European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes sunday March 29, 1992u.s. Hauls off 2nd Subic dry Dock last dry Dock to be towed before Onset of Rainy season Subic Bay naval facilities Philippines up a the United states hauled off its largest floating dry Dock saturday in another step toward withdrawal from its last philippine base by years end. A handful of . Navy personnel and filipino base workers watched As the Salvage ship Brunswick towed the machinist out of the Alava pier at 8 . For a 45-Day journey to Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The machinist is the second of three floating dry docks to be removed from Subic 50 Miles West of Manila. The adept was hauled to Guam last month. . Officials said the third dry Dock was scheduled to be towed from Subic a repair and logistics Center for the 7th Fleet this summer before the Rainy season begins. Philippine officials had hoped the United states would leave at least one dry Dock which they say is crucial in the governments efforts to convert the sprawling facility into an International free port. A we Are saddened because the pullout will have a big effect on us a a said base worker Augusto Bong at. A the governments conversion plan is not yet Clear a Bong at said. Subic spokesman it. Cmdr. A1 Twyman said the machinist arrived at Subic in 1986. It is 175 feet wide and 824 feet Long and can accommodate ships weighing As much As 39,000 tons he said. A it is a Complete House by itself a said Frederick Oril 50, an assistant Foreman at the machinist. A it has everything such As refrigerators and a dining  Rogelio Singson Deputy chief of the government bases conversion development authority said in Manila on tuesday that several International companies Are interested in moving operations into Subic. Singson said the list of potential bidders includes the Dallas based Perot group Keppel shipyard Kawasaki and Cal Tex. The philippine Senate in september rejected a treaty that would have extended the lease on Subic for 10 years. Talks for a three year withdrawal period bogged Down last year prompting Manila to ask Washington to pullout by this december. The americans have already turned Over the Volcano damaged Clark a former Home of the 13th air Force and four smaller facilities to Manila last year. Germany pays first half of compensation to poles Warsaw Poland apr Germany has paid the first half of the planned 500 million Marks about $308 million in compensation for poles imprisoned or enslaved by the nazis in world War ii a polish newspaper reported Friday. Details of the compensation meant to satisfy decades old demands of polish victims of the third Reich were disclosed in the newspaper gazeta Wyborn a. The compensation agreed to last year is being paid to a foundation to Benefit an estimated 340,000 former polish prisoners or forced labourers. They include 40,000 people held in prisons concentration Camps or ghettos and 300,000 forced to work for Germany during the nazi occupation of 1939 to 1945. No Money will go to heirs of victims already deceased. Germany has paid the first 250 million Marks to the German polish foundation a reconciliation a the newspaper reported. The remainder will be paid in two instalments by mid-1993. The polish government in turn has agreed to seek no further compensation from Germany. The mainly elderly recipients of the compensation could receive their first payment by years end said Bronislaw Wilk chairman of the foundation. Poland was forced by the soviet Union to relinquish All War reparation claims in the Early 1950s. However after communism a fall in 1989, polish victims of the nazis organized into More than 70 societies to demand compensation. On oct. 16, Poland and Germany agreed to set up the private foundation to handle the claims and solve the dispute. Germany approved the Money for the foundation at that time. The foundation says it intends to seek further funds for victims from German companies that benefited from slave labor during the War. Polish president Lech Walesa a visit to Germany which is to Start today May bring a positive effects a Wilk told gazeta. Nuclear Plant to be inspected worshipping during Ramadan More than 200,000 Muslim worshippers gather at Jerusalem s Al Asa mosque for the final Friday prayer of Ramadan the ninth month of the Muslim Calendar. Ramadan is marked by fasting from Sunrise to Sunset and ends with the festival of id Al fit. At rear is the dome of the Rock where Mohammed is believed to have ascended to heaven. Moscow apr a nuclear reactor that was shut Down after a radioactive Gas leak at a Plant near St. Petersburg will not be restarted without an inspection by the International atomic Energy Agency a City official said today. Officials quoted by the itar Tass news Agency said radiation Levels in the town of Sosnovy Bor where the Plant is located were within acceptable limits today four Days after the incident. The reactor was shut Down tuesday after radioactive Gas leaked from Graphite tubing connected to one of the four reactors at the Leningrad Skaya Power Plant 50 Miles West of St. Petersburg. The incident was classified As level two on the seven Point Iaea scale. The 1986 chernobyl disaster was a seven. Power station director Anatoly Yepe Rin told itar Tass that the reactor would remain off until the pipe was repaired which would take two weeks or More. Vyacheslav Shcherbakov Deputy mayor of St. Petersburg said the reactor would not be restarted at All unless International experts approved of the repairs itar Tass reported lady7 liar gets prison sentence for stealing from Charity London apr Quot lady Rosemary Aberdour who invented her title and lived it up on a Fortune stolen from a Charity was sentenced to four years in prison Friday. Her attorney said she was left a Only with the memory of a Binge a never ending party she never really  Aberdour 30, allegedly stole about 2.7 million pounds about $4.8 million from the National Hospital development foundation. She pleaded guilty to 17 charges of deception theft and forgery. A the so called friends those who benefited from the deceptive hospitality who wined and dined and sponged off her ill gotten gains have evaporated like the bubbles in the Champagne said Graham boat the barrister who represented her. Quot the cars and the jewels have gone Back to their rightful owners. The pretty balloons have Long since burst and the party is  but what parties they were Aberdour hired a helicopter to Fly her Secretary and herself to Conwy Castle in Northern Wales where two fully armoured knights battled for their attention. She hired All the drag Queens from a West end cabaret for her Valentines Day party and spent 50,000 pounds about $88,000 creating a chinese Temple at the Savoy hotel for her 29th birthday. She once hired a car and Driver to take her Labrador retriever jeeves for a walk. Her extravagances included a personal staff of five 53,800 pounds $95,000 spent on Flowers 100,000 pounds $177,000 for two yachting holidays in the Caribbean 2,250 pounds $3,982 a week rent on her Penthouse apartment 171,897 pounds More than $304,000 in Bills at the jewellers Boodle and Dunthorn. Aberdour was dismissed As Deputy director of the foundation on june 12, 1991, after the discovery of a forged Check and she fled to Brazil. Her Fiance army capt. Michael Cubbin persuaded her to return. Cubbin and her parents were at the old Bailey for the sentencing. Press association the National news Agency said she could be eligible for release in 10 months. Ewa Lewis society editor of Tatler Magazine told bbl radio that she first encountered a lady Quot Rosemary at the red october Ball. A she was loud she was Over the top she was Lane she was Guite the Antithesis of an aristocratic person a the columnist said. A and in fact i actually remember thinking that sometimes the English aristocracy do look most Odd