European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tourist 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 monday s 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 at Luxembourg a Findel Airport sunday officials said. No injuries were reported. The jumbo it 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 and shot eight others Over the weekend for their alleged involvement in sales of illegal drugs. Quot 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 hotter a 27-year-old sales representative from Stoke on Trent told reporters that he did not knowingly possess the drugs but pleaded guilty to avoid the death  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 ii zoo in Kobe in Western Japan said a police official.16 killed in s. Africa Johannesburg South Africa a 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 factions 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 and 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. Schweinfurt lock Down Over for 4 companies by Ron Mckinney staff writer the nine Day lock Down for about 700 soldiers of the 1st in 15th inf regt at Schweinfurt Germany partially ended monday when four of the battalions five companies returned to Normal duty according to a 3rd inf div spokesman. Pie battalion s b co however returned to its local training area monday to search for a missing pair of an/pvs-7b night vision goggles since it is the unit accountable for the goggles said maj. Michael Mckinney the division spokesman. Hie missing goggles Worth $4,584, were one of 464 pairs in the battalion Mckinney said. A a Soldier apparently stowed a pair of goggles improperly on Nis vehicle a Mckinney said. The goggles Are considered sensitive items because they enhance images to increase night vision and their use by hostile elements such As terrorists could cause serious harm to . Soldiers and their families according to a division news release. The goggles were discovered missing on the evening of oct. 24 in an inventory of sensitive items during a Field an/pvs-7b night vision goggles. _ exercise that had begun a week earlier. The battalions soldiers were confined to Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt beginning on oct. 25. A it is a command responsibility to exhaust All possible Means to find the sensitive items a Mckinney said. Some soldiers wives told the stars and stripes that their families have been distraught during the lock remembering the dead a girl lights a Candle sunday at the symbolic Katyn grave in a Warsaw Poland cemetery. Last month bus revealed documents showing that the soviet communist party ordered the execution of More than 25,000 polish officers in world War ii in the Forest of Katyn the soviets had insisted for years that German nazis were to blame. Sunday was All saints Bay a time when poles commemorate the dead. Down because they did not know when it would end. One wife who alleged she was warned by the army not to Contact the Media during a wives meeting last weekend and asked not to be named said she and her child had a Quot real Tough time until her husband returned Home after 5 . Monday. Quot when they go out for Maneu vers for a month we can take out a Calendar and Tell the kids when he a coming Home. This time we knew nothing. A 3-year-old can t understand that she said. Another wife said that she saw her husband twice during the lock Down a once for about 10 minutes when she gave him some uniforms at the Gate and a second time for two hours during family visiting hours at the company Barracks. A we were All packed into a room with All the other wives and husbands. Just where we were sitting in the hallway there were six families around us a the second wife said. Phone Calls to the company Barracks were allowed although the company a one phone line was constantly Busy the second wife said. She said that the family support group arranged by the unit helped defuse her anger. Emergency situations Are being handled on a Case by Case basis Mckinney said. The approximately 100 soldiers of a a a company. Will continue the search Over routes it travelled Ana positions it occupied during the exercise until a further search is determined to be impractical a Mckinney said. He could not say How much longer that would be. An investigation has been referred to the criminal investigation come Mckinney  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 Salou. 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 nodes 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 a 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 a 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 Vallde France about 20 roues East of Paris a has fallen Short of Walt Disney co s original projections. The company expected u 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 offi loss Rece acknowledged the Park will Register a net a 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. -s0 a much smaller in comparison a expected to Cost $450 million a fraction of the $4 billion i s Quot passive 4,800-acre development. Last Tibi gardens ground breaking began a a \ workers were now ready to begin putting the infrastructure of the theme Park in place