European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes world tuesday february 16,1993 parisian official says non to Eiffel Tower Mcdonald s from wire reports Paris a Mcdonald s restaurant at the foot of the Eiffel Tower not if the chief Deputy mayor can help it. A newspaper on sunday quoted the official Jean Tiberi As saying he would use All Legal Means to prevent a Mcdonald s from opening in the immediate Vicinity of the National landmark. It is tire that the Protection of certain Sites in Paris is reinforced the journal do Dimanche quoted Tiberi As saying. Mcdonald s officials saturday had disclosed their plans to set up a restaurant near the Eiffel Tower at a tourist boat boarding pier on the Seine River. Ice fishermen drown Moscow about 15 russian ice fishermen drowned after a hydroelectric Plant discharged hot water into a River breaking up the ice the 1tar Tass news Agency said monday. Rescuers on an ice breaking vessel and a helicopter plucked another 15 men from the water sunday near the urals Mountain City of Perm about 744 Miles from Moscow the dispatch said. It said some of the men stayed afloat by stripping off their waterlogged clothes despite temperatures of 4 degrees below Zero. All were suffering from exposure the report said. Itar Tass said the discharge from the Kama River Power Plant raised the water level in the River breaking up the ice and plunging the fishermen into the water. Arab stabs 2 in Jerusalem Jerusalem an Arab stabbed to death a Man and wounded a woman monday in an attack on jews waiting at a Jerusalem bus Stop police and Hospital officials said. Jerusalem police commander Rafi Peled told Israel radio that the attack occurred about 6 . In the jewish neighbourhood of Armon Hana Ziv which Borders the City s Arab District. The assailant described As about 25 years old was seen fleeing toward the adjacent Arab neighbourhoods of Jebel Rukaber and sur Baher by a bus Driver who fired two shots in his direction Peled added. The Man killed in Jerusalem was identified As Nehez Kcjr Mizrachi 35, from the Armon Hana Ziv area police  woman victim Dalia Elbaz 31, was undergoing surgery for a stomach wound officials at Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital said. Store fire kills 78, hurts 53 Beijing. Seventy eight people died in a huge fire in the biggest department store in Tangshan a City in Northern China s Hebe province the official Xinhua news Agency reported monday. The fire broke out sunday afternoon at the Lin i department store and gutted the three Story building the report said. Fifty three people were injured. The five sentence report said the fire might have been caused by workers doing electrical welding inside the building. It did not explain How the victims died or give the conditions of those injured. The report also did not say How Many people were in the store at the time of the fire. Teen clinches chess win Budapest Hungary a draw spelled Victory for teen age hungarian chess sensation Judit Polgar nine games into her 10-game series with former world Champion Boris Spassky. The draw sunday gave the world s top ranked woman 5.5 Points to Spassky s 3.5 with one game left tuesday in the $200,000 event. A win counts for Point a draw a half Point. 4 spaniards scale Peak Katmandu four Spanish mountaineers made a successful Winter assault on the Summit of the 26,904-foot Cho you via the Southwest Ridge the ministry of tourism and civil aviation said monday. The Summit was reached feb. 8. The climbers were Manuel Diaz 26, the Leader of the eight member team Manuel Rodriguez 24, Manuel Ron con 34, and Fernando Sanchez 40, the ministry announcement said. No details of the climb were available. At least 6 in Germany Hurt by rightist attacks Berlin up gangs of rightist youths attacked discos and restaurants in four separate incidents in Eastern Germany Over the weekend injuring at least six people police said. An East German politician who witnessed one attack in the town of wern Gerode in the state of Sachsen accused police of failing to take sufficient action to Stop the violence. Ludwig Hoffmann vice president of the town s District Council witnessed a group of rightist youths storm ing a disco at a youth club saturday spraying tear Gas and beating those present. I saw two officers sitting in a squad car simply watching and not doing anything Hoffmann said. Hoffmann said he identified himself to both officers after which they made efforts to bring the situation under control. One Man was hospitalized with cuts and bruises. No arrests were made. Police in Eastern Germany have repeatedly been accused in the past year of not taking sufficient action to Stop rightist or Neo nazi violence. In a second attack in the town of Yavelberg 10 to 15 rightist youths stormed a disco after smashing cars parked at the Entrance to the building police said. The youths smashed furniture in the disco and shouted Asylum pigs at people in the disco. The youths fled before police arrived. No foreigners were present but rightists frequently have directed their attacks at foreigners seeking Asylum in Germany. Police also reported two attacks by rightist gangs in the