European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes thursday August 5,1993 Black township violence kills 20 in South Africa from wire reports Johannesburg South Africa Twenty people were killed tuesday night As violence continued to rage across Black townships on the Eastern Border of Johannesburg. In All the violence has killed 124 people since the Start of the weekend South african police said wednesday. The night was punctuated by automatic gunfire gasoline bomb attacks and Stone throwing police spokesman capt Wikus Weber said. Hasidic Prince marries Jerusalem More than 30,000 guests celebrated the wedding of a hasidic Prince in Jerusalem on tuesday. Police closed the streets of the Kiryati Betz neighbourhood where Aharon Mordechai Rokeach made his wedding vows to Sara Lea Lemberger 18, in an arranged marriage. The 18-year-old Groom is the Only son of rebbe Issachar Dov Rokeach head of the Belz hasidic dynasty. The dynasty was nearly wiped out in the nazi holocaust and resurrected in suffers stroke Rimini Italy Oscar winning director Federico Fellini was reported Alert wednesday at a Hospital in Rimini where he was being treated for a stroke. His condition remained guarded. Fellini 73, was vacationing in Rimini his Hometown in the Adriatic resort area when he collapsed in his hotel room tuesday afternoon italian news reports said. The resort area was the setting for one of Fellini s works Amar Cord a Memoir of his childhood laced with whimsical fantasy. Train derails killing 22 new Delhi India a passenger train jumped the rails in Eastern India killing 22 people travelling on the roofs of three coaches news reports said wednesday. The Awadh Assam mail was speeding through Marwa station late tuesday when its three coaches skidded off the tracks and broke Loose from the train the United news of India news Agency reported. Fifteen people were injured news Agency press Trust of India said. The Region is 460 Miles Southeast of new Delhi. Members of the 10th inf Mountain div Quick reaction Force from fort drum n.y., escort residents from their Homes in Mogadishu As the troops prepare to search the houses for Day fighting Lull ends As somalis launch assaults Mogadishu a heavy fighting erupted late tuesday As somalian gunmen fired on positions held by pakistani peacekeeping forces and attacked a military Airfield. There was no immediate word from the . Mili tary Headquarters on casualties caused by the More than 90 minutes of intermittent fighting. The clashes ended a five Day Lull in nighttime attacks on the 27-nation . Peacekeeping coalition. Somalian fighters fired mortars and grenades in a 20 minute assault on the Airfield in South Mogadishu. . Peacekeeping troops at the Airport responded with fire from automatic weapons and Small arms. Later gunmen began heavy Small arms attacks on pakistani peacekeepers based in heavily fortified build Ings about a mile from the Airfield. Reporters saw masonry being chipped from the Paki Stani occupied buildings opposite their hotel. Sniper shots from buildings across the Street also struck the hotel. Gunmen Loyal to fugitive warlord Mohamed Farrah aided have been blamed for killing 35 peacekeepers the majority of them pakistanis since june 5. An additional 157 . Troops including 17 americans have been wounded since then allegedly by aided gunmen. The United states has led attacks on aided s Power bases in South Mogadishu in response to the attacks on the peacekeepers. Also tuesday an italian Soldier guarding the main italian base in Mogadishu died in an accidental shoot ing the United nations said. . Military spokesman maj. David Stockwell said the Soldier was hit by an accidental it was not Clear whether the shot came from his own Rifle. The Soldier was not identified. Volume of German drug users shocks dutch town Venlo Netherlands a Law enforcement authorities Are being Over whelmed by a tidal wave of drug tourists pouring into this dutch Border town from the German heartland. Up to 2,000 German addicts fleeing their nation s harsh drug Laws arrive daily in the town of 60,000 people police spokesman Tho Kleuskens said tues Day. We used to have around 500 Venlo junkies and about another 500-700 Ger Man drug tourists Kleuskens said but heir number tripled or quadrupled after the Border was Kleuskens is part of the special drug enforcement team organized by Venlo police in december in anticipation of the european Community s elimination of internal Border controls at the Start of 1993. But they had no idea of the scale of the problem they were about to confront we even saw them coming in bus loads. Fifteen Guys would get out and head off to the dealers Kleuskens said. Despite the binational aspect of the problem there is limited cooperation with German police in attempting to Stem the traffic because of the red tape involved Kleuskens said. Drug arrests this year Are at nearly twice the 1992 level. In june and july Venlo police arrested 31 suspected drug dealers compared with 15 for the entire half year before Border controls were eliminated. Most drug tourists come by car and quickly Home in on the City Center but the problem is spreading to surrounding residential neighbourhoods. I saw one resident who lives near the Park go round and pick up Over 200 Needles in half an hour Kleuskens said. And we counted 120 customers visit ing one dealer in an hour and there were11 dealers in that it s like the wild West Here at night said one Venlo resident 76-year-old h. Sars. Cars tear around All Over the place and there Are Needles All Over the not that i m that bothered by it but the neighbors have Little children and they be already come into Contact with it she told the National daily de Tele Graaf. The permissive dutch attitude toward drug abuse regarded Here As an illness and not a crime has made the nether lands a Haven for foreign drug abusers fleeing far stricter drug Laws in Germany Belgium and France. 150 jewish gravestones vandalized in Britain Southampton England a More than 150jewish gravestones were defaced tuesday with anti semitic slogans and swastikas police said. Gas the jewish boys and perish Judah were painted on Graves throughout the jewish Section at the Hill Lane cemetery a Iid police inspector Russ Park. On one of the More elaborate Graves a Swastika was painted Over the epitaph peace perfect it would appear that there was no damage to non jewish Graves nearby. Obviously at this stage it appears x to be an anti semitic attack Park said. He said the attackers used symbols associated with the National front a Small but vocal right Wing extremist group that opposes the presence of jews and Blacks in Britain. Claude Freeman treasurer of South Ampton s synagogue said the City s Small jewish Community had received a horrible we have always had excellent relations in South Ampton and i have never Felt any Trace of anti semitism he said. Paul Jenks chairman of Southampton City Council s race and housing committees said that there was Evi Dence that extreme right Wing groups were Active in the City but that Only a handful of people was involved. The attack will make those of us who believe All racial groups should work closely together even More determined Jenks said. A spokesman for the Council which runs the Ceme Tery said the Graffiti would be removed As soon
