European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sea of Light marchers Back aliens in Austria Vienna Austria apr tens of thousands of marchers holding candles formed a Quot sea of tight sat urday to show support for foreigners under attack from a right Wing politician. Unlike Germany Austria has not experienced a wave of attacks against Asylum seekers Homes jewish memorials and foreign residences. But the increasing popularity of Jorg Haider has. Raised concerns Haider has Ridden anti foreigner senti ment to impressive gains in regional elections Over the past year. He also sparked a controversy in 1991 when As a provincial governor he praised nazi labor policies. Haider charges that foreigners Are cheating natives of jobs and apartments in Austria where the global economic recession is beginning to take effect. He is now staking his political reputation in a Peti lion calling for a National referendum on foreigners. The referendum would impose among other things quotas on the number of foreign children allowed in schools. His Freedom party was to begin collecting signatures for the petition today. Under Austria s Constitution Haider needs 100,000 signatures to Force parliament to consider the motion on tightening Austria a generous Asylum policy. Haider launched plans for the petition drive with a rally of 3,000 supporters this month. His speech at the rally shocked Many in Austria for its overt and implied attacks of the roman Catholic Church intellectuals jews and other opponents of the petition. Groups participating in saturday s March included the Catholic Church unions the jewish Community and the medical profession. They urged austrians to join the protest which was similar to several in Germany  Catholic priests have warned parishioners not to support Haider s petition. Singers artists and Intel a Lect als throughout Austria have United against it. It s a matter of principle to be Here to show that people have Learned something since the third Reich Ginter Heisenbuttel most of the animosity in Austria to foreigners is directed against Asylum seekers and Turk Ana yugoslav guest workers. A a leading Industrial organizations Are trying to prove that Austria s Economy could not survive without foreign labor. Vienna s famed state opera with its stable of foreign Talent was one rallying Point for saturdays demonstration. The protest called a a sea of Light March ended with a concert on the Helde Platz the vast Square where German Leader Adolf Hitler was cheered by hundreds of thousands after annexing Austria in 1938. Chancellor Franz Wranitzky and foreign minister Alois mock also took part. T leading austrian entertainers joined political and social leaders on the stage before a crowd estimated by police at up to 200,000. One speaker was Paul Grosz the head of Vienna s jewish Community which numbered More than 200,000 before world War ii. It now stands at about 6,000. He warned of a a newly sprouting Neo nazi tinged hate of  Church Bells rang throughout the City at 5 . To signal the protesters to Light their candles and torches. A a it a a matter of principle to be Here to Showl hat people have Learned something since the third Reich Quot said Ginter Heisenbuttel 19, one of a group of Hospital workers gathered at the Square. Waterway water engulfs a Bow abandoned in Hamburg Germany when the Elbe River overflowed during a storm Early saturday. The fish Market parts of the port and the suburb of Bla Kenese were submerged for several hours. Police reported no major damage but Early buy ers in the fish Market had to be evacuated by boat to dry land. Meanwhile a boat carrying three port pilots during the storm Sank near Cuxhaven at the Mouth of the Elbe on the North sea coast Only one of the men was found but he later died in a Hospital. Car bomb kills leading turkish journalist Ankara Turkey apr a car bomb on sunday killed a left Wing turkish columnist known for his investigation of the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope Paul u As Well As for ins criticism of islamic Fua Dalmen Taoism and kurdish separatism. Ugur Mumau 51was killed instantly by the bomb when he started his ear at about 1 15 . Outside his apartment in a High class residential District. Mumau a columnist for the Istanbul daily Mihu rivet was outspoken against islamic fundamentalism and kurdish separatism and was considered an expert on terrorism. A group calling itself the islamic salvation claimed responsibility for the bombing in Anonymous Telephone Calls to newspapers. It was the first time such a group described As fundamentalist had been heard of. Mumau had reported receiving death threats from extremist islamic  terrorist probed in 85 Rhein main bombing from wire reports Karlsruhe Germany a convicted German terrorist is now also suspected in the killing of a . Serviceman that led to a deadly 1985 bombing at a Rhein main a the Federal prosecutor s office said authorities found letters from Eva hauls Frimpong to another jailed red army faction member that implicated her in the murder and the aug. 8,1985, bombing of Rhein main a the prosecutor s office said Iri a statement. _ the attackers killed army spec. Edward Pimental in a Forest near Wiesbaden on aug. 7, then used his identity card to drive an explosive Laden car into the nearby base. Two . Citizens died and 23 people were injured in the bombing. _. Two leftist groups Germany a red army faction and action direct of France claimed responsibility. Haule Frimpong 38, was arrested in july 1986 and convicted two years later for a failed 1984 a. A attempt to blow up a nato school in the bavarian Village of Oberammergau. She is serving a 15-year  worker Dies Jerusalem a a worker died sunday in an explosion during a Experiment at a government owned armaments factory in a Tel Aviv suburb. No other injuries were reported and damage was confined to a Small room in the factory at Ramat Masharon a factory statement said. It said the explosion was apparently accidental but the cause was being  kills 21 in Turkey a Isar Turkey a a double Decker bus crashed into a parked truck near this Western town saturday and 21 passengers died the Anatolia news Agency said. Witnesses said the bus Driver lost control and hit the truck which was stopped alongside the Road _ . Thirty five passengers were injured it  reportedly has nukes Munich Germany a Iran has acquired nuclear weapons from Kazakhstan and Tajikistan and is working on a delivery system for the bombs a German newsmagazine said  a recently started weekly said two nuclear missile warheads an atomic bomb and an atomic. Grenade were supplied to Iran by the two former soviet republics via a third Turkmenistan one year ago. The Magazine in a summary of the article provided to other news Media before its publication today said its information came from . Intelligence sources a which it did not identify.1 charged in London blast London a detectives on saturday charged a Man with abduction and causing an explosion in connection with a car bomb that exploded outside the Cabinet office at Whitehall in october a Scotland Yard spokesman said. Scotland Yard said Patrick Oliver Murphy 52 and unemployed had been held since wednesday under the prevention of terrorism act and had been charged after interrogation by anti terrorist squad detectives. No one was injured when the car bomb exploded oct. 30 after two armed men forced a minicab Driver in North Umidon to drive his cab to Whitehall and abandon it. The cab Driver was challenged by police As he approached the end of Downing Street officers cleared the area before the bomb went off outside the Cabinet  kills 52 bangladeshis Dhaka Bangladesh a icy winds sweeping Northern Bangladesh killed 52 people in one Day mostly homeless children and old labourers news reports said sunday a i he deaths which occurred saturday in five districts raised to 192 the number of people killed this Winter. The cold has affected millions of underfed people of Bangladesh one of the worlds poorest nations i he weather office said the temperature in most places was around 43 degrees fahrenheit just below the Normal temperature for december and january m Bangladesh