European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes world tuesday november 3,1992tourist houses blown up in apparent political attack from wire reports Bastia Corsica a about 30 masked and armed men saying they were corsican separatists evacuated tourists then blew up More than two dozen vacation bungalows Early monday. It was the second such operation in less than a week. Police said no one was Hurt in mondays blast which damaged 25 of 56 bungalows in Listro 30 Miles South of Bastia the Northern capital of Corsica a French Mediterranean Island. Eight German tourists were evacuated by the attackers put in a Van and taken to the Center of town. The German consulate at Bastia has taken charge of the tourists police said. The tourists told police that about 30 armed men arrived at the san Carlo vacation Camp saying they were members of the banned corsican National liberation lost after Landing Luxembourg a a Boeing 747 cargo plane lost an engine after Landing in thick fog a Luxembourg a Findel Airport sunday officials said. No injuries were reported. The jumbo Jet carrying four Crew members took off from Istanbul and developed problems during Landing sunday afternoon a police spokesman said. Officials gave no cause for the problem but said the plane lost an engine after touching Down and skidding a few Yards off the says it shot dealers Belfast Northern Ireland a the Irish Republican army said sunday that it killed one Man Anil shot eight others Over the weekend for their alleged involvement in sales of illegal drugs. A the word is out on the Street. Drugs Are finished. Those who persist will be relentlessly pursued a an Ira statement plea in drug Case Bangkok Thailand a a briton pleaded guilty monday in the City a criminal court to a charge of Possession of 14 ounces of heroin. Peter Hetter a 27-Ycar-old sales representative from Stoke on Trent told reporters t rat he did not knowingly possess the drugs but pleaded guilty to avoid the Ileath fed to zoo bears Tokyo a someone hurled three cats in a bag into the Polar bears enclosure at a zoo and the bears ate two of them in front of about 50 spectators mostly children a zoo official said monday. Police Are investigating the oct. 23 incident at the Oji zoo in Kobe in Western Japan said a police official.16 killed in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa sixteen Black people were killed in weekend fighting including 11 who died during Street Battles in the squalid Alexandra township bordering Johannesburg police said monday. Attackers used assault rifles pistols and machetes As they rampaged through squatter shacks in Alexandra said police spokesman capt. Piet Van Deventer. Police did not say who was responsible. However the country a two main Black actions the inkatha Freedom party and the african National Congress have been battling for years in the township which abuts one of South africans most affluent White transport denied Beijing a North Korea on monday denied a report that quoted unidentified . Intelligence sources As saying a North korean ship was transporting scud missiles to Iran Anu Syria. A this is an absolute lie a ambassador Chu Chang Jun told a news conference. . News and world report said in its latest editions that the ship was carrying As Many As 100 scud missiles expected for delivery this month. Yeltsin orders crackdown to curb ethnic fighting Moscow a russian president Boris n. Yeltsin striving to halt four Days of ethnic warfare declared a monthlong state of emergency monday in two Southern regions near the Border with Georgia. The declaration came after fighting broke out Friday Between Inrush and ossetian forces in North Ossetia located in the caucasus mountains of Southern Russia. Inrush militants Are demanding control Over part of North Ossetia. Following a Kremlin meeting with his Security Council Yeltsin imposed the state of emergency until dec. 2 in North Ossetia and ing Shetia because of the a Winter ethnic conflict accompanied by violence with use of weapons and military hardware which has led to human Yeltsin appointed vice Premier Georgy Krizha to govern the area temporarily. The decree bans the activity of political groups allows for searches of vehicles and people and increases Security at key facilities such As Power plants. It also provides for taking control of broadcasting facilities newspapers an remembering the dead a girl lights a Candle sunday at the symbolic Katyn grave in a Warsaw Poland cemetery. Last month Russia revealed documents showing that the soviet communist party ordered the execution of More than 25,000 polish officers in world War 11 in the Forest of Katyn. The soviets had insisted for years that German nazis were to blame. Sunday was All saints Day a time when poles commemorate the dead. Magazines. Seven people have been killed and scores of russian servicemen taken hostage since the violence began a the latest ethnic unrest to break out in the former soviet Union. Russian paratroopers and Interior ministry troops were called in sunday to help separate the Inrush and ossetian militants fighting in Prigo Rodny near the capital of Vladikavkaz the itar Tass news Agency said. Clashes near Vladikavkaz were reported monday despite a cease fire agreed to by both sides including the use of russian troops As a Buffer Force itar Tass said. At least two people were killed and nine wounded it said. About 200 angry Inrush citizens protested monday outside the russian parliament demanding that Moscow help end the ethnic warfare by withdrawing its troops from the caucasus Region. A the russian troops say they Are Neutral but they come to our land bringing weapons Quot said protester Mikhail ded Igov 38.beer giant plans major theme Park in Spanish resort Barcelona Spain apr despite the somewhat disappointing launch of euro Disney last Spring Anheuser Busch cos. And a Spanish partner Are forging ahead with plans to develop Europe a second major theme Park in the resort of Cap de Safou. Tibi gardens expected to open in 1995, will occupy 500 acres featuring five major attractions representing the wild West polynesia China Mexico and the northeastern Spanish Region of Catalonia. It will have 31 rides and 11 daily shows. St. Louis based Anheuser Busch and grand Tibia to s.a., also plan a 300-room hotel an 18-Hole Golf course and 200 private Homes nearby. A there is nothing about what has happened at euro Disney that bothers or discourages us Quot Charles Vilar Rubi president of grand Tib Idabo said in a recent interview. A it is absurd to draw conclusions about euro Disney after Only the first year Quot he added. A these Parks Are always designed As Long term investments. It is also absurd to compare euro Disney and Tibi the euro Disney theme Park and resort a which opened in april in Marne-la-vall6e, France about 20 Miles East of Paris a has fallen Short of Walt Disney original projections the company expected 11 million visitors for the first year but so far it has logged 7 million. Disney also said it would earn a profit the first year but company officials recently acknowledged the Park will Register a net loss. Tibi gardens does have More modest goals. Officials say the first year would be a Success if Only 3 million visitors pay the $30 admission charge the project also is much smaller in comparison a expected to Cost $450 million a fraction of the $4 billion Cost for Disney a massive 4,800-acre development. Villarrubi said Tibi gardens ground breaking began last May and workers were now ready to begin putting the infrastructure of the theme Park in place. S. Korean Church meets its doom Seoul South Korea apr South koreans largest doomsday Church apologized to the nation monday and said it would disband after a prophecy that the world would end failed to materialize. A we Are Sony for creating problems to the nation and the established churches by misinterpreting the Bible a said a statement by the Mission for the coming Days Church released through newspapers. The Church had predicted that the beginning of the end of the world would occur oct. 28 and that seven years of misery would follow. It said Only the faithful would be saved in a phenomenon known As the rapture a the ascent to heaven. A the Church will disband and let people who belong to established churches go Back to their original places of worship a the statement said a if there Are people w to choose to with us we will Pray with them for the coming of Jesus the signboard for the Church in Western Seoul was removed sunday. The Church said that it had 10,000 followers and that another 10,000 doomsday believers belonged to other sects. The decision to disband was approved by Lee Jang rim 46, the churches founder said the National Cho Sun ilbo newspaper. Lee is now jailed on charges of swindling parishioners. Lee was arrested in Early october on charges of swindling followers
