European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday novembers. 1992 world the stars and stripes Page 11izmir quake has residents shaken from staff and wire reports Izmir Turkey a the residents of this Aegean coastal City spent the night outdoors after a Strong earthquake and its aftershocks Shook the Region Friday evening acc orc ing to the Anatolia hews Agency. The quake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit the City at 9 05 . Friday Kandill Observatory in Istanbul said. Some buildings were damaged and three people were slightly injured it added. The . Geological Survey in Menlo Park calif., recorded the quake s magnitude As 6.1 on the Richter scale. No americans assigned to Izmir were reported injured said air Force 1st it. Mike Paoli a Community spokesman. Damages to . Facilities included plaster knocked from the ceiling and a Large crack in a pillar outside a 120-year-old Cathedral that the americans use for a Chapel broken Glass and minor mortar and paint damage to the Kordon hotel. The hotel provides temporary billeting for . Forces and office space for some morale welfare and recreation activities. Some water pipes also broke at the Kordon Paoli said Quot but they took care of it last night. The building held up pretty  Paoli added Quot everything that was standing in this town yesterday is still  most shaken he said were Peoples nerves. The tremor was Felt in other Western provinces. Aftershocks continued All night Long with the Strong est measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale. Residents of Izmir spent the night in their cars or waited outdoors Anatolia said. A a committee was established to assess damage and help with immediate repairs. One House was destroyed and windows were shattered and cracks were opened in other Homes Anatolia said. Turkey s Aegean and Mediterranean coastal areas and the entire Eastern Region Are atop an earthquake prone Belt known As the Anatolia fault. The Richter scale is a gauge of the Energy released by an earthquake As measured by the ground motion recorded on a Seismograph. Staff writer Dato a Ofca contributed to this report Norway prime minister resigns party position Oslo Norway up a norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland announced her resignation As Leader of the norwegian labor party. A visibly moved Brundtland 53, announced her Surprise decision at the labor party annual Congress in Oslo on Friday night citing personal reasons for her resignation. A i have arrived at a situation where it is necessary for me to ask for replace Blindt Laid ment a said Brundtland whose son died last month. No official reason was published for his death. Quot everybody Here knows of the tragedy which hit my family a few weeks ago Brundtland said As she fought to hold Back tears. Quot in this situation it is difficult for me to give the Job of party Leader the time required. I must Reserve a Little More of my time to spend with my closest  she told the shocked Assembly she had chosen to keep her decision secret until the Congress was Well under Way in order Quot not to derail the  the conference is to attack the thorny and divisive Issue of whether Norway will apply for membership to the european Community. More than 54 percent of the norwegian electorate is against norwegian membership. A it is important that this meeting could be prepared without the Strong personality locus which the election of a new party Leader would have caused a she said. Quot therefore nobody knew of my decision until a few hours ago and it was a decision i took in isolation a Brundtland said. It was unclear whether or for How Long Brundtland intended to remain As prime minister. In the nordic political tradition it would be highly unusual for a single party government to be headed by anyone other than the Leader of the party. Brundtland a medical doctor by profession has been head of the norwegian labor party since 1981. For four years prior to that she was Deputy Leader of the party. Retired German suspected in killing of italians in 43 Koblenz Germany apr authorities announced Friday the arrest of a 69-year-old retired architect suspected of killing 22 italian civilians in 1943. Chief Koblenz prosecutor Norbert Weiss identified the suspect Only As Wolfgang l., who was placed in investigative custody. According to Weiss the suspect was serving As a German army lieutenant on oct. 13, 1943, when his unit came upon some farm buildings  Caiazzo near Naples where 22 italian men women and children had taken Refuge. The suspect allegedly led a group of German soldiers in capturing seven italian men at the farm who were first questioned and then shot As partisans. The germans then went Back to the farmhouse and brutally killed 15 More italians who were still there Weiss said. According to Weiss italian authorities also have been seeking Wolfgang  In connection with the massacre. He said the former lieutenant had been captured by the . Military in november 1943, but managed to escape. He returned to Germany where he lived in the town of Ochtendung about three Miles West of Koblenz until his arrest. Buy swedish car workers Tell leaders Stockholm Sweden a swedish car workers have launched a Campaign aimed at politicians who own japanese made cars while swedish car manufacturers shrink their work Force news reports said saturday. Quot if you drive a japanese car swedish a workers lose jobs a said advertisements in the local newspaper Ostra sea land by Meterna published in Kalmar according to the National news Agency to. A manufacturing Plant in Kalmar on Sweden a East coast 256 Miles South of Stockholm is one of two swedish Volvo plants affected by plans announced last week to Cut 4,500 jobs in the next two years because of declining car sales in the United states Sweden and Britain. Finance minister Anne Wibble and local Kalmar politicians Are targeted in the Campaign. Quot we Are playing hardball but our jobs Are at stake a autoworkers Tommy Magnusson was quoted As saying by to. Quot if swedes bought More Volvo then we would not have any crisis Quot said Magnusson who works at the Volvo car Assembly Plant in Kalmar. Sweden a second car maker Saab is also planning Job cuts. Former . Army officer James Thayer scoops Earth ibo the cemetery at the Mau Hausen concentration Camp in Austria into a Container held by Camp survivor Mike Jacobs. Watching is Karl Stojka a Gypsy from Vienna whose father died in Mau Hausen. Camp survivors fear world is forgetting Mau Hausen Austria a Mike Jacobs remembers Mau Hausen one of the deadliest of Adolf Hitler s concentration Camps. In the Winter of 1945, As the third Reich collapsed German troops marched him Here from Auschwitz. Wolf Finkelman remembers standing for hours just inside the Camp Wall where the Fate of thousands was decided. James Thayer then a Young . Army officer remembers the Shock of finding a Forest full of people like Finkelman and Jacobs while racing across Northern Austria to Cut off retreating is troops who served As nazi Germany a special police Force. On Friday with stiff joints and grading hair Thayer Finkelman and Jacobs returned to convince a turbulent world that the lesson of a Hal Century ago is a lesson for All time. Together liberators and liberated scooped dirt from one of Maut Hauseng a cemeteries for a holocaust museum that will open in Washington d.c., next Spring. And they fretted that their message slowly is being lost in the passage of time. Quot it must not happen to anyone anyplace anywhere a said the polish born Jacobs 67, now a retired steel and scrap Iron dealer in Dallas. A plaque on the Wall of the Maut Hausen Camp about 90 Miles West of Vienna says 122,766 people died there. That does not include thousands of others whose deaths were not registered. Many perished ferrying Stone from Maut Hauseng a Quarry up the Quot Steps of  the austrian government keeps the Camp its crematorium and Gas Chambers As a memorial. Those who died were jews gypsies Jehovah a witnesses political prisoners prisoners of War and Many others. They came from All Over Eastern Europe and the former soviet Union. Now Many of the holocaust a survivors worry about a resurgence of xenophobia among a Small minority in Germany Austria and the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe. Skinhead gangs have attacked refugee hostels in Germany. A jewish cemetery in the Eastern austrian town of Eisenstadt was vandalized a week ago. In Hungary a Leader of the governing hungarian democratic forum railed publicly against an alleged jew ish Liberal conspiracy in his country. A i can see people getting silent and complacent a said Jacobs. What happened to me could happen to the next