European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday october 29, 1992 world the stars and stripes a Page 9 koreans flock to churches for beginning of the end Seoul South Korea a throngs of South koreans expecting to be lifted up to heaven wednesday night crowded into Church to Pray As speakers blare hymns and hallelujah and a police Searchlight illuminated the darkness. Some 10,000 koreans from sects believing that doomsday is at hand began final prayers at some 200 churches for what they called the rapture. They said thousands of believers around the world would join them. They said Angels would come at Midnight wednes Day 3 . Greenwich mean time to take them to heaven As the world begins a seven year process of annihilation that will set the stage for the second coming of Christ. See you in heaven said a Mother with a baby other Back one of 1,500 parishioners outside Seoul s main doomsday Church the Mission for coming police Searchlight scanned the darkness As police patrolled in Hopes of heading off suicides or other extreme acts of despair. Each Church member wore a White plastic identification badge with a picture. Outsiders were not admitted or. Michel Garretta talks to reporters in Boston before leaving for France. His lawyers have said they did no know whether he would Appeal the verdict against him. But a closed circuit television set up in the parking lot showed worshippers in the main Chapel located on one of three Church floors in a five Story office building. Parishioners keeled on cushions on the floor sing ing and raising their arms toward heaven As a chorus Sang and a steel guitar played hymns. Jesus is coming they screamed. One woman threw a Black purse from a fifth Story window containing what looked like keys. I m Happy said Kim Kui Kung who said he would go to heaven with his wife and three Young daughters. We will be hundreds possibly thousands of korean believe shave sold property abandoned their families quit schools and jobs or deserted military posts. Some had abortions. At least four have committed suicide. I am worried said cult expert tank Myeong Whan director of the International religions research Institute. We cannot Rule out extreme actions if the things they expect to occur do not police estimate the total number of doomsday believers in Korea at 20,000. His Case doctor in French custody Paris a a French doctor convicted for misleading role in a policy of distributing ulv contaminated blood products was taken into custody wednes Day on his arrival from Boston five Days after he received a four year prison waiting on the Tarmac placed or. Michel Gar Retta in a patrol car As soon As he left the Northwest airlines plane taking him to a court in suburban Bovigny the jurisdiction covering the , who protested the sentence before leaving Boston is to be jailed in Paris la Sante prison Accord ing to judicial sources speaking on condition of anonymity. His lawyers have said they did not know whether he would Appeal the verdict which also carries a $100,000 National blood transfusion Center s policy in 1985 of using blood products known to be tainted wit the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids left 1,200 Haemophiliacs contaminated. Nearly300 of them have since died. Garretta is a former chief of the transfusion Center. By failing to import expensive treated blood stocks he was deemed responsible for putting commercial incentives before human other people also were convicted Friday but the court deemed Garretta who received the maximum sentence incontestably the inspirer and director of the said at Boston s Logan International air port that he was tired from the Strain of the Case. The judgment that was pronounced is a judgment that s not in the end about facts but about a Rumor he said. It was the collective fault of the pampered Spassky was punished after chess loss to Fischer in 72 Moscow a the soviet communist part gave chess master Boris Spassky help from top chess experts a country House and a new Moscow apartment but then punished him after he lost to american Bobby Fischer in 1972, according to Archive documents published tuesday by the daily Izvestia. All conditions have been created for comrad Spassky to ensure his successful performance in the forthcoming match with the american grand master ," said a memo written in 1972 by the propaganda department of the party s policy making Central committee Victory is the main goal said a sports committee report to the Central committee. Everything that re lates to preparations for the match must be Kepu Ecret. All those involved must sign a secrecy a team of specialists from the Academy of medical sciences even monitored Spassky s health and sched ule and the Trade ministry provided a fund of High calorie beating Spassky Fischer became the first Ameri can named world Champion of chess since the title was first used in 1866.Spassky was never forgiven for the loss Izvestia said. When Spassky married a French woman and move to Paris six years later soviet officials used it As a pre text to throw him off the soviet chess team. Spassky appealed to the soviet embassy to remain on the team and get a multiple entry visa. But the Central committee s propaganda depart ment denied his request in a secret letter in february 1979, and Spassky s soviet citizenship was cancelled. The documents said a close watch was kept Ove Spassky by the sports committee a government organization that reported to the Central committee. Grand master b. Spassky is 34, and he is a highly gifted Man in his Field said one such report from 1971, signed by the head of the sports committee ser Gei due to a hard childhood and gaps in his up bringing Spassky is sometimes uncritical of his behaviour allows himself to make immature statements Vio lates sports regime and fails to show proper Diligence Pavlov wrote. Russian suspect admits he killed 11 teen agers from wire reports Moscow a Man arrested by police has admitted killing 11 teen agers in a six year spree of sexual assault mutilation and torture authorities said tuesday. The 33-year-old Man arrested near Moscow on thursday has not been identified pending an inquiry said Interior ministry col. . It was the latest series of grisly slayings to Shock russians. Earlier this month Andrei Chi Katillo was convicted in Rostov on Don of murdering 52 boys girls and women. Some of Chikailo s victims were mutilated and cannibalized. 5 die in tourist bus fire Warsaw Poland a fire engulfed a tourist bus carrying russians from Latvia killing five people and seriously injuring four the polish new Agency Pap said tuesday. The cause of the fire was under investigation. I started monday night while the bus was parked in a lot near Raj Grod in northeastern Poland Pap said. The passengers were ethnic russians living in the former soviet Republic of Latvia Slawomir Luks of the regional prosecutor s office told Pap. The number of people aboard the bus and their destination were not immediately known. Red Cross workers missing Freetown Sierra Leone an american employee of the red Cross and his Sierra leonean Driver were reported missing and feared kidnapped tuesday by repels operating near the country s Border with Liberia. A red Cross statement said Michael o Neil and his Driver Allie Bangura disappeared monday while visiting a Village in the East where fighting Between government troops and rebels had sent thousands fleeing from their Homes. The statement said it feared they had been taken hostage by rebels. A . Embassy spokesman Kiki Munshi said we Are anxiously looking for him and we Hope to find o Neil was described As being from new Jersey but his Hometown was not immediately available. New Delhi beggars face ban new Delhi India the government plans Toban begging in new Delhi where most begging is organized by gangs and the practice often pays More than a regular Job. The proposed Law Calls for imprisonment from six months to two years for a first offence the times of India said tuesday. Beggars convicted a second Tim could be imprisoned for up to five years. A conviction for organizing or employing beggars could bring seven years in prison. 5 nations voted to . Panel United nations the general Assembly on tuesday elected five nations to two year terms on the . Security Council the most powerful . the initial vote Brazil Djibouti Pakistan and Spain All received the required 116 votes or two thirds majority of the 173 votes cast. There Are 179 members of the general Assembly. However new zealand and Sweden were forced into a run off for the fifth seat earmarked for a non permanent member representing the group of Western european and other nations. It took two run off ballots before new zealand received the necessary votes. On the second run off ballot new zealand received 117 votes while Sweden got 55 votes. Gunmen kill Anc official Johannesburg South Africa gunmen have assassinated a senior member of the african National Congress in ongoing political violence. The killing came one Day after president . Deklerk appealed for the leaders of rival Black groups to hold a Summit on ending the strife. Unknown gunmen opened fire tuesday on the Carof Reggie hade be Deputy chairman of the Anc in the Natal midlands As it rounded a Bend. The killing occurred in the Rural Countryside outside tatars main City of Durban 372 Miles South of Johannesburg
