European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shetland shores clean after spill tourists told Sumburgh Shetland islands apr the Rocky and windswept shores of the shetlands Are clean again after one of the world s largest Oil spills islanders Are telling prospective visitors though conservationists warn the idyllic scene could hide dangerous poisons. Businessmen arc trying to look ahead planning a $765,000 advertising Campaign to attract tourists and struggling to stay afloat until the fishing Industry re Bounds. The experience of Alaska which struggled to entice tourists after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill the biggest in  history is not lost on residents of the shetlands. The Shetland islands expected 56,000 visitors this summer and officials want to emphasize the area re Mains Rich in Bird and sea life Maurice Muir a executive director of the Shetland islands tourism Agency said wednesday. Quot people throughout the world have seen Shetland battered by gales hurricanes mountainous seas rain and Snow unfortunately and. They Are getting the impression that All of Shetland is covered by Oil Quot Muir a said. Guatemala City up1 president Jorge Serrano Elias has promised to fully support the repatriation of 45,000 guatemalan refugees who fled to Mexico to escape the nation s civil War saying their return was a a humanitarian responsibility Quot for the government. Serrano made his comments wednesday at a joint news conference with 1992 Nobel peace prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu a mayan Indian from the guatemalan Highlands just hours after emergency negotiations cleared the Way for the repatriation to begin within two weeks. The Tantzer Braer driven onto the rocks by a Hiiri Cane Jan. 5, poured 24.6 million Gallons of crude Oil into the Bay of que Dale before breaking up tuesday. Ferocious winds and surf on wednesday broke up the last of the Oil Slick and restored the seas to a Bril Lian Blue. Conservationists however warn that while the surface effects appear limited the Long term ecological Impact could be immense. Marine biologist Sian Pullen of the world wide fund for nature said the Oil would form a toxic Cloud in Shetland Waters. And Peter Ellis director of the Royal society for the Protection of Birds said the effect of those pollutants on fish and Birds is a a anybody a  but David Bedborough of the transport department Marine pollution control unit said a nothing was found in an Aerial Survey of 250 Square Miles surrounding the islands. The carcasses of nearly 800 Birds three Grey seals and three otters have been collected by volunteers patrolling beaches washed with an oily  More men a we will receive them a Serrano said. A we recognize that it is a humanitarian responsibility of the  Menchu urged the government to fulfil its commitments to the guatemalan exiles under a United nations mediated repatriation Accord signed last october. The refugees mainly indigenous peasants from the guatemalan Highlands left their Homeland in the Early 1980s when scores of villages were destroyed by army counterinsurgency operations aimed at separating the rebels from bases of potential civilian  plans to shoot wolves to preserve carious from wire reports Whitehorse Yukon territory Canadian officials arc planning an Aerial assault on wolves similar to a Wolf kill proposal in Alaska that was shelved after an International outcry and a threatened travel Boycott the Canadian plan to kill 150 wolves next month was approved to Nelp threatened Caribou herds officials said. By contrast Alaska planned to thin Wolf populations in Hopes of boosting tourism and Hunting. Renewable resource minister Bill Brewster and tourism minister Doug Phillips said tuesday the decision was final adding that those who criticized the alaskan plan should consider the different motives. A we Are doing this to protect the Aishihik Caribou Herd because it is in serious decline a Phillips said. Drug lord issues threats Bogota Colombia a fugitive drug lord Pablo Escobar has threatened to Kidnap diplomats and bomb the attorney general a office if the government does not meet new conditions for his surrender a newspaper reported thursday. The Medellin cocaine Cartel Leader reportedly said he will surrender if he can be jailed in a police training schooling the Medellin suburb of la Estrella. Sixteen other Cartel members Are being held in a maximum Security facility in the Medellin suburb of Tagui. Escobar demanded that they and other jailed followers be allowed to join him in la Estrella Al Tiempo  fire put out Moscow a a Smalt fire broke out in a rack of electrical equipment at the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant but the Blaze was extinguished quickly and no radiation was released a Plant official said wednesday. The fire was discovered tuesday evening in the electrical equipment Between the buildings that House reactors no. 2 and 3, said Vera tar Ulayeva a Plant spokeswoman. The Blaze was put out As soon As it was noticed tar Ulayeva said in a Telephone interview from the Plant in Northern Ukraine 80 Miles North of the capital  was not immediately Clear what the electrical equipment controlled. Reactor no. 2 was shut Down after a fire in october 1991, but reactor no. 3 is working. It was the third Blaze reported at the chernobyl Complex since the april 1986 explosion and fire that spread radiation Over Ukraine and Belarus in the worlds worst nuclear  held son 24 years Bangkok Thailand a thai police recently freed a mentally retarded Man whose family had kept him shackled in the nude for 24 years at their Home in Northern Thailand police said wednesday. Police sgt. Suphot Rinsuk said Tarn  36, had been chained to a Pigsty Post since the age of 12 by his older brother in phrae 304 Miles North of Bangkok. Tarn smother Kavee said he began acting strangely As a fourth grader refusing to Wear clothes smashing things in the House and running naked through  italian general slain Brussels Belgium a a retired italian air Force general was stabbed to death by two unknown assailants in front of his Brussels Home an embassy official said wednesday. Retired Gen. Roberto Boemio 58, died Early tuesday in a Hospital hours after the attack said an official at the italian embassy who requested  to italian news reports Boemio was once questioned by investigators trying to solve the Case of an italian jetliner that crashed in 1980 near the Mediterranean Island of Ustica with the loss of 81 lives. Italian investigators believed the plane was hit by a missile and some suspected a cover up by the military. Boemio had business interests in the Belgium capital. Jerusalem a the army has cancelled deportation orders against another six palestinians expelled last month and radio stations reported thursday that they were deported by mistake. Israel now has admitted that 16 of 415 palestinians deported to Lebanon on dec. 17 should not have been sent there. Israel has rejected a . Security Council Resolution demanding that All the men be repatriated. The lebanese government has refused to accept the men and they Are stranded in freezing weather in a tent Camp in Southern Lebanon Between lebanese and israeli controlled Security checkpoints. Israel expelled the men in retaliation for the kidnapping and slaying of a Border guard Ana the killings of five other troops by Muslim fundamentalist Mili z Tants in the occupied territories. A military statement published wednesday nil Jet said that the six palestinians were tried and sentenced by military tribunals for anti israeli actions and that a it has been decided that they will be permitted to return to their former status prior to their  it did not identify the men or give further details. It also was not dear whether the six were the same referred to by the new York based Middle East watch a human rights group that said tuesday that Israel had no record of deporting six men who the group found among the deported men. Earlier this month Israel acknowledged that 10 other palestinians had been deported in error. Only one of them a teen Ager from the West Bank town of Hebron has returned Home. Sent to a deported palestinian bolls potatoes in Lebanon s no Man s land. Guatemalan Leader backs return of refugees