European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes world Friday february 19,1993 Eastern German women staging a birth strike from wire reports Berlin women in Eastern Germany Are responding to hard economic times with a birth strike population figures indicate. The Federal statistics office said wednesday that there were 87,000 births in Eastern Germany in 1�02, Down 18.7 percent from 1991 and just under half of the 17v000 born in 1990. Editha Breier women s affairs commissioner in the Eastern City of Magdeburg said women had lost much of the economic Independence they had in communist East Germany and were harder hit by unemployment than men in the struggling Region. Conditions of life Are such that women Are answering with a birth strike she said. Wins on a Peel Jerusalem with a Little help from the government israeli Farmers will be Aole to meet strict standards for Mcdonald s Fries resolving a dispute that threatened the opening of the Chain first israeli store. Junk food junkies hearts fell monday when agriculture minister Yaacov Tsui said Mcdonald s could not import Frozen French Fries from Europe. Tour said Mcdonald s should use potatoes grown in Israel. But imry Padan who is setting up the franchise said the desire potato that the famously finicky hamburger maker requires is not readily available in Israel. But on wednesday tour announced that the agriculture ministry would subsidize israeli potato Farmers so they can grow a Spud that meets Mcdonald s Standard spokeswoman Batya Keina said. Tower s lean combated Pisa Italy workers will begin placing a 600 ton counterweight next month at the North base of the Tower of Pisa in an Effort to keep it from collapsing news agencies reported wednesday. The counterweight will be a temporary measure that should increase the stability of the Monument while More permanent measures Are taken. The counterweight consists of Lead ingots that will Uke six months to set up. Last june workers installed 18 steel rings around the Sik year old Tower after International experts w arned the Tower was in danger of a structural collapse with no notice despite these temporary measures experts said the Tower s tilt continued to increase last year. The Tower leans some 13 feet off the perpendicular. 2 Navy aircraft return from aiding stranded ship by the stars and stripes two Navy patrol aircraft sent from naval Sta icon Rota Spain to help a merchant vessel stranded off the Western coast of Africa had left he area by thursday afternoon a spokesman for the . My Fleet said. Navy u. Dave Lee said both Navy p-3c Ori on left the area near the Cape verde islands about 2 50 . Lee said a merchant vessel sultos express hid arrived to assist the Arizonia a jamaican merchant vessel. He did not know the nationality of the Rescue vessel. The Navy planes left Rota on wednesday in response to a mayday from the Arizonia. Crew members aboard one of the Navy aircraft reported wednesday that the ship was on fire ind appeared 10 be badly damaged and dead in the a Mer said Navy it. Ronald Kline opera Boris officer with the maritime surveillance and econ Force my Fleet in Spain. One of the planes dropped several fir Aid l  a radio to the ship Kline said. The Cap of the 15imooi vessel signalled that All 19  aboard were accounted for.  planes encountered turbulent weather a in Thev imbed Kune said with Waves up to. J i i v  the jamaican vessel. A Cien a hip hid been heading for Vve.  to pern Ofner 3rd cuss  or of the Roia Public affairs office. Libya believed building secret Poison Gas Plant by Douglas Jehl the new York times Washington . Intelligence agencies have concluded that Libya is building a subterranean Chemi Cal weapons Plant capable of producing and storing Poison Gas government officials said wednesday. The underground factory remains disguised As part of a water project but intelligence officials believe its purpose is to augment a vast above ground chemical Complex whose existence was exposed by the West nearly four years ago. The new project was described by administration officials As a source of significant concern particularly because of Libya s failure last month to sign a United nations convention Banning chemical weapons Libya had indicated it would sign the convention. The state department refused wednesday to pro vide details about the new findings citing the sensitivity of intelligence sources. But the officials used Strong language to condemn what they described As Libya s ongoing efforts toward chemical weapons. We Are convinced that Libya is still in the chemical weapons business said state department spokeswoman Wendy Chamberlin. Libya has been a persistent source of unease because of its support for terrorism including the 1988 bombing of a pan american Airliner Over Scotland. Libya s first Poison Gas site it rata about 25 Miles Southwest of Tripoli was damaged by fire in March 1990. The Bush administration said the fire might have been a hoax and officials said wednesday that rata remained the largest chemical weapons Complex in the third world. The new Complex is deep in a Hillside near Tartu nah about 40 Miles Southeast of Tripoli the officials said. Washington has become increasingly troubled in re cent months by Libya s conduct. The director of Cen trial intelligence Robert m. Gates warned in a speech on dec. 15 that Libya has no intention of giving up its chemical weapons program and Bush administration officials monitored the project closely during their final Days. Advisers to both presidents Bush and Clinton had hoped that Libya might join More than 100 other coun tries in agreeing last month to a . Accord Banning chemical weapons. But although Libya s foreign min. Ister attended a Paris conference convened to sign the Accord he did not add his name to it. Princely Polo Britain s Prince Charles Center reaches for the bal during a Polo match in Mexico City. The game was played despite a smog Alert in the world s smog Giest major City. Earlier the Prince toured a picturesque16th-Century Church in the Village of depot Potlan just North of the mexican capital. Leads found in . Boy s murder London up police were following several leads thursday in the killing of 2-year-old James Bulg or after eliminating a 12-year-old boy As a suspect Merseyside police said. A police spokesman said detectives were following what they described As a Strong Lead after new wit Nesses emerged wednesday evening. He said one witness had seen James with the two older boys probably minutes before the 2-year-old was slain and his body thrown onto a railway line. The woman told police she had walked along with the three children near the railway embankment in the Walton area of Liverpool where James s battered body was discovered sunday afternoon. This witness is very promising and has placed the boys much closer to the railway line than other wit Nesses he said. Police said the Bulger child suffered absolutely horrific injuries at the hands of his killer or killers before being dumped on railway lines. His body was later hit by a train. More than hx1 police working on the Case also have been Tud ving evidence mip plied by a construction com Pany s Security cameras which recorded a Small boy being swung or dragged along the Street by two Large boys. Police also questioned an elderly woman who said that while walking her dog she saw a child As he was screaming and being led by youths near Breeze Hill in the Walton area of Liverpool on Friday afternoon the Day James strayed from his Mother s Side at the strand shopping Center and was recorded by a Security camera being led away by two youths. Another witness was a woman who said that two youths had approached her Young child at the shopping enter. She told police that when she challenged the boys they shrugged their shoulders and walked away. Meanwhile police relocated the family of the questioned boy for Security reasons following angry mob scenes during his arrest on tuesday night. A crowd of about 80 people gathered outside the boy s House to shout and jeer As police backed a Van up to the front door and led the youngster outside with a Blanket Over his head. Two people were arrested for Public disturbance offences at the scene