European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse I reportedly to declare emergency move aimed at limiting influx of refugees he Wachul Nann Asylum abuse . Declare the emergency and try to pass Kohl from winning the two by the Washington Post Berlin Chancellor Helmut Kohl is preparing to declare a National state of emergency that he would use to Force through Laws limiting the influx of refugees according to chancellery sources and German press reports. A chancellery spokesman said Kohl will not step beyond his constitutional role but will use a other constitutional Means Quot to Clamp Down on the number of refugees taking up residence in Germany according to press reports. An aide said Kohls moves Are designed to a show the voters which political party takes the Asylum abuse , Kohls expected moves flow from a new found eagerness to appear decisive and meet criticism that his government failed to appreciate the seriousness of growing economic and social strains. In particular a wave of anti foreigner violence has swept Over the country since summer in reaction to monthly arrivals of up to 50,000 refugees. If the opposition social democrats meeting at a special convention later this month reject Kohls proposal to scrap Germany a constitutional guarantee of political Asylum the Chancellor plans to declare the emergency and try to pass Asylum restriction Laws by a simple parliamentary majority without changing the Constitution. A government spokesman stressed that the Constitution would not be suspended. The constitutionality of any restriction Laws passed during the emergency would Likely be decided later by courts. The Constitution allows the Chancellor to declare a state of emergency to break a gridlocked government. Kohl reportedly plans to invoke that clause declaring that the nations Asylum policy had led Germany to a state of emergency. The opposition party has prevented Kohl from winning the two thirds majority needed for a constitutional change but Kohl could easily win a simple majority from his own ruling coalition. The clause of the German Constitution that allows Kohl to declare an emergency pertains Only to natural disaster. But aides said Kohl believes the country a High court would Back his argument that the violence and the flood of refugees have created a National crisis. Although Germany has no Legal immigration program its Liberal Asylum Law is expected to attract 500,000 refugees by years end. . Military planes flying in Colombia anger other pilots by the new York times Bogota Colombia a airline pilots flying Over Central Colombia say they Are sighting More than dormant volcanoes and Coffee plots on andean slopes. They complain of uncomfortably close encounters with a ghost planes bearing . Military markings. A your air plane started to shake and the noise of the engines of the Hercules air plane could be Felt a Alvaro Jaramillo Buitrago president of Vianca colombians largest airline wrote recently to air safety authorities in Bogota. A we can Only attribute to Luck that the two aircraft did not the close Call in August was one of about half a dozen incidents in recent months where colombian pilots have complained that . Military planes unexpectedly appeared flying outside assigned flight paths in the congested skies Over Medellin. In one Case last year a stray . Military plane was apparently hit by gunfire from an anti aircraft Battery protecting the Mountainside jail where Pablo Escobar the cocaine trafficker was being held. In two cases two . Pilots who strayed Over Medellin were temporarily banned from flying in colombian airspace. American and colombian officials acknowledged that . Military planes based in neighbouring Panama routinely Aid in intelligence gathering operations Over Medellin and Cali centers for colombians largest cocaine exporting cartels. But officials bridle every time a radio newscaster excitedly announces another close Call Between a colombian passenger Jet and a a a Gringo spy plane. A the air traffic controllers Are controlled by the drug mafia Quot colombians defense minister Rafael Pardo Rueda charged in an interview. A the Only complaints come from the Cali Medellin area. A you never hear any complaints from them about the seven or eight planes that come in every Day from the upper Hua Llaga Quot he continued referring to shipments of Semi refined cocaine from the coca growing Valley of Northern Peru to Clandestine laboratories in Colombia. Indeed of the 13 a near collisions reported by Vianca in Colombia Over the last 18 months the widest publicity was Given to three that involved . Military planes in the Medellin area. Controllers retort that the us planes Are wandering through an area with a heavy Load of air traffic second Only to raid nets cocaine Worth about $35 million Madrid. Spain a police arrested 12 people and seized cocaine valued at about $35 million during a raid in an affluent suburb Here a government official said monday. Approximately 1,119 pounds of cocaine were discovered in a trailer at a House in the wealthy Madrid suburb of Masada Honda Early sunday Madrid regional government Delegate Segismundo Crespo told reporters. Police arrested seven colombians three spaniards an italian and a German. Body heat Survey about jews prompts fears racism might be growing in Italy cemetery in san remo and swastikas scrawled on the Walls of the synagogue in Livorno. The Survey was conducted for the newsweekly Les presso which released the results in Advance of its monday Issue it polled 1,064 people ranging in age from 14 to 79, no margin of error was Given and la espresso a office was closed sunday As was that of demo Kopea the Milan based polling company that conducted the Survey. Last year Italy wrestled with the question of prejudice when the government rejected tens of thousands of albanians who had tried to escape poverty by braving the Adriatic in Flimsy boats or overcrowded ferries. Italian authorities herded the Asylum hopefuls into Camps or in one Case left the refugees sweltering in a stadium and then sent them Back to Albania some scoffed at the Survey about jews who number about 35,000-40,000 in a country of 58 million. A i live in the midst of the people and i have never Felt such a widespread sentiment Quot la Stamps quoted Gianfranco Fini head of the Neo fascist italian social movement As saying. The party sent Alessandra Mussolini to parliament in april. Ii Messaggiero newspaper described Elio Toff the chief rabbi in Rome As sceptical quoting him As saying Quot that 10 percent who a like to kick the jews oui of Italy. Are the usual extremists tied to the extreme Rome apr one out of three italians believes jews Are not True italians according to a Survey that has triggered a new round of worry and debate Over whether intolerance and racism Are rising in Italy. Survey results carried by All major newspapers on their front pages sunday round that 10.5 percent of those questioned would like to see jews leave Italy and 9,5 percent believe the holocaust was an a invention of the jews a. A a a shocking Survey reveals the return of prejudice read a headline in la Starna a Turin daily the Survey was made Public a few Days after Neo fascists rallied in Naples to Mark the 70th anniversary of the March by Benito Mussolini s followers on Rome the rally was led by Alessandra Mussolini the dictators granddaughter and a member of parliament the 1922 March set the stage for Benito Mussolini s fascist regime which included anti jewish Laws. Attitudes toward jews in this overwhelmingly Catho lie country have periodically cause problems. In 1988, the italian Bishops conference deplored a rash of anti semitic episodes. At the time the episodes were blamed on israeli policies toward palestinians. Although Italy Hasni to witnessed the regular racial and anti semitic violence that Germany is experiencing there have been recent expressions of anti semitism including slogans painted on jewish tombs in a
