European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday May 12, 1992 ., aussie naval vets look Back to Coral sea Page 8 a the stars and stripes wot a vet repays old Bike debt with gifts to English kids from wire reports London a a world War ii american airman finally has repaid a wartime debt by giving 100 bicycles to children in four villages in the English midlands the observer newspaper reported sunday. In 1944, Roger Johnson borrowed a Bike he found outside a House to get Back to his b-17 base at Polebrook about 80 Miles North of London the observer said. Johnson who has worked As a physician in Minnesota and Texas for 33 years intended to return the bicycle after a bombing raid on Germany the paper said. But when he returned to the base he found it had been stolen. Johnson made amends saturday by giving 100 bicycles to children from four tiny villages surrounding his old  sinking kills 38 Beijing a torrential Hail and rain Sank an Inland ferry on an East China Reservoir killing 38 passengers an official newspaper said monday. Only three survivors were found. Local authorities in a Hui province said the ferry was a struck suddenly by an intense thunderstorm May 5 As it crossed a Reservoir in Tahu county the state run liberation daily reported. The powerful storm dumped rain and Nail that quickly disabled and eventually Sank the vessel the Shanghai newspaper said.19 bowlers die in fire Taipei Taiwan a fire raced through a 24-hour Bowling Alley in a Taipei suburb Early monday killing at least 19 people police said. Police said 18 bodies some seated on chairs were found on the top floor of the three Story building that housed the Alley while another body was found on the staircase to the roof. All the bodies were burned beyond  fans storm City Rotterdam Netherlands a eleven people were arrested after several Hundred fans rampaged through downtown Rotterdam after a i soccer game smashing windows looting stores and damaging trolley cars and buses police said. The rioters broke away from a mainly peaceful crowd of 60,000 that had gathered outside City Hall on sunday to celebrate the Feye Noora clubs Victory in a league championship game. No injuries were  firms bombed Bogota Colombia a bombs exploded sunday at the Sites of five foreign companies in Medellin police said. No injuries were reported. Since last month leftist rebels protesting the government s free Market reforms have bombed installations of foreign companies based in  chairman named London a British prime minister John major appointed a former government minister As chairman of the conservative party on sunday. Sir Norman Fowler former employment minister under majors predecessor Margaret Thatcher said in a statement that he will a undertake a fundamental review of the party a organization and  Are rejected Berlin a a German entrepreneur who wanted to provide a Home for a dishonoured cast of communist statues got a Stony rejection from one bavarian Community. Josef Kurz said sunday that the building commission in the City of Gundelfinger turned Down his request to build a a sculpture Park Quot featuring the images of soviets Vladimir i. Lenin and Josef Stalin former yugoslav Leader Josip Broz Tito and other leaders rejected by their nations. He said his request to build the statue Park was rejected on environmental grounds. He claimed however that the real reason was the theme of his proposed Park. By Paul Alexander Utard Immi Townsville Australia fifty year of memories weighed heavily on the faces of world War ii veterans sunday As they marked the anniversary of one of the key naval Battles in the South Pacific. A when they pined taps the hair raised on the Back of my neck said Jack Bruckmann of Medina Ohio an army air forces Veteran who vent two years in the Jungles of new Guinea and the East indies. A a it a things like this that make Kef  Bruckmann was among 200 american and australian veterans who attended a solemn ceremony aboard the amphibious command ship Blue Ridge flagship of the  Navy a 7th Fleet to commemorate the Battle of the Coral sea. A group of  And australian warships fought off a japanese Fleet More than double its size on May 7 and 8, 1942. Tokyo a first setback in the South Pacific forced it to abandon plans to take port moresby. The Battle killed 1,074 japanese and 543 americans. The strategic defeat ended the threat that Japan might invade Australia and depleted its forces for the crucial Battle at Midway. It also cemented american australian relations and was the first time that a naval Battle occurred without the ships Ever seeing each other. . Education Secretary Lamar Alexander representing president Bush and australian prime