European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday january 17, 1993 ship with 110 aboard adrift near shetlands the stars and stripes a Page 11 from wire reports London people was adrift saturday on a fish processing ship carrying i 10. T saturday on reduced engine Power near the Shetland islands the coast guard said the Shetland coast guard said a Rescue tug was on to Way to help the 150-meter Darius which was Drifting West of the Shetland islands in storm Force winds. The ship is heading toward Gultom Voe where the tug is expected to meet it and Tow it to safety officials said. The Darius registered to the Commonwealth of a 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  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 a 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-scat Turboprop plane was being mane Vered into Takeoff position and accidentally collided with the tractor pushing it. V portuguese workers strike Lisbon Portugal a 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 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 table. In a nov. 13 strike 75 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 Ruhollah 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 20-Man gang raped 15 Iris 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. 1 ten boys were convicted of manslaughter. 6 vehicles Are stuck on a ruined Road in Ushiro 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. Japanese quake aftershocks 2368 in Tokyo. Apr streets were cluttered with rubble and hundreds of families had no water saturday in the aftermath of the strongest earthquake to hit Japan in a decade. Two people were killed and More than 360 injured. Central meteorological Agency officials estimated that fridays quake entered off the Northern Island of hokkaido measured at 7.5 on the Richter scale. Dozens of aftershocks had hit by saturday morning. The Agency said the frequency of the aftershocks was subsiding and there was no immediate danger of tsunami or tidal Waves. The quake struck at 8 06 . And was entered about 75 Miles below sea level 12 Miles off Ushiro a City of 17,000 on hokkaido a Pacific coast. The quake was Strong enough to Sway buildings in Tokyo 530 Miles away. Hokkaido police said that a 65-Ycar-old Man was killed while trying to protect his wife from a falling chandelier and that 368 people were injured in Earth quake related incidents Friday. Police said a 77-year-old woman died saturday from a Gas leak apparently caused by the quake. The tremor caused temporary Power outages to about 47,000 Homes damaged at least seven Bridges toppled Telephone poles and ripped through a freeway closing it to traffic. Meteorological Agency officials said the quake was the strongest to hit Japan since May 1983, when a temblor registering 7.7 on the Richter scale hit the Central coast killing 104 people. On the Richter scale an earthquake of magnitude 7 is considered major capable of widespread heavy damage in populated areas. Located along the Pacific Quot rim of fire a Japan has been rocked by More than 20 quakes of magnitude 7 or above since the end of world War ii. One of the worlds most seismically volatile countries Japan also accounts for about 10 percent of the worlds Active volcanoes. Quebec court backs Canadian ban on advertisements for cigarettes 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 199mower-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 Quot intolerable in a free  disappointed tobacco companies said they would Appeal to the supreme court Ocanada Simon Potter a lawyer for Imperial tobacco ltd., said the and ban is Quot 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 said his 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 Cuel and Andre Brossard after eight months of deliberation. The third judge was Melvin Rothman. Leuci said Federal lawyers had assembled an impressive array of witnesses from Canada and abroad to prove that there is Quot a general agreement in the medical professions that the consumption of tobacco in a Modem democratic society constitutes a major problem 6f 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. The state to Render 28 percent of its population smokers socially unacceptable and to make them social a Insi a a a a a a a a a to justify Banning of tobacco advertising to allow my. Pat nans seems to me the Antithesis of what is tolerable. In a free and democrats society a Brossard wrote. Colin Irving lawyer for Rwjr Macdonad 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