European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes monday april 6, 1992 world German lutherans elect their 1st female Bishop from wire reports Hamburg Germany a a 47-year-old woman was elected saturday As the lutheran churches first female Bishop Church officials said. Maria Jepsen a Provost in the Northwest Region of the German lutheran Church was elected by a vote of 78-44 Over the areas chief pastor 51-year-old Helge Adolphen. She replaces the current Bishop 68-year-old Peter Krusche who will retire july 31. Jepsen was Given a standing ovation after her election by the Synod meeting at St. Michael a Church in Jepsen Hamburg. She said she would work to overcome fears of a split in the Church that her candidacy had prompted and invited critics to meet for  controllers Back on Job Manila Philippines a Domestic and International flights resumed sunday after the government ordered striking air traffic controllers Back to work and suspended those who failed to comply. Air traffic controllers walked off the Job saturday in a pay dispute paralysing service at Manila a Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The strike stranded More than 10,000 passengers at philippine airports and those throughout Southeast Asia who were waiting for flights to the  killed in explosion Milan Italy a an explosion apparently caused by leaking Gas destroyed a four Story apartment building sunday killing at least two people and wounding seven others police said. Authorities were searching in the rubble of the House for another person believed to be inside. Two Middle aged Sisters were crushed in the wreckage and died police said. The wounded included a couple and their 8-month-old son officials  gets new Premier Paris a a Premier Pierre b6r�govoy officially took Over saturday moving into Iris new office and naming 41 Junior ranking ministers to Complete his government. B6r�govoy was welcomed at the matignon offices by former Premier Edith Cresson ousted after dramatic defeats for the governing socialists in regional elections last  assassinated Agrigento Sicily a suspected mafia gunmen saturday assassinated a police commander in Sicily known for his skill in cases against organized crime authorities said. Authorities said Carabiniero police officer Giu Liano Guazzelli 58, was at the Edge of Agrigento driving Home at lunchtime when the attack occurred. Gunmen opened fire with an automatic Rifle and a sawed off Shotgun from the Back of a stolen Van hitting the officer in the face shoulder and Chest they said. Guazzelli had commanded the police unit that assisted judges in investigations in Agrigento defense units called up to quell bosnian violence from wire reports Belgrade Yugoslavia a authorities in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared a general mobilization of territorial defense units in an Effort to subdue escalating ethnic violence that claimed at least three lives sunday. Two police officers and one civilian were killed overnight in the bosnian capital of Sarajevo in attacks by masked gunmen who were trying to occupy police stations the Belgrade based Tan Jug news Agency reported. It said several police officers were injured residents in the bosnian capital reached by Telephone said armed groups were setting up checkpoints throughout the City. Tan Jug reported that thousands of people were marching toward the City Center protesting the violence and shouting Quot we want  fighting was reportedly continuing around Kupres in Western Herzegovina. The area has been Cut off by roadblocks. Radio Sarajevo claimed that a a hundreds of people have been killed or wounded Over the past two Days  Leader fears split vote Rome apr Italy a Christian democrats the longest continuously ruling party in Western Europe wound up their Campaign for sunday and today a National elections by warning of political and economic chaos if an expected protest vote materializes. A this is not the time for experiments a warned seven time Premier Giulio Andreotti. He raised the Specter of a return to the fascist Era of dictator Benito Mussolini if the vote is splintered among the 128 parties competing in the first National elections in five years. A an excess of splintering could Lead to positions of this Type someone must maintain order. The trains must run on time a a Andreotti said. The voting sunday and today presents the greatest political uncertainly in Italy since 1976, when the West a largest communist party came to the Brink of Power in the country. In truth few italians seriously believe in a return to fascism or other doomsday scenarios raised during the Campaign. But the end of the cold War has redrawn the country a political landscape. The communists formerly Italy a second largest party have split with the main group renamed the democratic party of the left. The anti communist vote that once buttressed the Christian democrats has vanished. That report could not be independently