European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes world monday february 15,1993 Tutu begins drive to free Nobel laureate in Burma Bangkok Thailand a South african Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu arrived in Bangkok on sunday the first of a group of Nobel peace prize winners seek ing to free another laureate burmese opposition Leader Daw Aung san Suu Kyi. Tutu am six other laureates Hope to focus world at Tention on the plight of Suu Kyi who has been under House arrest in Rangoon since 1989. Burma s ruling military Junta is holding some 1,500 political prisoners. The laureates Are visiting Thailand Burma s Eastern neighbor because Burma denied them visas the mis Sion s organizers said. On arriving at Bangkok Airport Early sunday Tutu said that even if the laureates could not win Suu Kyi s immediate release they could offer moral support. Since i come from a situation where for a Long time we had a repressive government we know the value of this kind of support said the Black South african who received the 1984 peace prize. He said he expected the Junta eventually would have to Bend to International pressure to improve its human rights record just As liberalization is taking place i South Africa. Peter Andre Globensky program director for the Mission said he saw it As a fairly Large Straw on what we Hope is a weakening  Burma s Junta came to Power in a september 1988 coup. Suu Kyi s party the National league for democracy won a 1989 general election but the Junta refused to let parliament open and jailed or killed Many opponents. Suu Kyi won the 1991 peace prize. The other laureates on this week s Mission Are Bett Williams and Mairead Corrigan of Northern Ireland co winners of the 1976 prize former Costa rican presi Dent Oscar Arias Sanchez the 1987 Winner Adolf Perez Esquivwl of Argentina the 1980 Winner the Dalai Lama spiritual Leader of Tibet the 1989 awardee and australian Ross Daniels representing the 1977 Winner the human rights organization amnesty International. The trip was organized by the Montreal based inter National Centre for human rights and democratic development. Volunteers stand beside a Jumble of Mil cars after two trains collided head on saturday in milk Austria. 3 killed in austrian train collision v1unna, Austria a a Driver and two conductors were killed when a freight train collided with a passenger express from Sal Burg to Vienna Early saturday austrian railway officials said. Three people were severely Hurt and 20 others injured in the crash a railway statement said. The crash occurred just West of the railway station at Melk 50 Miles Weston Vienna. Czech rep. Sito of train collision Boom Italy Slovenia red signal and crashed head on into the Salzburg Vienna express approaching at about 40 Mph the statement said. The Driver and two conductors of the passenger express were killed outright a railway spokes Man said. Some 80 austrian soldiers were called to the scene to remove the tangled crushed remains of the two rail Way engines from the  traffic on the main line Westward from Vien the Driver of the freight train apparently overlooked a a was to be diverted temporarily officials said. Germans poles demonstrate against strife lil run Al thousands of germans and poles lighted candles against prejudice and violence sunday during demonstrations in at least eight Sites along the Border Between the two countries. A new Border crossing to be inaugurated in May was opened temporarily Between Ijo Hemut in Germany and Osinowo Dolny Poland and several thousand peo ple formed a Chain of lights across the Oder River Ridge there police said. Meanwhile in Western Germany police in the Rhine River City of Ludwigshafen were investigating an arson attack on a turkish owned grocery store Early sunday. Ten people suffered smoke inhalation. Police were no certain whether the attack was linked to Neo nazi Vio Lence. Church Bells rang for a demonstration in Frankfurt an Der Oder Ami the neighbouring polish town of Slu Bice. Deadly collapse of school prompts manager s arrest from wire reports Moradabad India the manager of school that collapsed and killed 24 children and teachers was arrested because he was warned earlier that it was unsafe news reports said sunday. More than 200 pupils and teachers were in the three Story building saturday a school Day in India when the building collapsed according to the Hindustan times newspaper. District magistrate . Garg told the times that construction workers were fixing the top floor of the school when the building s support pillars  Chawla manager of the private Middle school was arrested saturday and accused of negligence the Pioneer newspaper said sunday. Chawla denied the building was unsafe. He did not say Why it was not closed during the heavy construction  to be seeks privacy Tokyo Japan s Princess in waiting has a Small request for the Media can she take a walk without being hounded by photographers and reporters to entertainment shows Are expected to go along with the request made Friday by Palace  some magazines walked. More than 100 reporters and camera Crew members rushed Tomasak Owada s House in Tokyo last month upon word she would be Crow Prince Haruhito s Bride. Dozens of the reporters remain. Drug bust nets heroin Malaga Spain a police raid netted 128kilos of heroin from a mansion near this Beach resort news reports said sunday the drugs buried in garbage cans near a private Home and discovered late Friday had an estimate Street value of up to 4 billion pesetas about $35 Millionth reports  arrested three spaniards in connection with the raid which followed a three Mont investigation. Indian general dismissed new Delhi India the Indian government has ordered the dismissal on corruption charges of a three Star army general the highest ranking military officer to be fired in almost two decades officials said sunday. The general . Bat director general of the National rifles an army unit also has been stripped of a gallantry award he won As a Field commander years ago. Bal a sikh was charged with embezzling army funds when he was chief of the 33rd corps. He was shunted from that Job to the National rifles to facilitate an Independent probe into his actions. The Indian army is the world s fifth largest. Vietnam woos expatriates to Chi Minh City Vietnam Vietnam communist leaders flew in More than 100 expatriates last week seeking to lure Back the talents desperately needed for the country s economic reforms. For four Days 130 ethnic vietnamese professionals business people arid artists from 24 countries met with the government in this City the expatriates still Call Saigon. The name is a throwback to the City s Days As capital of the . Backed South Vietnam which fell to the communists in 1975. The conference was the largest gathering of expatriates invited Back. Participants came from the United states Canada France Australia and other countries that Are decades ahead of Vietnam in economic development. Many of Vietnam s 2 million expatriates fled communist persecution and the seizure of businesses in the 1970s and Early 1980s. Nepal gives baby rhinos Katmandu Nepal Nepal gave a pair of Rhinoceros calves sunday As a gift to Bangladesh to be kept at the Dhaka National zoo officials  minister of state for forestry Bir Mani Dhakal presented the calves to Bangladesh ambassador Syed Muhammad Hussain. The Rhinoceros calves captured in the tropical forests of chit an in South Nepal were immediately flown to Dhaka