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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes world tuesday May 18, 1993 american tourist killed by falling Rock in Israel from wire reports Jerusalem a Rock tumbled from a Cliff into a desert Oasis in Israel killing a 65-year-old tourist from Utah officials said monday. Dale. Call of Provo dated sunday while hiking with a group of mormon tourists at the Ein Gedi Reserve in the Steep canyons bordering the dead sea said nature Reserve authority spokeswoman Dina Yei  group had stopped by a Small Pool and Waterfall when a five Pound Rock hit Call of the head Weinstein said. An army doctor visiting the site rushed to treat him but Call died almost immediately she said. Former israeli spy Dies f Jerusalem Wolfgang Lotz a spy who uncovered egyptian military secrets while disguised As an sex nazi horse Trainer and Playboy has died of heart disease. He was 73. Lotz was born in Mannheim Germany in 1921. His Mother who was jewish fled with him to British ruled Palestine following the nazi Rise to Power in 1933. He was recruited by Israel s Mossad spy Agency because his Blond hair Blue eyes and fluent German would allow him to infiltrate the former nazi scientists working for Egypt. He operated in Egypt Between 1961 and 1965, uncovering secrets that later aided Israel s Victory in the 1967 Middle East War. Egyptian authorities exposed him and his wife in 1965 and sentenced them to life in prison. They were  1968 in a prisoner Exchange. Earthquake hits Japan Tokyo an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 on tie Richter scale Shook Japan s Iri Omote Island near Taiwan at 5 39 . Monday but police said there were no reports on injuries and damage. The Central meteorological Agency said the quake registered an intensity of five on the japanese scale of seven on the Island about 150 Miles East of Taiwan and 300 Miles Southwest of Okinawa. An earthquake of five on the japanese scale is Strong enough Kcf crack Walls. The scale which measures ground motion at particular Points is not convertible to the Richter scale. The Agency placed the epicentre of the quake undersea off Ishigaki Island near Iri Omote. Crowd Burns child rapist Lima Peru a mob of enraged villagers beat and burned to death a Man they caught raping a 10 year old girl a Lima newspaper reported sunday. The Man identified As 29-year-old Elmo Nonato Leyva reportedly used a Kitchen knife to threaten the girl who looks after sheep near Para so about 78 Miles Northeast of the capital in Huacho province. Leyva forced the girl to go to a secluded place and started to rape her the la Republica newspaper reported. A group of villagers who heard the girl s screams ran to the place and caught Leyva in the act. They tied him to a Post and beat him unconscious then doused his body with kerosene and set fire to him the newspaper said. Egypt ii m its comr uni cation with 5 Muslim countries Cairo Egypt a Egypt has restricted Tele phone and fax communication with five Muslim coun tries that it accuses of harbouring terrorists. The Man Euver is the government s latest weapon in a so far unsuccessful Battle with Muslim extremists wag ing a violent Campaign against president Hosni Mubarak s largely secular administration. Under the restrictions announced sunday  Rak operators intercept Calls dialled directly ,Pakistan, Afghanistan Iran and Iraq. The operator will then relay the Call. An operator in Cairo said monday the restrictions began several Days ago. She said she did not think Calls were being monitored or censored. Later another operator blamed technical problems for the inability to dial directly. Mubarak disclosed the restrictions in comments to newspaper editors on the Way Back from a we Klong tour of persian Gulf countries. He said they were imposed to help encircle terrorists who receive their or Ders from  investigations proved he said that people hired to carry out terrorist attacks against the egyptian people and destroy Egypt s Economy use these Telephone and fax communications from these  his comments were published in the government owned Al Akbar newspaper. More than 140 people have died in an escalating Campaign by Muslim extremists Over the last 17 months. Most were killed in gunfights Between govern ment forces and militants trying to install an Iran like theocracy. Egyptian officials accuse Iran and Sudan of financing harbouring arid training. Extremists then sending them on terror missions in Egypt and other Arab coun tries. They also charge that egyptian extremists receive orders from egyptian and other Arab militants based in Pakistan and Afghanistan Cairo based Western reporters have received faxes from Muslim extremist groups in Pakistan. Iraq and Egypt have been