European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 08, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday augusts 1993 world the stars and stripes Pago 11 students at the first jewish High school in Germany since world War ii listen to the teacher during the open ing lesson Friday. Twenty four students attend the school located in the Eastern part of Berlin. Jewish school in Berlin Marks postwar first Berlin a the first jewish High school in Germany since world War ii has opened its doors at a site doubly symbolic of jewish emancipation and the horrors of the holocaust. The laughter and chatter of 24 children and their proud parents buzzed through corridors. Not All the students Are jewish and most come from Prosper Ous West Berlin not the surrounding East Berlin neighbourhood that once was a densely packed jew ish slum. This is a great Day for our Community Jerzy Kanal head of the Berlin jewish Community told the Assembly As the school opened Friday. The school overlooks a memorial on the site of jewish Home for the elderly where the nazis herded jews to be transported to the Gas Chambers a Auschwitz Poland. At a time when Neo nazi violence is rising in Ger Many the message Friday was of Hope. Kanal said the school s Mission was not Only to provide a Good education but also to Foster Toler Ance among the jewish and non jewish children an to spread the lesson that in this land there is no place for anti semitism and hatred of  some parents admitted having apprehensions. The wave of Neo nazi violence in Germany since unification in 1990 has hit holocaust memorials and other jewish targets. The school like other jewish institutions in Germany has a constant police  parents Are a bit afraid to come Here to the East said Regina Schneider Gaskin originally from Brazil. She wanted her daughter to be More conscious of her jewish roots and the girl had liked the atmosphere of a jewish elementary school the. Past year she said. Schneider Gaskin said she was sensitive to the history of the school s site. If the Walls could speak students approach the newly opened jewish High school in Berlin on Friday. They would scream she said but in the end you can t think about  the first jewish school was founded Here in 1778by philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Asked Why it had taken five decades since the nazis closed the last one to open another jewish High school Kanal said there had not been enough children before. Berlin had about 160,000 jews before the Naziera. It now has about 10,000, and the number has grown in recent years with immigrants from the for Mer soviet Union. Dozens die in japanese floods slides Tokyo a at least 40 people were dead and25 others missing after torrential Rains triggered Flash floods and landslides in southwestern Japan on Friday police reported saturday. Police in Kagoshima prefecture or state said 22 others were injured including a woman rescued Friday afternoon after her car was trapped under tons of mucin a landslide 16 hours earlier. Officials said the death toll was expected to swell a thousands of police firefighters and army troops dug through huge piles of mud and debris at dozens of locations in and around Kagoshima City the hardest hit. Kagoshima City the prefecture s capital with a population of 1.75 million is on Kyushu the southernmost of Japan s four main islands about 625 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. The area is vulnerable to Strong storms and typhoons. It is the same general Vicinity where 30 people were killed in storms landslides and other flood re lated accidents monday and tuesday. Up to 8 inches of rain in four hours through 8  triggered the mudslides throwing cars and trucks from coastal roads into Kagoshima Bay and crushing or inundating hundreds of Nomes and build Ings said Yoshito Nagase a prefectural police spokes Man. Roads railways and phone lines had been devastated Over a Good part of the prefecture hampering Rescue efforts Nagase said. There arc a lot of areas you can Only get to by Heli copter right now he said. About a dozen people were trapped alive when mud and rocks encased the Bottom floors of a Hospital in Kagoshima City Nagase said. An Avalanche on a coastal Road was reported to have swept More than 10 people into the sea. The rain had stopped by midday saturday but the National meteorological Agency predicted More heavy rain in the coming Days for southwestern Japan. New Leader looks ahead in Japan Tokyo a Japan s new prime minister Mori Hiro Hosokawa said saturday that he Hopes to meet president Clinton at the september session of the  Assembly news reports said. Hosokawa s election by parliament on Friday capped dramatic realignment of Japan s postwar political order. The seven party coalition he leads toppled the Liberal democrats who had governed for nearly four decades. Hosokawa also said he plans to attend the propose november Summit of the Asia Pacific economic cooperation forum in Seattle the major Asahi daily newspaper reported. After the election Hosokawa immediately set to work assembling his Cabinet. But the Liberal democrats now the opposition served notice they were no going to make matters easy for the new government. Hosokawa s comments saturday which also included pledge to get to work on the National 1994 budget this week were apparently a partial response to Liberal democrats demands Lor a major policy speech soon to detail the government s new Agenda. Coalition leaders have said that they will continue the previous government s Basic foreign and economic policies but that they favor deregulation and a transferor Powers to local regions. Dream Dies with colombian youth s flight in wheel Well Bogota Colombia a he dreamed of having his photo taken next to the statue of Liberty. Erwin Restrepo s quest May have seemed in reach when the new York bound Jet left Colombia with him hidden on Board. But somewhere along the route the 19-year-old colombian froze to death huddled in the Jet s wheel Well. Customs investigators found his body wednesday night shortly after the Avian Ca Boeing 747 landed at Kennedy inter National Airport in new York following a nonstop flight from Bogota Airport authorities said. Family members told Media that Restrepo a native of Colombia s Caribbean coast wanted a better life in the United  was Restrepo s second attempt to smuggle himself into the United  monday colombian authorities had caught Restrepo trying to hide in another Airlane in Bogota s Al Dorado Airport. One of his Brothers interviewed on television news said Restrepo had talked repeatedly about taking a photo next tothe statue of Liberty. Restrepo had told friends he was inspired by the june 4 voyage of another colombian Juan Carlos Guzman Betan cur 17, who said he survived in the wheel Well of an area airlines dc-8 Light frombogota1 to Miami. After being deported to Colombia Guzman was caught again in Bogota on july 23 trying to sneak into the wheel Well of another Miami bound area flight