European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday March 25,1992 the stars and stripes c Page 9 team of experts destroys chemical arms leaves Iraq United nations apr a team of . Weapons experts left Iraq on tuesday after destroying hundreds of leaking chemical warheads and finding Many More buried under rubble from persian Gulf War bombing officials said. The team destroyed More than 460 dangerously leaking 122mm rockets at a munitions site in Southern iraqis Marshland at kharif Niyah near the City of an Nasir Yah the . Officials said speaking on condition of anonymity. Under the Gulf War cease fire accords . Teams Are destroying iraqis chemical and biological weapons its nuclear arms program and missiles with a Range greater than approximately 90 Miles. Dakar Senegal apr a Tanker truck filled with liquid ammonia exploded in a ground nut Oil processing factory tuesday killing at least 60 people the senegalese press Agency said. About 250 people were injured according to the office of the governor of Dakar. The news Agency said a reporter sent to the scene was told the Tanker containing the toxic Gas blew up at 2 . During the busiest part of the workday. More than 100 people were at the factory witnesses said. A shortage of Gas masks made Rescue efforts difficult and dozens of workers were seen lying on the ground More than an hour after the explosion. Stuttgart Germany a a witness died in court tuesday while testifying at the War crimes trial of Josef Schwammberge a former nazi concentration Camp commander. Schwamm Berger a trial is probably the last major War crimes trial in Germany partly because few witnesses Are still alive or in a condition to testify. That problem was starkly demonstrated shortly after the Days session started. Erich Scharf 79, collapsed with breathing difficulties As he was identifying himself shortly after taking the stand. A doctor who regularly attends the court sessions provided emergency Aid but was unable to save the Man. Schwamm Berger a defense lawyer Dieter Koening said about one hour later that the Man was dead. Iraq also has Given in to . Demands that it destroy All production facilities for those programs or have the United nations supervise iraqis conversion to civilian manufacturing plants. . Officials have charged Saddam Hussein a government with trying to hide Many of its terror weapons and impeding the work of the . Teams. Another . Team is still in Iraq checking Baghdad a claims that a a substantial numbers of scud missiles were destroyed last june. The official said some munitions had been buried deliberately probably to try to protect them during the War last year. He said there did not seem to be any sign the iraqis were trying to conceal them from the . Inspectors. Police firefighters and French army firefighters from a French base were at the scene in the Industrial area of the City. Injured victims were evacuated to Dakar a military Hospital and the West african capitals biggest civilian Hospital. Those two hospitals and a smaller Hospital reported they had received 54 bodies from the blast site. The senegalese press Agency said authorities would begin an immediate inquiry to determine the cause of the explosion. It was Senegal a worst Industrial Accident. State radio interrupted its programs to broadcast religious music. Scharf a former member of the nazi is was to have testified about his work in is Headquarters in the polish City of krak6w in the Early 1940s, where he had served with Schwammberge. The trial was adjourned until Friday after Scharf s collapse. Schwammberge 79, a former is lieutenant who commanded nazi forced labor Camps in Poland Between 1942 and 1944, is charged in the deaths of More than 3,300 jewish inmates 43 of them killed allegedly by his own hand. The austrian born Schwammberge admits he commanded the Camps at Roz Wadow Mielec and Przemysla near Krakow but has denied personally killing anyone. His trial began last june in the Stuttgart regional court. World Mcdonald s files Appeal against me condoms from wire reports Montreal a the makers of the big Mac want Mccon Doms to go a away. Mcdonald a filed a court Appeal monday seeking to Block the Sale of the contraceptive by a Montreal store specializing in condoms. The Oak Brook fast food Chain claims Mccon Doms violate its trademark Quot my language covering More than 75 products such As crib Mcconic or Mckinds. Mcdonald a also claims the logo on the my condom a a stylized letter m in yellow print a is an illegal copy of its registered Golden Arches according to papers filed in Superior court. The store la Lapoterie is named for a capote a the French Slang word for crashes near Athens Athens Greece a a sudanese cargo plane crashed into a Mountain near Athens a port tuesday shortly after reporting that it had instrument failure officials said. All five crewmen were killed said civil aviation authority chief Stelios Ledakis. But Sudan airways regional representative Nabil Tadros said he believed there were seven people aboard the plane. The Boeing 707 crashed into mount by Metros 9 Miles Southeast of the Airport. The plane was flying from Amsterdam Netherlands to Sudan with a refuelling Stop at Athens. It was not immediately known what it was koreans vote Seoul South Korea a South koreans cast ballots tuesday in a crucial parliamentary election seen As a barometer of president Roh Tae Woods popularity ahead of presidential voting later in the year. At stake in the country a first general elections in four years were 299 seats in the National Assembly. Rohrs democratic Liberal party hoped to win 60 percent of the seats to keep its current stolen in Denmark Copenhagen Denmark a thieves stole russian Vodka Worth $230,000 bound for Canada the National radio said monday. The 10,512 bottles of Vodka were in a Container on a semitrailer parked Over the weekend in an open storage area North of aarhus Western Denmark. The thieves drilled out the Gate lock and entered the storage area with a truck. The trailer was hooked onto the truck and the robbers drove away with All 876 crates each containing a dozen bottles of moskovskaya.15 held hostage in mine Johannesburg fifteen White miners were being held hostage underground at a South african Coal mine tuesday by Black miners striking in protest against alleged racial discrimination and unfair dismissals the mine owners and Union officials said. A police task Force had been sent to the Durn col mine 187 Miles Southeast of Johannesburg to secure the release of the 15 White miners South african police said in a statement. They said there were originally 22 mine officials held hostage but seven of them had escaped from fire strands guests Amman Jordan a fire broke out tuesday night during a Ramadan banquet at the intercontinental hotel stranding some guests on the upper floors. Some people could be seen standing on balconies burning candles so Rescue workers could see them. As firefighters struggled to put out the Blaze dozens of injured people were receiving emergency treatment in front of the hotel which is across the Street from the . Embassy. Desk clerk Suhel Jabra said the entire basement was burning. He said it appeared the fire started from an electrical failure. Test run Spain a new High Speed train makes its first official the train called ave is scheduled to make its test run from Madrid to Ciudad real on monday. Maiden run from Madrid to Seville on april 20. Ammonia blast kills at least 60 witness Dies during War crimes trial
