European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday february 17, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9security probe opened in Case Frankfurt Germany a prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into the Security lapse that allowed a pistol carrying Man to Board a Lufthansa Airliner and Hijack it to new York a spokesman said monday. The probe could Lead to a charge of violating Germany a air transport Laws said Hubert Harth spokesman Tor the Hessen state prosecutors. Questions about Security at Frankfurt International Airport Are expected to go on for a Long time in the Wake of last thursdays hijacking which ended without injury when the ethiopian Hijacker surrendered at John f. Kennedy International Airport in new York. Fri agents arrested Nebiu Cwolde Demeke 20, who said he had hidden a starters pistol in his hat during the Security Check in Frankfurt. He was checked with a hand held scanner from the shoulders Down and then was asked to remove his hat. He was still Able to conceal the pistol according to the Fri complaint against him in new York. If convicted of air piracy in the United states Demeke Coula get 20 years to life in prison. The criminal probe in Germany would look into among other things whether it was True that no one had helped Demeke. He is accused of hijacking a plane bound from Frankfurt to Addis Ababa the ethiopian capital via Cairo. The hijacked plane had to refuel in Hanover Germany before flying to new York where the Hijacker said he wanted to claim Asylum. Security at the Frankfurt Airport was tightened and reorganized after a bomb was put on the pan am jumbo Jet that exploded Over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988 with the loss of 270 lives. Luggage containing the bomb is believed to have been transferred from a connecting flight at the Frankfurt Airport. Frankfurt Germany apr bananas whose cheap abundance symbolized Western Promise to East germans Are about to become scarcer and pricier under a new dec import quota that could devastate banana producers in latin America. Fruit importers and politicians Are warning that the limit approved saturday by european Community agn culture ministers could Cost thousands of jobs in latin America. Some even say it could Force latin americans into the cocaine Trade. The quota a intended to help growers in British French and Spanish territories and former colonies a would tax imports from outside those areas at $117 a ton for the first 2 million tons. Above that the duty would soar to $995 a ton. The quota is to take effect july 1. Quot this is a very Low quota that will. Worsen the economies of our countries a said Gilberto Goldstein a spokesman for president Rafael Callejas of Honduras. A this move is completely unjust for latin  Chancellor Helmut Kohls Cabinet is to meet today to discuss an Appeal to the european court said spokesman Hans Jirgen Wilke in Bonn. Dec nations buy 3.6 million tons of bananas a year. Some 2.6 million tons of that comes from Honduras and eight other latin american producers a Ecuador Costa Rica Colombia Guatemala the dominican Republic Panama Nicaragua and Venezuela. Bananas make up 60 percent of Honduras Export earnings and 25 percent for no. 1 producer Ecuador. Germans Are by far Europe a biggest banana Consumers. Fruit starved East germans called West Germany a a banana Republic in tones of respect and stories abound of fruit stands picked clean of bananas after the fall of communist Borders in 1989. Since then the easterners have devoured an average of 55 pounds of the Golden fruit per person annually according to dec figures a More than twice Europe s average of 22.3 pounds. Western germans average 30.9 pounds a year. The country buys a total of 1.5 million tons of bananas a year. Some 1.35 million tons of that comes from latin american alone. A everyone eats bananas. We always have fresh ones at Home a said Rita Kunze a Frankfurt City employee scenes like this in banana Loving former East Germany May soon become a rarity under the scheduled import quota. Buying a bundle of ecuadoran bananas outside a subway station. They Cost $1.19 per kilogram 2.2 pounds. The German fruit import association said the quota could Force up banana prices by one third. A right now they re very Good and very inexpensive. Well just wait and see a said Kunze. A government drug expert and a parliament Leader said the jobs lost because of the quota could might Force former banana growers to grow coca leaves the raw material for cocaine. The importers association said Job losses in Germany and latin America could total 500,000. Colombia says at least 173,000 banana workers would lose their jobs and 12 percent of the regions banana farming acreage would be wiped out. Tips link firm in Germany to libyan Poison Gas Bonn Germany a the government confirmed monday it received intelligence tips that Libya was building another Poison Gas Plant and investigators said a German company May face prosecution for alleged involvement. Die Welt newspaper reported sunday that the factory was set up to create Mustard Gas and was not yet in operation. Dieter Vogel spokesman for Chancellor Helmut Kohl said that a about a half year ago Germany found out from a partner Quot intelligence agencies that a a second chemical weapons factory was being built in  Vogel did no to specify but the a a partners was probably . Intelligence. In 1988, Germany was embarrassed by . Allegations that German companies had built and supplied a chemical weapons factory in rata Libya. The Bonn government at first denied the charges but later admitted they were True. Vogel told reporters there were intelligence indications that a Many West european firms were involved in the second Plant. Vogel said two German companies supplied wiring and drilling equipment for the project but investigations have shown they did no to know the equipment was apparently intended for use. In a chemical weapons Plant. He said both companies have ceased the deliveries. But Leonhard Bierl spokesman for the customs investigative Agency in Cologne said a third German company May face prosecution. Bierl would not name the company or say what it sold to the libyans. German firms were under investigation for delivering equipment and chemicals a via third countries to avoid suspicion a to the Plant in tar Unah 40 Miles Southwest of the libyan capital Tripoli die Welt said. Germans urged to emulate anti Hitler activists of 40s Munich Germany a fifty years after Brave students were martyred for opposing nazism president Richard von Wei sticker said monday that germans should emulate the political activism of the a White Rose group. Ceremonies Are being held in Munich and in other German cities this month in memory of the Munich University students who were arrested in february 1943 for distributing pamphlets against Adolf hitlers wartime Rule. Wei sticker said germans should not take their country a democracy for granted. A if Freedom serves Only a person a private Well being if Freedom is just tolerance without participation if it is apathetic toward other Peoples destinies then it cannot live for Long a the head of state said. He was addressing students professors and administrators at Munich University where the ill fated White Rose resistance movement against Hitler was born in june 1942. The White Rose was a Small Circle of students who circulated thousands of pamphlets calling on German youths to Rise against the nazi dictatorship. They were led by a 25-year-old medical student Hans Scholl and his 21-year-old sister Sophie a biology student. The Scholl siblings were arrested by the nazis on feb. 18, 1943, at the University and beheaded five Days later in a prison in nearby St Adelheim. A religious service is to be held there later this month and other memorials and readings from White Rose pamphlets Are scheduled in the coming weeks. Many other White Rose members and sympathizers were also rounded up and either sent to nazi death Camps or executed after trials by nazi courts