European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday Augu 112,1993 world a a y a Power water restored 3 Days after Guam quake from wire reports a an a Guam a electricity and water service were restored to much of Guam on wednesday As Island residents struggled to resume Normal lives three Days after an earthquake rocked the . Territory. The sunday quake was 8.1 in magnitude the world s strongest in four years. Damage is estimated at $109 million to businesses the stars and stripes Page 9 most damage was confined to the turn on Bay resort area where at least two hotels a the Royal Palm and the grand a will have to be torn Down because of deep structural cracks and other  commit suicide Beijing a hundreds of thousands of mice have drowned themselves in lakes and Rivers in Northwest China in a mass suicide that May have been triggered by overpopulation the Xinhua news Agency said Werf mesday. Scientists have not found any signs of disease in the mice and there Are no reports of disease among other animals or people in the Region the official news Agency said. Herdsmen began finding dead mice in Early May in the Altay Region and nearby parts of the Xin Jiang uygur autonomous Region it said. The numbers grew quickly and More than 300,000 dead mice were scooped up at just one Sluice Gate on a River Xinhua said. Quot Xinhua said the mouse population on the grasslands had been growing for several years and experts speculated that overpopulation caused some to fall victim to an infectious but still mysterious disease. A others wonder if this is a premonition of an unprecedentedly drastic earthquake Quot the report  to get new shop London a demand for Royal trinkets has prompted Buckingham Palace administrators to Start building a second souvenir shop a spokeswoman said tuesday. The Palace s merchandising store has proved to be a More lucrative Money spinner than ticket sales since the Queens 18th Century Home opened for the first time saturday. The store described by one British tabloid newspaper As a the worlds most exclusive Corner shop a took in More than $100,000 in its first two Days of business nearly the equivalent of 9,000 full Price $12 admission tickets. A because of popularity and huge demand for goods we Are opening a second shop on saturday a the spokeswoman said. The store will be built near the first shop along the path exiting the Palace  Force delivering Bridge to flooded Nepal Raf m1ldenhall a amps three air Force c-5 Galaxy aircraft Are helping the British overseas development authority deliver a 240-foot Bridge to Nepal to support Relief activities wednesday through Friday. The Bridge will help open major roads to allow emergency food and supplies to enter the Katmandu area where flooding has killed hundreds in recent weeks.. Envoys i Vietnam to help Mia task Force Hanoi Vietnam apr the first . Diplomats posted to Vietnam since the communist North took Over the South in 1975 will arrive this month the chief . Investigator of americans missing in Vietnam said wednesday. Army it. Col John Cray commander of the Pentagon a joint task Force full accounting det in Hanoi said the first of three state department officers would arrive within 10 Days. The other two should arrive by the end of August he said. While Cray s detachment works to resolve the remaining cases of . Service members missing from the Vietnam War the diplomats Are on temporary assignment to help by handling the growing number of in quiries about the missing from concerned relatives veterans and other americans in Vietnam. They also Are to attend to the visa and passport requirements of Crays unit As Well As the needs of official delegations visiting from the United states. Cray said the three Scott Marciel Eric Luftman and Elise Kleinwaks a would work initially from an office at the task Force compound. Underlining the increasing need for administrative help a congressional delegation is to arrive today for talks with vietnamese officials about Trade and investment. The group also will discuss mias. The bipartisan group is the biggest from Congress to come to Vietnam since the War. It includes nine members of the House ways and Means committee and seven members of its Trade subcommittee. Led by subcommittee chairman Sam Gibbons d-fla., the delegation plans to visit Vietnam for four Days As part of a tour of Pacific rim countries. Cray also confirmed that four More mias had been positively identified As of wednesday. The total number of missing americans now stands at 2,248. Two of those identified had been listed As missing in Vietnam the other two in Cambodia. One of the men air Force col. Carl f. Karst of Galatia kan., disappeared nov. 16, 1968, while flying a Cessna of reconnaissance plane Over South Vietnam. Vietnamese authorities turned Over what turned out to be his remains to american investigators in june 1989. The Pentagon did not publicly identify the other three individuals at the request of their families Cray said. In Tel Aviv Moti Rosen gets the feel of Israel s new multipurpose assault Rifle which comes with a Day night scope. Israel developing lightweight Rifle Jerusalem apr Israel is developing a lightweight multipurpose assault Rifle with interchangeable parts the Israel military industries said tuesday. The a.a.r.-90 Rifle was designed for infantry but Imi said it can be modified for snipers armoured troops divers and anti terror commandos. A this Rifle was designed so the Soldier would want it a Imi director Gabi Komissar was quoted by the daily Edioth Ahro Noth newspaper As saying. Imi which is owned by the government but must compete for contracts with other companies has suffered a number of financial setbacks in recent years As military conflicts have decreased. A marketing is the key word today a Komissar told Edioth. A Imi statement said the Rifle takes 30 5.56 my Rifle rounds and weighs 7.7 pounds fully loaded 2.2 pounds less than the .-made mini m-16. It comes with a Standard Day night scope and is 28.3 inches Long the statement said. It Nas an accuracy of up to 300 meters with a possible upgrade to 500 meters it said. The Rifle fires 700 rounds per minute and it operates on a Gas Bolt  Cabinet oks $30 billion spending Cut Bonn Germany apr the Cabinet on wednesday approved a 49 billion Mark $30 billion spending Cut through 1995, trimming cherished social welfare programs to reduce the yawning German budget deficit. Germany a accumulated $1.1 trillion deficit brought on by about $90 billion annual spending to integrate Eastern Germany has kept interest rates High and contributed to the temporary col lapse of the european Exchange rate system last  spending Cut proposal which goes before parliament next month would reduce unemployment benefits Job training programs and payments to part time workers immigrants and families with children. It would freeze government wages and research and development funds and raise the gasoline tax by 16 pfennig 10 cents per liter to subsidize rail improvement. A program paying construction workers who lose work Days because of rain was eliminated. Church and labor groups charged that the cuts would Only aggravate the recession and unemployment. Labor representatives predicted the program would Cost Germany at least 70,000 jobs next year. A there must be savings but not As special punishment for the Little people a said Werner Schreiber director of the Christian democratic labor federation. Unemployment stands at 7.5 percent in Western Germany and 15.3 percent in the i East. Economics minister Gunter Rex Rodt predicted tuesday that the number of unemployed could Rise from 3.5 million to 4 million by the beginning of next year. \