European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world Friday november 27, 1992honecker trial halted after health complaint from wire reports. Berlin a the fourth session of Erich Honecker a manslaughter trial was interrupted thursday after the ailing former Bast German c communist Leader complained that he Wasny to feeling Well. Two other defendants already have been excluded from the proceedings because of their health and critics have said the 80-Ycar-old Honecker May not live to Sec a verdict. Honecker and five other former top communist officials Are charged with manslaughter in connection with the killings of people trying to flee Over Bast Germany a heavily fortified Borders to the West Between 1%1 and 1989. A i can to follow it a Honecker said during thursday mornings session. Chief judge Hansgeorg Brautigam broke off the session for a half hour. Honecker is suffering from incurable liver cancer. It s estimated the trial will take two  sentenced Taipei Taiwan a a 28-Ycar-old Man has been sentenced to life in prison for planting bombs at three Mcdonald a restaurants. Chen Hsi Chieh had admitted that he planted the bombs in april. One bomb exploded in a menus room at a Mcdonald a in Taipei on april 28, killing a policeman who was trying to defuse it. Another bomb exploded in a second Mcdonald a in Taipei the next Day seriously injuring a restaurant employee. A bomb at a third restaurant was  convicted Budapest Hungary a nine skinhead youths have been sent to Reform school and 39 have received probation or suspended sentences after All were convicted of assaulting gypsies and other minorities the state news Agency Mai reported. The verdicts came wednesday in Hungary a first mass trial of skinhead youths. Only two youths were older than 18 and tried As adults. The verdicts were appealed by both the defense and the prosecution which wanted heavier sentences. No Date has been set for a higher court  seek sex ban Paris a a Catholic group is taking Madonna a Trench publisher to court seeking to ban her Book so. About 25,000 copies of the Book containing photographs of the pop Star in various stages of undress and provocative poses sold out within hours in trance last month. Avenir de la culture a nonprofit group said wednesday that Legal proceedings against editions Vade Retro would begin next week in Fontainebleau 25 Miles South of Paris. The group said the Book represents a decadent and destructive trends.�?�128 poisoned in China Beijing a More than 100 students in an adult education class have fallen sick after eating arsenic laced bread and noodles an official newspaper has imported. It was China s second mass poisoning in five months. China daily said a tuesday that authorities belie Seil a student deliberately poisoned the food but it did not identify the suspect or explain the motive. It said 12s students in the class in Chengdu in southwestern China were hospitalized nov. 15 after becoming dizzy and nauseated after a meal. No one died and 57 have since been discharged from the Hospital. I he paper  warplanes crash Athens Greece a two greek air Force fighter lets on a training Mission crashed into the sea in the northeastern Aegean on thursday. Go eminent spokesman Vassis Magginas said that one of the pilots was plucked from the sea near pc Lagos Island and that a search was in Progress for the other after islanders reported seeing two parachutes open. The cause of the clashes was not immediately known. He said the planes an Elb and a Mirage 2000, had taken off from an air base near Volos on Greece s Eastern coast. They fell into the sea about 10 a in yugoslav dam shored up to hold Back toxic wastes Moj Kovac Yugoslavia a workers shored up a dam and widened a riverbed wednesday to prevent tons of deadly toxic waste from spilling into a yugoslav River system that includes the Danube. A . Committee approved exemptions to Trade sanctions against Yugoslavia allowing emergency Crews to ship critical supplies to the mountainous Region. 