European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 b the stars and stripes world sunday january 24,1993 nazi past forces doctor to Bow out . Probing German who was to head world group Munich Germany apr a promo no German physician with n nazi past Neil German physician with n nazi past sail saturday that he was giving up plans to become head of the world medical association because of the controversy. In an interview published saturday in the Munich based daily Sild Cutsche Sci Tung or. Hans Joachim severing said he was withdrawing from the Post because of the threat of being banned from the United states. Severing was slated to assume the honorary Post in  . Justice department has opened an investigation into saw cringe a past that could Lead to his being placed on its a watch list and banned from entering the United states. Former president Kurt Waldheim of Austria is on the list because of his activities As a German Soldier during world War ii. A leading German medical journal said Friday that severing should not assume the Post. The Arzic Zeitung the daily newspaper of the German medical association said in a commentary that there was no conclusive proof linking severing to atrocities. Out it said that he had been a nazi Quot fellow traveler and that it was a mistake to put him Forward for the International office. Quot severing will have to resign the faster the better a it said. The association had previously said severing a former association president was the Quot target of a libel  severing 76, had been quoted earlier in the Stidd Cutsche Zeitung As saying he welcomed a probe by . Officials. Quot they Are obliged to carry out an objective investigation and the result could not be in doubt a the newspaper quoted  saying. The world medical association which represents 2.5 million doctors globally elected severing As president at its annual Mccuing last fall. The groups main function is to encourage discussion of medical ethics cd cation and Sociol medical issues. Severing was to have begun a one year term in october a group of doctors published an advertisement in major German newspapers thursday demanding that severing withdraw. The and accused the German medical association of trying Quot for decades to keep its involvement in medical crimes of the is state in the  the association denied the charge. Saw cringe a office said he would not be Karlsruhe Germany a a convicted red  faction terrorist is now also suspected in the killing of a . Soldier and the 1985 bombing at Rhein main a authorities said saturday. Eva Haule Frimpong who is serving a 15-year sentence for a previous terrorist conviction is under investigation in the aug. 8, 1985, bombing that killed two americans a an airman and a civilian a and injured More than 20 people the Federal prosecutors office said. It said two letters written by Haule Frimpong to another jailed red  faction member were found by authorities and implicated her in the attack and the murder. Army spec. Edward Pimental based at Wiesbaden was killed in a Forest near there the night before the attack and terrorists used his identity card to drive an explosives Laden car onto the base two leftist groups Germany a red  faction and action direct of France claimed responsibility for the attack. Haule Frimpong 38, was arrested in july 1986 and was convicted two years later in a failed attempt to blow up a nato school in the bavarian Village of Oberammergau in 1984. Historic Elbe Bridge May face demolition t Organ Germany apr the historic Bridge Over the Elbe at Tougau where . And soviet units linked up at the end of world War ii is in serious disrepair and May be torn Down an official said Friday the Bridge is Likely to lie destroyed unless a buyer or a sponsor can be found to Salvage the decaying Structure said to Gunter Hofmann an olt Ciai in the Sachsen state economics ministry. The Bridge has been dosed to traffic. A new Bridge is being constructed near the old one and is slated to be completed in july. The Fate of the old Bridge will be decided then Hofmann said. The Stone foundation of the Bridge was constructed in 1836, and a steel Frame was added in 1895. In the afternoon of april 26, 1945, patrols of the . 69th inf div met Forward elements of the soviet 58th guard div at Tougau some 75 Miles South of Berlin. T lie linkup Plit North and South Germany and left Hitler Cut off in Berlin. 4 Tougau Slick work . Sailors await orders to Start scrubbing the deck of the air the deck was covered with a layer of Oil after recent lights of Craft Carrier Kitty Hawk which is on duty in the persian Gulf jets taking part in missions Over Iraq. German terrorist probed in bombing available for comment until this week. Severing docs not dispute that he was a member of the nazi party Ald hat he joined an of the is the cavalry is As a teen Ager. He has been accused of signing an order in 1943 that approved the Transfer of a 14-year-old mentally retarded girl to a facility known to be a euthanasia Center where she was killed. At the time he was a doctor at a clinic for the handicapped near Munich. Severing and the medical association said the accusation which first surfaced in 1978, has never been proved. Severing acknowledged that he signed the order but said the practice of killing the mentally retarded had already stopped in 1941 after widespread protests. Animal lovers think Art shows London up Bird experts Friday condemned the use of a live Parrot in a London Art exhibition and asked for it to be removed. The brightly coloured Macaw was positioned on a Perch at the Back of an untitled sculpture in the exhibition Gravity and Grace a the changing condition of sculpture that opened thursday at the Hayward Gall in in London. But the Royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals said the Bird was being exploited for publicity purposes and asked the gallery to remove it from the exhibition. An inspector for the society Ian Gough said he visited the gallery Friday and found the Parrot was becoming stressed from the number of visitors to the gallery. He said he asked for the Parrot to be removed but the gallery refused. A a we have received dozens of complaints about the Parrot being exploited a said a spokeswoman for the society. Quot the Spca is against the use of animals for trivial entertainment purposes and we think this sort of exploitation is not in the Best interests of the Bird a the spokeswoman said. Quot Gough has asked the gallery to remove the Bird but we cannot do anything More As it the gallery is not doing anything illegal a she said. Quot Only if we could find clinical signs of stress could we say that the gallery was wilfully inflicting unnecessary suffering and take the matter further a she said. The Jannis Kounellis sculpture untitled j967 is part of an exhibition to show the changes that were taking place in the world of sculpture Between the years 1965 and 1975. Quot it was a time when sculpture was going through a revolution a sculpture no longer had to be pieces of Stone or Bronze in recognizable shapes a gallery spokeswoman Claire Hyde said. Quot sculptors started using Earth rubber fluorescent lights and siring a she said. The sculpture features the Parrot on a Perch in front of three troughs filled with Earth and cac uses alongside a Container of raw Cotton. The Parrot is moved from its Perch to a Cage when the gallery closes at 6 . And is put Back on its Perch at 9 a.m., Hyde said. It is accompanied by a trained handier throughout the Day under an arrangement approved by an inspector from the animal society she said. The Spca spokeswoman however denied reaching any prior agreement on handling the Parrot