gorbachev said the world is facing a a serious ecological crisis. And if we do not unite our efforts in that cause. Sickness hunger and All those plagues will descend upon  cyanide capsule report since previous information from chilean sources that Honecker had life threatening cancer proved false the Magazine report said in today a editions. Honecker is wanted by German authorities for issuing the shoot to kill orders aimed at East germans fleeing to the West. Honecker a lawyers citing chilean sources in Moscow had claimed that the aging former Leader was suffering from life threatening cancer. However russian doctors have said Honecker is in Fine condition for a Man his age. March 30. In View of the circumstances his widow replied on his behalf with a letter a the undersigned Beniamino Maide Chi resident in the cemetery of Lavagna since March 6, 1990, where i am resting peacefully thanks you for the courteous attention i have had from your office. Signed on my behalf Maria the  an official of the medical office told Ansa a we Only did our Job replying to letters in rotation. Unfortunately we have a big backlog of work. If the relatives do not inform us of a death How can we know about it a world germans to be freed lebanese minister says from wire reports Beirut Lebanon a two germans who arc the last westerners held hostage by Muslim extremists in Lebanon could be released within Days Interior minister Sami Khatib said tuesday. A Heinrich Striebig 50, and Thomas Kemp incr 30, workers for the German Asme human tas Relief organization were kidnapped in Southern Lebanon on May 16,1989. The German foreign ministry in Bonn said it had received no new word on the  stage riot Caracas Venezuela a bloody riots broke out tuesday around the Center of Caracas As president Carlos Andros Perez Rodriguez unveiled a coalition Cabinet to win Back the support of disillusioned venezuelans. At least 25 people were injured said Enrique Ochoa Antich director of the committee for human rights. Several thousand people were involved in the protests. In one protest More than 300 relatives and friends of people who led a feb. 4 coup attempt rallied near the presidential Palace. They demanded that the leaders be released from prison. Several people were injured As the protesters burned buses and clashed with  toll hits 95 Bangkok Thailand a police divers recovered five More bodies tuesday from the scene of a ferry Tanker collision bringing the confirmed death toll to 95, a government spokesman said. The search for More victims from sundays collision Between a Small Oil Tanker and a passenger ferry will continue said Anant Anant Akul permanent Secretary of the Interior ministry. Earlier 28 passengers had been reported rescued. About 130 passengers were thought to have been on the ferry.20 Hurt in train crash torell6, Spain a Twenty people were injured in a minor train collision tuesday in this suburb of the northeastern port of Barcelona a spokeswoman for the state rail company Renee said. The Accident occurred at 8 30 . When a car from a train undergoing repairs collided with a Barcelona bound passenger commuter train that had just arrived in Torelly. Three of the injured were hospitalized with cuts and bruises said the spokeswoman who was not identified in keeping with  a la heroin Cagliari Sardinia a the Mother of two men held in the Cagliari jail and the husband of a woman inmate tried to smuggle heroin to their loved ones concealed in the leg Bones of roast chickens prison officials said tuesday. Luciana Salis 60, apparently could not Bear the thought of her sons Antonio and Sandro languishing in the jail without a dose of heroin. The same went for Roberto Bercini 30, whose wife Paola is also in the prison. The prison officials said the heroin was discovered during a routine examination of packages brought to the jail by relatives. They said it was hidden in the leg Bones of roast chickens that had been split open and stuffed with about 1 ounce of  strike kurdish base Ankara Turkey a turkish warplanes on tuesday attacked 13 tents at a turkish kurdish guerrilla base in Northern Iraq the government said. It was the third such air strike this month. The regional governors office in Diyarbakir said there were no civilian casualties in the attack on a kurdish labor party Camp five Miles inside Iraq. It did not mention guerrilla casualties. On monday turkish warplanes attacked two kurdish labor party Camps inside Northern Iraq reportedly destroying 34 tents. On March 1, a similar attack on a kurdish base near Hak Hurk killed nine iraqi kurd the . High commissioner for refugees said. The government contends kurdish guerrillas stage hit and run attacks on Turkey from bases inside Iraq. Bully for you an excited sikh Fanner spurs his team of Bullocks to Calendar of sporting events held every year before har Victory in a traditional harness Type race at Kila Rai Vest time in the heart of the Punjab state. The banners Pur India. The Bull race is a highlight of a three Day Call the contests the a Rural  Honecker reportedly threatens suicide italian Agency commits grave oversight