European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 29,1992 the stars and stripes b Page 9 disappointed s. Koreans learn heaven must wait Seoul South Korea a thousands of koreans who believed that doomsday was at hand chanted Sang and wailed the rapture is coming in nearly 200 churches throughout Korea on wednesday evening. But they did t ascend to heaven As they expected and the singing faded. Nothing has happened said the Rev. Chang Man to according to parishioners. Let s go Home. Let s go Back to a Normal  some 2,500 worshippers then left a Church in Western Seoul Early thursday expressing emotions ranging from disappointment to depression. It s just not time for Jesus to come said Chung Dong Bun 53. There will be another  believers had expected the rapture the ascent to heaven to occur at Midnight. Seven years of apocalypse would follow bringing Earth s annihilation and the Sec ond coming of Christ they believed. Singing could be heard from inside Seoul s main doomsday Church the Mission for the coming Days after Midnight. Outside the Church More than 1,000 people stood behind police lines. A police Searchlight scanned the darkness and 200 riot police stood a Block away ready to move in to try to pre vent suicides or other extreme actions. Officials had Wor ried some believers might despair if the prediction failed to come True. No suicides had been reported an hour after the dead line. The Mission for the coming Days the largest of the doomsday churches claims 10,000 members. Police Esti mate the total number of doomsday believers in Korea at 20,000. All but believers were barred from the churches wednesday and it was unclear How Many were inside the five Story red Brick Seoul Church. A closed circuit television outside had shown parishioners in the Church kneeling on cushions singing and raising their arms As a chorus Sang and a steel guitar played hymns. Jesus is coming parishioners screamed. But the television was smashed by a teen Ager Lee hang sup whose brother was inside the Church. Lee was arrested after a scuffle. One woman threw a Black purse from a fifth Story win Dow containing what looked like House keys. See you in heaven said a Mother with a baby on her Back who was outside the Church. Army former laundry workers reach out of court settlement by de reams staff writer former quartermaster laundry workers and the . Army Europe settled an 8-month-old, $1.3 million lawsuit wednesday a spokesman for the German Union representing the workers said. This morning the Union and the Usa eur contractor Pae Pacific architects and engineers a Mph came to an agreement out of court said Horst Cymara a spokesman for the Union of Public workers. This Means the labor court process which started in april will cease and Usa eur can Settle with the workers. When Usa eur signs the agreement we worked out it will Cost the command More than 2 Mil lion German Marks he added. That amounts to roughly $1.3 million. The Issue began March 8 when 170 workers including some americans lost their jobs after Pae lost an army contract to operate quartermaster laundry facilities in and around Wiir Burg and More than 30 laundry pickup and drop off Points in Southern Germany. The agreement reached wednesday sets up a sever Ance salary and benefits plan for the 100 former Launt dry workers who had been unable to find new employ ment Cymara said. The plan Calls for one week s pay for each year of employment with the laundry he said. In addition All labor contracts will be honoured which Means the last contracts will run out at the end of the  Usa eur officials had no comment on the Union announcement. The Day after the contract expired employees were locked out of the laundry on Faulenburg Cavern in Wiir Burg. The laundry soon reopened with another contractor who kept Only about 40 of the existing staff members. The workers who lost their jobs filed suit in German labor court maintaining they were due wages through the end of their labor contracts which ran longer than the Pae agreement with the army. The workers also were seeking certain health and retirement benefits. Cymara said wednesday s meeting was arranged ear Lier this month after the army told the Union that it preferred to Settle the disagreement out of court. That was on oct. 6, one Day before the German labor court was to make its decision on the Case Cymara said. Usa eur probably realized the Law was on our Side and a court decision might surface other  up to that time Usa eur contended the army has no responsibility to either pay or employ the work ers because they were employed Fey Pae. The army could have saved a lot of Money had they simply extended Pae s contract to the end of the year Cymara said. Had they done that the workers would have stayed on the Job making Money for the army until dec. 31 and would have been legally terminated Usa eur was warned but failed to see the Finan Cial ramifications of the problem. Don t ask me  few victims of warehouse fire filing claims seeking assistance by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau Stuttgart Germany Only 22 of the 129 local families and individuals who lost household goods in a recent warehouse fire have filed claims for reimburse ment an army claims examiner said wednesday. We have a lot of people who Haven t even showed up yet said Barbel hucks of the Stuttgart Legal serv ices Center s Patch Barracks office. The oct. 19 fire swept through the Rubino trans Porter warehouse in Freiberg North of Stuttgart Caus ing an estimated $2.7 million in damage. The Legal office has been authorized to offer army members $2,000 As an emergency Advance on claims in addition to accepting claims for reimbursement. How Ever hucks said that so far Only eight people have sought the emergency Money. Officials now Are negotiating for permission to offer the $2,000 to air Force personnel As Well said army maj. Cathy p. Jarvis who Heads the Legal office. An army Community services Effort to provide donated clothing to fire victims also is drawing few takers. We re still just seeing a trickle of people said acs staff member Wanda Castellaw standing in the aisles of what might have passed for a Good secondhand clothing store. We were prepared for a  the clothing distribution Center located on the fourth floor of Patch Barracks building 2307 with other emergency services is Well stocked with most kinds of clothing especially children s Wear. We still need blankets and sheets and towels More than anything else Castellaw said. She and volunteers have to work to persuade fire Vic Tims to take enough clothing she said adding that some victims worry that if they walk out with a lot the next person coming in the door won t get what he or she needs. Also on wednesday an initial meeting of a support group for fire victims which was organized by acs and closed to the Media Drew about a dozen people to Patch Barracks. Convicted French doctor arrested in his blood Case from wire reports Paris a French doctor convicted for his leading role in a policy of distributing his contaminated blood products was taken into custody wednesday upon his arrival from Boston. Five Days ago he received a four year prison sentence. Police waiting on the Airport Tarmac placed or. Michel Garretta in a patrol car As soon As he left the Northwest airlines jetliner taking him to a court in suburban Bovigny the jurisdiction covering the Airport. The National blood transfusion Center s policy in 1985 of using blood products known to be tainted with the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids left 1,200. Haemophiliacs contaminated. Nearly 300 of them have since died. Garretta is a former chief of the transfusion Center. Israeli troops on Border Tyre Lebanon israeli forces gathered on the lebanese Border wednesday preparing for a possible ground attack into the country after two Days of clashes with pro iranian guerrillas. Following a bombing sunday that killed five israeli soldiers military leaders directed artillery fire at guerrilla bases and launched bombing missions into Lebanon. They moved in ground forces overnight but the Border area was quiet lebanese Security sources said. Russian admits killing 11 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 col. Vladimir Voroz Tusov of the Interior ministry. It was the latest series of grisly slayings to Shock russians. Earlier this month Andrei Chikailo was convicted in Rostov 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 news Agency Pap said tuesday. The cause of the fire was under investigation. It started monday night while the bus was parked in a lot near rajgr6d in northeastern Poland the official news Agency Pap said. 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 rebels 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 the red Cross feared they had been taken hostage by rebels. New Delhi beggars face ban new Delhi India the government plans to ban begging in new Delhi where most begging is organized by gangs and the profits often net them 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 time could be imprisoned for up to five years. A conviction for organizing or employing beggars could bring seven years in prison