European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Panga n a tub 0tam9 and Tori pub blast injures at least 15, damages Banks offices front wire report v Ink k t a Colombia a a powerful ear bomb injured tit least 15 people into thursday and damaged Hanks and Oiler buildings in an affluent median of the capital police said it was the first major Homb blast in Mogort in years anti came just three Days after fugitive drug Kingpin of nolo a Selmr threatened in a letter to the nation s attorney general to renew a terrorism Campaign the car packed with about ib5 pounds of explosives was thrown More than my feet by the blast among the buildings damaged were several High Rise offices and Banks including a Branch of Citibank window were knocked out five blocks from the blast site helicopter crash kills 4 Novara Italy a a helicopter crashed during a lest flight thursday near a military Airfield outside Novara killing All four people aboard police in this Northwestern italian City said the dead were employed try Agusta a helicopter company that was testing the new fill 101 Model said cof Alberto Bellotti of the Carabiniero paramilitary police in Novara the cause of the crash was under investigation to ads must pipe Down Paris a fed up with to stations that blast viewers with ads up to four times louder Ilian the shows the government wednesday ordered broadcasters to turn Down the volume. In a decree the higher Council for broadcasting ordered that commercials Quot not exceed the average sound volume of the rest of the program a a recently completed Council study says to ads Are louder than programs Quot in 95 percent of the eases measured on All stations a ferry to link Spain England Iii i Jiao Spain a Spanish ferry service will begin twice weekly trips Between this Northern seaport and Portsmouth England starting in april Spanish officials announced thursday. The Pride of Hlibon which can transport As Many As 2,500 passengers and 580 automobiles is to make the 700-Milo journey in 28 hours news reports said it s Arrivederci Venice Venice Italy a while tourists flock to Venice in see ils famed canals and gondolas residents Are leaving the City in record numbers to escape rising Komi prices expensive housing and the throngs of summer visitors the population of Venice fell to 75,159 last year Down from 78,165 two years ago the City s statistics office reported thursday. In 1951, Venice had a population of 174,905. Young families prefer to live in the Small towns surrounding Venice where rents Are cheaper and the ii Lily of life is better Quot said Sandro Eom Baido of the statistics  writer Dies Tokyo Kobo Abe one of Japan s most prominent postwar literary figures died Friday at a Tokyo Hospital a Hospital  said. He was 68. Use cause of death was not disclosed by the Hospital on Ici pict of family members but the Kyodo news service said Abe entered the Hospital wednesday after Mill ring a Ceic Lual Haemorrhage. Abe was a novelist and playwright Best known for his portrayal of modern Man a struggle against alienation and loss of identity As in Iris 1962 novel 7he woman in the / junes Ira group says it killed Man he fast not Hern Ireland a splinter group of the Loisb Republican Aimy claimed responsibility i Hui Day Lor the slaying of a in Lastant Man who was shot As his Gil 111 tend looked on. Police  in Ucilla to said three nun div a up to the 39 year old Many a House at about 0 . Two assailants kicked open the front door gunned Down the Man and then fled in the vehicle police said. T police did ill immediately release the slam Many a  ire Jaisli National i to islam army i bunted responsibility in a message to Itell Asl news organizations world saturday january 23,1993 Kohl bows to protests drops Benefit Cut plan herein apr widespread criticism has forced Chancellor Helmut Kohls coalition to drop a plan to Cut family benefits As part of a proposal to reduce the government s budget deficit the Central Bank the Bundesbank has been pressing the government to reduce the deficit before it cuts Germany s High interest rates which have been of Kohl s governing coalition. Coalition members met late into the night before shelving the proposal the coalition also reversed a plan to make High in come families ineligible for the government s child rearing Benefit which pays $373 a month for two years Mamed by Many people for the worsening recession inthe Bank announced after its weekly Council in thursday that the Rales were unchanged. Kohl s government announced wednesday that it Europe Mcclin i annual incomes above . Rue Oncin now gives in rents about $44 a month for each child whether a Amily is Rich or poor. But the payment is an icon of the social welfare state and the announcement brought an immediate outcry from opposition politicians As Well As members cd tip a a a a ii democrats complained bitterly about proposed cuts in unemployment benefits and student support. The debate appears headed for gridlock in parliament. A. The social democrats have a majority in the upper House of parliament the bundesrat and say they will Block the budget cutting plan unless the Quot socially i ii Al Oak Tamin no of f Ltd it Lulf Llu met a it a j Hitt 1111 a yff1 i f \ a a �?��<--1 get f h a of ii Lui Llu 111 l i Ninvi 1 f3 feint to a a a a a a i j r 1 Xit 1 %. % 1 Quot  a a a a t it a a a r. Quot it. A a Quot a a a a a j it v. \ or t a x.2 a i t a Ltd or i a Ltd a <1 us Quot h v a 1 Quot six a. Of a a t 4. / \ 9 a a 1j Vanti rightist rally we about 50,000 people mass in the marketplace in downtown Stuttgart Germany on thursday As part of anti rightist demonstrations. Police estimated 100,000 peo ple participated in rallies and torchlight parades bold in at least 50 other towns across Badin  stale. Soviet went Down with sub after shutting Down reactor Moscow apr a soviet Sailor manually lowered the containment bars to shut Down the reactor of a crippled unclear submarine in 1986 and died when the vessel Sank a newspaper said thursday citing secret Mililay documents Sergei it Minin s previously unreported death raised to four the number of people who died aboard the k-219 submarine when it Sank on oct. 6, 1986, in the Atlantic about 1,00 1 Miles off North Carolina. The Accident was first reported by . Authorities Ami confirmed by the soviet Union. But soviet officials released Vii Lually no details at the time except to say the submarine Sank several Days after a fire and that it posed no danger to the environment. The Brief soviet statement after the Accident said Whiee new members died aboard the submarine in its account thursday the trud newspaper said the soviet Mililay had investigated whether the k-219 collided with a . Submarine before it Sank but had  110 evidence of a collision. The Yankee class submarine was carrying 15 strategic nuclear missiles and had 113 sailors 011 Board when it Arlt ils Mulheir u base  sept 4, 1986, trud reported. It said the submarine sustained an explosion in one of its missile shafts that caused a fire and released toxic several sailors who were inside the compartment inhaled the Yellowish toxic fumes and three died trud said. It said an emergency system was activated and shut Down one of the submarines two reactors. But when Moscow finally ordered the vessel abandoned it became Clear that automatic devices could not lower the containment bars of the remaining reactor. Premium and another Sailor it. Nikolai Belikov were sent into the hold to lower the bars manually. 7 he hold was filled with toxic gases and temperatures that leached 158 to 176 degrees trud said. The two men managed to partially lower the bars before returning when Belikov suffered a heat stroke. Premium went Down again and lowered the remaining bars. He became trapped when an Iron door to the hold jammed the report said. The last Crew members and capt. Urit nov were evacuated two minutes before the submarine Sank trud said