at Odds since Baghdad s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. During the War to drive occupying iraqi troops from Kuwait in which egyptian troops fought for the  coalition Egypt accused Iraq of sending terrorists to Egypt for revenge attacks. Muslim extremism was a main topic of Mubarak s tour last week of saudi Arabia Kuwait Bahrain Oman the United Arab emirates and Qatar. Leaders of All six countries agreed to Monitor and restrict fund drives by private groups working for Muslim causes in Egypt or elsewhere. " British woman on top of world offer reaching Everest Summit London up London journalist Rebecca Stephens 31, monday became the first British woman to reach the 29,028-foot Summit of the world s highest Mountain mount Everest. Speaking from base Camp at around 8 . British time monday expedition Leader Peter Earl said Stephens had just spoken with him from the top of the Mountain. I spoke to her Long enough for her to say that she was in her own words on top of the world and then lots of shrieks of excitement Earl said. It was about As close a run As you can possibly have. The weather forecast really did t allow her to go up. She put her nose out of the tent at the South col at 26,000 feet at u . Last night literally for what we describe As a sniff and if there was High wind she was to turn Back. But miraculously the winds dropped and they allowed her to get up. Forty five knot winds were predicted. And we were very worried she would t be Rob coca Stephens 31, a London journalist poses with a Sherpa guide recently while climbing mount Everest. She made it to the top monday. Able to go onto the Summit without being blown  she set off from Camp .4, a Stopover base at 26,000 feet at 11 . Sunday with three Sherpa but one of the Sherpa had to turn Back because of the minus-31 degree fahrenheit temperatures. Sherpa Are Mountain people living on the slopes of the Himalayas. Earl said she had enough oxygen with her to spend time planting a Flag and taking photographs of the sum Mit but he said the temperature was minus-33, and she would not stay on the Summit for More than 15 min utes. Many Many Many people fail. This is the 40th anniversary year and so there were a number of different expeditions from different countries. And a lot of them did t get up Earl said. Fellow briton Harry Taylor 33, who last monday be came the first briton to reach the Summit of Everest from the nepalese Side without oxygen returned to Britain on sunday and was rushed for Hospital tests and an operation to remove a piece of his Frostbitten nose. The climbers were part of a nine member Everest-40 expedition timed to Mark the first ascent of Everest 40"it s still a killer Mountain people die on it and years ago by sir Edmund Hillary German metalworkers picket despite pay Accord Berlin a despite a new wage Accord striking metalworkers walked the picket lines in Eastern Germany and steelworkers stayed off the Job in the Berlin area monday. Allegations of insider trading levelled against the metalworkers Union president added to the disarray. The strikes put into question the labor peace expected after employers and the powerful 1g metall Union reached the pay agreement Friday. That agreement pro Vides for Eastern German metalworkers wages to reach Western Levels in 1996, two years later than originally expected. Though technically applicable Only to the state of Sachsen the agreement was expected to set contract conditions across Eastern Germany. Union members in Sachsen began voting on the pact Mon Day and Are expected to return it work wednesday if the approve its term. In Hamburg Stern newsmagazine re ported that in metall s president Franz Steinkuhler had profited from insider trading in shares in a Daimler Benz subsidiary. Steinkuhler a member of the Daimler Benz Board of supervisors de Nied any impropriety in his Purchase an Sale of the shares. Steinkuhler a fiery figure on Ger Many s labor scene told a news Confer ence in Frankfurt that the allegations were merely an attempt to discredit him. If True the allegations could increase the resentment of workers who already feel the new pay raise agreement was a sellout to management. Metalworkers stayed on the picket lines in the northeastern state of Meck Lenburg Vor Pommert while others walked off their jobs in warning strikes in the Central state of Thuringer. Local leaders of in metall appeared to be sup porting the strikes bucking the National leadership s acceptance of the pact. In Berlin and surrounding Branden Burg in metall said 15,000 striking steely workers were digging in to press their de mands for More pay. The Union did not provide any estimate of the number of workers still off the Job  
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