European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes world wednesday August 4 1993 Russia suspends pullout of troops from Poland Warsaw Poland up Russia on tuesday temporarily stopped withdrawing the rest of its troops from Poland taking polish authorities by Surprise. The problem broke out All of a sudden said a spokeswoman in the office dealing with russian troops in Poland. She said both the polish government and military authorities were holding meetings on the russian Deci Sion. Russia delayed the withdrawal of some 500 troops from the communications base of Remberton in War saw after the russians failed to reach an agreement with Poland on the location of a new military Mission to replace the russian command. More than 60,000 troops already have left Poland under the russian polish agreement signed in May 1992. The agreement provides for letting some 4,000 troops stay in Poland after september to Monitor the pullout of rusian forces from former East Germany next year. Polish officials proposed locating the Mission at the huge former soviet embassy in Warsaw but Russia wants the Headquarters to be elsewhere in Poland. A reporter from the Independent newspaper gazeta web orca said russian soldiers and officers at the Remberton base were ready to leave but the order to stay longer apparently pleased them. Some soldiers said they make As much As $100 a month Selling Oil and equipment illegally to polish Drivers gazeta said. Over nor yes despite having Little to spare Havana Cuba a it was a sound that few in Havana had heard for decades the shuddering Thunder of Harley David sons. And few eyes were prepared to see bridal veils trailing from the Leader of the pack. But Sisters Mildred and Miriam Morales let their veils Glide in the Breeze As they stood with their bridegrooms on a platform built onto the Back of the Lead motorcycle. The newlyweds recently led an Earth shaking procession of 30 aging motorcycles through the heart of Havana and along the male con waterfront. The Morales Sisters were Only keeping with tradition their father owns a Harley. But after 30 years of isolation by the United states sticking by that tradition in Cuba snot easy. It takes a lot of old fashioned cuban know How to keep the archetypal american motorcycle on the Road. Cuba s economic crisis Means spare parts of any kind Romany place arc hard to come by. Gasoline rationing makes it difficult just to fill the tank. If there s Gas i go Riding said Osmani Hernandez 32. That s not very often now he added As he showed off the Origi Nal parts on his 1950-Modcl Harley. Pistons have been borrowed from Moto Guzis and Alfa Romeos. Bits of russian and czech motorcycles have been adapted. Many parts have been machined or welded or just Plain Bent from scraps and scratch. It takes a lot of work a lot of dedication Lazaro Rolando Sanchez said As he stood amid the cycles some gleaming some a bit Rusty at an open air restaurant at the wedding reception for the Morales Sis ters. Angel Viera Knelt beside one of the cycles an showed How cubans had joined Harley Davidson spokes to 15-Inch Volkswagen rims. There were no tires in Cuba other than those for a russian anti air Craft gun that fit the original Harley wheels. Only a handful of Harley Davidsons or any other american vehicles for that matter entered Cuba thirty aging Harley Davidsons take part in a wedding procession recently along the waterfront in Havana Cuba. Tion. Many of the harleys that remained have been lovingly maintained. I be been offered a lot of Money for my Harley but i m never going to sell. It would be better to take my blood said Nestor Merino 30, whose to shirt pro claimed Harley Davidson motorcycles born in the but even years of restoration often Are not enough to get the motorcycles rolling in a country crippled by the demise of the soviet Union which until 1990 supplied Cuba with most of its Oil. Many cubans say they have not received gasoline rations in two months or More. A quart of Black Market after 1962, when the United states imposed a Trade gasoline costs about 25 pesos a healthy chunk of the embargo following Fidel Castro s communist revolt 150 to 300 pesos most people earn in a month. Train collision kills 12 in Spain Vega de Anzo Spain a1j twelve people were killed and seven others injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train in a Tunnel close to this Northern Spanish Village police said tuesday. The Accident occurred shortly before 7 . Monday after the freight train failed to await the arrival of the passenger train in a nearby station before continuing its journey said a spokesman for the state run Rural train company report late monday put the death toll at three but overnight Rescue operations found another nine bodies in the wreckage of the two Carriage Passen Ger train said a police spokesman from the nearby City of Oviedo. All 12 dead and five of the injured had been on the commuter train which was travelling Between the town of Soto de Luina and Oviedo 240 Miles North of Madrid. The train was reported to have 15 passengers and two train company personnel. The two Drivers of the nine Wagon freight train were among the injured the police spokesman added Rescue operations finished tuesday at 8 ., Rte added. The freight train carrying Light chemical Industry and construction materials was travelling from Oviedo to the Northern coastal town of Pravia. Gypsies killed at Auschwitz honoured during ceremony from wire report Warsaw Poland polish German and hungarian gypsies have paid homage to the More than 20,000 gypsies killed by nazis at the Auschwitz death delegation Laid Flowers monday to Mark the 49th anniversary of the so called liquidation of the Gypsy Camp at Auschwitz to which nazis brought gypsies from All Over liquidation meant that All inmates either died in the Camp s Gas Chambers or from hunger an exhaustion. More than 1.5 million people were killed between1940 and 1945 at the death Camp the nazis built hear the Southern City of Oswie Cim. Most were european jews. But other victims included poles gypsies and russian prisoners of War. Island dip delays Airport Tokyo an Airport built on a Man made Island near Japan s second largest City will open in september 1994, following months of delays caused by the Island s collapse into the sea. Airport officials were forced to dump Dir scooped from nearby mountains on the Island and install an array of subterranean Hydraulic jacks in Osaka Bay near Osaka. The Airport was originally scheduled to open inthe Spring of 1993. Transport minister Ihei Ochi said tuesday that it will open by sept. Is 1994.authorities say the Airport will accommodate 90 International and 70 Domestic flights a Day. 2nd quake shakes Israel Jerusalem a mild earthquake shoo Central Israel on tuesday but caused no damage or was the second quake in As Many Days to rattle the Institute for Petroleum research and geophysics confirmed that a quake measuring 4.1on the Richter scale hit at 2 15 Local time. The epicentre of the earthquake was under the dead sea about 25 Miles Southeast of Jerusalem. Monday s quake measured 4.2 and was entered inthe same area. Buildings Shook from Jerusalem to be it Sheva inthe Negev desert startling residents from their sleep. German army train derails. Berlin a German army train carrying anti tank munitions derailed tuesday in the Eastern German state of Mecklenburg West Pomerania killing the Engineer police said. The train loaded with 20 tons of 14 my Armor piercing munitions crashed into a Culvert Between the towns of Malchin and Stavenhagen a police spokesman said. A second rail employee in the locomotive was seriously injured the spokesman said. He said that there was no danger of an explosion and that army explosives experts were at the scene supervising the removal of the cause of the crash was not established. Hungarians seize heroin Budapest Hungary customs officials on the hungarian romanian Border seized 121 pounds of heroin found in a turkish truck loaded with onions the state Mai news Agency reported tuesday. The Cache was discovered monday when the truck was searched after customs officials found irregularities in the transit papers Mai said citing hungarian Border truck was headed or Germany. Hungary is a major transit country on the so called Balkan route of drug smuggling from Turkey attn Amston and other countries to Western Europe. Traffic has increased because of the War in former Yugoslavia. On monday bulgarian customs officers seized 40pounds of heroin on the turkish bulgarian Border. Major to visit Sweden London prime minister John major and his wire Norma have accepted an invitation from Bedish prime minister Carl Bildt to visit the 13 a eminent spokeswoman the trip Marks major s first official visit to 1990cn Mcc acc omits prior a minister in november
