European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday april 27, 1992 Guadalajara blasts caused by fuel leak probes say Guadalajara Mexico apr Field investigators said saturday that a leak in a state Oil company pipeline caused the explosions that killed at least 189 people and wrecked parts of Guadalajara. The comments supported the City a sewer chief who also has said leaking gasoline apparently caused the blasts wednesday. Survivors claimed they had smelled Gas Days before. But official word again was postponed. Mexico a attorney general of the Federal District put off a for the fourth time in two Days a releasing results of an investigation into whether criminal negligence was involved. The attorney general Ignacio Morales Lechuga announced 189 people had been killed in the blasts raising the official toll from 181. Many neighbourhood residents Are convinced that far More people were killed. Lemex the state Oil company acknowledged the pipeline had ruptured but said the blasts had caused the break. Separately saturday Lemex said gasoline leaked from a refinery in Veracruz state and newspapers reported that 800 workers had to flee. Lemex said that Shen Naum Albania apr tens of thousands of albanians flooded into neighbouring Macedonia on saturday after the Border was opened for 32 hours in a Goodwill gesture for orthodox easter. A this should have been done years ago a said Bash Kim Isa commander of this Border Post. A Many people have been killed trying to Cross before he Addea. The Border was open for the first time since communists closed it in 1948. Albanian television announced Friday that Macedonia a yugoslav Republic with an ethnic albanian minority had agreed to open four Border posts from 10 . Saturday until 6 . Sunday. Crossings were limited to residents of Pograjec a Center of Christian orthodoxy 80 Miles Southeast of the capital Tirana or others whose names were on special lists. It was not Clear How the lists were compiled. The move was intended for orthodox believers about 12 percent of albanians 3.2 million people but muslims could Cross if they proved they lived in Pograjec. Easter for orthodox christians was sunday. A nearly the whole town is going a said Genuiana to Sydney Australia up1 a a health officers Are stepping up inspections of air conditioning systems in Sydney a Southwest suburbs following the deaths of three people from legionnaires disease. Officials said Friday that 18 confirmed cases Are being treated in hospitals and an additional 16 patients Are suspected of having the disease. Three people have died of the disease since the outbreak began several weeks ago. Since then health department officials have been inspecting water Cooling towers of Public buildings and shopping centers throughout the area but said no positive source of the outbreak has been Ridenti Kuwait apr More than 100 philippine maids who had taken Refuge in their embassy claiming abuse by employers boarded a flight for Home saturday. The 117 women were the first of hundreds of maids from the Philippines India and sri Lanka who Are to be repatriated by the kuwaiti government after seeking havens in their embassies. Some did so seeking better jobs and pay but Many cited mistreatment. Philippine ambassador Manuyag Mohammad Tama no said the kuwaiti governments decision to repatriate the women free of charge was a a Noble  �?o1 am Happy in a going Home a said Rosy Cervania who was  ready to leave on a flight sunday. The 25-year-old said her employers slapped her and the leak was discovered Friday and repaired and that work had returned to Normal by saturday. The company did not say How much or How Long the gasoline had leaked. Working in a Southern neighbourhood that officials had closed to residents three state inspectors said gasoline spilled from a Lemex pipeline before the blasts. They said the gasoline flowed along a sewer line that crosses near the pipeline near the rupture and poured into the sewage system in the Reforma neighbourhood where the explosions occurred. Alongside them two Federal inspectors inserted a plastic tube into a Hole drilled into the Earth. A i can to speak to the press one said. A just watch what in a  he pulled liquid from the ground and poured it into a test tube. A a it a pure gasoline a said the other Federal inspector. The inspectors would not give their names for fear of losing their jobs. The remaining gasoline prompted officials to evacuate the no galera neighbourhood near Lemex Gas storage tanks. Police fear another explosion. Relli a 17-year-old Muslim student who planned to visit relatives she had never met. A a it a my first time to go abroad a beamed Nesti Ca Bani a 43-year-old peasant decked out in his Best suit. He carried Only a coca cola bottle filled with Raki a local Balkan brew and a wad of albanian leks he hoped to change for yugoslav dinars to buy shoes. The opening was a rare Chance for albanians to go abroad however briefly after More than four decades of stalinist isolation. It also is something of a risk for Macedonia which has kept its Border with Albania closed for fear of being swamped with impoverished albanian refugees. Since the communist regime started to crumble at the end of 