European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 b the stars and stripes world 2 wednesday december 30, 1992dresden Chain of Light protests rightist attacks from wire reports Dresden Germany a about 10,000 people carrying candles and torches monday formed a human a Chain of Light along the Banks of the Elbe River in another demonstration against Neo nazis and right Wing extremism. Similar rallies have been staged in Many other German cities in recent weeks and about 200,000 people turned out in Berlin on Christmas. The Dresden demonstration followed last weeks action in Leipzig another Eastern German City that Drew about 50,000  skinheads charged Paris a three skinheads have been charged with beating a Young moroccan immigrant and shooting him with a Pellet gun while he waited for his wife outside a cafe in southwestern France. A you you re not French a screamed one of the three armed with baseball bats Metal bars and a Pellet gun when they attacked the Man thursday in Mont de Marsan. Houssin Nanjari 20, decided sunday to press charges after he was released from a Hospital in the town 370 Miles Southwest of Paris. He suffered multiple contusions As Well As Burns on the hands and  grass quits spa Frankfurt Germany a German author Gunter grass said monday that he had quit the social democratic party in protest Over its agreement with the government to restrict the nations Liberal Asylum Law. Grass a prominent spokesman on a variety of libera issues for Many years became a member of the social democrats or spa 10 years ago. In an interview with German television grass said the social democrats had broken with decades of tradition by agreeing to restrict the flow of foreigners seeking Asylum in Germany. Chancellor Helmut Kohls government needs the support of the social democrats to change the Constitution which protects the right to  kills 4 in bar Mexico City a a Man armed with an ak-47 assault Rifle opened fire in a Guadalajara bar Early monday killing four people and injuring five others a report said. The Man entered the Al Toron Cantina in Guadalajara 300 Miles Northwest of the capital with three friends and began shooting the newspaper Excelsior reported quoting a prosecutor. Three men and one woman All in their Early 20s, were killed the prosecutor told the newspaper. The assailant a Man known Only As Jorge who was believed to have been drinking heavily escaped with his three friends in a Van bearing . License plates the paper  property confiscated Palermo Sicily a police confiscated 27 luxury cars and thousands of acres of Rural Farmland in an anti mafia operation that netted $21 million Worth of goods and properly officials said tuesday. Investigators said that companies corporate and private Bank accounts and buildings were involved. They were registered to seven suspects ranging in age from 25 to 50. The court ordered operation dubbed Quot Green ice Quot had been planned for months police said. Among the companies seized was one that sold Frozen foods throughout the sicilian capital. Police said that the suspects Are believed to be involved in an International drug running and Money laundering  to be orbited Moscow a Russia plans to launch a spaceship carrying two monkeys and insects into orbit to conduct scientific experiments on the animals a news Agency said monday. The inter fax news Agency said the space rocket bion will be launched tuesday from the Northern preset so cosm drome and is set to return Jan. 10. The space program s news service said experts from the european space Agency As Well As italian German and other foreign scientists will oversee the biological experiments. It gave no other details. Brazilian president quits As corruption trial opens Brasilia Brazil apr impeached president Fernando Collor de Mello resigned tuesday As his corruption trial in the Senate began. He had been suspended sept. 29 on corruption charges. Collor 43, was accused of profiting from a huge influence peddling ring and was not expected to be acquitted by the Senate. A by this instrument i resign my mandate As president of the Republic a Collor wrote in a one line note read by Jose Moura Rocha his chief defense lawyer. Collor was not present. The resignation strips Collor of Legal immunity. He now faces prosecution for corruption and criminal association and a possible maximum penalty of eight years in prison. His lawyer asked that prosecution be dropped. Vice president Itamar Franco was sworn in to serve the two years remaining in Collores term. Collor was brazils first directly elected president in three decades. He Rose from obscurity As governor of a Small state to take office in 1990 on an anti corruption platform. His administration came crashing Down after an August congressional report charged him with corruption. He allegedly received $6.5 million from a slush fund run by his former Campaign treasurer. The treasurer Paulo Cesar Farias is accused of extorting Money from business people in Exchange for government contracts and favors. On tuesday morning Senate president Mauro Benev ides suspended the trial