European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Voter discontent aided rightists key jew says Baycar 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 Wing republicans in sundays elections the Republican party campaigning with 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. �?�1 done to 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 go Franny has become very sceptical a he said. �?�1 am still optimistic but my optimism has started to go sundays results devastate the social democrats who govern in Frankfurt and Hessen Hurt Chancellor Helmut Kohls Christian democrats who govern nationally and sent political observers scrambling for sex Moscow mayor Yuri la Zhukov is about to dive into the icy Waters of a Pond in the City a suburbs monday la Zhukov along with former Moscow mayor Gavril k. Georgetown Guyana apr the government has ordered a halt to a Timber company s destruction of Jonestown the Jungle settlement where a messianic preacher and More than 900 followers committed suicide in 1978. A president Cheddie Jagana a Cabinet instructed the works ministry to Block work at the site by the Bahama Timber co., according to the weekend edition of the Mirror newspaper published by the governing Peoples progressive party. Bahama jointly owned by Unkyong Ltd. Of Korea and sanding corporation of Malaysia has extensive rights to Cut Timber in the forests of Guyana a largely undeveloped country on South America s Northwest shoulder. In recent years abandoned and largely overgrown Jonestown was developed by the Rev. Jim Jones an american preacher who 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 plantations 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 Waffen is Soldier in the nazi army. Sch Huber wrote a Book called / was present in which he proudly recalled his Days with the elite nazi fighting unit. �?�1 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. A but he sch Huber ays a i done to like at _ that time Galinski was still Heinz Galinski now dead was chairman of the German jewish Community before Bubis. Quot so the Only jew he mentions that he does no to like was a living jew. And the jews he liked Are Popov far left was joining ice swimmers in an International women a Day Celebration. The temperature was about 25 degrees fahrenheit. 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. "1 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. It 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 a the site still attracts tourists. Philippines 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 Quot 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 Bay 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 Bro Ipswich West England where his grandmother lives after playing with his brother and cousins. They raised the alarm when they noticed he was missing. Simon s Mother Wendy 28, led a frantic search before muffled cries were heard coming from the rubbish bins in a locked ground floor storeroom. Hie 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 have been at fault when illegal immigrants have reached England aboard the services the report starting soil tests at Lamper theim area Mannheim Germany a amps a experts from a private firm were to begin soil tests today in the army a controversial Lamper theim training area to Trace the origin of diesel Oil contamination found there feb. 27. Results of the tests should be released next according to the 293rd base support in which has its Headquarters in nearby Mannheim. A it Cal German environmentalists and politicians who have campaigned for years to get the army to leave the area discovered the contamination while a Aiying out a symbolic foliage planting demonstration in the forested training area. Conducts several types of training in the 5, area. It announced in january that it May discontinue the use of tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles there. The Forest also is open to the Public As a recreation area and the ground water there serves As a drinking water source for about 1 million residents of nearby cities and towns. 7 the Oil contamination was discovered More than l000 Yards from the Public water Supply Well. A University of Karlsruhe study of water samples last week found no evidence of Oil in the areas ground water the Well or drinking water lines a Mannheim newspaper the plunge Guyana halts Timber cutting at Jonestown mass suicide site