1990, albanians Economy has collapsed. Food riots were frequent last Winter and the country now survives mostly on foreign Aid. Thousands of albanians wandered aimlessly on saturday through Struga the biggest macedonian town in the area stunned As they gawked at consumer goods and foods most could never afford. Fled. Australia has had two other major outbreaks of legionnaires disease. In 1987, 10 people died in Wollongong 50 Miles South of Sydney and a Bowling club in the Western suburb of merry lands was the source of an outbreak that killed three people in 1989. Legionnaires disease received its name from an outbreak of a flu like illness in july 1976 that killed 29 people at an american legion convention in Philadelphia. Water towers of air conditioning units Are perfect Breeding grounds for the legion Ella bacteria which flourishes in warm moist conditions. Hit her head against the Wall if they were not Content with her cleaning. Cervania had what appeared to be bruises on her face neck and left ear. Kuwaitis and foreigners employ an estimated 300,000 third world nationals As Domestic helpers paying them about $140 a month. Reports of abuse have surfaced for years but have gained heightened attention since Iraq was driven from Kuwait in Early 1991. The philippine government banned its nationals from working As Domestic helpers in the emirate even before the August 1990 invasion. Some recruiters however Tell helpers they Are going to work in other persian Gulf countries. World bomb near mosque kills youngster in new Delhi from wire reports new Delhi India a a bomb exploded in a Muslim neighbourhood of the capital sunday killing one boy and wounding five others police and Hospital sources said. The bomb exploded in a Public Park near a crowded fish Market in the neighbourhood around the Jama Masjid one of the largest mosques in the world. A group of boys was playing Cricket in the Park when one of the youngsters picked up an object that exploded said an official of the Delhi police control room. The 11-year-old Muslim who picked up the bomb was  allowed visits Rangoon Burma a the military government said saturday that it would allow the family of detained opposition Leader and Nobel prize Winner Aune san Suu Kyi to visit her and announced it had freed a former prime minister and 11 other political prisoners. The announcements on state radio came one Day after the ruling Junta said that political detainees who pose no threat to state Security would soon be freed. Suu Kyi one of the leaders of the opposition National league for democracy has been under House arrest since july 1989 for allegedly a endangering the  rages on Sabbath Jerusalem a tenants let their apartments Burn saturday while they asked a rabbi whether a Call to the fire department on the Sabbath would violate jewish Tenet. Three apartments were gutted in the fire in the predominantly Ultra orthodox City of Beni Iraq near Tel Aviv but no one was Hurt. Observant jews Are forbidden from using telephones on the Sabbath because to do so would involve breaking an electric current which is considered a form of work. They Are however permitted to break the Sabbath in Case of an emergency. On saturday the owner of the apartment that caught fire first was out of town but neighbors asked a rabbi whether the fire constituted an emergency. Thirty minutes later the rabbi  Gas kills woman Gaza Gaza strip a an elderly palestinian woman died from inhaling tear Gas from a canister mistakenly lobbed into her House by israeli soldiers officials said sunday. The woman Fatme Abel Al Khawaja died saturday night at Shifa Hospital in Gaza after the canister sailed through her window during a clash Between palestinians from the Muslim fundamentalist Hamas movement and the israeli army. Palestinian sources said the woman was 70, while the army said she was 60.Hall s acoustics praised Berlin a the Berlin philharmonic orchestra passed a nervous Milestone saturday night playing in its renovated concert Hall for the first time. From the Maestro to the players the acoustics got a warm reception. A we Are Happy we Are Back in this wonderful Hall and it sounds As Good As before a not different a said Claudio Abrado the orchestras artistic director and principal conductor. Philharmonic Hall built in 1963, had been under renovation for 15 months after a Long debate on How to maintain the acoustics while fixing a serious safety problem. A 1-Yard-Square piece of plaster fell from the ceiling in 1988.upset Fiance hangs self Katmandu Nepal a a police officer in Eastern Nepal who was denied leave for his planned marriage shot his Boss before hanging itself nepalese press reports said sunday. Officer Ali Bahadur Rai who worked As a bodyguard in Tehra Thum for District chief Ris hikes Paudel shot Paudel on Friday evening after Paudel refused to Grant the leave request. Rai a russian trained Boxer then hanged himself in a nearby Forest the reports said. Paudel was recovering from a Bullet wound at Katmandu a military Hospital where he was taken for emergency treatment the reports said. Macedonian albanian Border opened for orthodox easter legionnaires disease kills 3 in Australia Kuwait repatriates maids who told of abuse