European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. Juty 22. 19s3 woman elected to top body of world scout movement from of re report Bangkok Thailand for the first time in its 86-year history the world scouting movement has elected a woman to its top decision making body. Joceyne Gendrin of Paris was among seven people elected wednesday to the 14-member world scout committee during the Bangkok meeting of the world organization of the scout movement. Others elected were from Hong Kong the unite states the United kingdom the Philippines Senegal and , More than 24 million boys and girls. Are members of the movement which Aims to prepare them for the moral and civic responsibilities of than 1,140 adult scout leaders from 105 countries Are attending the five Day meeting which ends Friday. It is the largest general meeting in the movement s history. Gendrin was the first woman to run for elections to the committee. Members serve six year terms. V horses leap to deaths Valence France frightened by a violent summer storm a Herd of thoroughbred horses stampeded and leapt to their deaths from a 650-Footcliff. The horses died sunday in the Nigger drum Region about 400 Miles South of Paris. The Herd included primarily 1 and 2-year-Olds. The owner described the financial loss As firefighters said wednesday that they hoped Tolly the remains of the horses out of the area to prevent pollution of underground water supplies from the decomposing corpses. Three coins director Dies Marbella Spain Jean Negulesco romanian who made such movies As How to Many a millionaire and three coins in the Fountain has died a spokesman said. He was 93. Negulesco died sunday of heart failure and was Tobe buried today in Marbella a Mediterranean coastal resort where he had lived since the late1960s. Student disarms gunman Brisbane Australia a Man who held 10college students at gunpoint was disarmed by a hostage wednesday after a 2vi-hour standoff authorities said. Police said the gunman had had an argument with his wife and followed her to the Logan technical and further education College in Logan Lea i Brisbane s Southern suburbs. The Man fired about 20 shots into the air with a.22-caliber Rifle before taking his wife and nine other students hostage in a student disarmed the Man As police stormed the building. No one was Hurt police arrested the Man whose name was not released. Cabinet quits As planned Lima Peru president Alberto Fujimori Scab net has presented its collective resignation to allow the president to shuffle his government unofficial said tuesday. The move does not necessarily mean an ministers will be changed said prime minister Oscar de la Puente Raygada who also is foreign minister. The 14-member Cabinet traditionally offers to resign twice a year before new year s eve and before Independence Day on july 28 so that the president May decide whether to shuffle any posts. 9 die in factional fighting Johannesburg South Africa at least nine Blacks were killed and dozens of shacks were torched in a new burst of factional fighting outside Johannesburg police said wednesday. Zulu residents were targeted in at least one of the overnight attacks in Toloza Katie Hong and Dave ton. The three Are perennially troubled Blac townships Southeast of Johannesburg. Many but not All zulus in the townships support the inkatha Freedom party. The party is locked in a vicious Power struggle with the african National Congress the country s largest Black group. World the stars and stripes Page 9 German dignitaries including family minister Hannelore Rinsch Lay a Wreath in Berlin to Mark the 49th Antver Saiy of an assassination attempt on nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Germans Mark anniversary of plot to kill Hitler in 1944 Berlin up German politicians on tuesday paid tribute to the army officers executed by the nazis after a failed bid to kill Adolf Hitler 49 years ago. The assassination failed but the opposition fighters let the Light of Freedom human dignity and peace Shine in a time of darkness Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Ina statement released for the memorial marking the 49th anniversary. Representatives from the Federal and state govern ments Laid a Wreath at the former supreme Headquarters of the army known As the wehrmacht during world War ii. At that site in Berlin s tic Garten District a group of officers led by col. Count Klau Schenk von Stauffenberg and Gen. Friedrich Olbricht planned a bomb attack intended to kill Hitler. Hitler narrowly escaped death when the bomb plan Ted in a briefcase by Stauffenberg exploded during meeting july 20, 1944, at his East prussian wolfs Lair compound. Stauffenberg Olbricht and 89 others were arrested and executed. At a second memorial service held at Berlin s prison where Many of the anti Hitler plot ters were executed speakers warned that rising Neo nazi violence in Germany made it doubly important to remember anti nazi fighters. At a time when especially youths hark Back to horrible chapter of German history and commit terrible crimes it is More important than Ever to remember How Lack of vigilance allowed Freedom and democracy to be lost said Christine Bergmann a Berlin District mayor. Man interrogated in killings of homosexuals in London London a Scotland Yard detectives Are questioning a Man about the serial killings of Gay men in reports said the unidentified Man in his late 30s was arrested tuesday after he walked into a Law yer s office East of London. Police confirmed they Are questioning a killer suffocated or strangled five men including an american Between March 8 and june 15.news reports said the arrested Man admitted that he was the person caught on video at London s Charing Cross station with the fifth victim chef Emanuel spite i on the night he died. Earlier this month police published the video picture in Hopes of identifying theman. Four of the victims were known to be Gay but police say they have no evidence that senior company manager Perry Bradley Iii 35, of Sulphur Springs Texas was was found naked bound and strangled at his West London apartment june 4. His killing has Bee linked with the other victims because of the Way he died and the physical evidence left at the scene. Threat forces Prague area to shut for 3rd time Prague czech Republic a an Anonymous bomb threat on tuesday forced police to Seal off a tourist hot spot in downtown Prague for the third time in a week. About so police officers sealed off and evacuated Prague s old town Square for More than an hour after a juvenile caller told police that a bomb was ready to explode said police spokesman Petr link. No bomb was found and the Square was open again later in the afternoon link said. Link revealed no further details but the threat seems to be a continuation of two Calls made monday threatening bomb explosions in Prague s elegant Wen Ceslaus Square Boulevard and at the main railway Sta Calls followed a threat made july 15. In that incident a Man implicated in a gang shootout called police to demand the release of a witness and threaten a bomb explosion in Wenceslaus Square. About 200 police sealed off the 0.62-mile Long Boulevard and scoured it for bombs. The thoroughfare was reopened three hours later after no bomb was found. In the summer of 1991, a makeshift steel pipe filled with explosives blew up in the Middle of old town Square injuring one German tourist
