European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes world monday december 28, 1992 5 police doctor sentenced in Egypt on torture charge Cairo Egypt apr in the first torture conviction in nearly two decades a court saturday sentenced five policemen and a doctor to prison for the death of a suspected criminal. 1 he decision was a blow to the government which vehemently denies accusations by human rights organizations that it tortures suspects especially political detainees during interrogations. The last major torture Case involved 44 police and prison officials accused of torturing suspects arrested after Muslim extremists assassinated president Anwar Sadat in 1981. The officials were acquitted in june 1988 for Lack of evidence. Emergency Laws in effect since Sadat was killed give police sweeping Powers of detention. The a1 ashram and a1 Akbar newspapers sunday reported that a criminal court in the Southern town of Fayoumi sentenced three police officers to five years in prison. Two other policemen were sentenced to three years and a prison doctor received a one year sentence and a two year suspension from work. The five policemen were accused of torturing Nasser Mustafa Nairi detained on suspicion of kidnapping and raping children in Fayoumi in 1990. The doctor signed Kuji Airit a death warrant without reporting the Burn Marks and other signs of torture on Khairi s body. It was not immediately known if the police officers would Appeal. Anti government lawyer Abdul Halim Ramadan said that the last torture conviction was in the mid-1970s against intelligence chief Salah Nasr for ordering the torture of a journalist a decade earlier. Nasr was sentenced to 10 years in prison but Sadat pardoned him for health reasons. Ramadan said he did not know of any other torture cases that ended in convictions. Sun and Solace a solitary hiker Southeast of Munich rinds both Sun and Scenic vistas at the 4,000-foot level when much or Germany lies under a Blanket of fog. The reason is an unusual temperature inversion with warmer air resting atop cooler surface temperatures. See Page ii for other weather news. Bandits threaten to kill american Isabela Philippines apr Muslim bandits have threatened to kill an american missionary if their Ransom demands Are not met by mid january a roman Catholic Bishop said sunday. Bishop Romulo Dela Cruz said the threat destroyed Hopes that the bandits would release brother Gerald Fraszczak a franciscan missionary from Chicago for Christmas. Fraszczak has been held since oct. 22 on Basilan Island about 550 Miles South of Manila. The kidnappers Are believed to be renegade members of the Moro National liberation front which has waged a 20-year struggle for Muslim self Rule in the South. Dela Cruz said that talks on Fraszczak a release broke Down saturday and the kidnappers were sticking to their demand for a 5200,000 Ransom. Dela Cruz said the kidnappers threatened to kill Fraszczak if the demands were not met. "1 am Given until the Middle of january to produce the amount a he said. The Bishop said the Church and the franciscan order were prepared to accept the possible death of Fraszczak rather than pay Ransom. On sunday the Bishop broadcast an Appeal to the kidnappers Over a government run radio station. A you have been holding brother Gus for so Long a Dela Cruz said. Look at him now. He was very healthy when you got him from us but we see in the pictures you sent to us that he is very thin and we Are afraid he will die if you done to surrender him to  the Bishop also said the military should make plans for a possible Rescue. Leaping lizards reptile thought extinct is found Adelaide Australia apr a Brown snakes last meal has become a posthumous Star. The contents of the stomach of the Snake which met an unfortunate end under a car revealed a pygmy Blue Tongue Lizard that scientists thought was extinct. It had last been seen in 1959. Amateur herpetologists Graham Armstrong stumbled across the squashed Snake on a Road near Burra 101 Miles North of Adelaide in late october and made the discovery after slicing open its innards. Scientists subsequently located a Colony of the lizards thriving under clumps of grass. A group has been trans ported to Adelaide zoo As part of a Breeding program. Mark Hutchinson curator of reptiles at the South Australia museum said the reptile belongs to the Blue Tongue Lizard group which includes the common Blue Tongue and the sleepy Lizard familiar Roadside fixtures to travellers across Australia in summer. The spot where the Lizard Colony is thriving is being kept secret. Hutchinson said it is near a main Road where Hou Sands of motorists have driven in the past few decades. He said very Tittle is known about the habits of the Lizard. And research May hold the key to its Long term survival As a  held by israelis in death of British woman from wire reports Jerusalem a a British woman Volunteer at an agricultural settlement in israelis Negev desert was found murdered Over the weekend and a fellow worker a colombian has been arrested in the Case police said sunday. The body of Theresa Stevens 20, was found in the nature Reserve of the not a Sikkar settlement saturday night police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo said. She had been missing since Friday evening he said. Her Hometown was not immediately available. The 28-year-old colombian Man was arrested on suspicion of murder Ben Hemo said. His name was not released pending appearance before a judge. The two had been romantically linked Ben Hemo said and it was believed Stevens wanted to breakup. Stevens body was found stripped to the Waist and she apparently had been strangled Ben Hemo  in Philippines kills 6 Manila Philippines a torrential rain has killed six people forced thousands from their Homes and caused substantial damage in the Southern Philippines officials said sunday. The National disaster coordinating Council said the rain began five Days ago in three Eastern. Provinces of Mindanao Island about 600 Miles Southeast of Manila. At least 32 villages have been heavily damaged and losses to infrastructure and livestock amount to $2.3 million according to the  hit Vietnam s Waves Bangkok Thailand a twelve Southern California youths Are Riding the Waves off the Central Vietnam province where american marines first landed during the Vietnam War a but this time its in a spirit of reconciliation and fun. The americans Are participating in an Amateur surfing Competition that opened saturday at non Nuoc Beach in Danang province the official voice of Vietnam radio said sunday. The broadcast monitored in Bangkok said four indonesians also were taking part in the first such contest in Vietnam. It gave no other details. The Competition is being sponsored by the nonprofit Kalos Agathos foundation which promotes intercultural education through  Dickens Dies at 77 London a Monica Dickens who followed in the footsteps of her great Grandfather Charles Dickens and wrote More than 50 books has died at the age of 77. She lived in the United states for 35 years and opened the first american Branch of the Samaritans a worldwide Volunteer organization that counsels the depressed and suicidal. Clare Harrington a spokeswoman for Monica Dickens publisher Viking said saturday that the author had cancer and was in Dunedin Hospital in Reading 36 Miles West of London for an operation when she died on Christmas day.4 arrested in mafia killing Agrigento Sicily a four men suspected of murdering a top anti mafia police investigator were arrested saturday news reports said. Giuliano Gazzelli who was gunned Down april 4, was a close Collaborator of slain magistrate Paolo Borsellino he was killed in july in a mafia car bombing in Palermo. In investigators Ere looking into mafia activities la a Agrigento area following the 1990 murder of another magistrate judge Rosario  Sparks chaos at store a fast a a bargain Hunters took the ? or six a till you drop a Little too literally at an Atter Christmas Sale sunday. The Glass on the main door to the Grace Brothers 1ment st0re in downtown Sydney was shattered irom the pressure of thousands of shoppers fighting for position before the store opened. ,i1m�sl cd  in Australia traditionally offer in Roth bargains. For example at Grace ft1o"$2m8eral0rs Wen marked d0w" so Mir he l/1c r fs1�?T race Brothers added extra and first Aid posts and water coolers signed employees to oversee escalators