European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 \ saturday february 6,1993 the stars and stripes smugglers used . Cars to slip guns into Germany from wire reports Berlin gun smugglers hid weapons in used . Cars to slip them into Germany police said thursday. Police said they confiscated 13 handguns and 1,460 rounds of ammunition Jan. 29 and arrested two Berlin men after waiting for several Days for the suspects to pull the weapons from hiding places in a Van transported by ship from Florida. A dealer specializing in used american cars was arrested in Essen in Western Germany As a accomplice Berlin police said. American police arc investigating the other end of the illegal Trade. Belarus ratifies arms pact Minsk Belarus Belarus parliament has ratified a treaty with the United states to Cut strategic weapons. Belarus decision thursday leaves Ukraine As the Only former soviet Republic that has not approved the strategic arms reduction treaty under the treaty Belarus must surrender All Sis Ingle warhead missiles it inherited from the former soviet nuclear Arsenal. After the soviet Union s collapse four former republics were left with nuclear weapons Russia Kazakhstan Belarus and Ukraine. Russia and Kazakhstan already have ratified Start i signed in 1991 by former presidents George Bush and . Gorbachev. The treaty would leave Russia As the Only former soviet Republic with nuclear weapons. Its Arsenal would be Cut sharply As would that of the United states. Ukraine is asking for Security guarantees and $1.5 billion in compensation from the West. Italian infant Dies Rome a 12-Day-old boy whose birth sparked a debate on Italy s abortion Laws has died in Hospital in Bergamo news reports said Friday. His Mother 28-year-old Garla Ardenghi had gone ahead with her pregnancy rather than fight her cancer and died Jan. 25 eight hours after giving birth. Pope John Paul ii and other roman Catholic leaders in Italy praised her decision seized upon by the country s anti abortion lobby in order to change Italy s Liberal abortion Laws. The italian news Agency Ansa said Stufano Ardenghi born three months premature was unable to overcome kidney and Respirator problems and died thursday night. Teen girl defeats Spassky Budapest Hungary Judit Polgar the 16 year old hungarian chess Whiz Defeated Boris Spassky on thursday in the fourth game of their exhibition match. She leads the match .21/2-1.thursday s Marathon game lasted nearly seven hours. Spassky a former world Champion who no lives in France resigned on the 65th move of a hard fought Winner of the match the first player to achieve 5 /2 Points in 10 games will collect $120,000. Of the $200,000 prize. Another horse attacked Winchester England a pregnant Mare has been attacked in the latest in a series of brutal assaults on horses in Southern England police said horse was expected to survive. Horses have been stabbed clubbed shot with airguns and attacked with corrosive liquids police said. Two horses died. In the latest incident an object was inserted into the animal s genitals wednesday near Upham 70 Miles South of London police spokesman Peter Young. The daytime attack injured the horse but she and her foal were expected to live. It was the 23rd attack i Hampshire county since March. Sewer bandits nabbed Bangkok Thailand police have arrested a gang of diminutive burglars who broke into houses by wading through the sewers and then slithering up the toilets news reports said Friday. Thai television s Channel 7 showed film of one teen age gang member As he re enacted for police How he climbed through toilet bowls after smashing the pipes from the sewers underneath with an Iron bar. A Farmer carries bananas harvested thursday amid the devastation caused by Mayon Volcano in the Philippines philippine Volcano expert warns of further eruptions Legazpi Philippines a thousands More fled their Homes Friday after the government s chief Volcan Logist warned that a full Moon and High tides could set off another eruption of Mayon Volcano this weekend. The philippine air Force flew food medicines and other supplies Friday to this port City 200 Miles South cast of Manila As a precaution against a major explosion at Mayon which erupted last tuesday for the first time in eight years. The provincial disaster coordinating Council placed the death toll at 61 with 118 injured and 25 missing the missing toll has fluctuated widely As reports were received from outlying settlements and More bodies were recovered. Civilian and military Rescue teams entered the Dan Ger zone near the Volcano again Friday to search for More than 40 people reported missing after the eruption and landslides three Days ago. Members of one Rescue team had to abandon two guardsmen find hundreds on ship Honolulu a coast guardsmen answering a distress Call about a hijacking at sea boarded a Mer chant vessel Friday and were met by 400 or so cheering people crammed into the hold. The coast guard was trying to determine whether the passengers were immigrants and whether a Hijack ing had taken place chief Petty officer de Moreth said. The 14 guardsmen boarded the 310-foot freighter East Wood without resistance near the Marshall is lands 1,500 Miles Southwest of Hawaii. They reported finding no signs of an emergency aboard the panamanian registered ship. The coast guard Cutter remained alongside the Mer chant vessel As the guardsmen tried to sort out the situation. The Cutter was dispatched from Honolulu on sunday and rendezvoused with the Drifting East Wood in response to a Jan. 27 distress Call that hijackers had taken Over the ship after it left Hong Kong for Taiwan on dec. 29. The radio report said the hijackers had brought 400 chinese aboard As passengers. Coast guard spokesman . Ken Armstrong said at the time that authorities suspected it was an attempt to smuggle the people into the United states. As the Cutter neared a Man who identified himself As the East Wood s Captain said via radio that about 40 men armed with knives and machetes were in control of the ship but that there had been no violence rear adm. William c. Donnell said. The East Wood s Crew Hadr communicated with . Authorities during the week with a radio that was dropped to the ship from a coast guard plane Donnell said. Bodies and run for their lives when a fresh Avalanche roared Down a Ravine on the Southeastern slope. A Heli copter was sent later to retrieve the bodies. Me awhile scientists reported new seismic activity amount Pinatubo which exploded in june 1991 in one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the Century. Pinatubo is 60 Miles North of Manila. Raymundo Punongbayan director of the philippine Institute of volcanology and seismology said a major eruption could occur this weekend because of a predicted full Moon and High tide. The combined effect of these Phenomena on the Earth s Gravity had caused Mayon to erupt at least three times in the past Punongbayan said. It is prime for eruption Punongbayan said. The magma is sitting up Institute scientists told local officials that millions of tons of debris could come roaring Down the slope to Ward Legazpi 10 Miles from the Volcano. Filipino veterans get . Citizenship Manila Philippines a filipino Veter ans of world War ii took their oaths As Ameri can citizens Friday in the first naturalization cer Emony in the Philippines in More than 50 years. The 209 veterans including two women were the first of about 50,000 aging filipinos expected to become eligible for . Citizenship because they fought with american forces against the japanese during world War the War the . Congress granted citizenship rights to foreigners who served wit american forces but Only a few filipinos took advantage before the Law expired in 1946.the 1990 immigration act restored eligibility to alien veterans but required them to go to the United states to become naturalized. By that time most of the veterans were Well Over 60 Andin poor health. Recently Congress changed the Law to allow filipino veterans to take their oaths in the Philippines. I m very Happy that the Promise of the United states has been fulfilled said Jose Florendo 71, a Veteran of the fighting on Bataan and the infamous death March that followed the surren Der of . Forces Perez who turns 69 on sunday said she planned to leave soon for the United states. She served As a nurse during the War. I feel gratified she said. It s the Best birth Day gift after waiting so Many Long
