European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 the stars and stripes world wednesday. Nov Ortw 3,1993 dutch Rhine ships to House ". The of City will be kept in Reserve to accommodate overflow f _. Of. I Amsterdam Netherlands a the Asylum seekers crowding their country. This week Are a political outcry the government after Asylum reception centers reached of the 500 respondents to the weekend tuesday began Readia mothballed their Normal capacity of 21,000 last week poll 77 Perce Uhink the government has heated tents were it up monday that " Rhine River cruise ships to House Refu gees that had been headed for army sur pm is tents. Up to 315 refugees can be housed inthe three ships tied up on the Waal River could House up to 600 refugees on theg Ilze Reijnen air base near the Southern town of Breda. Although no one has yet been sent join the Eastern dutch City of Nijm Egen the tent City the idea of it Drew the com according to Center for refugee recep ment shameful from the ruling Chris Tion spokeswoman Jeanette sorting. Tian democrats spokesman on Asylum pol the government s efforts to Case the ref icy, plight followed a weekend Survey re the tents will be kept in Reserve for scaling increasing dutch discontent with when the boats ready for occupancy later lost control of the rising refugee tide and62 percent think the Netherlands is too full to accept More Survey conducted for dutch radio by the respected Nipo Market research Bureau had a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage similar june Survey found undergo percent thought the country was to jammed to let More foreigners come in. The outcome of Asylum applications writeup to 2,000 still have to wait for reviews to begin. Some live outside the government reception centers. About 800 new Asylum seekers arrive Inthis nation of 15 million every week and applications Are heading for a record40,000 this year. The largest groups Are from the rum Yugoslavia Bosnia Iran and Iraq. Despite rising Public sentiment against allowing in More refugees the ruling Christian democrats have rejected Call smore than 20,000 refugees Are awaiting for More stringent Asylum guidelines. Italian policy officers flank the Flower covered coffin containing filmmaker Federico Fellini s body. Thousands of celebrities fans say goodbye to master Fellini Rome a directors movie lovers by the. Thousands and Italy s Premier filed past Federico Fellini s coffin tuesday in the studio where the director filmed most of his work. Music by Nino Rota who composed the haunting and evocative scores for Many of Fellini s 20 feature films played in the background As celebrities and fans paid tribute to the Oscar winning director. Fellini 73, died sunday in a Rome Hospital. He suffered a stroke during the summer and went into a coma two weeks ago. He supposedly said that you should never aban Don irony not even now said a tearful Una Wert Muller a director who worked with Hon on # after she filed by the coffin7 i d like to come up with a witty line for him but i can t do it. Federico did t like weeping he never liked it the coffin was brought to studio 5 where Fellini worked in Cin Citta. A filmmaking Complex on the outskirts of Rome transforming his Fellini esque vision the grotesque bizarre pathetic or mystical of life into celluloid. He won four oscars for his movies and last Spring his entire career was honoured with a special Academy award. Studio 5 was always Fellini s kingdom his True Home Werdmuller said. Another director paying respects was Giuseppe Tornatore one of a Young crop of italian directors who recalled How Fellini came to visit him on these. The studio was reconstructed for the Wake with the set of the last scene of fell Init a interview. An autobiographical work. An enormous sky Blue backdrop with painted Clouds floating by stood behind the coffin. He really would have liked this set that sky All this space said Paolo Villaggio an italian comic actor. Other directors coming by were Franco Zeffirelli and Gillo Pontecorvo. Premier Carlo Ciampi stood silently before Fellini s coffin which was covered with a thick Blanket Fred roses. About 3,000 people had filed by the coffin by late morning. Some held towers As they waited quietly for their moment to pass by. A teacher brought her class. Fellini s widow and Star of la Strada and others of his films Giulietta Masina had not come by late afternoon. The funeral is set for today in Rome at a Churchin the capital s downtown. High tech Swap japanese Tokyo a defense Secretary Les Aspin in Abid tuesday to broaden technology ties with America s key asian ally offered to help Japan build a missile de sense system in Exchange for Access to More of Japan s advanced commercial technologies. Japan s interest in missile defense stems mainly fro North Korea s development of ballistic missiles capable of reaching japanese soil and its alleged Pursuit of nuclear warheads which could be delivered by missile. Aspin discussed the issues during a 90-minute meet ing tuesday with his japanese counterpart Keisuke Nakanishi and he also met for about a half hour wit prime minister Morihiro Hosokawa. It is Aspin s first visit to Tokyo As defense Secretary. Nakanishi told Aspin his country was deeply interested in developing a Means of defending against ballistic missile attack. But he made no commitment Sand did not indicate How Japan planned to pursue it a . Official said. The official briefed reporters on condition that he not be identified. Aspin Laid out two main options for Japan buy aready made missile defense system from the Pentagon or develop such a system in cooperation with the United states As part of a broader program of .-Japa Nese technology exchanges. Japan had been strongly opposed to participation inthe . Strategic defense initiative the so called Star wars Effort begun by the Reagan administration to develop a space based defense against a Large scale missile attack. Aspin stressed to the japanese officials that the Din ton administration has abandoned the Star wars approach and is putting nearly All its anti mini la Effort into ground based systems to defend against limited. Short Range missile attacks. Modern life attitude blamed in suicides up the male suicide rate in eng my Wales jumped 80 percent Between 1982 and 1993, a suicide hot line group said the group the Samaritans blamed the skyrocketing increase on a cocktail of despair mixed by the pros sures of Modem life and the traditional British stiff upper lip. The High Rise in suicide among Nten affects us deeply. We could say we be done All there is to be done and we should just Cany on. But that is said Samaritan chief executive Simon Armson said. We Are looking Forward constantly finding ways to reach out to those of High risk in Armson said the pressure men face in today s society greater than Ever before. Since men find it More difficult to express feelings of distress he said they fall prey to suicide. in the United kingdom the total number of suicide Rose slightly from 4,547 in 1992 to 4,673 in 1993. Men accounted for 76 percent of those committing suicide compared to 64 percent of the total in 1982. Female suicide has dropped by 43 percent in the same time