1 he earthen dam holds Back 4.6 million cubic Yards of Lead Zinc insecticides and other wastes that come from nearby Lead and Zinc mines. A Bulldozer was widening the Tara riverbed to ease water pressure on the dam. Workers also patched a crack in the left Side of the Structure. Workers said no toxic materials had leaked from the dam but that there could be problems if it rained heavily during the next few Days. The dam was damaged by Flash floods last month. Hanns Zimmermann of the . Disaster Relief office in Geneva said he would ship 1,500 wire cages from Italy on thursday to build temporary protective structures at the dam. The cages hold Rock and gravel. The . Team plans to build three jetties and a Small dam to keep the River current from further eroding the base of the dam. Zimmermann said it Wilt take about a week to build the jetties. If the dam Breaks he said tons of Poison sludge would slide into the Tara River probably killing All life in the Stream and the Rivers it flows into and threatening water supplies for millions of people downstream. The Tara feeds the Drina which flows past Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava a major tributary of the Danube. The area threatened stretches from Montenegro past Belgrade to the Black sea Zimmermann said. Japanese balloonist faces Fine for unauthorized trip Over Ocean Yoshikazu Suzuki a 23 balloons float above the Pacific on his Way toward North America on wednesday. Tokyo apr an environmental activist was not just full of hot air when he announced plans to Fly a balloon Craft to the United states. A a coast guard plane wednesday found him two Miles above the Pacific and about 500 Miles into his journey a intended to dramatize the need for environmental Protection. Yoshikazu Suzuki a 52-year-old piano tuner was Riding in a Gondola suspended from 23 balloons said an official of the maritime safety Agency. It was not known whether Suzuki has any previous experience piloting a balloon. Suzuki had sent a distress Call but then stopped the signal and appeared not to be in danger said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said the plane was unable to make radio communication with Suzuki who waved As his Craft drifted 10,500 feet Over the Pacific and about 500 Miles East of Northern Japan. He was Drifting East at about 42 Mph. His exact destination was not immediately known. The official said Suzuki a request to Fly to san Francisco was rejected by the transport ministry Over safety concerns. Ministry sources said Suzuki Fiad originally planned to leave Shimane in southwestern Japan on nov. 14. But he said later that he would make a test flight monday Over Miwako a Lake in Central Japan. Suzuki could be fined up to $240 if he is found guilty of making a false report on the flight. In january 1991, two men made the first Pacific crossing in a hot air balloon Landing the Craft 150 Miles West of Yellowknife Northwest territories after a 6,000-mile trip from Southern Japan. Spaniards ratify maastricht treaty Madrid Spain up1 a Spain ratified the maastricht treaty on european Unity wednesday without a single dissenting vote in its upper House of parliament. Of the 225 senators present Only three failed to vote for the treaty. Those three deputies a two from the far left Izquierda Unida party and one from a Small Region Alist party a abstained. The treaty also received overwhelming support in the lower House the Congress two weeks ago with 314 sotes in favor and three Voles against. The three dissenters came from a Radical Basque separatist party. All of Spain a principal political parties Are firm supporters of the maastricht Accord. A it is a great qualitative jump in the process of european Union a foreign minister Javier Solana told the Senate on wednesday. Solaria said it was the first time that a pan european treaty had included the signature of Spain. The country a membership in the european Community which it joined in 1986, has coincided with an economic Boom and the ruling socialist government of Felipe Gonzalez has Given the dec much of the credit. Gonzalez has also been one of the most Active supporters of the treaty among the leaders of the 12 potential member countries. I he treaty has run into trouble elsewhere though Early this year Denmark voters rejected it. Soldier charged in korean barmaid killing Seoul South Korea a prosecutors  a . Soldier thursday with murdering a South Korcan bar hostess. The Seoul prosecutors office said it. 2 Kenneth 1 Markle 20, will be tried in a South korean court. Markle has been confined at a . Detention Center just South of Seoul but prosecutors said he will be transferred to a korean prison if convicted. Markle. A member of the 2nd inf div based in Dong Duchon 31 Miles Northeast of Seoul was charged m the death of Yun Kum i 26. On get. 2s. Quot police said she was raped stabbed and tortured by Toie her death which followed an argument. The . Military command in Seoul declined to give Markle s Hometown and other information under  privacy Laws. Alter the killing about 1,000 students and other citizens m Don Duchon protested in front of the division Headquarters this month tossing eggs and Shoutis anti american slogans.  f s. Troops Are stationed in South. Otea under a Mutual defense agreement