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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 8 the stars and stripes world wednesday March 10, .1093 voter discontent aided key jew says by Carl Schoettler the Baltimore Sun Berlin a Ignatz Bubis the Leader of the jewish Community in Germany blamed voter frustration with politicians and politics of the major parties for the startling Success of the extreme right wig republicans in sundays elections. The Republican party campaigning with a a the boat is full anti foreigner slogans came from virtually Zero four years ago to rack up nearly 10 percent of the vote in Frankfurt Bubisz Hometown and the state of Hessen. Quot i Don t see any tragedy in this number a Bubis said. A but i am very  no real threat to the jewish Community is implied in the vote he added. A nevertheless the Community in Germany has become very sceptical a he said. A i am still optimistic but my optimism has started to up  sundays results devastated the social democrats who govern in Frankfurt and Hessen Hurt Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democrats who govern nationally and sent political observers scrambling for explanations. Most agreed with Bubis that voters were protesting against the seeming inability of the major parties to Deal with Germany a political and economic problems. Bubis who survived the holocaust to become a prosperous Frankfurt businessman once confronted Franz sch Huber the Republican Leader about his life As a Waffon is Soldier in the nazi army. Schoenhuber wrote a Book called j was present in which he proudly re called his Days with the elite nazi fighting unit. A i done to want to say he is anti semitic a Bubis said. A the says he is not. He gave examples. A the likes Chagall. He likes Mendelssohn. He likes Offenbach. But All the people he likes Are a Long time dead a said Bubis referring to artist Marc Chagall and composers Felix Mendelssohn and Jacques Offenbach. Quot but he sch Huber says 1 dont like Glinksi a at that time Galinski was still  Heinz Galinski now dead was chairman of the Ger Man jewish Community before Bubis. A so the Only jew he mentions that he does no to like was a living jew. And the jews he liked Are  taking the plunge Moscow mayor Yuri la Zhukov is about to dive into the Popov far left was joining ice swimmers in an inter icy Waters of a Pond in the City s suburbs monday National women s Day Celebration. The temperature la Zhukov along with former Moscow mayor Gavril k. Was about 25 degrees fahrenheit. Guyana halts Timber cutting at Jonestown mass suicide site Georgetown Guyana a the government has ordered a halt to a Timber company a destruction of Jonestown the Jungle settlement where a messianic preacher and More than 900 followers committed suicide in 1978. President Cheddie Jagana a Cabinet instructed the works ministry to Block work at the site by the Bahama Timber co., according to the w weekend edition of the Mirror newspaper published party. A published by the governing Peoples progressive Bahama jointly owned by Unkyong Ltd. Of Korea and sampling corporation of Malaysia has extensive rights to Cut Timber in the forests of Guyana a largely undeveloped country on South americans Northwest shoulder. In recent years abandoned and largely overgrown Jonestown was developed by the Rev. Jim Jones an american preacher w to moved his Bible based Peoples Temple sect from san Francisco to this former British Colony. On nov. 18, 1978, Jones and 911 followers committed suicide by drinking cyanide laced grape punch from a Bathtub after killing rep. Leo Ryan of California and four _ others who had come to Check on allegations that members of the Colony were being abused and held against their will. One of the journalists accompanying Ryan Charles Krause said monday that he was not surprised that Guyana had permitted the Timber company a initial move into Jonestown. A i think the guyanese governments a both the past and present a have no intention of preserving Jonestown because they believed that what happened there was an aberration a said Krause author of Guyana massacre the eyewitness account. However Krause said the search for order and obedience in free modern societies has led to cult standoffs elsewhere such As the continuing Duel Between Law enforcement officers and the Branch Davidian sect near Waco Texas. �?o1 almost lost my life in Jonestown so i feel there should be some Small Monument there for All the people who died in spite of what they do to the rest of it a Krause said by Telephone from Arlington a. The site still attracts  fires 2 officials for alleged looting at Clark from wire reports Manila Philippines a two officers of an Agency overseeing the conversion of the United states former Clark a have been dismissed for alleged involvement in looting authorities said tuesday Francis Elum a project officer of the base conversion and development authority said the two officers were relieved for a unsatisfactory  the two had been assigned to oversee the demolition of buildings and Homes left unusable by mount Pinatubo a eruption in june 1991. Philippine air Force sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the two allegedly allowed private contractors to demolish still usable buildings to recover material and equipment for Sale on the Black Market. The Pinatubo eruption considered the largest volcanic explosion this Century forced a Hasty evacuation by .  survives 140-foot fall London a a 3-year-old boy who fell 140 feet Down a rubbish Chute in an apartment Block in the West midlands suffered Only minor injuries when he landed in a trash Container the daily Telegraph reported tuesday. Simon Hopkins climbed into the Chute on the 14th floor of a Tower Block in West Bromwich West England where his grandmother lives after playing with his brother and cousins. They raised the alarm when they noticed he was missing. Simon smother Wendy 28, led a frantic search before muffled cries were heard coming from the rubbish b ins in a locked ground floor storeroom. The caretaker was called to open the door and Simon was rescued from the half full trash  exemption Likely London a the English Channel Tunnel will be exempt from Laws designed to curb illegal immigration into Britain the times reported tuesday. Government ministers have decided that it would be a a unrealistic to impose the Tunnel operators with the same $2,880 Fine now levied on airlines and ferry companies when the project known As the Channel begins train services under the Channel at the end of the year. Their decision which will be formally announced next month has upset ferry companies and airlines that have had to pay out millions of dollars in fines whether they Nave been at fault when illegal immigrants have reached England aboard the services the report  bombs Rock Goteborg Stockholm Sweden a two car bombs exploded in the Western City of Gate bore Early a monday sparking a fire shattering windows and smashing other vehicles police said. No one was Hurt in the explosions which occurred before Dawn in different parts of the City. No one claimed responsibility for the bombs which exploded in two parking lots within the space of an hour said police spokesman Hans  Bishop resigns London a the anglican Bishop of Gloucester the right Rev. Peter Ball resigned monday after a police investigation into allegations of indecency with a 17-year-old Novice Monk. Ball resigned after receiving a formal warning from police said a spokesman for the Gloucester diocese. Police did not file charges a i regret with great penitence and sorrow the circumstances that have led to this police caution a Ball 61, said in a  stops women s March Rome a italian police blocked about 2,000 women from entering St. Peter s Square on monday to protest the Vatican a opposition to abortion. The Square is part of Vatican territory. Marking International women a Day the women were protesting campaigns in Italy to tighten the nation s Law permitting abortion As Well As the Vatican s vigorous opposition. Recent remarks by Pope John Paul ii urging attention to be Given to any babies born of bosnian women raped during the War in their Homeland were interpreted by some italian newspapers As the Vatican s telling the women not to get abortions  
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