European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 10 a the stars and stripes world sunday january 31, 1993 greeting cards concealed cocaine dutch police say from wire reports Amsterdam Netherlands a police have broken up n drug ring that smuggled cocaine into the Netherlands in greeting cards mailed from South America. .0 dutch customs officials became suspicious when 40 to 50 cards bearing the same two dutch addresses arrived Over several weeks from the former Colony of Suriname. Suriname is a notorious source of drugs reaching the Netherlands. The cards allegedly were mailed by a Blind woman police spokesman keys Rameau said. A the cards were the regular Happy birthday and a congratulations Type Only each one held 10 Grams of cocaine a he said. A it was quite Rameau said three suspects were detained and an unspecified Quantity of heroin and cocaine was seized in raids last week at two addresses in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The 44-year-old woman was arrested at Schipholt Airport the. Previous week As she stepped off a plane from Suriname. Benetton ads cause stir new Delhi India a a government Agency has censured a leading newsmagazine for printing pictures of a priest kissing a nun and of a White child embracing a Black one. The photos appeared in 1991 in the illustrated weekly of India one of indians oldest nationwide newsmagazine published in Bombay. It was not known Why the Agency waited so Long to act on the pictures. The photos were old advertisements by United a colors of Benetton the italian clothes maker. They were used by the Magazine to illustrate a Story about Benetton a plan to produce multicoloured condoms in India. Ago. Ahuja Secretary of the press Council of India said the pictures Are a against the ethics of journalism in the context of the multiracial and Multi religious composition of the Indian poles protest Wales Warsaw Poland a More than 6,000 people marched Friday to president Lech Walesa a office demanding his resignation and a purge of former communists in the Federal administration Walesa was out of the capital vacationing with his family in the mountains. The demonstration was organized by three right Wing parties that Are disenchanted with Walesa a attitude toward former communists even though his Solidarity movement helped overthrow the communist system in 1989. Swedish entertainers strike Stockholm Sweden a television actors and other entertainers went on strike Friday threatening to close Down three of the four major television channels Irr 10 Days. There were no immediate effects but fewer programs were to be broadcast As the strike continued. If the dispute is not settled by the time previously recorded shows Are aired two slate television channels and one commercial Channel could go Black. The walkout came after the Union for to actors turned Down a mediators proposal cutting the fees the actors receive when shows Are rebroadcast. Moscow crime targeted Moscow a russian soldiers will patrol Moscow in an Effort to curb a crime wave the inter fax news Agency said Friday. Mayor Yuri la Zhukov Tekl the Agency that soldiers will be on patrol with City police in High Erime areas. He described the measure As temporary. President Boris n. Yeltsin has vowed to crack Down on crime which Lias been steadily rising since the 1991 breakup of the soviet Union. Kenyan train crashes Nairobi Kenya a railway authorities said a kenyan passenger train travelling Between lire coastal City of Mombasa and the Inland capital Nairobi plunged into a River Early saturday killing at least 50 people. The death toll was expected to Rixe. Six Sleeper is a go us of the night commuter train plunged into a River near the town of Dar Ajani 155 Miles South of Nairobi at 3 . Local time authorities said in a statement p o Ltd tip a go a % p i a of Yin l my x be i Xiv. Y a to j a j Forfi Whity a the supreme Allied commander Europe Gen. John m. Shalikashvil left and russian defense minister Pavel s. Grachev shake hands in Moscow on saturday before beginning talks on military cooperation. Shalikashvil visits roofs talks with russians explore ways to cooperate Moscow apr the american general who serves As commander of nato forces in Europe said saturday that returning to the country his parents fled decades ago had been an emotional experience. Gen. John m. Shalikashvil met with russian defense minister Pavel s. Grachev and discussed ways in which Russia and nato can cooperate. Shalikashvil who was born in Warsaw a Poland made his first visit to Russia since taking Over As supreme Allied commander Europe last year. He was asked How his family a roots had affected his career. A the fact that i have slavic blood in my veins has been a great advantage to my career a the 56-Ycar-old general said. A and i will Tell you that after visiting St. Petersburg yesterday where my Mother was born and where my father a Long time ago became a Young officer in the russian Cav airy a it was a very special moment for Shalikashvil and Grachev said a panel of nato and russian experts will meet in Moscow in about a month to determine More ways to work together. Shalikashvil who earlier in the week met with the military commander of the Commonwealth of Independent states marshal Yevgeny i Shaposhnikov said All of his talks a were conducted in a spirit of moving this partnership Between nato and Russia from a partnership fit 1 he Days when we stared at each other As enemies Are Long gone a Gen. John m. Shalikashvil supreme Allied commander Europe of words to a partnership of deeds.�?�. He said both sides were discussing military student exchanges seminars and joint training exercises As Steps toward getting to know each other better. Quot and not just generals getting to know generals better but that we move to captains getting to know captains better and majors to know majors better a Shalikashvil said. Grachev noted the changes that had already occurred in russians relations with the West. A two or three years ago it would have been very hard to even imagine that two leaders of say nato and the Warsaw pact would be sitting Here meeting each other a he said. A but times Are changing. We Are no longer a the Days when we stared at each other As enemies Are Long gone a he said. Man ranked world s richest Dies Tokyo a Tui Kichiro Mori ranked by Forbes Magazine As the world s richest Man died of heart failure saturday at a Tokyo Hospital a company official said. He was 88, Mori a landowner and president of Mori building co was Worth an estimated $13 billion heading an Empire of 83 buildings on some of the worlds most expensive land. In person Mori was unpretentious often seen working at his office wearing a traditional Kimono. In an interview two years ago he acknowledged feeling uncomfortable about being labelled the worlds richest Man. Forbes accorded hurl that title in 1991 ant 1993. �?o1 was thankful but Afelt uncomfortable. I have been living and working at Why own Pace All this timer and now in a getting All this at Tiv in a a he said. Taking advantage of the economic growth in Japan Mori built his Empire starting from two buildings owned by his fat Iier. Born in 1904 in Tokyo Mori graduated from Tokyo Shoka University now called Hito Subashi University in pcs after to. Id War a he taught ratio theory at Yokohama City Unis Hersity whore he became chief of the school 1 of Commerce. He left Academia in his mid-50s to follow in his fathers footsteps in real estate. Mori buildings was established in 1959 and gradually acquired property in the tora Nomon area in downtown Tokyo near the Imperial Palace. His Forbes ranking Piemme a partly from Japan a spiralling land prices that intensified in the 1980s. Mori himself was critical of skyrocketing land prices and called it Japan s a most pressing a in a place like Tokyo where land is relatively spaix.-, land prices Rise far above their use value. And now tvs situation is extreme a he said. Mod