for 90 minutes and called a joint session of Congress to announce the resignation. It was not immediately Clear whether the trial would proceed. However sen. Pedro Simon said there was a a Strong current favouring  moments before the resignation the Senate had rejected a last ditch request to delay the trial on grounds that one of the five defense witnesses was sick. Supreme court chief Justice Sydney Sanches who was presiding Over the trial said the defense had not earlier claimed the witness was indispensable. Collor had delayed his scheduled dec. 22 trial by firing his lawyers. A Folia de Sao Paulo brazils largest newspaper said 76 of 81 senators opposed Collor a a 22 More than the two thirds majority required for conviction. As the trial had approached newspapers applauded brazils affirmation of democracy after 21 years of military dictatorship that ended in 1985. A the impeachment shows the. Civilized face of Brazil a its a Consolation and a source of Pride a wrote political columnist Gilberto Dimenstein in Folia de Sao Paulo. If convicted in the Senate Collor would become ineligible for Public office until the year 2001. Collor parents of slain japanese boy petition for gun ban in Homes Tokyo up a the parents of a japanese boy shot and killed in Louisiana last october when he was mistaken for an intruder have collected 1 million signatures in a petition drive to ban guns in american Homes. A people in Japan must have thought the problem of guns in the United states concerned them too Quot said Mieko Hattori 45, Mother of the slain youth in reference to the overwhelming response to the petition. Hattori and her husband Masaichi 45, plan to present the names to president elect Clinton before his Jan. 20 inauguration. The Hattori started collecting signatures after their 16-year-old son Yoshihiro was killed oct. 17 by a single blast from a .44 magnum revolver fired at close Range by Rodney Peairs in a Baton Rouge suburb. Yoshihiro an Exchange student sponsored by the american Field service Japan association inc., was dressed in a White Tuxedo and trying to find a halloween party with an american Friend when they mistakenly went to Peairs Home. His wife became frightened by the two boys who knocked on the door and called her husband who con fronted them and ordered them to  the japanese boy did not understand the command to Stop and took a step Forward. Peairs fired striking the boy in the Chest and killing him instantly. Peairs who said he feared for his life has been indicted on manslaughter charges. The Hattori collected Between 5,000 to 10,000 signatures a Day since their son was killed. On dec. 15, they presented part of their petition calling for More stringent gun control Laws in the United states to . Ambassador Michael h. Armacost. Because of strict gun and sword Laws in Japan it is difficult to own a sword or Shotgun and illegal to possess a handgun. The shooting provoked a rash of soul searching in the japanese educational establishment about the Way English is taught. As a result of an exam oriented system the vast majority of japanese cannot understand even simple English sentences after six years of mandatory study in Junior and senior High school. Expectant mom s plight sways car thief London apr Janet Smith got her stolen car Back after calling the thief on the cards phone and telling him he had stranded a pregnant woman about to give birth and without a Means of getting to a Hospital. The drama began Early Christmas Day when Smiths Niece Dawn Morgan 26, went into labor at her Home in Hereford Glouster Shire 144 Miles Northwest of London and her husband Rupert could not get his car to Start. Rupert Morgan 28, called Smith who lives nearby and she rushed Over leaving the cards engine idling As she went to get Dawn Morgan for the trip to the Hospital. When they came out Smiths car was gone. While the expectant father desperately tried again to Start his car Smith 52, a sales representative for an egg company said she called her company a transport manager. He suggested she try to Contact the thief on the vehicles Mobile phone. Smith said she dialled her own number and a male voice answered saying a hello can i help you a i done to know who was More surprised when he found out who i was. I said to him a you Cheeky Bugger. You have got my car a i told him what a predicament he had caused by taking the car with Dawn pregnant a Smith said. She said that during a 20-minute conversation a the told me he had taken the car because he urgently needed a lift. He told me that he had had a very hard life and been let Down a  Kra stealing a car would not solve anything and1 he agreed to Stop and Park the car a she said. Before he left he even wished me a merry Christmas and a Happy new year a Glouster Shire police said tuesday that they found the car undamaged 25 Miles away in Churchdown where the thief promised to leave it. They returned it to Smith but not in time to take Dawn Morgan to the Hospital. , Morgan finally managed to Start his car and take his wife to Hereford county Hospital where she gave birth to a son Declan