European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes monday april 27,1992 City leaders Oil group blamed for explosion Guadalajara Mexico apr a mexican attorney general has blamed City leaders and Lemex Oil company officials for the sewer blasts that killed at least 189 people last week. Ignacio Morales Lechuga attorney general of the Federal District said sunday that several state officials would face criminal charges for not responding to reports from the Public about leaking gasoline. Lemex had denied responsibility for wednesdays explosions saying broken pipes that apparently leaked gasoline into the City sewer system had not caused the disaster but rather had been ruptured by the blasts. The attorney general said nine Public officials and two private citizens would face charges including negligent homicide injuries to 1,470 people and property damage. Earlier sunday an Interior ministry official said that Lemex was responsible for the explosions and that some executives would face criminal charges. The official Jorge Muniz spoke to a radio station after emerging Early sunday from meetings with Morales Lechuga and other investigators. Morales Lechuga said the disaster was produced when gasoline mixed with other volatile chemicals is German strikes expected to hit transportation Frankfurt Germany apr Union officials on sunday announced widening strikes by Public workers that will sharply Cut service in everything from the Federal Railroad to social services. With workers already on strike at More than 30 Post offices the Public service and transport Union Oto ordered More strikes starting today. Major disruptions in Public services were expected after unions representing 2.8 million Public workers voted saturday to strike for the first time in Western Germany since 1974, streetcars buses and commuter trains in Stuttgart Karlsruhe Heidelberg and five other cities in Southern Badin Wirt Temberg state will remain in depots today the Union said. Similar strikes were set for the Rheinland Pfalz state capital of Mainz the Niedersachsen state capital of Hannover and other cities. In Central Hessen state Oto District chairman Herbert Mai in Frankfurt said that Street and Highway service and construction workers were joining in the strikes. The Public service Union includes transit garbage pickup and some school and Hospital services. Three Days of strikes at Post offices already have backlogged a whopping 20 tons of mail and packages. The postal Union said it would now strike in other sectors including telecoms the Agency responsible for Telephone and other communications. Sydney Australia apr six people showing signs of legionnaires disease were hospitalized sunday in the outbreak of the pneumonia inc ailment that has killed three others since the disease broke out several weeks ago. The new cases a two women and four men a bring to 36 the number of people with legionnaires symptoms that Are not confirmed As the disease said or. Sue Morey chief health officer for the new South Wales health department. In addition there Are 21 confirmed cases Morey said. A the six new cases Are people who appear to have developed the symptoms some time ago and just took longer to come into Hospital than the others a Morey said. Specially the Industrial solvent hexane. He said three cooking Oil companies that use hexane in the manufacturing process would be investigated to determine if they contributed to the disaster. The blasts destroyed thousands of houses and stores gouged trenches into Miles of City streets and left thousands homeless. State officials said half of those killed were children Many of whom were at Home during the two week easter school Holiday. The attorney general speaking at a news conference said the presence of unleaded gasoline Quot initiated in the leak of gasoline to a Hole in a Lemex  before the explosions which wrecked the la Reforma District in Eastern Guadalajara residents complained of a Strong smell of gasoline. They said they reported it to City officials. Quot there Are penal and civil responsibilities to private citizens and to Public servants who because of impotence negligence or omission contributed to the results now known a Morales Lechuga said. In All Morales Lechuga named nine Public officials and two private citizens and said they would be ordered to make court  needed for Waldheim replacement Vienna Austria up a austrians voted sunday for the successor to president Kurt Waldheim after a Choice that brought six years of International isolation setting up a Runoff Between a former transport minister and a former . Ambassador. Rudolf Streicher of the austrian socialist party finished first in the race to replace Waldheim in the largely ceremonial Post but without enough votes to avoid a Runoff election. With 99.5 percent of the vote counted Streich or had 40.8 percent followed by Thomas Klestil of the conservative austrian Peoples party with 37.1 percent. A i have won the first round and i have reached my target a Streicher a former transport minister and Amateur symphony conductor said. I believe Waldheim i have a Good Chance in the second round a the deciding election Between Streicher and Klestil Only the third presidential Runoff in Austria since 1945, will be held my 24, Heidi Schmidt of the right Wing austrian Freedom party had 16.4 percent of the vote sunday and Robert Jungk of the Green party received 5.7 percent. Waldheim won six years ago despite controversy Over his alleged nazi past but at the Cost of such treatment As his placement on a . Quot watch list requiring an investigation of the charges before he could gain entry to the country. Waldheim chose not to run for re election. A we feel As certain As we can that there Are no longer any fresh outbreaks of the disease a she said. The disease a named for an outbreak at a Pennsylvania american legion convention in 1976 in which 34 people died a is believed to be caused by bacteria that grow in Damp areas such As air conditioners and Rivers. Health officials believe the outbreak May have started in the air conditioning system of a shopping Center in suburban Fairfield. Other air conditioned buildings in the area Are being examined. A 60-year-old woman died saturday of legionnaires doctors said but it was a different Strain of the bacteria and not connected to the southwestern Sydney outbreak. The other three people who died were men aged 43, 49 and 73. 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 Nad 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 free. Suu Kyi one of the leaders of the opposition National league for democracy has been under House arrest since july 1989 for allegedly Quot 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. X 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 , leftists clash Halberstadt Germany More than 30 people were arrested and several injured in clashes Between leftist youth and rightist skinheads in Eastern Germany police said sunday. Halberstadt police said that up to 600 skinheads arrived at a restaurant in the nearby town of Wem Gerode for what was booked As a birthday party saturday evening. Groups of rightist skinheads from All Over Germany travelled to Wem Gerode for the party police said. The town is about 90 Miles Southeast of  services scheduled for stars and stripes worker mor Felden Germany a amps a a memorial service was to be held at 3 . Today at the Morel Dan cemetery for Christa Rector an employee of the stars and stripes. She died april 22. Rector a 53-year-old native of Halle was a publication distribution clerk who had worked for four years at the newspapers Headquarters in Griesheim. She died while hospitalized. Neither the cause of death nor the name of the Hospital where she died was released. She is survived by her husband Rondal and a son whose name was not available. The family requests that Flowers not be sent to the ceremony. Legionnaires outbreak kills 3 in Australia