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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 10, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 9mourning Nagasaki Marks dropping of atomic bomb from wire report Tokyo the Southern City of Nagasaki on monday mourned the victims of the atomic bombing48 years ago that killed 70,000 people immediately and nearly 30,000 More in later years from radiation related illnesses. _ thousands clasped their hands in prayer As a Bell for peace chimed at 11 02 a.m., the exact moment that the United states dropped the bomb on aug. 9,1945.three Days earlier in 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima 430 Miles Southwest of Tokyo killing 140,000 people. Nagasaki is about 600 Miles Southwest of  a ceremony in a memorial Park attended by 25,000 people Nagasaki mayor Hitoshi Motoshi Macaller for the discontinuation of nuclear testing and offered our greatest efforts for the abolition of nuclear  lightning hurts teens Perpignan France lightning struck a ten full of teen age campers during a thunderstorm sunday injuring 11, one of them  said the injured All were either 13 or 14 years old and were among 52 people camping infant Romeu it Forest in the Eastern pyrenees mountains in southwestern  campers were hospitalized in Perpignan a City near the Spanish Border. Alleged Art thief caught Madrid Spain police have arrested belgian Man they say is one of Europe s master Art thieves who once escaped custody by sliding Down Sheet and hailing a Tan in his pyjamas. Rend Alphonsus Van Der Bergher alias Erik the belgian was arrested on thursday in Malaga one of Spain s popular Mediterranean vacation spots the Spanish daily Al pass reported sunday. Belgian authorities want him extradited for his alleged involvement in the theft of 26 enamelled Art works Worth More than $3.4 million from Thel Emreche municipal museum in Limoges France in december 1980, Al pass said. Migs crash in red sea san a Yemen two yemenite pilots were killed sunday when two russian made Miu-21 aircraft crashed in the red sea near the coastal City of Odeida the Interior ministry announced monday. The Accident occurred while the two pilots we retraining the ministry said. Military experts said investigations were under Way but it appeared the two warplanes had collided. Troops fight italian fires Rome the government called in the military sunday to help Battle blazes in 10 regions and on the Island of Sardinia where at least one italian vacationer was killed and 700 were evacuated. Fires plague parched areas this time every year but 1993 has been particularly bad. About 3,000 fires were burning and damage was put at tens of millions of dollars Rai state television reported. Portuguese band gets sick Lisbon Portugal crowds at the annual festival of St. Roque de Cortes were enjoying Aroutine Holiday Parade sunday when members of a marching band began collapsing by twos and threes stricken with food  of 59 members of Oporto s Fanf Arra do Rio Tinto were treated and held for observational the District Hospital of Viana do Castelo 240 Miles North of Lisbon the portuguese news Agency Lusa  source of the food poisoning was not immediately identified but the group had Dine together at a restaurant before marching in the festival. 11th body found in rubble Madras India police found another body monday in the rubble of a Radical hindu group office in Madras raising the death toll to 11 in a bomb explosion authorities  prime minister . Narasimha Rao joined opposition leaders in condemning sunday attack As an act of terrorism. The target of the bomb was the regional Headquarters of the Rasht Riya Swaya Sevak Singh National Volunteer corps. Rao said political violence had no place in a democracy. Caribbean tropical storm i eaves at i East 99 dead Caracas Venezuela a venezuelans herein mourning monday As they began Clearing mud and debris from their Homes following a devastating carib bean storm that killed at least 99 people and left thou Sands  storm Bret was breaking up As it moved off the Northwest coast of Colombia on monday but i could gain strength before charging into Central Amer Ica the . National weather service reported Mon Day from Miami. In the Border town of Macao in northeastern Colombia a 22-year-old woman was electrocuted sunday afternoon when Advance winds of the storm hurled a electrical pole and High tension wire onto a House. The weather service said Colombia discontinued the tropical storm warning for la Gua Jira Peninsula. It said the storm could strengthen As its Center moves Over open Waters in the Southwest Caribbean on monday and As much As 4 More inches of rain could fall in Venezuela and Colombia. Bret had been expected to pass by Venezuela with out much damage but it struck hard Early sunday with 5 inches of rain Over a five hour  destroyed a number of Homes in the Shari to towns perched on the Hills that surround the main Valley of Caracas and Many of the dead and injure were children said Enrique Aponto director of the Central  entire family perished husband wife and five kids Aponto said. Whenever it Rains Homes  i be been Here for 30 years. And i be never seen anything like  minister Adalberto Gabaldon called the storm the country s worst natural disaster since july 1967 earthquake killed 245 people. Interim president Ramon Velasquez declared Athree Day mourning period. Velasquez 77, is leading the country while suspended president Carlos Andre pc Rcd stands trial on charges of embezzling Public  of this South american nation were warned about the storm in front Page newspaper Sto Ries saturday. Fishermen were urged to stay in port and vacationers to avoid beaches. Some air plane flights tothe coast were cancelled. But since the storm was expected to pass relatively harmlessly along the Northwest coast on the Caribbean sea the warnings were largely ignored. When the storm arrived it hit harder and farther in land than expected. Iii for Sulli ? j firefighters look for survivors trapped in their cars in a parking garage under the Guam reef hotel in Timon on sunday after an earthquake measuring 8.1 to 8.2 on the Richter scale hit the West Pacific Island. Power glitch adds to hardship As Guam recovers from quake Agana Guam a efforts to restore Power and water service to this . Territory shaken by one of the strongest earthquakes of the Century suffered a set Back monday when a Generator problem triggered an other Island wide blackout. The glitch caused the West Pacific  
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