European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday april 14,1992 Israel reveals it has plan to evacuate yugoslav jews Jerusalem apr Israel has an emergency plan to evacuate the estimated 5,500 jews in Yugoslavia if fighting there worsens officials said sunday. An envoy of the jewish Agency which processes immigrants for the government was sent to Belgrade Yugoslavia on saturday to see whether an evacuation is necessary israeli Media reported. The representative identified by reports As Uviah Raviv was sent after about 180 jews fled to Belgrade this weekend from fighting in their Hometown Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fighting raged Over the weekend in the Republic the latest yugoslav Region to declare Independence. Serbs who make up a third of Bosnia s 4.3 million people and want to stay within Yugoslavia voted for Independence in a referendum on feb. 29. They Are fighting muslims and croats. A should the situation in Yugoslavia deteriorate the jewish Agency has an emergency plan to bring the yugoslav jews to Israel Quot Agency chairman Simcha Dinitz was quoted As saying. Details of the Rescue plan were secret. Officials were cautious about predicting an exodus of yugoslav jews to Israel. Yehuda Weinraub a jewish Agency spokesman noted that relatively few yugoslav jews have chosen to emigrate during the eight months of civil warfare. Only 210 have arrived in Israel since the fighting started in August he said. The jews in Yugoslavia a Are highly assimilated have Good positions in society and Are on Good terms with the National authorities a Weinraub said. But Weinraub said that if the jews need a shelter the jewish Agency is a ready and willing to bring them to Israel either on a temporary of permanent Israel has brought More than 400,000 jews from former communist countries and Ethiopia since 1989. Jewish refugees fleeing from the fighting in Bosnia and Herzegovina arrive sunday in Belgrade Yugoslavia. Strike has Madrid knee deep in trash Madrid Spain a officials on sunday appealed for military help to clean up rail stations and Airport areas clogged with litter and rotting garbage As a trash haulers strike enters its third week. Conditions in Madrid a subway have become so unsanitary that workers have begun wearing masks and pregnant employees were exempted from work news reports said. Dozens of schools were closed last week because of health risks. Barajas International Airport has barred those without tickets from entering terminals where trash bins Are spilling Over. No Progress was made last week in negotiations to end the walkout by the Public building cleaners Union which is demanding a $100-a-month increase to the base salary of $650. The cleaning company association has offered a 7 percent raise. The strike is seriously damaging the City a image As it celebrates its fourth month As Europe a cultural capital the newspaper Elmundo complained sunday. Garbage bins in subway stations began overflowing weeks ago with paper products cigarette Butts and decaying food piled High on the platforms and along the tracks. Airport officials brought in cleaning Crews to sweep terminals last week prompting clashes Between strikers and police. Union officials promised that workers would clean the filthiest stations including the Transfer station in the historic Puerta Del sol As a a gesture of Good will a the state news Agency efe reported. Will Ali la a f a a a a a a Cis sentry in Germany kills youth _ a w a int a o f o _ _ i a y.1 a nyx l/llln/1 a of til to full 1r _ Berlin up a a Cis sentry shot and killed a German youth who tried to break into a military Barracks of the former soviet army in Eastern Germany officials said sunday. A Justice spokesman in Dresden said the 16-year-old died in the Hospital sunday. Officials of the Commonwealth of Independent states armed forces confirmed the incident saying youths on motorcycles had broken into the military compound in the town of Runsdorf. After firing several warning shots army sentries shot at the group. Two of the youths were caught and handed Over to police while another managed to flee. Cis officials said the incident followed several attacks on soldiers of the former red army in Eastern Germany where racist violence has increased dramatically Over the past year. In october 1991, a soviet Soldier was seriously wounded after Young right Wing extremists threw him from a third floor window at the Gotha Barracks in Eastern Germany. Stranded russian Crew rescued off Irish coast front wire reports Dublin Ireland a Irish air corps helicopters rescued 41 Crew members from a russian factory ship Early monday after it ran aground off the Northwest coast of Ireland. The Crew members were taken off the 300-foot ship after High winds blew it aground near the fishing Village of kill begs 125 Miles Northwest of Dublin. Iran closes Magazine Nicosia Cyprus a iranian authorities have closed a science Magazine and will sue its publisher for printing an insulting cartoon of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Iran a official news Agency said sunday. The islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Cyprus said several Hundred angry demonstrators broke into the office of the Magazine Farad near the Tehran University Campus saturday and smashed windows . Austrian pianist Dies Vienna Austria a Erik Werba a prominent pianist and composer has died at the age of 73, the austrian daily Der Standard reported sunday. Werba famous for his piano accompaniment of great singers died peacefully thursday night at his Home near Modling South of Vienna the daily said. Jewelled Crown stolen Tokyo a two men one brandishing something that looked like a pistol forced their was into a jewelry store sunday and stole a Diamond studded Crown valued at 500 million yen $3.75 million police said. Seven employees and 10 customers watched As one of the men broke a showcase with a Hammer and grabbed the Crown meant for display Only police added. Miners paid in cucumbers Moscow a the Bank ran out of Cash so miners in the Central russian City of Gubkin were handed part of their salaries in cucumbers and meat a news Agency reported. Many decided to stay underground in protest. The russian information Agency reported sunday that the workers at the Iron Ore mine near Belgorod 360 Miles South of Moscow a did not enthuse Over the new a cosmonaut named hero Moscow Sergei Kri Kalev the cosmonaut who spent 10 months in space while his Homeland crumbled beneath him has been named a a hero of the Russia federation Quot the itar Tass news Agency said sunday. The award one of two decreed saturday by russian president Boris n. Yeltsin will be displayed alongside the a hero of the soviet Union Star Given Kri Kalev for a previous space flight. When Kri Kalev blasted off May 18, 1991, the soviet Union had not yet collapsed Mikhail s. Gorbachev was president the Hammer and sickle flew Over the Kremlin and the communist party held claim bbl s election coverage unfair London up a senior conservative ministers claimed the British broadcasting corp. Was biased in its reporting leading up to thursdays general election the daily Telegraph newspaper reported sunday. A the bbl was bracing itself saturday for a government onslaught Over its election coverage which conservatives believe was biased against them in favor of the opposition labor party the newspaper said. Prime minister John major won a decisive Victory despite widely reported Opin Ion polls predicting the conservatives would be ousted by labor. Conservative Campaign managers have complained that the bbl made special efforts to find critics of their Campaign broadcast interviews with party members out of Peak time and focused on negative comments at the expense of the positive the Telegraph reported. It also cited allegations that major was grilled More harshly in interviews than Neil Kinlock the Leader of the labor party. The newspaper said the independently run bbl feared a a tory backlash Quot could see the Public broadcaster partially commercialized when its charter comes up for renewal in 1996. The conservative manifesto said the renewal of the by cd a charter would be considered a against the background of the much More varied and competitive broadcasting environment which our policies have David Mellor Secretary of the newly created ministry for National heritage which will Monitor broadcasting said in a bbl radio interview sunday that he was a a depressed about suggestions a that we would use this debate about the future of the bbl As a Way of paying off some scores real or a bbl spokesman denied the allegations saying Mellors comment a really pours cold water Quot on the allegations. A we Are satisfied that our coverage was fair to All parties a the spokesman said. A a poll results during the Campaign had showed that audiences believed the bbl was
