European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 15, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 re use of olympic Sites urged to Stop environmental damage Strasbourg France up in an Effort to prevent environmental damage the european parliament adopted a Resolution Friday expressing the Hope that future Winter olympics will be held in countries that already have hosted the event. Grehian Deputy Karl Partsch said in a report to the parliament that the recent Winter olympics in Albertville France had caused a intolerable Quot damage to the areas environment As Well As to its social and cultural traditions. The report was particularly critical of the games artificial Snow system which the report said modified the regions water system and resources. The report also condemned the new ski runs As increasing the risk of avalanches in the area. Partsch also charged that the highways built for the games have led to an increase in pollution and will Lead to other problems such As parking and Urban sprawl in the largely protected mountainous Region United nations apr Canada says its off coast fish stocks Are being a vacuumed out of the seas by european trawlers and is calling for International limits on overfishing when the Earth Summit meets in june. Spain and Portugal were identified As the worst offenders responsible for a 50 percent drop in Canadas offshore codfish population since 1985, a Canadian delegation said Friday. Most of the overfishing occurs when Canadian and american coastal fish move to deeper Waters outside the 200-mile International limit said Victor Rabino Vitch assistant Deputy minister of fisheries. Rabinovitch is part of a Canadian delegation in new York to press its Case with the committee preparing the Vienna Austria a a top official has resigned amid Public uproar after he was quoted As saying that the mass murder of jews in the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz was impossible. Walter Lueft head of the Federal chamber of civil engineers said in a resignation statement Friday that he condemned the nazi atrocities. In a still unpublished five chapter treatise titled in Southeastern France. But european commissioner Jean Dondelinger disagreed with the reports conclusions. Dondelinger said the european commission a 14-member executive panel had not received any complaints about environmental damage As a result of the games. Nevertheless the dec is studying a directive to ensure a stricter evaluation of the environmental damage caused by future olympics. The parliamentary Resolution called on future games to be held in areas that already have been hosts of the event and therefore will not need massive new construction. These Sites include Albertville Aroste in Italy Berchtesgaden in Germany and Jaca in Spain. Lille Hammer in Norway the site of the 1994 games would also qualify As a site for future games. Agenda for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in june. He said Canada wants the Summit to adopt a Resolution curbing overfishing. The Summit is a global conference on the environment and will establish guidelines on protecting resources like fishing stocks fighting pollution Ana ensuring that development does not further harm the environment. Rabinovitch said Canada spends about $100 million annually in Aerial surveillance and coast guard action to fight a losing Battle. Theft of Canadian fish is so serious in the Atlantic grand Banks that schools of Northern cod Are being a vacuumed out of the seas a he said. A holocaust a belief and facts a Lueft reportedly wrote that the mass murder at the nazi extermination Camp in Poland with the Poison Gas Pykon b a could not have  the claim first published by an austrian newsmagazine was condemned by his colleagues other officials and the Media. Lueft 59, charged that the Media had torn out of context sentences from what was a rough draft. World orthodox patriarch criticizes Catholic Church from wire reports Istanbul Turkey a orthodox leaders have opened an unprecedented meeting by criticizing the roman Catholic Church Tor trying to strengthen its presence in former communist countries in Europe. A the roman Catholic Church instead of beginning an evangelical Mission among people who Are traditionally orthodox. Should instead help the orthodox Church a ecumenical patriarch Bartholomeus i said before fridays opening meeting. The cleric is spiritual Leader of the worlds 300 million orthodox christians. The three Day conference brings together 12 primates representing 14 churches. It is the first time so Many primates have gathered at the see of the Eastern orthodox  Stewart summoned Sydney Australia a British Rocker Rod Stewart has been served with a summons for allegedly assaulting a daily newspaper photographer police said saturday. The photographer is Geoff Henderson of the daily Telegraph Mirror in Sydney. The assault was alleged to Nave occurred when Henderson took a picture of the Singer at a Sydney hotel March 5. Stewart who is on an australian tour could face a jail term if  tip was just too big Vancouver British Columbia a a waitress is being praised for her honesty in refusing to accept a huge tip from an elderly customer. Maria Ling said the 81-Ycar-old Man tried to give her two Rolls of Money As a tip after she had served him at a Denny a restaurant. A i returned it Back to him and said a sir that a your Money a and he kept saying a no no you keep it a a Ling said. A i kept pushing the Money Back to him and he pushed it  the a a tips was 11,100 Canadian dollars about $9,266 in old Bills. The Many a affairs Are being Turnea Over to the Public trustee police  defused in Turkey Istanbul Turkey a police defused a bomb hidden inside a vehicle parked near the . Consulate in Istanbul the Anatolia news Agency reported. Police found the bomb Friday after searching the car left illegally behind the consulate building in the downtown to Debasi District Anatolia said. . Citizens have been targeted by terrorists several times in Turkey in recent  s budget approved Tokyo a lawmakers have approved this years $536.7 billion budget that allocates billions More for Public works to stimulate Japan a stagnating Economy. Fridays approval of the budget for fiscal 1992, which begins april 1, had been delayed for weeks by opposition Boycotts of the budget committee Over a bribery scandal dogging prime minister Kiichi Miyazawa a government. Concern Over Japan a weakening Economy apparently enabled the governing Liberal democrats to win opposition support for a Compromise budget with pledges to clean up  Bills passed Bangkok Thailand a the thai parliament passed two Tough anti smoking Bills Friday that Imit smoking in Public places prohibit the Sale of cigarettes to minors and ban tobacco advertising. The Bills will become Law in about 30  of Transfer set Manila Philippines a president Corazon Aquino signed into Law Friday a Bill creating an Agency to supervise the conversion of former . Military facilities and their surrounding areas into special economic zones. Aquino said she signed the Bill despite reservations about two provisions because of the immediate need to develop the areas around Clark a former Home of the . 13th air Force and the Subic Bay naval facilities to ease the economic Impact of the . Pullout. A Timber a a truck and Bridge sit Askew in the Mozon River in the Bridge causing the Structure to collapse. The truck Northern Hungary. The weight of the truck which was Driver suffered minor injuries in the Accident which carrying a Load of Timber cracked the main beam of occurred in the Community of Halaszi. Canadians seek to protect fish stocks austrian quits after calling Auschwitz impossible