European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes world tuesday May 18, 1993 East West leftists unite to form German party Berlin up Western Germany s greens and Eastern Germany s Alliance 90 parties United As a sin Gle environmental leftist party at a weekend Conven Tion vowing they were the nation s third political Force. The time when we were a protest party came to an end with German unification Juschka Fischer the popular greens environment minister in the Western state of Hessen said to thunderous applause. The new Federal German party is called Alliance 90-the greens. It will be headed by Marianne Birthler 45, a respected former East German dissident an Ludger Zolmer 42, a Western German greens Leader renowned for behind the scenes political peacemaking in his often bitterly divided party. Birthler and Volmer were elected joint Federal speakers for the new party at the weekend convention held in Eastern German City of Leipzig. Alliance 90, a 3-year-old party of former East Ger Man dissidents has fewer than 3,000 members com pared with 37,000 Western German greens members but the greens have been careful to treat their Eastern German colleagues As equals in unification. Placing the Eastern German Alliance 90" at the be ginning of the new party name and allowing joint Lead ers from both Eastern and Western Germany contrast sharply with the practice of other Western German Par ties which mostly gobbled up their smaller less experienced Eastern cousins. The unification convention was marked by Strong statements showing the will of the new party to take political Power. A we must now take on new responsibility at the fed eral level Fischer said adding that we want to re place Chancellor Helmut Kohl and we can replace past greens party conventions Fischer a party realist has spent much of his time battling party Funda mentalists who wanted to keep the greens As a protest group and prevent its evolution to a full fledged Politi Cal party. Observers said Fischer s speech underscored both the demise of the fundamentalist Wing and his intention to Lead the new party into next year s Federal polls Over the past months have shown the Alliance 90-the greens getting Between 8 and 11 per cent of the vote in a Federal election Ihus backing the new party s claims to be the third political Force i Germany after Kohl s Christian democratic Union and the opposition social democratic party. Alliance 90-the greens deputies sit in 14 of Ger Many s 16 Federal state parliaments and govern in red Green coalition governments with the spa i four states Bremen Brandenburg Hessen and Niedersachsen. The former greens failed to get into the Federal parliament the bundestag in. The 1990 elections. But the party is represented at the Federal level by eight former Alliance 90 parliamentary deputies. Facing up to tourists two women proprietors Wear masks of czech president hoping of boost business at a downtown Prague shop Vaclav Havel left and prime minister Vaclav Klaus that changes Money and Sells souvenirs to tourists. Olivetti Leader linked to italian payoffs Milan Italy a one of Italy s leading businessmen admitted sunday to prosecutors leading a nationwide corruption probe that his company Olivetti paid More than 10 billion lire $7 million in kickbacks to political parties state to reported. The reports on the ral network showed the executive Carlo de Benedetti going to Carabiniero Par police Headquarters where he was questioned for an hour by three prosecutors. One of the prosecutors was Antonio i Piet Rev whose clean hands probe has led to the arrests or investigations of More than 1,000 politicians Public officials and business figures. The heart of the probe is systematic payoffs to politicians or their parties in return for Public works con the computer maker stressed in a statement that de Benedetti had asked for the session with the prosecutors. Sunday s papers carried reports based on an article that was to have been published monday in the italian newsweekly Panorama that said a go be tween Giuseppe to Moro had told investigators that Olivetti had made More than 9 billion lire $6.3 Mil lion in kickbacks to win contracts with state telecommunication companies. Rai said de Benedetti admitted the kickbacks Tell ing the prosecutors that the payoffs were even costlier for a total of More than 10 billion lire Over four years. To Moro now jailed has been dubbed the collector for his alleged role in collecting tangents or kick backs for political parties. Socialists Christian democrats and the sex communist party called the democratic party of the left have been heavily implicated in the scandal. S. Korean students rally blame . For crackdown from wire reports Seoul South Korea about 100 Radical students burned an american Flag monday to demand the United states apologize for what the say was its role in a bloody military crackdown in 1980. Dissidents and militant students say Washington condoned the mobilization of the korean military to put Down unrest during a pro democracy uprising in Southern Kwangju City in which about 200 civilians were United states has denied the charge. Yankee go Home students veiled kicking an punching some 200 riot police no formed a barricade to Stop protesters from marching off the Campus at Seoul s Kyunghee University. There were no arrests or injuries. Former grand rabbi Dies Paris Meyer Jais grand rabbi of Paris for nearly a Quarter Century before his retirement in1979, died saturday. He was 86. Jais was born in 1907 in Algeria then controlled by the French. He left at age 13 to study at France Schief rabbinical College and the sorbonne. From 1933-38, he served As rabbi at Hagenau near the German Border. At the outbreak of world War ii he fled to Algeria and served As grand rabbi of Constantine. Jais returned to Paris in 1945 and became grand rabbi or chief jewish religious official of the French capital in 1955. Cuban freighter in trouble London Royal air Force helicopters winched 13 Crew members off a cuban freighter Drifting in rough seas off the Southwest coast of England on sunday. Twelve Crew members remained aboard to handle the 3,500-ton Gran Piedra before it was taken in Tow from the Stilly Isles the coast guard said. The vessel making its return trip to Cuba had engine problems in a Gale and put out a distress Call. The sea King helicopter from the Royal naval air station Cul Drose made two trips to take the Crew members to one of the islands St. Mary s. Blast hits Tel Aviv mall Tel Aviv Israel an explosion ripped through a shopping mall and office building in Central Tel Aviv on sunday igniting a fire that engulfed 20 shops and injured 36 people official said. The blast occurred before shops opened. Most of the injured were in an apartment Complex built Over the mall and suffered smoke inhalation said Tel Aviv fire chief Aharon Eshel. Toxic fumes kill 2 in Japan Tokyo two workers died and seven others were injured monday after inhaling toxic fumes at Art Industrial waste disposal factory in Western Japan a police official said. The workers collapsed at the factory in Hiroshima 400 Miles Southwest of Tokyo after a colleague tumbled into a Container of Industrial waste and seven co workers tried to save him police said. The co workers succumbed to the fumes in the Container and required hospitalization police said. Forged checks seized London police in South Wales have seized More than $26 million in forged . Traveler s checks in what authorities said could be the largest haul of such checks found in Britain. T authorities said they seized the checks from Ahouse in the Rhymney Valley near Cardiff South Wales. Police said seven men were being questioned. Additional details were not available. 20 arrested in protest London police arrested More than 20people monday during a Large demonstration outside the Timex electronics factory in Dundee Scotland m a labor dispute. Police said More than 2,000 people gathered outside the factory Gates monday in the largest protest of the dispute Over the dismissal of 340workers, most of the Plant s work Force three months ago. Scuffles broke out As buses carrying replacement
