European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday August 2, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 9 israeli tanks Roll out of Lebanon Nab Atiyeh Lebanon a tens of thousands of refugees began returning to their bomb wrecked Vil Lages sunday As israeli tanks withdrew from South Leb anon following a  cease fire. The truce took effect saturday and ended a we Klong israeli Blitz that police said killed 140 people wounded at least 496 and sent 500,000 people fleeing North. Israeli warplanes gunboats and artillery had bombarded a Broad Swath of South Lebanon in the largest and bloodiest offensive since Israel invaded 11 years ago. The offensive followed a rash of attacks by shiite Muslim and palestinian guerrillas against Israel s self styled Security zone in South Lebanon. Witnesses said about 150 tanks and armoured person Nel carriers returned to Northern Israel but about 45howitzer cannons were left behind. . Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher credited with brokering a cease fire in Southern Leb anon was to depart sunday for the Middle East with the goal of reviving peace talks Between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Christopher planned to Fly to Egypt on sunday for a meeting with president Hosni Mubarak. He was then to Stop in Israel Syria Jordan and Back in Israel before returning to Washington toward week s end. The cease fire took effect at 6 . Saturday and ended a we Klong israeli Blitz that killed 126 people wounded at least 496 and turned half a million people into refugees. Nine hours after the cease fire began guerrillas fired mortar rounds and assault rifles at a outpost near the Security zone manned by the israeli backed South Leb anon army. Militiamen of the Sla fired mortars Back but there were no reports of casualties the sources said adding that the skirmish was not a serious breach of the cease fire. News of the shooting did not slow Down the massive return Home by thousands of civilians who fled South Lebanon last week. Convoys of cars with mattresses on their roofs streamed South at first Light on the coastal Highway linking Beirut and the Southern port chies of Saida and Tyre. Foster reportedly upset Over firings editorials Washington a the note White House lawyer Vincent w. Foster wrote before his apparent suicide resembled the outline of a resignation letter and mentioned specific Job frustrations an administration official said saturday. In the note Foster discussed embarrassment Over the firings of White House travel office workers and his distress about critical editorials in the Wall Street journal . News and world re port reported. Foster died july 20 of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound. The White House previously disclosed that it found a torn up note in the Bottom of Foster s briefcase last monday and turned it Over to investigators. A White House official confirmed sat urday As reported by . News that the note resembled a draft of a Resig nation letter. If anyone did t know that Vinee killed himself then yes you d think this was someone frustrated with his Job and thinking about resigning said the offi Cial speaking on the condition of anonymity. The White House publicly has declined to characterize contents of the note other than to say it shed Light on Foster s state of mind and pointed to the fact that he was troubled by his Job. Clinton in an interview in the same Issue of . News said a lot of us Are still  Foster was a boyhood Friend of Clinton s. But i Don t think Well find out much More other than that he was deeply Dis Turbed Clinton added. Resort Island Battles Blaze Calla Spain a seven water carrying planes and nearly 400 people struggled sunday to extinguish a Day old fire that has destroyed some 750 acres of Woodland on the popular Mediterranean Holiday Island of Majorca. Twenty four hours after the Blaze started firefighters police and volunteers were still working to bring the fire under control Antonio Pallicer a spokesman for calved town Council said. The Blaze spreading in three different directions was concentrated in the Sierra de a Burguess Mountain Range just out Side Calvia a town West of the Balearic Island City of Palma de Majorca. The spokesman said the fire posed no immediate danger to people living or vacationing in the area. He added that so far Only one family had been evacuated from its House because of the Blaze. Pallicer said two youths had been detained late saturday on suspicion that the fire May have been started deliberately but he could give no further ? 2 anti tank mines found on streets Celle Germany a motorists discovered two deadly anti tank mines on streets in Celle Early sunday police said. The mines were armed and would have killed anyone in a car that hit them said police spokesman Joachim Lindenberg. The first mine was spotted by a British Soldier about 3 45 . He stopped his car and intended to re move the obstruction from the Road when he realized what it was and notified police the spokesman said. A second mine was found by a Motorist at the Entrance to a parking lot in another part of the City. Munitions specialists removed the mines which were about a foot in Diame Ter and blew them up in a Sand pit. The spokesman said the mines had cyrillic language markings which indicated they May have come from armoires of the former soviet army in Eastern Germany. There have been Many reports of illicit munitions sales by the red army troops. Lung disease reported in sandblasters Houston up1 the Houston chronicle reported sunday that a rapidly progressing form of the deadly lung Dis ease silicosis has been diagnosed or is strongly suspected in 93 Young mexican sandblasters in Odessa Texas. The diagnoses were made by or. Ste phen Wiesenfeld of nearby Midland who said last week that All the victims work or worked As sandblasters for several companies. He also said he believes that More cases have not been diagnosed or reported. Silicosis was first documented in min ers 400 years ago and is caused by the inhalation of fractured Silica a Mineral found in Sand and other common rub stances. Wiesenfeld said the men i Odessa Are suffering from accelerated silicosis which moves quickly and suggests extraordinary Levels of exposure. The chronicle reported that lat ear 25 cases were diagnosed la  mexi can sandblasters in Odessa since then Wiesenfeld said 25 More cases have been identified. He said expects to confirm an chief 4 by october. In 1 -. I ii i j y workers position a counterweight at the base of the leaning Tower of Pisa. Lead bars taking the tilt out of famed Pisa Tower Pisa Italy a a system of Lead counter eights at the base of the leaning to or of Pisa apparent 1 has reversed some of the Toner s famous lean. Michele Jamiolkowski the leading expert in in International commission charged with trying to halt the relent less Tux sad that tens of Lead bars placed around the base this month  yielded an encouraging result. The tit. Hii no tabs  b t a  rr.-lllmeters.," the   . Ansa pc a Jam  ass a in 2. A  Abt for  Rcd Isof an Inch. Jamiolkowski did not say How much the Tower has sprung Back but he called the result a sign that the Monument has reacted positively to the counterweight  the project is the first phase of a plan to Stop the Tower from Tilting. Scientists he warned that without action the Tower was in danger of fall . The 179-foot-High Structure begun in 1174, stand to lean almost immediately after it was completed when the ground shifted underneath it