European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes world monday August 2,1993 homeless Man set on fire in German train station from wire reports Frankenthal Germany a homeless Man sleeping on a train station Bench was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire Early saturday and police suspect teen agers in the attack the victim was reported in serious condition with extensive Burns on his legs from the assault. Police in this City in Rheinland Pfalz state about 40 Miles South of Frankfurt said there were no witnesses to the actual attack but three youths about 17 to 18 years old were the Only people seen in the Frankenthal station shortly beforehand. Police offered a Reward of about $1,150 for information in the attack. Train trailer crash kills 10 Bucharest Romania a train slowed into a trailer carrying Field hands in northeastern Romania on sunday killing 10 and seriously injuring 10 others state radio said. The tractor Driver hauling the trailer disregarded lights signalling the approach of the train police said. Crash victims found in Nepal Katmandu Nepal rescuers found the mutilated bodies of 15 people on a Hillside where a commercial plane crashed and police said Sunda that they were still searching for three others. A japanese and a hungarian were among the is passengers and the three Crew members aboard the twin engine propeller driven plane when it went Down saturday in Southern Nepal. The plane was on a 30-minute flight from Katmandu when it crashed three minutes before Landing China s military celebrates Beijing China s armed forces celebrate their 66th anniversary sunday with renewed Calls for modernization and warnings against hedonism and worshipping Money. The people s liberation army As the three branches of the chinese military Are collectively called was founded on aug. 1,1940. The 3 million Strong Pla is the world s largest fighting Force. An editorial in the liberation army daily focused on the need to maintain Correct political thinking follow the dictates of the communist party and resist the corrosive influences of greed hedonism and extreme individualism. Russians Monitor cease fire Tbilisi Georgia the first contingent of russian soldiers to Monitor the cease fire in Georgia s separatist Abkhazia Region arrived saturday in the beleaguered provincial capital of Sukhui. The soldiers immediately took up positions in and around the georgian held City to watch Over the shaky peace agreement reached four Days ago. More than 2,000 people have been killed in the 11-month War Over the Black sea Region bordering Russia. The War began after the province abkhazian minority declared Independence and Georgia sent in thousands of troops. Blaze forces evacuation Cairo Egypt a free swept through three junkyards in the Shubra slum area overlooking the Nile River forcing the evacuation of residents in three 33-Story apartment buildings. Dense smoke from burning tires and automobile parts covered this City of 14 million people. A few people complained about difficulty breathing but no other injuries were reported authorities said. Ukrainian sailors strike Alexandria Egypt -. Hundreds of Sailor Sand their officers took Over a ukrainian ship in Alexandria Harbor and went on strike to demand payment of months overdue salaries Alexandri Harbor authorities said saturday. About 400 Crew members of the 25,720-ton Sovie Skaya Ukraine a factory ship in which fish reprocessed and canned after being caught refused to unload the cargo after they arrived july 27. They told Harbor officials they would not allow the ship to leave port until the ukrainian owners guaranteed payment of their salaries. Authorities said a foreign ministry official and a ukrainian Diplomat met with the sailors and told them their salaries would be paid. Cancer treatment in Italy prompts Hopes for vaccine Milan Italy a doctors have cured a woman with a rare form of cancer by injecting her with genetically engineered White blood cells researchers said. The researchers said saturday that it was the first successful treatment of its kind and the results if con firmed could Lead to vaccines against a specific kind of cancer. Or. Claudio Bordignon of the Institute of scientific research at san Raffaele Hospital cautioned that the treatment s Success will have Little immediate Benefit for most cancer patients. For the More common forms of tutors we will still need years but this technique gives new valid Hopes he said in announcing his team s results at a news con Ference in Milan. The patient suffered from a Lymphoma believed to be caused by the Epstein Barr virus which causes the More common condition called chronic fatigue syn drome. The treatment worked because the woman s cancer was one of the few caused by a virus Institute officials said. Researchers particularly in the United states have been looking at Gene therapy to fight cancer with mixed results. The woman developed the tumor in her Lymph glands after a Bone marrow transplant. The disease is rare and most often strikes patients Ivhon undergo trans plants. She could not be treated with conventional thera pies and her prognosis was extremely poor so doctors decided to try the Gene therapy Bordignon said. Two weeks ago doctors injected her with Lymphocyte t cells drawn from her brother. Two genes were inserted into the cells a so called suicide Gene and a Marker Gene Bordignon explained. The lymphocytes attacked and killed the cancer cells. Before they could go on to attack healthy cells the suicide genes were activated by a drug injected into the patient and they destroyed the lymphocytes. The Marker genes allowed doctors to keep track of the lymphocytes Progress. Lymphocytes Are cells formed in Lymphatic tissue that Are important in the formation of antibodies and the body s defences against infection. The patient s High fever dropped to Normal and tests showed her tutors had disappeared the researchers said. Hard reminder a destroyed soviet built iraqi tank rests on a Pedestal in a Kuwait City Square saturday. The tank serves As a memorial of the iraqi invasion of Kuwait in august1990 that led to the persian Gulf War. 2 charged in attack on Hitchhiker Bordeaux France a a criminal court charged two drifters sunday with attempted homicide and theft in an attack on an English Hitchhiker. The pair both 20, were arrested Friday on suspicion of attacking Kery Clegg 19, who was found unconscious july 19 in a gravel pit three Miles North of Bordeaux authorities did not release the identities of the suspects. Originally from the Bordeaux Region they were taken into custody at the Seaside resort of Biarritz near the Spanish Border. Clegg remained hospitalized sunday recovering from severe head injuries she suffered in the attack. The Young woman had lain partly undressed in the Quarry for one or two Days before she was found. Her head was bloody her Throat had been slashed three times and she suffered severe sunburn. Police said shews not sexually assaulted. Clegg from Blackburn near Manchester had left Britain on july 14 for a hitchhiking trip in France. Genghis Chan s Palace believed found Beijing a archaeologists in Northern China have found the remains of what May be the Palace where the great mongol Leader Genghis Khan died unofficial report said sunday. The discovery in the Qingxia Hui autonomous re Gion just South of the inner Mongolia autonomous Region has been dated Back to at least the Yuan dynasty the mongolian dynasty established by Genghis Khan s grandson in 1271, the guangming daily said. Archaeologists have unearthed Large numbers of glazed porcelain Ware at the site including vases bottles bowls and. Dishes As Well As ceremonial bronzes it said. The site also has yielded construction materials such As water proof tiles and tiles used As window shutters. The variety of the findings As Well As the Large num Ber of yellow glazed tiles suggest that the Structure was the Palace of a High ranking person the newspaper said. In Imperial times Only the emperor and his family could use the color yellow