neighbouring state of Sachsen Anhalt. A mob of 100 rightist youths armed with baseball bats and Iron bars stormed a restaurant in the town of Calbe on saturday night police said. Two men were Hurt one seriously. Police briefly arrested three suspects who later were released. In the nearby City of Dessau 20 rightist youths armed with pistols and baseball bats stormed a disco police said. Three people were Hurt. Meanwhile in East Berlin s Marzahn District five vietnamese attacked a 17-year-old German with a Machete and an axe after the youth tried to steal cigarette from a vietnamese Vendor police said. The youth was hit on the head with the Blunt Side of the a police said adding that the youth was hospitalized but was not seriously injured. The five vietnamese  were allowed to enter the former East Germany As workers. Now some of them sell Low priced Black Market cigarettes on Berlin Street Cor ners. They have often been victims of rightist  vietnamese cigarette dealer 29-year-old Nguyen Van to was stabbed to death on a Berlin Street in Day Light last  rightists murdered 17 people in More than 2,000 reported attacks in 1992. In another weekend incident a russian military cemetery in the East German City of Cottbus was dese crated police said. Nine gravestones were overturned but no anti russian or Neo nazi Graffiti was found police  the past two years jewish and russian cemeteries and monuments in Eastern Germany have been dese crated by rightists on several occasions. In another incident an arson attack on a turkish owned grocery store in Western Germany injured 10  in the City of Ludwigshafen said witnesses re ported seeing several people throw an object into the turkish fruit and vegetable store and that minutes later the store was engulfed in flames. Firefighters used ladders to Rescue residents of the upper floor apartments and 10 people were taken to Hospital for smoke inhalation. A spokesman said both germans and foreigners lived in the apartments and that there was no evidence that Neo nazis were responsible for the attack. Police estimated damage at $300,000. Prince wings Way from . To Mexico Mexico City up with the memory of his failed marriage still fresh Prince Charles arrived in Mexico City on St. Valentine s Day without his wife Diana at the Start of a four Day official visit. The Prince touched Down in Mexico late sunday after flying his four engined plane from the United states. He had spent two Days there As part of his first tour abroad since the december breakup of his marriage to the Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales spoke briefly with mexican and British embassy officials be fore he was whisked off to a downtown hotel in a waiting Rolls Royce. He made no statements but nodded to a pack of nearby journalists and photographers. Charles planned to spend four Days in Mexico visiting the capital and the provincial centers of Guadalajara and Oaxaca. The visit was to give him a Chance to leave behind the still smouldering allegations of an affair Between him and mar ried Friend Camilla Parker Dowles. Pur Britain s Prince Charles arrives in Mexico City on sunday piloting � Jet from the United states. The Prince planned a four Day visit to Mexico. Ported steamy conversations Between the two were Ter noon and in the evening attend a reception  j no Sayears of the British Council the cultural Wing of the British foreign office in Mexico. Today the heir to the throne was scheduled to visit Mexico s second largest City Guadalajara the site of a huge Gas explosion last year that killed More than 200people. While there he was to visit families housed in dings built with British Aid. Britain gave More than$140,000 in Aid Relief. Printed in British newspapers recently. The Prince was to cover some of his favorite topic during the visit. In addition to meeting Urban development and environmental chiefs he was scheduled to play a Charity game of Polo with Mexico s top horseback riders. It is the Prince s first official visit to Mexico. He was invited by president Carlos Salinas de Gortari following the mexican Leader s trip to Britain in july. The environmentally conscious Prince was to spend _ the Prince planned to tour a factory owned by the British pharmaceutical company ice on wednesday two Days in the mexican capital the most polluted City in  Njg and play Polo in the afternoon before meeting the world. On Friday Ozone reached its highest level of Bollal development and eco Loev minister Luis the year. Ozone and other contaminants regularly exceed world health organization norms in this City of 20 million people. On monday he was to meet with Mexico City mayor Manuel Camacho Soli s and receive the keys to the City before meeting with Salinas the presidential residence of los pinos. He was to open an Art exhibition in the afr in Ozment ecology r Lui Donaldo Colosio. Later he is scheduled to speak at a reception Given by foreign minister Fernando Solan Morales in Mexico City. On thursday he will travel to the provincial capital of Oaxaca before leaving for the Southeastern resort of co Zumel where he will Board the Royal yacht  there he will go to the Caribbean Island of Jamaica