European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 20, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes Friday March 20,1992 rescued from leftists american Kidnap victim Michael Barnes is led to safety after police wednesday stormed a Bungalow in Parafian que Philippines and rescued him. Barnes vice president of philippine geothermal inc., was held captive for two months by the red scorpion group which claimed Barnes had links to the Cia. Police said at least 12 suspected kidnappers were killed in a series of raids on six leftist hideouts in the Effort to find Barnes. Shopping by philippine spouses curtailed at Subic paper says Manila Philippines apr philippine spouses newly married to american service members Are no longer allowed to take discount groceries and other goods from the . Naval facilities at Subic Bay Pacific stars and stripes reported thursday. The policy change appears aimed at preventing philippine spouses from purchasing tax free and discounted goods for unauthorized distribution to friends and relatives. The newspaper reported that Many sailors said the policy amounted to racial discrimination. According to the newspaper the policy was implemented in a Jan. 28 letter from the Navy to commissaries and other military run stores at the Subic Bay naval  died on bus by John Millar of Irmburg Bureau the one Day of the week that no monitors were on Board a school bus was the Day that tragedy struck a 6-year-old Vilseck Germany elementary school Pupil a military official said thursday. The child Nicholas a. Radik died March 9 in route to a Hospital after being dragged alongside the bus and eventually run Over by the vehicle in the town of Hahn Bach said it. Col. Andrew Morris. An army unit was responsible for providing Parent monitors for the bus on three of the four school Days during the week of March 9, said Morris commander of the 281st base support in in Vilseck. A they chose not to have a Monitor that monday a he said adding that the unit followed 7th army training come regulations and was not at fault for its decision. Monitors ride school buses once every other week on most Vilseck routes but this particular route has a Monitor three Days a week he said. The Accident occurred As the bus was halted at its first Stop on the afternoon route Morris said. The child was apparently jumping in and out of the vehicles rear door while other children were getting off the bus he said. When the Driver closed the door Radik was scores Are feared Rio de Janeiro Brazil a Hopes of finding survivors dimmed Early thursday As rescuers dug through tons of mud from a landslide that roared through a Hillside slum. Officials said the death toll could Rise to 150. Rain and Hilly terrain hampered the frantic overnight search for missing people by 500 red Cross workers and family members. Wednesday afternoons disaster which followed Days of heavy rain struck the Vila Barrag Inha a slum in Conta Gem an Industrial area about 300 Miles Northwest of Rio. The letter said a non command sponsored dependents would no longer be allowed to take their purchases from the base which is to close by the end of the year. A command sponsored dependents Are spouses children and other household members brought to the Philippines at military expense and authorized for on base housing if available. Although the letter did not specify filipinos most dependents without command sponsorship Are philippine women who married service members after they were assigned to Subic. In september the philippine Senate rejected a 10-year lease for Subic and president Corazon Aquino ordered the americans to leave by years  monitors caught and dragged for about 200 feet he said. Children seated near the Back door began Yelling and got the Drivers attention Morris said. But he apparently thought the door simply did no to close completely so he opened the door and then shut it again he said. At that Point the child fell out and was run Over by the rear wheels of the bus Morris said. The Driver stopped after continuing an additional 89 feet when he saw the child a body in his rear View Mirror. Morris said that an unidentified German Motorist attempted to give the boy first Aid and that an ambulance arrived in about 12 minutes. But the child died on the Way to a trauma Center in nearby Amberg. Morris said the contracted bus Driver a German was listed As the subject in a negligent homicide in a military police report on the incident. The military has not charged the Driver however. German criminal police in Sulzbach Rosenberg who Are investigating the incident with the army a criminal investigation come would not comment on the investigation when contacted by the stars and stripes on thursday. Children Are not supposed to exit through the rear doors of school buses Morris said but the rear door of the bus cannot be locked. Nicholas was the son of sgt. John and Debra  in mudslide civil defense workers said 17 bodies had been pulled from the rubble of Brick and wooden shacks. Earlier police had put the number of bodies at 37. A according to information from residents a lot of people Are still buried a fireman Jaime Maciel said by phone from Conta Gem on thursday. A there could be As Many As 150.�?� he said 27 people were hospitalized with injuries. Officials said that 200 to 600 Brick and scrap Wood shacks were destroyed Home to 1,000 or More of the shantytowns 40,000 residents. . Soldiers working on quake area s utilities from wire reports Erz incan Turkey a a . Military Crew began trying to restore water and Power to buildings left standing in this devastated City As Rescue workers unearthed More bodies buried in last weeks earthquake. Provincial gov. Recep Yazicioglu said wednesday that Rescue workers had pulled 479 bodies from the rubble. Officials fear an unknown number of bodies May still be buried. A team of 35 . Army soldiers led by maj. Gen. William n. Farmen worked to restore Public utilities. A we Are Here to work on and restore the water and electricity systems of the City a said Farmen head of the joint . Mission to  buried alive Beirut Lebanon a an old building evidently weakened by warfare collapsed wednesday in a Christian Region North of Beirut burying alive two children. It was the fourth building to collapse this year after Strong wind and rain hit Beirut s downtown area which has been battered Over the years by bullets and  Graves vandalized Beek Netherlands a a previously unknown Neo nazi group has claimed responsibility for the desecration of Graves wednesday at a jewish cemetery Here dutch television reported. Vandals broke tombstones in two or three pieces and covered them with swastikas according to the report. Police surveillance of jewish Sites in the Southern province of Limburg was stepped up after the group which identified itself As the National socialist Peoples front warned of further attacks the report said. Police said it had never heard of the group. The vandals also painted nazi symbols on a holocaust memorial in the Center of Beek a Village at the Southern tip of the Netherlands a few minutes drive away from both Germany and Belgium the television  kills motorists Moscow a twelve motorists were killed when an Avalanche in the pamirs Mountain Range of Tajikistan crashed Down on a Highway and buried passing cars the itar Tass news Agency said wednesday. The Agency said cars driving on the Highway connecting the cities of Osh and Horog were buried tuesday under More than 6 feet of  rocks Philippines Manila Philippines a a moderate Earth make rattled the Northern Philippines on thurs a sending hundreds of residents out into the streets in panic. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the temblor entered in Locos sur some 170 Miles North of the capital. A Richter scale Reading on the magnitude of the quake was not immediately available but officials described it As  a your suspicion is that this earthquake can cause damage a said government seismologist Bartolome Bautista. A it can destroy buildings with weak foundations but there Are few big buildings in that  a massive earthquake rumbled across the area some 30 Miles South of Locos sur in july 1990, killing More than 1,000  bombings kill 2 Alica do amount Spain a a second person was killed in a car bomb explosion Early thursday in the northeastern Region of Catalonia. Initial reports were unable to identify the victim of the explosion which occurred at 7 40 . In an Industrial zone close to the port City of Barcelona site of the summer olympic games. Hours earlier a car bomb believed set by Basque separatists killed a civil guard officer who was trying to dismantle the bomb in the town of Alica do amount 21 Miles North of Barcelona officials said