European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 17,1993 world the stars and stripes 0 Page 11 vehicles Are stuck on a ruined Road in Kush to on saturday morning after the strongest earthquake to hit Japan in a decade struck the Northern Island of hokkaido. Friday night s quake measured 7.5 on the Richter scale. Up pieces in ship with 110 aboard adrift near shetlands from wire reports. London a fish processing ship carrying 110. People was adrift saturday on reduced engine Power near the Shetland islands the coast guar Asaid the Shetland coast guard said a Rescue tug was on its Way to help the 150-meter Darius which was Drifting West of the Shetland islands in storm Force winds. The ship is heading toward Cullom voc where the tug is expected to meet it and Tow it to safety officials said. The Darius registered to the Commonwealth of Independent states contacted the Shetland coast guard Early saturday morning to say it had lost Power and the tug was dispatched to help. Saudis behead woman. Riyadh saudi Arabia a a pakistani woman was beheaded Friday in Mecca after a Shari a court found her guilty of murdering her husband the Interior ministry announced. The woman identified As Rani Bint Kham Sallah Bisk strangled her husband Haidar bin Ismail Mohammed in his sleep with a rope then Cut him in pieces the announcement said. Saudi Arabia rules by Shari a or islamic Law which prescribes beheading for convicted murderers. Plane hits runway vehicle Nottingham England ten passengers including two children escaped Down an emergency Chute Friday after their British Midland aircraft collided with a runway vehicle. No one was Hurt in the evacuation said a spokeswoman for British Midland. She said the collision occurred when the 72-seat Turboprop plane was. Being mane Vered into Takeoff position and accidentally collided with the tractor pushing it. A portuguese workers strike Lisbon Portugal about 450,000 civil servants including doctors nurses and teachers held a nationwide one Day strike Friday to protest government plans to limit Public sector pay raises to 5.5 percent unions reported. Union leaders said More than 80 percent of Portugal a half million civil servants stayed away from work seriously hampering the nations Public administration. Hospitals provided Only emergency services and 1 minimum Levels of care for inpatients a Union spokesman said. Union representatives said workers had resorted to a strike to try to Force the government Back to the negotiating fable. In a nov. 13 strike 7s percent of the civil servants stayed Home according to Union figures. Rushdie appears in Ireland Dublin Ireland a writer Salman Rushdie under an iranian death threat made a Surprise Public appearance at a Dublin conference on censorship. Several Hundred people who were gathered at Trinity College on Friday applauded and cheered As Rushdie briefly joined them under heavy Security. He was not one of the speakers. The conference visit was Rushdie a first trip to Ireland since Iran slate Leader Ayatollah Rafiollah Khomeini condemned him to death in february 1989, accusing the writer of blaspheming islam in his Book the satanic verses. 15 girls reportedly raped Nairobi Kenya a a 20-Man gang raped 15 girls and injured their principal at a Western kenyan boarding High school it was reported saturday. The daily nation newspaper said the raiders who were armed with wooden clubs and machetes also robbed the principal of the equivalent of $1,459 thursday night. The assault is the second mass rape of girls in a kenyan school in two years. In 1991, rampaging boys attacked their schoolmates at a Central kenyan boarding High school. Nineteen girls suffocated in a room where they had sought Refuge and authorities said 70 More were raped. Ten boys were convicted of manslaughter. Tokyo apr workers began Clearing rubble from streets and restoring Power to dozens of Homes saturday a Day after the worst earthquake to hit Japan in 10  temblor measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale killed two people injured 425 and did widespread damage to buildings Bridges and roads in the Ushiro area on the Rural Northern Island of hokkaido police said. Ushiro a fishing port of 17,000, was the nearest town to the quakers epicentre located deep under the floor of the Pacific Ocean 12 Miles offshore. The quake was  to Sway buildings in Tokyo 530 Miles to the South. Twenty six hours after the quake water service remained disrupted in about 300 locations 500 Homes a were without electricity and 9,300 others were without  the. Ushiro area City officials said. The Central meteorological Agency said dozens of Montreal apr Quebec a highest court on Friday upheld a Federal ban on cigarette advertising As part of its efforts to get canadians to smoke less and trim millions of Dollar in health care costs. In the decision three judges of the Quebec court of Appeal overturned a 1991 lower court ruling. They said Ottawa has a right to intervene in a Public health Issue for the Public Good. The ruling Means the Federal government can proceed with a ban on cigarette advertising and introduce new measures such As tougher warnings on packages. One of the judges however in a partial dissent said an advertising ban is a intolerable in a free  disappointed tobacco companies said they would Appeal to the supreme court of Canada Simon Potter a lawyer for Imperial tobacco Ltd said the and ban is a a bizarre because it forbids Canadian companies to run ads in magazines while ads for american brands Are still allowed in american magazines sold in Canada. Imperial tobacco is one of the country a largest cigarette makers. The conservative government introduced the tobacco Bill in 1988 saying it would help curb soaring Public health care costs. Health minister Benoit Bouchard aftershocks were recorded by saturday morning when they began subsiding. The quake was the strongest to Rock Japan since a temblor measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale hit the Central coast in May 1983, killing 104 people. Police said a 65-year-old Man was killed Friday trying to protect his handicapped wife from a falling chandelier. They said a 76-Ycar-old woman died saturday from a Gas leak apparently caused by the quake. Television footage showed a private Home resting precariously on its Side after the land underneath collapsed into a sinkhole of mud and dirt. Police said the quake badly damaged five Bridges and 40 buildings and Homes triggered four landslides and cracked open roads at 16 locutions. Seven fires also broke out they said. Japan has been rocked by More than 20 quakes of magnitude 7 or stronger since the end of world War ii. Said Bis priority now is to get cigarette ads out of stores. The ban on in store advertising went into effect this month the last phase of the act to go into effect the 202-Page judgment was written by justices Louis la bal and Andre Brossard after eight months of deliberation the third judge was Melvin Rothman. Lencl said Federal lawyers had assembled an impressive array of witnesses from Canada and abroad to prove that there is a a general agreement in the medical professions that the consumption of tobacco in a modern democratic society constitutes a major problem of Public  but in the partial dissent Brossard said that without Strong proof of a direct link Between advertising and smoking the Law was too heavy handed. A to justify Banning of tobacco advertising to allow the state to Render 28 percent of its population smokers a socially unacceptable and to make them social pariahs seems to me the Antithesis of what is tolerable. In a free and democratic society a Brossard wrote. Colin Irving lawyer for Rwjr Macdonald inc., which filed the original Case on behalf of itself and Imperial said Brossard a dissent gave the tobacco companies a Good basis for an Appeal. Quebec court backs Canadian ban on advertisements for cigarettes