European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday August 1, 1993stations turning deaf ear to song about transsexual. From wire reports Amsterdam Netherlands a most dutch radio stations Are refusing to play a new song about a transsexual prostitute to avoid insulting other people who change their sex. A the song stigmatized transsexuals and it is unnecessarily offensive Quot Nataly Heyl spokeswoman for the pros radio network said Friday. Transsexual the debut song by Surveyor tuned Singer Ronald has sold More than 6,000 copies since being released two weeks ago. It is a Ballad about a Man who becomes a woman and takes a Job in a Brothel. In the refrain the Singer croons in dutch a the works from 9-to-5, he a a rebuilt  the promoter believes the ban will be Good for business. Bunny music manager Tom Peters said the More controversy the single provokes a the More we  he May be.  week Veronica top 40 radio the Only station not to ban the song declared it the a hit of the  world the stars and stripes Page kurd May free tourists Ankara Turkey a turkish kurdish rebels will soon release six foreign tourists they kidnapped this month a go Between said Friday. The English language turkish daily news quoted its editor Ismet Imset As saying Friday that he was a confident Quot the hostages would be released a sooner than  Imset has been acting As an intermediary Between hostages families and rebel officials in syrian controlled sections of Lebanon. Australian Tania Miller and her British Cousin David Rowbottom were kidnapped three weeks ago by guerrillas of the kurdish workers party or pkg which is fighting for self Rule in Southeastern Turkey. The rebels seized four French tourists a Pierre six Mic Cue Coudray Robert Audoin and Forrand Harron a on july 25.Man held in Church attack Cape town South Africa police have detained a Black suspect in connection with last weeks attack on a Cape town Church that killed 11 people and wounded More than 50. The unidentified Man was being held for questioning police said saturday. News reports said the Man was a schoolteacher in the Gugu Letu Black a township and allegedly belonged to the pan africanist Congress a Radical group linked to attacks on police and White civilians. No group has claimed responsibility for the grenade and automatic Rifle attack of the multiracial Church. Most of the victims were . To Aid Bridge work Katmandu Nepal a american and British army engineers will help rebuild three vital Bridges destroyed during flooding and restore Road links Between Katmandu and the rest of the kingdom it was announced Friday. Three Bailey Bridges will be provided and a the installation work will be completed As Early As possible Quot the finance ministry said. An Advance British unit of Hong Kong based gurkha soldiers have already arrived and the main Squadron was to reach the nepalese capital saturday British ambassador Timothy George said. The strength of the american contingent was not known but the first group could arrive in Katmandu on Board a c-141 aircraft with 25 tons of emergency Aid either saturday or today . Diplomat Michael Malinowski said. Officials said that 1,800 people have been confirmed dead As a result of the massive flooding and that the. Final toll could reach 3000.vietnamese stopped at sea Nagasaki Japan a a coastal patrol vessel intercepted a Boatload of 45 vietnamese refugees in japanese Waters saturday a maritime safety Agency official said. The tiny wooden Craft was spotted by a japanese fishing boat which alerted the Agency. Four patrol boats descended on the 32by-6-foot vietnamese vessel. The 45 refugees aboard the Craft including a child told japanese officials that they had travelled via South Korea to Nagasaki in the Southwest Corner of Japan a southernmost main Island Kyushu. This was the second Boatload of vietnamese refugees intercepted in that area Japan a largest port in the East China sea in two Days. Rescue officials saturday stand by a train that was rammed from behind after becoming stalled in an Alpine Tunnel. Train slams into another in Alpine Tunnel kills 1 Dom Dossola Italy up a train ran into the rear of another train stalled in an Alpine Tunnel saturday killing at least one passenger and injuring 48, Railroad officials said. Most of the passengers on the two International express trains were Northern euro Eean tourists headed for vacation in Italy or italians Reading Home the officials said. Rescue officials identified the dead passenger As Nicolo mule 45, a sicilian. Fifteen of the injured were French German and dutch tourists and one american. The crash took place at 6 15 . In a 2-Miic-Long Tunnel six Miles South of the Swiss italian Border and just North of the Alpine City of Dom Dossola. Both trains had entered Italy through the Simpson Tunnel. Railroad officials said an electric Power failure stalled the express a on a run from Dortmund Germany to Rome a in the Middle of the Tunnel. The second express going from Paris to Florence crashed into the rear of the Rome bound train. The officials said that because of the Power Cut the Paris express was travelling slowly when it hit the Dortmund train. The Impact partly crushed the two rear carriages of the 15-car Dortmund train and derailed a Carriage in the mid trains collide die of the train at a Point Switzerland Simpson Tunnel pm where the track curved. Most of the casualties were in the rear coaches both of them sleeping cars. The names of the injured were not immediately available. Most were taken by ambulance to a Hospital in it Dom Dossola. Four were f seriously injured. Al buses took most of the other passengers to Dom Dossola where other trains took them to Milan and elsewhere. Pending removal of the crashed trains rail traffic was diverted onto another line. Railroad officials said the stretch of line from the Swiss Border,.to Dom Dossola is under the jurisdiction of the Swiss railways. The Crews of the trains were Swiss scheduled to be relieved by italian personnel in Dom Dossola they said.  s43 Cowes England apr a yacht piloted by the husband of Queen Elizabeth ii ran into another vessel in a race saturday on the opening Day of the annual Cowes regatta organizers said. Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh was at the Helm of Yeoman xxviii when it hit Magazine ii on the finishing line said Cowes week press officer sue Hardwicke. The Duke a was on the port tack and was clearly in the wrong Quot she said. Prince Edward the Royal couples youngest child was with his father on Board the 38-foot Yeoman which suffered superficial damage Hardwicke said. Magazine ii suffered a broken Guardrail she said. Afterwards the Duke hailed the other boat and said Quot Are you All right i am very sorry about  Quot yes we Are Fine Quot replied the Crew of the 36-foot Magazine ii. Yeoman came eighth in the race at Cowes on the Isle of Wight off the Southern coast of England. At Cowes last year Edward ran a yacht onto rocks ripping a Spinnaker. Japan school requires his tests for foreigners Tokyo up a a University on Japan a northernmost main Island is requiring . Applicants and other foreign students to undergo testing for the aids virus University officials said saturday. Nineteen americans from 14 . Universities have complied with the regulations and submitted the certification needed to attend a summer Exchange program at Hokusai Makuen University on hokkaido the Kyodo news service reported. The institution has mandated that All non japanese report tie results of testing for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. Officials imposed the test after local citizens expressed concern for personal safety four years ago. Exchange students stay with japanese families As part of the program. The University considered lifting the requirement when confronted by japanese based aids support groups which said the regulation was discriminatory. A special University panel was convened to discuss the Aeu t matter but Deci Kyodo said. That foreigners still must be tested