European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes saturday february 20,1993 group plans War on Amsterdam Netherlands a dutch Drivers Are losing their tem pers a lot More often these Days and the automobile association is preparing an anti aggression Campaign to Calm them Down. In a recent association Survey of 800 dutch Drivers More than two thirds admitted to being guilty of aggressive driving. On wednesday an occupant of a double parked Van in the Eastern town of Ensch cd took out a revolver and shot at the car of a Motorist wanted to pass police said. No one was Hurt. These Are the kinds of stories you d expect to read about in los Angeles said Sam sch Putin director of the association s traffic department. Schouton said at least part of the blame can be put on a general increase in violence in Holland and to the increasingly clogged roads in the tiny crowded nation. The three most common forms of Driver aggression cited in the Survey were cutting another vehicle off pass ing on the shoulder and running a red Light. Schouler said the association recently has been bombarded wit complaints about aggressive motorists but added it is difficult to estimate the actual increase of the phenomenon because once it s in the papers three times everybody s talking about the association soon will begin an extensive study of the problem to tar get the causes of motorists aggression. In the last four years the number of motor vehicles on the Road Rose from 5 million to 6 million. Weapons recovered a reporter Friday inspects one of 1,600 guns seized stolen from the arsenals of former czechoslovak army thursday in Prague the czech Republic in a crackdown and communist party paramilitary forces that were Dis on weapons traffickers. Police believe the weapons were armed after communist Rule collapsed in 1989. Jewish chairman backed to become German president Berlin up1a new National newspaper has endorsed the chairman of the Central Council of jews in Germany for the Post of Federal president. The die woche weekly recommended Ignatz Bubis As the successor to president Richard von Weizsacker for the ceremonial but still influential Post. A jew As president of reunited Germany. Yes and not because of foreign opinion but rather for us said die woche which published its first edition thursday. The newspaper said that Bubis had become the moral authority in Germany and that he could play a key role in Healing wounds caused by the upsurge of rightist , 66, a German jew born in Breslau the now polish City of wroclaw has skyrocketed to prominence for his diplomatic yet uncompromising stand against anti semitism and racism since becoming head of the Council in september. In countless television talk shows newspaper inter views and speeches Bubis has repeated that German jews Are germans just As German protestants and Ger Man catholics Are. Germany s Federal president is elected by members of parliament and representatives from the 16 Federal states. Weizsacker has said he will serve to the end of his second term in 1994. The new Federal president will be elected for a five year term in May 1994. Death of Superman reaches Europe next week by Kevin Robinson staff writer the january Issue of Superman Fea Turing the death of the do comics super hero will be on sate at most stars and stripes bookstores in Europe by Lute next week Bookstore officials said Friday. A shipment of 2,400 copies of Superman no. 75 is finally overcoming snipping problems to reach stars and stripes bookstores in Europe said Tony Nihra the acting director of Bookstore operations in Darmstadt Germany. There was such a demand for the Book that publishers could t keep up with the the Superman comic was scheduled to go on Sale in december or Early january Bookstore officials said. However Back logged shipments of magazines at the Darmstadt Central distribution Point contributed to the delays of the comic Book reaching bookstores in Europe officials added. A Bookstore official said Friday afternoon he did not know when the comic books arrived at Darmstadt. In september do comics announced that Superman would die during his epic Battle with the super villain doomsday in november Superman no. 75 was re leased amid a Wash of publicity to read ers and collectors in the United states. The much anticipated comic Book will sell for $1.25, Nihra said and there will be no limits on How Many customers May buy. This comic Book does not include the Spe Cial armband and trading card package that sold for $2.50 in the states he added. How Ever an order for a special edition with a Magazine format has been placed. Over the last few months not a Day went by where people did t ask about it at Asa Naples Italy said Tom Havy a clerk at the stars and stripes Bookstore there. The Naples Bookstore had just recently received Superman no. 74, the Issue that sets up the superhero s epic death he said. People Don t ordinarily buy comic books have asked about it Havy said of Superman no 75. It will sellout in the first a reorder of 5,000 copies of the no 75 comic has been placed but there is no Way we can Tell when it will go out Nihra said. Frank Massaro owns american comics near the . Darby Cavern in Firth Germany sold 900 of the bae ced version of the comic and 100 of the Recu Lar comic. B i could have sold 5,000 of them he said. The regular comic sold for $5 in his store and the bagged version went up from $5 to $10 to $20 and finally to $100."i had limits of two copies per customer he said. That s the Only Way you Cando Massaro said his store will receive copies of the comic s fourth printing next week. I knew it was going to be big he said. I did t know it was going to be this he said the bagged version is Selling inthe United states now for More than $100, even up to $150. The untagged comic is Selling Between $30 and $40. You can t even find it in the states he said. People Are Selling them Are Adver Tising in magazines for comic collectors. Comic stores sold out Long ago he said. Staff writer Ron Jensen in Numberg contributed to this report 2 boys held for questioning in Tot s death in . Liverpool England a police Hunting the killers of 2-year-old James Bulger said Friday that they had arrested two 10-year-old boys for questioning. Detective superintendent Albert Kirby told a news conference it was too Early to say whether charges would be filed against the boys. The arrests follow the release of computer enhanced pictures showing two boys leaving a shopping Center hand in hand with James last Friday minutes after he wandered away from his Mother in a Butcher shop James battered body was found sunday on a railway line in Liverpool a rough and Tumble port City 170miles Northwest of London. Fuzzy images of the boys were captured by the shop Ping Center s Security cameras. They were enhanced by computers and broadcast on television late thursday resulting in More than 300 Telephone Calls to Mersey Side police. One of the pictures provides a Clear image of a Cherub faced boy the younger of the two. Kirby said thurs Day that he would be Ama de if someone could not recognize the youngster from the new pictures. Viewers were told a forensic psychologist working for the police believes the crime May have been a prank that went disastrously too police chief Constable James sharpies Aid thursday that officers had questioned about juveniles. Kirby said thursday that similar descriptions provided by several witnesses convinced him the two youngsters abducted James also were his killers jul that the boy died within hours of disappearing. A Coroner s report on the cause of death has no1 Cen pleased but police said there was no evidence of sexual abuse