min Saemg he has no Choice if he is to Rescue the Economy and defeat the shining path. In the past year More and More rebels have come Down from their Highland base and begun gaining a foothold among the desperately poor in the shantytowns around Lima. Fujimori said sunday that 28 rebels were killed and 20 seriously wounded in the siege of Canto Grande but other official sources indicated the death toll was As High As 42 and that some 75 inmates were wounded. Rebel inmates armed with acid machine guns an rabbi prepares to Rule Hamburg Germany apr Jerusalem a chief rabbi arrived sunday to help Settle an emotional controversy Over the planned construction of a shopping mall on the site of a former 17th-Century jewish graveyard. Rabbi Yitzhak Kolitz said he expected to stay in Germany Only a few Days inspecting the site of the of Tensen cemetery and talking with representatives of All sides before making his ruling. He was to meet with Hamburg a mayor Henning Vose Herau on monday. Orthodox jews from several european countries the United states and Canada have been battling since last ister Paul Keating led six dignitaries who dropped wreaths from the Blue Ridge into the Coral sea off Townsville. Most of the veterans show Nithe Wear of time wore medals pinned to their shirts. They snapped to attention As a  Navy band played both countries National anthems. Flags flapped in the Strong Breeze on a warm dear Day. An Honor guard composing sons of South Pacific veterans stood nearby. Local religious leaders promised that the wars heroes will not be forgotten and led the crowd in singing the Battle hymn of the Republic and reciting the lords prayer. After a 21-gun Salute four Jet fighters cruised Low overhead to end the ceremony. The event which culminated 10 Dap of activities As the focal Point of australians world War ii events continued the reunions and new friendships for the men and women who fended off the japanese. Typical were Noel Worton 74, an australian infantry Veteran who served in new Guinea and Charles h. Parker 67, of Capitola calif., a  Navy Veteran. The two met for the first time on the Blue Ridge but quickly found common ground As they swapped tales. Parker told How his warship came under attack at Okinawa. A four japanese suicide bombers hit it a he said. A i jumped overboard like just about everybody else. The ship did no to sink but they thought it was going  homemade bombs first clashed with police wednesday when officials tried to Transfer 128 female prisoners out of Canto Grande. Male inmates had entered the women a Cellblock through tunnels. Twenty people including two police officers were killed before the final struggle began saturday according to a Diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. After a Daylong Battle police blasted through the Wall of the rebel held Cellblock and stormed inside. An Interior ministry communique said 470 rebels surrendered. About 700 of the prisons 2,000 inmates belonged to rebel  cemetery dispute september to keep a private Developer from building a shopping mall and apartment Complex on the property. German jews have kept a Low profile in the controversy in part out of embarrassment that Hamburg a jewish Community sold the 1.5-acre site in 1950. The Sale was Legal but orthodox Judaism maintains that a cemetery must be preserved As such forever. German jewish leaders including the chief rabbi of Hamburg and the Leader of the Central Council of German jews also have urged moderation for fear that the tight will play into the hands of right Wing extremists. Rebel inmates lose 5-Day fight for control of peruvian prison Lima Peru apr hundreds of shining path rebel inmates Lay face Down in the prison Yard dirt chanting slogans As masked police who broke their years Long control of a Cellblock stood watch with guard dogs. The five Day siege of Canto Grande prison part of president Alberto Fujimori a get Tough Campaign against the leftist insurgency ended sunday. It claimed at least 28 inmate lives and is sure to Breed More hatred. For the first time in five years police were in control of the prison on Lima a northeastern outskirts. A control of a prison where terrorism had been in charge has now been recovered Quot said Fujimori who visited the scene. Shining path inmates had turned Canto Grande into a training and indoctrination Center where poorly paid guards dared not confront them. Relatives had smuggled weapons and explosives to inmates. Last month Fujimori dissolved Congress and suspended the Constitution with the military a Blessing shining path rebels surrounded by masked police lie on the ground sunday after giving up at the Canto Grande prison in Lima Peru