European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 5, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9 firebomb attack on House injures 3 turks in Germany from wire reports Cologne Germany a firebombing that police blamed on right Wing radicals injured three turks in a town outside Cologne Early wednesday. The attack burned a House containing a turkish restaurant in Sulheim and injured three members of the family which runs the establishment police said. Their injuries were not life threatening they said. Swastikas were Spray painted at the site of the fire which broke out shortly before 4 . More than 1,000 racially motivated attacks against foreigners have been reported this year. The worst attack occurred May 29, when five turks were killed in a firebombing in Solingen about 25 Miles North of Cologne. Berlin plans jewish school Berlin the first jewish High school in Berlin since the nazi period is preparing to open the school s principal announced tuesday. We Are expecting our first 23 students this Friday said Uwe mull. The school is in the City s Mitte District which was a vibrant jewish Quarter until the nazi holocaust decimated Berlin s 175,000 jewish Community. Today the German capital s jewish Community numbers about 10,000. A total of 41,000 jews live in United Germany. The school will be under 24-hour police guard like All other major jewish institutions in Berlin. The Only other jewish High schools in Germany Are in Frankfurt and Munich. Mull said 16 students will be gymnasium students. Preparing for the High school diploma which allows Entrance to a University and seven will follow the. Real Schulz which is aimed at students who want to find work after graduation or go on to technical school. 3 fall to deaths in Alps Zermatt Switzerland three people fell to their deaths in the Swiss Alps on tuesday As High temperatures and melting Snow made conditions treacherous for Mountain climbers. Authorities said at least 12 people had been killed in accidents Over the past nine Days. Two people apparently slipped on soft Snow and fell to their death in the Valais Alps in Southern Switzerland and a German women was killed in the Alps of Central Switzerland Rescue authorities said. Olympic threat received Berlin militants opposed to Berlin s bid to Tage the 2000 olympics have threatened to disrupt the games if they Are awarded to the German capital a letter shows the International olympic committee will announce the Host of the 2000 games at a meeting in Monte Carlo on sept. 23. Other cities in the running Are Sydney Australia Manchester England Beijing Istanbul Turkey and Brasilia Brazil. In the letter to the German sports news Agency Sid militants threatened massive acts of sabotage during the games if they Are awarded to Berlin. The letter was signed autonomous group with pliers against the the Auto Nomen As they generally refer to themselves Are a loosely organized anarchist group who frequently rumble with police and rightists. Yeltsin feeling excellent7 joins fight on patriotism Moscow a president Boris n. Yeltsin flew wednesday to the site of the largest tank Battle in his tory hoping to recapture the patriotic Battleground from his political opponents. Yeltsin also was fighting rumours of ill health As he travelled to the Central russian City of Orel for the 50th anniversary of the soviet Victory Over the nazis in the Battle of kursk. He assured reporters that he was in excellent physical shape and later told agricultural researchers that free Market reforms would1 continue despite the efforts of hard liners in the supreme soviet legislature. No one will Stop us he said. Both of Yeltsin s leading political rivals parliament speaker Ruslan Kha Bulatov and vice president Alek Sandr Rutski have visited the kursk Battleground in recent Days. About 13,000 tanks and self propelled guns clashed in the epic Battle in july and August 1943, and the so Viet Victory helped turn the tide of world War ii. Kha Bulatov addressing veterans arid local official tuesday used patriotic rhetoric to denounce the sweeping social and economic changes that Yeltsin has brought to who took part in the Battle Back then could have imagined that the very notion of Fidelity to the fatherland would someday be an object of mockery Kha Bulatov said. Patriotism has also been a potent political weapon for Rutski a retired general and hero of the soviet War in Afghanistan. The rebellious vice president has repeatedly accused Yeltsin s administration of weakening the army and the military Industrial Complex. R Yeltsin sounded a confident note As he left Moscow for Orel telling reporters that the process of drafting a new russian Constitution was progressing at a Good critics contend that the draft Constitution is be coming mired in debate in provincial Legislatures across the country. Yeltsin also said the state of my health is excellent the itar Tass news Agency reported. Pravda the former communist party newspaper noted wednesday that Yeltsin had made few appear ances since mid july. The rare frames on the to new show us an irritated Man with a sickly bloated face who moves uncertainly. According to people who have seethe president up close his speech has become incoherent pravda said. Yeltsin has been on the political defensive since he went on vacation last month. While he was resting in the Countryside hard line lawmakers passed a budget with a deficit nearly twice As High As Yeltsin had sought and they tried to suspend parts of his program to convert state industries into private companies. Unloading War relic soldiers in Hamburg Germany unload a world War ii flak gun monday in front of the museum for Ham Burg s history. The 88 my gun originally designed As an anti aircraft weapon but used directly against tanks in the War is part of the exhibition Wenn Alles in Scherbyn Fallt Hamburgs Den Feuer Sturm or when everything goes to pieces Ham Burg s path into the the exhibition which runs to feb. 27, portrays the effect of bomb warfare on human beings. Super cameras used to Battle Ira in London London apr the faces of motorists driving into London s twice bombed financial District Are being re corded in an unprecedented Effort to deter Ira attacks Security chiefs say. High Resolution cameras will record Drivers appearances and their License plates so if our opponents strike again Well know exactly what they look like said cmdr. Hugh Moore of the City of London police. The cameras already Are operating at eight police checkpoints established in Early july to screen traffic going into the City of London As Europe s busiest financial Center is known. Police and financial Center officials said tuesday that these emergency posts and an accompanying network of closed roads would remain in use until the Irish Republican army Abandons its Campaign against British Rule of Northern Ireland. Two Ira truck bombs hit the financial Center in april 1992 and april 1993. They killed four people wounded 135 and caused at least $1.8 billion in losses. The ring of cameras checkpoints and other added police operations will Cost Art estimated $7.5 million this year officials said. City authorities also unveiled plans to test a warning system for businesses under which police alerted to a suspicious package or vehicle could Send out a bomb Alert and evacuation order to near by offices using a pager. Businesses would have to pay $150 to $225 for the service a police statement said. After last april s attack police re leased pictures taken from a Security camera of two men walking away from the explosives packed truck. But the Fig ures were blurred and their Heads were covered in hoods