confirmed. An air raid alarm sounded in Tomislav Grad some 14 Miles South of Kupres on sunday said Ana rados a reporter for the croatian news Agency Hina in the town rados reached by Telephone from the croatian capital Zagreb said she could hear air Force planes flying overhead. Rados said she saw Street fighting in Kupres on saturday and claimed that the mainly croatian Village was shelled from Federal army and serbian irregular positions in neighbouring Blagoj state run Sarajevo television broadcast the peace gatherings live together with its own urgent appeals for Calm and Calls for the republics feuding ethnic leaders to hold urgent talks. At almost the same time the sounds of heavy machine gun fire and explosions erupted across Sarajevo resounding off the bowl of mountains surrounding the City. It was not immediately apparent who was involved in the  splitting because of wife s past paper says London apr Nelson and Winnie Mandela will separate because of new allegations about her activities when her husband was in jail the sunday times reported. The front Page Story quoted unidentified african National Congress sources. In Johannesburg Anc officials said they would have no comment. According to the sunday times the couple will separate but no divorce is planned. Nelson Mandela 73, was released two years ago after serving 27 years in prison for trying to overthrow South africans White government. He married Winnie Mandela 57, in 1958, and they had two children before he went to prison. During his incarceration she was banned by the government placed under House arrest and jailed. Last year she and two others were convicted of kidnapping and assault charges in connection with a 1988 incident that killed 14-year-old Tompie Sei Pei. She was sentenced to six years in prison but freed on bail pending Appeal. The sunday times said one of her co accused vol Iowa Falati recently told Anc officials she lied at the trial to protect Winnie Mandela. Compromise keeps Levy on Cabinet Jerusalem apr prime minister Yitzhak Shamir on sunday promised foreign minister David Levy More Power. Levy in return withdrew his resignation defusing a crisis that had threatened the ruling party liked. Shamir and Levy signed an agreement moments before the weekly Cabinet meeting. Levy had announced last sunday he would quit but he needed to hand in his resignation to the Cabinet to make it official. Israel radio said Levy 53, agreed to stay after being assured the Job of foreign minister in the next israeli government a assuming liked wins the elections a and at least one additional supporter in the new Cabinet. He was also assured a share of parliament committee chairs and representation in the quasi government jewish Agency executive the radio said without elaborating. The Agency supervises immigration. A we will work together with United forces for that Sake of the same National and social burdens before us and consider this crisis behind us a said Levy who it resignation had been seen As a play for More Power. Levy is the cabinets strongest Backer of Arab Israel peace talks. His resignation could have Cost Shami votes among israelis who want the right Wing liked u move the peace process Forward. It also could have Hurt liked among sephardic a jews of Middle was and North african origin. Senior member of right Wing German party murdered Urdi in it i. I i _ 1 l. E a a. Quot Berlin Upu a police said a senior member of a right Wing extremist party known As the German league was stabbed to death saturday in an political assassination in a Berlin restaurant. Police did not release the name of the victim. They described him As the 43-year-old Secretary of the German league. It is a party with a Germany first anti foreigner platform. Police said the victim was stabbed in the Back by a member of a gang of eight masked men. The masked men stormed a chinese restaurant in the City a Kreuzberg District where senior German league members were meeting. The attackers were said by police to be Young a turkish or Arab men. A it was clearly a politically motivated attack a said Klaus Landowski chairman of the Berlin Senate a Christian demo cratic Union faction. A this brutal crime shows that the left Wing terror scene is still Active in  meanwhile about 800 right Wing extremists marched saturday in the Eastern German City of Dresden. They were protesting the acquittal last month by a City court of two men who killed Neo nazi Leader Rainer sonntag. Sonntag was shot dead by the owners of a Dresden sex shop last May. A dres Den court acquitted both men after i found that they had acted in self defense also More than 20,000 turks took u the streets saturday in German cities in eluding Berlin Mainz and Stuttgart. The turks demonstrated to supp9r turkish military action against kurdish separatists in Southeastern Turkey. In Stuttgart an estimated 10,000 Turk ish protesters clashed with an anti Turk ish protest organized by kurd