European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                10 the stars and stripes world sunday january 17,1093colombian Volcano kills at 9 pasto Colombia apr hikers and scientists staggered Down a fumbling Volcano to safety Friday the Day after a terrifying Flash eruption killed at least nine people including Volcano experts poking around the Crater. At least eight were injured in the eruption of the 14,030-foot Gal eras Volcano about 375 Miles Soith of Bogota and 13 Miles from the City of pasto. Thursdays eruption sent super hot volcanic debris 114 Miles into the air. There were conflicting reports that up to eight people were missing police told the radio network Caracol that More than 70 people May have been on the Volcano when it erupted. Survivors told of burning rocks the size of television sets raining Down on them As they climbed out of the Crater. Ash and rocks continued to spew from the Crater Friday As rescuers wearing masks against poisonous gases and debris found the bodies of two colombians and a portion of another unidentified body Caracol said. The search was suspended at midday Friday As the Snow capped Volcano began shaking again amid freezing tempera Tures High winds and thick Clouds. Six other people were confirmed dead on thursday including three who had yelled for help from inside the Crater. Those victims included Geoff Brown of the open University of Britain who was in pasto to attend an International con Panama s South America Venezuela Colombia o Bogota Volcano eruption 200 Miles Brazil a Cari Fox a 1. 1 a a Ference on Volcano Gorbin Garlove a russian geologist and Nestor Garcia a colombian geologist. Three other bodies of colombians were recovered. Four of the injured were americans Stanley Williams an associate professor of geology at Arizona state University in Tempe and organizer of the Volcano conference Mike Conway of Florida inter National University in Miami Andrew Mcfarlane also of Florida International and andreus Matthews whose affiliation or Hometown was not known. Williams suffered head injuries and broken Ankles and was in stable condition in a pasto Hospital said de stump head of Arizona state University a geology department Quot he is waiting evacuation. Probably Back to the states a stump  information is that stands injury is the worst of the  the others injured were Martin Oliver of Canada an ecuadoran and two colombians one of whom lost a hand that was crushed by a Rock the pasto Hospital said. Just As some of the scientists were approaching the rim the Volcano erupted. With a deafening Roar and a huge column of Ash and steam at 1 43 . Thursday the radio networks run and Caracol said. Quot i heard this huge Boom and then rocks the size of televisions started falling around us a Mcfarlane a geochemist said from his Hospital bed in pasto. He was within 40 Yards of the rim when the Volcano erupted and suffered a broken foot bruises on his legs and badly burned hands from climbing Over hot rocks. Quot i was sure we were going to die a me Farlane said. Quot the rocks began to get smaller then a Muddy rain started bring ing Down the ashes. Everything was slippery.�?�. About two hours after the eruption a local radio reporter crept to the rim of the Crater and peered in. He said he could hear people a apparently Brown Garlove and Garcia a screaming for help attempts to reach them were unsuccessful. A few hours later a television Crew captured the image of three unmoving bodies along a narrow ledge deep in the Crater. By Friday morning the ledge was gone and so were the bodies presumably consumed by the Volcano. About 100 volcanology its and other scientists from 15 countries were attending the scientific conference part of a u.n.-. Supported Effort to study about a dozen Volcano around the world. Gal eras was the Only South american Volcano included in the study. When the conference organizers invited scientists to the conference they noted that Gal eras was Quot Ideal because of Quot the continuing eruption threat and the very real disaster  stump said Volcano researchers need to study Volcano close up despite the dangers. Quot but often there Are warning signs and apparently this eruption was without warning a he said. Gal eras erupted last july 6 after three years of inactivity. It is one of 14 Active volcanoes in Colombia. Raises Berlin apr German seamen a unions have raised safety complaints about the widely used Quot Roll on Roll off ferry design after a polish ferry Sank in the Baltic sea killing As Many As 52. Shi Catoc lipping experts say 3,000 such vessels d "ro-ro�?T1 ships arc in use around the world. After the British ferry Herald of free Enterprise capsized off the belgian coast in 1987, taxing 188 lives design improvements were introduced for ships built after 1990. But the polish ferry Jan he Welusz built in 1977 in Norway had not been upgraded. It capsized before Dawn thursday about 20 mites East of the German Island of Riingen on a voyage from swing Ujcic in Poland to the swedish port of Ystad. German Navy capt. Helmut Meier said 39 bodies had been recovered by Friday afternoon and that another 13 people were missing and presumed dead. Meier of the German Navy s Fleet come in Glucksberg said the total number on Board was 61. The cause of the disaster has not been determined. There was speculation that the cargo of heavy trucks and rail freight cars shifted during a fierce storm with winds up to 90 Mph sending the 3,015-ton vessel into an irreversible list. The Jan he Welusz like other Rord ships was designed with doors in both Bow and Stern so that trailer trucks can Roll on and off without Tricky reversing. Critics say the inherent safety defect is the wide open vehicle deck running the length of the vessel without bulkheads to Stop water or Loose cargo from pitching to one Side and unbalancing the ship. Ekic Eulyn seamen a Board member of the Union of government workers said it was a scandal that Uherc weren t More survival suits on the ferry. The nine survivors were Crew members who had special protective suits that gave them several hours of life expectancy in the ice cold water. African immigrant convicted in French circumcision Case Paris apr a Mother has been convicted and Given a five year suspended sentence for having her baby daughter circumcised a tradition practice in her native Mali. The decision came just one week after a court for the first Lime sentenced a gambian woman to a year in prison for hiring a midwife to circumcise her two infant daughters. The ritual carried out in the mothers presence without anaesthesia and found in last and West Africa and the Middle East entails slicing off the Clitoris and adjacent tissue. Some societies perceive a circumcised woman As More pure and thus More desirable for marriage critics Call it genital mutilation that prevents sexual enjoyment As an adult. On Friday a court in the Northern parisian working class suburb of Bovigny convicted Kumba Diane a 34-year-old woman from Mali of having her daughter circumcised when the daughter was less than 1 month old. She Agni fitted to the charge but said she did it in the name of tradition. Her husband an autoworkers at citroen since 1973, claimed he was unaware of the circumcision. Since 1983, French Law has called the practice child abuse that could draw a life sentence. 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