European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 13, 1993 v. A y a a / a world i the stars Ano. Stripes a Page 9 no drive zone in Effort to clean up air by w1 Lliam b. Montalbano los Angeles times Rome a All roads May Lead to Rome but you can to get there by car. Embarrassed atts inability to make  liable again official Italy a again a declared year on the automobile monday. The catalyst for the latest in a losing Campaign against internal combustion is a vast Cloud of noxious muck that has become a regular Winter visitor Over nearly All of Italy. Italy has imposed no drive zones in the past in an Effort to clean up the environment. Nowadays sunny italian skies More often than not look like a particularly bad Day in Mexico City. Pollution redolent with Fulfur and Carbon monoxide has become As familiar As pasta to Urban italians. With pollution Levels soaring above danger Levels mayors of ii major cities monday enacted draconian bans on the automobile which they blame for most of the mess. Quot Italy in breathable Quot said one Banner newspaper headline. Quot Italy prisoner of smog Quot said another. All private traffic was forbidden monday during seven working hours in Milan and for the whole Day in Florence. Rome was closed to traffic for three hours. Alternate schemes in other cities were based on License plate numbers allowing motorists to take to the streets for varying durations in bewildering complexities. Imposing this system were the cities of Turin a in tuesday s edition. They Are trying to get . Observers stationed in Haiti As Well As seeking to persuade deposed haitian president Fean Bertrand Aristide to Appeal to his countrymen to stay Home the newspaper said Many haitians believe that after his inauguration Jan. 20, Clinton will rescind president Bush a order to intercept refugee boats and Send refugees Back without a hearing. Anticipating a huge influx of Haitin refugees following the inauguration Florida gov Lawton Chiles met behind closed doors with Pentagon officials monday. Tese Bologna Modena Trieste Bolzano Naples and Bari. A. Us a /. A / a a. A a most cities began imposing restrictions sunday amid widespread Driver resistance and no noticeable improvement in air Quality. In three hours sunday Rome police wrote nearly $500,000 Worth of tickets on private cars breaking the no drive ban. Quot id rather pay the Fine of about $70 than leave the car Quot one roman Driver snapped. On monday the first working Day under the sundry bans Rush hour chaos came to streets leading into Milan Atid Florence. Manning hastily erected barriers traffic police in masks turned away private cars except those with catalytic converters. However Public transport was allowed into City centers where the Gray air was All too visible. Although there have been regular cleanup promises a a in recent years As pollution has Crown from nuisance to danger in major italian cities there has been Little of acc tic remedy. A succession of weak National and municipal governments has been unable to create any soft of Overall strategy. There have been Many promises but Only scant Progress toward cleaner engines. Almost All private and Industrial vehicles in Italy still run on leaded Gas. Although it is possible to buy a car with a catalytic converter it is easier to buy one of the same Model without Ope. 7 a the Miami Herald quoted Chiles As saying military planners were making preparations to divert As Many As 100,000 new haitian refugees from South Florida which is already overburdened. Chiles said the planners indicated that the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba would be used. About 40,000 haitians have fled their poor Caribbean nation of 6.2 million people since september j991, when the army ousted Aristide Haiti a first democratically elected president. Washington has led an embargo on Haiti in an Effort to Force Aristides return to Power. The United states has rejected Asylum for most boat people saying they were fleeing for economic rather than political  s human dignity being violated court rules Tom wire reports Berlin a berlins highest court said tuesday that Erich Honecker a imprisonment violates his human dignity bringing the cancer stricken East German communist Boss closer to Freedom. The constitutional court stopped Short of ordering his release instead telling a lower court Ter reconsider its now invalidated imprisonment order. Honecker 80 has been on trial for manslaughter in the killings of East germans seeking to flee from his Hartline regime. His rapidly declining health already has forced a separation of his trial from that of three co