European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 9, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 9 world Ireland to let voters decide abortion Issue from wire reports Dublin Ireland a a referendum is planned on whether Irish women May travel abroad in order to get around Ireland a abortion ban. The announcement tuesday follows the controversy Over a 14-year-old who says she was raped. A court turned Down her request to go to Britain for a Legal abortion. But Ireland a High court overturned the ban on the basis of the girls threat to kill herself. An amendment Banning abortion was added to the Irish Constitution following 2-1 approval in a 1983 referendum. The amendment allows abortion Only to save the mothers life. It was not known when the referendum would be put before  to strike sought Manila Philippines a the government said wednesday that it will hire British experts to train new air traffic controllers in an Effort to break a five Day strike that has crippled aviation across this Island nation. Also wednesday the chief of the governments civil service commission promised striking controllers that their salaries would be raised if they returned to work unconditionally. Controllers walked off the Job saturday to press demands that the government privatize their operations which would remove them from civil service pay  sickens children Mexico City at least 40 schoolchildren were taken to the Hospital on tuesday when a burst pipe allowed Gas to escape into the playground where they were playing. The children All of whom Are Between 12 and 15, were rushed to a red Cross Hospital in the Tlane Pentla District of Mexico City. They were suffering from Eye irritation or headaches Mexico a state news Agency said. Some children were  pollution worsening Dubai United Arab emirates a Oil pollution in the persian Gulf Region is worsening As Oil tankers routinely empty sludge directly into the waterway mostly to avoid increased dumping fees officials said tuesday. Delegates and speakers at the Middle East environmental conference said the Gulf War spill of 6 million to 8 million barrels Only added to the already serious problem of illegal Oil sludge  visits Auschwitz oswiec1m, Poland a in a sign of How pol ish Israel ties have improved since communism a fall three years ago Gen. Ehud Barak became the first israeli military commander to visit the former nazi concentration Camp at Auschwitz. The visit tuesday by the israeli chief of staff was also an affirmation of jewish survival despite the nazi holocaust carried out on polish soil a half Century ago. A Small Torch was lighted by Ayton Bruck a 68-year-old Veteran of israelis 1948 Independence War. Bruck had escaped from a cattle truck carrying him to Auschwitz during world War  reportedly kill 14 Manila Philippines a communist rebels have killed 14 tribesmen including four children in the Southern Philippines after the victims failed to pay revolutionary taxes the military said wednesday. A report to armed forces Headquarters in the capital said the victims belonging to the animist Manibo tribe were killed March 31 in Kapata Gan Village 600 Miles South of Manila. The report said 21 rebels of the communist new Peoples army entered the Village and a massacred Quot the tribesmen who had refused to pay an unspecified amount in revolutionary taxes to the guerrillas. Critics say Yeltsin policies reducing people to poverty Moscow a president Boris n. Yeltsin a critics on wednesday condemned him for reducing the russian people to poverty and surrounding himself with advisers who Are damaging his image. A reformers who began the so called Shock therapy must now learn two new words a first aids and a resuscitation a because that is what most of the population needs a said lawmaker Valery Vorontsov. Yeltsin a Reform program has caused prices to soar and a pushed millions of people into poverty a Vorontsov told the Congress of Peoples deputies the russian parliament. Yeltsin is battling both a parliamentary Campaign to curb his Powers to impose Radical economic reforms and ukrainian efforts to gain control of the Black sea Fleet. The dispute Between Russia and Ukraine the two wealthiest and most populous former soviet republics is heightening tensions in the already shaky Commonwealth of Independent states. Russia and Ukraine both claim the Fleet As Well As the Crimea where it is based. The two sides had agreed to leave the largest vessels of the Fleet under Commonwealth command but that Deal was thrown into question by conflicting decrees issued by Yeltsin and ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk. Yeltsin reasserted russian control Over the Fleet on tuesday and appointed a commission to oversee creation of a russian army and Navy. On wednesday he ordered Commonwealth naval commander . Vladimir Chernavin to Fly to the Crimea on wednesday to enforce the decree itar Tass reported. Kravchuk claimed the Fleet in a decree issued monday. Nezah Ishimaya gazeta the Independent newspaper said the escalating Battle of decrees a begins to resemble a time delayed bomb with the timing mechanism set in  the labor newspaper trud said the dispute was reaching a a crisis  a sailors of the Black sea Fleet have found themselves Between the Devil and the deep Blue sea thanks to the Nicaragua Call Managua Nicaragua up a a health minister Ernesto Salmeron has declared a nationwide Quot state of alerts to fight cholera. With 15 cases of the disease already reported and the country a beaches and resorts preparing to be flooded with visitors Over holy week Salmeron said tuesday that an Alert needed to be called to Stop any further spread of the disease. Cholera is spread by ingestion of liquids or foods contaminated by the excrement of cholera victims. It is often spread through the water Supply. Preventing the spread of the disease requires Access to Safe water and sanitary facilities As Well As Safe food preparation. Copenhagen Palace destroyed by flames Copenhagen Denmark map an 18th-Century Palace burned Down in Central Copenhagen on tuesday despite the efforts of 100 firefighters who pumped sea water from a nearby canal to douse the flames. Two of the four people living in the Odd Fellows Palace were treated for smoke inhalation and most of the paintings and Art objects were saved. A firefighter was Mure any a falling chandelier. The fire broke out in a Wing of the Palace then quickly spread to the main building. It was reported just before 6 . But it a was so violent when we arrived it could have been burning for two or three hours Quot said fire brigade officer Flemming Christensen. A there Are grounds to believe its arson a he said. The residents of the Palace were asleep when the firefighters arrived. A they could have died if we Hadnot awakened them a Christensen said. Since 1900, the Odd Fellows philanthropic society has used the Rococo style Palace built in 1755 about half a mile from the Royal Palace. Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov reads Fleet decree. Actions taken by politicians a trud wrote. The competing russian and ukrainian claims for the Fleet had no immediate military effect because its ships remained under the control of marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov commander of the Commonwealth armed forces. But Shaposhnikov made his loyalties Clear on tuesday declaring himself to be first and Foremost a russian citizen. During a speech in which he read Yeltsin a Black sea decree Shaposhnikov advocated a Strong russian armed forces. He accused Western leaders of not following through on promises of  Alert treatment requires simple a hydration procedures. Salmeron urged nicaraguans headed for the coast a to remember to Cook All foods properly before eating principally  up to 75,000 people Are expected to visit the Beach at some time during holy week. The latest cholera outbreak began in Peru just Over a year ago. The virus quickly spread to much of South and Central America and has infected about 300,000 people. More than 3,000 people mostly children from poor families have died. The disease can kill a healthy adult in 12 hours by causing diarrhoea which drains the body of fluids and salts. It is easily treatable with simple dehydration therapy used to treat All types of diarrhoea. Young dutch tricksters switch to new prank Amsterdam Netherlands a the latest juvenile prank to hit the Netherlands is switching the stations on other Peoples to sets via Remote control units. Viewers in several dutch cities have recently been stunned by their television sets apparently switching channels on their own shutting off or blasting at full volume according to police. But its just a prank by youngsters aiming a hand held Remote control device through the picture windows that Are a feature of most dutch living rooms. A a there a nothing we can do about it Quot said Han Waal Ink spokesman for the Netherlands based Philips electronics b.v., Europe a largest to manufacturer. Waal Ink said the units which project a thin beam of infrared Light at the set can be used interchangeably on almost any television with a Remote control feature