European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 1993 Holland moves to ban pit bulls from country from wire reports the Hague Netherlands a Law aimed a making pit Bull terriers extinct in the Netherlands took effect monday the act makes it illegal to own import Breed or sell the sometimes Savage dogs agriculture ministry spokesman Mcnno Bruggink said. The Law allows current owners to keep their pets including puppies born up to mid april providing they Are sterilized and registered with a Central authority. Unlicensed or in sterilized dogs win be confiscated and almost certainly put to death. Bragging said. Puppies born after mid april also would be confiscated and killed. Hie jaw requires pit Bull owners to keep the dogs leashed and muzzled when they Are outdoors. Volcanic Ash kills 2 Manila Philippines hot Ash spewing from a Volcano Southeast of Manila killed at least two people and injured 30 others tuesday. Hie blast dieted warnings of a possible eruption. Hundreds of residents near the Mayon Volcano about 200 Miles Southeast of Manila lied their Homes after the Ash shot nearly three Miles into Theair tuesday afternoon. Authorities in Legazpi near where the Volcano dislocated in Albay province said the hot Ash mixed with rain and fell on residential areas As far As 6.5 Miles away from the Volcano. Rivals threaten Escobar Medellin Colombia members of a gang challenging the Medellin cocaine Cartel run by. Pablo Escobar claimed responsibility monday for bombing Homes owned by the fugitive drug lord s Mother sister and wife. The group identified itself in a letter to the news Media As the pursued by Pablo Escobar group. It said the bombings sunday in Colombia s second largest City were meant to warn Escobar that he would see his own Brand of violence turned against his family if he persisted in trying to crush the gang believed to be a splinter faction of his Cartel. Police said they think gunmen hired by Escobar detonated a car bomb saturday on a Busy Street i Bogota killing 20 people and wounding 68 others As part of a War on the government. Elephant kill planned Harare Zimbabwe state game rangers plan to Slaughter 5,000 of Zimbabwe s 80,000 elephants to curb overpopulation the government said monday. But they first need to raise $2 million for the  Martin of the National Parks and wildlife Agency said Zimbabwe has to reduce its elephant population or risk having its Woodlands destroyed and the ecosystems in National Parks disturbed. Right hand drive banned Moscow the russian government has banned the registration of cars with a right hand drive As of next july reports said monday. A government Resolution said the measure was taken to increase traffic  minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has also banned the use of right hand drive vehicles in Russia As of Jan. 1,1995, the inter fax and itar Tass news agencies said. V the ban will not apply to vehicles involved in International traffic such As tourist freight or transit and those brought to the country for less than six months inter fax said. Rehnquist visits Egypt Cairo Egypt William h Rehnquist the chief Justice of the . Supreme court is making seven Day visit to Egypt a statement by the . Embassy in Cairo said monday. Other than saying the visit came at the invitation of egyptian minister of Justice Farouk Sei Al Nasr tie statement did not give any further details on the itinerary or the purpose of the visit. Rehnquist has been on the supreme court since 1972 and was named chief Justice in 1986. World the stars and strikes Page red army Veteran Maxim Kosik left exchanges War storks with former German Soldier Gerhard Dong scr. Aging German sex soviet vets recall fierce Battle of Stalingrad by Deborah Seward the associated press Volgograd Russia Yakov disc lev who was wounded four times during the Battle of Stalingrad spends his Days on a cot in a dim corridor crowded with 10 other  and the other impoverished veterans were too sick to join the former soviet and German soldiers who embraced and traded stories monday to Mark the 50th anniversary of Stalingrad perhaps the decisive Battle of  rundown Volgograd retirement Home where Kiselev 80, has lived the past eight years underlined the fact that Germany which lost the Battle and the War is ave Inbody has hugged  has cursed us for being germans. It s unforgettable Gerhard Zengler a professor of International relations prosperous while the victorious former soviets often live in misery. Kiselev s eyes brimmed with tears when the other old veterans congratulated him on the anniversary. They wept and Sang patriotic russian songs. The Battle of Stalingrad ended feb. 2,1943, with the surrender of German Field marshal Friedrich von Pau Lus to soviet forces. The defeat crushed Hitler s Hopes of isolating the soviet heartland from the Southern Oil Fields. More than. I million soviet soldiers and civilians perished in the fight for Stalingrad renamed Volgograd after soviet ruler Josef Stalin died in 1953. Hundreds of thousands of germans also perished. On monday russian president Boris n. Yeltsin used the anniversary to rally russians who Are enduring eco nomic woes. Stalingrad is a convincing testament that however difficult it might be our people can find the strength and the Resolution to overcome harsh ordeals together Yeltsin said in a statement. He also sought to dissolve lingering hatred of Ger mans. Former enemies have become partners he  Are brought together to the people of Germany by Basic democratic and moral values by a common striving for peace and stability in Europe and the whole  russian flags flew overhead but the ceremonies at Volgograd were characterized by the same soviet style pomp of years past. Real emotion surfaced when German and former so Viet veterans their chests covered with medals me informally at the opening of an exhibit at the museum of the Battle of Stalingrad. Everybody has hugged me. Nobody has cursed us for being germans. It s unforgettable said Gerhard Dangler a professor of International relations from Berlin. Dangler 70, was an artillery Captain during the Bat the which began with the German Advance on the Volga River City in the summer of 1942. He was one of 91,000 germans left alive when the last German unit surrendered. Only 6,000 German survivors from Stalingrad made it Home after the War Many after spending years in soviet prison Camps. Of those about 1,000 Are still alive. I never experienced hate from the russians. They had a lot of understanding for us said or. Fritz pin Del a doctor from Coburg who still Speaks russian from his years in a soviet prison Camp. Victory at Stalingrad was used by the communist party As a Symbol of soviet superiority. Despite the col lapse of the soviet Union Many veterans remain fiercely patriotic. We defended our Homeland. Whether it s Russia Orthe soviet Union it s ail the same to us said Veteran Jvan Zharkov speaking in a telethon to raise Money for russians who suffered during world War ii. Musin Galinovich 72, lost a leg at Stalingrad an has been on crutches for half a Century. Bui the ethnic tatar came hundreds of Miles from his Home in the Central russian City of Kazan to participate in the Cere monies. We fought Here. We loss our blood and our Bones. We can never forget this place he said. Vasily Demidov brought his grandson and a photo graph of Stalin to a ceremony renaming a Volgograd Square in Honor of Stalingrad. People have started to forget about Stalin. We can not allow that. Stalin aved the whole world Demidov said