defendants. Berlins High court using extremely Strong language said the lower tribunal s decision to keep Hon Cockcr behind bars violates Quot the Basic right of. The complainant to respect of his human  the constitutional court judges also referred to medical testimony that Hon Cockcr will die within. Three to six months Well before the trial could reach. A  arrests american Lima Peru a peruvian police arrested a . Citizen monday and charged him with possessing video tapes and revolutionary pamphlets of the. Tupac Amaru revolutionary movement the counters second largest guerrilla group. Police said they had arrested Jeremy Edmond Vir Gould 41, monday morning in Moyo Bamba an Amazon City 450 Miles North of Lima. The City was attacked by about 400 tupac Amaru rebels saturday touching off fighting that killed 21 people including 10 policemen four soldiers four civilians and three rebels. According to a police spokesman Vir Gould was in Possession at the time of his arrest of revolutionary pamphlets and video taped footage of the tupac Amaru attack on the City of 50,000 inhabitants and the capital of the san Martin  museum to reopen Tbilisi Georgia a museum dedicated 16 soviet dictator Josef Stalin will reopen Jan. 20, its director said monday. The museum was closed in 1988 after a wave of official Kremlin criticism. The museum is located in Stalin a Hometown of Gori 45 Miles Northwest of the georgian capita. Director Nunu Amirca Zhibin said the museum will have several new displays including documents that show Stalin had planned to resign As head of the soviet communist party and state on at least seven occasions.. Aids Italy in sweep Reggio i Calabria Italy aided by the Fri Canadian mounties and australian agents italian police rounded up at least 28 organized crime suspects monday for dozens of murders drug trafficking and extortion. The news Agency a 1 said the suspects were implicated in 53 murders that have bloodied the toe of the italian Peninsula As part of a feud Between the Costa Ana Commisso clans of the Cit Labrun underworld gang. Clan members Are believed to be associated with organized crime figures in Canada the United states and Australia news agencies said. Victim Dies in n. Ireland Belfast Northern Ireland a a protestant Man died in a Hospital monday five hours after he was shot in the head in the first Ira ambush of 1993. The Ira claimed the Man was the East Tyrone area commander of the Ulster Volunteer Force an outlawed protestant paramilitary group. But lawmaker Ken Maginnis dismissed the allegation. The victim who was not immediately identified was the third person killed in sectarian violence in Northern Ireland this  Crews charged St. Johns Newfoundland a the Canadian government monday charged the Crews of two. French vessels with fishing illegally in Canadian \ Waters. The 50 Crew members will remain in custody until a bail hearing today. They had set sail from  and Miquelon tiny islands Oft Canada s East coast that Are a Colony of France. The charge carries a maximum Fine of $750,000 per person upon conviction. Trial dates have no coast guard Cutter repatriates 226 haitians found on Sailboat port a Prince Haiti a the . Coast guard repatriated 226 haitians on monday Ana investigated reports that a refugee boat carrying nearly 400 haitians went Down off the Bahamas before Christmas. A coast guard helicopter spotted the 226 haitians on a Quot dangerously overloaded Sailboat Quot saturday six Miles West of great Ingua Bahamas officials said. The Cutter returned them to port a Prince where each was Given $7.50 for food and bus fare Home members of Haiti a private permanent refugee service said. Cuba told the coast guard on Friday it rescued eight haitians off northeastern Cuba on dec. 23, and quoted them As saying their 70-foot wooden Craft Sank in bad weather off great Ingua in the Southeastern Bahamas two Days earlier. About 396 people were aboard cuban officials said. Petty officer Toni Long a coast guard spokeswoman in Miami said monday the coast guard was Quot looking for anything that would correlate with this report Quot but she added that members of Miami a haitian Community also have told the coast guard they believe a refugee boat is missing at sea. The vessel sailed dec. 24 from he la torture a Northern Island where Many boats a Varia us stages of construction cover the Beach at Luly. Haiti a refugee ships have departed a . Ref no for launching Point for refugees setting sail for the United states. Ugee official in port a Prince said late monday. Aides to president elect Clinton Are working to Avert an exodus from Haiti the Washington Post reported