European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 1, 1993 the stars and stripes b Page 9 Britain s Short to Battle Kasparov for chess title from wire reports san Lorenzo de Eles Corial Spain British chess grandmaster Nigel Short won the candidates final chess series saturday setting up a showdown with Garry Kasparov for the world title. Short beat dutch grandmaster Jan Timman on Adraw in the 13th game giving him the 7.5 Points needed to win the match Timman finished with 5.5points. A Victory was Worth one Point a tie a half Point and a defeat Zero. Short receives a $124,000 prize and will probably  in Barcelona in september the 27-year-old Short will be the first player from a county other than the former soviet Union to play for the title since american Bobby Fischer played Boris Spassky in 1972. Plane crashes in Indonesia Jakarta Indonesia a plane carrying singaporeans hired to Salvage Oil from a ruptured supertanker crashed into a Mountain in North Sumatra killing All 16 aboard officials said sunday. It. Jaka Suprianna a spokesman for the search and Rescue Agency said the aircraft was broken in pieces and efforts were being made to evacuate the bodies from the  plane carrying 11 passengers and five Crew members was reported missing shortly after it took off in bad weather saturday. Snow cuts off villages Ankara Turkey heavy snowfall blanketed much of Central Eastern and Northern Turkey on sunday cutting off More than 2,700 villages from the outside world news reports said. Snow blocked roads and Telephone links Wen Down. Power outages were also reported. In Northern Turkey Snow piled As High As 13 feet in some parts. More Snow and freezing temperatures were predicted for most parts of the country today. 66 die As train hits bus Beijing a train struck a bus that was trying to Speed across the tracks at an unguarded crossing sunday killing 66 people and injuring 28 others the Xinhua news Agency  said All of those killed were on the bus while Only one person on the train the Driver was slightly Hurt. The bus was carrying 94 passengers 34 Over its intended capacity Xinhua said. Xinhua said investigators found that the bus Driver was not attentive at the time and did no abide by  it scid he tried to Speed through the crossing ahead of the train. Pope passes health exam Rome Pope John Paul ii s latest checkup since surgery gave him a clean Bill of health and he s sticking to his grueling Pace As Well As his favorite diet of pasta and pizza his spokesman was quoted saturday As saying. ,. The spokesman Joaquin Navarro in an interview with the  Panorama dismissed As irresponsible journalism recent reports that the Pope was in failing health. John Paul 72, underwent surgery july 15 to remove an intestinal tumor that his doctors described As benign. The Pope departs wednesday on an eight Day trip to Benin Uganda and Sudan. 2 rescued in Cairo collapse Cairo _ the death toll Rose to 19 saturday although Rescue workers pulled two survivors from the rubble of an apartment building that collapse three Days ago in an affluent Section of Cairo police one of the survivors 9-year-old Ahmed Elna Cha was rescued after spending 51 hours under debris that killed his entire family. Natgha s 18-year-old sister Eman died at a Hospital Early saturday. She was pulled out of the debris 30 hours after the collapse another survivor building parking attendant Samir Mohammed Abdel Rahman was pulled out of the rubble after being entombed near y 36 hours. The six Story tenement in the   Cairo was apparently weakened by an earthquake that hit Egypt in october. Train cars lie a skew after a passenger train plunged into a swollen River in Kenya on saturday. 59 bodies recovered in Wake of Kenya s worst train crash Nairobi Kenya Aat least 59 people were killed when part of a train plunged into a swollen rivet that had washed away a Bridge police said sunday. More than 100 people were feared dead in Kenya s worst Railroad Accident. A police duty officer said 59 bodies had been recovered. Rescuers continued searching for More. The officer said one of the victims was a Canadian but refused to give her name or Hometown the engine Driver and his assistant also were killed in saturday s Accident. Israel planning to try americans Jerusalem up Israel charges that three Arab americans arrested last week Are suspected of trying to rebuild the islamic fundamentalist Hamas group whose suspected leaders were deported to Leb anon in december. Officials said sunday the1 Arab americans would be put on trial. The arrest of the three by the israeli general Security service known As the Shin bet led to a Roundup of More than 40 other suspected Hamas activists in the israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza strip. They will not be deported to the ," police min ister Myshe Shahal said of the americans. They tried to organize murder and terror acts Here and we Are entitled certainly to judge them according to International and local  Sarah Mohammad Abdel Hamid 39, and his Cousin Mohammad Joma Hilmu Jarad 36, both from Chicago were arrested in the West Bank last week. A search of his hotel room at the Myca in East Jerusalem turned up $100,000 in Cash and information on planned Sui cide missions a government statement said. A . Official who asked not to be identified said a third american also was arrested and All three were visited by consular officials. An Israel army spokesman would not comment. S Hamid and Jarad were accused by israeli authorities of being senior agents for the islamic resistance front known As Hamas. Israeli officials said two weeks ago that the organi action was operating in the United states and raising funds for activities against Israel. The two americans wanted to renew the infrastructure the violence the disturbances and the militant activity of the Hamas including attacks on. Soldiers and civilians the army statement said. The railway said the train was travelling from the Indi an Ocean port of Mombasa to the Nairobi the kenyan capital when its engine and five coaches plunged into the River near Tito and i about 125 Miles Southeast of Nairobi. Jean n. Lusino a Public relations officer for the state owned Kenya railways corp., said saturday that the railway believed at least 114 people were killed or injured based on the number of passengers believed to have been in the five coaches. Car bomb kills 16 in Bogota Bogota Colombia a a powerful car bomb blamed on cocaine traffickers exploded saturday in a commercial District killing at least16 people including four children Ami injuring 33, a radio report said. Police said at least four children were killed when the 220-Pound bomb went off in an area crowded with shoppers looking for school sup plies. At least 100 buildings were damaged. Run radio quoted prosecutors in its report on the casualties. The report could not immediately be confirmed. / bodies were strewn about in streets covered with debris and broken Glass. A police officer told the Caracol radio network that passers Betook off their jackets to cover the dead. There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing but suspicion fell on the Lea tier of  drug Cartel Pablo Escobar who escaped from prison in july and later announce plans to commit terrorist acts. The car bomb was typical of attacks waged by the Cartel. The bombing was the third explosion in the capital in the past 10 Days. On Jan. 21, two bombs went off in Northern Bogota injuring 17people. Caracol reported that besides the four Chil Dren who died a number of youngsters were among the injured. At the moment of the blast Many children were with their parents buying books and other supplies for the school year that begins today