European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 06, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. November 6, 1993 world the stars and stripes Page 7 Bonn Germany a rebuffing a political ally who has been striking a nationalist tone Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Friday that Germany belongs in strongly United Europe. He said Germany would Rise or fall with Europe but faced economic decline unless germans pulled them selves up by the Bootstraps with an Effort comparable to the years after world War ii. His comments Fame As German unemployment climbed to 3.52 million for october .7.6 percent in the West and 15.3 percent in the six states of former East Germany according to the Federal labor office. Kohl speaking to the upper House of parliament de fended himself against conservative sceptics who say Germany s Federal Structure and its economic Independence Are threatened by the european Community. Once again urging germans to show More initiative and creativity he said Germany is too heavily regulated future tied Kohl says to survive in the new Europe. If we had the current Thicket of regulations in the 1950s, we never would have had an economic recovery Kohl told the bundesrat made up of delegates from state  the postwar reconstruction years we broke through to a better future through our own hard  reunified Germany we need a second comparable push. It s the Only Way we can keep our place in an interconnected Europe and an increasingly competitive woh4."edmund Stoiber the minister president of Bavaria said in an interview published monday that it was Tim for Germany to break from its Europe oriented politics and develop an identity of its  said european Union As described in the maastricht Unity treaty ratified in Brussels Belgium on monday is needed desperately. Conserve offre fule under major hits record Low in. London up a poll published Friday show that prime minister John major and his conservative party government Are the most unpopular in British history. The Gallup poll published by the daily Telegraph showed major continuing to Trail John Smith head of the labor party and Paddy Ashdown Leader of the Liberal democrats in popularity. Of those polled 31j percent said Smith would make the Best prime minister 21 percent picked Ashdown and 19.1 percent picked major. Major s popularity was up slightly from the previous month As was Smith s. Ashdown s Public regard opinion dropped slightly. ".-. The poll showed the conservative party s support still More than 20 percentage Points behind labor  asked which party they would support if the elec Tion were held now 46.5 percent of those questioned said labor 25.5 percent Liberal democrats and 22.5 percent tories. The poll said the last 12 months had been among the worst for the tories in memory and held out Little Hope for improvement in the next year with huge numbers of people saying labor would be better than the conservatives at handling even such traditional tory Issue Sas taxation and crime. Tower s beefeaters join London civil servant strike from wire report London thousands of tourists hoping to see the Crown jewels and other attractions at the Tower of London found the Castle closed Friday As the red. Coated beefeaters joined a one Day civil service  250,000 civil servants in six unions participated in the strike to protest government plans to privatize some civil servant  beefeaters warders of the Tower of London also serve As guide for tourists. Russian copter crash kills 3 Moscow a russian Mi-8 military helicopter crashed in a Village in the ural mountains killing All three Crew members on Board news reports said Friday. The helicopter was travelling from the Chelyabinsk Region to the Che Benki Region in the Southern urals when it went Down thursday about 650 Miles Southeast of Moscow. Sex hostage sues travel firm Paris a French tourist kidnapped during a trip to Turkey hassled his travel Agency after turning Down its offer of two free trips to. Guess  fix 43, is demanding the Marmara travel Agency pay him the equivalent of $5,100 in damages his attorney Jean Pierre croupier said Friday. Fix was in Turkey on a trip organized by Marmara when he and two other French nationals were captured july 24 by kurd fighting for self Rule. They were freed18 Days later. As compensation the Agency offered two free trips both to Turkey croupier said. Fix turned them Down. Romania joins Council Strasbourg France Romania became the32nd member state of the Council of Europe on thursday the sixth East european country to join the group this year. Founded in 1949, the Council is Europe s oldest postwar organization striving for european Union. 3 arrest warrants rejected in skinhead attack on lugers Berlin up an Eastern Ger Man court Friday declined to Issue arrest warrants against three rightist youths accused of the racially motivated attack on members of the . Lug team in oberhoff last week. The Suhl District court rejected two arrest warrants for which state prosecutors had applied and suspended a third warrant that already had been issued. The ruling Means three of the four rightist youths suspected in the attack remain free. The fourth suspect is being held in jail but on an arrest warrant for other unrelated charges. Several politicians have called for tougher Detent Iori Laws to fight rightist violence which has increased dramatically Over the past few years in Ger Many. At present suspects can Only beheld in custody if there is damage from the attack if the suspect is a repeat of fender or if he is Likely to leave the  j. Siler the . Vice Consul in Leipzig visited oberhoff on thursday and met the town s mayor Hartmut  apologized for the attack in which . Luge team member Dunca Kennedy was beaten by skinheads after he went to Aid of his Black teammate Robert Pipkins who was being threat ened by the  american athletes had spent Sev eral Days training at oberhoff and were assaulted by 15 skinheads at a disco. Rom " the unusual awaits you blackout paralyses Athens Athens Greece a a Power outage swept Over Athens on Friday after rainfall Short circuited nearly All main Power pylons feeding the greek capital. The blackout began gradually at 5 30 ., peaked two hours later and ended about 2 . During that 8-hour period the Power outage trapped More than 1,000 people in elevators and temporarily knocked out air traffic control radars at Athens International Airport. Police said Athens single subway line also ground to a halt electric trolleys stopped and nearly All traffic lights went off creating huge traffic jams around the City of nearly 4 million peo ple. They said hospitals operated on emergency generators. The City Power s problems Are linked to a drought that lasted All summer and throughout much of the fall. The drought led to an accumulation of dust on insulation units on Power pylons. The dust in turn provides a base for humidity and water to Short circuit High voltage cables. The Public Power corp. Hoped heavy Rains would clean the insulators. But Light rainfall thursday and Friday turned the dust into mud and Short circuited pylons feeding the capital from generating stations North of Athens. 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